My Sony WH-1000XM5s are reaching the end of their life and I'm looking for a replacement. Since I'm owning an iphone, the AirPods Max 2 are a candidate, but the price is hard to ignore.
What do you think ?
My Sony WH-1000XM5s are reaching the end of their life and I'm looking for a replacement. Since I'm owning an iphone, the AirPods Max 2 are a candidate, but the price is hard to ignore.
What do you think ?
Genuine question: how do you all judge whether to buy a new phone?
I increasingly get the feeling that YouTube reviews are made as entertainment first, actual buying advice second. Everyone hypes up the Chinese phones with the massive camera systems, and sure, they look impressive in a 15 minute video. But then you read about people actually living with these phones and the excitement doesn't really hold up. Software updates, bugs, resale value, app quality... none of that shows up in a week-long review period.
I recently switched between Apple and Samsung again and it confirmed it for me. Samsung has the bleeding edge hardware on paper, but in daily use it just feels messier than the spec sheet suggests. That gap between "review impression" and "living with it for 6 months" is exactly what reviewers never capture.
So what do you actually base your decision on? Long-term reviews? Just buying and returning? Sticking with what you know?
Genuine question: how do you all judge whether to buy a new phone?
I increasingly get the feeling that YouTube reviews are made as entertainment first, actual buying advice second. Everyone hypes up the Chinese phones with the massive camera systems, and sure, they look impressive in a 15 minute video. But then you read about people actually living with these phones and the excitement doesn't really hold up. Software updates, bugs, resale value, app quality... none of that shows up in a week-long review period.
I recently switched between Apple and Samsung again and it confirmed it for me. Samsung has the bleeding edge hardware on paper, but in daily use it just feels messier than the spec sheet suggests. That gap between "review impression" and "living with it for 6 months" is exactly what reviewers never capture.
So what do you actually base your decision on? Long-term reviews? Just buying and returning? Sticking with what you know?
Bought a Model 3 Performance about a month ago. Love it.
The M3P vs. RWD Long Range question comes up here constantly and I went back and forth on it too, so figured I'd throw in my two cents.
If you're being purely practical, the LR RWD is the better car. Highway range on the Performance isn't great, I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
But last week I'm parked in my village (small place, nothing ever happens here) and there's this kid, maybe 12 years old, taking photos of my car. That got me. I did exactly that as a kid, standing around taking pictures of a Ferrari or whatever cool thing rolled through.
That's the part the spec sheet doesn't cover. Better wheels, rarer car, doesn't look like every other lease Tesla in the office parking lot. For me that's worth the range hit.
So: if you want the sensible answer, LR RWD. If you want the one that makes a 12 year old pull his phone out, get the Performance.