2018 iPad Pro and Apple Pencil enhance creative work on the Mac

The new iPad Pro is deceptively nuanced. Its all-screen design communicates obvious simplicity and clearly defined function. But beyond the display is a story that’s still being written. Is an iPad Pro for me? How far can its software be pushed? Is this really supposed to replace my Mac? These are some of the questions I set out to answer when I picked one up last week.
When I arrived at the Apple store on iPad launch day, I told myselfthat I was just there to browse. Something about these new iPads captured my attention in a way previous ones haven’t. I left with the 64GB 11-inch model and an Apple Pencil.
My last iPad was the first to feature a Retina display. After purchasing the original model in 2010, my usage slowly declined. The iPad was fun, but I simply couldn’t justify one in my life between the iPhone and Mac. Over the past few years, I’ve watched from the sidelines as creative professional colleagues I look up to have embraced iPads in their work, especially since the release of the Apple Pencil. I decided to give it another try.
From the outset, I knew that I didn’t want to try to replicate my iPhone or 12-inch MacBook’s experience on an iPad. That meant passing on the Smart Keyboard Folio and installing a different set of apps. Both the iPhone and Mac serve important and unique roles in my work, and for the iPad Pro to earn its keep, it needed to be similarly distinct.
In addition to writing, my day-to-day workflow involves graphic design, layout, photo editing, and motion graphics. To evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of iOS, I installed apps like Procreate, Vectornator 2, CoreAnimator, Adobe Lightroom CC and Illustrator Draw.
Immediately, working on iOS just felt more fun. Illustration is a completely different experience when you can hold your canvas rather than look at it on a desk. In fact, it was so easy to get lost in projects drawing with the Apple Pencil that I felt like I needed to “get back to work” — even though I was working.
Working on iOS requires a change of pace, though. I’ve used Macs daily since 2008, and my workflow has become highly refined. Even though I’m completely familiar with the iPhone’s interface, using iOS 12 on the iPad Pro was a little like using a computer for the first time.
This is a bottleneck many creative professionals will encounter when first trying to use an iPad for “real work.” Pro iOS apps have completely different workflows than similar tools on the Mac. In many cases, iOS is much more elegant than macOS, but it still takes time to break old muscle memory. Is it better to work slower if the experience is more enjoyable?
Some pros will give up on the iPad as soon as they discover this stinging reality. Time is money, so why spend time relearning skills you’ve already mastered? I was puzzled by the same question for a long time. The iPad Pro was an enigma to me. What did other people see in it that I was missing? Why couldn’t I extract the same value? I felt like I was on the cusp of letting the entire future of computing pass me by.
Motion graphics software isn’t anywhere near as robust on iOS. File management is tedious. Working with vector shapes seemed more precise with a mouse and keyboard. The iPad Pro wasn’t ticking any of my boxes. Was I looking at the wrong boxes? My breakthrough came when I picked up Adobe Lightroom CC to complete some time-sensitive photo edits for a post. The precision of the Apple Pencil combined with the liveliness of the display created an experience unmatched on the Mac. I finished my edits in a fraction of the time it would’ve taken on a laptop.
It’s these moments where the iPad Pro shines. If you’re attempting to replicate your desktop experience on iOS, you’ll come away disappointed. Look to what an iPad Pro can offer that a Mac simply cannot. Just like my Apple Watch hasn’t replaced my iPhone, I don’t expect that my iPad Pro will replace my Mac. I typically use both devices side-by-side.
Pro workflows have always been about using the right mix of tools best suited to express your creativity. There doesn’t have to be one device to rule them all. For me, the Mac + iPad Pro feels like a natural extension of the same philosophy.
Miscellaneous observations:

  • Don’t underestimate the 11-inch model. The display feels every bit as usable as a 12-inch MacBook. It’s brighter and more saturated, too.
  • For graphics work, the iPad Pro is great for physically zooming in on your canvas by bringing the display right up to your eyes for a close inspection. You don’t lose clarity like when zooming onscreen.
  • I have trouble remembering to use the double tap gesture on the Apple Pencil to switch tools. It will take some practice to form a habit.
  • The Pencil’s battery life is excellent. It probably doesn’t need to be displayed when you attach it to the iPad. I’ve never come close to running low with extended use, and seeing the percentage causes “range anxiety” more than anything.
  • My Pencil had some precision and responsiveness issues that turned out to be caused by a loose tip out of the box. Try tightening up your tip first if you experience similar issues.

