I was toying with the idea of some kind of X, but decided to save the money. My 6s is booked in for a battery swap next week which will keep it going for another couple of years.

Honestly it’s the best phone I've ever had. Although the caveat is that I’ve not tried the XS or XS Max.

I think if they didn’t exist I’d probably have gone for the XR by now.
Unfortunately they do, and when I looked at the XS it was so much nicer that it made the XR feel like a poor relative but that one is more than I can justify.

Of course the XR is by no means a budget model. It costs about the same as the 6/6s/7/7s Plus did at launch. It’s only “cheap” compared to the new, higher price points that started with the X.

Having just had a look at that picture, and a closer look at the real thing, it is indeed a US keyboard layout.

Having just had a look at that picture, and a closer look at the real thing, it is indeed a US keyboard layout.

Tbf all Macs have the “ and @ transposed.

What kind of crazy ass shit is that then? Won't it just upset everybody?

Oh and mac keyboards (at least the one I'm used to) don't have an easily accessible # symbol.

#annoying

/looks at new MacBook keyboard

DaFuq is "option"?

It's alt-3.

We should bring back the early Unix keyboards that had Control, Super, Hyper, and Meta plus Shift, Top, and Front.

Same thing as "alt".

It's even got a Like and a Dislike button, whoever designed that keyboard was clever. And also a time traveller.

It's annoying when switching between MacOS and Windows, like I frequently do.

Especially when the old admin password had an @ in it.

Was it "@dm1n"?

I bought one of them iPad Pro things for Mrs Hearthly with the proper Apple keyboard, those fuckers are expensive, aren't they? Not much change from £1000 for a fucking tablet and a keyboard.

She loves it to bits though and it's solved a definite deficiency with her iPad Air 2. I know you can get third party keyboards for the Air 2 but they're bound to not work properly sometimes or have issues with them, and be a faff with their batteries etc etc.

She's going to keep the Air 2 for normal iPad duties, and use the Pro as a sort of portable computer and for when she needs to type in the house but isn't at her PC.

She sent me a picture of it IN ACTION at a local coffee shop.

In fairness I'm not really that obsessed with framerates these days and I've had the Focus ST for quite a long time now.

I bought one of them iPad Pro things for Mrs Hearthly with the proper Apple keyboard, those fuckers are expensive, aren't they? Not much change from £1000 for a fucking tablet and a keyboard.

I suspect knowing Hearthy is on the warpath is what tipped Ive over the edge and made him quit.

Nah, they'll be rubbing their hands together. Hearthly will come back having bought an even flashier ipad with some kind of hover mouse and an aura-controlled keyboard and a couple of iPhone Xs.