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~Coxy posted:It's funny how in the old days you used to be able to read the text while waiting for the image elements on the page to load, whereas now you can look at all the pretty pictures while you wait for the text to display. Why must you remind us of how much better web surfing used to be
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Shaocaholica posted:Does anyone remember how (un)reliable Zip-100M/250M/750M compared to jaz-1G/2G? Doing a retro build with a B&W G3 and trying to pick one of these drives. Well, I've already got the Zip-750 on order. Just trying to figure out if I want to also grab a Jaz-2G. Oh god don't use Jaz drives for any reason. So many painful memories of data loss from those.
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Shaocaholica posted:Does anyone remember how (un)reliable Zip-100M/250M/750M compared to jaz-1G/2G? Doing a retro build with a B&W G3 and trying to pick one of these drives. Well, I've already got the Zip-750 on order. Just trying to figure out if I want to also grab a Jaz-2G. Do not get a Jaz drive. They were never good. Zip drives had their hardware issues but Jaz's only improvement was that it could ruin more data per failure. If you want that retro look kitbash a flash drive into a Zip/Jaz case.
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I had a SyQuest EZ135. Faster than a Zip drive, more storage, and as an added bonus, they flopped so I could get the disks super cheap from Surplus Software on closeout.
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Well I'm not going to put critical data on it. How bad could a new-old-stock drive be? Does anyone know how fast the 2GB version was?
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Shaocaholica posted:Well I'm not going to put critical data on it. How bad could a new-old-stock drive be? Does anyone know how fast the 2GB version was? SCSI-2 is only like 20MB/s max PC World Benchmarks  Iomega ad 
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May 16, 2016 18:05
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Once again the thread lives up to its subtitle
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Pivo posted:Once again the thread lives up to its subtitle i don't know a single acronym that was posted
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logikv9 posted:i don't know a single acronym that was posted I lived through Jaz and Zip id prefer to forget
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The girlfriend is looking at getting a laptop soonish and is eyeing a 2015 MBP of some sort. Macrumors says that a new model is around the corner, but it's Apple and Macrumors, so... ??? I take it that the refresh is going to be new Intel SKUs, a slightly different chassis, and a few new ports (USB C, etc)? No real good reason to not just pick up the nicest refurbished model she can afford? Tom Hanks you.
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Phone posted:The girlfriend is looking at getting a laptop soonish and is eyeing a 2015 MBP of some sort. Macrumors says that a new model is around the corner, but it's Apple and Macrumors, so... ??? new rMBP's are supposed to be announced during WWDC that runs between June 13th - 16th I believe. I would honestly wait - supposed to be a pretty big refresh.
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May 16, 2016 19:10
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A 1080p FaceTime camera doesn't count as a major refresh. 
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Phone posted:A 1080p FaceTime camera doesn't count as a major refresh. bro its 1080p
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Tom Hanks would wait.
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tuyop posted:Tom Hanks would wait. Tom Hank have faith in timb 
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Do magic mouses or trackpads ever show up in the refurbished store? I want a magic trackpad but the new price is a bit too steep for me. I was hoping the old ones might show up as refurbished, or at the very least that the price can be somewhat lower. As far as I can tell force touch is nothing more than a gimmick on the Mac. Edit: poo poo, just found out that the magic trackpad 2 actually has a bigger touch area too. That sounds pretty sweet. I guess I'm in the market for a Magic Trackpad 2. SAmart etc is not an option for me as I'm in Europe. LPG Giant fucked around with this message at 16:13 on May 17, 2016 |
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LPG Giant posted:Do magic mouses or trackpads ever show up in the refurbished store? Keep an eye on SA-Mart or MacRumors.com Marketplace? eBay?
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Bob Morales posted:SCSI-2 is only like 20MB/s max Thanks. That should be enough to stream an SD/HD movie provided the CPU can keep up the decode.
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tuyop posted:Your laptop is boiling! poo poo you're right I am a dirty peasant 
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Oh man, look at that power efficiency. 
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I have a 3TB WD Black I use in my Hackintosh (though that shouldn't make a difference.) HFS formatted. When I sled it and hook it up to my new 15" rMBP, it appears fine on the Bootcamp side but not at all on the Mac side – not even under df or Disk Utility.
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May 18, 2016 16:20
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Where can I find this neat looking monitoring software?
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Pryor on Fire posted:Where can I find this neat looking monitoring software? https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
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I was asked "Which Mac should I buy" today. Had to think about it for a second. The 13" Air is the value leader (11" even more so) instead of thin and light at $999 The MacBook is no longer the 'budget' model but the thin and light model, $1299 The Retina 13" Pro is $1299 The classic 13" Pro is $1099 I thought about Apple having only 3 laptop models. Budget, Pro, Thin So do they stick with that? Does the Air stay around? Wouldn't 2 make more sense like the iBook/PowerBook days? Ugh. I wish they would merge the budget/thin models again, like when it was only Pro/Air.
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Bob Morales posted:I was asked "Which Mac should I buy" today. Had to think about it for a second. They probably will once they can get the MacBook down to around a thousand bucks. They need to keep the Air around as a budget option until then.
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Weedle posted:They probably will once they can get the MacBook down to around a thousand bucks. They need to keep the Air around as a budget option until then. I agree 100%. Give it a couple of years and the MBA will be dead.
