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Bob Morales posted:1280x800 'Pro' users want the color/viewing angles of the 1280x800 screen, apparently. They can't find a better looking 1440x900 screen? ULTRABOOKS ARE GETTING 13.3" 1920X1080 SCREENS COME ON
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Oh wait this is the same company that sold new computers with 10" monitors up until mid-1995 (Color Classic II)
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Jun 5, 2012 18:44
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What else do you expect from a company that targets consumers that buy overpriced computers based on looks? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 5, 2012 19:03
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Bob Morales posted:'Pro' users want the color/viewing angles of the 1280x800 screen, apparently. They can't find a better looking 1440x900 screen? Still 5400rpm hard drives...
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shrughes posted:What else do you expect from a company that targets consumers that buy overpriced computers based on looks?
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Jun 5, 2012 19:46
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Boris Galerkin posted:My SuperDrive is broken. [...] Is it safe for me to just pull it out of my MBP without replacing it with a HDD or anything? Yup.
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Jun 5, 2012 19:49
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Mu Zeta posted:Still 5400rpm hard drives... Pro users like to take time with their data. You know, really get to know it.
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Jun 5, 2012 19:50
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:Yup. Other than having an inlet for dust there now..
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shrughes posted:What else do you expect from a company that targets consumers that buy overpriced computers based on looks? Nice drive-by troll.
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Mu Zeta posted:Still 5400rpm hard drives... Haven't even powered the last two on with the platter drives installed 
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BlackMK4 posted:Other than having an inlet for dust there now.. A little bit of electrical tape or something would do the trick, but if you're cracking the thing open and removing the DVD drive you might as well spend the $150 it would take to get a caddy and an SSD for that spot. It will still weigh less than the DVD drive and won't hurt your battery life in any noticeable fashion, but you'll get all that SSD goodness.
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:A little bit of electrical tape or something would do the trick, but if you're cracking the thing open and removing the DVD drive you might as well spend the $150 it would take to get a caddy and an SSD for that spot. It will still weigh less than the DVD drive and won't hurt your battery life in any noticeable fashion, but you'll get all that SSD goodness. Seriously, I've been running that setup for over a year now and it's loving awesome.
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Jun 5, 2012 22:21
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:A little bit of electrical tape or something would do the trick, but if you're cracking the thing open and removing the DVD drive you might as well spend the $150 it would take to get a caddy and an SSD for that spot. It will still weigh less than the DVD drive and won't hurt your battery life in any noticeable fashion, but you'll get all that SSD goodness. For a newbie *~~ MAC USER ~~*<3 is there some sort of tutorial for this? You mean you remove the DVD drive completely and add a second hard drive, right? (Macbook Pro 13) I'm just wondering how hard it would be, because I've used my laptop's DVD drive like twice, ever.
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Super easy. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/optibay_install.html
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That rumored spec sheet better be a photoshop. That is the most underwhelming crap. I need a new laptop and like others the 13" is absolutely the perfect size but 5400 drive and 1280x800 is not going to cut it.
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:A little bit of electrical tape or something would do the trick, but if you're cracking the thing open and removing the DVD drive you might as well spend the $150 it would take to get a caddy and an SSD for that spot. It will still weigh less than the DVD drive and won't hurt your battery life in any noticeable fashion, but you'll get all that SSD goodness. You kinda missed the part where I said I already have a SSD (well, it'll get here tomorrow) to replace the HDD and that I don't need the extra space of having a SSD+HDD. Electrical tape it is.
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Intdaddesting... Thanks! This is what I think he's installing: http://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=OBSXGB-MB15&Category_Code=STORHDOPTIBAY Might be interesting to try it on a weekend or something... As long as they include everything that's needed, it's pretty affordable.
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calcio posted:That rumored spec sheet better be a photoshop. That is the most underwhelming crap. I need a new laptop and like others the 13" is absolutely the perfect size but 5400 drive and 1280x800 is not going to cut it. Assuming this is real (disregarding that people have already created photoshops with better specs): I could imagine that at least on the 13", the retina display could be a BTO option in order to be able to advertise it as "from $999" or similar. I'd also hate the laughable 4GB by the way. That's just not "pro" anymore nowadays and even 16 can be had for less than $100 now. e: And now supposedly Mac Pros are being pulled from the stores and new SKUs are showing up. Interesting. I hope the same will happen to 17" MBPs. Mr. Smile Face Hat fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jun 5, 2012 |
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No. 6 posted:Off by $100 http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/05/belkin-upgrades-thunderbolt-express-dock-with-usb-3-0-and-esata-bumps-price-to-399-99/ Honestly, at that price I'd be seriously looking at just buying another Thunderbolt Display. It'd only cost me about $550AU more and it's entirely possible Apple will update them to have USB 3 ports (not that it really matters) along with the other Macs.
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calcio posted:That rumored spec sheet better be a photoshop. That is the most underwhelming crap. I need a new laptop and like others the 13" is absolutely the perfect size but 5400 drive and 1280x800 is not going to cut it. Bryne fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Jun 5, 2012 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:If you check one or two pages back, I think I asked the same thing and somebody posted a caddy for the optical bay for $10 or so. The concensus was also to just use CCC or similar to clone the HDD to the SSD and then do the swap. My SSD is on the delivery truck right now so that's what I'll do tonight after work. It's a mac mini, not an MBP. There's no optical drive. wooger posted:I don't understand why you need to spend a combined $100 on a 2nd hard drive kit, that sounds a crazy amount of money - where is that from? It's not the bracket that I need, it's the cable. I was looking on ifixit, since they do have the cable, in addition to the motherboard removal tool needed to get to the insides. Bob Morales posted:does your mini support remote disk? Doesn't work with OS install disks.
