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FlashBangBob posted:I've done it about 5 times in 3 Mac minis that I've owned and I'm a pro at it now. It's like 8 screws, two pulls, and then everything comes out.
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Rexim posted:I really wanted 8gb of memory in my MBA because everyone says I should get that. However Amazon only had 4gb models so I ordered one of those. Am I really going to regret that? I'm really only going to use it for browsing the web and watching videos. 8gb is a BTO option. 4gb should be fine, especially with the super-fast SSD now so even if it has to page data, it should be very quick paging.
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Zartans Lady Mask posted:My new 13" rMBP is doing something weird. Whenever it wakes from sleep whilst using battery power, it really struggles to join a wifi network. I typically have to wait 20 secs, turn off wifi, then enable it before it'll join my network. It didn't do this when I first got the laptop about a month ago; it started about 2 weeks ago. If it's plugged into the mains, then it wakes up and joins the network perfectly. This is reproducible 100% of the time. Have you tried zapping the PRAM, resetting the SMC or using something like Cocktail, Onyx, or Mavericks Cache Cleaner to clean out your system caches? The last resort I would try would be to remove all of the preferences in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration listed below and reboot: CaptiveNetworkSupport com.apple.airport.preferences.plist com.apple.network.eapolclient.configuration.plist com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist NetworkInterfaces.plist Then go into System Preferences / Network and set everything up again. You did do the Retina MBP specific update to OS X 10.9.1, right? For the record I also have a 13" rMBP some three weeks old and haven't had this issue.
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I think it's a crime that apple still sells machines without solid state.
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IMHO definitely in the laptop area, not so much for the desktop. Laptops take a lot more punishment / shocks than most desktops. SSDs should be a no brainer because no moving parts, more shock resistant, etc. and they're now at the point where their real world longevity rivals if not exceeds platter drives. BTW, dunno if anyone else noticed, but Samsung is providing both the flash controller and the PCIe SSDs for nearly all Late 2013 Mac laptops (except the Late 2013 11-inch MBA which uses a Marvell flash controller and a SanDisk SSD) and the new Late 2013 Mac Pro, so no one should be concerned too much over the reliability of the SSDs. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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fleshweasel posted:I think it's a crime that apple still sells machines without solid state. To be honest the fusion drive should be standard. Like even if it's a 64 GB/500 GB model. There's so much to be gained on a user experience level when operating system poo poo just flys.
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Just wanted to mention that I finally got around to finding out what coverage an Amex card offers on electronics, and basically it extends the warranty an extra year. So if you get a mac without Apple care it's a 2 year warranty, if you get Apple care Amex extends Apple care by another year (so 4 years).
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I dunno, I've never seen anyone successfully charge something that was past the AppleCare expiration to AppleCare. Maybe you mean that any repairs or service is paid for by AmEx for a year past the AC expiration?
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Binary Badger posted:Maybe you mean that any repairs or service is paid for by AmEx for a year past the AC expiration? I'm pretty sure it means this. Several times we've had to give quotes to insurance companies and credit cards before performing repairs.
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Jan 6, 2014 17:19
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Ive used the Amex warranty in the past on an original Macbook Pro. All you have to do is go in get a quote from Apple send it to them and in about a week they will issue you a statement credit for repairs/replacement. It was incredibly easy and worth it to have an Amex card for electronics purchases alone.
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Has anyone used a Visa card with warranty extension for any repairs? Is it as simple as the American Express process being described?
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Zartans Lady Mask posted:My new 13" rMBP is doing something weird. Whenever it wakes from sleep whilst using battery power, it really struggles to join a wifi network. I typically have to wait 20 secs, turn off wifi, then enable it before it'll join my network. It didn't do this when I first got the laptop about a month ago; it started about 2 weeks ago. If it's plugged into the mains, then it wakes up and joins the network perfectly. This is reproducible 100% of the time. I too have this problem with my mid 2012 15" rMBP. I have to toggle the wifi on and off a couple times and then it can connect. The weird thing is it can connect to my work wifi with zero problems but my home wifi struggles. Binary Badger posted:Have you tried zapping the PRAM, resetting the SMC or using something like Cocktail, Onyx, or Mavericks Cache Cleaner to clean out your system caches? Thanks for this advice. I've tried resetting SMC and PRAM. Hopefully the plist clearing will do the trick!
