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Animal posted:I had the screen on my rMBP replaced. Now that I have it back, I notice the MagSafe plug is much, much stronger. It easily needs about 5 times as much strength to disconnect, as it was very weak before and would easily fall off. Now I actually have to bend the plug down in order to disconnect it, rather than pull because its so strong I have to grip the laptop itself and pull hard. like it more now. If it was sent to the repair facility, they just replace literally everything and anything that could possibly not be 100% perfect. They probably replaced the MagSafe board (basically just that port and the circuitry/cabling to connect it to the logic board). They wouldn't have realigned the magnet and realigning the display wouldn't have moved the magnet that much and made that much of a difference.
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Animal posted:Thats awesome. Thanks for the info. Its reassuring that they went over everything and maybe found and replaced weak links that would have failed down the line. So it was sent out? It should have come with a piece of paper that says APPLECARE on it. That piece of paper should have every single part they replaced on it.
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Apr 10, 2014 03:50
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Small White Dragon posted:Anybody using a Mac with a Fusion drive? Can I turn it off relatively easily these days? Why in the world would you turn off a fusion drive?
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Sad Panda posted:If you have CoconutBattery you can compare it online at http://online.coconut-flavour.com/ they have a large database which could do better than us of telling you how it is.
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Apr 12, 2014 19:00
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Doctor Zero posted:I leave my mac plugged in most of the time and after a couple years, Coconut Battery places me at 101% for my battery's age. When was the last time you fully cycled your battery? If you fully cycle it once I image that will change quickly.
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Apr 13, 2014 05:11
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Cyne posted:How bad is it to leave a recent (2011) MBP running hot for long periods of time? I'm a 3D artist, and I often have renders going for many hours. I'd really like to leave it running overnight, but I don't feel great about the machine running that hot for that long, so generally I just do it in chunks of a few hours at a time. I'm saving up for a new Mac Pro, but, for now, this is what I have... if any of you could put my mind at ease (or chastise me for melting my computer from the inside out), I'd appreciate it! You may decrease the overall life of the battery. Unless it's crazy heat with temp warnings I wouldn't be too concerned. .
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Apr 16, 2014 20:27
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wdarkk posted:Anyone know what the Xeon roadmap is like? I'm trying to read up on it but I'm confused as balls by Intel's naming and such. I'm trying to figure out if there will be a Mac Pro refresh this year. Considering they're still difficult to get and it took them how many years? I probably wouldn't count on it.
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Apr 17, 2014 21:55
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NOTinuyasha posted:Will an early '13 MBPr be able to run two 27" TB Cinema displays and one older model 27" mini DP at the same time? Does the old 27" mini DP model look identical to the TB model? I need confirmation of this before I go make some bad decisions on Craigslist. And yeah I'm aware I'll need an HDMI to mini displayport adapter if it were to work at all. Will it work physically? Yes, but if it's a base level 13" early Rmbp running 4 displays total might be pretty slow, especially with integrated graphics.
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Apr 20, 2014 03:38
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NOTinuyasha posted:I meant early 2013. It's got the 1GB 650M. I also don't run it with the retina display open when I'm at my desk. I was actually meaning to get an iMac but my older MBP went through so many motherboards the Apple store gave me this top-of-the-line replacement for free like a few months ago. The retina display is very nice but I it spends most of it's time closed at my desk. No you can not. One mdp in each thunderbolt and 1 hdmi. It will definitely work.
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Apr 20, 2014 04:29
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quote:How many external monitors can I run late 2012 RMBP Apple Support Communities : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5462022?tstart=0
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Apr 20, 2014 23:42
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the talent deficit posted:My 2013 13" rmpb has a series of scratches and chips on the screen. Can the glass surface be replaced seperately from the LCD or am I looking at a top case replacement to fix the issue? Top case is what holds your keyboard. You'll need an entire new display clamshell (whole LCD panel/glass/aluminum backing). This will not be covered by AppleCare or limited warranty, you will be paying out of pocket.
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Apr 22, 2014 02:23
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benisntfunny posted:If everything works do not take it apart. The answer to whether it's internally damaged by the beer is: No. It works. This is very wrong. If a lot of beer was spilled on it, then yes their is likely liquid damage. The second the liquid comes in contact with electrified components (they are always electrified when a battery is plugged in) damage is done. It happens instantly and just because the machine is working now doesn't mean it will forever. It may experience weird issues later on, it may not. Liquid damage can sometimes not display an issue until something major is done like an OS update, or it may never show at all. That being said, don't bother opening it. You won't be able clean or fix anything, and you may just break something else. Just back up everything all the time and wait until it kicks.
