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Biodome posted:Speaking of formats and external hard drives, I have an external hard drive I have hooked up to a windows computer but share on the network so I can play movies from it on my Mac. The program Tuxera will let you do that.
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^^^ Tuxera NTFS costs $31.Biodome posted:Speaking of formats and external hard drives, I have an external hard drive I have hooked up to a windows computer but share on the network so I can play movies from it on my Mac. OS X has an NTFS file system interpreter but it's read-only. It might be easier to just get something public domain like NTFS Free or if you have a Seagate drive, this. Both of these add NTFS read/write capability to OSX. Watch out though as I don't think either is YOSemite compatible. exFAT is what goons usually recommend as a good cross-platform format. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Oct 22, 2014 |
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Oct 22, 2014 16:05
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If you have it hooked up to the Windows computer you can read/write it from the Mac even if it's NTFS
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a Loving Dog posted:The program Tuxera will let you do that. Binary Badger posted:^^^ Tuxera NTFS costs $31. Thanks, y'all. I think I'm going to use exFAT. Just have to back all my poo poo up.
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So does anyone know whats up with my exfat Seagate drive? Like I said files transfers just completely freeze. All the files on the drive already work fine.
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Seagate's SeaTools utility can tell you if the drive thinks there's something wrong with itself. They're DOS/Windows only, though. Have you tried a different USB cable and/or blown dust out of the ports? You never know.
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beergod posted:X-posting from the software thread (which was the wrong place to put it): You're looking for an SSD right? 1tb Thunderbolt ain't cheap, your best bet I think is to get a 1TB Samsung Evo and pair it with a Thunderbolt interface like the Seagate Thunderbolt adapter.
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Ok, so I've been watching the Canadian refurb store for the past couple weeks and haven't seen anything come up that matches what I want, so it looks like I'm going full blownsies and buying retail. I should not expect a retina MacBook Air to come out next week or anything, right? Right now I'm looking at the 13" rMBP but the Air would be perfect if the screen was that extra bit crisper. I should do this, right guys?
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nexxai posted:Ok, so I've been watching the Canadian refurb store for the past couple weeks and haven't seen anything come up that matches what I want, so it looks like I'm going full blownsies and buying retail. I should not expect a retina MacBook Air to come out next week or anything, right? Right now I'm looking at the 13" rMBP but the Air would be perfect if the screen was that extra bit crisper. I should do this, right guys? Not next week. The rumours have been rumbling on for ages, but it's looking like the middle of next year for the retina Air at this point. Obviously no-one knows for sure outside Apple's supply chain. Personally I'm sticking with my 2010 Air until it's announced and we know the score. I'm secretly hoping it turns out to be a SurfacePro-type hybrid device, but I know that's a complete long shot. Even then I've been burned by first gen hardware often enough that I'd be on the fence.
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Is there a recommended 802.11ac adapter for a Mac mini? I am getting 200mbit Internet at home and of course the cable modem isn't near the Mac mini that runs my entertainment center.
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Biodome posted:Thanks, y'all. I think I'm going to use exFAT. Just have to back all my poo poo up.
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sellouts posted:Is there a recommended 802.11ac adapter for a Mac mini? I am getting 200mbit Internet at home and of course the cable modem isn't near the Mac mini that runs my entertainment center. You could try this for about $29. Some of its variants on the same page might be overkill.
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Is it worth getting a new macbook retina now or waiting? Whats the Next Big Thing coming from Intel supposed to be?
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Broadwell and it has been repeatedly delayed since this summer. Mobile stuff is rolling out end of this month. So maybe a spring refresh?
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Is it worth getting a new macbook retina now or waiting? Whats the Next Big Thing coming from Intel supposed to be? They were refreshed in .. July? so you'll likely be waiting almost a year for broadwell (a guess on my part).
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The late 2013 refurb retina MBPs are an awesome deal in my opinion.
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Martytoof posted:They were refreshed in .. July? so you'll likely be waiting almost a year for broadwell (a guess on my part). Rumor mill's been consistently pegging a "mid-2015" release for the new poo poo. That would fit with the general "summer updates" notebook schedule, but it's not like Apple doesn't regularly deviate from it when it suits their aims.
