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rear end Catchcum posted:Now, real talk, when I get this new air what's the best way to calibrate/get the most out of my battery?
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rear end Catchcum posted:I was probably going to use it until the next major update came out and then sell it to upgrade. I wouldn't then. I had the same debate when buying my 13" and figured I'd try to do the same thing. Ivy Bridge comes out at the beginning of 2012, promising a huge step up in computing power/energy use, and you can bet dollars to donuts that macs will be getting those processors as soon as they roll into production. The difference between 2012 MBAs and 2011 ones will probably be as pronounced as the one between these and last year's. I realized: 1) I won't be putting more than 20 GB of new stuff on this drive over the course of a year. 2) If I end up keeping it a bit longer, I won't sweat hosting my media externally. It seems like you're already planning to do that, so ask yourself what sort of software you'd be filling 128 more GB of space with...and whether you'd want to be using it on a 11.6" MBA. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Aug 24, 2011 |
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Ivy Bridge comes out at the beginning of 2012, promising a huge step up in computing power/energy use, and you can bet dollars to donuts that macs will be getting those processors as soon as they roll into production. The difference between 2012 MBAs and 2011 ones will probably be as pronounced as the one between these and last year's. Sandy Bridge was the tock that brought sweeping architectural improvements, like Conroe and Nehalem before it.
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I believe it's supposed to up the graphics performance, but other than that yeah, it should basically just be a little faster and more efficient. Integrated USB 3 is the other major thing I guess.
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That's a year away and may or may not happen though. I ended up going with the upgraded drive just because I didn't want to worry about any constraints or regrets. I want to install office, final draft, Diablo 3...I don't want to have to worry about space. Plus I figure come next year the extra hard drive space isn't going to HURT the resell value...
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rear end Catchcum posted:That's a year away and may or may not happen though. Always a fair bet, and Diablo 3 looks like it's going to be around 30 gigs, so extra space is always fine.
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japtor posted:I believe it's supposed to up the graphics performance, but other than that yeah, it should basically just be a little faster and more efficient. Integrated USB 3 is the other major thing I guess. USB 3.0 comes with the 7-series chipsets. If Apple really wants to not support USB 3.0 (  ) they'll just keep using 6-series chipsets as they are compatible with Ivy Bridge CPUs, or ship 7-series-based machines with USB 3.0 disabled.
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movax posted:USB 3.0 comes with the 7-series chipsets. If Apple really wants to not support USB 3.0 ( 
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Anyone else having a serious jones waiting for the damned TB Display to come out already? I preordered weeks ago and sold my 30" already. I need screen size damnit.
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Before every Apple thread gets derailed, here's a dedicated discussion thread for the Steve Jobs news.
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Finally bit the bullet and ordered the 13" i5 Air. Too bad since I've ordered through Amazon I'll have to wait a considerable amount of time to get it but only paying $955 should make it tolerable. I'm so excited to have a newer Mac that is in almost every way at least twice as good as my current Late 07' White MacBook. Anyone know have experience using decals on their MacBooks? I'm thinking about grabbing a Bansky one but I want to be sure that it will come off clean if I grow tired of it or want to resell. SpoonsForThought fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Aug 26, 2011 |
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If I wanted to install an SSD on my wife's 2006 Blackbook would I need to find an IDE drive? Or can I use SATA? She's still on leopard as well. I assume I would have to upgrade her to Lion?
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SnatchRabbit posted:If I wanted to install an SSD on my wife's 2006 Blackbook would I need to find an IDE drive? Or can I use SATA? She's still on leopard as well. I assume I would have to upgrade her to Lion? Pretty sure all the Intel Macs use SATA except the original Macbook Air. You don't need to upgrade to Lion, unless you want to. You might as well spend $20 and throw 4GB of RAM in the machine, too.
