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Star War Sex Parrot posted:If anyone wants an SSD, today's Newegg shellshocker (96GB Kingston V+100) is a great deal for Macs. Why? Because it's basically the same drive that Apple used in its SSDs last year due to its excellent TRIM-independent garbage collection. Is it worth it to go sata III/6gbs? I think I might take the dive and get this drive, and rip apart the iMac.
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MrEnigma posted:Is it worth it to go sata III/6gbs? I think I might take the dive and get this drive, and rip apart the iMac.
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movax posted:still prefer my PC on the desktop as I posted, but I have gotten tired of loving around with various parts, dealing with RMAs, etc. I got lucky with my Sandy Bridge build that the only RMA was forced due to the Cougar Point chipset bug. I guess I just really appreciate versatility on my desktop, since my interests/projects take me all over the place, and Windows still wins in that regard for me. doing audio editing one day, video the next, gaming in between, software development, it's all covered.
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Bob Morales posted:SATA III becomes more important when you're going to do RAID. Why? Each SATA channel gets its own bandwidth. Unless you're talking an external box with a port multiplier.
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iFixit has a kit out for adding a second drive to the new Mini. http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/Mac-Mini-Dual-Hard-Drive-Kit/IF171-005 I already have the cable (and a similar bit driver kit) so I don't need it, but the grommets and screws look specific enough that you need them if you want to do the install "right." I might just throw the drive in there without mounting it. If you don't need to remove the HD bracket you can drop the second drive in without moving the logic board.
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SSD Bought, slimline 13 to 22 pin sata cable bought. Now to find some suction cups. Any other tool I might need to rip this thing apart? (Thanks for all the advice/help in here so far) Edit: I somehow lost my torn screwdriver as well...weak MrEnigma fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Aug 13, 2011 |
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I just went to put an MRI read into my MBA and lol.
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I was just going to go with one of the 7200 RPM HDDs as a cheap upgrade over the stock HDD in my MBP, but the Kingston V+100 96GB for $89.99 is really tempting me...
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I work in a lab doing black-box testing with several thousand computers, swapping components and often installing dozens of OSes a day in every flavor of Windows, Linux, and OS X that you can imagine. The last thing I want to do when I get home is have to fight with my computer. So yes, this was another reason I switched to Macs. When you work all day with computers, I just want poo poo to work. Yep, bingo. I work in support, so I get my messing with things quotient during the day.
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vty posted:Any else of you returning your i5 MBA for the i7? I only have two days left on my return, still trying to decide. I'd trade the i7 11" for the i5 13." Every review and piece of advice I've looked at points to it being a pretty big leap from the 1.6ghz i5 in the 11" to the 1.7ghz one in the base 13" and a comparatively tiny one between the two available CPUs in the bigger MBA. Anand subscribes to the 10% rule when comparing benchmark scores (anything 10% different or less isn't going to be noticeable/worth a lot of money and anything over is) and the two 13" CPUs tend to fall within that 10% for the vast majority of things. As someone else pointed out, you drop another $100 just for e-peen. Plus, if you get the base 13", you won't pay a cent more than you would on a tricked out 11". Either way, the worst MBA runs circles around my macbook, so I'm pleased as punch regardless. I sort of wish I'd have gotten the biggest HD since I've already got more on the macbook than I'll have room for-but a lot of that is crap I don't need/can relegate to an external drive/use as an excuse to keep the macbook. It just wasn't worth another $300 to me. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Aug 13, 2011 |
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MrEnigma posted:SSD Bought, slimline 13 to 22 pin sata cable bought. I used the GPS mount for my car to pop open the glass. Residency Evil posted:I just went to put an MRI read into my MBA and lol. I don't understand any of this gibberish.
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FCKGW posted:I don't understand any of this gibberish. He loaded a MRI of his ankle, high resolution image, probably gave Preview.app a workout.
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My Magic Trackpad is feeling a little sticky thanks to the AC going out. What's the best way to clean this guy?
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My streak continues - 6 HDDs down across three 13" Macbook Pros. Lost the stock 250gb in a mid-2010 MBP today out of completely nowhere - I monitor the SMART stats like a hawk. poo poo is out of warranty now too. 
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CDOR Gemini posted:My Magic Trackpad is feeling a little sticky thanks to the AC going out. What's the best way to clean this guy? Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Seriously, the thing is loving amazing.
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BlackMK4 posted:My streak continues - 6 HDDs down across three 13" Macbook Pros.
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Lost: Stock 250gb Hitachi (just now) Stock 250gb Toshiba 500GB WD Scorpio Blue 640GB WD Scorpio Blue Refurb 2x 500GB Seagate Momentus XT This is the first one that completely died and was unable to be recognized in a USB enclosure with another Mac. It also causes a kernel panic if I attempt to boot from a CD with it plugged in. I'm seriously not hard on laptops; I've never dropped one, I always keep it in the case, and they aren't really subject to vibration (unless you consider riding a motorcycle with one every day).
