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What's the advantage of having two graphics cards if one is significantly better than the other? Heat? Battery usage?
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Aug 3, 2012 17:22
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Is there any sane way to rent a Macbook Air for a week and a half trip? I'm going on a trip, could really use an MBA to work on a few projects, but have no need or desire to purchase one long-term. I googled around and just kept finding rent-to-own type deals for people with lovely credit. I'd need to rent one, be able to install software on it (not have it be locked down with a bunch of admin stuff), and then return it.
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Aug 3, 2012 17:25
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a bad poster yall posted:What's the advantage of having two graphics cards if one is significantly better than the other? Pretty much, yeah - using the one built into the CPU during less intensive tasks helps keep the machine cool and uses less battery. You don't need much to run Pages.
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Aug 3, 2012 17:27
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a bad poster yall posted:What's the advantage of having two graphics cards if one is significantly better than the other? Yes to both. Switching to the discrete graphics kills battery life by more than half. Too bad Apple doesn't let you manually choose when to turn it off. You have to use a third party app to do it. I really don't need discrete graphics when I'm just using the Twitter app, Apple.
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Aug 3, 2012 17:28
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Transistor Rhythm posted:Is there any sane way to rent a Macbook Air for a week and a half trip? I'm going on a trip, could really use an MBA to work on a few projects, but have no need or desire to purchase one long-term. I googled around and just kept finding rent-to-own type deals for people with lovely credit. You could take advantage of the generous return policy of Best Buy/Apple. We've rented 15 laptops for a week from places like http://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/laptops/apple/macbook-air to put together a temporarly lab. They just ship them, you use them and ship them back, it's convienent.
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Aug 3, 2012 17:30
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Transistor Rhythm posted:Is there any sane way to rent a Macbook Air for a week and a half trip? I'm going on a trip, could really use an MBA to work on a few projects, but have no need or desire to purchase one long-term. I googled around and just kept finding rent-to-own type deals for people with lovely credit. You can abuse their return policy as long as it's not damaged/stolen. It's not a good thing to do because when policies are abused, they end up getting more strict/discontinued-- but the laptop you return will be refurbished and sold as such.
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Aug 3, 2012 17:30
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Yeah, I already thought about return policy abuse, but I decided not to because it would be unethical at best (I know I'm not going to keep it long-term), and too tempting to keep it at worst (I really, REALLY don't need a MBA, especially right now).
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Aug 3, 2012 17:33
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Sprat Sandwich posted:Pretty much, yeah - using the one built into the CPU during less intensive tasks helps keep the machine cool and uses less battery. You don't need much to run Pages. Mu Zeta posted:Yes to both. Switching to the discrete graphics kills battery life by more than half. Too bad Apple doesn't let you manually choose when to turn it off. You have to use a third party app to do it. I really don't need discrete graphics when I'm just using the Twitter app, Apple. Thank you both.
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Aug 3, 2012 18:07
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Mu Zeta posted:Yes to both. Switching to the discrete graphics kills battery life by more than half. Too bad Apple doesn't let you manually choose when to turn it off. You have to use a third party app to do it. I really don't need discrete graphics when I'm just using the Twitter app, Apple. I'm fairly sure that a certain subset of Core Animation invokes the discrete card for performance reasons, the Twitter (and other apps) devs should be aware of this and work around it, in my opinion.
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Aug 3, 2012 19:05
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Neurophonic posted:I'm fairly sure that a certain subset of Core Animation invokes the discrete card for performance reasons, the Twitter (and other apps) devs should be aware of this and work around it, in my opinion. I've found that ML forces the discrete card much less than Lion ever did (with the exception of multi monitor). Is anyone else noticing this?
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Aug 3, 2012 19:57
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Mu Zeta posted:Yes to both. Switching to the discrete graphics kills battery life by more than half. Too bad Apple doesn't let you manually choose when to turn it off. You have to use a third party app to do it. I really don't need discrete graphics when I'm just using the Twitter app, Apple. This is a bug for Twitter to fix. The Twitter app is using custom drawing that AppKit cannot automatically determine is integrated-friendly. There's a plist key the Twitter app should adopt to declare itself integrated-friendly. But seeing as there doesn't seem to be any development on the Mac Twitter app...
