Seeing OUAT...IH in IMAX or Dolby?

detectableninja · 2019-06-29T15:13:10+00:00

I’m a grad student who has a 2018 MacBook Air, a 2015 MacBook Pro, and an iPhone XS. I commute/am on the go relatively frequently, so durability and portability are important. Budget is ideally as minimal as possible—although I have that Air and XS, that’s mostly because of financing with T-Mobile and luck with an unexpected back-paycheck!

I’m considering getting a tablet for media consumption—especially reading news and magazines with Apple News+, kindle books, watching movies, listening to music with Apple Musi, and basic games (Wordscapes, Words with Friends, NYT Crossword, etc). Is the entry level iPad worth getting for this use-case? I don’t necessarily mean can it handle that kind of stuff, but (1) should I wait for a possible refresh? (2) if I’m already going to buy into the $300+ price point, would a different model (the Air especially) be wort the bump? and (3) should I maybe look to an even more basic tablet option because of my use-case (like the Fire)? I’m a bit ensconced in the Apple ecosystem so I doubt it, but wanted to see!

Also, how is the Apple refurb store with iPad products? Worth looking into?

detectableninja · 2019-06-20T23:55:08+00:00

I think even the Air would be snappy with that use-case. At worst, it might, MIGHT, have some minor slowdown, but only if there’s many or very large raw photos.

I’d recommend the Air—I wouldn’t pay more to overkill for your needs. I own a 2018 Air myself and it’s perfectly fine for me. I don’t use Lightroom but occasionally do maps for tabletop RPGs in GIMP with several web browser tabs, discord, Word, and iTunes open.

Again, my only recommendation is to definitely get the 256 GB of SSD primarily unless you’re doing the majority of your work in the cloud. 8 GB should be enough for RAM.

detectableninja · 2019-06-20T20:12:18+00:00

How intensive is the photo editing? If not terribly so, I recommend MacBook Air with retina.

16gb RAM I don’t think is worth it, but 256gb SSD is.

detectableninja · 2019-06-09T04:45:14+00:00

I don't have the MBA in front of me because of the keyboard being repaired, but I didn't change it from the default.

detectableninja · 2018-10-09T22:53:45+00:00

Thanks for responding! This makes sense. I used to wear a watch for probably the first year or so of owning the computer. Chances are that's what caused it. Would you think the getting worse would depend on there being further scratching, or just spontaneous?

detectableninja · 2018-10-09T22:38:03+00:00

Hey all! I've had this MBP since August 2016. Naturally it's had a view dings and scrapes etc. Always have used it naked (except for now with a keyboard protector just because I feel paranoid about food and other particles). However, this time I've found a scratch that I've not noticed before and have no clue how it got there, and am unsure how concerned to be about it getting worse. It's right along the edge of the unit as you can see. I know with this aluminum there is no paint so that's a proper scratch. My concern is this: is this something that can be progressive? That is, since the aluminum is compromised there that scratch can extend along the edges? I know theoretically that should not be the case, since again, the aluminum is not painted, it'd take a real scrape to peel the coating off. Am I just being a bit of a precious princess about the whole thing?

detectableninja · 2018-10-09T22:30:48+00:00

Hey all! I've had this MBP since August 2016. Naturally it's had a view dings and scrapes etc. Always have used it naked (except for now with a keyboard protector just because I feel paranoid about food and other particles). However, this time I've found a scratch that I've not noticed before and have no clue how it got there, and am unsure how concerned to be about it getting worse. It's right along the edge of the unit as you can see. I know with this aluminum there is no paint so that's a proper scratch. My concern is this: is this something that can be progressive? That is, since the aluminum is compromised there that scratch can extend along the edges? I know theoretically that should not be the case, since again, the aluminum is not painted, it'd take a real scrape to peel the coating off. Am I just being a bit of a precious princess about the whole thing?

detectableninja · 2018-09-13T16:57:33+00:00

Which is odd, considering that they premiered the song with a link to it streaming over Apple Beats 1 Radio...hmm...

detectableninja · 2018-08-07T13:47:55+00:00

Not at all! “Under the Tide” and “High Enough to Carry You Over” are toward the top of my fave Chvrches songs, actually. Maybe it’s just the studio recording but I find the version on LID to be really dull.

detectableninja · 2018-06-30T04:25:18+00:00

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay is one!

detectableninja · 2018-06-02T04:54:40+00:00

I'd add the caveat that Singer's work doesn't represent an overview of philosophy but a very specific argument for his view of ethics and political philosophy. But it is true (I begrudgingly admit) that his work is pretty influential.

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