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Hah, both my 2013 rMBP 13 and partner's rMBP 13 have the same issue with home WiFi. We have to toggle it on and off and then it connects. The router is an Asus RT-N66U and neither of our Android phones (or tablets) have this issue.
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Howdy- I have a 2011 MBA running the latest updates of Mavericks, and for the past few months, it's been having problems waking up from Sleep. Instead of opening my MBA and the screen lighting up and being ready to go almost immediately, sometimes it will take up to 2-3 minutes to wake up. Touching the trackpad or tapping keys does nothing to alleviate this, and around 1 in 50 times, it refuses to wake up at all and I have to hold the power key to reboot entirely. Any clues to what is going on? Edit: mid-2011 model 13" core i7 model with 4gb ram and a 256gb ssd. GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Could be bad battery, bad RAM / logic board, hosed up SMC. Try resetting PRAM, SMC? jink posted:Thanks for this advice. I've tried resetting SMC and PRAM. Hopefully the plist clearing will do the trick! Don't forget clearing out the system caches.
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I've reset the PRAM just now and will reset the SMC in a moment, then keep an eye on things for the next couple of days. Thanks! If it continues I'll take it to fruit; I still have applecare on this unit until July. Thanks!
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Duckman2008 posted:Just wanted to mention that I finally got around to finding out what coverage an Amex card offers on electronics, and basically it extends the warranty an extra year. So if you get a mac without Apple care it's a 2 year warranty, if you get Apple care Amex extends Apple care by another year (so 4 years). Does it work if I only buy Apple Care with AMEX? I already bought my Mac with a different credit card, but dont have AppleCare yet. It would be great if it extended it an extra year.
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You'd better call AmEx about that, Apple doesn't give a poo poo past three years and they're not formally working with the credit card companies as empty baggie has indicated, the cc companies just pay for repairs past the AppleCare expiration. So effectively, the cc companies are paying out/covering the repairs for a year.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:I've reset the PRAM just now and will reset the SMC in a moment, then keep an eye on things for the next couple of days. Thanks! If it continues I'll take it to fruit; I still have applecare on this unit until July. Thanks! One other thing you can try is to go to System Preferences > Network > Edit Locations, remove all of them if you have multiples, and start a new one from scratch, that seems to work for some people on Apple Discussions. Also, there's also the issue of Power Nap.. You might try System Preferences > Energy Saver and enable / disable Power Nap's checkbox. Apple is a little vague on this, but: Apple posted:Power Nap and your battery ..although I've never seen this problem personally in my ANECDOTAL experience of losing wireless connectivity when sleeping with pre-Power Nap OSes or had to keep the adapter connected before, or even now to retain wireless; caveat is that I only use my 13-inch Late 2013 rMBP with AEBSes / Asus RT-N56Us / whatever Cablevision or Starbucks uses / lovely Clearwire 4G puck that only serves up 802.11g. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Animal posted:Does it work if I only buy Apple Care with AMEX? I already bought my Mac with a different credit card, but dont have AppleCare yet. It would be great if it extended it an extra year. Pretty sure you would need the device purchase to be via the Amex card, so just buying apple care with warranty wouldn't do anything. Def double check with Amex though. And yes, I meant Amex covers the difference on the extra year, no Apple. Sorry about that!
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I'll ask them when its time to buy AppleCare, but it would be too good to be true.
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I've held out about as long as I can for a refurbished 2013 rMBP to show up. It looks like I'll have to buy one this week and maybe hope that they show up on the refurb store within the return policy for my new one.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I've held out about as long as I can for a refurbished 2013 rMBP to show up. It looks like I'll have to buy one this week and maybe hope that they show up on the refurb store within the return policy for my new one. You can search open boxes at best buy within a certain number of miles from your zip code on their site
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Bob Morales posted:You can search open boxes at best buy within a certain number of miles from your zip code on their site
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Animal posted:Does it work if I only buy Apple Care with AMEX? I already bought my Mac with a different credit card, but dont have AppleCare yet. It would be great if it extended it an extra year.
