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Bonobos posted:Not sure if I should ask here or in the mouse thread, but since we are talking software...how is the logitech software for OSX? I know a few years ago the consensus was to just use STEETMOUSE or similar, but supposedly their drivers / software has gotten better? Their gaming software stuff that just came out a few months ago is horrible. Not entirely sure how good their normal mouse software is these days though since my mouse is not supported in it (G700).
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The only issue with upgrades I've found is that your first Time Machine backup after the upgrade is incredibly slow.
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SRQ posted:How does in place OSX updating work? It's a beta, so you should assume you're going to have problems.
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Aug 29, 2013 20:28
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wolffenstein posted:It's a beta, so you should assume you're going to have problems. If I give it a partition after the original 10.8 partition, install it, then copy my stuff over can I merge the old partition back in even if it's in "front" of it?
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Aug 29, 2013 20:33
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I'm gonna say No just based on you willingly being dumb enough to install a developer beta for daily driving uses.
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Aug 29, 2013 20:46
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I used it for months on my 2012, it's far superior to 10.8 as of around dp3 or so. You're not a nice person.
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Aug 29, 2013 20:51
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lostleaf posted:I have the late 2008 aluminum model with 9400. It can run mountain lion I just didn't see any benefit to the upgrade to mountain lion. Mavericks seems like there are core system improvements so if anyone has tried it on an older model I would like to hear if there's tangible improvements. Oh yea, I forgot about those - I used to own one so I should have remembered. I ran ML on mine and it seemed fine, but it would be nice to get some battery savings from Mavericks.
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SRQ posted:I used it for months on my 2012, it's far superior to 10.8 as of around dp3 or so.
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Fine then smartass. On a theoretical macbook, if 10.7 is installed and I want to upgrade to 10.8 by installing it side by side, how would I later on roll the 10.7 partition into the 10.8 one?
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I've been getting a lot of "Unknown error occurred." when I upload videos to youtube with QTX. Does anyone know what might cause this?
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Bonobos posted:Not sure if I should ask here or in the mouse thread, but since we are talking software...how is the logitech software for OSX? I know a few years ago the consensus was to just use STEETMOUSE or similar, but supposedly their drivers / software has gotten better? I've been using SmoothMouse and I like it a lot. http://smoothmouse.com/
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What is the current state of emulating Windows software in OS X? I have been giving a lot of thought to getting a Macbook Air but I need to be able to run an engineering software called HFSS that is used to model electromagnetic fields and other things like MATLAB and SPICE simulation software and I'm not sure if this kinda thing will run at all in OS X? I've googled around but it's not very popular so there isn't a lot about it re: OS X. I think that OS X has a native version of MATLAB. Is the situation that everything can be run within OS X with varying degrees of stability or some things flat out can't be emulated at all? I know when I used Wine in Linux several years ago, some things just flat out didn't work. I know Airs are capable of dual booting into windows but I was looking at only getting the 128gb model to keep the cost down and I don't think this is enough space to run two modern operating systems.
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IratelyBlank posted:I know Airs are capable of dual booting into windows but I was looking at only getting the 128gb model to keep the cost down and I don't think this is enough space to run two modern operating systems. It's not emulation, but I'm running Parallels, which is apparently smart enough to only use as much space on disk as the stuff you have installed needs. My Parallels installation of Windows 7 with Office 365 installed clocks in at 31.83 GB. However, I also didn't intentionally try to skim it down to the lowest amount of space possible.
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Aug 30, 2013 02:55
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VMWare Fusion 5 works fantastic for me and only costs fifty bucks to boot, but VMs are kinda big and 128 will run out rather quickly. If you really need to run windows apps you're gonna want at least 256 whether you dual boot or go the VM route. Also VMs are painful (Assuming a Win7 VM) on anything less then 4 gigs of host ram.
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Crossover has a demo which will tell you more than our anecdotal experiences. I find it works great for simpler apps. You can always check the WINE database on a particular piece of software you want to run.
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IratelyBlank posted:What is the current state of emulating Windows software in OS X? My 128gb Retina MBP stores multiple VMs for Mac and web development testing, and I have about 50 GB left. I don't store media on this laptop; it's all streamed. wolffenstein fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Aug 30, 2013 |
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VirtualBox is free, XP only takes like 10GB if your apps run under it
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I'm currently using a MBA and I have windows 8 running in vmware, and the *.vmwarevm file is only 8.95GB for a base install. I also have 8.1, and it is currently ~16 GB, but that is with some things installed, a suspended state and 3.3GB reclaimable. I've been meaning to get xilinx installed, but I haven't gotten around to downloading it again, and I suspect that it could get annoying on a 4GB host machine, even if you give the VM 2GB. (not to mention the general crappiness it has with windows 8, if it hasn't been fixed yet)
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What's the best Safari keyword search at the moment? I have Omnikey installed but it's a bit buggy, misinterprets keystrokes sometimes and submits my query when I'm halfway through typing.
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Anmitzcuaca posted:What's the best Safari keyword search at the moment? I have Omnikey installed but it's a bit buggy, misinterprets keystrokes sometimes and submits my query when I'm halfway through typing. ...and I think the "submit query while typing" thing is actually a Safari bug. It was brought up a while ago and people seemed to get it with or without extensions.
