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fleshweasel posted:Wow dude. Props for making an 8 year old computer work for you. I've used it pretty much everyday for the past 8 years. We've been through a lot of crazy poo poo so it's hard to let go. I have an iMac for video editing but I still prefer my Macbook because I'm so used to it. It's like a part of me now in some weird Cronenberg-esque way. I'm thinking of replacing it next year for something more portable/powerful but I hope this thing is still kicking in 2016. Thank god Mozilla still pushes Firefox updates for Snow Leopard.
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While one cannot say the same thing about Tiger, which is the latest version I was able to acquire and install on my uncle's G3 iBook. I did manage to find a browser with some HTML5 capabilities, but when I attempted to view a video on YouTube, the whole machine slowed to an unresponsive crawl until I gave the browser a force quit. Also major laughs at the network hardware, having GigE but only 802.11b wireless.
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lelandjs posted:I have a 1,1 White MacBook that I keep around because back in high school I made some lovely GarageBand tracks that heavily relied on loops and built in instruments and they won't import into current versions of Garageband because those things are missing. I don't want to lose them forever, therefore my MacBook has a valued place in my closet for those occasions once every couple of years when I want to tool around with old poo poo I did. Why don't you just export the rendered audio into a new project, while retaining a track with the notes/velocity preserved (but with a different instrument)? And how often do you work on 8 year old compositions anyways?
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kode54 posted:While one cannot say the same thing about Tiger, which is the latest version I was able to acquire and install on my uncle's G3 iBook. I did manage to find a browser with some HTML5 capabilities, but when I attempted to view a video on YouTube, the whole machine slowed to an unresponsive crawl until I gave the browser a force quit. Also major laughs at the network hardware, having GigE but only 802.11b wireless. I still use my 14 year old clamshell occasionally. It's actually surprisingly useful to have a computer that can have email plus a tab or two of Internet open but no more, it really cuts down on the distractions when I need to get some work done.
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1st AD posted:Why don't you just export the rendered audio into a new project, while retaining a track with the notes/velocity preserved (but with a different instrument)? Because I... uh... didn't think of that.  (thank you)
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ShadeofBlue posted:I still use my 14 year old clamshell occasionally. It's actually surprisingly useful to have a computer that can have email plus a tab or two of Internet open but no more, it really cuts down on the distractions when I need to get some work done. Half the fun of ancient hardware is figuring out something to do with it. I've got a first gen iPod touch kicking around that's long since been jailbroken into being a glorified pocket-sized kindle with a handful of kid friendly games on it and some super-basic web functionality. It was way past obsolete when I was given it for free, but it's long since justified the space it takes up in one of my misc. crap drawers. It only gets used once a year or so, but having something that you care so little about that you'll take it into a hottub to relax while reading or that you don't mind if someone else's ill mannered 3 year old throws it across the room can come in handy.
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I wish my 2nd gen iPod mini still held a charge. I could fill it with audio books for my mom when she goes on walks. Can you change/find batteries for those things?
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Housh posted:I wish my 2nd gen iPod mini still held a charge. I could fill it with audio books for my mom when she goes on walks. Can you change/find batteries for those things? Google indicates yes, but it requires a tiny bit of soldering. On the one hand a bit of a PITA, on the other hand a pretty simple operation all things considered and a cheap way to learn the basest of basics about soldering.
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Looks like a fun little project. Gonna give it a shot. Thanks!
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Yeast posted:Made the mistake of viewing my photographs on a retina 5K iMac. Non-American spotted.
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Yep, Australian on holiday in the North West. It should arrive just after I get back, if all goes to plan.
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I ordered the same hardware configuration, with the same delivery estimate, except I went with a Magic Trackpad because I already have a functioning Magic Mouse. I also for some reason went with the default wireless keyboard and wonder whether I'll really miss the numeric keypad.
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kode54 posted:I ordered the same hardware configuration, with the same delivery estimate, except I went with a Magic Trackpad because I already have a functioning Magic Mouse. I also for some reason went with the default wireless keyboard and wonder whether I'll really miss the numeric keypad. I went with the mouse because I have enough trackpads already and I'm using both the Magic Mouse and the Magic Trackpad on the iMac. I like them both equally and think they have their uses, an opinion probably shared by 0.05% of posters here. (I crack up when people post "arghhlgrumbl I can't use that mouse because it's too small to fit my whole palm on it" - well you're not supposed to, and it's even shown in the little videos in the mouse setup!). I like the keyboard with the keypad, but the advantage of the wireless one is that I can just grab it and use it on my lap once in a while if I feel like it, so it's equal love there as well.
