The great macdebate (now with roids)

[SuperPang]

The facial recognition is a hell of a gamble.
There's bound to be a non-story about something as there is with most iPhone releases, like antenna-gate and bend-gate.

[cools]

Lack of a finger print sensor is the biggest concern I have right now. It's going to take an age for 3rd parties to update their apps to incorporate face recognition (or lack of) if they even bother to. Who wants to go back to passwords and PIN numbers

The only reason I'm using the fingerprint sensor on my V20 is that it's in exactly the spot I place either of my index fingers when I'm holding the phone. Not for security, simply as an easy unlock preventing pocket based accidents.

Facial recognition seems like a bloody wrecking ball to crack a nut.

[SuperPang]

Facial recognition seems like a bloody wrecking ball to crack a nut.

It does. Same tech as Kinect.

[pubjoe]

It's spend-gate as far as I'm concerned.

I appreciate you get a lot of tech in a small device and the camera alone brings a lot of practical value, but at a grand I'm well past being able to justify that to myself.

The good thing is you get a great cheap iPhone a few generations behind.

[markedkiller78]

A grand is the cheapo one. It's bound to be more powerful than mac right enough

[pubjoe]

Before selling it on to Music Magpie I managed to unlock my iPhone 7 with a ball print. Bet that wouldn't work with facial recognition.

[geotrig]

it might if your a balding a bit

[pubjoe]

Maybe if I drew a little face on

[cools]

As for camera I find I'm using the wide angle lens an awful lot, fish eye distortion and all.

[pubjoe]

Japseye distortion.

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[crunchywasp]

By the time I membered and went to pre order this morning it was at 6 weeks +.

I set a reminder on my iPhone 7 for 6am ages ago but didn’t get a notification this morning, almost as if it didn’t want to be replaced

Separately, I just discovered by accident that with iOS 11 you can now set a different double tap function for the L and R AirPods

[SuperPang]

Got my X. Absolutely love it. Great screen, lightning fast and after about 5 minutes of use the home button seems like a relic I couldn’t imagine going back to. Swipe-up is so intuitive and having all this extra screen to play with on a phone with a footprint barely larger than me iPhone 6 is fantastic. Haven’t set up Face ID yet.

[crunchywasp]

Excellent, glad to hear it. Mine should be ready to collect back end of next week.

[crunchywasp]

Got my X today. It’s pretty Grail.

[yosai]

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[crunchywasp]

[TheRedKnight]

My MBP late 2015 suffers from Staingate.

But I'm getting the screen replaced for free.

[TheRedKnight]

I'll ask here because I don't want to ask in a specialised forum yet.

What would you recommend as the mostest powarful PC graphics card that does VGA? Or can I go with something that does DVI-I and use an adapter with that?



EDIT: Nevermind, DisplayPort to VGA will work. I'll go with that.

EDIT 2: Nevermind the nevermind, DP to VGA only goes up to 1080p.

[markedkiller78]

apple are replacing iPhone X screens, for free, due to intermittent touchscreen issues.

You can get a new battery for £25 too up until the end of the year

[crunchywasp]

It’s hard to believe that you still have to vigorously shake your **** phone like Orangina to Undo