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My 2010 15" MBP boots in about 15 seconds after I upgraded with an OWC SSD. But that doesn't really matter since there's no real reason to shut it off in the first place like you guys said. As long as I see Chrome or iTunes turn on in one bounce I'm happy.
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Anand did a review of the i7 in the 11" Air and concluded that the upgrade was worth it. You get an average of 22% performance increase with basically zero impact on battery life (unless you are running at 100% CPU for extended periods of time). He also threw in that there wasn't a noticeable difference between the LG and Samsung panels. 11" i7 Anandtech Update
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jfreder posted:Anand did a review of the i7 in the 11" Air and concluded that the upgrade was worth it. You get an average of 22% performance increase with basically zero impact on battery life (unless you are running at 100% CPU for extended periods of time). He also threw in that there wasn't a noticeable difference between the LG and Samsung panels. It seems there are big differences in the two SSD vendors though. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Aug 2, 2011 |
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Mu Zeta posted:My 2010 15" MBP boots in about 15 seconds after I upgraded with an OWC SSD. But that doesn't really matter since there's no real reason to shut it off in the first place like you guys said. As long as I see Chrome or iTunes turn on in one bounce I'm happy. My 13" boots in about the same amount of time. More than half of it is spent at the stupid grey Mac screen. Video!
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SpoonsForThought posted:I'm a senior architecture student and I plan on picking up the 13" Air this summer to allow me to be more mobile so I can get out of studio every once in a while! However, the 13" Air will compliment my i5 desktop Hackintosh that I use when I need more muscle. My friend ended up going to an Apple store this past weekend, and so now he's deciding between paying a bit extra for the 15" Pro, or going with the 13" top-end Air upgraded to the i7. At least for a couple of years it'll probably be his main system, so he's going to spend this weekend apparently deciding on which to go with, and probably pick it up next weekend. So my own 13" MBP arrived, but I haven't opened it yet because I'm deciding whether it'd be worth it to return it for a 13" upgraded to the i7. I haven't seen a lot of reviews comparing the two and what I could find was limited. is the i7 worth it in the 13" MBP?
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Is anyone using this fancy hybrid HD/SSD, the seagate momentus XT? It sounds nice, but I'm not sure how much I trust it to "learn" my commonly used files. Does this work in real life? If you dual boot with windows does it just confuse the hell out of the drive? And can you (or do you need to) use the trim enabler with lion for the SSD partition? Similarly, does the phantom lion recovery partition work well with this drive (i.e. it won't accidentally partition off part of the SSD that would be used for speeding up the computer, right?). I'm going to pick up either this or the WD scorpio black to upgrade my 09 MBP.
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SourKraut posted:My friend ended up going to an Apple store this past weekend, and so now he's deciding between paying a bit extra for the 15" Pro, or going with the 13" top-end Air upgraded to the i7. That's basically the debate I had, but with money as a limiting factor and the fact I already have a great desktop, I've picked the air. If I was in his situation I would I probably be leaning slightly more towards the MacBook Pro just because of the discrete 6**** card.
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SourKraut posted:So my own 13" MBP arrived, but I haven't opened it yet because I'm deciding whether it'd be worth it to return it for a 13" upgraded to the i7. I haven't seen a lot of reviews comparing the two and what I could find was limited. is the i7 worth it in the 13" MBP? For $300 (25% of a $1199 laptop!) I wouldn't bother. Unless you're going to use it to run Cinebench and Photoshop all day. Buy $300 worth of Apple stock and then just buy a new one in 3 years. ndrake posted:Is anyone using this fancy hybrid HD/SSD, the seagate momentus XT? It sounds nice, but I'm not sure how much I trust it to "learn" my commonly used files. Does this work in real life? If you dual boot with windows does it just confuse the hell out of the drive? And can you (or do you need to) use the trim enabler with lion for the SSD partition? Similarly, does the phantom lion recovery partition work well with this drive (i.e. it won't accidentally partition off part of the SSD that would be used for speeding up the computer, right?). I'm going to pick up either this or the WD scorpio black to upgrade my 09 MBP. Don't.
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ndrake posted:Is anyone using this fancy hybrid HD/SSD, the seagate momentus XT? It sounds nice, but I'm not sure how much I trust it to "learn" my commonly used files. Does this work in real life? If you dual boot with windows does it just confuse the hell out of the drive? And can you (or do you need to) use the trim enabler with lion for the SSD partition? Similarly, does the phantom lion recovery partition work well with this drive (i.e. it won't accidentally partition off part of the SSD that would be used for speeding up the computer, right?). I'm going to pick up either this or the WD scorpio black to upgrade my 09 MBP. I have been using a 500GB Momentus for quite a while (also in a 2009 MBP), and there are a few misconceptions at the heart of this post. Mostly, it's not separate partitions. The drive presents as one drive to the host and the flash cache is handled by the onboard controllers. So none of the partitioning questions are relevant: There's no SSD to trim; disk utilities have no idea there's flash cache; recovery software won't overwrite anything but the persistent magnetic storage. Any benefits of the caching will be lost by frequent dual-booting, but otherwise, it's been a good drive with some solid read performance gains over time.
