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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I keep being reminded how useful my Apple Watch is. Yesterday, I had left my iPhone downstairs when I went upstairs and got a phone call from my sister. I answered on my Watch (non cellular so this was via wifi) and had a 30 minute conversation with her that way. Dick Tracy eat your heart out! Exercise, outside temperature and heart beat all at a glance. I use it for Apple Pay as well. It's one of those devices where you don't think you would need it, but once you have it, you wonder how you could do without it.
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As I said, I'm not really in the market for anything new at the moment, but I won't say never. I almost pulled the trigger on last year's Apple Watch with the always on display. Maybe this year's model with have a built in way to take your temperature. That would be a pretty nifty feature in the era of covid-19. It already does heart rate and an EKG.
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I have a series 5 now, and I think it will do for awhile. I had a series 3 before that, and it met a tragic end when my car ran over a chunk of shredded tire, partially ripping off plastic shield under there, and I had to reach under there to pull it back into position and tie it up so I could pull off to a safer location. Didn’t realize I’d cracked the screen. I actually continued to use it for several months though most of the touch screen didn’t work. Repair would have cost more than a new series 3. This time I got Apple Care.
I got the smaller series 5, which has a screen that’s a little larger than the large series 3 I had. Also faster and more storage. I haven’t used the CPR feature more than a few times, and I turned off the ‘always on’ feature pretty much right away, I like having the screen off unless I’m actually using it. So for me the new features weren’t all that important, more about future-proofing and a better form factor.
Series 6 is rumored to have O2 saturation sensor, but even if that’s true, it would not impel an upgrade. Maybe if I were an elite athlete or had asthma, but I’m not.
If they announce Mac mini with Apple silicon I might be interested.
As it is I’m planning to get the new iMac 27” for my wife, whose Windows machine is a constant source of frustration for both of us with the constant stream of updates and bewildering notifications about some change they make. And it’s flakey, sometimes the mouse doesn’t turn on and Outlook can’t restart without going into Services and killing something.