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Question for the owners of the newer rMBs, do any of you use Photoshop (or Acorn/Pixelmator) on it? I wouldn't be doing a pro-level workload or anything, just slapping together posters and book covers and maybe editing the occasional photo, probably while hooked up to an external monitor. Asking because I'm going to be in the market for a mac laptop later this year, and though I thought I'd be avoiding the rMB at all costs because of the gimped specs + keyboard, when I went by an Apple Store I actually found that I liked its keyboard better than that of the Air, which felt weirdly mushy in comparison.
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ShadeofBlue posted:I agree 100%. Give it a couple of years and the MBA will be dead. I give it two. Three max.
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I rather they upgrade the Air with new form factor and better screens than the Macbook. One hole sucks.
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Mu Zeta posted:One hole sucks. What do the other holes do?
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GutBomb posted:What do the other holes do? talk dirty 
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The Skylake MacBook is cool. I still love mine.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I have a 3TB WD Black I use in my Hackintosh (though that shouldn't make a difference.) HFS formatted. When I sled it and hook it up to my new 15" rMBP, it appears fine on the Bootcamp side but not at all on the Mac side – not even under df or Disk Utility. What about 'diskutil list'? Do you know what kind of partition table it has?
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babydonthurtme posted:Question for the owners of the newer rMBs, do any of you use Photoshop (or Acorn/Pixelmator) on it? I wouldn't be doing a pro-level workload or anything, just slapping together posters and book covers and maybe editing the occasional photo, probably while hooked up to an external monitor. You'll be fine. Maybe spring for the high-spec version if you're scared. A weird number of people ITT seem to have goldfish memories about what "on par with a 2012 MBA" means in terms of real-world usability for a large number of cases. I've been posting about Macs on these forums since I joined on a 2007 C2D Blackbook and I remember how shocked and awed people were at the capability of the 2011/12 MBAs. People were comfortably Photoshopping, making music, working actual paying jobs, going to art schools, programming, playing certain Steam games, posting, doing some video editing, getting STEM degrees, Illustrator'ing, and LightRooming with them, myself included. Everyone was thrilled with them. Affordable solid state memory has shifted the state of non-pocketable computers forward more than anything else in the last decade aside from maybe Sandy Bridge. Sure, the MacBook compromises on ports and the keyboard is, at least initially, polarizing. And it'll probably be $200 cheaper in a year or two- as was the case with the other two most recent notebook lines (and as the rMB progressively takes the Air's place in the lineup). But if you're comfortable with the keyboard and port it's probably a lovely computer for your needs.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:A weird number of people ITT seem to have goldfish memories about what "on par with a 2012 MBA" means in terms of real-world usability for a large number of cases. Mostly people seem to be against the price point, which puts it in a similar ballpark as today's rMBP while getting "4 year old" performance. I've been using the rMB as my daily driver for the past year since the initial release and it's kept up with everything I want to do. Managing a large (~10,000) photo library, editing 1080p video, coding on a large Xcode project.. The only place it's really felt underpowered (and drastically so in some cases) is gaming, but I never bought this to play anything more than simple games on the go.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:People were comfortably Photoshopping, making music, working actual paying jobs, going to art schools, programming, playing certain Steam games, posting, doing some video editing, getting STEM degrees, Illustrator'ing, and LightRooming with them, myself included. Everyone was thrilled with them. I always find it funny when people ask for a laptop recommendation and say "I hear an i3 is useless for Photoshop and I need an i7", and it's like well if you know how much work I did on a PowerPC G3 with a piddly 64MB of RAM back in the day...
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How come there were so many 3rd party CPU upgrades for G3/G4 but none for G5? IBM?
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Bob Morales posted:They did so with Quadras, then PowerPC's, then G3's, G4's.... I remember running a Photoshop demo (v. 3, 4?) on my Performa 631CD. The tiny preview window for the lens flare filter would take about 10 seconds to update between clicks. One of those times when a FPU would've been nice. It's been a very long time since anyone has needed a powerful computer to do the basics but it's still hard to get that across to people who associate case size with horsepower. EDIT: The PM 7300/200 I bought to replace the Performa was the only computer I've had that I did a CPU upgrade on, adding an XLR8 G3/333. Squeezed a few more years out of what would be my last Mac desktop. (We need a crying Mac smilie) Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 17:46 on May 19, 2016 |
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Dick Trauma posted:I remember running a Photoshop demo (v. 3, 4?) on my Performa 631CD. The tiny preview window for the lens flare filter would take about 10 seconds to update between clicks. One of those times when a FPU would've been nice. One thing I find amazing now compared to 'the old days' was waiting 10 seconds or even a minute for a simple filter to run. Now you can see it in real-time on a much larger image while you're just playing around with some sliders. I also don't miss waiting seconds for a single image to load or save. With an SSD and modern CPU you can open 100 photos in like 2 seconds.
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Bob Morales posted:One thing I find amazing now compared to 'the old days' was waiting 10 seconds or even a minute for a simple filter to run. Now you can see it in real-time on a much larger image while you're just playing around with some sliders. I remember trying out one of the beige G3s towers in 1997 before I got my upgrade, and the first thing I did was go to that same preview window. It was amazing to be able to get a realtime preview as I whipped the mouse around in circles. About the only thing that never seemed to change is rendering time for 3D work as no matter how much more processing power I've upgraded to over the years I always wanted to render a higher res, more CPU cycle expensive image.
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