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kloa posted:How does someone go through that many MagSafe cords? Mine from 2009 looks brand new. So long as you just make sure there's no strain on the cord when stowing it away, I see no reason for anyone to have to exchange their charger due to physical damage (no for electrical failure reasons or whatever). http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1630
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At work we have MagSafes from 2009 that are in perfect condition that get used all day every day, while being moved around. I've never understood why anyone's adapter would fray other than from not taking care of it.
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It's because people pull on the cord rather than the connector. I've got magsafes from 2007 that have been used daily without issue.
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Don't buy a third-party one. I did, and it died in about three months. Also, whatever you're doing to kill your chargers, stop.
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I have a MagSafe adapter that is five years old and is in the same condition as when I bought it.
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teen witch posted:It appears my MagSafe charger is disintegrating. There is only so much electrical tape in the world. poo poo, my wife's Apple branded magsafe charger tried to burn our house down, so kind of a toss up. When magsafe goes bad, it goes bad in a usually pretty spectacular way.
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Use the arms on the charger when putting it away too.
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I don't think anyone posted this yet, but AnAnd has posted their review comparison of the i5 vs i7 Macbook Air. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7113/2013-macbook-air-core-i5-4250u-vs-core-i7-4650u The i7 seems to be about 20% more powerful over all. Biggest surprise is that the i7 gets the same ish battery life on a low work load. With my personal uses I have pretty much literally no need for the i7 (the biggest thing I do is Civ and it runs fine so far), but the nerd in me almost regrets not getting the i7. Almost regrets. Edit: poo poo, horribly beat to this one. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Duckman2008 posted:I don't think anyone posted this yet, but AnAnd has posted their review comparison of the i5 vs i7 Macbook Air. Did you miss it along with all the huge graphs on the last page ?  It's a huge improvement compared to the 10% gain the i7 previously had over the i5.
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Maneki Neko posted:poo poo, my wife's Apple branded magsafe charger tried to burn our house down, so kind of a toss up. When magsafe goes bad, it goes bad in a usually pretty spectacular way. I haven't had it that bad, but I've had exposed wire a few times. I go everywhere with my laptop in tow, and when I can, I do wrap the wires the correct way and treat it like the delicate wire flower it is. Clearly I don't do it enough (even though I managed to make this charger last a year, which is a new disturbing record). (I'm not getting into the "Apple, what is it with you and cables" argument) E: I'm also springing for the new charger, if MagSafe is what it is, third party might be even worse.
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Pretty stoked that I just sold my 2011 13" MBA for $750. Local free online classifieds were painful with lowballs and really bad swap offers (the best being a broken-down ride-on lawn mower). I finally thought of using a local professional mailing list I have access to and 2 hours later got a taker. I remember someone in the thread suggesting I could get $900 for it but with similar-spec 2012 refurbs going for $850 online I'm pretty happy to have it over with and make a fellow professional happy. Thanks for the earlier responses though because they did help me with settling and being satisfied with what I got for it instead of having unrealistic expectations. Moral of the story: mailing lists still have a purpose in 2013. Now I get to have all of the fun of being in buy-a-Mac mode again, just in time for the back-to-school promo my part-time student wife can help me with.
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I'm having to sell my new 11"/512gb/1.3ghz Air in SA-Mart, if anyone is interested. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3558708
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What's battery life running Windows on a Macbook Pro like nowadays? When I run Windows XP on my 2009 MBP, I get ~90 minutes. Also am I correct in assuming that the latest MBPs with SSD drives have similar performance to the Air models?
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Depends, but almost universally worse. Yes, though afaik the Retina MBPs haven't implemented the PCI-based SSDs used in the new Airs, yet.
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Windows 7 and Windows 8 are better optimized for battery life than Windows XP. But they won't be as good as OS X.
