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Importantly, the widescreen ones always have post-processing to convert from the SD resolution to the resolution of the tube, they aren't like PC monitors where they switch resolutions. This adds about as much input lag as a modern hdtv :(

This still holds up too. My mom is using my ipad air, which is now about 5 years old. Current software, runs smoothly, no complaints

Yep, it's my backup/testing device. It actually runs surprisingly great, i'd say it's still a better experience than an equivalent-aged android phone honestly, even like a nexus 6

Anyone doing this would be opening themselves up to a world of liability, and probably a lot of customers who would say no. I know my work is dumping older ipads even though all our integrated software for meetings etc works fine just because it could be exploited and isn't receiving updates. Even the possibility of that isn't worth it to a lot of places. It doesn't matter if it's connected to a "closed" network, it still has radio(s) on.

And since so many places are so slow to upgrade, this is a known attack surface. Once you exploit that old-ass iOS, you have a compromised machine with radios sniffing inside your environment.

As someone who tested this extensively, it really needs to be treated like a major OS upgrade on a computer. Back up important info(pictures, etc) without using icloud, do a full format(DFU restore), and reinstall from scratch.

I have an iphone 6 and 6s here that are still flying along great on ios 11. And i had previously had so many problems with the 6S that i thought this upgrade really was awful. It took until 11.1 or so to truly be ok, but the performance increase from doing a true "clean install" like i would with windows or OSX was really night and day.

These still have crappier panels and features(HDR, etc) than the smart models though. You literally cannot buy a top-spec "display", like you used to be able to in the mid/late 2000s with plasma and earlier LCDs

This isn't entirely true, and only applies to really old versions of iOS like 6, on truly old devices(ipad 1, iphone 4, etc). I just installed some new applications on my ipad 3 running iOS 9 this weekend with no issues. It grabbed the newest compatible version, and i was able to start plugging away almost immediately.

The only thing that hamstrung me was having to sign out and in to the itunes store once, but i was able to install several games and hulu(which worked!)

I do wish you got a popup with a few options of which point release to install, but i think "newest compatible point release" is a good system for 99% of users

electric cars depreciate ridiculously fast right now. I can buy a couple year old leaf with really low miles for $5000 right now in seattle, and i have tons of choices. Even the up-range models from the past years are under 10k. This also applies to up-market stuff like the I3, etc.

We haven't seen how this will hit say, stuff like the bolt, but basically everyone but tesla got hit was outrageous depreciation.

If that keeps up, electric cars could become a similar price choice for a lot of people who don't need to drive all that far, even if they're the earlier low-range models. This could be further incentivized by stuff like free HOV access and free charging some places a lot of locations enjoy.

Oink.me was the same but so, so much more in every way

This would require them admitting their estimates are baloney, which will never happen

This is a huge crap sandwich if you need to use 32 bit version of pro apps(especially pro audio apps, in my case) to use sometimes expensive plugins that aren't compatible with the 64 bit version of the software, or aren't without expensive upgrades or shim libraries.

Obviously you can work around this for new projects, but it leaves you in the position of needed to keep an old machine or VM around just for opening old project files that would be useless without those plugins. I've talked to multiple people in this situation.

The 64 bit only switch was easy on iOS compared to this. Yes, there's new versions of the applications themselves available, but a whole host of plugins for audio(and i've heard video and photo apps) are going to get left in the dust here leaving people in the lurch.

Have you tried a clean install(IE: DFU mode restore, set up as new phone)? That's resolved it on 3 devices for me. Literally zero issues now

It wasn't even just the heat either, it was how incredibly aggressively it throttled and how obnoxious the fan was

I really loved mine. The screen was actually fine, the main issue was that it used a Z series atom, with a powerVR gpu cribbed from early smartphones and absolutely abysmal performance. The screen was high quality, the system just couldn't refresh it worth a damn and stuttered on even 480p youtube

I would pay more than they want for that new Psion or the GPD pocket 2 for an updated vaio p with just a modern atom, or basically the specs of the GPD win. The rev2 with the trackpad on the screen glass was basically the perfect form factor.

