Now I’m considering changing to either stainless steel silver or graphite with either a silver or graphite Milanese band. Truthfully, it’s more than I want to spend, but I can splurge for the extra if need be. I’m mostly considering the jump for the sapphire glass.
What do you think, which one looks better, Silver or Graphite? I currently have the Series 7 45mm Stainless Steel Gold, but I'm thinking about returning it. In certain light conditions it looks weird IMO.
My Graphite SS had microscatches from the Milanese band after just 2 days with me being extremely careful knowing the the DLC coating of the band could and would case issues. The Titanium watch, is only $100 more BUT has a 2 year warranty vs 1 for the Graphite SS, comes with the 5 watt wall charger still and gives you an extra exclusive band.
I was actually wearing my Graphite S7 Milanese when visiting the store on launch day, but it was too crowded to ask for the new Milanese, so I only judged from those "stick props" that only have the watch case itself. The Slate Titanium is darker than the graphite but only slightly so. But I heard that the Milanese band on the other hand, the new Slate vs the old Graphite are almost identical ...
The Slate Titanium would be the closest match to the Jet Black with the benefit of the Sapphie glass, however will it go with alot of the styles of bands I already have had in the past for my Stainless Steel and Natural Titanium ultra models. The Slate looks like the old graphite on the website, but seems much darker in person.
The MacBook Air M2 actually uses an advanced graphite/graphene-based heat spreader, using technology developed by Panasonic, a pyrolytic graphite sheet with nearly the thermal conductance of diamond, 5 times that of copper, and far more advanced than the simple metal heat sink in the M1 based MacBook Air.
Macally: iStick Joystick, iHub (USB hub, bondi), iKey (USB bondi / graphite keyboard), iMediakey (graphite with media controls), Macally iBall (USB trackball, bondi and graphite models), iOptinet (jewel-tones optical 3-button mouse), iOptijr (tiny version of iOptinet), iWebkey (early RF wireless keyboard, graphite), iPocket (puck mouse accessory).
Did you remove the graphite film / sheet or place the pad on top of it? I'm thinking of modding mine for science, but would be inclined to remove the sheet and any paste, and then pad directly on the chip. I didn't, I wanted this to be completely reversible, but I'd imagine that it would work a bit better with the pads directly on the die and VRMs.