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    Quote Originally Posted by JAD View Post
    USB-C is pretty cool. I am an *Enormous* fan of the magsafe (pogo pin) connector that has been the power connection on macbooks for more than a decade now, but C is good enough and the universality is worth the compromise.
    If they had gone USB-C rather than kept lightning my 11 pro would be a 12 pro before the quarter was out.

    Maybe when the 13s drop...

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    Quote Originally Posted by UNK View Post
    Depends what features she wants. I got my daughter a 3 and its a good watch. Wifes a RN and she wanted the one that monitors heart. Newer ones have all kinds of stuff you can even have one and no phone. Waterproof etc etc
    I’ve read a couple articles that unless the newest health measurement tools are an absolute must have, buying a gen or 2 back on the watches is a much better value. Pretty incremental improvements other wise
    --Josh
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    Quote Originally Posted by MGW View Post
    The wife wants a new Apple Watch. Should I shop for a 5,6 or SE?
    I have a Series 4. The only significant upgrade in the two generations following it are a display that stays on all the time.
    I get tired of looking at my watch, but, having not made the correct gesture with my forearm, having a blank screen look back at me. So I’d look at the price delta between a series 5 and 6, and decide from there.

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    Going all in with the iPhone 12 drop. Ordering bright and early tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MGW View Post
    The wife wants a new Apple Watch. Should I shop for a 5,6 or SE?
    Love my 5. The big diff with the 6 is blood ox, which seems like kind of a no brainer these days, and a better HR sensor, which will be worth it for exercise.

    The killer is always on, and I’ve had earlier versions of the watch that didn’t have it. I would no way get an SE.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JAD View Post
    Love my 5. The big diff with the 6 is blood ox, which seems like kind of a no brainer these days, and a better HR sensor, which will be worth it for exercise.

    The killer is always on, and I’ve had earlier versions of the watch that didn’t have it. I would no way get an SE.
    The health stuff on the “real” watch are irrelevant to me personally, but the always-on will likely make me spring for the real one over the toy one.

    The funny thing is, when I build-n-price the toy watch the aluminum is fine because it’s the only option. Step up to the big boy watch and somehow I just have to have the Ti...
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    Cameras in the iPhone 11 models are amazing. I still prefer the ergonomics of a “real” camera, when photographing active subjects, and one still needs to use a “real” camera in order to use a telephoto lens, but when things are peaceful, and one can hold the newer iPhones “just right,” iPhones do amazing photographic things.

    I am trying to use the latest iPad Pro as a total computer replacement. Thus far, this plan is mostly working. I almost never need to fire-up my 2012 MacBook Pro, although our e-mail provider keeps sending us notices about some change that will take place next week, affecting mobile apps, that might change the way I am thinking. When I have a choice of using a company’s/entity’s app, or their actual website, on an iPad Pro, the website is usually the more-satisfying experience. You-Tube is an example of this, as their app is stupid-dumb.

    Some few entities, however, will “detect” the iPad Pro as a mobile device, and automatically trigger the app, or present a modified mobile site, rather than the site one sees on an actual computer. If their app/mobile site is dumber than their Normal internet site, there may be times I have to use a laptop to do some things.

    Disclaimer #1: I am certainly no tech expert, and there are things that I don’t know that I don’t know.

    Disclaimer #2: I never learned to like Microsoft Windows. I was using computers, while working for Houston PD, in Texas, from 1984, but the computer system was largely proprietary, and largely kept that way, to deter external threats, for quite a while. Gradually, Windows Professional was finally worked into the PD’s computers. I think that the earliest version of Windows I used in a personal computer was Windows 98-ish. Windows has hated me, and I have hated Windows, in return.
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    Ordered my 2 12s this AM, the site was a disaster until that first wave was sold out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MGW View Post
    The wife wants a new Apple Watch. Should I shop for a 5,6 or SE?
    My daughter got a 5 because of the size of the thing, she says the newer one was too big on her thin arms.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GyroF-16 View Post
    I have a Series 4. The only significant upgrade in the two generations following it are a display that stays on all the time.
    I get tired of looking at my watch, but, having not made the correct gesture with my forearm, having a blank screen look back at me. So I’d look at the price delta between a series 5 and 6, and decide from there.
    Like Gyro also rocking an AW4 (my 1st) for 2+ yrs. & been trailing the AW6 but returning it next week. Nothing wrong w/ it, kinda like the AOD feature but not enough @ MSRP so back to my 4 soon.

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