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flavor posted:I went with the mouse because I have enough trackpads already and I'm using both the Magic Mouse and the Magic Trackpad on the iMac. I like them both equally and think they have their uses, an opinion probably shared by 0.05% of posters here. (I crack up when people post "arghhlgrumbl I can't use that mouse because it's too small to fit my whole palm on it" - well you're not supposed to, and it's even shown in the little videos in the mouse setup!). I like my Magic Mouse. That said, my mother does the whole "it's too small!  " thing so we got her a £10 Bluetooth Mouse.The insistence on keyboard and mouse manufacturers on using RF, especially when bluetooth is coming in PCs as standard, is actually really annoying from a consumer perspective.
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I'm not happy with how long it takes my 2012 13" MacBook Pro to come out of sleep mode, and sometimes apps take a long time to boot up. Is replacing my hard drive with a 240GB Intel SSD 530 a good option? I also want to upgrade my machine to 8gb RAM.
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I said come in! posted:I'm not happy with how long it takes my 2012 13" MacBook Pro to come out of sleep mode, and sometimes apps take a long time to boot up. Is replacing my hard drive with a 240GB Intel SSD 530 a good option? I also want to upgrade my machine to 8gb RAM. As someone who's done the same thing with my old 2011 pro, I can definitely recommend it. You'll definitely see a difference in performance.
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yoyomama posted:As someone who's done the same thing with my old 2011 pro, I can definitely recommend it. You'll definitely see a difference in performance. Awesome, thank you. If I can just fix these start up issues i'm having, I will be very happy with my little laptop. I only use it for web browsing.
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Sorry if this is the wrong place... I'm taking a stab that it's my mac and not my router/network. (I'll explain.) iphones, ipads, etc... all when running speedtest ANYWHERE in the house, I get pings of like 16. 35 down, like 15 up. My 2010 iMac was wifi but 5 feet from Airport Extreme. My pings are 212, download is fantastic at 60, upload is like 7. I made my iMac wired just now, ran again, same terrible ping, etc. I ran a ping thingy (forget what I typed now in Terminal) and my average ping to google was like 22. What gives? Why the discrepancy, and why is my iMac performing so badly here?
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Feenix posted:Sorry if this is the wrong place... I'm taking a stab that it's my mac and not my router/network. (I'll explain.) You might have some custom DNS or network config settings.
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Kingnothing posted:You might have some custom DNS or network config settings. Is there a place I can check that?
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Feenix posted:Is there a place I can check that? Wifi icon in menu bar>network settings>advanced. Alternatively, in the network setting preference pane you can create a new location from the drop down at the top of the window.
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Kingnothing posted:Wifi icon in menu bar>network settings>advanced. Thank you!  I have nothing in DNS or any of the other ones. I *do* have 2 entries in the Proxies section under "Bypass Proxy Settings for these Hosts & Domains. One of them is *.local. the other is an IP which I am uncertain if I should post here or if that even matters. Thoughts?
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Can you do a 'tracert 8.8.8.8' on your iMac (use Terminal) and cut/paste the output? You can hide the last half of the IP addresses if you want Can you also do that from another computer in your house (not sure if you have another Mac or a Windows PC perhaps). You'll need to use 'traceroute 8.8.8.8' on a Windows machine, or maybe download a traceroute app on your iPad/whatever.
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Bob Morales posted:Can you do a 'tracert 8.8.8.8' on your iMac (use Terminal) and cut/paste the output? You can hide the last half of the IP addresses if you want FYI it didn't like tracert but full spelling traceroute worked a peach. code:[edit] If these are legit pings, should I just assume SpeedTest.net is full of poo poo for some reason?
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I mixed up Windows/Mac. Ugh. That looks normal though.
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Google is failing me on this one: Are the trashcan Mac Pros known for making faint, high-pitched screeching noises? It's intermittent, like it might be hard drive access or seek noise.
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ryangs posted:Google is failing me on this one: Are the trashcan Mac Pros known for making faint, high-pitched screeching noises? It's intermittent, like it might be hard drive access or seek noise. Trashcan Mac Pros don't have mechanical HDs (unless you attached one).
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ryangs posted:Google is failing me on this one: Are the trashcan Mac Pros known for making faint, high-pitched screeching noises? It's intermittent, like it might be hard drive access or seek noise. A very small possibility it's the main fan, or bad oscillators on the logic board. Or the built-in speaker's picking up something. (Yes, the Mac Pro has a built in mono speaker, otherwise Stebe would be turbo spinning in the grave if he thought he shipped a Mac that didn't make the blong sound that was actually C Minor cranked out on a Korg Wavestation. The speaker's exact location is to the left of the T-bolt ports in the back.)