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Has anyone picked up Apple's USB to Ethernet adapter with a 2011 Air? I'm seeing some reports of the adapter not working with Lion, and I'm wondering if I should pick it up. I have a feeling that the third-party ThunderBolt to Ethernet adapter will be ridiculously expensive.ndrake posted:Is anyone using this fancy hybrid HD/SSD, the seagate momentus XT? It sounds nice, but I'm not sure how much I trust it to "learn" my commonly used files. Does this work in real life? If you dual boot with windows does it just confuse the hell out of the drive? And can you (or do you need to) use the trim enabler with lion for the SSD partition? Similarly, does the phantom lion recovery partition work well with this drive (i.e. it won't accidentally partition off part of the SSD that would be used for speeding up the computer, right?). I'm going to pick up either this or the WD scorpio black to upgrade my 09 MBP.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Has anyone picked up Apple's USB to Ethernet adapter with a 2011 Air? I'm seeing some reports of the adapter not working with Lion, and I'm wondering if I should pick it up. I have a feeling that the third-party ThunderBolt to Ethernet adapter will be ridiculously expensive. Thanks, that's two against and one marginal for. So is the WD scorpio black the notebook drive of choice right now?
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ndrake posted:So is the WD scorpio black the notebook drive of choice right now?
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I think there's a Scorpio Blue 1TB that narrowly beats the blacks on transfer rates.
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fleshweasel posted:I think there's a Scorpio Blue 1TB that narrowly beats the blacks on transfer rates.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:The 1TB Blue's platter density helps immensely in sequential performance, but there's also a high price premium on it and I haven't found an exhaustive review yet -- just HotHardware's quick benchmarks. Subjectively, it's a total dog. e: There's a new 1TB Samsung 2.5"/9.5mm drive out for ~$90, but I haven't see any benchmarks yet. vvv Because you're going to report the purchase and pay the sales tax anyway, right? 
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Why would I order a Macbook that I'm not customizing from the Apple store and pay tax and get lovely shipping when I can buy it from Amazon for 5% less with 2 day shipping and no tax? I guess the student discount would give me a $100 App Store card, but other than that I'm stumped as to why you would order a base model from the Apple store?
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Kaboobi posted:Why would I order a Macbook that I'm not customizing from the Apple store and pay tax and get lovely shipping when I can buy it from Amazon for 5% less with 2 day shipping and no tax? Well, you can buy refurbs from Apple, but other than that there's pretty much no reason to.
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ndrake posted:Is anyone using this fancy hybrid HD/SSD, the seagate momentus XT? It sounds nice, but I'm not sure how much I trust it to "learn" my commonly used files. Does this work in real life? If you dual boot with windows does it just confuse the hell out of the drive? And can you (or do you need to) use the trim enabler with lion for the SSD partition? Similarly, does the phantom lion recovery partition work well with this drive (i.e. it won't accidentally partition off part of the SSD that would be used for speeding up the computer, right?). I'm going to pick up either this or the WD scorpio black to upgrade my 09 MBP. I had a Momentus XT in my old Macbook for a few months. I did notice a few programs opening more quickly, but beyond that it really wasn't noticeable or worth the money in my experience. Especially in your case with dual-booting, I'd suspect you'd see negligible gains over a traditional HDD. Just go with the Scorpio Black and save some money.
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Bob Morales posted:My 13" boots in about the same amount of time. More than half of it is spent at the stupid grey Mac screen.  .flyboi posted:Thanks newegg 
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fleshweasel posted:why did you buy so much ram Swapping is for scrubs 
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Yup. Finally bit the bullet and shelled out for one of these to replace my stock drive. On that note, what is the deal with third-party drives and unibody MBPs? I've been reading tons of horror stories about conflicts with Apple's SMS, excessive head parking, SATA I/II linkspeed negotiation problems, having to revert EFI versions, and constant beach-balling. I'm hoping that I won't encounter any of that, but anyone here want to chime in?
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flyboi posted:Thanks newegg He bought the same $39.99 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz ram I did.  And for anyone wondering, those 1333Mhz chips work fine in my Late 2009 27" iMac i5 at 1067Mhz I tried opening a bunch of raw files from Lightroom into Photoshop CS5. I finally ram out of ram, but it took a lot of images. It was a beautiful thing.
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Oneiros posted:On that note, what is the deal with third-party drives and unibody MBPs? I've been reading tons of horror stories about conflicts with Apple's SMS, excessive head parking, SATA I/II linkspeed negotiation problems, having to revert EFI versions, and constant beach-balling. I'm hoping that I won't encounter any of that, but anyone here want to chime in?
