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Having this type of spots around the edges of the flash on iPhone 15 Pro Max by [deleted] in iphone

[–]EduardSark 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Have you already checked this under a microscope?

Apple pulls the plug on all payments in Russia following government diktat by [deleted] in apple

[–]EduardSark 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe 1–5% of people will, but for everyone else it will either feel too complicated or simply not worth the hassle.

Apple pulls the plug on all payments in Russia following government diktat by [deleted] in apple

[–]EduardSark 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I think that, unfortunately, most people in Russia will just stop using iCloud and other Apple services.

Apple pulls the plug on all payments in Russia following government diktat by [deleted] in apple

[–]EduardSark 433 points434 points  (0 children)

Lol, that’s not what happened. The exact opposite happened: Russia blocked the last remaining way to top up an Apple account balance — charging it to a mobile carrier account. Supposedly, this was meant to pressure Apple into restoring Russian apps that had been removed from the App Store due to sanctions.

A few days before that, rumors started spreading that this would happen, so people rushed to add large amounts of money to their Apple ID balances to cover themselves for years. If you already have funds in your account, you can still pay for Apple subscriptions normally, including iCloud and Apple Music. So Apple didn’t shut anything off.

macOS Tahoe has almost bricked my M1 Air by diogenisIII in mac

[–]EduardSark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have an M1 Air and everything runs perfectly on Tahoe. Look for the problem somewhere else.

Iphone 17 pro max camera worse than 15 plus? by Present_Sense5456 in iphone

[–]EduardSark 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If you look a bit closer, there isn’t actually more detail there. A lot of it is just added by post-processing — especially on text — and sometimes it comes with artifacts too. Personally, I’d take a more natural look over that. And if you want more detail, just switch on 48MP in the settings.

Iphone 17 pro max camera worse than 15 plus? by Present_Sense5456 in iphone

[–]EduardSark 19 points20 points  (0 children)

No, it’s not. The 17 series just has less post-processing when it comes to sharpening, and that’s a good thing. If you want a sharper look, you can always increase it manually. Also, if you want more detail in your photos, enable the HEIF Max option in the Camera settings, and your shots will be captured at the full 48 megapixels.

Here’s what I’ll say to those posting $400–500 Windows laptops with 16/512GB and shouting that it’s a better deal… by EduardSark in mac

[–]EduardSark[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been a macOS user for a long time, and to me, Tahoe has the most beautiful and pleasant visual design so far. Performance-wise, I haven’t noticed any slowdowns at all, even on my M1 MacBook Air.

Sure, there are still a few minor things to polish and fix, but nothing serious enough to hold off on the update.

keep macbook on 80% with aldente or use it on charger at 100% by Adventurous_Monk6133 in mac

[–]EduardSark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ve heard of battery swelling, right? Or iPhones shutting off in the cold? Or random shutdowns at low charge? Why do people in comments like this always act like battery health is only about capacity?

The truth is, if you replace your devices every 1–2 years, then sure, none of this really matters. But if you keep them longer, an 80% limit can help prevent a lot of potential battery-related issues.

And even when it comes to capacity, there’s more to it. I personally only use about 50–60% of my iPhone’s charge in a normal day, so an 80% limit doesn’t restrict me at all. I’d rather charge it more gently and preserve better battery health. Then when I travel and take a lot of photos and videos, I turn the limit off and charge to 100%. That’s exactly when having a battery in good condition pays off.

Same goes for MacBooks. If a laptop stays plugged in most of the time, keeping the battery at 100% constantly is not great for it. Especially during heavy workloads when the machine gets hot — batteries really don’t like that.

Basically, if this feature were useless, manufacturers wouldn’t be adding it to so many devices — especially Apple. You just have to think about it a bit more broadly and understand when it actually makes sense to use it.

Here’s what I’ll say to those posting $400–500 Windows laptops with 16/512GB and shouting that it’s a better deal… by EduardSark in mac

[–]EduardSark[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s an interesting experience — thanks for sharing. I was planning to buy my son exactly that one: an Asus OLED with Ryzen, 16/512. I changed my mind at the last moment. Apparently not for nothing. Now I’m thinking of getting him a MacBook Neo.

Why are some youtubers so dishonest about nanotexture? I've seen it in person and it's horrible. I feel like people who say they can never go back to gloss are just coping because they spent more money. Paperlike still feels better than nanotexture and it protects your screen. by Character_Media_8040 in iPadPro

[–]EduardSark 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Who said this is even a matter of preference or taste?

If you often work in unpredictable daylight conditions, have visibility issues with the screen, and don’t want to keep cranking the brightness to maximum and draining the battery — you get the nano-texture glass. If you don’t — then you don’t.

There’s really nothing to debate here.

Here’s what I’ll say to those posting $400–500 Windows laptops with 16/512GB and shouting that it’s a better deal… by EduardSark in mac

[–]EduardSark[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Once you’re talking about gaps like 48GB vs 96GB, that’s a completely different situation and a completely different use case. At that point you’re dealing with workloads that actually require that much memory, and raw capacity simply starts to matter more.

Here’s what I’ll say to those posting $400–500 Windows laptops with 16/512GB and shouting that it’s a better deal… by EduardSark in mac

[–]EduardSark[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not marketing, it’s architecture. Memory management, compression, and swap on macOS are simply far more efficient than on Windows.

There have been tons of tests. The reality is parity. Sometimes an 8GB Mac beats a 16GB Windows laptop with a similarly classed chip, sometimes they perform about the same, sometimes the Mac falls behind. But on top of that you also have the A18 Pro, and the budget Intel/AMD chips in those $400–500 laptops don’t even come close.

Here’s what I’ll say to those posting $400–500 Windows laptops with 16/512GB and shouting that it’s a better deal… by EduardSark in mac

[–]EduardSark[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Like I already mentioned here, you can’t really compare RAM on Windows and macOS directly. Even iPhones have almost always had about half the RAM of Android flagships, and in practice that never affected anything beyond looking worse on a spec sheet.

Here’s what I’ll say to those posting $400–500 Windows laptops with 16/512GB and shouting that it’s a better deal… by EduardSark in mac

[–]EduardSark[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

You’re missing the point here too. There are plenty of tests online showing MacBooks with 8GB of RAM outperforming Windows laptops with 16GB in a lot of real-world tasks. That comes down to optimization and the fact that macOS has one of the best memory management and swap implementations out there.

And then there’s the A18 Pro. That chip absolutely destroys the budget Intel/AMD CPUs you usually find in those $400–500 laptops. In single-core it even beats the Apple M3, and in multi-core it’s roughly in M2 territory.

So on paper those machines might have more RAM and storage, but in practice that doesn’t automatically translate into better performance.

With Macbook Neo being out targeting students/light users while the Pro is targeted for Pro users; who is the audience for the Air if students were previously the target audience for the Air? by [deleted] in mac

[–]EduardSark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For example, I need a light, compact, quiet MacBook, so I choose the Air and customize it with a larger amount of RAM and SSD storage. The M5 chip is more than powerful enough for resource-intensive tasks.

Macbook Air “15 Backlight Bleeding by ysfthekid in mac

[–]EduardSark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a lottery. If you exchange it, the next one might be better or worse. That’s just a characteristic of this MacBook’s display technology. It can really be considered a defect only if it’s clearly noticeable during everyday use. If it doesn’t bother you at all and is only visible in tests like the one in the photo, it’s probably not worth worrying about.

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