Welcome to the Luddite convention here.
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It’s perfect for kids and old folks.
I use mine from time to time as a reading device but it’s no match for my MacBook Pro.
16 Pro max here. It is not a significant problem.
I started hating photos but have come around a bit.
Why would anyone believe a single thing that fat old orange felon grifter has ever claimed to say. He’s a compulsive liar.
A new OS release is the worst time to complain about battery life.
There are tons of background tasks, indexing and AI things happening in the background that users are unaware of.
Give it a few weeks to index and optimize and see how it runs.
Seems like a reasonable requirement. I’m sure there will be 3rs party services to provide legit but private addresses and phone numbers on behalf of developers.
And that’s just fine. They don’t need to have an expensive release event for every point upgrade.
If they’re properly locked down the option to boot another from another device or even the recovery drive will be locked behind a password. It’s like it’s been bios locked on a PC but rather than being stored with a battery it’s saved into the physical chip which would need to be removed and either replaced or reflashed.
No 27”? Hard pass.