Switch to iOS 11 or not?

Tuesday, September 19, Apple released final version iOS 11. Should I install iOS 11? Is the system faster and more stable than iOS 10.3.3? The answer to this question was given by comparing the speed of iOS 11 and iOS 10.3.3 on different iPhone models.

iOS 11- major update mobile operating system Apple, which brings with it many innovations. iOS 11 has completely revamped Control Center, Store App Store received new design, an all-new Files app, drag-and-drop support, the Dock on iPad, and dozens of other notable improvements.

Is it worth installing iOS 11 on iPhone 5s

iPhone 5s under iOS control 11 works, frankly, imperfectly. The system responds to almost every user action with a delay, in particular, when compared with iOS 10.3.3. In fairness, we note that the smartphone does not become very slow after switching to iOS 11. Performance remains at an acceptable level for everyday use.

However, a word of caution to iPhone 5s owners. Switching to iOS 11 can be frustrating, as iOS 10.3.3 shows better performance. If you have definitely decided to iOS installation 11, then we recommend that you perform it using iTunes ( instruction). After the so-called clean installation, the speed of iOS 11 on the iPhone 5s will be maximum.

Is it worth installing iOS 11 on iPhone 6

On the iPhone 6 running iOS 11, the situation is slightly better than on the iPhone 5s. However, the speed of the smartphone on iOS 11 is still less than on iOS 10.3.3. The difference is not very strong, but, alas, it is noticeable. When launching applications, playing animations, some slowness is felt. Some users will call it critical, others, not so whimsical, will be quite satisfied.

And if we recommend that you think carefully about installing iOS 11 on the iPhone 5s, then in the case of the iPhone 6, perhaps you can safely install the update. To delay the update and, for example, wait for iOS 11.1, can only be advised to those who complained about the speed of iOS 10. iPhone owners 6 is better to stay on iOS 10.3.3 for now.

Is it worth installing iOS 11 on iPhone 6s and 7

Where there are absolutely no problems with performance, it is on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 7. Smartphones feel great on iOS 11. However, in these cases there is one unpleasant minus that is not related to performance at all. home iPhone problem 6s and iPhone 7 on iOS 11 is a serious stutter when performing 3D Touch gestures on app icons. This problem manifested itself in the very first beta version of iOS 11 and “successfully” got to the final one. Even thousands of complaints from users testing iOS 11 did not motivate Apple to fix a very annoying bug.

Battery life

User feedback on iOS 11 autonomy varies. Some say that the battery charge flies before their eyes, others, including many iPhone 5s users, are very pleased. One of the main reasons that iOS 11 starts to “devour” battery power is an error when installing an update over the air. Solve the problem with the “gluttony” of iOS 11, thus, helps “clean” installation updates using iTunes.

Bugs and flaws

iOS 11, to the surprise of many users who remember the failure of iOS 10, does not have a large number of unpleasant flaws or critical bugs. Moreover, iOS 11 has several really annoying problems:

  • spontaneously turning on Wi-Fi,
  • slowdown when performing 3D Touch gestures,
  • “Album” is not updated people,
  • slowdowns when launching applications.

Should I install iOS 11

iOS 11 is an update with a lot of cool new features, but alas, average performance. Despite the latter, we recommend giving the system a chance, because even if you do not like iOS 11, over the next three to four weeks you will have the opportunity to freely

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If spare parts are available, up to 85% percent of complex repairs can be completed in 1-2 days. Modular repairs take much less time. The site indicates the approximate duration of any repair.

Warranty and Liability

A warranty should be given for any repair. Everything is described on the site and in the documents. A guarantee is self-confidence and respect for you. A 3-6 month warranty is good and enough. It is needed to check the quality and hidden defects that cannot be detected immediately. You see honest and realistic terms (not 3 years), you can be sure that you will be helped.

Half the success in Apple repair is the quality and reliability of spare parts, so a good service works directly with suppliers, there are always several reliable channels and a warehouse with proven spare parts for current models so that you do not have to waste extra time.

Free diagnostics

This is very important and has already become a rule of good taste for service center. Diagnosis is the most difficult and important part of the repair, but you should not pay a dime for it, even if you do not repair the device after it.

