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I’ve never seen a Mac with a hardshell that didn’t develop scratches and scuffs from debris trapped underneath the hardshell.
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Ok Comboomer posted:I’ve never seen a Mac with a hardshell that didn’t develop scratches and scuffs from debris trapped underneath the hardshell. Depends how filthy you live. Also the Incase 'dots' hardshell does not have full contact on the inner surface. It's a bunch of raised dots which means any debris can live in the valleys and not grind up against the chassis. YMMV.
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Shaocaholica posted:Depends how filthy you live. Also the Incase 'dots' hardshell does not have full contact on the inner surface. It's a bunch of raised dots which means any debris can live in the valleys and not grind up against the chassis. YMMV. My mileage over 13 years of owning MacBooks tells me that hardshells are decidedly not for my use case. Maybe if I was doing fieldwork and was popping my laptop on rocks or something
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May 21, 2020 19:07
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Very disappointed with the trade in process on my old MacBook Air. I got quoted $350 which Apple then revised to $80 after receiving the device due to hardware configuration differences. Like what the gently caress apple I gave you the serial number how do you not know what the hardware config is? Well gently caress them I'm making them send it back.
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Daniel Bryan posted:iMacs are good but lol imagine Apple caring about their desktop line in tyool 2020 I love what they've done with the Mac Pro and the standalone displays, and would love to use both, but that poo poo is just not priced for the consumer market at all. enojy fucked around with this message at 21:39 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 21:36
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I wonder if the coming ARM age will be when Apple finally just release a Mac to go alongside the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro. Bring back the Cube you cowards
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Fedule posted:I wonder if the coming ARM age will be when Apple finally just release a Mac to go alongside the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro. Apple hasn’t done a proper Mac “for the fans” in a long rear end time. Although I guess the Mac Pro/iMac Pro technically count. Especially the MP, buying that for your house is basically buying a named piece of furniture art from Ive and Co. Trashcan was definitely that idea. Ok so I take it back. The MP/iMac Pro are priced where special edition macs historically were. Wasn’t the 20th Anniv Mac like $7k in 1997?
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Any opinions on MacBook sleeves? The Incase PerformaKnit Sleeve looks an interesting option as you can still see the MacBook inside. Alternative choice would be the Native Union slim sleeve, the one without a zipper. $10 to add a zipper is surprising. I have a lovely gash in the corner of my current MacBook as it had no protection in a backpack when non-delicately placed on the ground. Would like to avoid that experience again in the future, I travel a lot, different bags and containers. I'm not really looking to carry a gigantic backpack in the wonderful temperatures in HK where I usually stay half the year. edit:  $180 for Apple's leather sleeve.
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May 21, 2020 23:39
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JFC $60 for that laptop sock? Maybe get a better backpack?
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MrMoo posted:Any opinions on MacBook sleeves? The Incase PerformaKnit Sleeve looks an interesting option as you can still see the MacBook inside. Alternative choice would be the Native Union slim sleeve, the one without a zipper. $10 to add a zipper is surprising. Ok Comboomer posted:Herschel Anchor sleeve is my go-to for iPad and MacBook of all kinds. Prices range from $15-$40 depending on where you’re buying, when, whether the specific pattern is on sale, etc. It’s nice and plushy and lined with fake fur on the inside.
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MrMoo posted:Any opinions on MacBook sleeves? The Incase PerformaKnit Sleeve looks an interesting option as you can still see the MacBook inside. Alternative choice would be the Native Union slim sleeve, the one without a zipper. $10 to add a zipper is surprising. Booq Mamba
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LionArcher posted:I’m the weird geek mad that the keyboard that comes with a Mac pro is a different space Grey than the one you can buy separately. I want space grey Mac mini,(and keyboard) and an XDR on a vesa mount  existential anger posted:I'm not familiar with Macs and the internet in general likes to give conflicting answers. I'm going to ask a few probably stupid questions here: For the MBA vs MBP, not sure the difference in cooling would really matter matter for your use case, a little less battery life, and well, there's still a price difference even if it's not that much. If you want two more cores that can be done with the MBA's i5 upgrade and still end up cheaper than the MBP. And Touch Bar isn't for everyone.
