These don’t use DDR5 memory. It’s all on the silicon with the CPU. The same pricing rules don’t apply.

And Mac users tend to be less “price sensitive” than PC users. My M4 iMac will be here next week. 24GB should be just fine on it.

Happily work is footing the entire bill for it, including a new monitor so it’s a pretty sweet upgrade for me.

This is the sort of not on device service that is very valuable.

A family member of mine was lucky to survive on a boating trip in a remote area when their canoe overturned and they had to continue on with wet clothes in cold weather. Fortunately they found a remote house to call for help. If this type of service was available they could’ve just waited safely for help.

I don’t believe Apple will ever charge for this. If someone was to die from not having a service plan it would be a PR disaster and it’s not a huge cost for them if they have a decent partnership agreement.

I’m still salty they killed aperture. It was amazing photo library management software for pros. Photos is just consumer level trash.

It’s very possible to do amazing ports. I was blown away by the Alien Isolation port on iOS. There just has to be a market to justify the work. And if iOS ports can be recompiled for Macs (and they can) so much the better.

In before stupid people whine about power button on bottom.

No 27”? Hard pass.

Welcome to the Luddite convention here.

People who lead easy lives complain for the sake of complaining. I bet you nobody at war is worried about it at all.

Reset your device then restore from a backup?

It’s perfect for kids and old folks.

I use mine from time to time as a reading device but it’s no match for my MacBook Pro.

16 Pro max here. It is not a significant problem.

I started hating photos but have come around a bit.

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Why would anyone believe a single thing that fat old orange felon grifter has ever claimed to say. He’s a compulsive liar.

A new OS release is the worst time to complain about battery life.

There are tons of background tasks, indexing and AI things happening in the background that users are unaware of.

Give it a few weeks to index and optimize and see how it runs.

Awesome. I’ve used a hex for years. Rock solid and powerful. Thanks to my friend at the BBC for recommending them!

Seems like a reasonable requirement. I’m sure there will be 3rs party services to provide legit but private addresses and phone numbers on behalf of developers.

And that’s just fine. They don’t need to have an expensive release event for every point upgrade.

If they’re properly locked down the option to boot another from another device or even the recovery drive will be locked behind a password. It’s like it’s been bios locked on a PC but rather than being stored with a battery it’s saved into the physical chip which would need to be removed and either replaced or reflashed.

Hmm. I’m assuming like every other sector there are lots of fakes of dubious quality that are virtually indistinguishable from real ones except they break much more easily.

Unless you’re buying from Leatherman directly you have a much greater chance of getting a fake that’s priced high but made cheaply with inferior materials to scam people. Just try and get a real SD card on Amazon. Probably 60% or more fakes for the big name ones and huge profits for the criminals.

And the countries you mentioned can produce quality products if the company ordering the products cares enough to demand it and reject anything substandard.

See Apple. But you better believe they have QC experts at every level and if the suppliers don’t deliver they’ll never see another dime from Apple.