Recent content by dreamalittle

Not sure what the software cause is but a solution would be that you can find a download of Yosemite in your App Store purchase history, make a usb bootable installer and downgrade. You'll need to backup and restore your files as part of the process.

dell build quality is the best out of that lineup and also as you noted it's the lightest of your choices which in my experience (10+ laptops) has a huge impact on how often you use it and transportation experience. 4 or 8gb of ram doesn't make a huge difference to most students, also the speed...

powerpoint 2016 should fix those issues.. apple maps is slowly improving but like others have said i'd only recommend using it as a backup to google maps. google maps might have an awful interface compared to apple maps but the data is generally better and the features like public transport...

imovie runs very smoothly even on 2012 hardware. the exporting (last part of making movie) will take much longer on older 2012 models vs 2015/2016 models. if that doesnt bother you, no problem :)

if "find my ipad" was turned on, you can log into your icloud.com and select the find my iphone section. you can brick the ipad remotely from this section too.