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I still wish they would offer the Touch Bra as an option, not as a feature. But then you'd see 90% of everyone get the nTB over the TB. IMHO it doesn't do poo poo for anything except editing workflows in FCP specifically and wastes power that could be going to battery life. Apple still doesn't give Macs the love they deserve, although the 4-port 13-inch rMBP 2020 is a step in the right direction. iPhone: let's cram in the best drat 12 megapixel camera we can source from Sony, and give it super software support right in the OS, throw in poo poo like bokeh and Night Mode, and fine tune it for anyone who wants good results from their stevephone MacBook Air/Pro: just give them the same drat camera that was state of the art in 2012 that you could get free with a tank of gas, let them buy a friggin' Logitech USB camera if they don't want to look like a cyber hobo on Zoom
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Binary Badger posted:MacBook Air/Pro: just give them the same drat camera that was state of the art in 2012 that you could get free with a tank of gas, let them buy a friggin' Logitech USB camera if they don't want to look like a cyber hobo on Zoom How many people even used the cameras before 3 months ago?
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Do any other laptop manufacturers put good webcams in their laptops? I honestly haven't seen it as anything more than a bullet point, even the flagship XPS and Thinkpad lines have bog standard 720p webcams.
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I've made this joke before and it was only half a joke then, too; Apple could add a physical function row as a BTO option on MBPs and charge Ł€$50 for it and reap a harvest of cashmoney.
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FCKGW posted:Do any other laptop manufacturers put good webcams in their laptops? I honestly haven't seen it as anything more than a bullet point, even the flagship XPS and Thinkpad lines have bog standard 720p webcams. I'd rather have the ultra small 720p webcam on the XPS 13 2-in-1 I use for work, since it allowed it to have God's 16:10 resolution and narrow bezels.
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i prefer the lower res to hide my shameful face better
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I really like the touch bar. Better touch tool and the presets make it fantastic to use!
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Captain Apollo posted:I really like the touch bar. Can I ask what sort of stuff you use it for?
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GoldenChaos is the presets I use. Check it out here. I really love it. Logic, YouTube, final cut, screen resizing, Dropbox I mean all of it https://community.folivora.ai/t/goldenchaos-btt-the-complete-touch-bar-ui-replacement/1281
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Pakistani Brad Pitt posted:Can I ask what sort of stuff you use it for? I hide my dock, so I like to use a heavily customized GoldenChaos so I can quickly see if I have any new e-mails or texts, along with anyupcoming reminders and calendar entries. Being able to quickly view the temperature and upcoming forecast is pretty nice too, but admittedly, I've hidden most of the function buttons on the Touch Bar and just map them to Capslock + the first four rows of keys for blind one-handed use. Being able to hold down control and have the Touch Bar show a bunch of shortcuts that I don't remember the hotkeys for is pretty nice too.
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Is there a good thread, or website for vintage Macs? I have a 1998 iMac with OS 9.2 and want to see how far I can go with this computer with upgrading its ram, and hard drive space, and getting the internet working on it. So I am looking for a good resource for help and asking for advice. 
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I said come in! posted:Is there a good thread, or website for vintage Macs? I have a 1998 iMac with OS 9.2 and want to see how far I can go with this computer with upgrading its ram, and hard drive space, and getting the internet working on it. So I am looking for a good resource for help and asking for advice. Low End Mac is always a good starting point for that sort of thing.
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Bob Morales posted:How many people even used the cameras before 3 months ago? Just creepers
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I said come in! posted:Is there a good thread, or website for vintage Macs? I have a 1998 iMac with OS 9.2 and want to see how far I can go with this computer with upgrading its ram, and hard drive space, and getting the internet working on it. So I am looking for a good resource for help and asking for advice. A modified version of 10.4 should run on it.
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Zenostein posted:Low End Mac is always a good starting point for that sort of thing. Yes! They're great. Their Facebook page is pretty awesome for advice as well https://www.facebook.com/groups/lowendmac/
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I know, eww, reddit, but /r/vintageapple is pretty happening as subs for old electronics go.
