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pzy posted:Weird question... was that store in Somerville? Nope, the Hartford, CT area. And the existing username was the same as a semi-local computer repair store, so I guess the store had it kicking around for a few years without selling it and gave it to the Salvation Army, at which point I got it. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Jan 18, 2019 |
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asecondduck posted:A few hours later, I've got a patched version of Mojave on it. Insane. I guess I have to do the same in 1-3 years when my 2013 iMac probably won’t be supported any longer.
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Xabi posted:Is this a difficult operation? Not at all, there's a tool that will download the MacOS installer, put it on a USB drive, and patches it for you. I have an Early 2009 iMac that runs High Sierra quite nicely. It can run Mojave, but I just haven't bothered to yet (there are slight graphics issues with pre-Metal GPUs, that basically forces you to use the dark theme, or apply a bunch of patches to improve the light theme.)
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asecondduck posted:So I picked up an early 2008 iMac from a Salvation Army earlier today. 500 gig hard drive, 4 gigs of gram, Nvidia graphics. Probably ~3k brand new. Nice. I got an original iMac for like twenty bucks at a thrift store years ago, also probably because they thought it was a monitor. It was too long in the tooth to really be of any use, though
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Merv Burger posted:Not at all, there's a tool that will download the MacOS installer, put it on a USB drive, and patches it for you. Dark mode is pretty awesome and I'd be using it even if I didn't have to, tbh. There's a slight graphical issue even with dark mode--a black border around programs that, as far as I can tell, is the result of the graphics card not supporting Metal and the Wifi chip doesn't work (not an issue for me because, well, A. it's a desktop that B. sits three feet away from my router). Clark Nova posted:Nice. I got an original iMac for like twenty bucks at a thrift store years ago, also probably because they thought it was a monitor. It was too long in the tooth to really be of any use, though It's a nice desk decoration though! asecondduck fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Jan 20, 2019 |
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I removed the battery from my late 2013 RMBP today. Posted awhile back but the battery expanded and I don't actually need it to be portable. But like you guys said, it's now running in a super throttled mode. I have the 2.6ghz i5 option and it's running now at 800mhz. Not sure what I'll do with it at this point. It's mostly for updating the provisioning profile on my iphone for an app I wrote. Maybe sell it for whatever I can get and buy a mac mini.
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phosdex posted:I removed the battery from my late 2013 RMBP today. Posted awhile back but the battery expanded and I don't actually need it to be portable. But like you guys said, it's now running in a super throttled mode. I have the 2.6ghz i5 option and it's running now at 800mhz. Not sure what I'll do with it at this point. It's mostly for updating the provisioning profile on my iphone for an app I wrote. Maybe sell it for whatever I can get and buy a mac mini. I mean, if you plan on running it plugged it anyways just getting a cheap knockoff battery to give you some battery life and get it back to full speed wouldn’t hurt.
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Speaking of old Macs, any uses for a 2009 Mac mini? I got a NAS doing server duties already, Apple TV for HTPC stuff (or AirPlay if I need a browser), and can't think of too much for an old computer, outside of I dunno, older games?
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japtor posted:Speaking of old Macs, any uses for a 2009 Mac mini? I got a NAS doing server duties already, Apple TV for HTPC stuff (or AirPlay if I need a browser), and can't think of too much for an old computer, outside of I dunno, older games? I have one all ready to go with OpenEmu and a DVD player but only used it like three times
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How’s the heat dissipation on the 2018 MacBook Air when running boot camp or Windows in a VM? My 2014 MBP runs insanely hot with the fans going full blast even when Windows is idle.
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Probably dependent on how many cores are available to the VM and cpu cap as well
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Will a '17 air be able to run AutoCAD worth a gently caress in bootcamp?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Which VM software? I run VMware Fusion. I assign it 4 cores and 8 GB of ram. It honestly doesn't need much. I honestly could run it with just 2 cores and 4 GB of ram. I just need to sometimes run a Windows-only app and pass through a USB device. But just having Windows idle will ramp up the fans and the bottom will get really hot. Same issue if I reboot into boot camp.
