Apple's March 21st 2016 event

Maybe Apple doesnt understand in todays world, people are more smart with their money and CPU technology has improved compared to the late 90's early 00's.

A 5 year old PC can go a long way compared to 15 years ago.
 
malachi said:
Maybe Apple doesnt understand in todays world, people are more smart with their money and CPU technology has improved compared to the late 90's early 00's. A 5 year old PC can go a long way compared to 15 years ago.
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The profits they make and their market share would suggest they know today's world better than anyone else. In particular they now how to make a product with a good profit margin. Which is why they've ignored anything that doesn't do that.
 
Have to say I quite like the 9.7" iPad Pro and would be quite tempted to make it my first iPad. As a device I think it's decently priced but when you add in the cost of the Apple Pencil and Case - it's less so decently priced.

The smaller iPhone is also a great idea - as someone with a 6S who finds it a bit awkward at times, I definitely would have considered the SE had it been available a while ago.

Thought the pop-shot at the '5 year old PC' was a bit cheap to be honest. And a bit without perspective, as the desktop Mac side of things have been steadily under appreciated for a while now.
 
From reading around it seems that the iOS version of lightroom can even read RAW files, so that's the iPad pro out for me.

With Macbook update I'll just use my 2011 11" Air as an ultra portable and a 13" as my main work laptop.

I liked the look of the SE, but the UK pricing has missed the mark for me.
 
Not that I really consider it a big issue either way, but am I right in thinking that the 9" Pro uses first gen Touch ID?
 
fez said:
I think people are taking the "5 years old PCs need replacing" a little seriously.

I could do a lot of what I need to on a raspberry pi as long as I don't put gumpf on it and use it for coding. At the same time, someone who uses their 5 year old PC for web browsing, documents etc could have an awful time of it.

A 5 year old PC can be a well maintained beast or a complete mess and deadly slow. The spec of hardware and how it is maintained make a huge difference. The average punter doesn't maintain their PC and will have a **** spec in the first place. People are just trying to find ways to bash apple for statements like this.
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Sorry, but they poked fun at the fact that there were over 600 million PC's that are over 5 years old still in use, then went to bang on about being environmentally aware/friendly. :confused:

Why replace perfectly fine equipment when it works? I use my Dell D420 ultra portable laptop, from 2006, upgraded with a £40 SSD, now running Windows 10 for everyday office tasks, RDP, and many other things that an iPad would do worse, I failed to see Apple's comparison and why it was necessary, they made themselves look silly.
 
Cavallino said:
Take a 5year old iPad running iOS 9 (if possible).

Would probably not even unlock.

Makes the 5 year argument silly.
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iOS 9 performance on iPad 2 is mixed. Lots of apps crash due to lack of available memory. Heavy websites cause Safari to freeze-up. Apple must do more to optimise iOS, or just not bother releasing iOS for older hardware.
 
lofarl said:
Reading that the smaller pro has a slightly slower cpu speed and only 2 gig ram
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Yeah, I read that the CPU is underclocked but only by a small margin that won't be noticeable in real world use but only half the RAM? If that's true, then they can get well and truly stuffed.

Looks like I'm going to save myself £180 and buy an iPad mini 4 now.
 
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Just curious... what difference are you going to notice? Surely it's going to be negligible?

I'll be upgrading from an Air, so I'm sure I'll notice the difference from 1GB > 2GB (as I did when i made the same upgrade going from a 5s to a 6s).

But 2GB > 4GB?
 
The more memory the better, surely? Apps won't relaunch as much when multitasking, websites won't reload when switching tabs, etc. Little things like that make a difference in the experience.
 
ic1male said:
The more memory the better, surely? Apps won't relaunch as much when multitasking, websites won't reload when switching tabs, etc. Little things like that make a difference in the experience.
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That's definitely true when you go from 1 to 2. I have a feeling the difference going from 2 to 4 isn't as dramatic (for 99% of people anyway).

Could be wrong.... :D
 
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