Jul 04, 2012 I’ve been using a Mac for quite a while now, so here are my initial thoughts (and these are strictly my opinion): One of the biggest issues I have is the END key on the keyboard. In Windows, it take you to the END of the line. On a Mac, it takes you to the []. Initial Thoughts on My Mac. Denny June 9, 2011 June 20, 2017 2 Comments on Initial Thoughts on My Mac. As you could tell by my initial post, I am now the owner of a MacBook Pro. Yes, the post was a bit moody, but it was to convey the exact feeling I get when a self-indulgent weenie Mac owner approaches me with their sales pitch on how I should.
At the start, you should know two things about me: HomePod is the first smart speaker I've ever owned, and I'm all-in on the Apple ecosystem. These facts make me the HomePod's perfect customer, and they will surely color my comments.
This goes back to the argument of simplicity Vs. Complexity and thinking about the iPad as a utility. For people who need or want to use their iPad every day as their only computer, there's an obvious benefit in making iOS capable of doing more at once without being difficult to use.
I still would have preferred to exchange stock apps for better third party alternatives, like switching PCalc for calculator. My biggest white whale on iOS is dealing with multiple files. Often I'm required to work with multiple documents and until today this was a huge pain point on iOS. With the Files app and Drag and Drop, my iPad got a lot more useful. • They only demonstrated iCloud in the Files app. Will we get 'favorites' from third party cloud document providers like Dropbox?
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I also hope that Apple is considering drag & drop support for future updates to iOS: the tactile feel of iOS could work well with the ability to move bits of text and images between apps. Apple is also giving developers the ability to opt out from multitasking and they're saying that camera apps and hardware-intensive games should probably eschew multitasking. Many of my doubts have already been answered in this first beta, and quite elegantly. I like how the entire functionality has been built and thought through. The most important aspect is how Apple effectively told developers this was happening a year in advance with resizable simulators and adaptive interfaces. The ability for apps to scale intelligently and adapt to different screen sizes will come in handy for both functional and practical purposes.
Watch is finally here! We can finally put the rumors and speculation behind us, and start reading article after article from the usual suspects about how great it is, what a huge failure it is, and how Samsung had the smart watch first. As I watched the, my initial thought was that it was ugly. But then they showed the various bands that will be available, and the smaller size watch that will also be available.
Switching between desktops and resizing windows stutters every now and then, load-times of Apps haven’t really impressed me so far. I think it often has to do with macOS - I’m pretty sure it still isn’t really optimised for the 2016 models.
Thanks to the new audio playback controls, this is easy to do. Switching audio sources, either from Control Center or the Music app, allows you detailed control of playback and a glance at what's currently playing on each device.
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I’d still like to be able to add some navigation options to the toolbar but this is nice for getting to notes quickly versus the messy option from prior versions in the toolbar • Recent Notes – Below the shortcuts are the five most recent notes. This is a no brainer as most Evernote users are using the same notes repeatedly. Great move by Evernote. • Mixing shared and non-shared notes in the menu – Evernote used to separate them into different menus but I like having them all in one place.
Before using that, we made use of offline folders, those don’t work (didn’t expect that to). Bottom line for general business use: If you have more than one person in your small business, stick with Windows. If you like the MacBooks, fine, just run Windows on it. If you are a one person business, you might be ok with it. Now, you may be wondering why I bought it. Basically, for web design. I haven’t got that far yet.
Apple's message is, frankly, refreshing to hear. It's okay to want more from an iPad.
On a daily basis, this bothers me. I like some of the lesser known UI features of Windows. If you click on an icon at the bottom, clicking again minimizes it. Not so on the Mac. There is a key plus click option, I can’t remember it, and probably never will.
Hi everyone, I’ve had my 15” MBP (2016) now for the better part of a week and I thought I’d give you my first impressions on it. Before I received mine I had read and watched many reviews that I found biased in either one direction - they either hate or praise the new machines and I just didn’t believe that they could be that polarising. Hence, lets find out whether this gut-feeling proves right.
• They only demonstrated iCloud in the Files app. Will we get 'favorites' from third party cloud document providers like Dropbox? • Does the existence of the Files app indicate they'll make it easier to open and save files to cloud services directly in Apps?
Of course you'll have multiple SSDs. I think the SSDs would probably help more when multiple users are hitting the NAS simultaneously. But my point is, over 1GB ethernet, I don't think the SSDs would make much a difference, if any, as the bottle neck is 'the wire' itself, not the read/write performance of the spinning drives. I may be wrong. But over 10GB ethernet it gets really interesting.
This is not just another iPhone. Spend enough time with an iPhone X, and every prior iPhone will feel surprisingly foreign. The radically new display and Face ID are not mere features of this new device – they are foundational pieces of a new iPhone experience that, once lived with, you'll never want to go back from. While Federico is hard at work on his full review of the iPhone X, I wanted to share my early impressions of the device after a few days of use. My iPhone X arrived late Friday morning, and the first detail that struck me upon unboxing was its weight – it's substantially heavier than I expected. It's certainly not too heavy, and the weight gives the phone a premium feel, but I'm guessing Apple will be eager to shave off some milligrams in future iterations.