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Got an artist friend who is interested in getting an imac or a mac pro, and using it with a cintiq (which he'll buy later) for art programs. (Premiere, final cut pro, photoshop, flash, toonboom, maya, etc.) Think you guys can help me pick out a great quality computer for him from the refurbished stuff that was just put up?
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fleshweasel posted:I think it's a crime that apple still sells machines without solid state. The real crime is the SuperDrive they still ship the non-r MBP with. What exactly are you supposed to put in that thing, in this, the year of our Lord, two-thousand and fourteen?
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I have a 2012 iMac and it does not have any optical drive.
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NOTinuyasha posted:The real crime is the SuperDrive they still ship the non-r MBP with. What exactly are you supposed to put in that thing, in this, the year of our Lord, two-thousand and fourteen? Best Buy stills sells CDs. Gotta rip your music somehow.
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A lot of software like Rosetta Stone is still only available on physical media.
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Mu Zeta posted:I have a 2012 iMac and it does not have any optical drive. Yeah I realized that and ninja edited it out but this thread is faster than me. I don't see many iMacs in the wild except for the old ones for some reason.
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Binary Badger posted:A lot of software like Rosetta Stone is still only available on physical media. http://www.rosettastone.com/product-comparison  Seems like they offer downloads?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Refurb store just got a ton of products, but no late-2013 rMBPs Yeah, they do have a lot of Early 2013 and Late 2012 rMBPs though. Wonder what's taking so long? I'd be willing to bet the first bunch of Late 2013 rMBPs available on the web store will be 4 GB 13-inchers.
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ratbert90 posted:http://www.rosettastone.com/product-comparison I stand corrected on Rosetta Stone, but you can't convince me the typical folks who buy their stuff at Best Buy / Walmart are gonna pass up physical media for digital downloads, especially when really high speed Internet isn't ubiquitous across the country, and especially when it's mostly physical media that goes on sale in holiday flyers.
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I have many hundreds of DVDs (not porn get your minds out of the gutter) and will pop one into my super duper drive. These are things I can't be arsed to rip but want to watch from time to time. Seriously to pirate or rip this stuff would be a pain.
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Binary Badger posted:I stand corrected on Rosetta Stone, but you can't convince me the typical folks who buy their stuff at Best Buy / Walmart are gonna pass up physical media for digital downloads, especially when really high speed Internet isn't ubiquitous across the country, and especially when it's mostly physical media that goes on sale in holiday flyers. Obviously, based on my experience I'll NEVER declare that my needs and solutions should be a suitable option for everyone, but I've been pleasantly surprised at how not-a-big-deal it really has turned out to be.
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Omitting an optical drive might be the cool new thing, but I really can't be arsed when a Slackware installer goes looking for a cdrom or those days when I get super paranoid about plugging reprogrammable firmware devices between one machine and another. Oh well yeah there's these external optical drives but it's so easy to contaminate an air gap when using those... you only do your banking from a banking-only laptop connecting from a cafe via Tor, right? It's the only way to keep your money safe. Other reasons to have an optical drive: for burning MP3 CDs because your flash-based MP3 player's battery isn't going to last on a long trip and the last thing you want to do is have your phone on such that the NSA can track you.
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Also, I recently got this from Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136266 For $40 it's great, the silver finish matches my rMBP and it does all the stuff a SuperDrive would do for half the price. Except it's not a tray-less drive like the SuperDrive that auto-sucks in your CD/DVD. I also like the fact it's still got an eject hole you can poke a paper clip into to force eject the disc, whereas you have to literally disassemble the SuperDrive if the disk gets stuck.
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Binary Badger posted:I also like the fact it's still got an eject hole you can poke a paper clip into to force eject the disc, whereas you have to literally disassemble the SuperDrive if the disk gets stuck. Back when I worked in a lab full of iMacs with slot loading drives, when a disc got stuck we'd jam a second disc halfway in so it got jammed on top of the first then yank both out. Standard procedure.
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