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Holy carp that’s a lot of words. Thanks, I might give it a look it I might give up for now. ‘It just works’ 
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So company policy forced me onto 10.15.6. This has hosed the displaylink driver into being unable to drive the HDMI port on my dock at anything other than landscape. I need two portrait displays for my setup. Does anyone have thoughts/ideas? This has really messed with my workflow this last week.
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Crunchy Black posted:So company policy forced me onto 10.15.6. This has hosed the displaylink driver into being unable to drive the HDMI port on my dock at anything other than landscape. I need two portrait displays for my setup. Does anyone have thoughts/ideas? This has really messed with my workflow this last week. tbh in this case i would reach out to the device maker and ask for support.
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edit: deleted. Theres a software thread I'll relocate it to
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Crunchy Black posted:So company policy forced me onto 10.15.6. This has hosed the displaylink driver into being unable to drive the HDMI port on my dock at anything other than landscape. I need two portrait displays for my setup. Does anyone have thoughts/ideas? This has really messed with my workflow this last week. Didja try downloading the latest DisplayLink Manager, v1.1, that was released on 8/20 to be compatible with Big Sur beta and 10.15? https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/macos
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Sep 1, 2020 17:33
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Welp, 2020 iMacs are being reported to have a GPU glitch that results in random lines across the screen. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251730390 Hopefully it's a driver issue and not a fault with the GPU itself..
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Sep 1, 2020 22:44
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Ok Comboomer posted:You’ll need to do the trade in as its own separate transaction, receive an Apple gift card/balance, and then you can apply that balance to anything they sell like it was any other kind of store credit. Going ahead with this scheme, thanks for alerting me to that possibility. For some reason, they're offering £145 as the trade in value when I go via this route, as opposed to £125 if I try it against a new device. Profit? Thinking I'll also sit on this for a while once I've got my credit until the September/October event happens. I don't think there's a very high chance of an A14 mini coming out alongside what seems to be an already fully packed reveal roster if the rumours are to be believed, but I don't have an urgent need of an iPad, and maybe I'll be tempted by one of the other offerings...
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Puppy Galaxy posted:I haven't really heard anything good about Catalina Ok Comboomer posted:you’re missing a bad time Appreciate the advice - thanks!
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Be advised that sticking with Mojave doesn't get you access to the latest versions of certain Apple apps (iMovie, for one) that now require Catalina. At least the low bar for iWork (Keynote, Pages, Numbers) is still Mojave.. Catalina, for all intents and purposes, is a trashfire surrounded by raw sewage, at least as far as stability goes IMHO.
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Welp, just in time to try to show up Apple.. https://9to5mac.com/2020/09/02/intel-processor-mac-apple-silicon/ Intel announces Tiger Lake / 11th Generation chips that will likely never appear on Apple laptops now, the line they just announced will come out with other laptop brands and top off at 28W.
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Binary Badger posted:Be advised that sticking with Mojave doesn't get you access to the latest versions of certain Apple apps (iMovie, for one) that now require Catalina. My Catalina install actually hasn’t been too bad but we’ve had an absolute mountain of problems with it in general at work. I’m admittedly running it on a 2018 MBP rather than one of the new 16” ones and most of the people at work who had issues have 2020 MBPs so I halfway wonder if it isn’t related to hardware as well. From the testing we’ve done on Big Sur at work it’s shaping up to be a lot better already so here’s hoping it ends up that way.
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Mercurius posted:From the testing we’ve done on Big Sur at work... My work *just* let Catalina through!
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Pivo posted:My work *just* let Catalina through!  .
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I'm thinking of getting a PC for gaming. Is there a simple way of combining that with the 2013 iMac I already have? Boot Camp isn't really an alternative because there's not enough juice in the iMac itself. Can I easily use the iMac as an external monitor for the PC? Or is the best (and, alas, the most expensive) solution to get both a PC and a monitor?
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Xabi posted:I'm thinking of getting a PC for gaming. Is there a simple way of combining that with the 2013 iMac I already have? Boot Camp isn't really an alternative because there's not enough juice in the iMac itself. Can I easily use the iMac as an external monitor for the PC? Or is the best (and, alas, the most expensive) solution to get both a PC and a monitor? What kind of iMac? Target Display Mode hasn’t been a thing since they switched to retina displays. Otherwise, yeah- your best bet is a separate monitor- or you can stream into your Mac, either something remote like GeForce Now or something that lets you stream in from your own PC (Steam link? That still a thing? I’m way out of the Steam loop)
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Pivo posted:My work *just* let Catalina through! Yeah I am to the point where it's just not worth the effort to finish rolling it out, we'll just skip up to Large Dude when it drops its .1 or .2 assuming it's not a dumpster fire.
