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Happy Pizza Guy posted:I have a late 2010 Macbook Air (Pre-Thunderbolt) that I'd like to get an ethernet adapter for and I have two questions related to that: USB2 will easily do 40 MB/sec over gigE so it's definitely worth it. Mine needs a driver though.
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Selklubber posted:If you use google drive check activiti monitor if it's crashed. Happened to me once and the battery was empty after some hours. The Google Play Music or whatever it's called control panel that syncs your library to iTunes has a background task that did the same thing to me once.
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Sep 23, 2013 00:27
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Bob Morales posted:They just (quietly) updated the iMac the other day. So quietly that when I went to the fruit stand yesterday they had the old models on display (fair enough) but the iPads next to them showed the old range specs/prices.
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Sep 26, 2013 04:01
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1997 posted:For up to three years the whole repair is covered. After that, it's a paid repair. Hah, I was about to ask this exact thing. My RevA CrapBook Pro just now had its battery swell up after 7 years of general shittiness.
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Oct 24, 2013 07:47
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Josh Lyman posted:That got me wondering, are any computers in MoMA? The Mac Pro seems like it could end up there some day. Only the best Macs Apple ever made. http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=10295
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eames posted:That depends entirely on the model of your old Macbook. Thunderbolt networking is trash. Target Disk Mode should be fine though. mayodreams posted:Doing a RAID0 on your boot volume is an exceptionably bad idea. I like to call it RAID roulette where your data is what catches the bullet in the bits. As long as you have your boot volume backed up then who cares? Besides, a 2x 256GB RAID-0 is basically the same risk as a single 512GB SSD.
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Nov 13, 2013 04:38
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The OWC drives have garbage collection, but it's still always better to have TRIM enabled.
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Nov 25, 2013 04:39
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japtor posted:I'm not sure about slam dunk necessarily, but I would guess maybe Samsung 840 Pro? (Or "evo pro" I forget). It's the more expensive one that can take more write cycles iirc, so theoretically it'd last longer than the cheaper 840. Alternatively maybe just format with more free space left over on the cheaper drive. The other question is whether TRIM support works on a Fusion drive. I assume it would but be sure to enable it manually.
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Dec 16, 2013 05:23
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Smashing Link posted:How long should we expect to wait for the old Mac Pro prices to drop? I really want one of those awesome aluminum cases to set up a server. Secondhand Mac Pro prices have only been going up lately. That said, you've always been able to buy empty cases second hand for cheap. It's a lot of work to mod into ATX though.
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Dec 20, 2013 04:37
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Ninja Rope posted:It's almost like that's a difficult problem to solve or something... Not terribly difficult though, just more effort than it is worth to correct what is basically a running joke at this point.
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Dec 25, 2013 10:40
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You forgot link lights! Goddamn I certainly don't miss that lovely design quirk.
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Dec 27, 2013 04:46
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coolskillrex remix posted:Im actually sitting a floor above it if that makes a diff. Usually it's better to name your two bands different SSIDs so that you can associate to one only on certain devices.
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Jan 16, 2014 04:21
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By jerky do you mean laggy or a bad/variable framerate? Lag is certain, even on a fully wired network for some reason. It sucks because it's definitely not usable for anything interactive. But even with lag the framerate should be excellent.
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Jan 20, 2014 04:34
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There is a TechNote around somewhere that describes the exact voodooo required with Display Port to get 3 monitors working. gently caress Display Port. Is changing the video card an option?
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Feb 4, 2014 04:19
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Second-hand Mac Pro with a PCI-E RAID card and an external drive enclosure. If cost really is a concern and it sounds like it might be if you're willing to go Wintel, might as well do a Hackintosh and you can have as many drives as you can stuff into an ATX tower.
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Malcolm XML posted:I have never run into an issue using the TB adapter. Tried a USB3 gigabit ethernet adaptor? They can do ~40 MB/sec.
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kode54 posted:What would the recommendation be for someone who wants a powerful system, but is already swimming in large flat panel screens? Certainly not to buy yet another large screen that is permanently saddled with a computer, or is it? This seems like a very off question. A) What should I buy if I want a powerful system? B) But I already have a powerful system. C) And I'm not sure whether I even want a new system, or what I want it for. Maybe answer your own questions B) and C) first.
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Apr 11, 2014 04:37
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Pivo posted:Yeah I guess by native res I didn't consider the retina resolution, half-res will still look fine though, just won't be "retina". But with the dedicated GPU you'd actually be able to get decent framerates with good draw distance and detail. I wonder whether games will ever get some kind of option to render the 3D framebuffer at some lower res, add all the UI and text on top at full retina res, then combine the two and display at the LCD's native res.
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I don't really care about the argument; it's been a thing since the first MBPs and I bet even now if your battery dies (dies as in refuses to power the laptop and won't recharge) then the CPU will forcibly downclock. But it's definitely possible to exceed 85W power draw. CPU: 47W GPU: 50W The display would be quite a lot but hard to get a figure for it obviously. Add in a few watts for RAM and SSD. You'd probably need a luggable-class brick to guarantee full performance with no battery drain.
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Apr 23, 2014 04:32
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atomicthumbs posted:Is it possible to set up a Localtalk network without transceivers if you're only using two computers? I can't find my second PhoneNet box. It's been a while for me but I'm pretty sure you can. Might need to use serial comms as a last resort.
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FlashBangBob posted:No need to apologize. Goons, particularly, have an issue with the official naming of Apple products. Stop calling it an iTouch you heathens.