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SnatchRabbit posted:If I wanted to install an SSD on my wife's 2006 Blackbook would I need to find an IDE drive? Or can I use SATA? She's still on leopard as well. I assume I would have to upgrade her to Lion? All MacBooks since their start use SATA. It'll only be a 1.5 Gb link, though. If it's a MacBook 1,1 (go look in System Profiler) then it can only be upgraded to 2 GB. If it's a MacBook 2,1 (Late 2006) blaqueBook it can go to 3 GB. Putting in 4 GB will be a waste because only 3.3 GB of the 4 will be recognized by the OS due to limitations of the hardware. MacBooks couldn't offer 4 GB of RAM until late 2007, when the Santa Rosa based logic boards came out. Lastly, the very first MacBook1,1 can't run Lion as it had a Core Duo, not a Core 2 Duo. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Aug 25, 2011 |
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SpoonsForThought posted:Finally bit the bullet and ordered the 13" i5 Air. Too bad since I've ordered through Amazon I'll have to wait a considerable amount of time to get it but only paying $955 should make it tolerable.
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Binary Badger posted:Lastly, the very first MacBook1,1 can't run Lion as it had a Core Duo, not a Core 2 Duo.
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Bob Morales posted:Pretty sure all the Intel Macs use SATA except the original Macbook Air. I had a Macbook 1,1 and it was indeed SATA 1.5Gbps.
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Kilted Yaksman posted:How'd you get that price? Does the amazon card 20% off code work for out of stock items? Well it is a bit confusing. Amazon says they are "not in stock" but allowed the order. Earlier Amazon wasn't even an option to order from.
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I've just got a new 2nd hand widescreen CRT TV with an RGBHV input. I'm curious to know whether I'd be able to connect an iPhone 4 to the TV using these two devices: http://store.apple.com/au/product/MC552ZM/B http://www.digitalconnection.com/products/cables/scvm5r.asp KingEup fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Aug 26, 2011 |
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In theory that should work. Keep in mind you'd be limited to videos and stuff that works with external displays, i.e. no mirroring like on the iPad 2. What resolutions can the CRT display, 480p and 1080i or just an older 480i one? I have the VGA and HDMI adapters, but I've never tried it on anything other than 720/768p and 1080/1200p displays.
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japtor posted:In theory that should work. Keep in mind you'd be limited to videos and stuff that works with external displays, i.e. no mirroring like on the iPad 2. What resolutions can the CRT display, 480p and 1080i or just an older 480i one? I have the VGA and HDMI adapters, but I've never tried it on anything other than 720/768p and 1080/1200p displays. I have no idea what the actual resolution of the tube is but apparently it accepts: Total scanning line___Effective scanning line___fV(Hz) 1125i_____________1080i________________50/60 720p______________720p________________50/60 625p ______________576p________________50 625i_______________576i_________________50 525p______________480p_________________60 525i_______________480i_________________60
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Anyone here used ArcGIS 10 on a solely HD3000-equipped Mac? Wondering what I can expect performance-wise, since ESRI mentions a discrete card as being a requirement.
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I just got my first mac, an 2011 iMac. I would like to max out it's ram. Is there a certain set of ram from Newegg that works better, or is known to work well with it?
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SourKraut posted:Anyone here used ArcGIS 10 on a solely HD3000-equipped Mac? Wondering what I can expect performance-wise, since ESRI mentions a discrete card as being a requirement. If I remember correctly I had a friend use it on his White MacBoook with the x3100 integrated graphics. Based on this blog and some of the comments it seems like it should be fine: http://spanring.eu/blog/2006/07/02/arcgis-on-mac-os-x-2/
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Profane Obituary! posted:I just got my first mac, an 2011 iMac. I would like to max out it's ram. Is there a certain set of ram from Newegg that works better, or is known to work well with it? I have two of these kits in my 2011 iMac and it's great. I can run like every app. Ever.
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What would be the most efficient way of switching out the HD in my late 2007 Macbook without losing all my stuff? I've got some expensive software not to mention tons of music and RAW photos I don't want to lose. I've replaced the RAM in my Macbook and replacing the HD doesn't look much more complicated.