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IratelyBlank posted:What is the current state of emulating Windows software in OS X? I have been giving a lot of thought to getting a Macbook Air but I need to be able to run an engineering software called HFSS that is used to model electromagnetic fields and other things like MATLAB and SPICE simulation software and I'm not sure if this kinda thing will run at all in OS X? I've googled around but it's not very popular so there isn't a lot about it re: OS X. I think that OS X has a native version of MATLAB. MATLAB definitely has a native OS X version.
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SRQ posted:On a theoretical macbook, if 10.7 is installed and I want to upgrade to 10.8 by installing it side by side, how would I later on roll the 10.7 partition into the 10.8 one? You can't merge free space before an HFS volume into one after - you can only merge space after into ones before. Make a second partition, smaller than the first. Install to the second partition. Copy over the stuff you want from the first to the second, then boot into recovery mode and use disk utility to restore the second partition overtop the first. Now you can delete the second partition and merge it into the first. I wouldn't be concerned about doing an upgrade - OS X is very good about not hosing your system because of an update. Most things that would cause issues are automatically set aside by the installer. If you do encounter an issue, file a bug so it can be fixed.
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Recently if I watch an embedded flash video it sometimes backtracks the audio and pauses the video until the sound catches up... Is anyone else having this?
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Ratjaculation posted:Recently if I watch an embedded flash video it sometimes backtracks the audio and pauses the video until the sound catches up... Is anyone else having this? What browser?
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Just curious if anyone here uses a fan control program, either in osx or when in bootcamp windows? I'd like to do some gaming on my retina but am afraid I will melt the computer. Do the fans do well enough to cool the computer when controlled by the firmware when pushing the computer?
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Bob Morales posted:What browser? Chrome. I think its only YouTube videos so I'm guessing its a result of the video quality changing automatically.
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Bonobos posted:Just curious if anyone here uses a fan control program, either in osx or when in bootcamp windows? One of the only reasons you need a fan control program is if you have an iMac or something where you've replace the factory HD that has a temp sensor and you want to slow the fans down so you're not listening to 5,500 rpm of fan
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Ratjaculation posted:Chrome. Are you using the built in Chrome Flash player?
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I've had massive issues with flash on Chrome, especially with Youtube videos (on both Chrome's own flash and the external plugin) but using the html5 player somewhat helps even though it's not available for every video. I got a Chrome addon that turns all Youtube videos into the native Chrome video player which is quite handy, but even that makes the sound choppy at times which is caused by having two monitors on thanks to ML.
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Bob Morales posted:One of the only reasons you need a fan control program is if you have an iMac or something where you've replace the factory HD that has a temp sensor* and you want to slow the fans down so you're not listening to 5,500 rpm of fan *and you did't replace the temp sensor with Apple's universal one, which for a 2009-2010 is part number 922-9229. (sorry, I just got done installing one and have the packaging in front of me)
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At the risk of looking an idiot again I have two questions: Is there any way for Retina dpi to scale properly on windows? How about sharing my icloud bookmarks with Firefox on windows?
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SRQ posted:Is there any way for Retina dpi to scale properly on windows? edit: Apparently it's coming in 8.1? Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Aug 31, 2013 |
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SRQ posted:At the risk of looking an idiot again I have two questions: 1. You can change the size of text and some elements but some programs don't play nice. It's in Screen Resolution > Make text larger or smaller, or whatever the overly verbose link is. Other answer: wait for Windows 8.1 which has the OS X style scaling. 2. Not that I know of except to install iCloud control panel and sync with IE then export and import into Firefox.
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But then I would have to use Windows 8.1  .Export/import works well enough thanks for that idea.
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SRQ posted:But then I would have to use Windows 8.1
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This is driving me insane, I'm running mountain lion on my MBP and even though I set computer sleep to never via energy saver the laptop still goes into idle sleep when plugged into power. There any way to completely disable sleep when plugged into power? I searched around online and was only finding little utilities to run that would completely disable it.
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Ashex posted:This is driving me insane, I'm running mountain lion on my MBP and even though I set computer sleep to never via energy saver the laptop still goes into idle sleep when plugged into power.
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Ashex posted:This is driving me insane, I'm running mountain lion on my MBP and even though I set computer sleep to never via energy saver the laptop still goes into idle sleep when plugged into power. What does it say if you use pmset -g in the terminal with and without the charger plugged in?
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Anyone have issues with Growl in ML not showing notifications after a while? I use it for Twitter notifications and after a certain time it just flat-out won't show any notifications unless restarted.
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Stare-Out posted:Anyone have issues with Growl in ML not showing notifications after a while? I use it for Twitter notifications and after a certain time it just flat-out won't show any notifications unless restarted. I've had some problems along those lines. Most of the time, though, it has simply been that Growl has quietly crashed or that the startup order is wrong. Some programs seem to have problems detecting Grown if it's already running, so if they crash, I have to restart Growl as well. I have no idea what's actually causing it though, so it might not be all that helpful, but those two might be good places to start looking.
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