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I was thinking of doing it as an idle just-in-case while Windows 10 was free, but my rationale is slim enough that I think I won't bother.
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japtor posted:Not sure about 10 but in the past it didn't seem too hard from what I've read, the caveat (for this easy method at least) was that you needed a TB drive so it'd be pricey. I have this exact setup with 8.1 on an external TB drive, works great.
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Aug 14, 2015 05:07
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My 2012 iMac has shut down randomly twice in the past few weeks. I never hear the fan going nuts or anything, in fact the fans never go on and the computer is running cool to the touch. When it shuts down pressing the power button does nothing but after waiting about a minute the power button works again. I already did the Apple Hardware Test and it found no problems. Is there anything else I should try before bringing it to Fruit?
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Aug 16, 2015 02:30
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Mu Zeta posted:My 2012 iMac has shut down randomly twice in the past few weeks. I never hear the fan going nuts or anything, in fact the fans never go on and the computer is running cool to the touch. When it shuts down pressing the power button does nothing but after waiting about a minute the power button works again. I already did the Apple Hardware Test and it found no problems. Is there anything else I should try before bringing it to Fruit? SMC / PRAM reset for the Hell of it.
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Aug 16, 2015 02:54
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Not like you have spare RAM hanging around to try, but it could be the RAM. If it's too expensive to "fix" that's worth a shot.
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Aug 16, 2015 17:20
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Could also be a bad power supply, bad sensor somewhere, faulty logic board.. Might even be dust keeping a fan from spinning at the proper speed.
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Aug 16, 2015 18:17
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SMC/PRAM is a good bet. The real question is if it is shutting down or if the display is going black. I'd recommend fruit stand.
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Aug 16, 2015 18:29
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I do remote work on Windows software on my 15" rMBP, so I have Parallels VMs of like *every* version of windows, because my company is insane and wants to support XP and 32-bit Vista in the year 2015. This is also my personal laptop for around the house, so with all of my VM snapshots the 512GB SSD is starting to get pretty tight. What I'd like to do is shunt off some of my lesser-used VMs to an external drive. I know there will be a performance hit, but it's actually pretty lightweight Windows software so I think this isn't totally insane. I'm basically curious if I can maximize performance by picking thre *right* external hard drive. Should I go with USB? Thunderbolt? Ideally I'd like a drive that doesn't require its own power cable plugged into the wall so I can use it more easily on the go, but if this is going to kill performance I'd be willing to consider otherwise.
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Aug 16, 2015 19:13
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See if you can still get one of those Seagate Thunderbolt adapters and just get another SSD, it's all bus-powered and if you get a good SSD the performance hit won't be as dramatic.
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Aug 16, 2015 19:17
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Have you considered remote/cloud VMs?
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There shouldn't be a big performance difference between thunderbolt or USB 3 SSD's. It is more dependent on the make and model of the SSD and the controller, so look for some reviews. Samsung has a pretty nice one It shouldn't actually cost you that much performance compared to the internal SSD. Confusion fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Aug 16, 2015 |
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Aug 16, 2015 19:24
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I have a really old (09ish) Macboook pro that works fine for most of what I need it for, so I'm probably not going to replace it any time soon. I like to play the occasional indie game though and my computer is so old that none of my specs are listed on Steam or anything. I know very little about PC gaming, but is it safe to assume it can't run almost anything anymore? Or is it possible my graphics card/processor is just never listed on game sites? It's a 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB I put 8gb of ram in it while back too.
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Aug 16, 2015 19:32
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Thanks for the responses all. I don't think cloud VMs are really the solution I want -- partly because I just hate cloud poo poo and partly because of travel/planes. The Samsung ones seem to review very well so I'll probably get something like that.
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Aug 16, 2015 19:40
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NESguerilla posted:I have a really old (09ish) Macboook pro that works fine for most of what I need it for, so I'm probably not going to replace it any time soon. I like to play the occasional indie game though and my computer is so old that none of my specs are listed on Steam or anything. I know very little about PC gaming, but is it safe to assume it can't run almost anything anymore? Or is it possible my graphics card/processor is just never listed on game sites?  vMrChupon posted:Thanks for the responses all. I don't think cloud VMs are really the solution I want -- partly because I just hate cloud poo poo and partly because of travel/planes. The Samsung ones seem to review very well so I'll probably get something like that.
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Aug 16, 2015 19:58
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Specifically I'd like to try This War of Mine. Yeah I usually just use it for sprite based stuff and it works fine for that. I think the last 3d game it ran decently was Amnesia.
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Aug 16, 2015 20:06
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I guess this possibly could be posted in software as well but I think I'll post here. How long does Mac OSX continue to support older hardware? I have a Late 2008 Macbook which has Yosemite.. wondering if I'll make it for El Capitan and another couple updates after that.
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Aug 16, 2015 21:14
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lol internet. posted:I guess this possibly could be posted in software as well but I think I'll post here. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/190744/which-macs-are-compatible-with-os-x-10-11-el-capitan You should be OK Apple supports OS X on older hardware generally as long as they can, in my experience...
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It's not really just down to time, the OS support has extended back a long time recently because the machines with 64-bit UEFI happened so soon after the move to Intel (at least that's why I think we've seen this compatibility for new OS releases extend so far back). El Capitan seems to be compatible with everything that Yosemite is, so you should be fine with a 2008 MacBook.
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lol internet. posted:I guess this possibly could be posted in software as well but I think I'll post here. In general they've been pretty good. There are some features that won't port back however. For example, the Connectivity feature where you can SMS and get calls from your iPhone on your Mac won't work unless you have a Bluetooth 4.0 chip, which anything other than ~2012 won't. Also they aren't supporting Windows 10 in anything older than 2012 models either.
