▲ 10 r/macbook
One year in, it's been a good run y'all
RIP, completely unusable now.
u/No-Squash7469 — 4 hours ago
▲ 87 r/macbookpro
Been a good run y'all
battery replacement is the only thing that can save me now!
u/No-Squash7469 — 3 days ago
▲ 154 r/macbookpro
1 year on! M4 MBP 32GB RAM. Glad I got it when I did...
Sold my old intel iMac one year ago now, which got a surprising amount of money (probably because of the display, which was gorgeous) for my current M4 MacBook Pro, 32GB RAM.
Running perfectly, M4 is plenty for what I need. The Air probably would have been fine for what I do, but the speakers, display, and 120hz on this MBP are a really nice touch. Can't say I'm surprised by how much the price has gone up though, RAM is just through the roof lately.
My iMac's intel processor aged pretty poorly tbh, I would have liked to have kept it longer than 5 years, but I'm feeling like this MBP is going to be closer to a decade. Fingers crossed!
u/No-Squash7469 — 10 days ago
▲ 26 r/ipadmini
If Mini 7 is now $599, Mini 8 (60hz!) is going to be $699 at least IMO
Given the redesign and OLED screen now, I have to imagine that it'll be another price hike from where the Min i 7 currently is (as of today, $599, up from $499 previously).
Better processor and more RAM, but I have no desire to buy upgrade when it'll still be a 60hz display. Have to imagine the number of people getting minis for stuff that truly requires better processors and more RAM is pretty small?
Mini 7 on sale one the 8th Gen debuts will be the move IMO
Amazon's all time low that I've seen was last summer, I snagged a mini 7 base model for $379. Will hold onto this until 120hz comes lol
u/No-Squash7469 — 10 days ago
▲ 106 r/iPhone13
Gotta admit, in 2026, iPhone 13 is showing its age.
How are your iPhone 13s holding up? I've done one battery change last year, which helped a lot.
But I have to admit, by the end of last year, my 13 has really started to show its age more. Until then, the main (and really only) issue was that apps closed frequently when I didn't have them open because of RAM. Minor inconvenience.
Upgrading seemed pointless, like Apple wanted $700+ for a camera button and losing the notch? Apple Intelligence remains in beta and sorta useless, I have it on my Mac and iPad Mini anyway if I really want to do something with it. Truly felt 0 desire to get a 15, 16, or 17.
Now though, it is becoming genuinely just... slow. I think the time draws near lol.
In general I try to wait as long as possible before upgrading without having a super unusable phone, and right now I'm planning to try to stick it out until iPhone 18's base model comes out (going to jump from 8GB RAM to 12) next spring.
Anyone planning on holding out longer?
u/No-Squash7469 — 21 days ago
▲ 243 r/AppleWatch
WatchOS 27's message: cheaper is better for watches
Unfortunately, planned obsolesce is a thing, so buying an Apple Watch was never going to be exactly like getting a really nice watch that you hand down to your descendants. But WatchOS 27 is kind of accelerating that, to the point where I couldn't imagine (outside of super niche use cases) buying anything other than the base model aluminum S11 or SE3.
These things seem that you can have them for like four years now before they're getting obsolete, maybe with a battery change along the way.
How are you all navigating this?
u/No-Squash7469 — 21 days ago
▲ 1 r/brave_browser
Brave killed NordPass (temporarily, I hope....)
Clearly I'm not the only one with this issue, and NordPass says the issue is on Brave's end. This thread seems to have confirmed it, something about a recent Brave update prevents NP from being able to sign in fully and so it just spins instead.
Anyone know roughly how long it takes to get these things fixed?
u/No-Squash7469 — 22 days ago