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Apr 22, 2014 18:31
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kloa posted:Mirroring, specifically. Beautiful thing about computers vs phones is multitasking. Don't mirror, do airplay extended then full screen safari to the secondary display. No scaling on either side and will look a whole lot better. With regards to building computers before, comp sci and etc, laptops are a different beast, MacBooks especially. They require crazy specific and usually apple created tools to take apart, and there's lots of very specific little tricks to take stuff apart/put stuff back together that you'd never figure out on your own. Certain stuff, like Mbp (not retina or air) batteries and standard hdds/memory are super easy, but once you get passed that it's not usually worth it. Take the advice here of everyone and don't bother opening it. Just keep in mind that MacBook now officially has no warranty, even if you have AppleCare and you can get no repairs done by apple with the exception of a full liquid damage repair. From this point on that machine should never ever be in a state other then 100% backed up or your girlfriend will hate you someday when it fails.
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Apr 22, 2014 21:09
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spoon daddy posted:I stealth editted to suggest that it was about a 40% drain after an hour or so. How's your battery life otherwise? Maybe your battery is failing? Otherwise like starwars said it could be MagSafe board, or even a bad MagSafe adapter/the wrong wattage. Take it to the fruit stand, they have a specific diagnostic that will test for those specific things. Bring your MagSafe adapter with you.
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Apr 22, 2014 21:11
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revmoo posted:Is there a higher-wattage adapter you can buy to prevent this problem from happening? If not then it seems like kind of a scandal to me. Did you even read the post above yours? Even if a higher wattage adapter existed, this would make the battery have difficulty charging with the correct adapter.
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Apr 22, 2014 21:34
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flavor posted:
You may have never seen it, but iPads and even iPhones with software issues that cause them to run full tilt (iOS isn't meant to run in that way) will cause a healthy battery to drain even while plugged in. It happens and I've personally seen it more than once. Would you rather extra speed/ability or a battery that no matter what can't deplete while being charged?
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Apr 22, 2014 23:19
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Captain Pike posted:Thanks! Wikipedia helped a lot. It looks like all the newer 13" models have ULV processors. If you already have a Mac or iOS device grab mactracker from the App Store. Will give you everything you want to know and more. Amazing app.
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Apr 23, 2014 04:47
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SourKraut posted:My only issue with this argument is that given the focus Apple has put into making the retina MacBook Pros thin, powerful, lightweight, etc. with good battery life under low-to-moderate workloads, it's also reasonable to say that they know that a lot of the userbase will not be transporting the adapter with them, since it adds additional weight and space requirements during transport. That is something that even on here we see people complaining about. When I was going through my engineering program I rarely saw people bring adapters with them, and now at work and going to design meetings/etc., seeing people carry around their Latitudes and M3700/M3800s, systems with horrible battery lives, people still do not want to lug around an adapter. If your entire argument is how Apple is stupid for calling something "pro," you are very much in the wrong thread. Apple's naming scheme, and basically the entire language of Apple is all about spinning words for maximum effect.
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Apr 23, 2014 05:23
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benisntfunny posted:Yeah. No it wasn't wrong. If it's working fine currently then the computer is fine. If it stops working then it has been damaged. If you also agree that they shouldn't open the machine then don't go off into wild speculation of all the problems that might happen. So are you saying that if the glass shattered on a display due to a drop, but the computer works just fine that it's not damaged? My point is that yes, there are most definitely internal components that have been damaged by the liquid, and wether the damage actually shows itself is up in the air. Software updates (mainly major os upgrades) tend to work the machine in ways that it isn't used by most normal users. This is why software updates can sometimes trigger issues from previous liquid damage. It's not the software update itself that actually causes the damage.
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Apr 23, 2014 16:32
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BobHoward posted:He's mildly wrong about the details, but not at all wrong to state that software changes can expose latent hardware problems. Thank you for the clarification I did not have the deeper hardware knowledge to convey. I use that method to explain this to mostly computer brain dead people, and it's close enough that still allows them to understand. I just never bothered to learn the deeper explanation behind it. I see it happening all the time (both on mobile devices and computers) and people really seriously refuse to believe that the software update did not kill their computer and become irrationally angry. I've met more than a few people who no longer do updates for that specific reason, even if it's been clearly proven that the update was not at fault.
