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I'm pretty sure that Apples recommends a minimum of one charge-cycle per month. If those 14 cycles were spread out over a year it (probably) should not have wrecked the battery like that. If, however, you went 11 months straight on AC power before pulling two cycles a day for a week I could see that loving things up.
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Is there an exhaustive collection yet of the performance problems people are experiencing with the rMBP, how widespread they are, and if Mountain Lion does anything to fix any of them?
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Jul 30, 2012 17:34
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Fren posted:Is there an exhaustive collection yet of the performance problems people are experiencing with the rMBP, how widespread they are, and if Mountain Lion does anything to fix any of them? It's weird they decided to ship the product in the first place, but I guess it's a nice product for people who work with videos, images, and audio on a daily basis. Kinda like a portable Mac Pro. rMBP sounds like an early adopter laptop for test pilots who just need to have it. I was considering it, but the price and performance made me go with a MacBook Air 13" instead. ufarn fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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Jul 30, 2012 17:42
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Is the scrolling REALLY that bad? I've seen it mentioned but it still got absolutely rave reviews from seriously picky people.
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Jul 30, 2012 18:08
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a bad poster yall posted:Is the scrolling REALLY that bad? I've seen it mentioned but it still got absolutely rave reviews from seriously picky people. For me, it's only bad on Facebook (running ML). I have no real problems or issues, otherwise.
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Jul 30, 2012 18:28
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mediaphage posted:For me, it's only bad on Facebook (running ML). I have no real problems or issues, otherwise. Same. Haven't really seen bad scrolling with ML. My ethernet DONGLE has gotten a little better too, but will still cause some funkiness when inserting and pulling it. Let's just say it is not hot swap-able.
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Jul 30, 2012 18:34
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Scrolling is also only really bad on Facebook here too. Although after my update to ML, switching spaces is now sort of a slide show whereas it was milky smooth in Lion.
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Jul 30, 2012 18:37
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Assuming ML has been seeded on Apple store laptops, go down there, visit a site with long scrolling like http://daringfireball.net or similar and just scroll down as much and fast as you can. I did so myself, and it was really noticeable on Lion. Anandtech says it gets better, but still subpar, with ML. If you don't notice it, I guess you shouldn't worry about it - but it's definitely there.
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Jul 30, 2012 18:43
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ufarn posted:Assuming ML has been seeded on Apple store laptops, go down there, visit a site with long scrolling like http://daringfireball.net or similar and just scroll down as much and fast as you can. I did so myself, and it was really noticeable on Lion. Anandtech says it gets better, but still subpar, with ML. I notice it, it's just not a dealbreaker. Also, I don't have the Spaces switching issue that a number of people seem to, either on Lion or ML.
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Jul 30, 2012 18:54
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Dunno, I upgraded from a 2008 whitebook so the retina macbook pro runs like a scalded cat compared to that machine.
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Jul 30, 2012 19:43
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Is it just me or is it kind of weird for OS X to depend on a path like the home directory to keep from totally making GBS threads? Maybe I'm dumb. I thought the file system had abstracted file identities that were independent of the filename. That's why I get annoyed when a program can't find anything in its history just because I changed the name of a folder in the path.
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Jul 30, 2012 19:46
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So, Pogue says the MagSafe 2 is poo poo. Is anybody having a problem with their MagSafe 2 as in it being too weak as he mentions?
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Jul 30, 2012 21:46
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If anything I wish it was weaker. I am constantly worried I could just pull my computer off the table with it.
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Jul 30, 2012 21:50
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I bet it's a quality control issue because I've run into people who say it's as strong as you say and others who think a refrigerator magnet is better. C'mon Apple.. Fake Edit: all the MagSafe 2s at the Apple Stores are pretty strong in my anecdotal experience..
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Jul 30, 2012 22:06
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I got loving tired of waiting for a Mac Mini or iMac refresh so i did a dumb thing and bought a 13" Macbook Air with 8gigs RAM. I considered getting the 256gig SSD but I saw how trivially easy it was to upgrade with the OWC SSD kit so I'll just wait for that to go down in price in the future. I wish Apple still offered a 24" monitor, I guess I'm using the Dell U2412m for now.
