Especially if they clash with one’s pajamas.
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Out of curiosity, why do you need 32GB RAM? Or was that only in the Parallels scenario?
Just the Parallels scenario. Without that (appreciate your safe advice here) I should be ok with the base specs.
I plan to get one of those nifty port expander bases for it that takes a SSD for additional storage. That wouldn’t help if I needed space for a whole nother OS, but that’s no longer a thing.
If you’d been wearing Crocs you might not have fallen.
My dad has one of those life alert things he wears around his neck. He’s 84, lives alone, and has a bad knee. My biggest fear for him is falling and not being able to get himself back up. You should look into one of those.
So wearing a life alert gizmo around one’s neck is more aesthetically pleasing than a watch that does the same and more?
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First, yes it is. Secondly, I’m saying of I had a legitimate concern of having a serious medical emergency while alone, I’m not sure I’d rely on my watch.
Like Waldo, I’ve had some moments when my watch has asked me to confirm I’m ok. If I don’t cancel the alert, it will summon EMS.
I’m sure the Life Alert is fine technology, but so is the Apple Watch. You don’t like them, which is entirely your prerogative, but that doesn’t mean they don’t work as advertised.
I didn’t say they didn’t work. I said irrespective of their functionality I think they’re ugly as fuck. And you have to charge them all the time. Some people think they look great, which is their prerogative.
I know you don’t care to hear it, but I charge my watch while taking care of my morning ablutions and, for the most part, that’s enough to last 24 hours (in both regards). My watch is three years old at least.
I’ll use it more than the old one, which I wore principally when I stumbled around rice in my trice-weekly “run”. I don’t think they’re ugly, but for most things I prefer a plain ol’ watch. They have personality that the Apple Watch only pretends to with the face changes.
This is why I love you. “Ablutions” is not a word I ever thought I’d read on this site.
And for the record, I never have to charge any of my watches.
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The watch that my partners gave me when I turned 50 requires daily winding. It’s a lot more satisfying than charging though.
And probably quicker. I’d much prefer to wind my phone daily than charging it. That would even make the lack of a headphone jack less irritating.
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Do you have a watch-winder? Because that’s what “charging your watch all the time” looks like.
My point about how/when I charge mine was to dispel the nonsense that they are in constant need of charge.
I do have a watch winder. But, if I wear it regularly I don’t even have to do that. And if for some reason it does wind down, it takes about 10 seconds to wind. But the point is that I can wear my watch for a month in the jungle with no access to electricity and never fear it running out of juice.
It wasn’t to brag about your ceremonial cleansing ritual?
Good luck getting a signal on a Life Alert in the jungle - because that was the use scenario I thought we were discussing.
Fun Fact: The next generation of Apple Watch Ultra will be able to connect directly to a satellite in the event of getting lost in the jungle.
We were discussing charging vs winding watches. As for Life Alert, I’d advise anyone with a need for one to not spend months at a time in the jungle. That would be the same for someone wearing an Apple Watch for the same reasons.
Annoyingly, I have about 270GB of data on my M2’s 512GB SSD. I could probably delete a bunch of stuff off it and get under the 256GB standard SSD on the base M4 mini, but I presume I’d be dooming myself to spending half my time managing about 10GB of headroom.
My M2 mini is worth $270 in trade-in, so that pays for the memory upgrade with a bit left over. I know I could get an external SSD that would be a cheaper option, but they’re around $100 minimum and I’d still be managing the overflow, which doesn’t;t seem worth it to save $100, which is probably Apple’s logic in their (over)pricing structure too.
So it looks like the M4 with 512GB memory upgrade is the one for me. Plus one of these, which cleverly has a finger hole in the back to solve the power button access quirk:
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You could just get the smaller model and use an external (USB-C) SSD. Samsung and SanDisk have 1TB models for about ~$100.