On 2015-10-14 22:14 , David Mann wrote:
On Oct 14, 2015, at 8:35 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2015-10-13 23:02 , David Mann wrote:
My wife bought me a mouse, keyboard and trackpad for my birthday a couple of
weeks ago and they've just been updated as well. It doesn't matter as the new
ones require bluetooth 4 which my old Macbook Pro doesn't support, and the
prices seem to have gone up quite a bit as well. So I'm not complaining :)
hmmm … all the MacBook Pros support Bluetooth
Note I said Bluetooth 4 ;) My MBP has 2.1. I don't know how
backward-compatible they might be but the new ones don't look compelling over
what I have anyway.
the Magic Trackpad requires Bluetooth 4, but the keyboard and mouse do not;
they all claim to require a computer running OS X 10.11 or later, which
would only exclude the first year (2006) MacBook Pro; i'd guess the new OS
is probably required mainly for pairing using the lightning cable; i don't
know if the new keyboards can be paired the old-fashioned way
the requirements don't even mention iPads, which is my most important use
for a Bluetooth keyboard; but my local thrift store has had a steady supply
of the old version in good condition for $10-15
I am highly disturbed by the 21.5" iMacs moving to soldered memory (27" still uses
sockets, thankfully). Not being able to upgrade is a deal-killer for me (it's why I don't want
another MBP) and I'm worried they might sneak that "feature" into more products in the
future.
it bugs me too, but i'm getting over it — with SSDs, especially on the fast
bus Apple uses, the penalty for too little memory is reduced because VM
performance is much improved; both my Macs (2011 models) have 16 GB of RAM,
but i recently found my partner a used 2013 MacBook Air with 8 GB and it is
plenty fast for her
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