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When you think about it, the new fanless MacBook is the first time Apple has ever resurrected a product line from oblivion. Only took 5 years to do it, too!
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Well what other Apple lines have been put into oblivion?
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Apr 28, 2015 18:52
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Shaocaholica posted:Well what other Apple lines have been put into oblivion? iBook, PowerBook, iPod (classic) is in limbo, Mac Pro was MIA for a long time...
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Apr 28, 2015 18:56
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Yeah but the iBook was basically superseded by the MacBook and PowerBook by the MacBook Pro.
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Apr 28, 2015 19:05
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iBooks got resurrected! 
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Well, they killed the PowerMac. But then that became the Mac Pro, right? Well, they killed the Macintosh and Lisa, and a bunch of peripherals, I don't think they make printers any more. I really think the big one is the iPod Classic. I don't think there's much hope of them making another.
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Apr 28, 2015 19:13
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I don't think you can count the PowerMac lines since they really just got renamed and not retired.
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Apr 28, 2015 19:37
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I bet the iPod classic comes back when NAND flash gets a lot cheaper.
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Apr 28, 2015 19:40
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I thought the touch pretty much replaced it? Is the storage on the touch that big of an issue for a significant portion of the market? Especially now with streaming becoming more mature and the ~cloud~.
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Apr 28, 2015 19:43
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Xserve
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Apr 28, 2015 20:18
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Cingulate posted:Xserve  Nope 
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Apr 28, 2015 20:23
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That is so ugly. The definition of round peg in a square hole. Sad to say I've seen this in real life :/
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Apr 28, 2015 20:49
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Surely there are 1st AD posted:
Surely there are cheaper solutions.
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Apr 28, 2015 20:52
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Boiled Water posted:Surely there are You mean alternative machines or mounting? Its pretty clear Apple doesn't want their hardware in ugly racks but people really really want to shove that peg in.
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Apr 28, 2015 20:56
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When'd you ever want a Mac in that form factor anyways?
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Apr 28, 2015 20:57
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Cingulate posted:When'd you ever want a Mac in that form factor anyways?  Because people like to
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Apr 28, 2015 20:59
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Shaocaholica posted:You mean alternative machines or mounting? Its pretty clear Apple doesn't want their hardware in ugly racks but people really really want to shove that peg in. Alternative machines like say servers.
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Apr 28, 2015 21:04
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Boiled Water posted:Alternative machines like say servers. But they need to be made by Apple and Mac Minis don't have the powa. And you'd never want to put a hackintosh into production even though you've got duct tape rigging all over the place.
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Apr 28, 2015 21:06
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The new Mac Pros are actually easier to transport than the iMacs, even with an external monitor. So perfect for a DIT
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1st AD posted:The new Mac Pros are actually easier to transport than the iMacs, even with an external monitor. So perfect for a DIT Moot point if your DIT has 1000lbs of gear in porta racks. Not that I agree with that kind of setup.
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Apr 28, 2015 21:19
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I guess I should have specified mobile/on set DIT, but then again I saw a dude wheel in an 8U cabinet once for what was basically a glorified photo shoot.
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Apr 28, 2015 21:39
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Like I said, epeen
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Apr 28, 2015 21:42
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Pivo posted:Well, they killed the PowerMac. But then that became the Mac Pro, right? Well that was kinda tied to the fact that it was using PowerPC architecture. It would not have made sense to keep calling things Power when they were intel. The iPod touch was practically a modern day Newton. They no longer make printers or webcams but nobody needs those anymore. Paper is practically dead and cameras are integrated into basically everything on earth. Speaking of cameras... 
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Apr 28, 2015 21:52
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Paper was always dead 
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Apr 28, 2015 22:11
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You guys never print shipping labels at home?
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Shaocaholica posted:You guys never print shipping labels at home? I guess i used to, and I have a brother laser printer stored in the closet but I haven't used it in 3 years.
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Apr 28, 2015 22:14
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Shaocaholica posted:You guys never print shipping labels at home? I have a Lexmark laser that I use a few times a year. I buy shipping labels at the post office across the street. But Apple used to make the LaserWriter or whatever it was called that used to be the gold standard and was a huge deal for desktop publishing
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Apr 28, 2015 22:18
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Pivo posted:I have a Lexmark laser that I use a few times a year. I buy shipping labels at the post office across the street. I mean when you do an RMA or sell something on ebay you get a PDF pre filled shipping label that you can't just print at the post office.
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Apr 28, 2015 22:32
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Shaocaholica posted:I mean when you do an RMA or sell something on ebay you get a PDF pre filled shipping label that you can't just print at the post office.
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Apr 28, 2015 22:37
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Sometimes many printers.
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JHVH-1 posted:Well that was kinda tied to the fact that it was using PowerPC architecture. It would not have made sense to keep calling things Power when they were intel. The original Powerbooks did not use PowerPC architecture  .
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Apr 28, 2015 22:41
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Wow, Apple stopped selling printers almost 20 years ago, in 1996.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Did you know: a lot of people have access to a printer at work. Yeah I asked around and apparently that's what a few ppl do at my work. Just seems inconvenient. Edit: but clearly they don't think it's completely dead given AirPrint is a consumer feature. Shaocaholica fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Apr 28, 2015 |
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Pivo posted:But Apple used to make the LaserWriter or whatever it was called that used to be the gold standard and was a huge deal for desktop publishing It wasn't just because they made the printer, it's also because they included PostScript, which kicked the poo poo out of PCL (as it existed then,) and PageMaker came out around the same time. It finally became possible to do professional quality page layout with just a computer and a printer, without hiring a staff of pros with T-squares and blue pencil. Later on, HP and other companies got hack programmers to write PostScript clones (PostScript emulation anybody?) so they didn't have to raise the price of their printers to pay off royalties to Adobe. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Apr 28, 2015 |
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ShadeofBlue posted:The original Powerbooks did not use PowerPC architecture I was too poor to get one of those. I always had the hand-me-down macs. First a Mac Classic with black and white screen and 40MB hard drive, and then later a Performa or whatever it was PowerPC machine which I remember running VirtualPC or whatever it was on it, thinking it was so powerful I could have a 386 inside my mac after installing Ram Doubler.
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Apr 28, 2015 23:00
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Shaocaholica posted:You guys never print shipping labels at home? I print them at work because that is also where Fedex/UPS will be picking the thing up anyway.
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withak posted:I print them at work because that is also where Fedex/UPS will be picking the thing up anyway.
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You guys have a shipping and receiving room? We have a stack of boxes in the hallway that you can take, maybe, if you want, and you ask. I miss the concept of a mailroom. Difference between 3000 employees and ~100, I guess. If the receptionist is off, you ain't gettin' poo poo. :P I swear my coworkers represent like 10% of the Apple Watch orders in Canada though. One guy bought three. I don't get it.
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So, I came back to my desk and my less than a year old rMBP is completely unresponsive. Screen is black, keyboard and Apple isn't lit up. The only thing I can get it to respond to is that reset SMC command (the magsafe light changes state for a second) but it won't turn on. Is there anything else obvious I can do or do I need to resign myself for a day road trip to the Apple store? Edit: Let the Apple phone support have a shot, they say it's pretty much hosed and I have to take it to the Apple store. At least that's a work expense, I guess. -Dethstryk- fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Apr 29, 2015 |
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Planning to install an 850 evo 512GB in my iMac tonight - anything I should know besides the difficult install procedure and to install the fan control thing?
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