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On The Verge since Jul 29, 2012
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Additionally, Apple’s Time Machine backup system is far superior to what is available on (from Microsoft), which makes it even less of an issue on that OS than on Windows, since Time Machine is system wide (File History is only user folders) and the UX makes it brain dead easy to recover files from back-up.
File history can back up any file on the computer. By default it only backs up user files, but you can specify any folder you want really easily.
2. In macOS, the default behavior is that there is no confirmation dialog when you delete a file (command + delete).
There is no confirmation dialogue on Windows either unles it’s a permanent delete.
This kind of thing seems to be a common theme in your comments. You either don’t know anything about Windows, and just make stuff up, or are knowingly misleading.
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I think you are close to the point. What really differentiates full computer operating systems from mobile ones is the former’s ability to multitask, and to a certain extent the far greater flexibility those operating systems offer in terms of writing software.
No one would deny that OS X, Windows, Linux etc are far more capable than iOS or even android. I guess the other question is do people (like Dr Strange) need a full computer for what they need to do, or would a simple computer do. If the tasks they need to complete are fairly simple, then no, if the tasks are more complicated, or require greater flexibility than iOS or android offer, then a full computer is necessary.
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There is a particular university in QLD Australia that would buy MacBook Pros for staff, and fill the computer labs with iMacs, and then install parallels on them so they could run the necessary windows software. OS X was not required at all.
Students didn’t require Macs though, and I’m fairly sure the main reason for the expenditure was to keep up the govt funded IT budget.
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Do they not have water boilers in dorm common rooms in the US? In Australia I don’t think I’ve ever seen a non private kitchenette without some kind of water boiler (and a collection of tea bags, instant coffee and sugar nearby).
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Very much like that suggestion, but I am a bit of a fountain pen nut. If you ever feel like you want to upgrade over the pilot metropolitan, have a look at the pilot/namiki falcon. By far the smoothest writing pen under about $500, and while it’s much more expensive than the metropolitan (~$150) it’s very cheap for a gold nib (and it is semiflex to boot – so you can vary the line thickness).
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The Pilot Metropolitan is an great choice. It is an excellent pen, and the build is far beyond it’s $20 price tag. I would recommend that if anyone buys it, they should also upgrade to the CON-50 converter, as piston converters >>> bladders. Also fantastic choice on the ink. Noodles black is a great daily ink. Dark black line, very well behaved in just about every pen, and very permanent on paper.
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User waypoints would be useful, especially since the game already has a mechanic that shows you where things are, and the ability to upload them. There is something slightly irritating about finding an outpost with a galactic trading interface, and then not be able to get back to it.
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Planets with threatening sentinels tend to have a lot of gravitino balls, which are a great way to earn units. When you scan they come up with a triangle with an exclamation mark. But they attack with just about anything. I was exploring a monolith when they attacked me (so all I got was red screen flashes when it was showing me the animation and the half dozen achievements after).
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You can get equally good support from companies like Dell (with their premium/business support) and Microsoft. I mean Dell next day’d a 20kg monitor to me due to some dead pixels.
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My work bag is pretty boring, and electronics free (except a battery pack and a lightning cable for my iPhone.
My travel bag has a bit more interesting
- iPhone 6 (16gb)
- Surface 3 128gb with type cover and pen (both red)
- 6000mAh battery pack
- Sony Walkman (NW-A25) with 64gb mSD
- Sony h.ear Wireless NC (MDR-100ABN) – superior for my use due to the better sound quality over the Bose QC35’s, especially when used with the walkman due to Sony’s LDAC
- Apple Watch Sport in space grey
- Ricoh Theta m15 360 camera
- Sony NEX 3 camera, and/or Sony Action cam depending on what I have planned
- A thecoopidea Jelly 4 port USB charger
- Apple watch charge cable, lightning cable, walkman cable, micro USB cable (for the surface, headphones, charging the battery pack, action cam, and ricoh theta)
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Most canal phones don’t go remotely close to the tympanic membrane. A typical adult ear canal is 2.5cm deep, so the depth of an earbud (at most about 0.5cm, or 1cm for really deeply sealed canal phones) is no where near. Excessive volume is an issue with earing, but ear buds are a lot quieter than other headphones, so they are relatively only as dangerous in that regard as other headphones. The closer the sound source is to the ear the quieter it can be to give the same apparent volume. My stereo needs hundreds of W to drive, my headphones require mW to do the same.
The big issue with ear buds is that they cause impaction of wax.
Some statistics on this latter problem are given in
Your own guestimations are not actually statistics, even if it’s in a scribd document.
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The LG Tone Wireless headset is a great design.
I think they at are a pretty awful design. There are also plenty of other headphone that are more compact and provide sufficient battery life. People will also pay more for style and brand name. The LG Tone Wireless headphones don’t have that.
The Beats brand is actually not that focussed on earbuds anyway, but the big ticket (and more expensive) over ear or on ear headphones. Beats headphones tend to be overpriced, but not expensive, topping out at only AU$500. I would even argue that the Beats Studio Wireless are reasonable value for an over ear wireless ANC headphones.
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Also splurg a bit on a case, it’s another part that will outlast the rest of the components (unless you pick a case that is very particular).
I like silverstone cases, but there are a lot of great ones out there.
