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Malcolm XML posted:
LOGIC HAS NO PLACE HERE!
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:For those wondering if 10.8.5 really did fix 802.11ac performance: Isn't AFP going to be totally nerfed / deprecated in Mavericks? BTW, this is what I visualize whenever I hear 'Mavericks..' 
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Sep 13, 2013 16:59
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Binary Badger posted:Isn't AFP going to be totally nerfed / deprecated in Mavericks? SMB2 will replace it as the default option when File Sharing is turned on, but AFP is going to remain the de facto and required option for certain AFP-only things, remote Time Machine/Time Capsules being the most notable.
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Sep 13, 2013 17:57
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Uhh, did 10.8.5 sneak back in the ability to turn off an internal monitor if an external one is hooked up? It was impossible previously in ML but I just accidentally pressed a key on my external keyboard while the thing was asleep with the lid closed and the external monitor turned on and did the thing where it goes blue briefly then comes up. Previously this would only last a couple of seconds before the thing would go back to sleep again but now it stays on fine, just like it did in Lion (albeit with a few choice lines in Terminal, which stopped working in ML). I just reopened the lid and the internal monitor is staying off! No magnets or any other nonsense. I just want to know if this actually came with the recent update or if it's just a fluke. I can do things again like watch videos without everything overheating and stuttering, awesome. E: Yet overall graphical performance is now worse despite the Mac only having to render one screen. Yeeeeah this makes sense. Stare-Out fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Sep 13, 2013 19:39
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Yeah the impression I'm getting with my laptop (MBA 2013, first Mac I've ever owned) is that OSX has absolutely awful graphics drivers and/or terrible multi-monitor support. I'm not even talking about the night and day difference in performance between Windows and OSX for things like old Source engine games (which I thought were supposed to run reasonably well in OSX) - I see noticeable "lag" when I'm dragging application windows around on my secondary monitor (1680x1050). Is this normal? I can live with it because OSX owns for dev work, but it's kinda annoying and doesn't happen in Windows at all. Edit: Same problem was occurring before the 10.8.5 update as well. Leathal fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Sep 13, 2013 21:59
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It might just be not enough VRAM, multi-monitor setups are vram hungry and apple is notoriously stingy.
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Sep 13, 2013 22:09
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That's the issue I had with ML was its fervent refusal to allow the user to go external monitor-only. Things that were smooth were fine (certain UI elements mostly) but some things barely worked at all (Youtube videos, games) but now that I'm seemingly allowed to go external-only, performance is worse across the board somehow even though VRAM is all directed to a single monitor instead of being split between two.
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Sep 13, 2013 22:19
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I have a 2013 MBA and I don't have this issue at all with a 27" 1080p monitor as a secondary display. Everything seems pretty smooth even when dragging windows between the built-in LCD and the monitor.
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Sep 13, 2013 22:56
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Dual monitor is pretty great in Mavericks, so I wonder how much of the trouble is software-related.
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Sep 13, 2013 23:05
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Leathal posted:Yeah the impression I'm getting with my laptop (MBA 2013, first Mac I've ever owned) is that OSX has absolutely awful graphics drivers and/or terrible multi-monitor support. One other possibility I guess is that your monitor is just laggier than the built in display, but you can eliminate that one if you were talking about Windows running on the MBA as well.
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Sep 13, 2013 23:48
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My laptop is 5 years old and shittier than yours and I've never felt any lag in using dual monitors on it in OSX, it runs games like poo poo under OSX and can just barely play recentish games under Windows but anything non-graphics intensive it works just fine.
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Sep 14, 2013 00:06
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http://smoothmouse.com/ http://smoothmouse.net/forum/topic/34-pointer-lag It also allows you to set Windows mouse acceleration for a mouse and OS X acceleration for a trackpad. Basically, for my use it's no lag when the Macbook is kinda docked and no speedy pointer when not docked.
