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shrughes posted:If you sell laptops without a VGA port you're basically guaranteeing people they can plug their laptop into any monitor. We use VGA connectors at work, plugging them into Samsung Syncmasters, because our computers have only one DVI output, and the quality is indistinguishable. I find VGA to be terribly unreliable. Even with projectors. I'm often in a meeting when someone with a Lenovo notebook w/ VGA out (which I can only assume Lenovo sources from some sort of time-travel vortex from 1995) and it doesn't work. Just displays seizure inducing crap on the projector. I can hook an mDP->DVI converter from my Air to the projector and it works every time.
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So I just started a new job, and I've decided to reward myself with a new MacBook Air when they make their (assumed) appearance next week. I currently have a late-2008 MacBook Pro that is failing rapidly, what will be the best way to transfer my iTunes and iPhoto libraries to the Air? They're about 52gb and 3gb respectively.
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Jun 10, 2012 01:27
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Just share the Music and Pictures folder. You cold use AirDrop to make it even easier with Lion but that adds encryption overhead. I've found AFP to be more reliable for large transfers.
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Plus I don't think AirDrop would be supported on his old MBP (assuming it has Lion), but I could be wrong. In any case it'd probably be the slowest option, based on my experience with it.
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Space Racist posted:Plus I don't think AirDrop would be supported on his old MBP (assuming it has Lion), but I could be wrong. In any case it'd probably be the slowest option, based on my experience with it. AirDrop works fine on this computer, but I imagine transferring 55gb over it would take a while.
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Coughing-up Tweed posted:If you go to chrome://plugins you will see that it has two versions of flash that it can use, the one inside of chrome.app and the system-wide one in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/. It defaults to the bult-in version of flash when both plugins are enabled, but if you disable that you can use the same version that you use in other browsers.  I won't go into specifics since this isn't the right thread for it, but thanks anyway.
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ShoeFly posted:AirDrop works fine on this computer, but I imagine transferring 55gb over it would take a while. The fastest and easiest way would be an external hard drive if you've got one, or gigabit ethernet failing that. You'll be waiting for a while if you need to do it wireless.
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ZShakespeare posted:The fastest and easiest way would be an external hard drive if you've got one, or gigabit ethernet failing that. You'll be waiting for a while if you need to do it wireless. You can't Ethernet with a MacBook Air. Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Star War Sex Parrot posted:Sure you can, just not gigabit. I completely forgot they had that adapter. Wow. KidDynamite fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Jun 10, 2012 |
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Jun 10, 2012 03:23
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KidDynamite posted:You can't Ethernet with a MacBook Air.
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Jun 10, 2012 03:24
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ZShakespeare posted:The fastest and easiest way would be an external hard drive if you've got one, or gigabit ethernet failing that. You'll be waiting for a while if you need to do it wireless. I might be able to scrounge up an external drive, that sounds like a much better idea! Star War Sex Parrot posted:Sure you can, just not gigabit. I doubt I'll ever be using an Ethernet connection on the Air, so the dongle isn't really worth purchasing. Especially at AU$29.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Sure you can, just not gigabit.  There's also a 'gigabit' USB adapter you can buy from some Japanese company on amazon that will push data at around the maximum USB speed (200+Mbps), which is not too bad if you really want some wired LAN connection. Keep in mind that a properly setup 802.11n is around that speed too.
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The wife needs a new computer, so we went to the Apple store today so she could decide what size Macbook Air we should get her after the updates next week.... Overheard one of the Apple Store employees saying "I just sold a guy a $2,500 computer, he's going to be so pissed on Monday." As a joke I left Mac Rumors up on one of the laptops we were looking at and saw a staff member come up and change it. So do they even tell the employees anything, or are they internally left in the dark like the rest of us?
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ShoeFly posted:I might be able to scrounge up an external drive, that sounds like a much better idea! Not to chastise you, but if you own a Mac, which unlike PCs, can boot from an external drive, and you use a computer for work, it is basically inexcusable not to keep an up-to-date clone of your internal drive anyway. Get an 500 GB external, partition it to a clone section and a Time machine section, and you will never have to miss more than a day's worth of hassle getting back to work. It seems overkill, until your internal drive dies the night before some deadline. Documents can be backed up to DropBox or SugarSync, but the big time suck is resetting your work environment on the computer. Keep a current clone, and it is seamless. You could even get your whole computer stolen, and take you clone to boot up a brand new mchine into your already set-up work environment as long as your system is current.
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Astro7x posted:The wife needs a new computer, so we went to the Apple store today so she could decide what size Macbook Air we should get her after the updates next week.... Overheard one of the Apple Store employees saying "I just sold a guy a $2,500 computer, he's going to be so pissed on Monday." They are retail employees making just above minimum wage. They don't know anything and just go off Macrumors.
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I know this is the hardware thread, however with the updates on Monday, do we figure they may release Mountain Lion at the same time?
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FlashBangBob posted:I know this is the hardware thread, however with the updates on Monday, do we figure they may release Mountain Lion at the same time? I don't think that's likely. We've only been issued Developer Previews at this point, no sign of release candidates that I've seen or read about.