The Geekbench test software testet the C2538 in a NAS and the resulting data transfer speed was some 6-7 GB/s internal data transfer - so the mesh inside the chips should be fast enough to push the data through. The rest is house keeping and maintenance routines on the NAS. Key is to have enough RAM installed as with every other OS as well. I will order it in the 8 GB version and upgrade later to 16 GB only in case i really see a need for it. 16 GB RAM cost about some 100 USD - so no real issue. _timo_ wrote: Very cool.
I am also looking forward to being able to swim with it during the summer. I may try out LTE but the added cost is off putting. I am trying to stay away from recurring / subscription payments, they add up quickly. If you have a S3 I am not sure it Is worth trading up, and I don’t think this is the type of device that is worth upgrading consistently at its price point. From the S0 it is a good upgrade.
This is not an overstatement. Anyone who uses the iPad enough has known for a long time that the device could be capable of a lot more, and iOS 9 is Apple's answer. Last night, I was watching on my iPad, and I realized that I wanted to read people's reactions on Twitter. I instinctively reached out to my iPhone, because that's what I've been doing for years when watching live events: my iPad plays video and I use Twitter on my iPhone. Thanks to iOS 9, I put The Talk Show's video player in a floating popup, opened Twitterrific, and continued watching. When I wanted to take notes, I swiped from the right edge of the screen and I started typing in Notes – all while still watching the video and having Twitterrific open at the same time. It all felt natural, and it was glorious.
For many, the iPad is about to graduate from utility to computer. Apple is envisioning a future where users can do more with iPad apps without the inherent complexities of OS X – and they're largely relying on developers to help build this future. Some developers attending WWDC this week may not be familiar with such desire, but there are people out there who want to use their iPad as their only computer. In designing the new multitasking features for iOS 9, I imagine that Apple designers and engineers had to carefully consider this aspect – how to balance the fact that the iPad became popular because it was simple and easy to use with a push to unlock more functionalities with multitasking. Can complexity be simple enough? Apple is hoping that developers have been paying attention to the hints they've dropped over the past couple of years – larger screens, adaptive interfaces, landscape support on the iPhone 6 Plus – and that they'll realize the potential of letting users depend on their apps more.
Key details about that system: • Siri can set volume to any specific percentage between 0 and 100. Say 'Set volume to 100%' and you'll get a warning about how loud that is before being asked for confirmation. • Saying 'Turn it up (or down)' will adjust the volume either direction by 10%. • Saying 'Turn it way up (or down)' adjusts volume by 20%. • You can also ask Siri what the volume's set to. • If you use the controls on top of the HomePod, a single tap adjusts the volume by 5%.
The aforementioned limitations of the first iPad generations – which millions of customers still use – played a huge role in establishing the mindset that the iPad could be used for one thing at a time, and always with some compromises when compared to a Mac. This is also why many raised their eyebrows when Apple introduced the iPad Air 2 last year: what's all that going to be used for? IOS 9 is going to be a watershed moment for iPad users. For many, the iPad is about to graduate from utility to computer. Apple is envisioning a future where users can do more with iPad apps without the inherent complexities of OS X – and they're largely relying on developers to help build this future. Some developers attending WWDC this week may not be familiar with such desire, but there are people out there who want to use their iPad as their only computer.
However, as of right now, there is no shortcut for phone, messages, or email using that face (wth). All I did was set up my watch, set up the complications, and sent 2 text messages and my battery went from 99% to 87% in a matter of 45 minutes. The screen is amazing compared to previous models, I will definitely admit to that. But other than that, I don't know if the AW4 SS Milanese should command an $800+ price tag. Don't get me wrong, it is a great update but not the one it seems everyone was making it out to be IMO.
The ability to customize the face of the watch is really nice, but I suspect people will want the option to do more than what Apple offers. Again, time will tell.
What Apple at WWDC this week completely changes the iPad and, I believe, will mark a turning point for the device. Apple's iPad announcements – with multitasking being, in my mind, the most profound one – revolve around doing more with apps without relinquishing control of the experience. IOS 9 on the iPad will be able to display multiple apps at once, but you won't have to use two apps at the same time if you don't want to.
It's an obvious and necessary evolution. One App at a Time When it launched in 2010, the iPad was lauded for being a large display that could give you the impression you were holding apps as physical objects. The iPad could be a book, a calculator, a newspaper, and a toy just by using different apps. While the one-app-at-a-time approach might have been an ideology at Apple in the years when people were still getting used to multitouch and apps, that idea was also a byproduct of hardware and software limitations.
From watching the keynote, I was a little concerned about the gesture to enter the app switcher, but in real use it's extremely simple thanks to the slight bit of haptic feedback that helps ensure you stop lifting at the right place. The app switcher gesture does seem slower than 3D Touch on past iPhones, but it's also needed less often – most of the time I switch apps by swiping back and forth along the bottom of the screen. The only gesture I would tweak if I could is pulling down from the top-right of the screen for Control Center. I don't know quite what the best fix would be, but I hope Apple's not too set on its current choice, which is hard to perform one-handed. Tap to Wake: Since Raise to Wake works so well, I didn't know how helpful it would be tapping the iPhone X to wake it.