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Aug 3, 2012 20:02
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Akujunkan posted:Going absolutely crazy with some Macbook Air wifi problems and hoping some of you can help. The overall issue is just that the speed is lower when Bluetooth is turned on? Are you using 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz WiFi? Bluetooth is 2.4 GHz. It's probably not entirely unanticipated that WiFi might be a bit slower when using 2.4 GHz WiFi plus 2.4 GHz Bluetooth. (And it's possible the MacBook Air is just using the same antenna for both, rapidly switching between.)
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Aug 3, 2012 20:05
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Akujunkan posted:Causes Eliminated: What router are you using? This sounds like it's configured for single-stream 2.4ghz only, esp cause of the 72mbps part. Get a dual-band router if you don't already have one. With wifi overhead you will never get 70 mbps that way, more like mid-20ish at best in the real world.
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Aug 3, 2012 22:05
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Bob Morales posted:IPV6 is off. This might help: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3473 Maybe this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738121%28WS.10%29.aspx And other stuff of that nature, just look for ".local domain bonjour conflict" or something in Google. From a quick glance it sounds like adding another level like blah.companyname.local might get around it, if that's what you're running into. If that doesn't help, look in Console and see if anything helpful pops up when trying to connect.
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Aug 3, 2012 22:17
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I'd like to know of anyone's experiences using a newer Mini as a home server, specifically for Time Machine and other backups (Like Crashplan). I'm considering buying a base model Mini, throwing ML Server on it and using it for the aforementioned as well as SABnzbd+, PS3 Media Server, Air Video, Plex, and my god-awful printer drivers. Right now I run my backups and my various multimedia services off my iMac, which I also use for work, and it's getting a bit tiring having all that crap running on it. Plus, when I connect to the VPN it causes some issues both locally and remotely. I'm not sure how I'd go about expanding storage. I have some external USB2 drives I use now, but I'd like to move to something faster. I suppose I'll just have to wait for Thunderbolt storage to get more reasonable (yeah right). Edit: Looks like it's been a year since update. I suppose that means we might get a refresh with USB3 soon. That would help the external storage situation. Jealous Cow fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Aug 3, 2012 |
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Aug 3, 2012 22:55
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smug forum rear end in a top hat posted:Sorry if this question has already been answered: is eBay my best bet for this?
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Aug 4, 2012 03:13
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Jealous Cow posted:I'm not sure how I'd go about expanding storage. I have some external USB2 drives I use now, but I'd like to move to something faster. I suppose I'll just have to wait for Thunderbolt storage to get more reasonable (yeah right). FW800?
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Aug 4, 2012 03:31
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smug forum rear end in a top hat posted:is eBay my best bet for this? Looks like Apple has a process for replacing the bottom feet. I would see about going to an Apple Store and having a Genius take a look at it, it's a small enough part they may just slap them on there if they're not too busy. I know they'll replace the screws, I had to get a couple from them for my 2009 Macbook ages ago.
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Aug 4, 2012 03:49
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I'm hoping to get rid of my USB external drive. Naturally I started looking at the Time Capsule. Would I be able to not only store my iTunes library on there, but stream my huge lossless files without any skips, considering an iPad and maybe another computer are connected at the same time? I don't really know how good Wireless N is, I guess.
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Aug 4, 2012 04:09
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bulbous nub posted:Looks like Apple has a process for replacing the bottom feet. I would see about going to an Apple Store and having a Genius take a look at it, it's a small enough part they may just slap them on there if they're not too busy. I know they'll replace the screws, I had to get a couple from them for my 2009 Macbook ages ago. If he's still under AppleCare the feet will be replaced for free and the screws can be ordered as well if his store doesn't already have them. If he's not under AppleCare they're $10 per foot (HA!).
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Aug 4, 2012 04:55
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Abel Wingnut posted:I'm hoping to get rid of my USB external drive. Naturally I started looking at the Time Capsule. Would I be able to not only store my iTunes library on there, but stream my huge lossless files without any skips, considering an iPad and maybe another computer are connected at the same time? I don't really know how good Wireless N is, I guess. I think you will need a real server / NAS for this. I looked into the time capsule for this, and it really is designed for backups only, not full fledged NAS duty, at least it was when I got mine. Everything I looked into turning this into a NAS involved a unstable hack so I ended up returning mine. I'd recommend looking into the Synology NAS units to do what you are looking to do.
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Aug 4, 2012 04:57
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1997 posted:If he's still under AppleCare the feet will be replaced for free and the screws can be ordered as well if his store doesn't already have them. If he's not under AppleCare they're $10 per foot (HA!). Is it the same for the Air? One of the feet on my 6 month old MBA is warped.