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fleshweasel posted:I'm using a 2010 MacBook with a hard drive in the optical bay. I abruptly got a "eject disk before unplugging" notification and uh... the volume is gone. Nothing in Disk Utility. Anything I can check that doesn't require me to pop it open and fiddle with the connectors? I'm about to try resetting PRAM and SMC. I just find this disturbing enough that I wanted to ask the thread. Does the drive show in option boot? If not looks like you're opening it's and playing with the cables! If it straight up disappeared that's more likely to be a cable then the drive itself. Do you have a sata hdd sled? Also are you sure time machine is backing up your second hdd? Time machine usually only backs up the OS X boot Volume.
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OMGzKakaniz posted:My wife has my old MacBook Pro 13' (mid 2010). Has Mavericks installed etc etc. Today the wifi started dropping and we can't turn it back on. Periodically the fan kicks in to full blast (only started yesterday) and the computer would freeze. Once we go to restart it it would boot but have no image on the screen. About to scrap and reload Mavericks but is this thing done? Out of ideas and 140 miles to and from a fruit stand. Pram/smc reset?
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Apr 28, 2014 04:33
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OMGzKakaniz posted:I'll give that a shot and see what happens. Thanks If that Doesn't work, ideally you would want to test it in another OS before wasting your time reinstalling, but I doubt you have a bootable external copy of mavericks floating around. Check apples website for a authorized service provider near you. They probably have the same test tools an apple store does.
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~Coxy posted:Stop calling it an iTouch you heathens. If I hear you call your MacBook Pro a PowerBook one more god drat time…
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Pivo posted:I have no idea what you're talking about, I've been on SA since 2003 (don't ask why my account is 2004) and I've never really 'understood' FYAD. Why is your reg date 2004 and not 2003?
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May 1, 2014 01:38
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Evis posted:So my 2012 refurb rMBP has started having some sort of charging issue. I have to reset the SMC every so often if I want it to charge. This has been happening for a couple of weeks now. I've been too busy to look into it much beyond finding out how to reset the SMC but might try more this weekend. Have you tried a different MagSafe adapter? Have yo been using a third party one or one with the wrong wattage?
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Hulk Krogan posted:So my 2012 MBP (15" w/ Retina) doesn't seem to recognize any USB drives. Mice, USB receivers for wireless peripherals and the like seem to work fine in both ports, but nothing happens when I plug in my thumb drive or phone. I checked Disk Utility and the preferences in Finder, but no luck. The thumb drive works when I plug it into my fiance's macbook air, and other computers recognize the phone when I plug it in. Do they show up as USB devices in system info? Make one bootable and option boot and see if it shows up there? That will at least tell you hardware or software.
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IUG posted:So weird question I guess, but does anyone use a remote to control iTunes/etc on their computer? I have a MBPr, which doesn't have an IR port, so the offical Apple remote is out of the question. I was hoping something simple but also maybe bluetooth so I could be in the other room streaming to my receiver, and still use that remote. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations. You have an iPhone or iPad? Turn on home sharing, download the remote app. As long as your on the same wifi, it's way way way better than the apple remote.
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Hulk Krogan posted:/ If you can dump the drive data you can make that drive bootable? The other option would be either clean install, or partition and make a second install, but both of those are way more work that just finding a flash drive and option booting. You could try booting into recovery (cmd+r before chime) and you can access disk utility from there. It's not booting into safe boot is it?
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Hekk posted:They look great but 1500 is outside my impulse purchase range and I can't really justify spending that much money on something I am not even sure I'd use enough. rmbp start at $1299?
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Butt Savage posted:I don't mean to do this to go against what you guys are recommending to Hekk, but I need to jump into this rMBP chat because within the next week or two I'm going to be purchasing my first Mac and I'm dead set on the 13" 8/256. But there's one issue. Ever since I read this: Did you notice the string of people after him saying they haven,t experienced this at all and to take it to the genius bar? It should do all that stuff with no problem. Gaming won't be amazing, but you said light gaming so that shouldn't be an issue.
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Aranan posted:I'm looking at purchasing a rMBP. I haven't used MacOS before and have been wanting to mess around with it or a while. I'm also in a situation where it's be great to have a portable computer (Army--30+ hours of sitting at a desk on duty means a laptop could save my sanity) so I figured I could kill two birds with one stone. The ram is built into the logic board (motherboard), so your not just paying Apple to click in sticks. The speakers are in the display, and while the 15" speakers are a little better the 13" speakers are pretty drat goods. Battery is physically bigger on the 15", so the battery life is similar. MacBook keyboards are awesome, but if you've got the cash you can buy a Thunderbolt Display. It connects to the thunderbolt port on the laptop and provides multiple USB, FireWire, a thunderbolt, power for the laptop, and sound.