Apple’s New 2018 MacBook Air vs. Old MacBook Air

Apple in October gave us a major surprise with the launch of an entirely revamped, updated version of the MacBook Air, its most popular and affordable notebook option.
We went hands-on with the MacBook Air last week, and this week, we picked up an older MacBook Air to compare the new model to see just what’s different and whether it’s still worth buying the old version, which sells for $200 less than the current model.
The previous-generation MacBook Air is a 2015 design, but in 2017, Apple introduced 1.8GHz Broadwell-generation chips that were a slight upgrade from the 1.6GHz chips the machine had previously used. No other changes were made, so technically, Apple’s old MacBook Air is outdated by several years.
Design wise, the new MacBook Air features a smaller, slimmer body that weighs a bit less, and the slimmer design is noticeable. It continues to feature the same tapered design as the previous models, and we didn’t think the weight difference of a quarter of a pound stood out.
Along with a slimmed down body, the new MacBook Air comes in three color options: Space Gray, Gold, and the traditional Silver. Space Gray and Gold are colors that are new to the MacBook Air lineup.
The biggest change to the 2018 MacBook Air models is the display, which is now Retina and a huge improvement over the low resolution display in the previous MacBook Air. The MacBook Air used to be the sole Apple device sans Retina display, but now Apple uses higher-resolution displays across its entire product lineup.
We thought the MacBook Air’s new display offered a significant improvement over the previous MacBook Air’s display, but it doesn’t quite measure up to the display of the MacBook Pro because it’s just not that bright. Brightness can be an issue outdoors in sunlight, so that’s something to be aware of.
Design wise, the front of the MacBook Air has been overhauled. Those thick silver bezels from the previous version have been replaced with sleek, slim MacBook Pro-style black bezels that look much, much nicer.
Several other MacBook Pro features have been brought to the new MacBook Air and are upgrades over the previous model. There’s a larger Force Touch trackpad, a third-generation butterfly keyboard, better speakers, a Touch ID button for authentication purposes, and a T2 chip for improved security.
Inside, the new MacBook Air is sporting a 7W 8th-generation 1.6GHz Intel Core i5 processor, and unsurprisingly, it’s much speedier than the three-year-old processors used in the prior MacBook Air. Apple used to use 15W chips in the MacBook Air models, but this new, lower power 7W chip is both fast and efficient, allowing for longer battery life than ever.
The last super notable change is to the port setup. The new MacBook Air has two Thunderbolt 3 ports and a 3.5mm headphone jack, with Apple eliminating the USB-A ports and the SD card slot from the older model. The addition of Thunderbolt 3 brings the MacBook Air in line with the rest of the Mac lineup and allows it to connect to 4K and 5K displays, faster Thunderbolt 3 storage, eGPUs, and more.
All of these changes have raised the base price of the MacBook Air. Prior to the October update, the MacBook Air sold for $999, but now the base model sells for $1,199, a $200 premium. Given the scope of the revamp, the $200 upgrade fee is well worth paying for anyone thinking of purchasing a MacBook Air.
Apple is still selling the older model at the same $999 price point, but it’s just not worth purchasing because the components are so outdated at this point.
What do you think of Apple’s new MacBook Air? Let us know in the comments.

