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nitsuga posted:Looks like OWC has a kit, but I've picked up on a little bit of a grudge here on those guys. Binary Badger posted:Aura drives use some kind of godawful controllers running a proprietary RAID 0 setup; they only recently updated them to be compatible with High Sierra, before that, people who updated to High Sierra with their drives wound up with non-bootable machines. God knows what would happen to them with Mojave. Looks like they've moved on to a new design. The old one ("OWC Aura") was indeed very stupid, featuring a PCIE SATA host controller with integrated RAID-0 functionality, connected to two SATA SSD controllers. However, the picture of the Aura Pro X shows a single Silicon Motion Inc SM2260G NVME controller. For a while there was no controller small vendors could use to design NVME SSDs, but SMI stepped into that void. Haven't heard bad things about it either, apparently they did a decent job (especially on providing solid baseline firmware, which is real important because the tough part of a good SSD is the firmware). Naturally, this means OWC ends up requiring High Sierra. Went looking and, as expected, found this text above their installation guide video for the Pro X: OWC posted:macOS 10.13 High Sierra (or later macOS) must be installed on the host computer before installing the OWC Aura Pro X SSD. These OS versions include an EFI firmware update for your host computer. Without this update, your new OWC Aura Pro X will not function once installed. So, I'd say the Pro X version is... kinda reasonable? Might be a smoother experience than an off the shelf NVME M.2 plus an adapter. Wasn't there some unpleasantness on certain Mac models when using an adapter + standard drive (sleep behavior iirc?) which seemed likely to be fixable with firmware tweaks? BobHoward fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Sep 25, 2018 |
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It's fixable by injecting the DXE driver from the MacPro 6,1 into the BootROM firmware of 2013 and 2014 rMBPs. God's perfect rMBP, the 2015 13 and 15 inch models, already have NVMe support baked into the BootROM and work just fine with the adapter and M.2 NVMe drives, sleep and hibernation supported.
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Mac Hardware Thread: The miracle child, the 2015 rMBP Thanks for all the good advice. Would you anticipate any problems using a drive from a 2015 rMBP in a 2014 rMBP, then? Getting another Apple one would be cool, so I could ditch the 256GB this thing came with, and kind of level the costs that way.
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Dick Trauma posted:As a former retail person I never get tired of seeing "pos." It's an appropriate acronym. Although I will say the iPad makes a great POS machine compared to the IBM poo poo I had to use when I was working at Target.
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nitsuga posted:Mac Hardware Thread: The miracle child, the 2015 rMBP Nope BobHoward posted:So, I'd say the Pro X version is... kinda reasonable? Might be a smoother experience than an off the shelf NVME M.2 plus an adapter. Wasn't there some unpleasantness on certain Mac models when using an adapter + standard drive (sleep behavior iirc?) which seemed likely to be fixable with firmware tweaks? Where OWC is concerned, I'd sooner put trust in a no name company, no name adapter, and a Samsung / Micron NVMe drive than one of their Aura drives. I still hear from clients who I had recommended and installed the old Aura for, who updated to High Sierra and wound up with instant boat anchors. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Sep 25, 2018 |
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If anybody's looking.. Retina MacBook 2016 with 8 GB RAM / 256 GB SSD for only $849 through Woot.. supposedly brand new. https://computers.woot.com/offers/apple-12-intel-m3-256gb-macbooks-2018 quote:These Macbooks are NEW in condition, but come with a Woot warranty.
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Binary Badger posted:If anybody's looking.. Warranty: 90 Day Woot Limited Warranty Are these refurbs? Best Buy has been having the 13" 128gb $950 + tax w/edu coupon, which is only $100 more. Plus you get a full 1 year warranty. Those 2016 MacBooks are real slow.
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Bob Morales posted:Warranty: 90 Day Woot Limited Warranty Literally says new in the post and in the link, and the explanation is in a big orange box at the link… FWIW these have the shittiest version of the keyboard, IMO.
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"New in condition" to me says there's no cosmetic defects but it doesn't rule out that they are refurbs.
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Bob Morales posted:Are these refurbs? Hello I don't like reading posts but can you answer my question?
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Binary Badger posted:Hello I don't like reading posts but can you answer my question? These Macbook are NEW in condition, but come with a Woot warranty. This is why we can offer a discount. These were originally intended as warranty replacements, and held by Apple to support their customers. Now we offer them to you! Sounds kinda vague.
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What the...AppleInsider posted:Journalist Kelly Cohen of the Washington Examiner posted a photo to Twitter Wednesday of Mueller getting his MacBook Pro looked at by an Apple Store associate, along with a woman who appears to be Mueller's wife. It's not clear if it's an older model being serviced, a new one being set up or a personal laptop being used to configure new portable devices. It appears that a wrapped Apple Watch and at least one other item are on the table as well.  I bet he has a 2017/2018 rMBP, logo not lighting up
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apple has been all downhill since the logo stopped lighting up
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He hates the keyboard.
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Russians hacked it
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Obama brought modern Apple products into the federal government when he insisted on keeping his MacBook Pro. This is proof that Mueller is really working for the Democrats’ deep state conspiracy.
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I had a 2015 Retina Macbook and loved the thing. I don't understand the ire for it; it was really the perfect business computer. I think the 16 had better battery and a better processor so I'd swoop on that deal if I needed a laptop.