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Action Jackson! posted:How usable is 4GB of memory under 10.9 for someone who is going to be just doing schoolwork and web surfing and maybe playing a game of Diablo 3? D3 is still 32 bit (grrrr) so it should be fine.
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Pryor on Fire posted:There's nothing wrong with 32 bit, it's actually a preferable build in most situations. The whole myth that lower bit = old legacy slow bad needs to die off, this isn't a NES we're talking about. That may be, but we should still be moving towards fewer 32 bit processes, not more. Every new 32 bit process on OS X is a blight and a scourge.
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May 6, 2014 04:43
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Granite Octopus posted:Speaking of Australia, I ordered a 256gb/16gb rMBP from JB yesterday for $150 off the rrp, no accessories or AppleCare or anything. Have they always been able to do those kinds of discounts? Yeah, 10% is pretty standard especially for EFT.
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May 8, 2014 04:11
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The Iris Pro has better memory bandwidth (obviously) but should be worse at everything else.
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The real benefit of having a micro-SD card is not in data transfer, but in cheap slow storage. I'm not complaining about the iPhone model of having an expensive amount of very fast storage, but it would be nice to have the option of SD to put music and photos onto, that are otherwise "wasting" the nice fast space that the apps and the OS make use of. If that happened a 16GB phone would probably be plenty rather than a constant juggle, at least to me. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 07:37 on May 13, 2014 |
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cbirdsong posted:Yeah, they should just push out a total interface reskin as 10.9.4. Sure, but it be nice to get some of these quality of life improvements incrementally as they are finished, rather than waiting to get them all at once. Bring back the 2D dock!, in other words.
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I hate side Dock but now I think about it, if I did switch to the side Dock then I'd be able to put my IRC window on my non-Dock monitor back on the ground floor where it belongs. So I might try to get used to side Dock after all.
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Yeah if I accidentally move the Dock to the second monitor (how annoying, why can't I turn that poo poo off) it will move my IRC window out of the way. That's not so bad by itself, but the real issue is that every time I login or restart the IRC window will also be up out of the way of the potentially reserved Dock space.
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1997 posted:Graphics RAM doesn't double when paired. Correct me if I'm wrong but the GPUs in the Mac Pro don't Crossfire. So you have 2 independent GPUs with a full 6GB of RAM each.
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Shaocaholica posted:Thanks. Seems like it would be true to say that most of them never got used especially not with a full pci-x card. I have 2x G4 MMDs and a G5 AGP fully restored and cleaned up but nothing fun to do with them. I've looked into some tethered digital medium format capture stuff but nothing else. I'm sure very few PowerMacs were ever stuffed entirely full but RAID cards were a great use case for PCI-X and PCI-E even back in the old days of 100-350 GB hard disks. Capturing FullHD footage to disk used to be "hard".
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Unigine Heaven and/or Valley should do the trick. Although that probably doesn't "exercise" much RAM overall compared to GPU and CPU.
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On the USB3 ethernet adaptor thing, I tried one out and got 40 MB/sec on it which isn't too bad but probably not as good as the TB one.Pivo posted:Whatever. At least they're cheap! I mean, microusb cables are like 2 bucks on Monoprice while Lightning is like 10 bucks, but whatever. I do wish Apple would sacrifice some style for realistic strain relief though. It's been such a goddamn pain point ever since I became a Mac user like a decade ago. Every single time, the loving cable fails before any of the proper hardware does. "Oh this is going to be plugged into a cell phone, there's no way anyone will move this cable around and twist it!" Yeah, and not just the lightning cables but all their cables. I had to take some EarPods back to the fruit stand a few weeks ago.
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:I want a new Mini so badly. I sort of backed into using an i7 Hackintosh as my only computer a few years ago, and while it performs well and has been really stable (even with homebrew Fusion Drive) I'm sure all the continuity stuff won't work with it and I'm sick of having to hold my breath at every update. The continuity/handoff stuff is meant to use wifi so in theory it will be perfectly cromulent on a Hackintosh. Or so I pray.
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Yeast posted:I wouldn't be too concerned. They've been in the wild for 3 seconds. Apple will probably push firmware updates as they need to, but if you're buying the retina iMac as a gaming machine, I don't know what to tell you really. What other choice do you have?
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cowofwar posted:I have a macbook pro with usb, firewire and lightning ports. I am currently using a crappy laptop hard drive in an enclosure and need a bigger/faster external drive. USB3 but I'm not sure a model of MBP that has Firewire on it has USB3?
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BobHoward posted:everymac.com says your computer's CPU is an i5-3210m. That's a 35W mobile CPU with integrated HD4000 GPU. It's common for raytracer software to use only the CPU; with the GPU idle I wouldn't be surprised if the chip never exceeds 20-ish watts. Which isn't a whole lot. I thought the whole point of TDP was that if the GPU was completely idle the CPU would be able to Turbo higher and longer? So, it will still use ~35W when raytracing.
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Toe Rag posted:Do Macs no longer come with line-in ports? I just went to rip a record and found out neither of my two Macs have a line-in. I found this on Apple's website, but it seems to be outdated. Looking at the tech specs posted, it seems the only computer which actually does have a line-in is the Mac mini. I would have expected it to be the rMBP and Mac Pro, if not everything. You can buy a cheap breakout cable to turn the combined mic/headphone port into 1x mic and 1x headphone, but it won't be line-level.
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