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Thank you @JoeS for "inspiring me" to give an early review.
TL&DR - It's a keeper (so long as I survive the 14 day return window).
GENERAL NOTE: This is NOT an iPhone outside and iPad Mini inside. It is another fork of iOS of something in between, and I fear we're in for a sloth-like five year progression to "near iPadOS" quality.
CONS:
No zoom lens.
Slippery without a case.
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Saw the IPhone Duo. It was next to the 2 new Samsungs. I expected to immediately love the IPhone but its size left me a bit cold. I think I like the size of the Fold 8 better. Oh Samsung, if only it had a pen. My phone feels like a brick next to them.
I finally got to see one today. Pretty slick, but I didnโt love the matte coating on the inner screen. I also noticed that video wasnโt actually any bigger than on my iPhone pro max because of the screen aspect ratio. It would be great for reading and doom scrolling though. I think Iโll wait until Dale puts his up for sale. ๐
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So they finally relented and added a touchscreen to the MacBook Proโฆ and I no longer care. ๐
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Rationale Recently, I had Claude create a webapp in about 20 minutes that did almost everything I wanted from the app. Within a weekend, it had everything I wanted. Samsung Notes is pretty good, especially the writing feel. They've also added tape recently, which is very nice. However, it is still quite basic and the Windows program isn't great, particularly the 'warnings' if you aren't using a Samsung laptop. I've found StarNote to be a great notetaking app. However, then pen responsiveness is slightly 'off'. It has plenty of features, but some small things that don't quite do what I'd like, and the developers also don't seem interested in adding more customisation. The developer are also Boox, so security is also a minor concern. Therefore, as I had some spare time and some Claude usage to spare (I used over 90% of my weekly usage on this, lol), I thought I'd get โฆ
I've had Claude Code bulk out the program and refine some parts. The only major feature still incomplete is syncing via OneDrive or Google Drive.
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Looks like a solid update, double the battery life with a good performance update. Sadly no upgraded display, yet.
The battery is one of the things that was holding me back from getting one. I'll have to take another look. I've blown my gadget budget for a while and really should start selling things before getting anything else though...
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Apparently the pen needs to be charged, so I'm guessing USI or something along those lines:
Apparently annotations made in a book will show up on a Kindle Scribe.
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I'm looking at Surface Pro 10 price on ebay & abase with the 16gb of storage more or less is going for the same price base Surface Pro 11 intel. Does the 10 have something(besides more complete drivers for Linux) over the Intel 11 that I overlooked that warrants the similar price?
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Soo, I was sitting next to the beach, replying to a bunch of e-mails in the early morning as the sun was rising over the ocean. Quiet, beautiful and at peace with myself.When out of the sky a huge birdshit landed right on my keyboard. Apparently those are nasy acidic things. Two minutes later, despite immeditely turning of the keybaord and cleaning it, five keys (EDFGR) no longer worked. Time to go to the nearest temple and buy a curse of avian flu on all the birds in the neighborhood.
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Iโve had my M4 Pro Mac mini for almost 1.5 yrs and itโs been great. But I have been pushing its limits lately (heavily modded Skyrim SE in particularโthereโs always a neat new mod that taxes performance a bit more) so I took a look at potential upgrades.
Apple offered to take my mini as a trade-in for only $150 less than I paid for it if I got a new M5 Max Studio. Howโs that for holding its value? You really need to take that into account when getting Apple sticker shockโฆ
Windows gaming alternatives to the base M5 Max Studio ($2500), spec and performance wise, are ~$500 more whether desktop or laptop (RTX 5070/5080-ish, 32GB RAM). At MSRP anyway. So weโre not talking a huge difference and after trading in the Mac mini itโs half the price of a Windows equivalent. About $1500 spread over 12 months, interest-free,โฆ
This was more of an "adventure" than I bargained for. UPS' routing got terminally confused and it took a week and a half before Apple & UPS investigations could sort things out. The original order needed to be returned to Apple and a replacement was sent to me overnight. I received it yesterday.
Super easy setup from the Time Machine save from my outgoing traded-in M4 Pro Mac mini. Finished in half an hour. It's as much of an upgrade as I expected.
In October 1984 I bought my first Apple, the 512K "Fat" Mac, for $2500 USD. Here I am 42 years later with an immensely more powerful and capable Mac for the same USD price, though not the same cost--that first $2500 would be $8000 in today's dollars. What a bargain! ๐บ
Thanks for the mini-review. The inking issue in OneNote is not great for me, as I use One Note all the time. Inking in Onenote is perfect with the SPen. I also use Sansung notes and it syncs to my Surface Pro X as well as One Note since I put the app on the Surface. My only current beef with Android Office is with Outlook for Android. It is far too limited, given the range of functions I have transferred to the from the Surface Pro X to the Fold 6. Just a couple of questions. Other than the Microsoft apps, how is the inking in Apple Notes? Does the pen work on the small screen when the device is folded? That is also one of my biggest beefs about the Fold. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to use the pen on the small screen. As much as I would love to get one of the newer, lighter foldables, Samsung is out of the question without an SPen, so the only option would be the Duo. I think I'm better off where I am, with a clunky device. Anyway, it's paid-off soon. One thing I will say, this Fold 6 is very tough. I drop it all the time and it has survived unscathed. How tough do you think the Duo will be?