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Sep 14, 2013 07:59
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I'm having some questions. I picked up a brand new MBP today, 13.3in, but the "About this Mac" says it's mid-2012. Is that the last time 13.3 was updated? It came with 10.8.3, so I partially think it's legit if not for that alone.
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Sep 14, 2013 11:08
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Leathal posted:Yeah the impression I'm getting with my laptop (MBA 2013, first Mac I've ever owned) is that OSX has absolutely awful graphics drivers and/or terrible multi-monitor support. You are going to really like Mavericks.
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Sep 14, 2013 11:26
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noirstronaut posted:I'm having some questions. I picked up a brand new MBP today, 13.3in, but the "About this Mac" says it's mid-2012. Is that the last time 13.3 was updated? It came with 10.8.3, so I partially think it's legit if not for that alone.
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Sep 14, 2013 11:39
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wdarkk posted:It might just be not enough VRAM, multi-monitor setups are vram hungry and apple is notoriously stingy. I think that depends a lot on how you spec it up and what size you pick. I haven't checked the current MBA line, but in the past, both the chip and the memory allocation has depended both on what size you picked and what your base CPU you selected during the first step of the order setup. Mine says this:  …and that should be plenty to run pretty much anything you can plug into the poor thing.
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Sep 14, 2013 12:47
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Mercurius posted:The MacBook Pros haven't been updated yet so the model is still classified as the 'mid 2012' model. They also don't need a custom build of Mountain Lion so they probably haven't been updated to 10.8.4 in the box.
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Sep 15, 2013 00:04
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Is resizing windows with the green button any better? I tend not to do it because it comes with a lag totally uncharacteristic of anything else in the OS desktop.
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Sep 15, 2013 00:50
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Green button makes the window large enough to show all elements, or small enough. I see it as a "No wasted space" button.
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Sep 15, 2013 00:57
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SRQ posted:Green button makes the window large enough to show all elements, or small enough. I see it as a "No wasted space" button.
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Sep 15, 2013 02:01
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Alright, I have a question for you homebros. I have an iMac and a new MBP. Naturally, there are some files I need to transfer between the two, and there's, of course, AirDrop, but is there anything that bridges the gap to make it so I can simply access the files of my iMac over wifi? Also, is it possible to do the same with any USB-connected storage on one and access from the other?
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Sep 15, 2013 02:40
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You can just direct connect in Finder. Go > Connect to server or hit CMD-K in Finder and it'll bring up a popup window to enter the computer name to connect to.
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Sep 15, 2013 02:43
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kloa posted:You can just direct connect in Finder. kloa posted:You can just direct connect in Finder. Remember to enable file sharing first under "sharing" in system preferences. For the absolute fastest way to transfer big stuff connect an Ethernet cable to both directly (no switch or router). They should auto configure themselves for you.
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Sep 15, 2013 02:56
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I'm in love with my 13" MBP and wish I could just marry it. That said, I wanna make a few upgrades to it. Is it possible to dump the DVD drive and replace it with a SSD and leave the 500gb hard drive in there too? I wanna do that and transfer my Mac OS X install over to the SSD. [edit]This would probably be better in the hardware thread, wouldn't it?
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I said come in! posted:I'm in love with my 13" MBP and wish I could just marry it. That said, I wanna make a few upgrades to it. Is it possible to dump the DVD drive and replace it with a SSD and leave the 500gb hard drive in there too? I wanna do that and transfer my Mac OS X install over to the SSD. Nah man, you're cool here. Here's the first google hit for "macbook+pro+two+hard+drives".  I think you're in business. This one's called the Optibay. e: Oh cool, there is a mac hardware thread. Yeah they'll know more. This Cnet page appears to outline every possible option for replacing the optical drive with a SSD. agarjogger fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Sep 15, 2013 |
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I said come in! posted:I'm in love with my 13" MBP and wish I could just marry it. That said, I wanna make a few upgrades to it. Is it possible to dump the DVD drive and replace it with a SSD and leave the 500gb hard drive in there too? I wanna do that and transfer my Mac OS X install over to the SSD. I got the OWC kit and upgraded on my 15". If your model supports the speed, putting the SSD in the optical bay would be the way to go. Mine I had to move the existing drive into the mounting bracket and screwed up the cable while working on the SSD. So no matter what you do, be careful and take your time working on it.
