eltoslightfoot
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Yeah on Mac I guess it isn’t as bad as there is a different version altogether. But then again, I haven’t tried it as I was already ticked off about the iPad versions.
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maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
I just fired up numbers and pixelmator - both were already installed on my mac (I bought pixelmator last year) and no nagging (yet)
I opened it on my iPad mini. I didn't see any ads. Maybe my iPad mini doesn't support the new features.
Madhatter32
macrumors 68000
Can't you just remove the icons from the toolbar through the "customize toolbar" and, voila, no issues?
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
jido
macrumors 6502
The “ad” is actually a T&C agreement screen for the new version.
If you find how to remove the Premium templates, please share… That is bad.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
Yeah, to be honest, I am rethinking my entire setup. I have a cloud server (Nextcloud) and I think I am just going to get rid of everything I can cloud related. This, unfortunately, means ditching my iPad (since it is so locked down a lot of crap needs iCloud Drive to work.
But I have a Surface Pro 9 that I can use instead and it is at least a full computer. I am going to try that with LibreOffice (which also doesn't have an iPad app) and see how I do. These corporations are not going in a good direction.
I have a strange confession.
I only come to this forum, or actually macrumors website full stop to watch your mac/pc switching shenanigans. I don't know what it is but I find it fascinating.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
Hey, that's why we are all here as well. Except, you know, that we actually keep, uh, switching...LOL. (As I type this from my Surface Pro 9...)
Just looking up SSD prices and saw that the Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB is $549.99 and the Samsung 9100 Pro 4 TB is $579.99.
The 990 Pro is Gen 4 with speeds up to 7,450 MBps while the 9100 Pro is Gen 5 with speeds up to 14,800 MBps. There used to be a much larger delta between Gen 4 and Gen 5 and I'd just buy the Gen 5 drive today if I needed a fast 4 TB.
The 990 Pro is Gen 4 with speeds up to 7,450 MBps while the 9100 Pro is Gen 5 with speeds up to 14,800 MBps. There used to be a much larger delta between Gen 4 and Gen 5 and I'd just buy the Gen 5 drive today if I needed a fast 4 TB.
Snow4maen
macrumors 6502a
I'm currently in PC/Android world and so far I am quite happy. But then I don't have heavy needs for my computer usage, and my current £600 basic PC is pretty much all I need.
For that price, it has a 1TB SSD. And I use it. I'm no longer a gamer and the most important app to me really is Word. Which runs very nicely on it. I CAN do basic music stuff too, I'm not serious, I'm not a musician. I can run Cubase and Ableton.
I find I feel more at ease with something I can get the man in town to easily and cheaply fix should it go wrong, without having to HOPE Apple will actually help if things went wrong on the Mac. Some stuff even I could fix. And you might think it won't go wrong anyway, but it does. My neighbour is all Apple and he just had to go get his iPhone repaired at a local shop as it broke. Apple wanted too much money. I was never all that happy buying quite so much stuff from one company. My phone, my tablet, my computer, smart watch. Yes they all work together well, but I am not interested in the 'ecosystem'. I don't use it. I don't want my phone connected to my computer. And I don't want a smart watch anyway.
Granted I'm not Apples target customer. I don't NEED a Mac, if I were a pro musician, or video person, then I can see it. But in my experience Office runs better on PC than on a Mac, so I'm happy to stick with it.
For that price, it has a 1TB SSD. And I use it. I'm no longer a gamer and the most important app to me really is Word. Which runs very nicely on it. I CAN do basic music stuff too, I'm not serious, I'm not a musician. I can run Cubase and Ableton.
I find I feel more at ease with something I can get the man in town to easily and cheaply fix should it go wrong, without having to HOPE Apple will actually help if things went wrong on the Mac. Some stuff even I could fix. And you might think it won't go wrong anyway, but it does. My neighbour is all Apple and he just had to go get his iPhone repaired at a local shop as it broke. Apple wanted too much money. I was never all that happy buying quite so much stuff from one company. My phone, my tablet, my computer, smart watch. Yes they all work together well, but I am not interested in the 'ecosystem'. I don't use it. I don't want my phone connected to my computer. And I don't want a smart watch anyway.
Granted I'm not Apples target customer. I don't NEED a Mac, if I were a pro musician, or video person, then I can see it. But in my experience Office runs better on PC than on a Mac, so I'm happy to stick with it.
ScanTheNavian
macrumors 6502
I've always found k/m gaming paltry. You're basically playing with stuff meant for office work. Game controllers are super comfortable, have vibration functions, offer much more satisfying 3D traversal controls and let's not even get into d-pad retro gaming. With DualSense we even got adaptive triggers, something which Ghost of Tushima used amazingly. There's far more innovative and experimental shenanigans going on with console controller companies. Many PC gamers also likely use keyboards with digital keys with no pressure sensitivity.
Keyboard and mouse gaming is of course amazing for specific genres, but overall I feel like it has been an incredibly stagnant form of controlling games.
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I'm giving some thought to selling my M1 Pro MacBook Pro as I use the Yoga more now. The idea would be more to capture the value and then look at an M6 Pro 14 late this year. I have given some though to doing similar with my M1 Mac Studio though it would be to replace it when the M5 Studio comes out. I would move NAS stuff over to the iMac Pro and trading over to the Windows desktop. It's just a little scary to contemplate the desktop move.