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Jul 31, 2012 00:09
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Mu Zeta posted:I got loving tired of waiting for a Mac Mini or iMac refresh so i did a dumb thing and bought a 13" Macbook Air with 8gigs RAM. I considered getting the 256gig SSD but I saw how trivially easy it was to upgrade with the OWC SSD kit so I'll just wait for that to go down in price in the future. I wish Apple still offered a 24" monitor, I guess I'm using the Dell U2412m for now. I thought the whole thing with the latest vintage of MBAs is that the SSDs are soldered on? Is this not the case? If so, as a recent purchaser of a 11",  .
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Lexicon posted:I thought the whole thing with the latest vintage of MBAs is that the SSDs are soldered on? Is this not the case? If so, as a recent purchaser of a 11", They're not soldered on, though I think RAM is. They are on a custom daughter-board that is different from the previous gen MBA.
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Jul 31, 2012 00:42
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Lexicon posted:I thought the whole thing with the latest vintage of MBAs is that the SSDs are soldered on? Is this not the case? If so, as a recent purchaser of a 11", (also the 2011 and 2012s have different modules iirc)
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Jul 31, 2012 00:44
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What is the difference in terms of performance between the 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 and the 2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7? I am looking into either purchasing the 2.3GHz macbook pro or the 2.6GHz macbook pro base model? However, if I get the 2.3GHZ, I'll probably get the 750GB HD and install some RAM myself. Also, are the high-res screen options worth the extra $100 or is the difference only noticeable by people working with videos and photos? For reference, I'll be using my macbook for school, gaming, and probably some music software. I'm trying to pick one that will last four years.
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Jul 31, 2012 02:20
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Can you connect a Macbook Air to a TV with HDMI without the AC adapter plugged in? I remember reading something about needing to have power to do it. Which wouldn't make sense since an iPad has no trouble doing it without power. Also if you connect a MBA to a third party monitor can you control its power settings through OSX? Like changing brightness setting and such with hotkeys.
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Jul 31, 2012 03:07
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Thanatus posted:What is the difference in terms of performance between the 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 and the 2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7? I am looking into either purchasing the 2.3GHz macbook pro or the 2.6GHz macbook pro base model? However, if I get the 2.3GHZ, I'll probably get the 750GB HD and install some RAM myself. The disk is going to be the way bigger bottleneck for most stuff anyway - you'd be much better off spending the difference on an ssd.
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Binary Badger posted:I bet it's a quality control issue because I've run into people who say it's as strong as you say and others who think a refrigerator magnet is better. C'mon Apple..
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Jul 31, 2012 03:27
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1997 posted:Maybe you should have cycled your battery more often. 14 in one year is nonsense, they're rated at a few hundred per year. Batteries nowadays basically last their rated cycles under whatever conditions unless there's something wrong with them. 14 cycles in a year should easily be enough to keep it going. I mean, you could probably shelve it for a year with no problems. It looks more like there's some sort of issue with the computer seeing the battery at all. Does the battery life indicator on the menu bar have a big X through it? That would mean that your computer thinks there's no battery connected at all. I've never seen a battery report like that with coconut battery; even basically dead ones still didn't show -1 like that. Do you still have an old battery lying around? You could plug that in and see if it shows anything different.
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Jul 31, 2012 04:59
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Mu Zeta posted:Can you connect a Macbook Air to a TV with HDMI without the AC adapter plugged in? I remember reading something about needing to have power to do it. Which wouldn't make sense since an iPad has no trouble doing it without power. I use a PNY MDP-HDMI adapter and watch the occasional fussy movie file with subs on the TV, always on battery. Audio pass through rules. I have never had those hot keys function on external displays. At least not on a Samsung or HP display.
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Jul 31, 2012 05:19
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So.. I got an email stating the 100 back to school gift card was shipped out the 17th of July and should be delivered the 24th. It's now the 30th.. should I be worried someone stole it in the mail?