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Aug 4, 2012 06:23
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1997 posted:If he's still under AppleCare the feet will be replaced for free and the screws can be ordered as well if his store doesn't already have them. If he's not under AppleCare they're $10 per foot (HA!). I was at an Apple Store having my HDD cable replaced and the dude next to me had a MBP that was 8 months out of warranty, missing a foot. The genius just made sure to ask something like, 'oh, this fell off like a year ago, RIGHT?' and covered it for free.
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Aug 4, 2012 23:56
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I ended up paying for the two missing feet ($10 each) and they replaced the missing screws for free. they said it wouldn't be done until the next day, but it actually took just about an hour. I'm happy with the result. thanks guys!
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Aug 5, 2012 04:37
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I've had my Air (Mid 2009) in for repair with an Apple affiliate, they put in a new HDD because my old one stopped working. Now the screws are coming loose on the bottom, should I return it or just buy new screws myself? I don't want to void my AppleCare which lasts until December this year but to turn it in for such a minor thing also seems dumb. And I don't feel that this warrants a thread in Tech Support put please tell me if this is dumb.
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Aug 5, 2012 13:55
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smug forum rear end in a top hat posted:missing feet ($10 each)  good lord, that's expensive for some tiny slabs of rubber.
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Aug 5, 2012 14:42
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jink posted:I've found that ML forces the discrete card much less than Lion ever did (with the exception of multi monitor). I second this. Per gfxCardStatus, Twitter apps like Janetter were forcing the switch to discrete under Lion. It no longer does so under Mountain Lion on a MBPr.
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Aug 5, 2012 14:49
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lord funk posted:
Tiny slabs of rubber.
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Aug 5, 2012 15:03
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Boatswain posted:I've had my Air (Mid 2009) in for repair with an Apple affiliate, they put in a new HDD because my old one stopped working. Now the screws are coming loose on the bottom, should I return it or just buy new screws myself? I don't want to void my AppleCare which lasts until December this year but to turn it in for such a minor thing also seems dumb. Just put some blue loctite on the screws and tighten it back up. It won't come loose again. That's what they'll do.
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Aug 5, 2012 15:46
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lord funk posted:
Itemized: Bits of rubber - $0.10 Keeping the things in the back of the Apple store for years until someone needs one - $9.90 Same goes for a lot of stuff like that...
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Aug 5, 2012 16:42
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I've had keys and key clips replaced, and they've never charged me. Seems a bit odd that it suddenly costs the same as lunch to get one rubber foot.
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Aug 5, 2012 16:50
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lord funk posted:I've had keys and key clips replaced, and they've never charged me. Seems a bit odd that it suddenly costs the same as lunch to get one rubber foot. I was more explaining why list price is what it is... maybe the guy (excuse me, genius) was just not a charitable mood?
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Aug 5, 2012 17:15
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The keys individually aren't inventoried so you don't get charged for them. The feet have their own part numbers so you do get charged. I think it's pretty dumb too.
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Aug 5, 2012 17:38
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I'm guessing the answer is no, but is it possible to use a 2012 11" MBA's display in conjunction with a Mac Mini? In other words, I want the Mini to output its video to the MBA display. I know this can be done with iMacs...
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Aug 5, 2012 19:47
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this is why it's good to clean out your macbooks every few years
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Aug 5, 2012 22:01
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ACID POLICE posted:this is why it's good to clean out your macbooks every few years But it's always a good idea to check up on your laptop once a year or so.
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Aug 5, 2012 22:27
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Can I replace a new Air 128GB SSD with a bigger one later on down the road?
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Aug 5, 2012 23:14
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:Can I replace a new Air 128GB SSD with a bigger one later on down the road? http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_Air_2012
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Aug 5, 2012 23:23
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ufarn posted:That looks like something out of Star Trek: First Contact. Definitely, I got this A1278 MacBook used but it was showing temps never below 70c so I was super worried. I took out the fan and the entire side duct was filled with what had turned into one solid brick of dust, and then there was all that dust under the heat sink too.  Between that and replacing the thermal paste with some MX4 I'm idling at 41c instead of 68c.
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Aug 6, 2012 00:37
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Is $500 for a 30" ACD a good deal? It's in like new condition.
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Aug 6, 2012 02:37
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