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Astro7x posted:Will Bootcamp partition a hard drive with data already on it? Or will it wipe the whole thing clean when it partitions? It's been quite awhile since I did a partition, and last time I did I had to format the entire drive. Boot Camp Assistant non-destructively shrinks your current boot volume to make room for a Windows partition. Backing up is still highly advised, though.
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When I tried to use bootcamp it said I needed to use disk utility and do repair permissions and whatnot. I did that and then it worked fine.
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Jun 14, 2012 18:52
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Where are the screenshots of Win7 bootcamped at 2880x1800?
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Jun 14, 2012 19:08
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Bob Morales posted:Where are the screenshots of Win7 bootcamped at 2880x1800? 
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Jun 14, 2012 19:25
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Oneiros posted:Boot Camp Assistant non-destructively shrinks your current boot volume to make room for a Windows partition. Backing up is still highly advised, though. That's cool... I've been meaning to get Windows on my Mac for awhile now, this info helps
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Jun 14, 2012 19:30
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Odds are you can go in and set resolution to 1440x900 or whatever you want and all will be well, if blocky, right?
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Jun 14, 2012 19:33
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fleshweasel posted:Odds are you can go in and set resolution to 1440x900 or whatever you want and all will be well, if blocky, right?
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Jun 14, 2012 19:35
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About to buy the 2012 Macbook Air 13 base model. Is the upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs worth $100? It seems like it wouldn't be for the things a typical consumer would use the Air for, which I think would be similar to me: Office suite productivity, light photoshopping, watching HD shows/movies on a TV through the display port. The 4 gigs of ram aren't upgradeable later so that is a factor too. What do you think?
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Jun 14, 2012 19:42
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mikey triumph posted:About to buy the 2012 Macbook Air 13 base model. Is the upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs worth $100? It seems like it wouldn't be for the things a typical consumer would use the Air for, which I think would be similar to me: Office suite productivity, light photoshopping, watching HD shows/movies on a TV through the display port. The 4 gigs of ram aren't upgradeable later so that is a factor too. What do you think? It doesn't limit me, I'm not running out to sell my 2011 and for the new one becuase of the RAM - but for $100 I'd do it.
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Jun 14, 2012 19:46
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It really depends on how long you keep your stuff. If it's going to be yours for the next 3-4 years, spring $100 on the extra RAM. If you flip every year 4GB will be fine (and if it's not just get 8GB when you flip it.)
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Jun 14, 2012 19:46
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mikey triumph posted:About to buy the 2012 Macbook Air 13 base model. Is the upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs worth $100? It seems like it wouldn't be for the things a typical consumer would use the Air for, which I think would be similar to me: Office suite productivity, light photoshopping, watching HD shows/movies on a TV through the display port. The 4 gigs of ram aren't upgradeable later so that is a factor too. What do you think? A fine purchase, but you're going to get asked - is there a reason you're going with the Pro over the Air? The screen is substantially worse, fyi.
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Jun 14, 2012 19:47
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Josh Lyman posted:1440x900 won't be blocky since it's double the native res. Any other res, however, won't be as sharp. Is there some kind of image processing that only happens in OS X? The reviews say 1680x1050 looks just as good as the native screen on the 'old' Pro.
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Jun 14, 2012 19:48
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mediaphage posted:A fine purchase, but you're going to get asked - is there a reason you're going with the Pro over the Air? The screen is substantially worse, fyi. He is getting the Air. The Pro's screen is 'better', it's just lower res.
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Jun 14, 2012 19:49
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Bob Morales posted:He is getting the Air. The Pro's screen is 'better', it's just lower res.
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Jun 14, 2012 20:06
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Are the shipping times in Apple's web store just pulled out of someone's rear end or actually accurate? My Air finally shipped just now (it quoted me 24 hours to ship when I ordered on Monday, but fair enough: I probably wasn't the only one ordering so I can understand why it'd take a while to get going), but now my "4-8 day shipping" is telling me to expect delivery on the 28th of June. Which would be amazingly slow since it's coming from Holland to Finland. It's a bit poo poo if it'll really take that long considering our local stores got "plenty of stock" today and I could've walked in and bought one tomorrow...
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Jun 14, 2012 20:10
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Der Shovel posted:Are the shipping times in Apple's web store just pulled out of someone's rear end or actually accurate? My Air finally shipped just now (it quoted me 24 hours to ship when I ordered on Monday, but fair enough: I probably wasn't the only one ordering so I can understand why it'd take a while to get going), but now my "4-8 day shipping" is telling me to expect delivery on the 28th of June. Which would be amazingly slow since it's coming from Holland to Finland. Well, you could buy one and return the one you ordered.
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Jun 14, 2012 20:15
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El Duke Silver posted:Well, you could buy one and return the one you ordered. I'm not gonna be doing that. I just want to know if the two weeks from now they quoted me is in people's experience when deliveries are actually made or just a worst case "if the mail man actually has to walk to your house through a war zone, don't sue us!" kind of estimate.
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Jun 14, 2012 20:23
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Could be worse. Mine is not shipping until the second week of July.
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Jun 14, 2012 20:40
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mikey triumph posted:About to buy the 2012 Macbook Air 13 base model. Is the upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs worth $100? It seems like it wouldn't be for the things a typical consumer would use the Air for, which I think would be similar to me: Office suite productivity, light photoshopping, watching HD shows/movies on a TV through the display port. The 4 gigs of ram aren't upgradeable later so that is a factor too. What do you think? You really ought to spring for it... I did, at least. Considering Mountain Lion and that you'll have this for years, it makes sense. The only problem is that you have to order it--my Apple store didn't have 128 Gb/8 Gb RAM configs in stock.
