10-28-2014, 04:00 PM
I also went to apple to check out the new iPads. The lineup has unfortunately become a joke with half a dozen different options, but many that nobody should buy. You're an absolute idiot if you buy a mini; they took an already dated device and added an f'ing fingerprint scanner. Nothing else. They likely want people to buy 6+ phones, but those are stupid too. Far too big, and my hands are NBA player large. They even have the audacity to still sell the non-Retina mini. I have one. It is a dog. So slow with iOS 8 that I don't use it. I love the form-factor, but it is unusable. The iPad Air 2 is a nice device, but only if you have an iPad older than a 3 (2+ years old). I have a 3 that still performs pretty well. I'd basically only be shedding half a pound (significant, as that is 1/3 the weight of mine) for new purchase price. I couldn't justify it. I'm pretty salty that they still sell 16GB devices. It costs them nearly nothing to bump to 32. I get that they want to not give people an option and force them to go with 64GB, but it feels like a slimy salesman tactic. Most of my devices are 16GB and it can be a headache to manage them... I don't even store media on them, and that's one of their primary intents. Ugh. That's not valuing your customers
The Retina iMac is sick. If I didn't have work-supplied machines, I'd be selling what I had an picking one up. The screen is amazing. For what it is, the price can't be touched. You're basically buying that monitor and they throw a computer in for free.
So yeah, Apple is blowing it in the portable space IMO, but nobody is really doing any better. I continue to use Android near daily and it continues to amaze me in its shitiness.
The Retina iMac is sick. If I didn't have work-supplied machines, I'd be selling what I had an picking one up. The screen is amazing. For what it is, the price can't be touched. You're basically buying that monitor and they throw a computer in for free.
So yeah, Apple is blowing it in the portable space IMO, but nobody is really doing any better. I continue to use Android near daily and it continues to amaze me in its shitiness.
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4 wheels: '01 RAV4 (Formerly '93 Civic CX, '01 S2000, '10 GTI, '09 A4 Avant)
2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
No longer onyachin.