Yeah, most PC games don't support analog buttons for keyboard input that have that in the first place either.
As a left handed player, KB/M is frustrating. I either have to play with the mouse in the hand I don't want to use and accept accuracy loss, cramped hands and a wrong layout (can't do this anymore, hurts too much after 10 min.), or remap every single key in a game. And boy does it get tiring to remap keys. As an added bonus some games won't let you use keys like ";" for game play (*cough* Elden Ring) so you can't do a WASD-esque left handed mode. Oh and a lot of gaming keyboards have their matrix setup in such a way that you can press WASD simultaneously, but this isn't true for keys on the right side of the board and of course, no reviews or product pages mention this. And I'm not even getting into the problem of getting a decent left-handed capable mouse. Fortunately most PC games that support controller somewhere else support it on PC now too.
ivanwi11iams
macrumors 601
Hmm, not sure you can beat "headshots", when using keyboard and mouse. Alas, I may be wrong...
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
I think keyboard/mouse offer much higher degree of control and accuracy over a controller.
ScanTheNavian
macrumors 6502
Wow, yeah, that sounds like quite an ordeal. Never knew it was still today a struggle for the left-handed. How does using controllers work, I'm thinking about how the location of the d-pad and buttons is set in stone, do you get used to it? I can't imagine controlling a d-pad with my right hand.
I've never used a controller with the d-pad on the right and the buttons on the left, so it feels natural as is. For a little while I did often use "Southpaw" layout for FPSs during the 360-era but older titles often don't have it, sometimes even newer titles (e.g., Fallout 4) so I switched back at some point. Probably when I got a PS3 as that doesn't have a system wide toggle like 360.
I was at Costco this morning and looked at the gaming PCs and also the laptops. Gaming PCs ranged from $1,100 to $2,600. Base configurations were 32 GB of RAM and 2 TB SSD. I guess the 2 TB SSD reflects the growing sizes of games these days. It looked like the main determinant of price was the GPU. I am still impressed to see that they start at 32 GB of RAM given the increased pricing of RAM and SSDs.
On laptops, what I'm generally seeing is under $1,000 and you get 16 GB of RAM. Over $1,000 and you get 32 GB. There are exceptions on some models under $1,000 getting 32 GB but I think that the higher RAM prices are now priced into laptops.
On laptops, what I'm generally seeing is under $1,000 and you get 16 GB of RAM. Over $1,000 and you get 32 GB. There are exceptions on some models under $1,000 getting 32 GB but I think that the higher RAM prices are now priced into laptops.
I recently built a PC and costs are crazy for RAM and SSD's/NVME drives. With all that done I still get a bunch of computer building videos coming up and more then a few are finding that Costco has some great deals on prebuilt gaming PC's. I went with a Crucial 1TB NVME drive, price was $225 CDN. I was going to go with 2TB initially but with pricing the way it is I opted to cut some costs there as I did not want to do that with the RAM. I will add another NVME drive when prices settle. I can certainly live with 1TB for now.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
I think many people are making that choice, lowering the ram and storage configurations. My Pc has 64GB of ram, do I need 64GB, no absolutely not, but it was short money. Now, if I was looking to build a new machine, I definitely looking to get 32GB or even less depending on the prices.
I went with 32gb of RAM which is a sweet spot for what I do with the PC. Not a multitasker, the most I might have going is a game and a YouTube video on the second monitor. Everything is smooth and temp's rarely ever peak above 60 C. Think for my uses going to 64 gig of RAM would be a waste of money.
SSD prices are still climbing. I bought one about a year ago for about $300. I did see a Crucial 4 TB for $377 on Amazon and I was wondering why it was so cheap. I think that it was low-priced because it had a heatsink attached to it and many won't want to buy an SSD with a heatsink. I saw this on the Samsung 990 Pro about 18 months ago where the model with the heatsink cost less than the model without the heatsink. You just needed a screwdriver to remove it.
So I went back through my order history on the last PC built last year to compare prices from then to now...and WOW!
Prices are In Pounds Sterling and what I actually paid are in brackets for the three items that have gone up a lot:
x3 8TB M2 drives: £540 each (now priced at £1099 each)
128GB DDR5 RAM: £466 (now priced at £1464)
Nvidia 5090 GPU: £2220 (now priced at £3299)
Had I waited 8 months until today, It would have cost £3754 extra just on these three components!
On the plus side, If Apple manage to bring a decent M5 Studio Ultra out (soon) that can actually compete with really heavy GPU stuff like Nvidia does, I'll be quids in by selling one of the x2 identical PC I have now to fund the Studio as even second hand prices seem really strong.
Prices are In Pounds Sterling and what I actually paid are in brackets for the three items that have gone up a lot:
x3 8TB M2 drives: £540 each (now priced at £1099 each)
128GB DDR5 RAM: £466 (now priced at £1464)
Nvidia 5090 GPU: £2220 (now priced at £3299)
Had I waited 8 months until today, It would have cost £3754 extra just on these three components!
On the plus side, If Apple manage to bring a decent M5 Studio Ultra out (soon) that can actually compete with really heavy GPU stuff like Nvidia does, I'll be quids in by selling one of the x2 identical PC I have now to fund the Studio as even second hand prices seem really strong.