@streakmachine Ørk!
// @matigo
@streakmachine My sister needed a basic internet machine for her international travels so she paid AU$75 for a cheap & frankly, quite nasty 7-inch Android tablet. It died within 4 weeks, just wouldn't power on one day. It was replaced under warranty only to fail to accept all passwords one day. It was getting horribly close to the departure date so I gave her the 2012 Nexus 7 that I just wasn't using. It was just what she needed, something useful but cheap enough not to be missed if it should vanish through theft or misfortune. After three months throughout the Greek islands & the Baltic states it was as good as when she'd left.
// @matigo
@variablepulserate Between March 2003 & September 2009 I had a series of G3 & G4 iBooks, all purchased second-hand. Most were 12-inch, including a FireWire Clamshell and also a 14-inch 1.33 GHz model. Both of those are still used by the retired couple to whom I traded them. One for cash, one for favours rendered. I guess I never had them long enough for such corner cracks to appear.
// @matigo
@matigo Think about it. The missing bits of plastic. Of course it doesn't have the missing bits of plastic. Because they're missing.
// @variablepulserate
@skematica Don't bet on it. Mactracker puts the 2012 1.8 at some 30% faster than the 2011 1.6.
// @matigo @streakmachine @jextxadore
@phoneboy In Australia the 700 MHz spectrum is used for 4G/LTE and 4G Carrier Aggregration which they market as 4GX. Telstra uses 20 MHz of the 700 MHz band & 20 MHz of the 1.8 GHz band for 4GX. Edge is dead. It accounted for barely 1% of network traffic.
// @matigo @streakmachine
I arose (creakingly) from my bed & clumped to the kitchen, grabbed a handful of pain medication tablets and consumed two glasses of milk and a cup of strong tea. Back in bed I find a bunch of unconsumed pain meds in my pocket.
Dickhead.
@streakmachine
The BigPhoneCompany out here will be clising Edge/2G at the end of December this year. One of the other two carriers will keep it going until about this time next year. Minimal usage but in some terrain-and-distance-challenged areas it's all that works.
// @matigo
@matigo We do have to be careful when talking of doing stuff on a Core i5 1.6 GZ MacBook Air. My 2011 11-inch has those specks as does @streakmachine's 2015 model. Yet performance-wise, they're poles apart.
On Geekbench 3 results, his is over 50% faster than mine.
// @skematica @streakmachine @jextxadore
MacBook Air needs a new power brick. There are pins on springs inside the Magsafe thingie abd one of those is stuck down, so it can't participate in a charging circuit. The Magsafe connection is reversible, so it can still charge. Of course, this is the "L" shaped connection and the dud pin means it can only charge when fitted so the cable obscures the adjacent USB port.
Not happy. Not paying $129 for a new one (they used to be $79). It's eBay to the rescue. There's some in Sydney doing for $40 including delivery.
Sold.