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Surprise and Delight and iPads and Pencils - MOSK: 05.20.2024

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7997 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

- iFixit: Battery Replacement in M4 iPad Pro is Remarkably Easy - Complaints of M4 iPad Pro Grainy Displays - iFixit: Apple Pencil Pro Offer "Slight" Improvement, Though Not Really Repairable - Apple Pencil Pro Offers Surprise and Delight in the Shadows - Apple Reportedly Upping Old iPhone Trade-In Offers for iPhone 15 Models - Japan Gets Tap to Pay for iPhone Activated - Apple Store Vandalized in Conflict Mineral Protest - Delta Changes Logo After Legal Threat from Adobe - Alchemy Labs CEO Sings Praises of Frictionless Apple Vision Pro - Apple TV+ Series "Dark Matter" Places High on Streaming Charts - Sponsored by ExpressVPN: Sign up and get an extra three-months FREE at ExpressVPN.com/macosken - Check Out the Latest Checklist by SecureMac - online at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @macosken@mastodon.social - Chat with us in Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0

This is Mac OSKIN.

0:06.8

Diving into the latest iPads,

0:08.8

diving into the latest iPads,

0:11.2

tempting offers for iPhone 15 and Dark Matter shines for Apple TV plus.

0:17.9

It is Monday the 20th of May 2024. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacoS Ken brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by

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0:59.2

We talked last week about youtubers breaking new iPad pro units. Mostly it seems to prove that they could.

1:06.4

Now let a pro show you how it's done and why.

1:11.1

Nine to five Mac writes up the tear down of a 13 inch iPad Pro from I Fix It,

1:16.5

while the tour offers a good look at the internals of the new M4 machine, complete with a close-up look at the new tandem olead display and the reposition front-facing

1:26.0

camera, the big news seems to center around the battery.

1:30.9

Easy to replace is the verdict, or as easy as things can be inside Apple's tablet.

1:37.0

Despite the hassle of getting to those pulled tabs as I fix it,

1:41.0

the fact that you can remove the battery without having to remove every major component inside the device is still a huge win for reparability.

1:49.4

It's a massive improvement over the previous generations.

1:54.0

9 to 5 Mac refers to the I fix it post as a full tear down, though.

1:58.5

I'm not sure it's full and complete.

2:02.0

The DIY champions don't seem to have offered a reparability score as of this writing.

2:08.3

While being able to swap batteries with relative ease is good news, Every silver lining has a cloud. This one may come in

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