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NESguerilla posted:Specifically I'd like to try This War of Mine. Yeah I usually just use it for sprite based stuff and it works fine for that. I think the last 3d game it ran decently was Amnesia.
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Thanks. Yeah I'm thinking it's not going to work. I'll probably just wait until it hits consoles or iPhone hopefully . Can't believe my phone can run poo poo my computer can't lol. It sucks there is an iOS version but it's iPad only. Maybe I need to keep my eyes peeled for a cheap new computer anyways. Been eyeing MacBook airs for a while. On that note, how old could I go with a used MacBook Air without losing too much longevity and what is the best way to get a good deal. Refurb?
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Aug 17, 2015 01:19
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Thanks. Insane how it's been 7 years already and a upgrade to SSD makes a huge difference.
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NESguerilla posted:Thanks. Yeah I'm thinking it's not going to work. I'll probably just wait until it hits consoles or iPhone hopefully . Can't believe my phone can run poo poo my computer can't lol. For the MBA I probably wouldn't go older than the HD5000 models, which would be the 2013s (while 2014 was just a speed bump update afaik). Looking at the refurb store right now the main issue is finding one with 8GB, the cheapest one is an 11" with 512GB around $1200-1300, everything below that is 4GB.
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computer parts posted:In general they've been pretty good. There are some features that won't port back however. Actually both the SMS and call stuff works on my 2011 MBP, although I can't use any of the other handoff type features. I've been thinking of upgrading the Bluetooth chip for those, though.
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Can we talk 4K+ displays? If anyone's been down this road- any way to convince OS X to span/combine my two side-by-side displays so that I can easily full-screen mode to them as one? I have early 2013 15" rmbp, and I wanted a little more screen real estate, so I picked up a Samsung 28" UHD display that does picture in picture- which is necessary so you can get 60hz across two sad laptop display outputs. Fun new facts about HiDPI displays in the era of older HDMI and DisplayPort: - The HDMI port will output the full 3840 x 2160 and all HiDPI modes, but will only do so at 30Hz (~15fps) all modes look great as a still, but only 1280x720 low res will do 60Hz. - Using a MDP to DisplayPort adapter: can't output greater than 2560x1440 on this machine, but will do 60Hz. Sadly that's blurry at this res. - An MDP to HDMI adapter has the above combined limitations, if you were thinking of going "double HDMI" Solution: Using picture in picture side by side, a combination of mini DisplayPort at 1920x2160 and the HDMI port at 1920x2160, will get you 3840x2160 at 60Hz, but they are separate vertical displays with different backgrounds. If you turn off "separate spaces", you can stretch your app across both displays, but the dock and menu bar are only on half of your monitor. You cannot use the HiDPI modes easily, so everything's tiny. The outputs also have a different color temperature, fixed for me by lowering the contrast to 45 left, 75 right. - SwitchResX doesn't help much with this Cool display for $450 otherwise! Bottom line: After Effects at 3840x2160 at 28" right in front of my face is a goddamn productivity dream. Fullscreening video is a showstopper though. vvv Sadly that article starts with Late 2013 rMBP; I've got the Early 2013. kuskus fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Aug 17, 2015 |
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In theory your MBP supports 4K60 over MBP: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202856 Does that display have an option for MST mode? Unrelated edit: MST got me thinking about MST hubs again, searching for a sec came across this: http://www.startech.com/faq/mst_hubs_mac_osx_support quote:Will my MST hub work in Mac OSX? japtor fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Aug 17, 2015 |
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japtor posted:Yeah I saw that there were mobile versions so I figured it might scale down enough for the 9400M just based on that. B&H has an early 2014 MacBook Air 13" i7/8gb/512gb for $1249 no tax & free shipping. I think that's the best deal around right now. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/983540-REG/apple_z0p0_md7614_13_3_macbook_air_notebook.html
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kuskus posted:Can we talk 4K+ displays? If anyone's been down this road- any way to convince OS X to span/combine my two side-by-side displays so that I can easily full-screen mode to them as one? I started a new job that uses 5k iMacs for Pro Tools/ Avid MCP and I want to stay late in work so I don't have to go home and use my 13" non-Retina MBP 
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So my MagSafe adapter frayed at the block side of the cord. Will Apple replace it for free? I've got AppleCare on this machine.
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awesome-express posted:So my MagSafe adapter frayed at the block side of the cord. Will Apple replace it for free? I've got AppleCare on this machine. Yeah
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awesome-express posted:So my MagSafe adapter frayed at the block side of the cord. Will Apple replace it for free? I've got AppleCare on this machine.  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201600
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Please follow best practices while wrapping the cord: "You're holding it wrong"
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Please follow best practices while wrapping the cord: I never wrap it like that. Anyway already exchanged my adapter Timb have my children
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Kingnothing posted:SMC/PRAM is a good bet. The real question is if it is shutting down or if the display is going black. I did SMC/PRAM reset and it has not shut down since.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Please follow best practices while wrapping the cord: jesus loving christ. The moment you need to publish something like this it's time to redesign it to follow how actual humans pick up and use your product. edit: seriously, I should't need a loving how to on how to plug in my computer.
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My favorite thing about that knowledge base article is that all the pictures look like they came from a slightly shady eBay listing. I half expected to see a cum stain in the background.
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That or a shiny object reflecting a hairy naked dude. It's very un-Apple to have photos instead of diagrams.
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Mu Zeta posted:I did SMC/PRAM reset and it has not shut down since. And it shut down again. I'm going to pee on Jobs' grave after my appointment.
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Cyrano4747 posted:jesus loving christ. The moment you need to publish something like this it's time to redesign it to follow how actual humans pick up and use your product. How about not bending it at crazy angles for months/years slowly wearing it down, and using the little arms on it like no one does ever
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