Finally upgraded my 11 year old 13" macbook to a 2021 16". Deciding what to upgrade my iPhone 8 to (either 13 mini now or 14 later).
Outside of Apple devices though I have some older items around my apartment and am trying to time when it makes sense for big leaps:
1. Monitor - sort of waiting for Apple to release something, but if price is too high I could settle for the 24" LG Ultrafine 4k (or maybe 27" 5k). Just heard these are kind of crappy.
2. NAS - Don't have one now really. Synology models are currently ~ 2 years old so getting a bit long in the tooth. Maybe would go odroid. Not sure but just want a cheap solution to hold maybe 4tb. Kind of deciding if I want to go with something fancier for media streaming/etc or just go dirt cheap. Really would I'd love to see is a tiny powerful ARM type box that I could drop a 3.5" HDD into for storage and call it a day.
3. TV - don't watch much TV so don't care too much - maybe when I move I'll pickup a 4k/HDR model of whatever is good at the time
4. Router - on a TP-Link EAP245 802.11ac 3x3. Probably will leave this alone unless I get faster internet (gigabit). At which point I'd want to switch to wi-fi 6 to support the new macbook. Super sadly no wi-fi 6e support on the 2021 macbooks still.
Don't own an ipad (have a work one here), but thinking about getting a new Air model when it comes out + apple keyboard. The problem is that price quickly reaches macbook air pricing.
Outside of Apple devices though I have some older items around my apartment and am trying to time when it makes sense for big leaps:
1. Monitor - sort of waiting for Apple to release something, but if price is too high I could settle for the 24" LG Ultrafine 4k (or maybe 27" 5k). Just heard these are kind of crappy.
2. NAS - Don't have one now really. Synology models are currently ~ 2 years old so getting a bit long in the tooth. Maybe would go odroid. Not sure but just want a cheap solution to hold maybe 4tb. Kind of deciding if I want to go with something fancier for media streaming/etc or just go dirt cheap. Really would I'd love to see is a tiny powerful ARM type box that I could drop a 3.5" HDD into for storage and call it a day.
3. TV - don't watch much TV so don't care too much - maybe when I move I'll pickup a 4k/HDR model of whatever is good at the time
4. Router - on a TP-Link EAP245 802.11ac 3x3. Probably will leave this alone unless I get faster internet (gigabit). At which point I'd want to switch to wi-fi 6 to support the new macbook. Super sadly no wi-fi 6e support on the 2021 macbooks still.
Don't own an ipad (have a work one here), but thinking about getting a new Air model when it comes out + apple keyboard. The problem is that price quickly reaches macbook air pricing.