Night Sight camera update for Pixel 3 is awesome

Taking low-light pictures on the Pixel 3 just got a whole lot better.
The camera on the Pixel 3 and 3 XL is already fantastic, but with Google’s latest over-the-air update available Wednesday, it gets even better. Known as Night Sight, Google first touted the feature during the Pixel 3’s original launch in October. The update lets you take better low-light pictures without a harsh, unnatural flash, meaning you can capture a clear photo of your dinnerplate the next time you whip out your phone in a dim restaurant.
Both the Pixel 3’s front- and rear-facing cameras will have Night Sight and the update will roll out to all Pixels, including the Pixel 2/2 XL and original Pixel/XL in the next few days. (The feature works best, however, on the Pixel 3 and its updated hardware.)
Night Sight works by taking up to 15 frames in a third of a second, so you’ll need to hold the phone steady for a second or two after firing the shutter as it renders the image. The camera uses machine learning to judge the right color, white balance and lighting conditions based on the content of the image, and if the camera’s gyroscope senses a notable amount of motion blur, it’ll shorten its shutter speed to reduce blur.
“Night Sight is HDR+ on steroids,” said Google engineer Marc Levoy in a previous CNET interview.
Night Sight is available in the camera’s menu option More, but if the camera senses a low-light scenario, a small dialog box will automatically pop up in the camera’s viewfinder to suggest turning it on.
The feature works impressively well. With dusk and night settings, Night Sight brightened up scenes with accurate colors and lighting sources that were true-to-life. But where it really shone (no pun intended) was in environments that had very, very little lighting. Cameras will always need some light to take a picture, but when I took photos in a dark room with very little light, the Pixel 3 managed to capture whole objects pretty clearly.
To see how well Night Sight works, take a look at these images below. Pictures taken with Night Sight enabled are on the right.
CNET editor Patrick Holland, who reviewed the Huawei P20 Pro, noted that phone has a similar feature. However, the Pixel 3’s photos ended up appearing more “realistic-looking.” In addition, while the Galaxy S9’s dual-aperture camera is a solid low-light performer, it blows out highlights and softens corners too much. The Pixel 3 with Night Sight captures images that are sharper and more detailed, and has a wider dynamic range overall.
Another CNET editor, Stephen Shankland, said he preferred the white balance on the Pixel 3’s Night Sight to that of the iPhone XS Max. In a photo of a park, for example, the Pixel 3’s image had warmer tones and colors were more true to life.
To see how these two phones fare against one another, check out the pictures below. Pictures taken with the iPhone XS Max are on the left and the Pixel 3’s Night Sight images are on the right.
In general, Night Sight works so well that it might end up spoiling you and giving you what you think is a “bad” low-light photo. There were a few incidents when I snapped a photo with the Pixel 3 and thought to myself that the image looked “terrible” because it looked grainy and I could see digital artifacts and noise. But soon after, I quickly realized I’d taken the picture in a near pitch-black setting and that it was noteworthy that the camera managed to capture anything at all.
For even more Night Sight pictures, click through the gallery below.

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Microsoft Broke Windows 10’s File Associations With a Botched Update

File associations no longer work properly on Windows 10 after a buggy update. Windows won’t let you select certain applications as your defaults. We tested multiple PCs running the stable version of Windows 10, and they all had this problem.
This is a strange bug. It affects some applications, but not others. For example, Windows 10 won’t let you make Adobe Photoshop or Notepad++ a default application for images or text files. But you can make other applications, like IrfanView, VLC, or Google Chrome, your defaults.
For example, here’s what happens when we try setting Notepad++ as our default application for .txt files in Windows 10’s Settings app. Windows just ignores our choice and chooses Notepad as the default.
The same problem occurs when we try choosing a new file association by right-clicking a file and using the “Open With” context menu. After picking Notepad++ and selecting “Always Use This App,” the file opens correctly in the application we chose.
However, the next time we open that file, it opens in Notepad rather than Notepad++. Windows just forgets our chosen file association.
Again, we’ve tested multiple Windows 10 PCs running the April 2018 Update and every single one we tested has this problem. It doesn’t affect every application, but it does at least affect Photoshop and Notepad++. This bug does not appear to affect PCs running the October 2018 Update, which was pulled because of multiple data loss bugs and has not yet been re-released.
Based on our research and various social media posts we’ve found, our theory is that this stopped working properly when Microsoft released the KB4462919 update on October 9. But we really don’t know. It’s broken on the stable version of Windows 10 today and it’s probably been broken for a while. This definitely used to work!
Windows 10 seems like it’s getting buggier and buggier. Why doesn’t Microsoft test things like this before releasing updates?

iPhone XR benchmarks confirm essentially identical performance to the iPhone XS

With the iPhone XR containing the same A12 Bionic chip as the iPhone XS, we expected it to offer identical performance, and this has now been confirmed. Macworld reported on the results it found from iPhone XR benchmarks …
The iPhone XR offers the same performance enhancements over last year’s iPhone X as its more expensive siblings.

