Festering iMac has failed to start up properly, stalled partway through the setup after logon. I do recall it took its own sweet time in shutting down last time on Friday.
Rebooted, even worse. Just a desktop picture, nothing else.
Rebooted from a cloned external SSD & used Disk Utility to run First Aid then hecked the directory structure with TechTool Pro. No errors in directory.
Rebooted again, thus time at least it has worked.
English canned beer says serve cold. I’m more accustomed to the Aussie way of serving it chilled. Which doesn’t work for John Smith’s Bitter. So I let it warm up for 20 minutes or so before pouring. Served cold instead of chilled it has lots more flavour.
@matigo I’ve known it was dodgy for quite a while now. It’s going to have most of its non-standard apps deleted and just be a music source in the car, connected via a Lightning cable to the audio system’s USB port. That’s gonna keep it charged up.
I disconnected the old 6th gen iPod Touch from its charger 14 hours ago. Since then it’s just been on standby with wi-fi and Bluetooth on. For about 20 minutes I used it with social media. The battery has just announced it’s down to 20% capacity.
Not real good at all.
@matigo Greater image/video compression without loss of quality. Exported images are converted to jpeg.
@matigo The camera can be set to use HEIC format, too. Not possible with my iPad or iPhone, they’re too old.
6th gen iPod Touch specs: 1.13 GHz dual-core A8 processor & 1 GB RAM.7th gen iPod Touch specs: 1.6 GHz dual-core A10Fusion processor & 2 GB RAM.
Consequently, the Geekbench results for the newer device are just a shade under double the numbers for the previous model.
I’ve collected the new iPod Touch, setting it up now. Some settings transferred OK from the iPhone held in close proximity (and from reading an image on the iPod’s screen with the iPhone’s camera), others had to be done manually as the activation server was unreachable. Downloaded & installed iOS 12.3.1 update, now restoring from an iClod (sic) backup of the older iPod Touch.
The John Smith’s beer retails for anywhere between $4 & $5.50 per can here, except at ALDI, where it’s $10 for a 4-pack. Good value.