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Huh so a new Mini would run me just shy of £900, and a 24" IPS monitor will add on £200. I assume it would be worth just paying another £120 and getting a refurbed 27" iMac? Hell, a refurbed 21.5" is just straight-up cheaper than a Mini and new monitor. I've been perfectly happy with my current 23.6" 1920x1080 monitor for working on and never found myself hard-up for screen space, has anyone used both the 21.5" and 27" screens and can comment on how useful the increased resolution and screen space is? Also coming from plug 'n play PC, how easy would it be to fit my own SSD in place of the HDD that the refurbs come with? Thanks dude, looks like a huge pain in the arse  The main reason I'm buying a Mac is to streamline my setup so I can spend more time doing the work I'm paid for rather than fiddling with poo poo.\/\/\/ Creepy Goat fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Creepy Goat posted:Also coming from plug 'n play PC, how easy would it be to fit my own SSD in place of the HDD that the refurbs come with? etalian posted:Check here:http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2544+Teardown/11936/1
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If I buy this new Airport Extreme that does the 802.11ac networks, do any AAPL devices currently support that?
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Samara posted:If I buy this new Airport Extreme that does the 802.11ac networks, do any AAPL devices currently support that?
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Samara posted:If I buy this new Airport Extreme that does the 802.11ac networks, do any AAPL devices currently support that? The reviews are that Samara posted:If I buy this new Airport Extreme that does the 802.11ac networks, do any AAPL devices currently support that? The reviews are that the new MBAs support them, but something in the software prevents the speeds from reaching anywhere close to the higher maximums. I believe they said Mavericks should fix the issue.
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So earlier in this thread I asked for brand recommendations on microfiber cloth/cleaner and people recommended that all I needed to clean my rMBP screen was any damp microfiber cloth. I just used a MagicFiber brand cloth dampened with a little water and it put a loving scratch on my screen. loving gently caress. What brands do you guys use? edit: it also ends up attracting more dust afterward anyway. gently caress these loving goddamn things mellowjournalism fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Gecko Clearscreen is pretty good, it's a spray and cloth. Before cleaning the screen I usually like to lightly wipe off any dust before using the spray so that I don't end up dragging it around and scratching the display. With the clearscreen cloth I haven't had any issues with static either.
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My Macbook Air has now started to get hot when sleeping. I closed it while at 90% battery and a few hours later it's at 65% and hot. Luckily I'm already switching it for a replacement, I just hope it won't happen again.
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Selklubber posted:My Macbook Air has now started to get hot when sleeping. I closed it while at 90% battery and a few hours later it's at 65% and hot. Luckily I'm already switching it for a replacement, I just hope it won't happen again.  then it's not sleeping. Something is keeping it awake, most likely some third-party software.
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I'm looking at a 2013 MBA and was wondering if anyone can comment on running Windows 8 with Boot Camp (ie. can it be done yet). Details seem to be very thin on the ground. This would be my first time on a Mac and there are a few things (Foobar, paid up Office 365 subscription, not very graphically intensive Steam games) I'd like to have pretty much seamless access to.
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The current Boot Camp supports Win8. It's not exactly seamless though as it requires a restart.
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hampig posted:I'm looking at a 2013 MBA and was wondering if anyone can comment on running Windows 8 with Boot Camp (ie. can it be done yet). Details seem to be very thin on the ground. This would be my first time on a Mac and there are a few things (Foobar, paid up Office 365 subscription, not very graphically intensive Steam games) I'd like to have pretty much seamless access to.
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Mercurius posted:You can install Office from your subscription on the Mac at least but Office on the Mac is kind of awful. Any particular reason? For what it's worth, I'd be quite happy not using Office at all, but my uni sends documents out in .docx because, well, I don't know why. Joe Don Baker posted:The current Boot Camp supports Win8. It's not exactly seamless though as it requires a restart. Yeah I figured. I guess I'm wondering about whether it actually runs well enough to be considered usable, or is that implied by "supported"? To be kinda specific, would I have problems with say an Xbox controller since I'd like to chill out playing some platformers every now and then and my house doesn't have a console (or a tv for that matter). hampig fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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hampig posted:Any particular reason? For what it's worth, I'd be quite happy not using Office at all, but my uni sends documents out in .docx because, well, I don't know why. I personally don't mind Mac Office so much. I used to swivel chair between Mac and Windows office and while they are different in some of the UI stuff they are nearly functionally identical. Outlook is the worst offender since you cannot create a local data file on a Mac but if you copy one from the PC it works fine. I have since replaced my work PC with an Air and it is fine for me. As for booting windows I have an iMac from January and it runs a Windows in either Parallels or VMWare so well I have never had to do something that required booting fully into Windows, if that makes sense. If it runs that well in a VM on last years model I would be surprised if it was a problem booting natively.