The iPhone XR is right in line with the XS and XS Max—easily within a margin of error of a couple of percentage points. This makes it 13 percent faster in single-core performance than the thousand-dollar iPhone X of last year, and about 10 percent faster in multi-core performance.
In the GPU-powered Compute benchmark (which uses the Metal API), performance is about 40 percent faster.

Indeed, in one of the iPhone XR benchmarks – a GPU test – the iPhone XR came out on top, likely as a result of having fewer pixels to push.

The iPhone XR scores better in the GPU test than the XS or XS Max (which helps boost the overall score). This is probably due to the lower resolution of the iPhone XR’s display. The graphics tests here are rendered on-screen and not at a fixed or off-screen resolution. The A12 Bionic’s GPU will deliver faster frame rates on the XR because it has to render about 85 percent more pixels on the XS and 125 percent more on the XS Max.

Many iPhone XR buyers are likely to be upgrading from an iPhone 7 or older, and gamers will be particularly happy.

If you’re upgrading from an iPhone 7 Plus to an iPhone XR, you can expect real game frame rates to be anywhere from 50 percent higher up to twice as fast, depending on the complexity of the game. That’s a huge win for everyone upgrading their two-year-old phones.

The XR is also the model to pick if battery-life is your priority.

In this test, the iPhone XR ran 19 minutes longer than the iPhone XS Max, and more than an hour longer than the iPhone XS. In a real-world scenario (i.e. not running benchmarks nonstop), that will likely translate into about 30-45 minutes more screen-on time than the iPhone XS Max and two hours more than the iPhone XS, depending on how you use your phone.

The really interesting comparison, however, is with the iPhone 7 Plus.

They have almost the exact same-sized batteries—the iPhone 7 Plus battery is 2900mAh—and both have LCD displays with similar total area. The iPhone XR’s display has a total area of around 90 square centimeters, the iPhone 7 Plus about 83 square centimeters, about 7 percent smaller. Yet the iPhone XR, with its slightly larger display and same-sized battery, lasted about an hour and 45 minutes longer in this test.
That’s a roughly 45 percent improvement in battery life with a slightly larger display and similar battery capacity. What an impressive improvement in just two years!

iPhone XR benchmarks are unlikely to be the deciding factor for many buyers – that’s going to be the new design language at a significantly lower price than the flagship models – but it’s certainly good to know that the practice matches the theory when it comes to performance.
App-opening speed tests showed that the iPhone XR was on a par with Samsung’s Note 9. Check out the best and worst features of the latest iPhone.

