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ndrake posted:I'm a physician and it would be weird to bring a personal computer into exam rooms during clinic... And agreed that doesn't look ideal. You carry around a clipboard or papers anyway, right? Why not get something similar to this here? I personally wouldn't find it weird for a doc to carry around a laptop, and even if you do, you could easily hide it that way. Google "storage clipboard" and you'll find more options.
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I'm contemplating selling the 27" iMac and my 2 24" LED LCDs and getting 2 cinematic displays for the mbp what the gently caress is wrong with me 
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Jul 21, 2011 14:02
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SO would the new base 13" air be able to handle xcode? Cause gently caress if I don't want to return my 13" MBP
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Zwille posted:You carry around a clipboard or papers anyway, right? Why not get something similar to this here? I personally wouldn't find it weird for a doc to carry around a laptop, and even if you do, you could easily hide it that way. Google "storage clipboard" and you'll find more options. Thanks, not a bad idea. It's more that from a patient privacy perspective (HIPAA in the US), the hospital would worry I'm entering private patient information on my personal unsecured computer. The macbook is for research, and just needs to be safe for a few hours while I see patients (I've had cell phones stolen from work rooms before). I like the clipboard idea...
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Jul 21, 2011 14:21
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KidDynamite posted:SO would the new base 13" air be able to handle xcode? Cause gently caress if I don't want to return my 13" MBP Easily, just don't be surprised if OSX starts swapping. 1440x900 is probably the lowest resolution I'd ever use XCode at.
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Jul 21, 2011 14:30
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What do you mean by "swapping"? edit: also I plug the mbp into a monitor when I code. you're def right about the res being small. KidDynamite fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Jul 21, 2011 |
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Jul 21, 2011 14:39
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movax posted:Easily, just don't be surprised if OSX starts swapping. 1440x900 is probably the lowest resolution I'd ever use XCode at. But swapping on a SSD? Who gives a poop. That means something on a Scorpio Black maybe but in terms of a performance hit on a SSD it really doesn't matter.
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Jul 21, 2011 14:41
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KidDynamite posted:What do you mean by "swapping"? Once you run out of physical RAM, the OS will start hitting the swapfile which is stored on your HDD/SSD. Less of an issue (hopefully) with a SSD versus a physical HDD. You can open up Activity Monitor and look at the 'Page Out' statistic near the bottom. That number never goes above 0 for me unless I have a ton of apps running + VMWare (8GB RAM). e: ^ yeah, I don't know how much swapping will matter on a SSD. Still slower than RAM, but hopefully not grossly so. I'll wait for a trip report from someone who buys one and kicks up a Win7 VM w/ 2GB + a "standard" workload of like Safari, Skim, maybe Word.
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Jul 21, 2011 14:42
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movax posted:You can open up Activity Monitor and look at the 'Page Out' statistic near the bottom. That number never goes above 0 for me unless I have a ton of apps running + VMWare (8GB RAM). Really? I have 1.12gb swap stat right now and all I've been doing is browsing the internet (3 safari windows 13~ tabs 1 a khan academy flash video, which is probably the thing kicking crazy ram usage) I wish the MBA supported 8 gb of ram  , I'm not even doing any hard work right now.e: vv I have 4 gb, I couldn't deal with 2 and really think that purchasing the 11 with 2gb this year would be a mistake for most people. Shmoogy fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Jul 21, 2011 |
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Jul 21, 2011 14:49
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Upping your Air to 4 gb is just something you should do. You can't upgrade it later unless you're really skilled with soldering and desoldering and don't mind a completely ruined warranty, and it does help, especially if you plan to keep it for a few years. I'm not sure but doesn't the graphics used for the new airs also use some system ram for graphics? That's something to consider if you're thinking of getting your air with 2gb of ram.
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Jul 21, 2011 14:55
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KidDynamite posted:SO would the new base 13" air be able to handle xcode? Cause gently caress if I don't want to return my 13" MBP We have developers on the 2010 13" Air that use Xcode as well as Ruby on Rails.