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Noticing a lot of frame drops on the retina iMac whenever I maximize a window or go to mission control. Hope they make that better with an update. Anyone else seeing it?I did migrate all my poo poo from my old iMac.
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Biodome posted:Noticing a lot of frame drops on the retina iMac whenever I maximize a window or go to mission control. Hope they make that better with an update. Anyone else seeing it?I did migrate all my poo poo from my old iMac. It's a mobile GPU trying to render 15 million pixels. I'm not sure what all can be done.
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wdarkk posted:It's a mobile GPU trying to render 15 million pixels. I'm not sure what all can be done. It's alright with me, I think i found a stuck or dead pixel, though. Argh. This sucks.
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Biodome posted:Noticing a lot of frame drops on the retina iMac whenever I maximize a window or go to mission control. Hope they make that better with an update. Anyone else seeing it?I did migrate all my poo poo from my old iMac. Which GPU is this?
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theadder posted:Which GPU is this? I bought the baseline one so I guess it's the R9 M290X.
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Biodome posted:I bought the baseline one so I guess it's the R9 M290X. All the stuff I've read suggests the iMac is fine and I suspect they were all given the M295X. This is also what I have ordered.
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theadder posted:All the stuff I've read suggests the iMac is fine and I suspect they were all given the M295X. This is also what I have ordered. I could see the extra 2GB of VRAM making a huge difference.
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theadder posted:All the stuff I've read suggests the iMac is fine and I suspect they were all given the M295X. This is also what I have ordered.  .Edit: whoever commented that Yosemite was designed with retina screens in mind was spot on. The text and UI in general look waaaaaaaay better than they do on the 27" iMac I use at work and that's not accounting for the difference that HiDPI screens make in general. Mercurius fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Anyone with the new retina iMac runnning bootcamp? just wondering how the new retina screen is working with windows.
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After being held hostage in customs for a month I finally received my hengedock, getting all the cables to sit correctly was a royal pain in the rear end but it's working now (this thing has a rather dominating presence). Does anyone know if the included thunderbolt passthrough cable can take a ethernet adapter?
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theadder posted:All the stuff I've read suggests the iMac is fine and I suspect they were all given the M295X. This is also what I have ordered.  v(Not that I read too many reviews though) Ashex posted:After being held hostage in customs for a month I finally received my hengedock, getting all the cables to sit correctly was a royal pain in the rear end but it's working now (this thing has a rather dominating presence). quote:Is the Vertical Docking Station for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display compatible with Thunderbolt?
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japtor posted:So that's another 30-40 euro per cable (.5m, 2m) according to the Apple Store Germany site. Any particular reason you went with the Henge Dock over TB stuff? I wanted a dock I could just slide my macbook into and couldn't find a TB dock with a similar setup. I've got a thunderbolt ethernet adapter but it looks like I'll need to get a usb adapter instead (already planned to get a hub since I've got other stuff to plug in).
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I was just about to buy a kit to replace my optical drive with the hard drive that came with the laptop (using an ssd as the main drive) and thought to get some ram too. I was going to buy a 4gb stick when it occurred to me - what if they have 2x2gb sticks in there and not 1x4gb? I am too lazy to open up the case just to find out since I will need to open it to do the hdd swap anyway. Anyone know? This is for a 2012 MacBook Pro. edit: nevermind - I didn't know that "about this mac" had this info in it. Still getting used to not using a pc. rio fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Mercurius posted:I also received my iMac and it has the upgraded video card, same as what you've ordered. Not really noticing any choppiness of the UI and it seemed to play the 4K video I ran through it with no problems. I know that 2GB graphics cards often have trouble rendering fullscreen 3D stuff at 1440p with large textured so I figured 4GB was probably safer for general use at 5K. I'd imagine it's garbage for full screen 3D stuff but that's to be expected given how many expensive videocards are required to get 4K game playback to be smooth at 60FPS on gaming PCs Any chance you could post performance impressions for lighter games along the lines of Hearthstone at native resolution? I'm not expecting to be able to run anything intensive at that crazy resolution, but it would be nice to be able to play some less intensive or older games like at 5K.
