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redeyes posted:Is there any thing Apple can do that would make the faithful in this thread jump ship? Computers have always been appliances to most people. Apple just made them status symbols.
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landgrabber posted:they should also very much stop dicking us around and either lean back in to the i or expunge all is from the product line. New, from Apple: The Phone! Joining it's outrageously popular predecessors Pad and Watch, all running OS, Apple has finally brought you the platonic ideal* of personal computing. *All Apple products now come in a trashcan form factor.
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Would you drop your iPhone?
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May 22, 2018 18:31
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Shaocaholica posted:Linux is great EL BROMANCE posted:Linux is also a great Linux just worked when I installed it on an early 2008 MacBook and it's just worked on everything I've installed it on since. Stop trying to do arch builds you loving nerds.
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So that's why they haven't bothered to upgrade the mini.
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Theophany posted:Is that turbonerd audiophilia or something? This is nothing but science! Just lol if you don't have a dampening plinth for your digital music server to stop the bits from jittering.
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Aug 13, 2018 17:40
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New Mac mini will be a new, smaller enclosure. Internals will remain the same.
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Oct 24, 2018 21:58
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Buy a surface, put Linux on it?
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Oct 31, 2018 01:55
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Mac Hardware megathread: getting a $1200 shroud for your processor and boot drive.
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Oct 31, 2018 19:21
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japtor posted:Storage is the easiest thing to work with externally though. GPUs are constrained a bit but also work now. RAM slots are big cause there'd be no other option if it was soldered. Sammy the Cycle Bot. There's plenty of Mac games pre-OSX, just not the ones that anyone remembers.
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smackfu posted:On the Mac mini, is the base i3 good or not? I don’t follow intel cpu news very closely but I’ve seen some people allude that intel has made them better than they used to. But other people act like it’s a joke. Is that related to price or performance? The new i3s are the last gen i5s, so they're not bad, and a couple of years ago would have been the standard price/performance rec when building a computer at twice their street price, but the new 6 cores will smoke them in multithreaded workloads and are assumedly the way of the future. That said, most of the outrage comes from the fact that they're charging $800 for a $100 processor, $60 of RAM, and a $30 SSD, and the cost of the spec bumps don't make the price/performance any more favorable.
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iSimian posted:My late 2009 27 iMac died a while ago and the last year I've been using a 2014 Mac Mini with i5 and 8gb RAM. Adobe applications are highly single thread dependent, but multiple cores should help with multitasking. Either way, your current one is a 2C/4T laptop part running around 3ghz. Performance on the new minis will depend on heat dissipation: if they can maintain the boost clocks the i7 (6C/12T) will significantly outperform the i3 (4C/4T), but if it winds up throttling it might not (in single core workloads) but either will out perform what you have now. Intel's igpu isn't going to be any good for 3D work, but it will run 2 monitors and do 2D work just fine, though it's likely you'll need some kind of adapter for the second display.
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BobHoward posted:For what it’s worth the i3-8100 and i7-8700b are both 65W TDP chips. Depending on what kind of binning Intel is doing this generation, low end i3 chips may or may not use a lot less than their TDP rating even under full load, but going by specs the i3 needs cooling adequate for 65W too. It's a 3.6 base clock on the i3, and the 65w TDP is only for base clocks. The i3 will run at 3.6 GHz 24/7 at 65w, while the i7 is only rated to run at 3.2 (on two more cores) within that 65w limit. Boosting up to the 4.6 requires additional thermal overhead, which is why it's dependent on the cooling as to how they'll perform in single threaded tasks. (I would bet the i7 still outperforms, but it doesn't have to).
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Did anyone besides Marco get an i7 model? I'm quite curious about temps under sustained load.
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Speaking of which, if I wanted to pick up a Mac capable of running System 9, what's the best model I could expect to get at a reasonable price?