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Jul 21, 2011 15:05
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fishmech posted:I'm not sure but doesn't the graphics used for the new airs also use some system ram for graphics? That's something to consider if you're thinking of getting your air with 2gb of ram. Since some unknown crippling condition prevents you from visiting the specs page, it's 256-384 MB on the low end model MBA and 384 MB shared memory on the high-end.
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Jul 21, 2011 15:15
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Binary Badger posted:Since some unknown crippling condition prevents you from visiting the specs page, it's 256-384 MB on the low end model MBA and 384 MB shared memory on the high-end. I'm on my phone and Apple's site was loading extremely slow. That's more RAM than I expected it to use though, so sticking with 2 gb looks like an even worse idea.
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Jul 21, 2011 15:22
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fishmech posted:I'm on my phone and Apple's site was loading extremely slow. That's more RAM than I expected it to use though, so sticking with 2 gb looks like an even worse idea. Yeah, I mentioned that in the last thread, getting a new MBA with Lion and 2GB of RAM and immediately dropping to 1.7GB usable is the height of madness. I don't think Apple should have even offered a 2GB option knowing drat well that user experience will suck.
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It think it exists just so people get pushed into buying the next model up.
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Jul 21, 2011 15:59
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2GB is fine, there are millions of C2D Macbooks out there. Are you programming or running VM's or other stuff that needs 4GB? If so, you probably didn't buy an 11" Air.
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movax posted:Yeah, I mentioned that in the last thread, getting a new MBA with Lion and 2GB of RAM and immediately dropping to 1.7GB usable is the height of madness. I don't think Apple should have even offered a 2GB option knowing drat well that user experience will suck. If all you need is a little portable machine to check email / surf / do simple office apps, it should be perfectly usable. I'd much rather write on something like that than an iPad.
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Jul 21, 2011 16:16
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Bob Morales posted:2GB is fine, there are millions of C2D Macbooks out there. Are you programming or running VM's or other stuff that needs 4GB? If so, you probably didn't buy an 11" Air. I'm not sure if it's webkit 2 or a memory leak but Safari itself takes up 500-1gb if you've got some tabs up easily. Add in lots of people who don't use click-to-flash and I'm sure it can balloon up to 1.5gb super easily if you're on facebook/youtube/whatever else is popular.
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Bob Morales posted:2GB is fine, there are millions of C2D Macbooks out there. Are you programming or running VM's or other stuff that needs 4GB? If so, you probably didn't buy an 11" Air. There are millions of those out there but would you buy one now? Not to mention that with a regular Macbook or Macbook Pro, if low ram becomes a problem you just put more in. It's nearly impossible to upgrade the RAM in an Air.
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For someone who gets a new Air or Mini: what's the build number of Lion? Just curious if it's the GM or already a specialized build.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:For someone who gets a new Air or Mini: what's the build number of Lion? Just curious if it's the GM or already a specialized build. I have the new 11" MBA and my build number seems to be different than others. Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (11A2063) I also received the Samsung SSD, but it appears that some people have gotten the toshiba SSD in there new MBAs.
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Rabid Snake posted:I have the new 11" MBA and my build number seems to be different than others. I think the faster toshiba SSDs are only in the 13 inch ones, at least thats what the benchmarks made it look like.
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Re: Locking MacBooks to tables because your hospital employs thieves: Similar to that thing that goes through the hinge posted eariler, Griffin is selling this: http://store.griffintechnology.com/techsafe-cable-lock-system I feel like kind of a shill even posting it, because I just got a press release about it, but it could be of interest. I'm pretty sure most of their stuff is crap, but hey. edit: they say you can safely close the lid while it's in there, so that's good. Shart Carbuncle fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Jul 21, 2011 |
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Jul 21, 2011 17:56
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Drum combo locks like that are the easiest thing in the world to pick. I used to be able to do one in about 30 seconds.
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Would the low end mini serve fine as an HTPC as long as I upgrade the RAM? I'm not interested in gaming so I don't know if I want to spend the extra money on a graphics card unless it would help play high def content via XBMC any better.
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El Jackalope posted:Would the low end mini serve fine as an HTPC as long as I upgrade the RAM? I'm not interested in gaming so I don't know if I want to spend the extra money on a graphics card unless it would help play high def content via XBMC any better. Atom systems with Nividia ION gpus that don't perform better than what's in the new Mini handle almost all HTPC tasks just fine, the Mini should fly for HTPC tasks as long as you have enough RAM in.
