I would rather this on my wrist any day than my fisher price looking apple watch I currently have now.
I do tend to agree, Apple's design is looking a little old now and I much prefer the look of some of the watches coming out from Garmin.
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I do tend to agree, Apple's design is looking a little old now and I much prefer the look of some of the watches coming out from Garmin.
I always laugh at the comments like "the apple watch is the best premium luxury watch available". I roll on the floor almost. It's a toy. NOTHING more. A real luxury watch like my Rolex, or Breitling. Those are luxury watches. My wife has 2 Rolexes, I had 2, I sold one as I never wore it alot, and I have a decent collection of various real luxury watches. I bought the apple watch for the health and fitness features. Not because it was a premium time piece.I do tend to agree, Apple's design is looking a little old now and I much prefer the look of some of the watches coming out from Garmin.
Well, after bragging my windows systems have been rock solid, wuudintchaknow....I got two BSOD this morning. Both caused by WSA. No way to fix. just hope they don't happen again. Foiled again! ha ha.
Then with what I have said recently, my time is coming.
I'm setting up a new lenovo laptop for a user and after the first Windows update run, I had to do a full reset. It munged up the video somehow, it wouldn't even boot up all the way, just a flashing screen. Stuff happens. I also had my Mac do something weird this week too, something in the UI/mouse task got messed up and it required a reboot.
That is one the things that soured me on my last computer build. I am strictly AMD all of the trouble I had getting RAM that was supposed to be OK to report the correct capacity got real old. When it finally died I decided to go Apple as I have be threatening to do for years. I am not looking back.
It's nice if that suits your needs/taste. AW is not perfect, but I can wear it to all events. I wouldn't wear that Garmin to some more formal events I regularly attend, it just doesn't work, for me at least.
So I mentioned this a couple of days ago. Tonight I realised none of the cameras are working. After Googling it, discovered every single Surface Pro X out there no longer has working cameras…
Microsoft’s Surface Pro X cameras have stopped working for everyone
Luckily, there’s a temporary workaround.
www.theverge.com
I am back to 75% thinking I am getting an apple system soon. Ha ha.
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So I mentioned this a couple of days ago. Tonight I realised none of the cameras are working. After Googling it, discovered every single Surface Pro X out there no longer has working cameras…
Microsoft’s Surface Pro X cameras have stopped working for everyone
Luckily, there’s a temporary workaround.
Wow that's just crazy, you need to change the date to get it to work. Someone left some date specific code that is seemingly blowing up the use of the cameras. I think prior to 2020, Id be like no big deal, so the camera doesn't work. Now its a whole different story. I'm on camera every day.
I know. I just need to bite the freakin bullet and buy my coworkers pro. I know it's not M series yada yada yada, but it will get me into the system to see how it works. If I don't like it, I can move that system to my son who has an older air. He would be happy to get a free macbook pro imo.You're in the right thread
So my thoughts on the Garmin.
Look and feel are refreshing, very light and having lots of tactile buttons is a joy. The band is a very stretchy silicone, I prefer it to the firmer silicone on the Apple bands. I did find it a little more uncomfortable on the wrist where the sensor is, I think this is down to the sensor having sharper edges.
Setup was easy and the phone app/metrics are vast, but I get the sense that some of the things they are calculating are non-sense or a guess. Body battery and how long to recover for example.
The biggest disappointment is the software. I should have expected it, but you can tell this is a fitness watch first and anything else is an afterthought. Looking at data on the watch is a long list and clicking into some of them does nothing. Little things like customizing the watch face are clearly not updated to work with a touch screen, having to click up/down buttons to cycle through things. The data tiles on the watch face don't allow you to tap into them. I don't know Garmin's track record with updates/features but I had this nagging in the back of my mind that if this an Apple watch then you'd now this would be improved year on year.
The menu to control Spotify from my phone is honestly straight up ugly. It's functional sure, but it feels like I'm using some cheap Chinese fitness watch OS there.
During my workout I noticed the HR was a little slow to respond unlike the Apple watch. I found myself after finishing a set looking at a heart rate that didn't reflect my effort, until 10-15s later.
So it's back in the box and read to be returned. As I thought Apple watch has ruined any other watch. Apple watch is going to continue to get better and add useful features.
Look and feel are refreshing, very light and having lots of tactile buttons is a joy. The band is a very stretchy silicone, I prefer it to the firmer silicone on the Apple bands. I did find it a little more uncomfortable on the wrist where the sensor is, I think this is down to the sensor having sharper edges.
Setup was easy and the phone app/metrics are vast, but I get the sense that some of the things they are calculating are non-sense or a guess. Body battery and how long to recover for example.
The biggest disappointment is the software. I should have expected it, but you can tell this is a fitness watch first and anything else is an afterthought. Looking at data on the watch is a long list and clicking into some of them does nothing. Little things like customizing the watch face are clearly not updated to work with a touch screen, having to click up/down buttons to cycle through things. The data tiles on the watch face don't allow you to tap into them. I don't know Garmin's track record with updates/features but I had this nagging in the back of my mind that if this an Apple watch then you'd now this would be improved year on year.
The menu to control Spotify from my phone is honestly straight up ugly. It's functional sure, but it feels like I'm using some cheap Chinese fitness watch OS there.
During my workout I noticed the HR was a little slow to respond unlike the Apple watch. I found myself after finishing a set looking at a heart rate that didn't reflect my effort, until 10-15s later.
So it's back in the box and read to be returned. As I thought Apple watch has ruined any other watch. Apple watch is going to continue to get better and add useful features.
It's ruined any other smartwatch, for sure, but Garmin makes sport/fitness/outdoor tool watches with a sprinkle of smarts thrown in as a bonus.
As a day-to-day smartwatch, I use my AW S7 Cellular. But when I'm doing, say, mountain biking I use my Garmin Instinct as it's rugged, has insane (3 week) battery life, has a screen that is completely clear even in direct sunlight and, most importantly of all, communicates with my Garmin bike computer, displaying heart rate and other metrics on the display.
My AW can't do any of that, it refuses to speak to industry standard protocols (ANT+) for syncing with fitness equipment and the battery life is woeful. So...horses for courses.
That ties in to the TCP stack, which is vulnerable to problems on both Windows and Mac. It's rare to have a problem, but not non-existent.
He forgot to bring it in with him, and we don't work together until Tuesday of next week. Ha ha. I was lying in bed waiting for the wife to wake up, and I was watching videos on the 2019. It can't edit 4k video? really? My mid range dell 2 in 1 can however (albeit slow...), but it can. The guy was comparing his 2019 maxed macbook 13 to a new mini minimum spec m2 pro.
Oddly enough that VPN has been rock solid. I've used that across multiple computers for something like 8 (maybe 10?) years. Its the VPN my company uses and its neve let me down. Unless you count it not running on ARM windows within Parallels on my MBP (it just won't install)