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echobucket posted:He bought the same $39.99 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz ram I did.  . I was thinking of the dual 8GB set for that costs like $1400.
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japtor posted:Have you reset PRAM/SMC/other acronym since installing the SSD? I've heard it can shorten the time on that gray screen after a drive swap, supposedly it's looking for the old drive before proceeding to the new one...no clue if that's actually the case or not though Instead of resetting the SMC, you just need to properly select the new SSD in the Startup Disk prefpane (assuming that it isn't explicitly selected and so was the cause of the delay.)
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I have a new MBP, the hinge seems to "jam" and makes a really loud cracking/snapping noise when moved and the entire computer vibrates. It seems like the problem is preety common and some people suggested that they were replacing the hinge due to a major defect. Have any goons experienced this?
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fleshweasel posted:i think he bought a shitload of ram on newegg, hence "thanks newegg" Virtual machines mostly this is how activity monitor looks at the moment and I have minimal apps that I need to function opened:  I need a Windows VM for office for my work email because we're in the process of migrating to Google Apps and their OSX support is complete trash. I have never been so appalled at how awful someone supports OSX as Google after my experience with our companies "enterprise" support. Outlook requires a shitton of ram to not suck poo poo, I usually have 3-4 linux virtual machines going at a time and I gotta work on top of that. On my MBP I gotta juggle virtual machines around or I run out of ram and that's never fun.
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flyboi posted:Virtual machines mostly this is how activity monitor looks at the moment and I have minimal apps that I need to function opened: Just use loving Sparrow. I use it with GApps, it works *perfectly*.  is up with Mail/your browser that screws up GApps?
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Sinestro posted:Just use loving Sparrow. I use it with GApps, it works *perfectly*. I have ~10GB in email and there's a 2.5GB daily download limit. I need most all of the email for various reasons with my job. On top of that I need my contacts and calendar or I'm severely hosed. GApps doesn't work with the address book at all due to no CardDAV support. Their "fix" is to download it from your gmail web interace and import it. Basically I loving hate non-MAPI and I miss exchange and gently caress Google for only having a MAPI plugin for Windows. Somehow the windows client does magic voodoo to make my messages come in without freaking out.
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Last time I ask this: I'm trying to upgrade a late '06 Mac Pro from 2GB to 6GB of RAM, but it's only seeing 5GB. Please help! The upper board has 2x2GB sticks on slots 1&2 and 2x512MB sticks on 3&4. Lower board has 2x512MB sticks in slots 1&2. RAM itself is all good, lower board does recognize RAM when tested, just not the last 1GB when in this configuration. Am I doing something wrong?
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I'm actually seriously considering buying a macbook air. I am starting my masters in Europe and don't want to deal with shipping poo poo across seas just in case it breaks. Bringing my windows desktop + a macbook air for everyday use sounds mighty appealing...
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Megiddo posted:Last time I ask this: According to this: http://tesselator.gpmod.com/Images/_Equipment_n_Tutorials/Memory_Configuration_2006.jpg you should be putting the 2GB in board A and the 4x512 in board B (look at 6C)
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Bob Morales posted:For $300 (25% of a $1199 laptop!) I wouldn't bother. Unless you're going to use it to run Cinebench and Photoshop all day. Buy $300 worth of Apple stock and then just buy a new one in 3 years.
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flyboi posted:According to this: http://tesselator.gpmod.com/Images/_Equipment_n_Tutorials/Memory_Configuration_2006.jpg you should be putting the 2GB in board A and the 4x512 in board B (look at 6C)
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I was looking to pick up an iMac refurb off of Apple's website. I know that if you buy a new Mac you get a rebate for a free printer, but since I don't see any option for that here I'm guessing the same offer isn't extended to refurbs?
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flyboi posted:I need a Windows VM for office for my work email because we're in the process of migrating to Google Apps and their OSX support is complete trash. I have never been so appalled at how awful someone supports OSX as Google after my experience with our companies "enterprise" support. We use Google apps here and half our staff is on Macs 
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July 20th, I told myself that the 13" Air looked good, but that I should wait for the reviews (i.e. Anand's) before pulling the trigger, and hey, couldn't hurt to have another paycheque too. On the 22nd, my fiancée wanted to go shopping in downtown Toronto. So with a dearth of other things to do at the Eaton Centre, I dropped by the Apple Store to get a hands-on preview. Before leaving the store I was spellbound and my fiancée, seeing a good opportunity to make good on a late birthday present, bought me a Level 8 13" Air sleeve. All my previous caution slowly went out the window and I ordered a base 13" from my iPad that night (along with the $100 gift card under the education discount). Last Thursday it was delivered and unboxed; arrived in perfect condition. It's been good times since with zero regrets. First Mac and best first impression of any computer purchase I've ever made. Many thanks to this thread for helping me wait for the right model and making the right decision.
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