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Binary Badger posted:Welp, just in time to try to show up Apple.. So 18W than what Apples silicon will likely to use.
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Ok Comboomer posted:What kind of iMac? Target Display Mode hasn’t been a thing since they switched to retina displays.
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Sep 3, 2020 17:11
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I used the display ripped out of a 2012 27" imac hooked up to my pc for years and it was good enough for me to log a billion hours of counterstrike on
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Ok Comboomer posted:What kind of iMac? Target Display Mode hasn’t been a thing since they switched to retina displays. Yes, and its deeply unpleasant to use
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Thinking about switching from a RMBP to a 2020 iMac since I'm tired of CPU throttling, constant very high fan noise, and Bluetooth problems. I haven't bought a desktop Mac in over a decade, though, and was curious if anyone here had bought the i9 variant. I'd rather not buy a 12 core Mac Pro since it's roughly 2x the cost of an i9 iMac for similar CPU performance, but given that Mac Pro towers have historically held their value so well is there a strong case to be made for buying one? The only real argument I can see for it is the upgradeable GPU, but I don't game and I'm not a video editor. I'm planning on VESA mounting the iMac. Is it worth getting the VESA version, or is the resale generally way worse for those (and instead I should get a fugly adapter)? How bad is the fan noise on the 2020 i9 5700 (XT or non-XT) model? And how bad is CPU throttling under sustained load? Since no tech reviewers know how to use anything other than their web browser and Geekbench I basically can't find anything about this outside of a handful of forums, and the fan noise reports there are all over the place.
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A 2012 is basically obsolete, especially in single core performance There are a few cases where it could hang with a newer Mac as long as it’s only 6 cores.
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So I've got an early 2013 MBPr that I'm getting rid of, but it has a completely busted display. I can't see anything on the screen except for a few flickers of light. I have it setup at the moment so it'll boot to a monitor. I just went to erase the hdd and doing the whole "hold command+R" thing my computer booted to the main display, not the monitor. I can't see anything and I'm not sure what to do. Is there any way I can reformat the hdd without a working display? I.e. have command+r boot to the monitor? I don't have a separate keyboard so I have to keep the lid open. I can get my hands on a keyboard relatively easy if that helps. But this makes me wonder, once I get through the reformatting I think I'll need to reinstall the OS, and would my computer know to boot to the display? Or would it default back to the display and would I lose the bluetooth connection to the keyboard? Any tips would be helpful.
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Sent from my iPad posted:I'd rather not buy a 12 core Mac Pro since it's roughly 2x the cost of an i9 iMac for similar CPU performance, but given that Mac Pro towers have historically held their value so well is there a strong case to be made for buying one? The only real argument I can see for it is the upgradeable GPU, but I don't game and I'm not a video editor. Unless there's some nifty PCIe card with Mac support that you want to get later, just get the iMac. At this point it's kinda hard to make a case for a huge single CPU (but multicore) Mac desktop tower machine other than to make Tim Apple richer. quote:I'm planning on VESA mounting the iMac. Is it worth getting the VESA version, or is the resale generally way worse for those (and instead I should get a fugly adapter)? Probably better than non-VESA iMacs.
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Them G5 macs aint worth piss right now. Same thing gonna happen when its nothing but Apple processors.
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Ok Comboomer posted:What kind of iMac? Target Display Mode hasn’t been a thing since they switched to retina displays. There's also Parsec and Rainway. They work better than Steam Link imo.
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Binary Badger posted:Probably better than non-VESA iMacs.
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co-worker has a work-provided 2014 mac mini we don't have the PIN or firmware password for. how can i reinstall macOS and stop the whingeing?
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redeyes posted:Them G5 macs aint worth piss right now. Same thing gonna happen when its nothing but Apple processors. If you plan on also having a PC, a high end iMac with bootcamp is probably one of the best options you’re gonna have unless you want two different displays. I imagine they’ll be popular for a bit, at least five years. A lot of people won’t be ready to switch, or won’t trust the new hardware, or have a thing about “first gen” so 2023 is the earliest we’ll start seeing real mainstreaming of Apple Silicon
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yoohoo posted:So I've got an early 2013 MBPr that I'm getting rid of, but it has a completely busted display. I can't see anything on the screen except for a few flickers of light. I have it setup at the moment so it'll boot to a monitor. I just went to erase the hdd and doing the whole "hold command+R" thing my computer booted to the main display, not the monitor. I can't see anything and I'm not sure what to do. Is there any way I can reformat the hdd without a working display? I.e. have command+r boot to the monitor? I don't have a separate keyboard so I have to keep the lid open. I can get my hands on a keyboard relatively easy if that helps. If you can get your hands on another Mac and the right cables, you might want to try booting it in Target Disk Mode: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/transfer-files-mac-computers-target-disk-mode-mchlp1443/mac Then you could wipe the disk from Disk Utility on the host Mac. I wouldn’t worry about reinstalling macOS, but I think you could do it with the host Mac in Recovery Mode.