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:The best possible Mac that runs Classic under OS X Tiger is a late 2005 Power Mac G5. You can pick a dual core model up for like $150-200 on eBay if you're lucky. Quad core models barely ever show up and fetch a premium. I actually have a Power Mac G5, though I think I'd need to downgrade the OS. Though, since this is all purely for nostalgia, running OS9 natively would be neat. I remember OS9 being prone to crashing and taking the whole system with it, but I don't remember if Classic Mode had any notable downsides.
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I've been wondering for a while if they've been having fabs produce old-rear end chips just for the trashcans or if they've just been sitting on stock (to whatever extent theyve actually be moving) for years.
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Astro7x posted:Here is a question.... As a curiosity piece or as a computer? You get an 8 or 12 core ivy bridge, two supercharged 280Xs and up to 64gb DDR3 and 1 tb storage. It's not going to hold up.
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Shaocaholica posted:Only nerds need a hard escape key. You’re not the target audience have you seen a real Mac user reach for escape I don’t think so It's true.
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FuturePastNow posted:I was surprised no company ever made an eGPU enclosure that's sized and shaped to stack under a Mac Mini. Not enough market I guess That would have to be a MXM module on the inside which would hurt the already niche appeal of an eGPU, I think.
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Just make the aluminum on the top a bit thinner so it doesn't get any bigger and stick a GPU right in the shell. You can paste it right to the body to use as a heatsink.
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Where and why are you buying $100+ earbuds that don't have replaceable cables?
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Mu Zeta posted:I can't think of any earbuds with replaceable cables. Eh, iems. Besides apple and crappy pack-ins can you even get earbuds proper anymore? After tearing through enough crappy ones I wouldn't buy an audio device without replaceable cables again, which I guess counts me out on a device guaranteed to fail like airpods.
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Oct 29, 2019 01:49
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They know their userbase.
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Oct 29, 2019 22:34
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Considering theres nothing in it that's basically just a motherboard shot.
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Oct 30, 2019 16:47
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A glass keyboard, but they're not like screens or anything, just glass keycaps.
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Nov 12, 2019 17:17
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Shaocaholica posted:That's not that impressive of an assembly line. Are the main boards made in the US as well? The chassis? Or just the screwdriver assembly? Look into your heart. I don't even think there are machines in the US capable of making the boards.
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As best I can tell the primary use case for iMacs is as POS computers for fancy salons / other business looking to look upmarket.
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FCKGW posted:Companies can also rotate review product around to multiple people as well. The Mac Pros that went to MKB last week can go to a CNET reporter next week or a NYT long-term review in a month. This. Other points here have a point, but companies only make so many review samples and they ship them around to all the reviewers. They could make more, sure, but that would cost more for no real benefit.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Man, gently caress this thread. That's some ancient hardware in that thing, Westmere is the same generation as the Core i7-970. It'll probably work for a simple desktop machine but I'd only go for it as a museum piece personally.
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If I wanted to replace the drive in my G5 do I need to be aware of anything or can I just toss a SATA drive in there?
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Binary Badger posted:https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/02/24/apple-will-soon-let-mac-pro-owners-install-their-own-chassis-wheels Tires? You can buy actual car wheels for that price.
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Binary Badger posted:So if we wind up getting ARM Macs how will that affect the state of gaming? Hope you enjoy mobile games.
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Computing on a TV is a pain in the rear end. I rehab'd an old machine to use for non-gaming things just because I got fed up with it.
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Like golden, or actual gold, like the short lived Apple Watch Edition?
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I've got a Mac Pro G5 1.8DP that came from the education sector. I've been thinking about getting it set up as an ultimate Classic machine. I found install media for Tiger, but while I was at it I came across a website talking about Mac Pros from that time period being victims of the capacitor plague. Does anyone have any insight into what to look for or do to a Mac of that age to keep it running fine for the foreseeable future? I already pulled the battery when checking out the specs of it a while ago.
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Just cover the outside in some cotton cloth, no one will ever know.
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FireWire but usb-c.
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Intel's got shitballs of money and are literally selling every chip they can produce. They're not in a good spot, but they've got time.
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Ok Comboomer posted:It’s OSX 11 you dummies. And you pronounce it “Oh-Es-Ex”. System 10, buddy.
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