Service repair and delivery

Good service appreciates your time, therefore offers free shipping. And for the same reason, repairs are carried out only in the workshop of the service center: it can be done correctly and according to technology only at a prepared place.

Convenient schedule

If the Service works for you, and not for itself, then it is always open! absolutely. The schedule should be convenient in order to be in time before and after work. Good service works on weekends and holidays. We are waiting for you and working on your devices every day: 9:00 - 21:00

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Age and experience of the company

Reliable and experienced service is known for a long time.
If a company has been on the market for many years, and it has managed to establish itself as an expert, they turn to it, write about it, recommend it. We know what we are talking about, since 98% of incoming devices in the SC are restored.
We are trusted and passed on complex cases to other service centers.

How many masters in the directions

If you are always waiting for several engineers for each type of equipment, you can be sure:
1. there will be no queue (or it will be minimal) - your device will be taken care of immediately.
2. You give Macbook repair to an expert specifically in the field of Mac repairs. He knows all the secrets of these devices

technical literacy

If you ask a question, the specialist must answer it as accurately as possible.
To give you an idea of ​​what you need.
Will try to solve the problem. In most cases, from the description, you can understand what happened and how to fix the problem.

Fair, not too high or too low. There should be prices on the Service website. Necessarily! without "asterisks", clear and detailed, where it is technically possible - the most accurate, final.

If spare parts are available, up to 85% percent of complex repairs can be completed in 1-2 days. Modular repairs take much less time. The site indicates the approximate duration of any repair.

Warranty and Liability

A warranty should be given for any repair. Everything is described on the site and in the documents. A guarantee is self-confidence and respect for you. A 3-6 month warranty is good and enough. It is needed to check the quality and hidden defects that cannot be detected immediately. You see honest and realistic terms (not 3 years), you can be sure that you will be helped.

Half the success in Apple repair is the quality and reliability of spare parts, so a good service works directly with suppliers, there are always several reliable channels and a warehouse with proven spare parts for current models so that you do not have to waste extra time.

Free diagnostics

This is very important and has already become a rule of good form for the service center. Diagnosis is the most difficult and important part of the repair, but you should not pay a dime for it, even if you do not repair the device after it.

Service repair and delivery

A good service values ​​your time, so it offers free shipping. And for the same reason, repairs are carried out only in the workshop of the service center: it can be done correctly and according to technology only at a prepared place.

Convenient schedule

If the Service works for you, and not for itself, then it is always open! absolutely. The schedule should be convenient in order to be in time before and after work. Good service works on weekends and holidays. We are waiting for you and working on your devices every day: 9:00 - 21:00

The reputation of professionals consists of several points

Age and experience of the company

Reliable and experienced service is known for a long time.
If a company has been on the market for many years, and it has managed to establish itself as an expert, they turn to it, write about it, recommend it. We know what we are talking about, since 98% of incoming devices in the SC are restored.
We are trusted and passed on complex cases to other service centers.

How many masters in the directions

If you are always waiting for several engineers for each type of equipment, you can be sure:
1. there will be no queue (or it will be minimal) - your device will be taken care of immediately.
2. You give Macbook repair to an expert specifically in the field of Mac repairs. He knows all the secrets of these devices

technical literacy

If you ask a question, the specialist must answer it as accurately as possible.
To give you an idea of ​​what you need.
Will try to solve the problem. In most cases, from the description, you can understand what happened and how to fix the problem.

Emoji can rightfully be called the universal language of communication. With new Macbook Pro you will not be limited in the use of its vocabulary. Click on the smiley on touch bar, and you will see the entire list of emotionally rich symbols that are available on your phone. And yes, the developers haven't forgotten about your favorite Poo emoji.

2. Easily navigate uploaded images

If you are tired of constantly looking for the right photo by opening and closing pictures on your computer, Touch Bar will solve your problem. As soon as you open a photo from the Pictures folder, the display will show all the latest pictures you have taken. It remains to select the desired photo - it will immediately appear on the big screen.

