mrsmr2 wrote:

My watch has stopped giving me message notifications and calendar doesn't seem to be syncing. Although health data does seem to be going back to the phone. This has happened since the 14.7.1 update. My watch is a SE and is on 9.6.3. I'd avoided updating my watch to not fall foul of the Apple "your older hardware is now crap" syndrome but I fear I might be forced to update now. Are there are any settings I can check on phone/watch before I (potentially) nuke my watch?

Update in case anyone else has this issue. Looks like Apple deliberately killed off support for < 10 watch OS with the 17.4 phone update. 17.4.1 nor the 17.5 beta restore the connection.

So I bit the bullet and installed watch OS 10.4 and thankfully, it's been fine. Battery life is very slightly lower than before (by an hour) but the UI is a little nicer, with a great new watch face.

Will stay on 10 as long as possible as there will be a time when the new watch OS won't play nice with the older watch hardware, but I'm happy with it at the moment.

Man, I miss my Mac mini. Top wee machine.

In other news, emulate every old Mac operating system, from System 1.0 to Mac OS 9.2.2 in your fuggin browser.

That's lovely. I jumped on board with System 7. So seeing that is making me all warm and fuzzy.

This was my first Mac after not using the school one for about 15 years. So would have been Mac OSX. I had a PC at the time that was constantly blue screening and I was sick of it, so I got the Mac and never looked back (apart from gaming *cough*)

b0r1s wrote:

This was my first Mac after not using the school one for about 15 years. So would have been Mac OSX. I had a PC at the time that was constantly blue screening and I was sick of it, so I got the Mac and never looked back (apart from gaming *cough*)

Those were brilliant wee machines. And look at all those feckin' ports along the side!

Those old white MacBooks were great. Likewise, my old 2010 MacBook Pro was an absolute tank. Lasted a long time after some upgrades.

They were great but with the m1 MacBook Pro onwards we are definitely in the golden era now. Quiet, cool, powerful laptops with amazing screens and the right amount of ports, even the headphone jack works with high quality headphones. Definitely the best MacBook laptop I’ve owned over the years.

I’ve only just replaced my 2013 MacBook Pro. Don’t need much for WFH so never needed to upgrade but she just don’t fire up and can’t download the software whatever I do do got a new one. Beautiful thing but she just sits there the vast majority of the time.

White Macbook running Snow Leopard is probably the most stable machine I've ever had. As per someone above, I came into Macs from a BSOD-ridden PC desktop. It was so far ahead of the Windows experience at the time.

Started with Tiger, went up to Yosemite, potentially El Capitan.

Tiger to Snow Leopard really were excellent. I was using them at home while using XP at work, fortunately swerved Vista entirely.
W7-10 have been fine. After Snow Leopard Mac OS felt a bit too much like it was dictating how it should be used for me while Windows became a background thing that didnt help nor hinder me.

LivDiv wrote:

They are better now in terms of tech advancement but not flexible enough for my liking. Prices have gone from expensive to laughable too

Yeah, I agree. My 2010 MBP was very solidly build. Even the coating on the keys didn't wear down over the years. The most important thing though was that it was upgradable, allowing me to swap out the RAM and HDD.

iPad Pro 5.1mm thick and getting the M4.  Macbooks don't even have it.

But why?

I'll never get one.

And on eBay in 5...4...

Alas, I only got those packages from Sony, and they won't be a customer as of 24th May.  My good luck is over there.