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wdarkk posted:Trashcan Mac Pros don't have mechanical HDs (unless you attached one). Oh, duh. I'm thinking of my old Mac Mini that had both a flash drive and a spinny drive. Binary Badger posted:A very small possibility it's the main fan, or bad oscillators on the logic board. Or the built-in speaker's picking up something. It happens during intense usage, and at other odd moments, like when I'm dragging the crop tool in Photoshop.
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Sounds like capacitor whine, which can often happen with certain video cards/chipsets. Not a whole lot to be done about it, I don't think.
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Anandtech noticed it too. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013 " I've had one weird issue with the internal speaker: it occasionally produces a high pitched noise, requiring a power cycle to clear. I haven't been able to root cause the problem yet, it seems to happen while the speaker is muted (only to surface once I've unmuted the speaker) and after I've been torturing/benchmarking the machine. I'm not sure if it's tied to plugging/unplugging Thunderbolt 2 devices while it's on or if it's something in software that's triggering it. "
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I've just been given a last-minute request to help my sister install Windows 8.1 on a Mac laptop via Parallels. I'm not a Mac user and I hadn't even heard of Parallels until now. The laptop in question is from 2009, but other than that I know nothing about it (and I don't have it yet). My question is, what is the likelihood that Parallels + Windows 8.1 will perform well on this machine? I know it's impossible to say with certainty since you don't know the model, but if you had to guess?
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^^^ As long as it's got at least 8 GB of RAM, I wouldn't worry.. anything less and it's probably not going to run too fast. ryangs: You could just use externals plugged into the speaker port and use the Sound control panel to route to the externals only and see if that helps.. As a last resort, the internal speaker could be unplugged..
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So have an of you with shiny Retina iMacs done any gaming? Supposedly a lot of macrumors dudes are complaining about the GPU throttling down / cooking itself due to heat: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1815601 I was kind of interested in one, now in having doubts. Anyone gaming on the new iMacs have any insight?
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caiman posted:I've just been given a last-minute request to help my sister install Windows 8.1 on a Mac laptop via Parallels. I'm not a Mac user and I hadn't even heard of Parallels until now. The laptop in question is from 2009, but other than that I know nothing about it (and I don't have it yet). My question is, what is the likelihood that Parallels + Windows 8.1 will perform well on this machine? I know it's impossible to say with certainty since you don't know the model, but if you had to guess? Unless it has 8GB of ram and a SSD, it's not going to be very enjoyable. It should work though. 2009 is getting pretty old for stuff like that. If it has 2GB ram, no. 4GB, doable. 8GB, ideal. BootCamp will be a bit quicker, if that's an option.
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Bonobos posted:So have an of you with shiny Retina iMacs done any gaming? Supposedly a lot of macrumors dudes are complaining about the GPU throttling down / cooking itself due to heat: First-Gen apple product has weird issue? I'm shocked.
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ryangs posted:Google is failing me on this one: Are the trashcan Mac Pros known for making faint, high-pitched screeching noises? It's intermittent, like it might be hard drive access or seek noise. Try opening this link in Safari: http://kent-vandervelden.blogspot.com/2009/10/counting-bits-population-count-and.html By any chance does the computer produce the faint weird noises while you scroll this web page? Ideally, have nothing else using the CPU, and use a trackpad or magic mouse to smooth scroll it -- I don't know whether you'd hear it with a wheel mouse. That link is a reliable way of making funny noises on my late 2013 rMBP 15". I was researching something else and saved the link because it's so easily heard. I'm pretty sure it's audible noise generated by the switch-mode power supplies (SMPSes) used to step DC voltage down to the levels appropriate for your CPU and/or GPUs. SMPSes run fluctuating currents through electromagnetic coils, and the resulting magnetic fields can flex the coils a bit. This flexing makes audible noises if it's at the right frequency. In most cases SMPS chirping like this is drowned out by fan noise. Ironically, Apple's super try hard efforts to get fan noise down make SMPS chirping more audible.
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Bonobos posted:So have an of you with shiny Retina iMacs done any gaming? Supposedly a lot of macrumors dudes are complaining about the GPU throttling down / cooking itself due to heat: Read through the entire thread (ugh) I wouldn't be too concerned. They've been in the wild for 3 seconds. Apple will probably push firmware updates as they need to, but if you're buying the retina iMac as a gaming machine, I don't know what to tell you really. As with all iMacs, it'll be fine for casual games that are a couple of years old.
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Yeast posted:As with all iMacs, it'll be fine for casual games that are a couple of years old. I play battlefield 4 on my 2011 iMac fine 
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