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Jul 31, 2012 06:01
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Yes.
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Thanatus posted:What is the difference in terms of performance between the 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 and the 2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7? I am looking into either purchasing the 2.3GHz macbook pro or the 2.6GHz macbook pro base model? However, if I get the 2.3GHZ, I'll probably get the 750GB HD and install some RAM myself. I just did this myself (should be here on Thursday). You want the ~$2200 2.6 quad-core 15" model for longevity's sake; it has 1GB of VRAM on the 650M while the 2.3 quad core only ships with 512. Huge difference, will definitely add some more life to your new MBP.
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lol internet. posted:So.. I got an email stating the 100 back to school gift card was shipped out the 17th of July and should be delivered the 24th. Contact them, tell them what happened and ask them to send out a new one. Shouldn't be a problem (I've never tried with Apple but I've have other gift cards replaced easily enough).
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Arivia posted:You want the ~$2200 2.6 quad-core 15" model for longevity's sake; it has 1GB of VRAM on the 650M while the 2.3 quad core only ships with 512. Huge difference, will definitely add some more life to your new MBP. What outside of games needs that much video memory?
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dissss posted:What outside of games needs that much video memory? Probably nothing you would be doing unless you're an engineering student living on an MBP for some reason. However, for the person I responded to and myself, both students with gaming needs, it is important and will definitely make a Mac last longer.
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Jul 31, 2012 10:38
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ShadeofBlue posted:Batteries nowadays basically last their rated cycles under whatever conditions unless there's something wrong with them. 14 cycles in a year should easily be enough to keep it going. I mean, you could probably shelve it for a year with no problems. Apparently not using a battery is not a good thing either if it is exposed to heat (which is basically a given with an internal laptop battery) during its non-use: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/discharge_methods
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Decius posted:Apparently not using a battery is not a good thing either if it is exposed to heat (which is basically a given with an internal laptop battery) during its non-use: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries I used to store all the spare batteries for my D600 in the fridge; no idea if it really helped or not, but they still hold charge to this day 
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Jul 31, 2012 14:52
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Leaving a laptop plugged in all the time can possibly lead to battery swelling. However, my 2009 MBP only has 19 cycles and (even though I know I shouldn't) I keep it plugged in most of the time with no issues.
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Jul 31, 2012 19:53
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It's an old laptop that someone turned in when they got an upgrade here at work. It still had a few months of Applecare on it, so I got the DVD drive and battery taken care of and it's pretty much sat in a drawer for a long time except for occasional bouts of me messing around with it. It's not important, and I can just order a new battery for it on the company dime, just seems so strange that after only 14 cycles it would just be deader than dead. I'm pretty sure I have a D600 on a shelf somewhere that will still hold a charge after being on the shelf for the last year or so. The battery is recognized in the MBP, it just says 'Replace Now'.
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Jul 31, 2012 20:10
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If it was sitting at full or no charge for a prolonged period it could gently caress up the battery, the ideal storage state is around half. Of course the other possibility is that the MBP itself is hosed up in some way, only way to test that out is with a known good battery I guess.
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Jul 31, 2012 20:45
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Are you using a MacBook charger on your MacBook Pro? That could be another reason it isn't charging, since the MacBook charger doesn't supply as much power. The charger for the pro should be 85 watts, it says it on the charger somewhere.
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I'm playing this game called the Witcher 2 and it's quite graphically intensive. My retina macbook pro gets super hot and the fans start blazing like crazy. I wouldn't want to turn it into goo by playing some PC game. So is it unhealthy to get the macbook pro this hot?
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I have an old Mac PowerPC G5. I figure it's a long shot, but is there a feasible way for me to swap out the PowerPC chips for Intel ones?
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ShadeofBlue posted:Are you using a MacBook charger on your MacBook Pro? That could be another reason it isn't charging, since the MacBook charger doesn't supply as much power. The charger for the pro should be 85 watts, it says it on the charger somewhere.
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