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Sep 15, 2013 18:05
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Would it be possible to RAID up too SSDs using that? I'm guessing no, would be neat in theory though.
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Sep 15, 2013 18:07
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OS X has software RAID so it would be possible but I thought the optical bay SATA port is artificially limited to SATA1 speeds so might not be worth it.
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Sep 15, 2013 18:10
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I have the optibay in my 13" MBP with a 1tb Seagate Momentus hybrid drive. I've symlinked a lot of directories from my home folder (Downloads, Pictures, Music, etc) on the SSD to the 1tb drive to make a sort of a fusion drive setup. Its just great and I love it.
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Sep 15, 2013 18:47
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Is there some way to get more options for trackpad gestures or hack them in? I got a new laptop with 10.8 and what used to be expose in 10.6 seems to be mission control now but I can't change mission control to swipe down like I had expose on my old macbook. e: Also I could have sworn I had right click as clicking with a corner of the trackpad or two fingers but now it only lets me pick one or the other? Fortuitous Bumble fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Sep 15, 2013 |
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Sep 15, 2013 19:55
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Fortuitous Bumble posted:Is there some way to get more options for trackpad gestures or hack them in? Indeed. BetterTouchTool is what you want. http://blog.boastr.net
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Sep 15, 2013 20:20
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Has anyone had any success enabling three-finger dragging in Windows? I tried to download something earlier today, but it hosed up everything.
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Sep 15, 2013 20:53
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Cyne posted:Indeed. Thanks, that was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Does anyone have experience with using VMware Fusion? I clicked the "easy install" option because it said it would deal with driver installation, but when I started up Windows it looks like it set up as an administrator account with updates disabled which seems like a bad idea. I'm wondering if there's anything else I should look out for.
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Sep 15, 2013 21:16
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Fortuitous Bumble posted:Does anyone have experience with using VMware Fusion? I clicked the "easy install" option because it said it would deal with driver installation, but when I started up Windows it looks like it set up as an administrator account with updates disabled which seems like a bad idea. I'm wondering if there's anything else I should look out for. Yeah just don't use easy install unless you're sure what it'll set up. I'm surprised it disabled updates though.
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SRQ posted:Would it be possible to RAID up too SSDs using that?
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Sep 16, 2013 00:47
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I meant Raid 0 for a dumb super fast drive array.
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Sep 16, 2013 01:23
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SRQ posted:I meant Raid 0 for a dumb super fast drive array. RAID 0's just a bad idea, and completely pointless when you can get such good performance from one SSD.
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Sep 16, 2013 02:51
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Granite Octopus posted:For the absolute fastest way to transfer big stuff connect an Ethernet cable to both directly (no switch or router). They should auto configure themselves for you. Just to clarify here, do I need to worry about cross-over cables in this situation, or just "normal" Ethernet?
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Sep 16, 2013 02:54
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binarysmurf posted:Just to clarify here, do I need to worry about cross-over cables in this situation, or just "normal" Ethernet? It has built-in crossover capabilities, so just a normal cable works fine.
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So my MBA (2010ish) can no longer see my home wifi. The wifi network still works fine with 2 iphones and an iPad, so I'm pretty sure it's not a problem with the router. This seems to be a fairly common issue, since lots of threads came up when I googled for it. I did standard stuff like rebooting the MBA, power cycling the router, deleting all the known networks on the MBA and rebooting like 5 more times. It seemed to work once, but then it stopped working again. I couldn't find any solutions via googling... will an Apple store do anything on an MBA that is out of warranty?
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