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Bob Morales posted:
Yep that's why I was recommending it
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Bob Morales posted:
This is good to know, thanks! 
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Jul 20, 2012 04:38
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Bob Morales posted:
Is this documented or verified somewhere? Whos to say 'PCs' always stay to spec?
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Jul 20, 2012 05:24
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Shaocaholica posted:Whos to say 'PCs' always stay to spec? They have more respect for standards than Apple does.
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Jul 20, 2012 05:50
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To be clear, Apple tends to exceed this particular spec rather than meet it.
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Jul 20, 2012 06:02
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"Mac laptops" is a pretty misleading term anyway. There is definitely a bunch of bullshit like only the first USB port that you plug a high-current device into being designated as high current (until the next reboot) on a bunch of models. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4049 ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Jul 20, 2012 |
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Jul 20, 2012 06:34
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kuskus posted:I've sold maybe 25 items via Marketplace between notebooks, devices and parts, and they always sell immediately (aside from unpopular RAM). About half the time to military / universities. I've only incurred problems twice- just before iPad 3rd gen came out I had people return an iPad 2 _twice_ for no reason and that was such a headache. "A to Z" return policy. Sending my stuff to Amazon and letting them handle any returns is totally worth it. I don't ever plan to offer product support as I'm just unloading my gently-used gear.
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Jul 20, 2012 12:53
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ptier posted:try buying one and see how fast it requires escrow or a brother in Nigeria. At least that's how it used to be, the PayPal merging might have squashed that. But I doubt it. Didn't eBay buy Paypal like 10 years ago?
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Jul 20, 2012 13:20
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Shaocaholica posted:Is this documented or verified somewhere? Whos to say 'PCs' always stay to spec? Apple Computers and Displays: Powering Periphials Through USB quote:Apple computers and displays with USB 1.1 or USB 2 ports provide: It looks like it only works for Apple devices. No idea on if any PC's have similar support.
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Bob Morales posted:Didn't eBay buy Paypal like 10 years ago? 2008 was when they required Paypal as a payment option on all listings though. Whatever eBay is scamy. ptier fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Jul 20, 2012 |
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Jul 20, 2012 15:12
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ptier posted:2008 was when they required Paypal as a payment option on all listings though. I've had good luck selling phones, I've sold about 10 items in the last year and only been contacted by a Nigerian once. Stick100 fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Jul 20, 2012 |
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Jul 20, 2012 17:10
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Stick100 posted:I've had good luck selling phones, I've sold about 10 items in the last year and only been contacted by a Nigerian 1 once. Then I stand corrected. I admit that I walked away during the real bad scam times and never looked back. If it's better then awesome. Make that money.
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Jul 20, 2012 17:26
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Yeah I think the best course of action is to just tell my gf to bring her macbook air when she visits me tonight and i'll see if my portable.burner works with only 1 USB port connected.
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Jul 20, 2012 20:12
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I'm getting a Macbook5,1 (one of the aluminum models). I think they were known for bad fans/overheating? Either way, I'm planning on redoing the thermal grease and maybe installing a new fan if it's necessary. in short, what is necessary maintenance for those aluminum Macbooks? edit: I have one of those external DVD burners that has two USB plugs for extra power, most of the time it was totally fine with just one of the plugs connected to my old MBP
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ACID POLICE posted:I'm getting a Macbook5,1 (one of the aluminum models). I think they were known for bad fans/overheating? Either way, I'm planning on redoing the thermal grease and maybe installing a new fan if it's necessary. If you like using your genitalia in the future don't roam YouTube for music videos with the computer on your lap. Also when I changed the thermal paste it made no difference so YMMV.
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Sprat Sandwich posted:If you like using your genitalia in the future don't roam YouTube for music videos with the computer on your lap. Also when I changed the thermal paste it made no difference so YMMV. I just got one and it runs fairly hot - moreso than my '10 or '11 Pro (at least as far as I remember)
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Jul 21, 2012 14:51
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Sprat Sandwich posted:If you like using your genitalia in the future don't roam YouTube for music videos with the computer on your lap. Also when I changed the thermal paste it made no difference so YMMV. And laptops also require a small gap on the bottom for good cooling through the bottom vents so not using in on a table is bad thermally.
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Petey posted:Well, just ordered a July 2011 refurb MBA. 1.8 GHz Dual Core i7, 256 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, for $1199. Would have liked more RAM but couldn't add to the refurb and got ~20% off so I feel pretty good about the deal. Posting from my new machine. Oh my god, this is glorious.
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Next time someone says "You can get a Sony/Dell/whatever for $599 that has the same specs as a Apple...."
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Bob Morales posted:Next time someone says "You can get a Sony/Dell/whatever for $599 that has the same specs as a Apple...."  I remember neckbeards from my high school who had laptops that ended up looking like that. I think their abysmal hygiene was a significant factor in how they ended up looking. Frankly, I think the laptop in the photo is a really low-tier model. There will always be plastic crap that ends up looking like that in no time - same with keyboards. I'd like to see you do the same thing to a ThinkPad, though. 
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ufarn posted:I assume that's plastic and not aluminium, though, right? $1049 retail according to this review: http://www.cnet.com/laptops/sony-vaio-vpcs111fm-s/4505-3121_7-33974720.html Bottom line is painted/glossy plastic laptops are just awful.
