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So within the next few weeks I am going to pick up a new 13" MBP. I was going to upgrade it with a 1TB 3Gb/s drive for $130, but after looking at the laptop's spec sheet on everymac.com and seeing that it supports 6Gb/s drives, I am wondering if it is really worth another $80 to get one that fast. What do you guys think? Photography and programming are my main things.
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Aug 5, 2011 21:51
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(General thanks for all of the replies)fleshweasel posted:whether it's sata 3gb/s or 6gb/s won't make a difference; hard drives simply can't make use of that much bandwidth. Excellent, thanks. Rabid Snake posted:What kind of developing (programming) will you be doing? I'd go SSD + External HD route if you can afford it. This isn't much of a concern, I don't think. Mostly Obj-C and Java stuff. I was thinking that the speed of the hard drive might help with the frequent compiling. Doc Faustus posted:The faster drive speed *might* help if your ability to move photos on/off of cameras or storage was being slowed by the HD, but I think it's usually the opposite. And unless something has changed since I last did programming, it's not typically a HD-intensive undertaking. For the photos, I was thinking the faster drive would help with the reading/writing during editing. Star War Sex Parrot posted:No mechanical drive is going to saturate the bus anyway. Don't pay for 6Gb/s on a hard drive. Star War Sex Parrot posted:No mechanical drive is going to saturate the bus anyway. Don't pay for 6Gb/s on a hard drive. This is the 1TB drive I was originally looking at. As it turns out, the other drive is moot because, as was pointed out, it won't physically fit, but it was this one.
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Aug 6, 2011 03:19
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So let me get this straight. If I walk into Best Buy tomorrow and purchase a Kindle With Special Offers for $115 I then get a coupon that day for 20% off of a laptop, such as the 13" MBP and which would save me $227, and I have to use that coupon before September 8th?
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Aug 8, 2011 02:34
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qbert posted:Yes. Or you can do what I did and buy a coupon off of eBay if you don't want a Kindle for around $50. Wow, thanks. This borders on "too good to be true." hotsauce posted:Just keep the Kindle. I have the SO 3g version and have more than paid for it over and over from the SO deals Amazon dishes out. Yeah, I have no intention of returning it. At best, I'd hand it off to a family member.
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Aug 8, 2011 03:33
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MEET ME BY DUCKS posted:The Apple store employees told me there's no way to do a dual-monitor setup on an old Macbook 2008. Anyone able to confirm this? Just want to make certain before I ship only one of two of my monitors across the country. I use a DisplayLink USB video adapter. It works pretty well, as long as you aren't trying to do video or anything close to intensive.
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Aug 9, 2011 03:30
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SourKraut posted:So I'd like to pick up a notebook-style mouse, ideally one with actual buttons (versus the touch-based nature of the Magic Mouse, the new Arc mouses, etc.). Any suggestions? Ideally I'd like to find one with a back button that would work without having to install any additional software, but it seems as if that's fairly hard to find amongst mice that work in OS X. I don't know the model off hand and I think it only has two buttons, but Logitech makes a small mouse for about $30. My parents have two and I think they are very comfortable. They have a USB receiver though, which has stopped me from getting one in the past, but at least it's the micro adapter.
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Aug 17, 2011 20:44
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Is there any reason why I can't use a Jawbone ICON to listen to music (or any audio) from my 2011 13" MacBook Pro? I'm looking for something that I can use with my cell phone, iPod Touch and laptop and is affordable.
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Sep 22, 2011 02:26
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Sulk posted:Short of some $150-200 device that I saw linked a couple times, is there any way for a 2011 MBP to output to two external monitors without using Thunderbolt? I'm guessing no, but may as well ask if there's even a remotely possible way. I've used a DisplayLink USB video adapter with my 2008 15" MacBook Pro for a year or so now with pretty good success. Video/YouTube get a little choppy, but it works well for everything else. I was using two until one of the adapters died. It isn't a huge concern, but Mac drivers are pretty much at the bottom of DisplayLink's priority list, so the updates are few and far between. They cost ~$50.
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Sep 23, 2011 13:52
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I am considering getting a Time Capsule, but have a quick question. If I set it up to use Time Machine, will it be greedy and want the whole hard drive, or can I create a folder and set up TM on all of my Macs to store the backups in that folder, and use the rest as a network share?
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Sep 24, 2011 15:36
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NESguerilla posted:I don't know for sure if I need 8. It's a $25 difference. I mostly want to upgrade so CS4 will run better and so I can actually play games on it (specifically Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3). Is getting 8 gigs going to really help me out there or does it just make more sense to get 4? I am running 2gb right now and this thing is slow as gently caress. 8GB for less than $50? Do it. Skip the McDonald's for a week or two and max it out, you'll be glad you did.
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Sep 28, 2011 02:29
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I have a hard drive plugged into an AEBS for Time Machine. It works great for the automatic backups, but when I enter Time Machine to restore a file it takes a long time to connect to the share and a long time to browse the backups when TM finally loads. Would a Time Capsule, with its internal drive, be relatively instantaneous or is it simply a function of doing this on a network? I don't think that it should matter, but I have an Airport Express as my primary router and the AEBS extending it.
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