Can’t keep your phone up-to-date if you’re no longer in possession of it.

Nvidia is already at $5 T now: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/29/nvidia-5-trillion-market-cap/

X2 “Elite Extreme” probably in ideal conditions vs. the base M4 chip in a real-world device. Sure, nice single core results but Apple will likely counter with the M5 (the A19 Pro already reaches around 4,000 and the M chips can probably clock a bit higher). And the M4 Pro and Max already score as high or higher in multi-core. Real world in a 14 inch laptop.

It doesn’t “crush” the M4 series at all and we’ll see how it’ll perform in a comparable power/thermal envelope.

I don’t hate what Qualcomm is doing here, but these chips only work properly under Windows and the Windows app ecosystem still hasn’t embraced ARM all that much, and from what I’ve heard Windows’ x64 to ARM translation layer is not as good as Rosetta 2. Linux support is pretty horrible, especially at launch.

Probably why it has a titanium frame even though aluminum would’ve been lighter. I guess if you really want to break it you can (as you can with any phone), but I doubt accidental bends will be an issue.

Waiting for reviews obviously makes sense for a lot of reasons, but leaked battery specs suggest battery capacity larger than the 13 Pro. Add efficiency improvements to that and it should be more than fine for most people.

2x crop on a 48 MP sensor results in 12 MP, not 24 MP. Still looks fine though.

What even is new with the S11 vs. S10 hardware wise? Better glass on the aluminum model and 5G? That’s it?

You can always get the battery swapped for a new one on your 13 Pro should it ever not get you through the day.

I have a 16 Pro so upgrading is probably kind of pointless.

I will say that the base model 17 looks pretty decent once prices at online shops come down a little. Finally you get the 120 Hz display.

I like the slimness/weight of the Air. The only thing really missing for me is the ultra-wide lens (also for macro photos), battery life would probably work out for me and other compromises are minor.

The 17 Pro isn’t a huge upgrade year-on-year, but they finally completed the transition to all 48 MP rear sensors, finally got a decent cooling solution and increased battery capacity (and 12 GB RAM). It finally feels pretty much complete instead of Apple purposefully holding back features. Bit of a bummer that we get the SIM tray version in Europe though, I’ve been using eSIM for years so the larger battery capacity - while I don’t need it in most cases - would’ve been appreciated.

I’m kind of holding out for a foldable iPhone anyway.

But back to you: what are you missing from your 13 Pro?

Yeah, but the old display supports VRR via VESA Adaptive-Sync. Nvidia supports that as well, but not sure if their mobile GPUs don’t for built-in displays?

If it is supported, I don’t see any advantage of having Gsync vs. standard VRR.

If not that’s a shame. Pretty wasteful having to buy the same display with different firmware just to get adaptive sync working.

iOS 15 (2021) introduced support for actual extensions, not just blocklists. These extensions can inject scripts on the pages you browse and multiple adblockers on iOS make use of that, including Adguard, uBO Lite and Wipr for example.

They still use the blocklist API for their regular URL blocklists, but can run scripts in addition to that. Never saw a YouTube ad on iOS ever since, for example.

There are even userscripts extensions (think Greasemonkey compatible) available. It’s no problem.

macOS is included with every Mac, not free.

More of a problem when adding a new desktop.

You’re joking but you could totally have 10 digital (or analog) clocks - in different time zones if you want - that popup a calendar with events from one or multiple of 10 different calendars in different colors and you can also set the popups to stay pinned until manually closed if you want to. KDE’s widget system is extremely versatile.

Yeah, in general Windows 11 just assumes a lot of things “for” the user, and if you don’t like it you’re often out of luck or have to resort to third party tools to restore previous functionality.

Try KDE Plasma, you can put one clock on your second monitor that opens a calendar…or 10. Whatever you want, really.

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That was bound to happen at some point. Buying a Google device to then “degoogle” it never sit quite right with me.

Google Maps doesn’t pretend to be good at chess. ChatGPT does.