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jokes posted:I had a 2015 Retina Macbook and loved the thing. I don't understand the ire for it; it was really the perfect business computer. I think the 16 had better battery and a better processor so I'd swoop on that deal if I needed a laptop. It’s underpowered compared to the updated models that have come after it and depending on the SKU it gets beaten in performance by an older Sandy Bridge MacBook Air. Pretty much every Mac has “teething problems” in the first year of its release/the release of a major redesign and the MacBook is no different in that regard.
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The 2017 (and hopefully 2018) rMBs are the only ones worth getting IMHO. Perhaps if you stick Mojave on a 2016 it might run fast enough.. The 2017s are the only ones that you can get with 16 GB of RAM which makes them nice and speedy along with being able to ramp up to 3 GHz plus..
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Dr. Despair posted:apple has been all downhill since the logo stopped lighting up I miss the lightup logo a whole lot :\
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For some reason the WiFi speeds on my i9/32GB MBP is super slow compared to my i7/16GB. My 2017 i7 gets 300Mbps and my i9 get's around 100 on the exact same network.
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ratbert90 posted:For some reason the WiFi speeds on my i9/32GB MBP is super slow compared to my i7/16GB. Defective antennas? Wireless card fell out of spec? All the antennas are in the display assembly, so that'd be the first thing I'd have switched out.
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Do they negotiate the same connection characteristics?
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Subjunctive posted:Do they negotiate the same connection characteristics? How would I check that? They are both connected to the exact same SSID in the exact same room. 
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Hold option and click on the wifi drop down on the menu bar. Compare the numbers like RSSI, the channel, PHY mode.
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ratbert90 posted:How would I check that? They are both connected to the exact same SSID in the exact same room. Does your router broadcast a 2.4 GHz and a 5 GHz network with the same names? In my office my MacBook always connects to the 2.4 GHz network and its so slow.
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I want to know if Robert Mueller gave the Apple Store Genius his login password so they could "run some diagnostic checks" in the backroom.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Does your router broadcast a 2.4 GHz and a 5 GHz network with the same names? In my office my MacBook always connects to the 2.4 GHz network and its so slow.
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Replacement MBP arrived today. TrueTone is nice so far. Keyboard is quieter and feels a little better to type on. Otherwise it's another MBP.  I've more or less finished getting what I need transferred and will send the old one back tomorrow.
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Phoenixan posted:Yeah, it always prefers the 2.4 over the 5 ghz AC because it sees the signal as stronger, even though it's slower (98% strength vs 95% strength). Other OS' seem to do the exact same thing, so it's best to just give the 5 ghz network a different name. In this case, it's connected via AC to the 5ghz network.
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Edit: fixed below, dumb tv setting. There's an HTPC thread, not sure if this belongs here or there. I've got an Apple TV, 3G. A few days ago I was airplaying something to it, and when I stopped the connection my Apple TV was...zoomed in. It's like I'm using the accessibility zoom, although when I look at the accessibility menu I don't see zoom as an option. It's just the Apple TV - when I switch to xbox that's fine. In the menu I've tried: - changing the "adjust for airplay overscan" setting. - changing the resolution: it's on auto, says it's 1080p. I've restarted it, I've unplugged it and plugged back in, I've un/replugged the HDMI cable. I've returned to the scene of the crime and tried airplaying things - nothing. I haven't tried a system reset only because I hate the idea of putting in all the passwords again, but that's next on my list unless anyone has any ideas. Here's what I see: 
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The AppleTV thread might know better.
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jackpot posted:There's an HTPC thread, not sure if this belongs here or there. Are there any input-specific overscan settings on your tv? Kinda looks like your tv has a lot of overscan but the Apple TV isn’t compensating at all for it.
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Ya, that looks like a TV settings issue
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 I didn't think it was a tv setting because my xbox doesn't share the problem (and I never, ever change the TV settings), but turns out there's a Format button on my remote that runs through h-fill, justified, 4:3, full, and...zoom.
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it happened to me once too. fuckin zoom setting
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Phoenixan posted:Yeah, it always prefers the 2.4 over the 5 ghz AC because it sees the signal as stronger, even though it's slower (98% strength vs 95% strength). Other OS' seem to do the exact same thing, so it's best to just give the 5 ghz network a different name. It’s my work office so I can’t give it another name. It’s just so annoying cause even if the 5GHz network is at like 69% strength it’s STILL faster than the bullshit 2.4GHz network it chooses to connect to instead. I honestly would rather not use the internet than to wait for page loads and timing out like I’m on a 28k modem or whatever.
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Boris Galerkin posted:It’s my work office so I can’t give it another name. Yeah, unfortunately wireless clients are going to grab what it see as the strong signal. And since you have both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands to pick from, it’s going to grab the 2.4 BSSID 99 times out of a hundred. 2.4GHz has better penetration and better attenuation characteristics than the 5GHz band. A better question to ask is why the gently caress they use an identical ESSID on both bands? Everywhere else I’ve seen it, it’s usually something like SSID_NAME and SSID_NAME_5. That has the added benefit of being able to remove the 2.4 SSID from your list of “remembered” networks and essentially force your client to use the 5GHz.
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You can force it onto the channel you want, but it’s not very friendly. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/131852/how-do-you-force-a-5-ghz-wifi-connection
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A second rMB has hit the Amazon storefront, for $800 this time https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-Dual-Core-802-11ac-Bluetooth/dp/B07H47H7CP It's too bad the 2016 rMB is unacceptably slow because they are really begging to get rid of those.
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