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hampig posted:Yeah I figured. I guess I'm wondering about whether it actually runs well enough to be considered usable, or is that implied by "supported"? To be kinda specific, would I have problems with say an Xbox controller since I'd like to chill out playing some platformers every now and then and my house doesn't have a console (or a tv for that matter). I'm running Windows 8.1 Preview and everything works. That said, the trackpad is still a piece of crap just like every other windows laptop, but it's not worse than the others. USB, Bluetooth, everything has drivers available and functions normally. About the only other thing you'll notice is somewhat reduced battery life.
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Cool Matty posted:I'm running Windows 8.1 Preview and everything works. That said, the trackpad is still a piece of crap just like every other windows laptop, but it's not worse than the others. USB, Bluetooth, everything has drivers available and functions normally. About the only other thing you'll notice is somewhat reduced battery life. Thanks. Any ballpark figure on the reduced battery life? I can live with 9 hours down from twelve, but 5 or 6 would be
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Two quick questions re: an old Mac Pro 1.1 1) It currently has 2x dual-core Xeon 5140s (2.0 Ghz) in it. If I wanted to swap those for 2x 5160s (3.0 Ghz), it should be ok to use the 5160s that were originally part of an HP server CPU/Heatsink upgrade kit, right? 2) Any concerns over possibly mixed steppings? Ideally they'd both be SLAB9 for the lower thermal output at idle, but it may not be possible to get a matched pair. I could guarantee a matched pair but I'd have to go with a set pulled from a working system, and using used (or even new-but-installed) parts would worry me a little. Thanks!
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hampig posted:Thanks. Any ballpark figure on the reduced battery life? I can live with 9 hours down from twelve, but 5 or 6 would be I don't use it much, but under light load it's estimating about 1-2 hours less, but if you hammer it (think gaming), it will gladly go down to 3 hours or so. Edit: This is a 13" MBA 2013. Cool Matty fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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Cool Matty posted:I don't use it much, but under light load it's estimating about 1-2 hours less, but if you hammer it (think gaming), it will gladly go down to 3 hours or so. Thanks for that, gives me a much better idea of what to expect.
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Another Haswell rMBP geekbench surfaced. http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/2139563 Looks like no dedicated gpu for 15". E: VV Just meant it's running the Iris pro 5200 and not an nVidia card. tirinal fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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tirinal posted:Another Haswell rMBP geekbench surfaced. http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/2139563 Wait, how do you figure that? Hm, this comparison is interesting: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/compare/2139386/2139563 What's up with that lower L3 cache? fookolt fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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I don't really know how the geekbench tests work but I guess it would be entirely possible to use something like gfxCardStatus to lock the system into the integrated if that's all they wanted to benchmark. I'm not sure what kind of thermal envelope they're working with for the newer retina MBP's but I think the 760M was only a few watts higher than the 750M/650M for quite a big performance improvement so I'm somewhat hopeful that the reduced power/heat from Haswell will allow them to shoehorn one in alongside the HD5200. Seeing a 2.4GHz Haswell CPU keeping pace (and outperforming a bit in a lot of cases) with a 2.8GHz Ivy refresh is nice to see. It's also nice to look at Intel's ARK page for the i7-4950HQ and see that the processor they're using has the Iris Pro along with every possible option enabled. Really kind of interested to see what they do with the 13" as well. Edit: I'm thinking of the 755m (same TDP as 750m) rather than the 760m. 760m is quite a bit higher TDP wise. Mercurius fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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