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Thank you for the advice! The first thing I am hoping to do is add the max amount of RAM that it'll allow, and a new hard drive with a lot more space, and then add the OS that is the best fit for its CPU and RAM. I was thinking of OS X, but that may actually be a bit much for this Macs hardware? Looking for opinions on that one. One of the things I want to be able to do though is have internet access, so I may need OSX.
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OS 9 will be the most optimal OS for it, and you can run Classilla.
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My entirely arbitrary rule of thumb is to match the PPC G number to OS X's version number. So this G3 imac I have burried somewhere in the basement has 10.3, 10.4 on a cube, and 10.5 on a G4 ibook, because that's as high as it'll go and the ram's maxed on thatplus that's a g4/7450, so that almost fits the pattern. I feel like my imac is a 300-something g3 and at least 128mb ram, 10.3 ran fine on it. Either way, your real problem is going to be software, especially for internet access. Since a lot of the web is on https, you're going to run into issues where old browsers won't have the right encryption types to actually work with anything. If you could get 10.4 running acceptably, you could use tenfourfox or dig around for the various projects that update webkit so safari's useable. But for anything less than 10.3 (including 9!), I think your only real option's going to be classilla… Of course, if by internet access, you mean irc or something, you can ignore all of that.
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Always makes me lol that the pinstripes-and-candy-colors iMac/iBook (and even the latter-day G3/G4 towers) were tailor-made aesthetically for OS X in its first couple of iterations, and that was the only set of computers that could not comfortably run those versions of OS X Once the OS became acceptably performant, the hardware all became acrylic solid colors/chrome/black/white and exotic metals in direct opposition to the Aqua look-and-feel; and then finally the OS adopted the brushed-metal look just in time for the hardware to go all solid aluminum Nice going Ive
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The brushed metal look never jived with me. Even though it's a pain to use, I still like the look of Mac OS 9.
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I gave some entry level Macbook Airs and Pros a spin at the local retail store and I can't actually figure out who they're designed for. In actual usage (Safari with 10 tabs open, some PDFs of scanned sheet music open, Youtube video running in background, playing around with Finder), the experience feels worse than pre-Touchbar rMBPs that have been user upgraded in piecemeal over the years. I suspect the problem of constantly reloading content is due to insufficient RAM as it wasn't a problem on the 16" nor the New XPS 13" sitting on the table next to the Apple section. With the ARM and miniLED rumours, its probably a smarter idea waiting and seeing what happens when Apple kicks Intel to the curb because I feel like an iPad Pro is a better experience than their base Macbooks for 90% of users.
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They are for liberal arts college students that will just use it for writing essays and watching porn
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existential anger posted:entry level Entry level or base configuration computers/cars/anything exist so a company can advertise that they hit a low price point. They tend to be a lousy buy. I never buy anything in the base configuration, there's usually a config you can get for 20-30% more that's infinitely better because it removes a bottleneck that negatively affects performance (e.g., not enough memory) or a nuisance that forces you to janitor your machine all the time (SSD too small). The reason they have them in the stores is because most people want the cheapest of everything, no matter the consequences. (I fully realize that money is an issue for many. When I couldn't afford decently configured Macs, I bought decently configured (for Windows) Windows laptops.)
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Mu Zeta posted:They are for liberal arts college students that will just use it for writing essays and watching porn Hey man, not having to worry about most viruses in that context is a valuable thing screamin and creamin posted:(I fully realize that money is an issue for many. When I couldn't afford decently configured Macs, I bought decently configured (for Windows) Windows laptops.) oh word? trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 15:06 on May 24, 2020 |
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existential anger posted:I gave some entry level Macbook Airs and Pros a spin at the local retail store and I can't actually figure out who they're designed for. In actual usage (Safari with 10 tabs open, some PDFs of scanned sheet music open, Youtube video running in background, playing around with Finder), the experience feels worse than pre-Touchbar rMBPs that have been user upgraded in piecemeal over the years. I suspect the problem of constantly reloading content is due to insufficient RAM as it wasn't a problem on the 16" nor the New XPS 13" sitting on the table next to the Apple section. they're for normies and i mean that entirely seriously and earnestly, with no contempt
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Ok Comboomer posted:was gonna say they’re for your parents to buy and then use for 8 years
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