I can't believe these still sell for what i paid for mine in 2011~ when it was barely old, which was about $400

What made the vaio killer was that it's super wide width allowed for an almost-normal keyboard(think 12in powerbook or old ibm X series, not some super micro thing like very small japanese laptops usually have). I wanted to love the pocket, but the keyboard just looks so awful comparatively

Anecdotal, but in my building and several of my friends the landlords are just letting units sit open for months, as they flat out refuse to lower rents. They're actually remodeling one of them in an attempt to justify the(really, honestly ridiculously high) rents.

So they may be dropping on the high end, but across a lot of people i've talked to the low to mid end is stubbornly holding strong and refusing to see the writing on the wall that a beat up older apartment building just... isn't worth this much.

I have seen rents overall dropping on craigslist, especially for larger harder to rent units. They're down quite a bit from this summer if you're willing to split a 3+ bedroom apartment or house, when they were absolutely stratospheric before(often close to the same as just renting multiple cheap studios)

the issue is the amount of dirt it takes to cause issues is extremely small. i've seen machines that were only used on a desk in a clean work space, and never even removed from that desk develop issues within a few months. meanwhile, i've seen previous gen models that were incredibly grimy and used outdoors with no issues. it's a problem that's ONLY effecting apple keyboards right now and that's pathetic

Judging by Apples track record for supporting iMacs, i don't see this as an issue. I owned a 2007 imac until 2014 and it was still getting updates. It was running the latest version of OSX until 10.11

This machine launched with, as i remember, tiger. There's machines barely newer that are literally still supported. How is a 9-10 year support window bad? You can't even do that consistently with windows(look at how many atom machines that were only 2-3 years old were cut off from windows 10, or recent updates therein)

And there's nothing stopping you from turning off the security controller and just installing linux, either. In 9 years almost all of the hardware will be well documented and old hat.

This could have a full 3-4 year or even longer life as a "pro" machine, then a long life as a backup/secondary machine, get donated to a nonprofit, or even as your parents cool looking desktop and be completely obsolete in a lot of senses before it will stop getting updates. This has been a proven track record over the past decade for apple.

And for clarification: i'm not shilling here or anything. I think they're screwing up a lot of stuff, and i refuse to buy one of the current macbook pros and am still riding along on the old style retina pro. But OS support is something they do a great job at. There's original-style silver keyboard macbook pros still supported on high sierra.

Honestly any decent public wifi setup even if it isn't going to limit client to client communication, if that's needed for some reason, should be restricting based on protocol/port/etc. It should be a whitelist, not a blacklist. There's no reason a client should be able to touch HTTP traffic towards anything but the gateway.

This is trivial to set up with for example, even a cheap sonicwall.

Well, beginning of the end. It would be 3 years from whatever date they release a new version that locks it to a chip like this and drop support for old models without it. So lets say, 4-5 years. Actually, probably longer since they've been supporting old systems for as long as 8 years(2007 imac, others) with some macbook pros approaching 9-10 even.

How long you think it would take for them to do this depends on whether you really think they'd just decide to cut off a ton of machines at once and reverse course on really long support windows. And long windows really seems to be a roadmap, if you look at how the ipad 2 was supported as well.

I think they care more about "look at how we support our products!" than hackintoshes. What i could easily imagine though is way more features than just imessage and such being gate-kept into "only systems with our secure chip are allowed to run this"

Ran into this one at work. We wanted to have a public imac as a simple terminal for clients to use our website and set things up. Nothing that needed to be super secure, basically just to walk them through the interface of our stuff etc if they asked, and that we could leave them alone at without any ability to bork the system.

This ended up being such a crapshoot that we had to buy deepfreeze because even the freaking guest account doesn't consistently work the way it should(or, hasn't worked consistently across versions of OSX over the past few years) and basic things like auto updates of software/the OS kept breaking if someone didn't regularly sign into the admin account.

It turned from a quick project that should have been easy and apple-y with basic security settings and enabling auto updates into something that someone from the team has to grab a checklist and verify once a month. It's a complete joke.

