Oh the cost of power for yourself should be absolutely negligible. It adds up although with the proliferation of many devices. I know many people that leave their chargers always plugged in so I assume they will do the same with their "wireless charging" charger which should require even more power.
Inductive chargers don't work like that. The charger only 'wakes up' when a receiving device is detected. Similar case with wired ones. I mean, just think about it, if you had a charger that was pulling 5/10/15 watts from the wall and not putting it into a device the charger would be in flames before you knew it.
The past few phones that I've had all failed due to the physical connector on the charging port failing. Wireless charging is allowing my current phone to last longer.
Odd, that's never happened to me, though I did once see an old nokia with a small barrel connector that stopped working to do a buildup of fluff.
It would be interesting to compare the cost of needing to replace the phone sooner vs the cost of the extra power.
Qi is ~50% efficient but let's be honest: the cost of the electricity you put into your phone will never even come close to what the device itself costs. My iPhone's battery is around the 15Wh mark and electricity here is around 35p/kWh. A back of the envelope calculation says that you'd need to add another 3 years of life to make it worthwhile, assuming you use a full charge every single day and assuming your electricity is as expensive as ours.
The main selling point of wireless charging is convenience, but for me these new faster speeds aren't that important; my charger is built-in to the base of a bedside lamp (IKEA, around fifty quid I think) so I just put my phone/kindle down there when I turn in and it's full in the morning.
I suppose you're making your point... but why don't I see ads for any of this on youtube?
I've no idea either, because I have no interest whatsoever in the things that YouTube advertises. In fact, I've reported scam ads on many occasions but they still pop up. Not the stuff that I merely find objectionable - I can grudgingly tolerate that - but the scams that even the weak ASA would come down on like the proverbial tonne of bricks. Is Google trolling me on purpose?
If you're seeing those things my guess is because you are looking for those things elsewhere. I see tons of ads for music production software... because that's what I like.
That's the thing, I'm not seeking out this stuff. The ads I see have no relevance to the sorts of videos I subscribe to or search for on YouTube. I'm sure as hell not Googling for ways to reverse sight loss by sucking ice cubes in the morning, or heating an entire room using nothing more than a tea light and a terracotta plant pot.
I'm not kidding about that last part; those are things that I routinely see in YouTube adverts.
I guess I agree with almost all of those, but what's wrong with gambling?
Gambling can ruin lives and there are laws here governing when such adverts can be shown. Admittedly, the watershed doesn't always apply to some media outlets but I daresay OFCOM would have something to say about the frequency with which these adverts are shown on YouTube. I'm not seeing them because I search or use gambling sites because I have never done so; the closest I get to gambling is the odd lottery ticket (bought in person, in a physical shop).
Also, if you're getting ads like that, maybe you should let Google associate more keywords with your advertising ID.
Fuck that, only a moron would willingly help an advertising company target me, though I'm not sure what you mean by an "advertising ID". I'm not talking about adverts shown during my YouTube videos, for I have none; I'm talking about the slime that's foisted on me when I'm watching videos.
Yeah, it sucks that they let you upload like 50k of your own digital audio files to stream from anywhere, at no additional cost.
Stream to what?
My phone?
The thing that goes with me pretty much everywhere?
The thing with all my music stored on it?
I'll consider not blocking ads when you stop putting them up for:
There's a reason we don't stand for that shite being on TV, I don't see why you should be any different.
I might even consider paying for ad-free access if you offered a cheaper bundle without that music service of yours.
Maybe some people like it but I'm not interested and, to be frank, I thought we were past that cable bundle bullshit.
Regards.
You should really take a look at the two models in a store, 14" may feel small but in person it's a pretty good size.
I may well do that, since I find myself somewhat flush atm. I still think back to using a friend's 13" MB and wondering how the fuck he managed with that. All that said, now that I've just discovered that I can shrink the UI (and made an ass of myself in the process) I may just wait until this 15" MBP has had a full decade of service. It's on its second battery and I have another spare, but for some reason if it goes to sleep overnight it thinks the battery is empty and I have to reset the SMC to get it to turn on again.
You DO understand that $7200 is insane to pay for any laptop, right? Just checking on the the-fuck-is-WRONG-with-you fanboi status here...
Be thankful you're not in the UK, where Apple seem to think the exchange rate is 1USD = 1GBP.
That would mean bigger bezels.
Yes and as I said, I wouldn't care. I'm talking as someone who bought a 15" because the 17" was too expensive and the former was quite adequate. Now the models are 14"/16" and I don't want to pay the extra £1k for a usable screen size. If/when my mid-2015 MBP dies I'll probably end up with a 15" Air.
Of course if OSX let you scale the UI I wouldn't have this problem.
Oh FFS. I really feel like an idiot now. When did they add UI scaling to OSX? I'm not complaining, just wish I'd known about it sooner. Much sooner.
It's one of many computing metaphors.
No, my point is that it's not, or rather it didn't start that way. People used the word "thread" to refer to the topic/theme of a conversation when a "computer" was still a person doing sums with pen and paper. It makes even less sense than granting a trademark for the word "windows".
Make headway at work. Continue to let things deteriorate at home.
