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MacBook Pro get touch but no pencil
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LLM-coded Notebook Program - Washikami
Rationale Recently, I had Claude create a webapp in about 20 minutes that did almost everything I wanted from the app. Within a weekend, it had everything I wanted. Samsung Notes is pretty good, especially the writing feel. They've also added tape recently, which is very nice. However, it is still quite basic and the Windows program isn't great, particularly the 'warnings' if you aren't using a Samsung laptop. I've found StarNote to be a great notetaking app. However, then pen responsiveness is slightly 'off'. It has plenty of features, but some small things that don't quite do what I'd like, and the developers also don't seem interested in adding more customisation. The developer are also Boox, so security is also a minor concern. Therefore, as I had some spare time and some Claude usage to spare (I used over 90% of my weekly usage on this, lol), I thought I'd get โฆ
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FW 12 Wildcat Lake
Looks like a solid update, double the battery life with a good performance update. Sadly no upgraded display, yet.
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violajack
2 days ago
The battery is one of the things that was holding me back from getting one. I'll have to take another look. I've blown my gadget budget for a while and really should start selling things before getting anything else though...
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New Amazon Alexa tablet devices have (optional) Pro Pen
Apparently the pen needs to be charged, so I'm guessing USI or something along those lines:
Apparently annotations made in a book will show up on a Kindle Scribe.
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What's the deal with Surface Pro 10 prices?
I'm looking at Surface Pro 10 price on ebay & abase with the 16gb of storage more or less is going for the same price base Surface Pro 11 intel. Does the 10 have something(besides more complete drivers for Linux) over the Intel 11 that I overlooked that warrants the similar price?
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Keyboard mess
Soo, I was sitting next to the beach, replying to a bunch of e-mails in the early morning as the sun was rising over the ocean. Quiet, beautiful and at peace with myself.When out of the sky a huge birdshit landed right on my keyboard. Apparently those are nasy acidic things. Two minutes later, despite immeditely turning of the keybaord and cleaning it, five keys (EDFGR) no longer worked. Time to go to the nearest temple and buy a curse of avian flu on all the birds in the neighborhood.
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Sometimes You Just Canโt Say No
Iโve had my M4 Pro Mac mini for almost 1.5 yrs and itโs been great. But I have been pushing its limits lately (heavily modded Skyrim SE in particularโthereโs always a neat new mod that taxes performance a bit more) so I took a look at potential upgrades.
Apple offered to take my mini as a trade-in for only $150 less than I paid for it if I got a new M5 Max Studio. Howโs that for holding its value? You really need to take that into account when getting Apple sticker shockโฆ
Windows gaming alternatives to the base M5 Max Studio ($2500), spec and performance wise, are ~$500 more whether desktop or laptop (RTX 5070/5080-ish, 32GB RAM). At MSRP anyway. So weโre not talking a huge difference and after trading in the Mac mini itโs half the price of a Windows equivalent. About $1500 spread over 12 months, interest-free,โฆ
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Dellaster
Oct 08
This was more of an "adventure" than I bargained for. UPS' routing got terminally confused and it took a week and a half before Apple & UPS investigations could sort things out. The original order needed to be returned to Apple and a replacement was sent to me overnight. I received it yesterday.
Super easy setup from the Time Machine save from my outgoing traded-in M4 Pro Mac mini. Finished in half an hour. It's as much of an upgrade as I expected.
In October 1984 I bought my first Apple, the 512K "Fat" Mac, for $2500 USD. Here I am 42 years later with an immensely more powerful and capable Mac for the same USD price, though not the same cost--that first $2500 would be $8000 in today's dollars. What a bargain! ๐บ
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Small Pen for the Duo gets Axed.
Noooooooooooo! OMG. Nooooooooooo! Apple scrapped a shorter Apple Pencil for the Apple Duo, report says
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dstrauss
Sep 25
WHY are pen users always the runts of the tech litter? I'm in for a Duo even if I have to carry a Bic pen...but you are so right Bronsky - "I think the Duo is a great looking device (I also thought it was great when Microsoft designed it the first time)." In fact, I've been hunting for it and can't find the article, and even Zac Bowden back in 2023 said the Microsoft Duo 3 would be a folding screen. https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/microsoft-scraps-plans-for-dual-screen-surface-duo-3-pivots-to-new-foldable-screen-design
PS - wasn't that about the time Panos was playing footsy with Apple???
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Refurb Surfaces?
What were those sites that had corporate/business refurb & open box Surfaces? I'm looking at getting either the SP10 or SP11 Intel(not the SD) variant. I remember CDW, but forget what the other sites were.
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darkmagistric
Sep 12
CDW is the big fish, but other ones woud be Insight, SHI, and Connection. CDW is sort of unique since they are both a Commerical Reseller and a Distirbutor, whereas the other three are purely Commerical Resellers. Refurbs and Open Box's however are not that common to find.
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Same here Will. I'm not a content creator, and I've already downsized to my mega-MacBook Air (M4, 32gb/2tb), bt my former miniLED MBP had a damn good screen, and just can't see OLED being worth the upgrade pricing, even with touch which i do like as an old Windows hand. What really made me see red was no 5g and sucha. minimal design change - 1mm thickness on 16" and 0.5mm on 14" - hell, make it THICKER and add Face ID at least.