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fishmech posted:Atom systems with Nividia ION gpus that don't perform better than what's in the new Mini handle almost all HTPC tasks just fine, the Mini should fly for HTPC tasks as long as you have enough RAM in.
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Rabid Snake posted:Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (11A2063) Wonder if this is tied into that 'any new Mini or Air purchased can restore Lion over the internet' feature. Has anyone tried Lion on a 2 GB Air yet? I'd highly consider one as it'd be a secondary computer for me, mostly for typing notes and documents on, but if it's a dog even at basic usage that'd be a bummer.
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I have a late 2006 Mac Pro that I'm trying to upgrade to a total of 6GB RAM with new 2x2GB sticks and the original 4x512MB sticks, but it's only seeing 5GB. The upper board has 2x2GB in slots 1&2 and 2x512MB in slots 3&4, and the lower board has 2x512MB in slots 1&2. It's not seeing the 512MB sticks on the lower board at all. Any ideas?
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Space Racist posted:Wonder if this is tied into that 'any new Mini or Air purchased can restore Lion over the internet' feature.
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El Jackalope posted:Thanks. I'm at the apple store waiting to buy my new Air and since the company is buying it for me, I might as well pick up a mini since I have the money as well. New Minis are in store? I'm assuming just the 2.3 and 2.5 i5's, right?
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Space Racist posted:Wonder if this is tied into that 'any new Mini or Air purchased can restore Lion over the internet' feature. I'm running the base 11" air and lion runs just about as well as it did with snow leopard. I'd spend the extra $100 on the 4gb ram anyway if I was you...you're already plopping down a grand, might as well upgrade while you can.
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Now that I have an iPad, I want to replace my 15" MacBook Pro with one of those shiny new Minis and a big screen. What's the going rate for: 15" MacBook Pro 2.53GHz (Mid 2009) 6GB Memory GeForce 9400M (no GT) 320gb 7200rpm HDD AppleCare until sometime next year New style (right angle) power adaptor Mac2Sell says $890, but that doesn't factor the AppleCare or the faster HDD.
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Apple has the previous model refurb 11" for $749 MacMall has the closeout 11" $879 http://www.macmall.com/n/Macbook-Air/macNavLinks-macNavLinks.221 Come on MacMall you can do better than that.
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Bob Morales posted:Apple has the previous model refurb 11" for $749 Hot drat. Hope those are still available come August/September.
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They'll get more periodically. They sell refurb computers from 2009
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:New Minis are in store? I'm assuming just the 2.3 and 2.5 i5's, right? I didn't ask about the i7's, sorry, but the i5s are definitely available. Edit: I did a CCC update of my MBP's backup and am now using Migration Assistant to transfer much of my info from the backup to my new MBA. I'm happy it's working. 
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El Jackalope posted:Would the low end mini serve fine as an HTPC as long as I upgrade the RAM? I'm not interested in gaming so I don't know if I want to spend the extra money on a graphics card unless it would help play high def content via XBMC any better. According to the benchmarks at Notebookcheck.net, the Intel HD 3000 graphics chip is slower than the nVidia GeForce 320M it replaces from the previous model, but not by much, like 85% of the speed. Associates using the Mini 2010 models as media centers say it's just fine, soooo...
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Binary Badger posted:According to the benchmarks at Notebookcheck.net, the Intel HD 3000 graphics chip is slower than the nVidia GeForce 320M it replaces from the previous model, but not by much, like 85% of the speed. Associates using the Mini 2010 models as media centers say it's just fine, soooo... Guess I'll find out since I bought the Mini.  Now to order more ram from newegg or someplace.
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Holy crap Apple likes making people happy. I just exchanged my 3-week-old 13" Air (4GB/256GB/C2D) for the new one (4GB/256GB/i7) and got the $100 price difference back! Faster processor? Thunderbolt? Backlit keyboard? Let us pay you for those. The only downside was a minor drop in graphics. Glad that the "2 weeks" window was a little flexible.
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