We were supplied Apple laptops at work. They last. Figure out your annual cost if you use it for 10 years or whatever. Maybe easier to pony up the $. The Chromebook we get now has a 2nd rate screen, some awkwardness and will do ok for our needs…
The incident I'm aware of a few years back was a poorly-communicated crash fix - batteries of older phones had degraded to a point that they could no longer reliably support the system running at peak speed so the patch throttled the CPU to improve stability. I believe the models in question were well out of warranty at that point - possibly even no longer covered by extended warranty. I recall that shortly after the bruhaha they were patched again with a switch so the user could choose between stability and performance ... and AAPL may have condescended to offering battery replacements at a reasonable cost and coaching their sales/support staff to offer such services rather than advising replacement.Apple was busted for making updates that slowed phones down so people would buy new ones.
If you know your way around Wireshark you can test for this. I found a security camera that was phoning home to an offshore location. I was able to find and shut off that "feature." I periodically check to make sure that thisi behavior hasn't returned.We have a security camera at our home that must be connected to the internet to function. It is made in China and it would be no surprise if somebody over there could look in on us. Clearly that scares some.
Nice! Alienware has a long reputation for souped up computers aimed at the gaming and video editing markets.
I'm on the verge of jumping out my Windows and landing on an Apple.
Up until now you had to use iTunes in order to get a "smooth" experience managing photos from any iThing. Apple is going to be phasing out iTunes in favor of separate apps for each of it's functions. I'm hoping this will produce a better experience for photo management. I've always thought that iTunes was slow, bloated and confusing.The major obstacle may be seemless transfers of photos from my iPhone, which led me to look at new computers in the first place.
iTunes synced music and apps. iPhoto synced photos. But you could set up albums in iPhotos that iTunes would sync back to the device for you. But you didn't need to use iTunes or iPhotos. There are third party macOS applications, such as iExplorer and many others, that allowed you to browse the device like it was a folder, manually copy things back and forth. I was mostly concerned with getting photos off the device. Now there's iCloud, which I only like because I don't have to worry about losing photos if something happened to my computer and backups. Everything else is replaceable.Up until now you had to use iTunes in order to get a "smooth" experience managing photos from any iThing.
I've tried using iTunes for years but like you found it confusing and lacking.Up until now you had to use iTunes in order to get a "smooth" experience managing photos from any iThing. Apple is going to be phasing out iTunes in favor of separate apps for each of it's functions. I'm hoping this will produce a better experience for photo management. I've always thought that iTunes was slow, bloated and confusing.
I've had this experience as well. I suspect there's a lot of overhead in the traffic between the iPhone and the desktop.I have an HP at work and work iPhone. Each month the phone generates a new folder. I just copy that folder to the HP. Easy enough.
The trouble recently was when I tried to move 44,000 pictures to a machine not ready to handle such a task. They made it little by little but it was an ordeal to make it happen. Won't make that mistake again.