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The purpose of an estate / station wagon is practical function. The purpose of Audi is ignorant posing. So I can’t think of a greater self-contradiction than an Audi estate. Maybe a diesel convertible? The usual suspects in Germany made those for a few insane years.

Hallelujah! Apple’s crack devs finally figured out how to limit a MacBook’s charge to 80%. Can’t have been easy.

Yes, you’re right on most of those counts. In many ways, Tesla is a badly run company. But as a car nerd I remain deeply impressed by the evolving Model 3. And mine isn’t a weird outlying opinion, which is why I linked to praise by a couple of the greatest authorities in the automotive world...

It’s just not. You’re mistaken. It’s as Car and Driver said in the subheading of my link in an earlier comment (downvoted as ever): “A three-decibel reduction at 70 mph is unheard of for a facelifted vehicle”. Same goes for the suspension overhaul. Most cars go their whole life without...

You’d never guess from reading Ars Technica that the Tesla Model 3 got a 10/10 review score from Car and Driver and even made their current 10Best list. https://www.caranddriver.com/tesla/model-3 https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62595445/2024-tesla-model-3-quieter-more-highway-range-tested/...

Right. Even my four-year-old 13 mini (A15 chip) gets ice-cold watching a full-screen YouTube video. Scrolling your average garbage 2025 website in Safari with video ads following me all the way down? Gets downright hot (with corresponding battery burn). I think because of this massive...

Right. That sort of thing. (Obviously I didn’t downvote you. Sheesh.) Becca Farsace demos the problem here, albeit comparing to a Samsung phone rather than an iPhone 17 or iPhone Air (which, like the Samsung, focus a lot closer than the Pro): View...

A problem with the Pro’s main camera is its long minimum focus distance. That forces the Camera app to switch to the ultrawide as the subject gets closer. But since that’s an ultrawide, the app needs to crop to maintain a similar field of view … from the already smaller sensor, remember...

Thanks for taking the time, Andrei. Interesting developments.

How do the latest Snapdragon chips do for power efficiency versus the A19 Pro? I hadn’t been paying attention for a while and was astonished to see that Qualcomm seems to have caught up and maybe surpassed Apple in some benchmarks. Not sure I’d like to be responsible for having taken chip...

Digital stabilisation reduces the field of view further, but it’s already cropped when you switch from stills to video with Enhanced Stabilization (digital stabilisation) turned off. My 13 mini does this too, and it was a nasty shock when I got it, because Apple didn’t mention it in the specs...

Tearing us away from headphones for a minute … The regular iPhone 17 camera has a few differences from the 17 Pro main camera that might not be immediately obvious. Apple surely doesn’t tell you. Nor does this review. First, it focuses a lot closer than the Pro (and with less image aberrations...

I use the equivalent Lightning adaptor with a variety of wired headphones and it sounds great. (Great explanation of that and some USB-C headphone dongles here: View: https://youtu.be/r0P8-TUDJ4Q ) It does have the downsides of digital dongles of this sort, such as the delay when inserting...

Apple says the 13 Pro is 204 g versus 206 g for the 17 Pro. So practically the same but the new one is heavier rather than lighter. EDIT: you were responding to a comment about Pro Max phones so probably meant those. OK. Looks like I can’t delete my comment.

If you look at the small text, Apple says the Air display is 6.55″ diagonally. Curiously they round that down to 6.5″ for marketing purposes (perhaps just because the 6.55″ is itself rounded up from 6.548″ or whatever). Meanwhile the regular iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro have a small-text display...

I agree with the gist of your complaint about inadequate differentiation for the Air but not this precise suggestion. One problem with the Pro’s main camera is that it doesn’t focus very close and the image quality falls apart (field curvature and astigmatism) at its minimum focus distance. So...

Since we’re dealing with grams of mass and square millimetres of area for heat transfer in the Air, I think the throttling must kick in within seconds rather than minutes or hours. But I agree, I’d like to know the particulars.

Apple claims up to 65% greater battery life. As I said earlier, it’s the same battery as the one inside the phone, so you’d get 100% greater battery life if it was wired to the phone (not to mention a lot less heat and a bit less bulk).

I think the Air needed some kind of sexy novelty to complete its appeal. The obvious thing would have been a new camera – perhaps just the one that would end up in the regular iPhone 18 next year anyway. That would have been a minor improvement in itself, but more importantly it would have...

I have a 13 mini and have handled the Air. The Air gives a lighter impression, I suppose because its surface area went up by much more than the weight. The mini feels dense. Not the Air. (Clearly the Air is nonetheless heavier and that will count for more than a handling impression in some...