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jwoven posted:Doesn't work with OS install disks. No, that's exactly what it's for. That line means it doesn't work if you want to install say, Windows or Linux http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2129
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calcio posted:That rumored spec sheet better be a photoshop. That is the most underwhelming crap. I need a new laptop and like others the 13" is absolutely the perfect size but 5400 drive and 1280x800 is not going to cut it. It is probably just the poverty spec model. The rumors are speaking towards the air screen being an option.
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calcio posted:That rumored spec sheet better be a photoshop. That is the most underwhelming crap. I need a new laptop and like others the 13" is absolutely the perfect size but 5400 drive and 1280x800 is not going to cut it. The same person who posted that spec sheet also posted specs for the 15" MBP that still had a sandy bridge processor and basically no other upgrades to speak of, so I would guess it's either the bottom end cheap model or that the guy is full of poo poo.
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Bob Morales posted:
Didn't they drop Mac from the OS X branding? I'm guessing the real deal wouldn't say Mac OS X on the box.
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Good catch. I really hope that's fake. I badly need a new laptop to replace my 2006 MacBook, but hell if I'm going to spend over a thousand on something that underwhelming.
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Vidmaster posted:The same person who posted that spec sheet also posted specs for the 15" MBP that still had a sandy bridge processor and basically no other upgrades to speak of, so I would guess it's either the bottom end cheap model or that the guy is full of poo poo. Is what I'd put my money on.
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AppleInsider is dropping the rumor that there will be 14 new Mac models announced next Monday. If I were to guess, I think that any Mac machine that doesn't use a mobile processor (Everything except Macbook Airs and Mac Minis) will see an announcement if this is the case. Or it could just be loving everything. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/06/part_numbers_suggest_apple_may_refresh_most_of_mac_lineup_at_wwdc.html FlashBangBob fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Jun 6, 2012 |
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Jun 6, 2012 14:57
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Here's the sticker everyone expected to see: If this were true, I'd find it odd that Apple would offer a laptop with 16GB of memory when a 12-core Pro comes with a whopping 6GB. The 13" label looks way more 'realer'
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Unless they're planning on revamping the Mac Pro at the same time.
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FlashBangBob posted:Unless they're planning on revamping the Mac Pro at the same time. Yea, I guess 6GB was more realistic 2 years ago or whenever the current Pro came out.
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jwoven posted:It's not the bracket that I need, it's the cable. I was looking on ifixit, since they do have the cable, in addition to the motherboard removal tool needed to get to the insides. I got the cable from powerbookmedic before ifixit had them, but I'd recommend going with ifixit's kit as it has the grommets to mount the hard drive in the spot for it. Otherwise you'll need to use a fabric hair tie or something to keep the drive in place. There's nowhere else to get the mounting stuff separately.
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Don't know if this has been posted, but a fairly legit looking rundown of the AU launch prices of the new stuff: http://9to5mac.com/2012/06/06/new-macs-spec-sheet-leaks-out-into-the-internet-pricing-and-names-included/  Using the current AU priced entry level macbook as a benchmark, I ran a dumb projection: pre:Model AU US Proj Current MBP 15 L 2499 2141.643 1799 MBP 15 H 3199 2741.543 2199 iMac 21 L 1349 1156.093 1199 iMac 21 H 1689 1447.473 1499 iMac 27 L 1999 1713.143 1699 iMac 27 H 2499 2141.643 1999 Air 11 L 1099 941.843 999 Air 11 H 1249 1070.393 1199 Air 13 L 1349 1156.093 1299 Air 13 H 1689 1447.473 1599 Mac Pro L 2999 2570.143 2499 Mac Pro H 4599 3941.343 3499 Server 3599 3084.343 2999
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Cygni posted:Don't know if this has been posted, but a fairly legit looking rundown of the AU launch prices of the new stuff: Those AU prices were including a 10% tax, dunno if you took that into account at all. Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/06/part_numbers_suggest_apple_may_refresh_most_of_mac_lineup_at_wwdc.html
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It'd be hilarious if they were USD prices. $4,500 Macs? WELCOME BACK TO 1997 MAC PRICES
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Mr. Despair posted:Those AU prices were including a 10% tax, dunno if you took that into account at all. Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/06/part_numbers_suggest_apple_may_refresh_most_of_mac_lineup_at_wwdc.html I didn't, feel free to subtract 10% from those numbers in your head.
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The current 15 inch Pro has 14.4 x 9.8 x 0.95 inch dimensions. The new one in that sticker has 13.5 x 9.2 x 0.74 inch dimensions. That puts it about 25% thinner, and about 7% smaller in width and height too.
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I'd guess if they are debuting a new form factor, the 15" Pro will lead the charge with the 13" Pro catching up at the next revision (if not eventually axed in favor of promoting the 13" Air). Meanwhile the 13" Pro will continue to sell like crazy to college students using it as their sole computer. If they are refreshing nearly 3/4 of the Mac line at once, changing the form factors for all of them as well would be a logistical nightmare.
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2560x1600 in 15" is loving glorious, but goodbye sweet dream of gaming at native panel resolution on the go. Not the concern for most Mac users, but still sucks.
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movax posted:2560x1600 in 15" is loving glorious, but goodbye sweet dream of gaming at native panel resolution on the go. Not the concern for most Mac users, but still sucks. So just run stuff at 1280x800 which scales properly (I know what you mean, though).
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