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https://www.pcbuildersclub.com/en/2019/01/four-versions-of-amd-navi-appeared-in-macos-update/ Looks like support for the 7 nm architecture Navi GPUs is already in Mojave. Not surprising as Apple is still carrying a torch for AMD/ATI GPUs. Oughta be interesting for cheese grater fans when they eventually come out in PCIe format.
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My late 2011 15” MacBook Pro has started doing this thing over the last couple of months where it will go to a black screen and freeze and I’ll have to force the computer off and back on to restart. A mild annoyance, but whatever. Today it started doing this, with the screen splitting and going to static, then coming back onto my desktop, but still split. Is this thing just toast now? I believe I had the logic board replaced under a recall repair a couple years ago - would they replace it again?  
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I don't think they will replace it again. The 2011s are now 'vintage' so I don't think they will even touch them. I've read reports of people salvaging these by disabling the dGPU (since the dGPU is what is failing). Obviously this isn't ideal since now you don't have a dGPU and those iGPUs aren't great, but it'll at least allow you to keep using it if you're not quite ready to replace it. Checkout: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...le-fix.2037591/ https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...5#post-24956091 You can also look into 'reflowing' the dGPU and reapplying thermal paste, but that's more advanced, and I think at best is still only going to prolong the inevitable a bit longer.
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You could try disabling the dgpu, look back a page or so for the link
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How come my Macbook Air’s battery drains completely after only a few days when its completely shut down, and not in sleep mode.
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Bob Morales posted:You could try disabling the dgpu, look back a page or so for the link Yep, do this. It’s your best bet. Link is indeed in the last few pages.
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Anyone actually done the RAM upgrade on the 2018 Mac Mini? Curious to hear feedback on it before I dig in on the process.
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Not any harder than it was on previous models, with the additional steps of removing an interference shield from around the RAM. This time no special tool is needed to pull out the logic board, you just put your thumbs on the new relocated power supply to push the logic board out enough to access the RAM cage/slots.
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Binary Badger posted:Not any harder than it was on previous models, with the additional steps of removing an interference shield from around the RAM. i mean you just had to remove the bottom plastic bit to upgrade the 2012 mini's ram; this necessitates taking the whole logic board out. probably easier than replacing the hdd in the 2012 tho
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Generic Monk posted:probably easier than replacing the hdd in the 2012 tho If you go by the ifixit instructions, they're wrong. You can swap out the 2012 HDD really quickly and without doing half the steps. Luckily their guides allow comments so I saw people saying "DONT DO THESE PARTS!" and even I, an idiot with barely more than the parts to do the job and a glimmer of hope in my brain was able to get it done easily and quickly. I wish I'd known before hand, because people say it's a pain so I specifically bought a 2012 with an SSD already installed, then 6 months later the drive died on me.
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Well this is just peachy. My Mac Pro won't start up. Chime, but no screens. Safe Mode doesn't work, neither does holding Option to select a boot volume. Resetting NVRAM, I held the keys down for what felt like forever and never got a second chime.
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Maybe switch out the backup battery? And press the CUDA reset switch once a new battery is in there? Location of CUDA switch depends on which Mac Pro it is.. 1,1.. 3,1.. 4,1, or 5,1 If you've never switched out the backup battery odds are it's just dead from old age. Here's a link to a battery for the 4,1 and 5,1: https://www.newertech.com/products/pram_3v.php If you get a lithium type 2032 battery from a drug store, that's probably good enough. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Thanks for the prompt reply. When I get home from work I'm going to try removing all peripherals and see if that works, but good call on the battery, I'll look into that too. I have noticed its startup takes a little too long recently, anyway - even when I replaced the boot SSD with a fresh one, my old 1,1 tower (also with an SSD boot) would start up quicker. Is this also potentially a function of a bad backup battery?