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BlackMK4 posted:Lost: Wow, that's pretty much across the spectrum of HDD manufacturers (plus, given the variance of manufacturers, it seems unlikely to be due to HDD failures themselves, but something causing it). However the fact it's across 3 13" MBPs makes me think it's not necessarily due to that either... I'd imagine that riding a motorcycle could essentially impose greater vibrations/etc. onto the hardware, but given that a powered-off state should park the heads anyway, it seems unlikely to cause issues such as what you're having. Edit - I swear my mental spellchecker isn't working today...
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The only dot I have connected is that all three 13" MBPs were of the mid-2010 variety. I had a 2009 13" for almost a year and a half completely problem free.
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BlackMK4 posted:The only dot I have connected is that all three 13" MBPs were of the mid-2010 variety. I had a 2009 13" for almost a year and a half completely problem free. Could it be excessive heat somehow? (grasping at straws here)
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In all my days of computing since I was a wee lad, from 1995 spanning 8 computers, I've never once experienced a hard drive failure. Two motherboard failures and a superdrive, but never a hard drive. How someone can have that many hard drives fail on them within a relatively short time blows my mind. Time to make sure everything's backed up, just in case.
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BlackMK4 posted:The only dot I have connected is that all three 13" MBPs were of the mid-2010 variety. I had a 2009 13" for almost a year and a half completely problem free.
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1997 posted:In all my days of computing since I was a wee lad, from 1995 spanning 8 computers, I've never once experienced a hard drive failure. Two motherboard failures and a superdrive, but never a hard drive. I've been around computers since as long as you and I'd never lost a hard drive at all. First and only systems I've ever lost drives in. Not even the drive that was dropped from 3 stories up in the packaging. Hardware failure wise I've lost a PSU and a motherboard+cpu to a Peltier/water cooling accident. coldplay chiptunes posted:Do you smoke / have cats / live in dusty filth? I'm honestly lost at how that many failures in such a short period of time is possible. dissss posted:Could it be excessive heat somehow? (grasping at straws here)  vvvv SourKraut posted:Do you... Seriously, only thing I can link is that they were mid 2010 13". BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Aug 13, 2011 |
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BlackMK4 posted:I've been around computers since as long as you and I'd never lost a hard drive at all. First and only systems I've ever lost drives in. Do you... * live in an area that happens to be dusty quite often, such as the southwestern United States? * could the vents be accidentally getting blocked? * use any type of case protector, such as those rubber/plastic inCase covers? * when you installed the drives, was there any chance a static discharge could have occurred? * normally have a separate keyboard you use at times, or are you always resting your hands on the case when typing? Just trying to think/grasp at any idea that could be causing it...
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FCKGW posted:I don't understand any of this gibberish. Sorry, meant to say that I took a cd, went to put it in the side of my MBA and it didn't work out well at all.
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Kilometers Davis posted:I'm not sure where else to post this, so yeah. What do you pc building/upgrading enthusiasts do to not get rid of your macs and go back to a desktop pc? I can't really scratch the itch of wanting PC games and the ability to upgrade and change things whenever I want. I absolutely LOVE my new iMac, but it only made me want to use my pc again and really learn everything there is to learn about it inside and out. It's basically the classical vs romantic argument and I can't really find a middle ground. Hackintosh. I have a full tower case, a Radeon 5870, a Q6600 with a TRUE running at 3.6 GHz, a real serial port, multiple sound inputs and outputs, space for more drives than is sensible, and even after all that I still have PCI-E and PCI slots for more stuff if I should so choose. Best of both worlds if your PC is your hobby too. Funnily enough I was always a Mac first-and-foremost kinda guy as people in this thread can probably attest, until the Intel switch when Apple disgusted me with the tower price hikes and I went bespoke instead. I never had a PC at all until then. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Aug 13, 2011 |
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If i got a mac mini and this http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/ could I plug the dh2go into the displayport and run 2 monitors off that then run a 3rd monitor off the hdmi port? Is this possible? If I get the mini with the Radeon + the Lightridge thunderbolt controller would it have enough grunt to run 3 24" at 1920x1080? I'm not doing anything particularly graphics intensive I just want the real estate.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:If anyone wants an SSD, today's Newegg shellshocker (96GB Kingston V+100) is a great deal for Macs. Why? Because it's basically the same drive that Apple used in its SSDs last year due to its excellent TRIM-independent garbage collection. Since you mentioned the 96 GB drive being equivalent to a drive Apple used last year, what about the 128 GB V+100? I thought I remember reading once that there some differences between the sizes for the V+100s, but can't remember if that's correct or not.