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Inside Outside posted:I've switched from an old iMac to a new rMBP and I love it, but the one catch it that storing all my music locally would fill up just about my entire drive. Putting it all on an external HD and subscribing to Spotify does 95% of the job, but is there a way to make my external drive accessible over wifi? Ideally I would like be able to access and store my iTunes library and maybe do Time Machine backups with another old external drive I have laying around without having to spend gobs of cash on something like an Airport Extreme. ITunes Match requires you store all of that data locally on a drive. Set up a sharing only account on the iMac (I'm assuming all the music is on the iMac and you're keeping it), give than account permissions to your iTunes folder, and connect to the iMac from the rMBP via connect to server in iTunes. From there, set your default iTunes library folder as the folder on the iMac.
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Inside Outside posted:Because I forgot about it! Doesn't iTunes Match not jive well with unreleased stuff / b sides / songs that aren't on iTunes? That's pretty much why I still want that old stuff. If it can't match it it just uploads a copy
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Xabi posted:Has anybody here had problems with their rMBP freezing to a complete halt, so that it needs a reboot? It's happened to me about ten times, but I'm not sure if there's a pattern for when it happens. I think it usually happens after I wake it up by opening the lid. I sometimes even get a grey screen, with text telling me that something went wrong and the computer had to reboot. That could be software, ssd, ram, logic board, or other stuff really. Are you on the latest os? Does it happen every time you wake from sleep? And do you ever properly shut down? You could check for I/O errors in console. My suggestion is to back it up, take it to the Genius Bar and let them run tests on the hardware. If your in warranty they'll probably send it out to the repair facility where they'll just replace everything that could possibly be causing it.
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Xabi posted:No, not nearly every time I wake it up. It doesn't happen often really, but often enough that I've noticed it and have become irritated by it. I turn it completely off once in a while. Is that something one should do frequently? Also, how do I check for I/O errors in the console? I'm by no means a mac expert. You can select all messages in console and type i/o in the search box and see if anything pops up. This by no means guarantees anything if you don't find anything, but if your getting i/o errors it's disk issues. If so you can try to verify the disk/volume from disk utility in recovery, but just back up your poo poo first. You can also try repairing system permissions and ACLs (user permissions). I doubt that's it but it wouldn't hurt. You should shut your system down once in a while. Id say once a week or so at least. I still think you should go to the store for diags, but if you want to avoid that and you don't have a ton of data you can erase and do a clean install and see if the issue continues. If you do go, try to learn the conditions regarding when it happens so it's easier to replicate. Things like exactly how often, when was the last time it happened, what was running when you put it to sleep when the issue happened, how long since the last shutdown, when exactly did it start, how long is it usually in sleep when this happens and does it make a difference. Pilfered Pallbearers fucked around with this message at 08:36 on May 20, 2014 |
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ironlung posted:Dumb question: I have had my rMBP for about a month and every so often I hear one soft metallic click that sounds like it is coming from the right side kind of the base near the HDMI port. Is this normal? I was under the impression that this thing has no moving parts due to the SSD so I'm wondering what this could be and really just want to know if it's normal... fan clicking on/off? Reseating the bottom case screws should resolve that, although it requires an apple pentalobe driver.
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Lexicon posted:Is it still the collective thread wisdom to get AppleCare - even on the machines with no moving parts (retina MBPs, etc)? It's saved me in the past, but almost entirely on things like broken disc drives, etc. Deciding whether my imminently-purchased rMBP should have it or not... Keep in mind the rMBP is the most expensive machine to fix. SSDs are way more expensive then their moving counterparts, and if your ram goes bad on a rMBP your getting a whole new logic board. The displays are also crazy expensive.
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My PIN is 4826 posted:The cost of repairs carried out under applecare on my last macbook probably got close to the value of the machine itself (1 logic board, 2 screens, 1 optical drive, 1 charger, 1 fan), and then I came back 5 years after purchasing it to get another logic board replacement under UK consumer law Unless you had a higher end model, those parts probably did cost more than you paid for the machine.
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Kreeblah posted:AppleCare has different prices for different products. Getting it on an rMBP from the education store is $239. That's the 15". The 13" is $183.
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