Apple held its yearly Fall-ish iPhone event today and released new iPhones, watches, and Air Pods. Here's my take. AirPods Pro 2 The AirPods Pro 2 look the same as the current generation but offer up to 2x the noise cancelling magic due to the new H2 chip. Combined with better drivers and amps, they …
Mac Museum New Additions: August 2022
I've started spending time in the Mac Museum again and that means I'm on the hunt for well-priced additions. I've been lucky to find both a 2010 Mac mini and 2009 Unibody MacBook in great condition for great prices. Now's the time to get them before they get too old and get more expensive. I'm …
Time for a MacBook Pro (Again)?
I replaced my 15" Intel MacBook Pro with a M1 MacBook Air about 20 months ago and I've been pretty happy with it. In general, performance is great, battery life is great, the keyboard is great, the size is nice, it's light, and the screen is good. The issues pop up when I run Lightroom …
Resurrecting a Blue & White G3
I've been spending some time in my museum lately cataloging my collection. In particular I'm booting up all of my machines to verify their specs and whether they work. At last count I had a little over 100 machines, most of which work, but only about â…“ of which I have cataloged. I pulled out …
March 2022 Apple Predictions
On occasion I try to predict what products Apple is going to release based on rumors. On occasion (ok, always so far), I'm wrong. But you know what they say - "if at first you don't succeed..." So here we are, try, trying again with another prediction, this time about Apple's March product release. There …
Lightroom Update for M1 Addresses My Issues
I wrote recently about my experiences running Lightroom on my M1 MacBook Air. Overall it was more performant than my 2016 MacBook Pro, but I often encountered slowdowns with brush edits and had to close most other applications to make my 8 GB RAM usable. Adobe released an M1-native update to Lightroom in June and …
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My iPhone 13
Apple announced the iPhone 13 lineup last week and pre-orders were available this past Friday. From my first iPhone 3GS in 2009 I've been on the off-cycle, buying Apple's "s" model and keeping it for two years each time. I didn't buy the hot new designs (iPhone 4, 5, 6, 7) but the next iteration …
iPhone 13
My least favorite blue has reached the regular iPhone Apple announced the iPhone 13 series yesterday and as I expected, it was more evolution than revolution. The new models use the same flat-edge, slim-bezel design introduced last year with a few minor tweaks. The notch is 20% narrower (but a tiny bit taller) and the …
This was NOT the End of the Apple Watch Series 3
I made a prediction last week that Apple would stop selling the Apple Watch Series 3 once the Series 7 was introduced. I was wrong. In fact, I was so wrong, that Apple's decision was the one thing I didn't even include as an option because I thought it was so unlikely. Yikes. Quick recap: …
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Is this the End of The Apple Watch Series 3?
Apple is expected to announce new iPhones and Watches this month. The Series 7 Watch is rumored to have a new, flatter design with larger display that is closer to the glass, and possibly blood pressure monitoring capabilities. As with every new product, its introduction will move Apple's other watch offerings around, which got me …
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Relatively Ambitious 