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kapalama posted:Not to chastise you, but if you own a Mac, which unlike PCs, can boot from an external drive, and you use a computer for work, it is basically inexcusable not to keep an up-to-date clone of your internal drive anyway. Good thing I don't use a computer for work then. My notebook is for watching movies, organising my music and photos, and web browsing. Which is the main reason for going with an Air, this 15-inch MBP is a bit oversized for what I do, especially considering I travel a lot. Edit: I'm using CCC now to clone my drive now anyway, it'll save me copying stuff over later on I guess. ShoeFly fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Jun 10, 2012 |
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Jun 10, 2012 06:00
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The Apple Store is down.  Yea, probably nothing.
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Space Racist posted:Plus I don't think AirDrop would be supported on his old MBP (assuming it has Lion), but I could be wrong. In any case it'd probably be the slowest option, based on my experience with it. Martytoof posted:I don't think that's likely. We've only been issued Developer Previews at this point, no sign of release candidates that I've seen or read about.  , I just remember thinking it seemed really soon then, I could see them pulling another quick release like that again.
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I think it's likely we'll see entire computer backups in iCloud announced, in a similar way to iOS devices now and borrowing from Chrome OS.
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Give me more Siri integration. I'm one of the consumers it just works for and I find it fascinating. Asking my phone who directed a movie is one of the random and cool things that this device can just do.
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It's nice that they will give the iPad SIRI (looking forward to it) but has it been confirmed that iOS6 will include SIRI on the iPhone 4? I'd bet people who were going to upgrade to the 4S for SIRI has plateaued, so it would stand to reason they would just integrate SIRI across all Apple mobile devices at this point, no?
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It's still a selling point for the 4S, which other than Siri, doesn't have that many improvements over iPhone 4. So I doubt iPhone 4 will ever get Siri.
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hotsauce posted:It's nice that they will give the iPad SIRI (looking forward to it) but has it been confirmed that iOS6 will include SIRI on the iPhone 4? I'd bet people who were going to upgrade to the 4S for SIRI has plateaued, so it would stand to reason they would just integrate SIRI across all Apple mobile devices at this point, no? edit: wait what the gently caress this isn't the iPhone thread
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:edit: wait what the gently caress this isn't the iPhone thread )
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I know in the past they've done back-to-school deals with the computers, where you used to get an iPod Shuffle or gift cards or something along those lines. I can't imagine those would be offered tomorrow though. Does anyone know the restrictions on those deals, or when they start being offered? Basically, I was wondering if it was worth it until those offers generally kick in.
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Usually September. The restriction is that they are technically only for higher education students/staff/faculty. They don't really check if you buy through the online education store, though you do need ID or a university email address if you do it in-store.
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Jun 10, 2012 21:48
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Last year it was a $100 iTunes gift card rather than an iPod subsidy. I got my GC when I bought the MBA at launch last July.
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I really, really, really hope the new pros have dual thunderbolt ports.
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I bought a 13" Macbook Air 6 months ago and now I feel like crap.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Early adopter 4 owners should be upgrading to the new device this year anyway. It's 2 years (and soon to be 2 generations) old now. That's basically EOL as far as new features go when it comes to iPhones. Wouldn't it be next year considering the contracts are for 3 years?
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NESguerilla posted:Wouldn't it be next year considering the contracts are for 3 years?
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spaceship posted:I really, really, really hope the new pros have dual thunderbolt ports. That's going to be weird, with the way video cards work.
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wdarkk posted:That's going to be weird, with the way video cards work. Uh...
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awesome-express posted:I bought a 13" Macbook Air 6 months ago and now I feel like crap. So did I. Big deal. Chances are if you have the Air, you're not doing anything with it that's going to be greatly affected by upgrading.
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Astro7x posted:The wife needs a new computer, so we went to the Apple store today so she could decide what size Macbook Air we should get her after the updates next week.... Overheard one of the Apple Store employees saying "I just sold a guy a $2,500 computer, he's going to be so pissed on Monday."
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Bob Morales posted:So did I. Big deal. Chances are if you have the Air, you're not doing anything with it that's going to be greatly affected by upgrading. Sold my 2011 Air two weeks ago.  And bought a Windows PC with the cash.
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I don't follow mac stuff very closely - when there is a new hardware release do the refurb/used markets typically get glutted with older models as ten million hipsters all upgrade at once? Basically my nephew is going to turn seven in a few months and the family was thinking about pooling gift money together to get him a laptop. Both his parents are mac folks so it would make sense to go that route, but it seems kind of insane to drop a thousand bucks on a new MBA when all he really needs is the Apple equivalent of a cheap-o netbook. If the timing works out to score a decent refurb model that's 2-3 years old that'd be great.
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Refurb prices don't change until the new models hit refurb in about 3 months. Currently the least expensive MBAs are 2010 C2D 11.6" models for $699, which seems a silly price to pay for what will be a processor architecture 4 generations old. Watch the used market instead.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Watch the used market instead. SA Mart at least, there have beeen several decent Macs lately.
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