The Wide, Wide World of Apple

[ulmont]

I only get about four hours out of my iPhone 4S, but that's with heavy Internet use.

[Barrister]

Apple really, really tries to optimize battery use across all it's devices, but obviously any optimizations they do vanish in the case of heavy use.

My iPod Touch can go 4-5 days with light use, or can be drained in under a day if I go and do something intense like watch a streamed hockey game on it.

[Barrister]

New Mac Pro pricing announced.  Starts at $2,999.  Too rich for my blood.

[Josephus]

New Mac Pro pricing announced.  Starts at $2,999.  Too rich for my blood.

isn't that like a day's wage for you? 

Nah, i think they're aiming towards businesses and high-end users for that kind of price.

anyways, I see they released Maverick for free....

[Duque de Bragança]

New Mac Pro pricing announced.  Starts at $2,999.  Too rich for my blood.

isn't that like a day's wage for you? 

Nah, i think they're aiming towards businesses and high-end users for that kind of price.

anyways, I see they released Maverick for free....

Yep, a great surprise!
Apple might be fed up a bit of Snow Leopard i.e Mac OS X Windows XP.
As for the Mac Pro, at least there's a new one. Pricing is comparable to Mac Pros before so yes expensive. Hopefully, the quality is there, as before.

[Barrister]

New Mac Pro pricing announced.  Starts at $2,999.  Too rich for my blood.

isn't that like a day's wage for you? 

Nah, i think they're aiming towards businesses and high-end users for that kind of price.

anyways, I see they released Maverick for free....

Yep, a great surprise!
Apple might be fed up a bit of Snow Leopard i.e Mac OS X Windows XP.
As for the Mac Pro, at least there's a new one. Pricing is comparable to Mac Pros before so yes expensive. Hopefully, the quality is there, as before.

What's this about Snow Leopard being equivalent to Windows XP?

And I bought my '08 Mac Pro for just a hair over $2,000, which was what I was hoping to get a new one for.

[Duque de Bragança]

New Mac Pro pricing announced.  Starts at $2,999.  Too rich for my blood.

isn't that like a day's wage for you? 

Nah, i think they're aiming towards businesses and high-end users for that kind of price.

anyways, I see they released Maverick for free....

Yep, a great surprise!
Apple might be fed up a bit of Snow Leopard i.e Mac OS X Windows XP.
As for the Mac Pro, at least there's a new one. Pricing is comparable to Mac Pros before so yes expensive. Hopefully, the quality is there, as before.

What's this about Snow Leopard being equivalent to Windows XP?

And I bought my '08 Mac Pro for just a hair over $2,000, which was what I was hoping to get a new one for.

Not equivalent, but the safe OS still living on and hurting the sales of following OSes.
It's 3000 EUROS here so stop complaining.

[Barrister]

Huh, I didn't realize that Mavericks was a free upgrade to any version of OS X going back to Snow Leopard.

While I had dutifully upgraded my Mac from  Leopard to Snow Leopard and then Lion, I didn't bother to upgrade to Mountain Lion.  But I guess now I don't have to.

[HVC]

Got the new iPhone 5s. Like it so far. I know the thumb scan log on isn't the most secure, but it is convenient

[DGuller]

I put my iPhone ear buds through the washer and dryer.    That can't be good for them.

[Tamas]

Got the new iPhone 5s. Like it so far. I know the thumb scan log on isn't the most secure, but it is convenient

How is it not more secure than having your greasiest fingerprints on the display above the numbers of your pin code?

[HVC]

Got the new iPhone 5s. Like it so far. I know the thumb scan log on isn't the most secure, but it is convenient

How is it not more secure than having your greasiest fingerprints on the display above the numbers of your pin code?

they know the numbers, but not the sequence, so it's still secure. There's thumb scan hack tutorials out there already. But really, it's not like I have classified information or anything on my phone

[DGuller]

Got the new iPhone 5s. Like it so far. I know the thumb scan log on isn't the most secure, but it is convenient

How is it not more secure than having your greasiest fingerprints on the display above the numbers of your pin code?

they know the numbers, but not the sequence, so it's still secure. There's thumb scan hack tutorials out there already. But really, it's not like I have classified information or anything on my phone

Well, there are only 24 possible sequences of four digits.  How many attempts do you get before something bad happens?

[HVC]

Not sure when it locks (if it does) but you can set it to delete all info after 10 attempts.

[HVC]

Playing around and after 6 failed attempts it locks for 1 minute, 5 on the 7th attempt. Didn't want to try an 8th.