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pyrotek posted:Any chance you could post performance impressions for lighter games along the lines of Hearthstone at native resolution? I'm not expecting to be able to run anything intensive at that crazy resolution, but it would be nice to be able to play some less intensive or older games like at 5K. Essentially, high settings at 1080p or medium-high settings on 1440p should be perfectly fine on the new retina iMacs, just don't expect even light gaming at 5K. You already need top of the line desktop graphics cards to do 4K on the PC side of things so 5K with a mobile chipset was never really likely to work.
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Mercurius posted:You already need top of the line desktop graphics cards to do 4K on the PC side of things so 5K with a mobile chipset was never really likely to work. I'm waiting for next years's Retina iMac as my next upgrade. I would love to see Apple make the machine thicker and put a desktop class video card in there. Holding my breath, I am not.
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Anyone use a rMBP 13 as a main computer? Thinking this 15 is too big, but I might get used to it if the 13 just can't cut it.
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Anyone use a rMBP 13 as a main computer? Thinking this 15 is too big, but I might get used to it if the 13 just can't cut it. I use it as my main work computer, though I have a Mac Mini at home with a 23" monitor. At work I use it as my main "desktop" as I'm on the go a lot and I find it entirely usable for 5-8 hours, lots of Safari windows, fullscreen Mail, fullscreen Teamviewer and RDP sessions. I have the screen set to "look like 1440x1050" (I think that's the one, I don't have it open in front of me) and it's pleasant to use. The 15" may be more usable but quite frankly the size of the 13" is pretty much perfect so I'm really happy.
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binarysmurf posted:I'm waiting for next years's Retina iMac as my next upgrade. I would love to see Apple make the machine thicker and put a desktop class video card in there. Holding my breath, I am not. Mercurius fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Anyone use a rMBP 13 as a main computer? Thinking this 15 is too big, but I might get used to it if the 13 just can't cut it. I'm using one as my main. Like Martytoof, I've increased the resolution to give myself a bit more breathing room (though I switched to the "More Space" 1680 x 1050 resolution). I've done some very light Photoshop work, edited photos in Lightroom, and did some not-too-demanding gaming (Poker Night At The Inventory, Rocksmith 2014) and haven't had any complaints. It's a fantastic machine.
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Martytoof posted:I use it as my main work computer, though I have a Mac Mini at home with a 23" monitor. At work I use it as my main "desktop" as I'm on the go a lot and I find it entirely usable for 5-8 hours, lots of Safari windows, fullscreen Mail, fullscreen Teamviewer and RDP sessions. I have the screen set to "look like 1440x1050" (I think that's the one, I don't have it open in front of me) and it's pleasant to use. I'll throw in that I've got a old as poo poo 15" MBP running at 1440 as my main machine and am basically strapped to it for 10+ hours a day between work and entertaining myself. The size makes things a little more restrictive in what kinds of bags I can get for traveling, but on the other hand I really, really like the increased screen size. I do a lot of word processing and having the added size is a godsend around hour 5 of staring at text. My wife has a 13" and no way could I move back down to that size for any length of time. I've yet to be in a situation in 8 years of running 15" MPBs where the size as prevented me from taking one anywhere or doing anything with it. If you do go the laptop-as-portable-desktop route consider also hauling around an iPad with you. There is some pretty decent software out there for turning even the humble original iPad into a secondary monitor. Of course you're going to get frame rate stuttering and it will look like a remote desktop session ca. 2002 if you do anything more intensive than arrange the windows, but for relatively static applications (say if you need more screen real estate to keep a couple extra documents open for quickly consulting but won't be actively entering poo poo into them) but it's pretty impressive for a multi-display solution you can pull out of your bag and set up at a coffee shop. edit: VVVVVV yeah, I'll bet. I'm just saying, even with my old dinosaur it gets around well enough that I value the extra size enough to put up with the bulk. I'm getting a replacement at the next refresh cycle at the latest and really look forward to the lighter design. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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The retina 15" is something else. it weighs just around 4.5 pounds. That's the weight of the pre-Retina 13". Its footprint might be about the same but the weight is a factor in portability.
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