It's worth noting apple literally buys deepfreeze for the systems in their own stores. You'd uh, think that their own functionality in the OS would be able to handle that.

They did, but it wasn't worse than modern TVs. The paradoxical thing is because everything went through the image processor,

digital input>processor>analog conversion>screen

was faster than

analog input>digital conversion>image processor>analog conversion>screen

There's a big thread on AVSforum with people whinging about this somewhere. The upside is, they're still nice to play stuff like switch games on

EDIT: the processing of analog sources, like 480p dvds, laserdisc, etc was superior to cheap modern TVs. They designed the scaler very well for older formats and it really did look quite nice. I remember being totally disappointed by my "high end" samsung tv in 2013~ or so in comparison. The colors are handled especially nice even on like, VHS. Artifacting/macroblocking/banding wasn't an issue with however they were handling the effects/processing which was a noticeable advantage over the flat screens of the era and even more recently

You can get a top of the line(or close to it) high performance CRT for free if you look around a bit, both PC monitors and TVs. Even the pro grade displays with RGB in. I haven't been able to find even a used OLED display of any kind that wasn't in a phone or tablet under $800

Additionally, OLED is stuck at one native resolution. A multi sync video monitor or PC monitor can natively display any resolution up to the highest the dot pitch can really resolve

And there's still a very, very strong market for these as retro gaming displays. I scored a few when they were dirt cheap used, and now people are charging $400+ for an old 20in with a ton of hours on it, and even more if it's a high end "broadcast" model

Worth noting these were pushing very close to if not true 1080i on the final models with 1000~ lines of vertical res, when most LCD or plasmas were doing 1024x768(yep, non square pixels), or even 800x480. Only the REALLY expensive ones were true 720p, even.

They looked so much obviously better that it took plasma into the late 2000s to catch up

The closest comparison i can think of is gaming laptops vs desktops. You got objectively better performance for less money, at the cost of it being large and heavy. They were also pretty reliable, especially compared to early plasmas that blew various expensive boards constantly.(and i would know, i scored several for free this way)

Honestly i find the screenshot shortcut way worse. I would happily take control center screenshots only(like recording a video screenshot) to turn this godawful shortcut off.

I don't see any real contradiction here. The original pebble was very cool for the time, and the price was reasonable. But the design was a bit cheap/silly and it had serious limitations. The apple watch was one of the first actual full featured ones that continued to be built upon, and is still very usable today having improved with software the entire time. Pebble's were dying within the first year and people got increasingly unhappy. They always had weird bluetooth issues and other thorn-in-side small glitches

I owned both, and i think those are completely congruent takes in their time periods.

I think it's worth noting that even for someone like Gruber who often defends things about apple others attack, he still craps on the notch in landscape mode.

I have an X, and i have very few complaints about it. It's an awesome device pretty much all around, and i wouldn't trade it in for an 8 or any other phone. They did a bang up job on performance, display quality, battery life, and i think the updates to the interface are spot-on.

But holy shit is the notch annoying in landscape, and so many apps that are "updated" for the X still handle it HORRIBLY. Especially games.

They really screwed this one up, and they need to be way harsher on developers who want to use the "ears" in-game to actually take the shape into account. I find myself actually wishing i could force thing into the "letterbox" non-updated app mode sometimes.

Fortunately this is something that could be fixed later, because it's software, but right now it's so bad. It doesn't even bother me in videos, just when i need to actually interact with crappily thought through games and apps treating that area like usable display

Weird, on both my phone and one i gifted to my mother for the first week or so it greyed out the screen(like, windows UAC style) and had big bold text at the bottom saying "double press to purchase" while showing the side button animation. It doesn't show up on mine now, but the little tutorial showed the first few times

The true face-palmer here is the new screenshot shortcut on the X, wherein you press volume up + side button to take a screenshot

i seriously take probably 5-10 screenshots a day just trying to lock my damn phone. I've taken to crooking my finger on the other side so it's far from the volume buttons just to avoid this.

Seriously my only major UI complaint