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Mister Speaker posted:I have noticed its startup takes a little too long recently, anyway - even when I replaced the boot SSD with a fresh one, my old 1,1 tower (also with an SSD boot) would start up quicker. Is this also potentially a function of a bad backup battery? Yeah, quite possibly, because the location of the startup disk is stored in PRAM. Here's a quick list stolen from a 2017 article of what gets stored in PRAM: Status of Messages Serial Port Configuration and Port definition Alarm clock setting Application font Serial printer location Autokey rate Autokey delay Speaker volume Attention (beep) sound Double-click time Caret blink time (insertion point rate) Mouse scaling (mouse speed) Startup disk Menu blink count Monitor depth Whenever I reset PRAM, I usually change the speaker volume to the lowest (but not off) setting before rebooting. This helps me determine when PRAM is really really reset because when you do the old command-option-P-R it's supposed to reset the volume to its default, which is loudest. I usually have to hold down PRAM and wait for it to reset twice (four finger salute continuously) on older machines before the volume gets reset. If the volume stays low, I know the PRAM values weren't really reset. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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Walked posted:Anyone actually done the RAM upgrade on the 2018 Mac Mini? Yup, I saved the 400 bucks and installed 32 GB in mine. Using an iFixit toolkit the process want too bad, just make sure you know where each screw goes back to (I made post-its of each step number from the guide and put the screws on those). Initial install took maybe 40 minutes, but a day later I realized the Mini was running really damned hot because I somehow did not plug the fan back in  I'm rather surprised the thing booted without detecting a fan.
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Cool. Just ordered 32gb. Shouldn't be too bad based on that
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Walked posted:Cool. Just ordered 32gb. I pulled the drives in my old 2011 and thought that was more annoying, although part of that was having no clue how I pulled the board out last time since I don't think I ever had the logic board pry tool, and couldn't find thin enough screwdrivers this time. I ended up using a paperclip and hoping it'd stay straight enough to push the board out.
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I'm surprised nobody has brought up Flexgate. Louis Rossman has been been really vocal recently about how the 2016/17/18 MacBook Pro's display ribbon cables can't easily be replaced since they're attached to the display, which costs $800. I'm still really enjoying my 2018 13" MBP, including the keyboard, but I really don't expect this laptop to last as long as my 2011 MBA did. I'll probably try and unload it before the Applecare expires. Fingers crossed we'll see a refresh or ARM laptops by then. Apple needs to get their act together - you'd think they'd get these keyboards issues fixed so they don't have to give out anymore free topcase battery replacements for people who get dust in their keyboards. What we really need is better consumer regulations - Apple has to repair any warranty defects 5 years after the purchase date in the UK. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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Gay Retard posted:I'm surprised nobody has brought up Flexgate. Louis Rossman has been been really vocal recently about how the 2016/17/18 MacBook Pro's display ribbon cables can't easily be replaced since they're attached to the display, which costs $800. They're on their 3rd keyboard revision and have pretty much solved those issues though 
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FCKGW posted:They're on their 3rd keyboard revision and have pretty much solved those issues though There have already been multiple reports of the 2018 MBP and MBA having issues with keys typing twice because there’s dust under the key. I’m not saying it hasn’t been partially fixed, but I certainly see a future where Apple acknowledge the problem and extends the warranty coverage for the 2018 laptops as well.
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I’ve already experienced it with left meta keys on my It Works This Time keyboard
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FCKGW posted:They're on their 3rd keyboard revision and have pretty much solved those issues though The newest 2018 MBA still has the same problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QDsqWkUvXQ&t=234s
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Speaking of classic Mac Pros, I'd had issues with both the DDR3 RAM running at 1066 instead of 1333 Mhz and not being able to sign into Messages. Doing a NVRAM reset did fix both of these issues, but now I have an odd issue where every so often, my (replaced) SuperDrive randomly will seek as if checking for a disk or try to open/close, and I'm not sure what would cause that behavior?
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