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Thoogsby posted:What would be the most efficient way of switching out the HD in my late 2007 Macbook without losing all my stuff? I've got some expensive software not to mention tons of music and RAW photos I don't want to lose. I've replaced the RAM in my Macbook and replacing the HD doesn't look much more complicated. Carbon copy cloner with a USB enclosure.
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Bob Morales posted:Carbon copy cloner with a USB enclosure. Looks good. Thanks!
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Thoogsby posted:Looks good. Thanks! Just remember when/if you upgrade to a newer machine (an i5 Pro for example), you can't run the OS from your old C2D Macbook so you will have to re-install. Unless there's some hackish way of doing it.
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In situations like the above I just clone the drive, slap in the new one, do a full install of Snowy/Lion-Oh for that model onto the new drive, then boot up, make a dummy admin account, then use Migration Assistant to grab everything from the old account. Pain-free (mostly) and everything usually comes over, no muss or fuss unless it's from a Tiger OS in which case I have to redo networking and printers.
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SpoonsForThought posted:Well it is a bit confusing. Amazon says they are "not in stock" but allowed the order. Earlier Amazon wasn't even an option to order from. 
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Binary Badger posted:In situations like the above I just clone the drive, slap in the new one, do a full install of Snowy/Lion-Oh for that model onto the new drive, then boot up, make a dummy admin account, then use Migration Assistant to grab everything from the old account. This is very good advice.
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One of our dipshit graphics designers emailed the rest of the office telling us that he "Made a install disk for Lion if anyone wants to use it", a couple days after Lion came out.  We're a software company why would do such a thing?Anyway, nobody took him up on it because why upgrade when it's just going to break poo poo. At some point today, he talks the owner into upgrading his 2010 MBA. So for the rest of the day his machine has been acting weird, can't open files, Office is acting up, he's rebooted about 50 times. I also heard something like "It's asking me to register my computer..." Now I think he just wants to go back to Snow Leopard but I don't think he has the little USB install thing anymore, and we don't have any external DVD drives. I'll offer him mine, but of course it's at home. He's on the phone with Apple now so we'll see if they're going to mail him a new one or what happens. Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Aug 26, 2011 |
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Kilted Yaksman posted:I just tried ordering, with Amazon as the seller, and I'm still getting "The promotional code you entered cannot be applied to your purchase" You're going to have to chat with one of their customer reps. I had to chat with 3 of them to find one who would apply it. Just be careful though, there are some reports on the MacRumors forums that if you harass too many of the reps they could ban your account.
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SpoonsForThought posted:If I remember correctly I had a friend use it on his White MacBoook with the x3100 integrated graphics.
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SourKraut posted:Thanks for the link/info. Know if that was ArcGIS 10 by chance he used or an older version? Probably an older version, I've seen one place where someone has mentioned using version 9 on their Macbook Air. On the ArcGIS website I don't see a mention of a discrete GPU, I see this: 64 MB RAM minimum, 256 MB RAM or higher recommended. NVIDIA, ATI and INTEL chipsets supported Which are requirements the HD3000 meets.
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SpoonsForThought posted:Just be careful though, there are some reports on the MacRumors forums that if you harass too many of the reps they could ban your account. That won't happen unless you are a complete rear end in a top hat to them (yelling, screaming, threatening). I've bothered their reps plenty of times over the years with 0 problems.
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SpoonsForThought posted:Probably an older version, I've seen one place where someone has mentioned using version 9 on their Macbook Air. Hmm, for some reason I think I misread it when I looked at it, since yeah, I thought it required more. Thanks for pointing that out, since that alleviates my concerns!
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So I was thinking about buying an ipod shuffle for exercising since my ipod touch is simply too heavy to run with and my phone is even bigger. When are the new ones expected to come out? Is there another mp3 player (not apple) I should consider besides the shuffle?
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