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Frankly that's really more a dig on Sony than anything else; it just shows that they've made the decision to join all the other PC vendors in cheaping out as much as possible. Look at the Dell XPS 13; it looks gorgeous on a web page but go to a B&M retailer and handle one; yep really light but it's no MacBook Air; the aluminum is only on the top of the display and the bezel, the rest of the machine is pure carbon fiber. In hardware related matters, the original two revisions of the MacBook Air really suck in my opinion; I really wonder why Apple chose to use the PATA based SSD's instead of waiting for the SATAs to emerge. The ZIF cables are super delicate and many of those first generation SSDs are starting to fail now, forcing people to buy up those Taiwanese SSDs based on the older technology. And the USB/headphone/external monitor 'hatch' was just really badly thought out. If it were modded to 'lock' in place either opened or closed (both would have been nice) it wouldnt be such a pain to deal with.
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The first version(s) almost always suck. I'm sure a couple years from now people will talk about how the first Retina MBP's design was rear end.
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I noticed a bright white spot on my rMBP display yesterday. I'm not sure when it appeared, but it wasn't there when I bought it. Either way, a genius swapped it out on the spot.
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Mu Zeta posted:The first version(s) almost always suck. That 1.8" HDD was super loving slow too. 30-40MB/s
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Jul 22, 2012 00:57
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I've been playing around with the aluminum Macbook I just got and I forgot how thick they are compared to the Air. The palm rest feels a mile off the desk. By comparison, the Air feels like using an Apple keyboard, instead of a keyboard with a book under it.
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Jul 22, 2012 01:11
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Those MacBook Pros are great and are legitimately very thin, but then you get used to a MacBook Air and it's like you can't get un-used to it
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Bob Morales posted:I just got one and it runs fairly hot - moreso than my '10 or '11 Pro (at least as far as I remember) So the temperature is just a consequence of the design, then? That's too bad if even changing the thermal paste doesn't help much, but all my Apple laptops are from around that time period so I guess I'm just used to them running pretty hot.
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ACID POLICE posted:So the temperature is just a consequence of the design, then? That's too bad if even changing the thermal paste doesn't help much, but all my Apple laptops are from around that time period so I guess I'm just used to them running pretty hot. Keep an eye on the battery too - fairly sure that was one of the ones that would expand and ruin the machine if you didn't remove it soon enough
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dissss posted:Keep an eye on the battery too - fairly sure that was one of the ones that would expand and ruin the machine if you didn't remove it soon enough good thinking, i'll be watching out for that. although if the machine's been okay from the time the previous owner bought it until now, hopefully it'll stay okay. by the way, i used to have a 2008 15" macbook pro, so i guess it was made in the same era. that got super hot too, but i just used SMCFanControl and bumped the minimum RPM up to like 4500 and it was totally fine after that. anyone else tried that out? obviously i'll test it out and see when it gets here, but always good to know.
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ACID POLICE posted:i just used SMCFanControl and bumped the minimum RPM up to like 4500 and it was totally fine after that. anyone else tried that out? obviously i'll test it out and see when it gets here, but always good to know. The fans being on really annoys me.
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When you get that MacBook and have it opened up, make sure you have some canned air handy to clean out all the dust that'll probably be in there. The fan blades especially, as dust tends to cake up on them and when that happens their efficiency plummets. smcFanControl is a handy thing, use it as well as you can, as it's only $40-50 to replace a MacBook fan versus $500 and up to replace a MacBook logic board of the Early/Mid 2009 vintage. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jul 22, 2012 |
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Jul 22, 2012 03:12
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Pretty close to getting a 13" Air. Is there anything it can't do in terms of performance I should know about? I am not a Photoshop/movie-editing guy, so that doesn't apply, and I don't render nor compile stuff for hours either.
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ufarn posted:Pretty close to getting a 13" Air. Is there anything it can't do in terms of performance I should know about? I am not a Photoshop/movie-editing guy, so that doesn't apply, and I don't render nor compile stuff for hours either. In that case you are only missing out on some HARDCORE PC GAMING but who cares about that on a laptop.
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Jul 22, 2012 10:11
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No problems running 720p video and multiple tabs? I guess the latter is RAM dependent.
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It will do 1080p easily and while having 4GB RAM might get some swapping the SSD is fast enough to make it pretty much unnoticeable.
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ufarn posted:No problems running 720p video and multiple tabs? I guess the latter is RAM dependent. Get the 8GB of RAM and it'll be more than good enough.
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a bad poster yall posted:Get the 8GB of RAM and it'll be more than good enough. And it's not a big price increase in the cost given that upgrading the thing down the road if you change you mind is impossible.
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NESguerilla posted:Off the top of my head I have tried reset pram,new user, DNS change, erasing all other networks, erasing some "corrupted" files, moving router +probably 50 other things tech support guys ask me to do. It never works. I am lucky if I can get online for 5 minutes without it kicking me off and get's worse every day. FWIW, I installed the Mountain Lion GM the other day and haven't had any wifi problems. It looks like they replaced the driver with this update, and it's definitely not running the older SL IO80211Family.kext from Snow Leopard.
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ufarn posted:Pretty close to getting a 13" Air. Is there anything it can't do in terms of performance I should know about? I am not a Photoshop/movie-editing guy, so that doesn't apply, and I don't render nor compile stuff for hours either. I replaced my Air with a rMBP due to performance issues running VMs (Windows 7 running Visual Studio, etc.). That's the only time I ever had issues with it, but unfortunately for me it was large part of my usage. Photoshop, etc. worked flawlessly and you should have no problem. This was with the 4GB Air and due to ram. I'm sure if I went with a 8GB 2012 Air, I'd been fine too.
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