3. Control video


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The Touch Bar allows you to conveniently manage not only photos, but also videos. Thanks to it, you can quickly rewind a movie or video and pause it. The feature does not yet work with players such as BBC iPlayer and Netflix, but this problem is only a matter of time.

4. Think twice before buying


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Touch ID makes every purchase a lot easier and faster, and Apple makes sure you don't waste your money. Each time your finger touches an ID on the panel, the Touch Bar will remind you of the amount you are about to part with. You will soon get in the habit of thinking twice before buying anything!

5. Quickly cycle through tabs

Most people have one problem when surfing the Internet: an infinite number open tabs. To get back to the right one, you often have to go through them all, which takes time. The Safari browser in tandem with the Touch Bar easily eliminates this inconvenience: images of pages of open tabs will now be right in front of you.

6. Add, divide, multiply

The calculator is an invention of a bygone age. However, it is unlikely that it will ever become irrelevant. The Touch Bar will make using the calculator a little easier: everything mathematical operations you can do it quickly and without Shift keys and command.

7. Time travel

Surely you have been flipping through the Calendar for a long time to find out if you have any events planned, for example, on January 10th. When you go to Calendar on your new MacBook Pro, you'll see month, week, and number tabs on the Touch Bar. You can now find out your schedule for any day in just a split second.

8. Format tables without hassle

It can be difficult to join multiple tables that use different ways input. Now that you're in the Number app, the interactive panel will offer you instant formatting commands, making your job a lot easier.

9. Become a DJ

Perhaps this is one of the functions for which the Touch Bar was created. We all love to listen to music on a laptop, but having to constantly turn iTunes on and off to change a track is annoying. Problem solved. The new MacBook Pro feature will allow you to perform absolutely all operations with music without leaving the cash register: adjust the volume, select a track, add songs to the playlist.

10. Use the color spectrum

Touch Bar allows you to quickly and easily change the color of text. Just highlight the required letters and click on the colored button with the "A" symbol on the panel. It will immediately turn into a color spectrum, on which you can quickly select the desired shade.

11. Bring back the old functionality

Do you think the Touch Bar left the function keys behind? Not at all. You can always customize the panel to your own liking. And if the ability to quickly change the screen brightness, backlight and volume is so important to you, then know that Apple has not forgotten about you.

No matter what Tim Cook says, Apple has once again proved that it frankly does not care about the Mac family. Rumors that roamed before the presentation predicted a total update of the entire line of computers, however, only the MacBook Pro series was lucky. Apart from the expected cosmetic and hardware upgrade, only the Touch Bar, a touch panel that utilized a number of function keys and brought a completely different Mac experience, could boast of fresh firmware.

Trying to keep emotions in check, we will try to talk about new MacBooks Pro in classic style, that is, let's start with the dimensions. Apple never tires of repeating that size matters: the 13- and 15-inch versions are 14 and 17 percent smaller (14.9 and 15.5 mm) compared to their predecessors; models shed weight to 3 and 4 lbs (1.3 and 1.8 kg) and shrunk nicely overall. What are we talking about - the 2016 MacBook Pro is even thinner Macbook Air who are long overdue for retirement. From the point of view of design, the Yabloko made a muscular modification of just a MacBook out of the firmware, and this, I must say, was to our liking.

Of course, they also worked on performance, demonstrating their love for GPUs Radeon family. Just in case, we note that Apple has given the 15-inch model the role of a powerful flagship, equipping it with the most aggressive hardware:

Models of 13 inches in the amount of three pieces boast the following characteristics:

  • dual core processor Intel Core i5 with a frequency of 2.0 or 2.9 GHz, with Turbo Boost acceleration up to 3.1 or 3.3 GHz, respectively;
  • 8 GB of RAM with a frequency of 1866 or 2133 MHz;
  • 256 or 512 GB solid state drive;
  • graphics adapter Intel Iris Graphics 540 or 550
  • 2 or 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports
  • Touch Bar and Touch ID (not in the youngest version)

By the way, it’s quite interesting that Apple chose to remove the innovative Touch Bar and fingerprint sensor from the “budget” model altogether. Also, any more or less advanced user will notice that new Pro disgracefully switched to the Thunderbolt 3 interface, which came in 2015 and promises new horizons as in working with external devices as well as in nutrition. On the case this standard expressed in the form of USB-C ports that have proven themselves successfully. They will allow you to connect two displays in 5K resolution, provide speeds of 40 Gb / s and full charge. True, the prices for an elementary two-meter cable are at the level of 11 thousand rubles. And that's just the cable!

