Signing off – Goodbye to Google photos

I have been detailing in my earlier articles that I have been thinking to move away from Google photos due to its recent notifications about storage quota counting against the account limit for photos and users had to pay for added storage options. With no options left, I had to make hard decision to move away from Google photos for following reasons. 

• Long term practical option: the major tech giants have decided to charge users for storing their data online. With no options left, we have found affordable online cloud storage choice and Google has exorbitant pricing for its storage plan. Additionally, I also had to look out for reliable online cloud storage choice for my family as well. Google offers only extremely limited storage option for family sharing and the prices were exceeding my budget. OneDrive offers the lowest pricing per GB and has dedicated 1 TB storage options for family members. These attractive storage plan seems to be the most practical in long term for its pricing and access to office suite of apps. 
• Added benefits: Google online cloud storage prices were less compared to Apple but does not offer any added benefits with storage plan and are limited only individual GMAIL account. However, with OneDrive storage plan, users can also get access to its exclusive office apps and can additionally activate those office applications in individual devices. 

With above listed reasons, the time has come for me to bid goodbye to Google photo as my photo’s backup and online storage choice. For more such articles, please feel free to check out the G R TEAM SITES.

Affordable smart band product from Apple soon

From Apple Watch series 3 version, I always wanted Apple to launch affordable version of smart bands. These smart bands will surely reach masses with Apple’s reliability and trusted health tracking features. Following are my predictions that can be adopted the affordable Apple smart band. 

• Heart rate monitoring: Smart band can include basic heart rate tracking options to identify if there are any fluctuations in heart rate. 
• Step's tracker: Basic steps tracker to count number of steps walked in each day and jogging measurements. 
• Calories burned: The smart band device can also have option to track calories burned through walking or jogging and provide simple number count on calories for each day. 
• Longer battery life: With inclusion of simply basic features, the Apple smart band can offer few days of battery life. 
• Digital clock: Basic digital display to reveal time for each day. 

Above options makes sense for Apple to launch more affordable smart bands for health tracking and for more such posts, please feel free to check out G R Team Sites.

Predictions for upcoming Apple Mac products in 2021

Apple’s April event had ended, and the announcements were pretty much straight forward. The next product launch from Apple will happen only on September and I am sure there will be large leaks and rumours on upcoming releases. I wanted to put out some of my expectations on Apple products, rather than focusing on all products I will dedicate this post on next generation Apple MacBook models. Here are my predictions. 

• Three versions of MacBook: With recent launch of iMac 24 inches, it is evident that there will three versions of MacBook. 
• 12-inch MacBook: this will be the basic or starting version of MacBook. The price may start from $1199 and may even include M1X processor. This model will use the same screen resolution as the earlier version and the other difference from rest of the models is the reduced GPU performance. 
• 14-inch MacBook: this will be the mid-level version of the MacBook. The price may start from $1299-$1399 and will include the same M1X processor. This model will also use the same screen resolution as the earlier version and the other difference is that it will have better GPU performance than the base model. 
• 16-inch MacBook: this will be the high-end version of the MacBook models. The price may start from $1699-$1799 and they will have mini-LED as the stand-alone feature. In addition, this model will have superior M1X processors and GPU performance than rest of the MacBook models. 

To know more about such expectations on Apple products, please feel free to check out the blog posts listed on G R Team Sites.

My MacBook Pro battery had swollen

I was using Apple MacBook Pro for about 4+ years and I really felt comfortable using the laptop, little did I knew that I was about to meet a disaster. My MacBook Pro was working butter smooth all these while and for past few days I was experiencing strange behavior in my MacBook Pro. The machine was quite hot near the trackpad and usually, if I push hard my machine it gets hotter only near the monitor and strangely it was other way around. I was worried about its impact and out of curiosity, I opened up my MacBook Pro ‘s back panel to check out the abnormal heat activity near the trackpad. After opening the lid, I had complete shock to see my MacBook Pro’s battery was slightly swollen and the battery shape was abnormal. My mood was completely upset, as I wanted to use my MacBook Pro for more than a year as well. With broken heart, I put back the lid to laptop and ensured that the screws near swollen battery was loose and since it had heart issues, I kept the lid slightly opened for smooth air flow and with hope that battery issue will be sorted out. However, the exact opposite thing happened, and I had to look out for other plans. To know more about how I continued to use my MacBook Pro, please feel free to check out the blog posts in “G R Team Sites”