The cloud file system we use here doesn’t work very well, so that’s another issue. Before using that, we made use of offline folders, those don’t work (didn’t expect that to). Bottom line for general business use: If you have more than one person in your small business, stick with Windows. If you like the MacBooks, fine, just run Windows on it.
My initial impressions are: 1) The 44 is not too big if you already had the 42, I also looked at the 40 in the Apple store and it looked small (similar to how I felt about the 38). Pictures seem to make the 44 aplear to be huge but in reality it fits very similar to the 42. 2) The bigger screen is great, I use photo backgrounds and they appear much bigger with more detail.
In my mind it's clearly the best looking smart speaker on the market, the setup process is ridiculously easy, and yes, as a music player it sounds incredible. The hardware that supports Siri is also great, with HomePod's microphone array providing near-perfect detection of 'Hey Siri,' even when the music's turned up. It's not a product for everyone yet, but I think it can get there over time. A few software updates, and HomePod could potentially have much wider appeal. For now though, despite its current limitations, the HomePod still provides an impressive, quality experience for Apple users like me. If you're happy with Apple Music, and you're already invested deeply in Apple hardware, HomePod offers a lot to enjoy.
If you're reading a webpage in Safari and you want to take a bunch of notes at the same time, you can have a narrow Notes panel on the right side. IOS apps started their tranformation from fixed-size utilities to fluid and responsive layouts years ago, and iOS 9 will only accelerate this change. For consistency, usability, and pure utility, it makes sense for Apple to bring multitasking to iPad with regular and compact interfaces. The lingering question, then, is whether multitasking is going to make the iPad harder to use. With split views, picture-in-picture, and share sheets now all part of the iOS experience, is the iPad turning into a complicated computer that has lost its simplicity?
It is real nice but didn’t wow me. - I finally understand why people are so gaga over space black. They were out of stock in my store but had they had them, I just might have sprung for one. They are gorgeous, but a little too much black for me. Now I even think there is almost too much silver on the regular SS. I ended up as intended originally. - For me, the 44mm is simply too large.
Hi everyone, I’ve had my 15” MBP (2016) now for the better part of a week and I thought I’d give you my first impressions on it. Before I received mine I had read and watched many reviews that I found biased in either one direction - they either hate or praise the new machines and I just didn’t believe that they could be that polarising. Hence, lets find out whether this gut-feeling proves right. To provide a little background - my first and so far only Mac was a late 2007 MB in black.
Miscellany Apple TV. I know HomePod isn't technically built as a TV speaker, but since it's now the best speaker I own, and all my TV watching happens through an Apple TV, I wanted to see how well the two devices would work together. The result: passably. It's possible AirPlay 2 will improve the Apple TV's connection to HomePod when it launches later this year, but for now, AirPlay 1 isn't a bad option. It can be set up easily enough by holding the Siri Remote's Play/Pause button on the Home screen, or by swiping down from the top of the remote while watching a video to select the HomePod as your speaker. Once HomePod is tied to the Apple TV, it will stay connected up until HomePod is asked to stream another audio source.
To me it seems to have a bit of a green tint to it so I chose it over all the others. At first, when I saw it at the store without the screen being on my first impression was that it looked like a Fitbit versa, which I find to be ugly. I bought the SG 38mm with the black sport strap., yesterday Finally got to pairing it today and I must say with the new larger and vibrant screen it looks gorgeous. Btw to me the case of the space grey looks a little darker than SG 3 and actually looks closer to SBSS then before. The black sport band looks more like a very dark grey which I actually prefer to the true black that was on my SG 3. Click to expand.Yeah, that was the first thing I tried yesterday in store. Hugely disappointing and exactly as you describe.
An affordable 10 G network seems to be before for what I want. In total I am going to spend (or have already spent) following investment: • 5x 10 Tb Seagate Ironwolf (370 EUR / pce) • 3x 256 GB Samsung 850 PRO (140 EUR / pce) • Asus XG U2008 10 G switch (250 EUR) • Akitio Thunder 2 10 G adapter (300 EUR) • Synology DS1817+ 8GB (1200 EUR) • Intel X540-TX 10 G PCIe 8x network card (190 EUR) • 15 m plus 3 m Cat7 network cable (30 EUR) In total some 4 k EUR for a fast and reliable low power profile always on Raid 5 with 40 TB of user data and hot migration path to higher capacities when larger drives get available. BTW - Seagate and I guess we will see some > 20 TB in 2019 or so - by then my NAS will have been spinning for 2 years and I can slowly migrate to 80 TB user space with only the investment of 5 new HDDs and no new installation - just migrate to the next HDD size - nice. Cogset wrote: But from your other post, your NAS runs at about 100MB/s read & write. My editing DS214+ and 716+ - yes - what's the point? These are 1 Gbit connected dual drives - 110 MB/s are quite pleasing - I have always been talking about the upcoming DS1817+ (which is not yet ) While I appreciate NAS and certainly Synology is the best, isn't that a lot of speed to give up? Especially vs _timo_'s 1,000MB/s read score above.