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brc64 posted:One of you was joking about hoping that my wife doesn't ask for a Thunderbolt Cinema Display, but just for kicks I looked online at them. Is that 27 inch beast the only size display they sell anymore!? It seems like they used to have at least a few different sizes, starting with a merely "very large" 20 inch and going up from there. As for the TC/AE they're nice as routers, although I have no clue if it does VPN stuff. Backup wise I'm kind of paranoid about horror stories with it, but people have had success with it too  (there's also stories about plain ol' direct attached Time Machine backups going bad to for what it's worth). Here's Anandtech's pretty thorough review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4577/airport-extreme-5th-gen-and-time-capsule-4th-gen-review-faster-wifi-flyboi posted:I bought a Crucial M4 128GB  people over there with specific threads about particular drives and individual Mac model forums.movax posted:If I understand correctly (which hopefully I do because I put this in the monitor thread OP): DEUCE SLUICE posted:iFixit has a kit out for adding a second drive to the new Mini. BlackMK4 posted:Lost:  You are the new kapalama. If it makes you feel any better I think the Momentus XT kind of has a bad reputation to begin with at least.unixbeard posted:If i got a mac mini and this http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/ could I plug the dh2go into the displayport and run 2 monitors off that then run a 3rd monitor off the hdmi port? Is this possible? And the Radeon should be fine if you're only doing basic stuff with it. It's kind of a question of whether it'll actually support two displays off its Thunderbolt port. Apple doesn't say anything about it, but a Macworld review I saw the other day said it could, so…  .SourKraut posted:Since you mentioned the 96 GB drive being equivalent to a drive Apple used last year, what about the 128 GB V+100? I thought I remember reading once that there some differences between the sizes for the V+100s, but can't remember if that's correct or not.
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^^^ wall of text glazedeyes territory VPN is fine, Cisco and F5 work perfectly with the AEBS (and the TC) without any fine tuning bullshit for me and countless clients. As for the TM horror stories, a lot of it centered around lovely wireless backup. Apple got their poo poo together and fixed up the backup routines both in the OS and in the AE/TC firmware, so it's mostly a thing of the past. Just do your first backup over Ethernet and unless you edit 8 GB Photoshop files every day (which is definitely NOT what the wireless part was intended for) you'll be fine. Myself, on my Mac Pro, I do TM to a portable Verbatim 500 GB over FireWire and never had any problems. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Aug 13, 2011 |
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vty posted:Any else of you returning your i5 MBA for the i7? I only have two days left on my return, still trying to decide. If you haven't decided yet, I got the i7 13" MBA on day one as a development machine. I love it. The footprint isn't that much bigger, and I can run XCode/MacVim all in full screen with no problems. It also powers my 27" cinema I have at work. It's a beastly machine totally suitable for development, if that gives you any indication. I also use Perian to do some video encoding.
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I apologize if this is not the correct place to post this but... I picked up a new 13" Core i5 MBA about 2 weeks ago. It is actually the first Mac I've owned and I really like it so far. However I have noticed that if I leave the dongle for a wireless mouse plugged into the laptop while it's sleeping, it will completely drain the battery in pretty short order (12 hours or so?), almost as if the laptop is not fully sleeping or something. Any ideas for troubleshooting? Or a more relevant place to discuss this kind of stuff?
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japtor posted:2010 iMac target display should be able to work with 2011 iMacs since the 2011s can output DisplayPort fine. I thought SWSP reported that his 2011 MBA was not working with his 2010 iMac when it came to Target Display Mode, but I may be wrong.
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movax posted:I thought SWSP reported that his 2011 MBA was not working with his 2010 iMac when it came to Target Display Mode, but I may be wrong.
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movax posted:I thought SWSP reported that his 2011 MBA was not working with his 2010 iMac when it came to Target Display Mode, but I may be wrong. Thunderbolt devices will not work with non-thunderbolt in target display I believe. Edit: I AM WRONG https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3206261?start=0&tstart=0
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flyboi posted:Thunderbolt devices will not work with non-thunderbolt in target display I believe. Well poo poo. I'll go fix the Monitor thread OP now! 
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hootimus posted:I apologize if this is not the correct place to post this but... I'm pretty sure if you have something plugged into the USB, the computer won't go into deep sleep or hibernate or whatever you call it. I think that means the RAM stays powered but 12 hours seems pretty short for your battery draining.
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I'm 99% sure I'm making the jump from PC to Mac. I have a couple of laptops and a tablet I can sell and buy a MacBook with. First things first. The thread title scares me, is the MacBook line going away, or just the non-pro? Secondly, I do a lot of work in Premiere, After Effects, and Lightroom. I'm guessing a Pro would be better than a MB or an Air for my purposes, correct? Thirdly, I'm going to be getting a refurb, but I'm wondering how far back I can safely go? I hear apple drops support for machines after about 4 years, is this accurate? If so, I'm guessing older machines still work with OSX even though they arent "officially supported"?
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