The GPU on the Radeon Pro 450 (455) promises a twofold increase in performance. Solid state drives sport a 50% increase in speed. Claimed time battery life for all versions is at around 10 hours (when watching movies and surfing the web).

Now to the screen. The already chic Retina displays are now 67% brighter and more contrast, and their colors are 23% more saturated. Schiller said nothing more.

The keyboard in the new MacBook Pro provides a more stable response, that is, the key travel has been improved. The butterfly mechanism is still used, but already the second generation. But that's not the point. The main thing is a double-sized trackpad with the Force Touch function: the yard box has been transformed into a whole football field for your fingers!

We doubt that the increased range of the speakers and the increased volume threshold will seriously affect the sound, given the design of the MacBook Pro, but this fact is worth stating.

And now we move on to the most interesting, most revolutionary part of the review and presentation as a whole - the Touch Bar and Touch ID sensor. Everyone is familiar with the latter from the iPhone, where the fingerprint sensor appeared with the iPhone 5s in 2013. It works the same way on Macs: just tap your finger to unlock macOS without entering a password. Also, thanks to Touch ID, purchases on sites with support are confirmed. Apple Pay. All scanner activity is looped on the Apple T1 chip.

The fingerprint sensor turned out to be smarter than what is used on iOS. If several users work on a computer, each has its own account and, accordingly, your configured fingerprint, then macOS, recognizing the owner, will instantly switch to the data of the person who just accessed Touch ID.

We decided to leave the Touch Bar for last, to let the thoughts gather in our heads. A number of function keys on the new MacBook Pro disappeared, Escape disappeared, which, on the other hand, an extraordinary (in all respects) feature was added, somewhere radically facilitating, and somewhere, on the contrary, complicating the work.

Touch Bar can be flexibly adjusted to various applications. Most of all, I liked how the know-how behaves at the DJ console, allowing you to compose mixes with the help of several virtual sliders displayed above the keyboard. Also, the Touch Bar is quite productively combined with video and music editors, moving around the tape or involving editing tools.

But the behavior in the browser, instant messengers, Photos and Photoshop applications caused a bunch of questions that tear apart the concept of working for the MacBook Pro as a whole. Why look for a site tab on a narrow panel when you can make one click in Safari? Why is there address bar, navigation buttons and predictive input, when it's much more convenient to use it through the keyboard or trackpad? Have you noticed Craig Frederighi's diligence in selecting emojis on the Touch Bar? There are a lot of controversial points, and we will completely keep silent about working in Photoshop, because the user will literally have to break between the usual input tools and the sliders on the touch panel.

Again, we repeat that such a thing as the Touch Bar must be tested personally, applied to work applications for every day, let into your world, and not criticized in absentia, since the chip turned out to be really ambiguous. Somebody, the same DJ, will raise the Touch Bar to the skies, and the blind typing journalist will laugh at how they want to force him to look at the keyboard, although he learned the opposite.

It remains to tell about the configuration and prices. MacBook Pro 2016 will be available in two colors: Silver and gray space. To become the owner of new firmware, you will have to fork out at least 119,990 rubles - the cost of the most budgetary 13″ version without Touch Bar and Touch ID; the maximum configuration for 15″ will cost you 222,990 rubles. All prices and modifications are presented above.

Of course, updating the MacBook Pro line to meet the requirements of 2016 is a very rosy event: workhorses have become smaller, lighter, more powerful, have been unlocked via Touch ID and a unique Touch Bar, which - we have no doubt - will still prove itself, but ... But what about the Mac mini, which was last updated in 2014? Why didn't they say a word about the iMac? Will the Air series retire? Will the price tag of the Mac Pro, which is still running on 2013 hardware, exceed a million rubles (maybe Apple is afraid of it :)? Alas, these questions remain unanswered.