Intel Announces 48-Core Cascade Lake Xeon CPUs With 12 Memory Channels

Intel’s server roadmap and product families have been pretty calm in recent years. The company reorganized its server chips into the Xeon Scalable family and away from the old E7/E5/E3 designations in 2017, and it overhauled the Core X series, but it hasn’t made any dramatic changes to Xeon since AMD launched the Epyc family. Those changes are apparently coming in the first half of 2019, with the launch of Intel’s latest high-end Xeon parts, Cascade Lake Advanced Performance. Unlike standard Cascade Lake chips, these chips will offer substantially more cores and support for up to 2-socket systems.
Intel’s current line of Xeon Scalable Processors like the Xeon Platinum 8180, top out at 28 CPU cores. The new Cascade Lake AP chips, on the other hand, will pack up to 48 cores using an MCM. Intel hasn’t unveiled any details on its interconnect yet, though it seems incredibly likely to leverage Intel’s own EMIB (Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge). EMIB is already used on Intel’s Hades Canyon / Kaby Lake “G” silicon, and we suspect it’ll be used here as well. Details of how Intel will connect the MCMs together or how many cores are in each chiplet — that’s the sort of detail we don’t have yet.
It’s not surprising to see Intel making this move. When AMD had 32-core CPUs in-market, Intel’s monolithic 28-core chips, with their higher IPCs, weren’t at an automatic disadvantage. But AMD is widely expected to push as high as 64 cores with next-generation Epyc, and we’ve known for years that Intel wouldn’t keep fielding monolithic chips forever.
Intel predicts performance that’s 1.21x better in Linpack than Xeon Scalable 8180 (3.4x better than AMD Epyc 7601), 1.83x better in Stream Triad (1.3x better than Epyc 7601), and a 17x improvement in AI/Deep Learning inference compared with Xeon Platinum at launch. We don’t have a launch date for Cascade Lake other than 1H, so it’s a good bet that whatever Intel fields will go head-to-head with AMD’s Epyc 2 silicon, codenamed Rome, and built on 7nm at TSMC. As large as 12 memory channels is, it’s not crazy — as CPU core counts scale upwards, motherboards need more memory channels just to keep things relatively balanced.
Like standard Cascade Lake, Cascade Lake AP will feature support for Intel Optane Persistent Memory DIMMs and the hardware-level fixes for problems like Spectre and Meltdown. In the absence of a formal release date, we’re betting these chips don’t tip up much before summer — by which point they should have company from AMD.

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Medion A32-D15 Can replace the following part numbers:

A41-D15 A31-D15 A32-D15 A42-D15 A42-D17

Medion A32-D15 Fits the Following Models:

Medion Akoya E6416
Medion Akoya E6422
Medion Akoya E6415
Medion Akoya E6411
Medion Akoya E6412T
Medion Akoya E6417
Medion Akoya E6421
Medion Akoya MD99620
Medion Erazer P6661
Medion Akoya P6670

Medion A32-D15 Laptop battery for Medion Akoya E6415

How to find the correct product

When purchasing a battery or adapter for your device, compatibility is the most important factor. In order for our products to work on your device, it must be compatible. Batteryforpc.co.uk offers more than 120,000 compatible models and part numbers for your devices. Before purchasing our products, please follow our tips below to find the right product for your device.

Your device owner’s manual should have the brand and model number on the front cover. In addition, most devices have a manufacturering label on the bottom of your device. This label should have the brand and model number on it.

If you are purchasing an adapter, you should verify the device’s model number, input voltage and current before placing an order.

If your are purchasing a battery, you should shut down your device first, and then remove the battery and look at the original battery part number label of the battery.

Batteries from major manufacturers use standardized part numbers. The following are the sample part numbers from the major brands:

HP, Compaq 123456-001
Sony PCGA-BP12, VGP-BP1
Medion 312-1234, 1234P
IBM, Lenovo 02K1234, 08K1234
Toshiba PA1234U-1BRS

To confirm compatibility, customer should verify the physical appearance, part number, position and orientation of the connector and the latch position of your original battery with the product information shown on our website.

Please kindly note that there may be two different voltages (14.56/15V and 14.8V) associated with the same model or part number. They are totally NOT compatible. Please check your original battery voltage before placing an order.

A Li-Ion battery labeled 10.8V is the same as a Li-Ion battery labeled 14.56/15V.

A Li-Ion battery labeled 14.4V is the same as a Li-Ion battery labeled 14.8V.

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UK: Medion Akoya E6415 Battery for A32-D15
FR: Medion Akoya E6415 Batterie pour A32-D15
IT:
MEDION A32-D15  per Medion Akoya E6415661 Li-ion 44WH/45WH 14.56/15V
NL: laptop accu A32-D15 Medion Akoya E6415
JP:
MEDION 充電池 A32-D15
44WH/45WH 14.56/15V
DE: A32-D15 akkus für Medion Akoya E6415661
ES: A32-D15 para Medion Akoya E6415661
RU: MEDION A32-D15 для Medion Akoya E6415661, Li-ion 44WH/45WH 14.56/15V
PL: Zastępuje baterie o oznaczeniach A32-D15
BE: A32-D15 batterij  voor Medion Akoya E6415661
SE: 14.56/15V 44WH/45WH MEDION A32-D15  batterier