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USB C is externally bigger, but internally smaller. The lightning port has to be bigger than the opening as the contacts connect from the side, but the USB C connector is only as big as the opening. The size of the port shouldn’t have too much of an impact on the thinness of the phone relative to lightning.
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Upgrade was probably a better word. You can’t get a OS X number upgrade without having an apple ID (or using the version that someone else downloaded on their Mac using their own apple ID). I wasn’t referring to security updates etc (and frankly it would be inexcusable if any OS restricted that kind of upgrade to account holders).
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I built mine a long time ago (2013), when my budget was a little lower than it is now (with a couple of upgrades since).
i5-2400
MSI H61M-P21
G.Skill DDR3 ram 2×4=8GB
Samsung 850 EVO SSD (upgrade)
WD Green 2TB HDD
TP Link Archer T8E 1750mbps wifi adaptor (upgrade)
AMD Radeon R9 280 OC 3GB (upgrade)
A small modular PSU, the details I can’t remember
Silverstone FT03 in silver
Dell U3415W curved ultrawide monitor (upgrade)
Q Acoustics 2010i bookshelf speakersI didn’t intentionally get any lights for it, but turns out the PSU has some red LEDs in it. Given the location of the PSU, the case ends up with a menacing red glow underneath it when it’s on.
The next upgrade would probably involve a mainboard upgrade, CPU upgrade, RAM upgrade and maybe a GPU upgrade if I want to do VR, but there is really no pressing need at the moment given that it still runs beautifully.
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If you are going to go 1440p, may I suggest you get an ultra wide? Arguably better than 4K for available screen real estate, and gaming is a lot more immersive.
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Cortana only works with the band with Windows phone.
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Because the UWP Apps, Store, etc. are more of a distraction than anything.
It’s really easy to ignore the UWP App Store. Just as easy to ignore as the AppStore on OS X. It’s obvious you love Apple, but please try to have arguments that hold some water.
Guess which operating system you can install and use without having an account with the OS developer? Is it Windows 10, or OS X? If you picked OS X your wrong, because the OS updates come via the AppStore (and thus requires an Apple ID) while MS delivers it through windows update (which doesn’t require any ID). If you have an exeption for needing an ID to use an OS, you should be running away from OS X, not Windows.
I installed LibreOffice, instead, and just use iWorks on my Mac as a result.
You know you need to have an Apple ID to use iWorks right? What you are saying is that you stopped using office because you object to the requirement to have an account, so you moved to a productivity suite that requires an account.
tldr of iAnonGuy’s commenting: criticizing Microsoft for doing things (and often things he inaccurately thinks they do) that he’s perfectly happy with when Apple does them, all without any awareness of the obvious hypocracy.
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So what it the backwards compatibility isn’t all encompassing? No one said it was. But it’s an awful lot better than OS X almost complete lack of it.
Also you are wrong about windows not running 16 bit applications, because it still does on 32bit versions of windows (and yes, windows 10 is still available in a 32bit version). 64bit versions of windows can still also run some 16 bit programs as well by converting them to 32bit. There is also plenty of support for windows 9x software, with compatibility modes all the way back to windows 95 on windows 10. XP mode was largely to allow testing of older versions of internet explorer for websites, and allow 16bit compatibility on 64bit systems, as well as unsigned driver installation without the user having to change boot settings for their computer.
Secondly, I don’t really care about backward compatibility when going from Windows to OS X.
And there are many people who aren’t you and do care. Plus it sounds like you just don’t know a lot about windows from what you write in you comments, so your opinion of it doesn’t hold much weight.
On OS X, I don’t have to worry about backward compatibility, because I can buy great applications developed in this decade instead of having to rely on updates from Microsoft, Adobe, Corel, etc. for their monopolistic products.
On OS X you don’t have a choice. If there was a perfectly good bit of software that’s too old, tough luck, you cannot use it (and there are some fantastic bits of no longer supported software for older versions of OSX that simply can’t run on the newer versions, and no ability to emulate them). There are also issues like firmware updaters that don’t really get updated and as a result need at least some degree of backwards compatibility. My NAD DAC needed a firmware update. When I tried to do that on my MacBook it had a kernel panic and failed the update. Nil issue on my surface 3 however. Both were running the most up to date versions of their respective operating systems.
There is also a lot of third party software available for Windows, which apparently you don’t know about (tip, MS, Adobe, Corel and other major software vendors are not the only providers of apps for windows). The OS X Appstore isn’t that great either. It’s mostly full of simple games, and expensive single purpose utilities. I don’t really know how many $60 todo lists the world needs, but it’s certainly fewer than what the appstore has.
I havne’t met a Windows application I personally use that couldn’t be readily replaced with cheaper, and often better designed, OS X applications (that don’t depend on 3rd party accounts, subscriptions, etc. to function).
Paint.net is a good example of an app that doesn’t have a good counterpart on OS X at the same price. The windows equivalent for many OS X apps that cost $20-30 is in many cases free or significantly lower. The quality isn’t lacking either. There isn’t an iOS or OS X PDF annotation app that is a good as Drawboard PDF (and that’s only AU$5).
There aren’t also many apps in windows that depend on 3rd party accounts/subscriptions to function, and if they do, the OS X version does as well. Creative cloud obviously does for both (but Adobe has a non subscription version), the most recent Office does require an account but is first party on windows, and steam requires a subscription because of their business model (which is true on OS X, windows and Linux). I really can’t think of any that are required subscriptions and windows specific. I don’t think you could either.
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