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Jun 14, 2012 20:44
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spaceship posted:Could be worse. Mine is not shipping until the second week of July.  I think I figured it out. I ordered at the education price, so I'm getting the 80 euro giftcard. And apparently this and my Mac ship from different locations and will be combined at some other location. Now here's a question: considering my gift card is a code I enter into iTunes, why the hell are you shipping it, Apple?
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coldplay chiptunes posted:I think he just missed a "not" in there. "Is there a reason you're not going with the Pro over the Air?" Nope! I'm just tired and stupid, and misread it as MBP instead of MBA. 
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Jun 14, 2012 21:12
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spaceship posted:Could be worse. Mine is not shipping until the second week of July. Mine as well. I really hope it's a gross over-estimate.
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Jun 14, 2012 21:28
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Forbidden Kiss posted:Mine as well. I really hope it's a gross over-estimate. It will be most likely, mine was a 5-7 business days till ship on Monday, it shipped today from China and will get to me by Tuesday says FedEx, I would wish that it would get to me by tomorrow but ya know, physics and all that.
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Jun 14, 2012 21:34
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My Macbook Pro was working fine today until the screen flashed three times. Then a black box appeared saying I needed to restart the Mac. Why would it do that?
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Jun 14, 2012 22:53
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CaptainMidnight posted:My Macbook Pro was working fine today until the screen flashed three times. Because it wants you to restart, obviously
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Jun 14, 2012 22:54
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Bad driver? Failing hardware? Rubbed your testicles too vigorously on the vents and clogged the fan with a pube?
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echobucket posted:Are you running Ghostery or NoScript or any other javascript blocking software? I've found I have to allow "Omniture" on apple.com to get their stuff to work when I'm running Ghostery. Bob Morales posted:Is there some kind of image processing that only happens in OS X? The reviews say 1680x1050 looks just as good as the native screen on the 'old' Pro.
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spaceship posted:Because it wants you to restart, obviously That still doesn't answer the question. Wouldn't the genius bar go wild over you.
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I'm currently running a Late-2008 MacBook Pro 15" with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 4 gigs of ram and a GeForce 9400M 256 MB graphics card. It's getting quite sluggish (probably also a result of only having 20 GB free on the harddrive). How much of a result would I get by getting 4 more gigs of ram and a bigger harddrive - is it worth it or should I spring for a new MacBook Pro? I'm starting school in September, where I'll probably need to use it for some Photoshop and InDesign work, if that helps.
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CaptainMidnight posted:That still doesn't answer the question.
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For a good, more specific reason, go to the Console app, and look at the logs to see what happened at that time, and google anything that looks like it could be the reason.
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Eight Is Legend posted:I'm currently running a Late-2008 MacBook Pro 15" with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 4 gigs of ram and a GeForce 9400M 256 MB graphics card. It's getting quite sluggish (probably also a result of only having 20 GB free on the harddrive). Free hard drive space has literally zero impact on performance. You could add more RAM, it's cheap. But do you need it? If you want to speed it up you're going to need to add a solid-state hard drive. It will make it 'oh poo poo' faster.
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Eight Is Legend posted:I'm currently running a Late-2008 MacBook Pro 15" with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 4 gigs of ram and a GeForce 9400M 256 MB graphics card. It's getting quite sluggish (probably also a result of only having 20 GB free on the harddrive). 4GB of RAM and an SSD will make a pretty huge difference. How big is your current HDD? Switching to a 128/256GB SSD and pushing all your non-critical stuff onto an external drive will go a long way to fixing the sluggishness you described.
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Eight Is Legend posted:I'm currently running a Late-2008 MacBook Pro 15" with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 4 gigs of ram and a GeForce 9400M 256 MB graphics card. It's getting quite sluggish (probably also a result of only having 20 GB free on the harddrive). I just put the 750 GB Momentus XT (7200 RPM + 8 GB SSD) in my late 2008 13" unibody and it was a surprisingly nice upgrade from the stock 5400 RPM drive. I have 8 GB of RAM in here already, but I don't think it gets used to full capacity all that often. I do have to say that the noise a 7200 RPM drive makes is taking some getting used to (even though it doesn't take much in the way of ambient noise to drown it out).
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ptier posted:It will be most likely, mine was a 5-7 business days till ship on Monday, it shipped today from China and will get to me by Tuesday says FedEx, I would wish that it would get to me by tomorrow but ya know, physics and all that. Unless you're a filthy Canadian, then the estimated dates seem a lot more feasible, especially considering the Canadian Store didn't come online until one or two hours later than the American one (and everyone else).
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Daric posted:I'm still getting the old style because I can upgrade it myself for cheap whereas with the other one I'm stuck forever. I hear ya. I've been waiting for the new MBP for a long time, but after some sober consideration, I simply can't give up my 27" iMac and tolerate the trade offs with this new one. 11" Air ordered.
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So my new 11-inch Air has shipped, I got the confirmation email from Apple about 13 hours ago. However the link to track the shipment doesn't work; the TNT page says the consignment number can't be found. Any Aussie goons had experience with TNT? Are they just incredibly slow to update their tracking pages?
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ShoeFly posted:So my new 11-inch Air has shipped, I got the confirmation email from Apple about 13 hours ago. However the link to track the shipment doesn't work; the TNT page says the consignment number can't be found. Golly if only there was a company that you could call with questions about the status of a shipment.
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Best Buy got a bunch of retina pros in today. A lot of people have had luck walking in and purchasing them there.
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Also, I found a way to run the retina pro in FULL res, instead of scaled mode - Download and install the trial for Switch Res X: http://www.madrau.com/indexSRX4.html
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