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AppleCare costs about twice as much as a battery replacement, so you'd really have to have more than just that problem for it to pay for itself.
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Headhunter posted:My 2011 27" i5 iMac is no longer all sunshine and rainbows. For the first few weeks it was unbelievably silent, I could hardly ever hear the hard disk in it at all. Now I can hear it chugging away if I do something as simple as opening a new tab in Safari. If I try to do something like quickly switch to Safari whilst playing WoW (which it handled with no problem at all when I first got it) then the hard drive goes absolutely mental for a good 2 minutes. Have you checked out your memory usage? Take a look at Activity Monitor and see what's going on. Safari seems to use up a lot of memory over time, so if for example you've been running Safari for a couple weeks without restarting it, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the result.
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You don't even have to move the drive; you can share the drive from the iMac and back up to that (I'd recommend dividing it into two partitions). I use my mini this way to back up multiple Macs. The laptop should also theoretically be able to wake-on-LAN the iMac if it's sleeping.
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I don't know because I've never tried the AEBS option, but I don't see any reason it would be significantly different. When I back up laptops this way, I usually run it once per day manually (hourly is excessive and gets in the way, especially if you need to close the lid while it's running; it can take a while to recover from that), and the backup would take <10 minutes on a normal day (1 gig or less of changes). EDIT: Also, after you start the backup in the "remote" format (backs up into a sparse bundle instead of directly onto the file system), you can still unplug the drive and plug it directly into the laptop if you want, and it will still work (if you need to do a restore or have a lot of changes). headfake fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Aug 30, 2011 |
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Mr. Onslaught posted:All this talk about hooking things up to external displays makes me realize that there is no point to me owning a desktop for the time being. ... Is there some secret huge downside to this plan? No, this is what I do and it works fine. The 13" Air is powerful enough that I don't really have a need for a more powerful desktop. Plugging it in or unplugging it involves three cables: power, monitor and USB (which goes to a hub), and only takes a few seconds to do. It has no problem with waking up properly via a keypress on the keyboard, or just being unplugged and taken away on a whim. I usually switch it back and forth once or twice a day and it's no problem. One thing you might want is an application like Stay, which adjusts your window sizes and positions when you switch to a different display. Otherwise you might be moving things around manually a lot.
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Tutu posted:Do all 2011 13 inch macbook airs creak and pop when you pick them up or apply pressure to the palm rest area? I took mine to the genius bar and they tightened up the screws and it didn't creak for a few days but now it does again. I'm wondering if it's worth exchanging it for another one or if there's no point because they all do this? Mine did this for the first few months, but at some point it stopped on its own (only noticed recently when someone mentioned it).
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