Recent content by LordVile

Base MacBook Air. Use an education discount and it’s well within you budget. Destroys both of these options from a performance and battery life perspective. Also has a good display even if it’s not near the Pro and I’d wager a much better webcam for zoom. Oh and you don’t have to buy Microsoft...

Depends what you want out of it. If it's for general usage a base MacBook Air is the best value you're going to get. Plus you don't need to buy Microsoft office due to it coming with a capable office suite preinstalled.If you want to game or use solid works stay away and get a windows machine.

Look at the graphs and see which you prefer. Would also like to say mic quality isn’t great for either because Bluetooth so maybe it might be worth getting separate wired headphones and an inline or separate mic. Would also pick beats over JBL any day.

How about a hearingaid? Thats too loud. They go loud enough to damage your hearing.

How about a hearingaid? If anything loud headphones will make it worse.

They meant it qualifies to not work. You need to get a new laptop at this point. Any investment into it now is just a waste of money.

No it doesn’t meet the minimum spec

What’s the laptop model?

The issue is W10 is now EOL and will not be getting any updates from October, that includes security updates, patches and fixes. Therefore it isn’t advisable to use it.

It’s going to be old considering they stopped making laptops 5 years ago and stopped making consumer models nearly 10 years ago. It won’t get W11 so will be EOL late this year

You’d have to look at the sound profile of both and see which you like best which is the best for you from an audio perspective. For passive isolation you just need a good seal from the bud and it will block a surprising amount of noise, it just doesn’t do that well blocking out low frequency...

“Good for budget” doesn’t mean good. Im guessing they do alright at low frequencies, drop off around the vocal frequencies and then pick up again at higher frequencies where the seal does the heavy lifting. EDIT: Checked and I was bang on.

Tbh I wouldn’t really trust anything it tells you outside of the time. Most of them either have fake heart rate sensors or ones so poor they’re not worth paying attention to.

Generally budget ANC isn’t really worth having and you’re just degrading the quality of the earphones themselves in terms of sound quality, battery and the overall functionality

You are aware that “AI” is just a marketing gimmick right? They’re just LLMs and ML algorithms.