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yoohoo posted:So I've got an early 2013 MBPr that I'm getting rid of, but it has a completely busted display. I can't see anything on the screen except for a few flickers of light. I have it setup at the moment so it'll boot to a monitor. I just went to erase the hdd and doing the whole "hold command+R" thing my computer booted to the main display, not the monitor. I can't see anything and I'm not sure what to do. Is there any way I can reformat the hdd without a working display? I.e. have command+r boot to the monitor? I don't have a separate keyboard so I have to keep the lid open. I can get my hands on a keyboard relatively easy if that helps. it’s a long shot, but maybe try hitting command+F1 when your monitor is plugged in and you’re at recovery mode? that’s the “mirror display” key command. depends if it recognizes the screen or not and how much of the os they put into recovery mode
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Xabi posted:I'm thinking of getting a PC for gaming. Is there a simple way of combining that with the 2013 iMac I already have? Boot Camp isn't really an alternative because there's not enough juice in the iMac itself. Can I easily use the iMac as an external monitor for the PC? Or is the best (and, alas, the most expensive) solution to get both a PC and a monitor? Pretty sure target monitor (ie use imac as external monitor) doesn't work for the 2013, because I tried on mine heaps of times. Go for the monitor.
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nitsuga posted:If you can get your hands on another Mac and the right cables, you might want to try booting it in Target Disk Mode: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/transfer-files-mac-computers-target-disk-mode-mchlp1443/mac I do have another Mac. So this would allow me to connect my busted computer to my new Mac and wipe the disk and everything from the new one? I'll look into it. My other thought is taking it to an Apple store and seeing if it's something they do. Spoderman posted:it’s a long shot, but maybe try hitting command+F1 when your monitor is plugged in and you’re at recovery mode? that’s the “mirror display” key command. depends if it recognizes the screen or not and how much of the os they put into recovery mode I tried this but it doesn't recognize the function. The monitor turns on with the screen but stays blank. Is there any other way to wipe the computer without going into recovery mode? And without manually deleting everything... EDIT: I was able to blindly grab the disk utility window and drag it to the external monitor, which surprisingly worked. I think I should be in business. yoohoo fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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the_lion posted:Pretty sure target monitor (ie use imac as external monitor) doesn't work for the 2013, because I tried on mine heaps of times. Go for the monitor. I believe this is correct. The 2013 iMac can only act as an external display through thunderbolt 2 specifically, meaning it only really works as a display for other macs. Thunderbolt 2 is the same size as mini display port so it’s really easy to try and use a mini display port cable from a windows machine but it won’t work since it’s technically not thunderbolt 2
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This is weird. I have a brand new Magic Keyboard, MBP 2020 13", latest version of Catalina. The goddamn keyboard only works when its plugged in with the lightning cable and when I try to use it in Bluetooth, my MX Master freezes up for a bit and the keyboard doesn't work.
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Last Chance posted:I believe this is correct. The 2013 iMac can only act as an external display through thunderbolt 2 specifically, meaning it only really works as a display for other macs. Another option might be the newer low latency USB 3 capture cards, depending on type of the games you play and tolerance for lag, I think the Elgato one was like 2 frames off in a video I saw. There’s random/no name ones too for ~$50 but no clue if they're all the same or performance outside of a few anecdotal forum posts. (There’s also $10-20 USB 2 ones that have gotten prominent recently, but the lag was just a bit too much for me, kinda like a really laggy TV)
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japtor posted:You can rig TB output for a PC with the $50-100 TB cards, although might be TB3 only and need another adapter on top of that, and hope it all works right. I wouldn't consider either of those two options as practical, but would be very curious if either of those options actually worked well enough for gaming
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Sent my 2018 MBP in for a keyboard replacement and now it is glorious to type on and I’m so happy it’s like the good old days. The kid’s 2016 MBA has a tab key that’s basically dead so I guess it’s next, but I don’t know if it’s covered by the Apple butterfly apology tour.
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Last Chance posted:I wouldn't consider either of those two options as practical, but would be very curious if either of those options actually worked well enough for gaming USB can really vary cause stuff running on the Mac can potentially cause hiccups or whatever random software stuff affecting things.
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