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kuskus posted:I don't think the TB2 GPU boxes are going to be fast enough for VR (or 1440p / 60fps). I have a Vive coming and I would love little more than to backpack my 2013 15" rMBP and a GPU box instead of building a new workstation. Somebody prove me wrong plz. TBH, it only really makes sense (relative term) if you've got something like a 5k iMac. The relative cost of the display on its own arguably makes a properly spec'd iMac a solid deal of a computer and its components are all burly enough save for the GPU. If you imagine the display costing ~$1000 on its own, an attractive, relatively powerful PC for an additional $1k plus the cost of the right GPU and enclosure, it's not super unreasonable. You could make the argument that dual-booting is worth the couple hundred dollar premium if you like OSX enough to buy a Mac in the first place.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Cmd- O is open folders as opposed to Enter. This was my biggest issue. I actually find the Cmd+arrow keys to be nicer to use than the function block in general (since they're closer to the main part of the keyboard, particularly on Apple's laptop keyboards) and often get a bit mixed up when using my Windows PC at work. I'm a bit special and have it set up so it shares a keyboard with a Mac layout and I end up doing Windows+Left Arrow which moves the email I was working on to the left half of the screen instead of jumping back to the start of the line of text like I intended 
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Bob Morales posted:Someone is selling late model retina 13's in sa-mart gently caress you, I have almost no need for a laptop and now I own one... Maybe. For this price it might be a pppppppppowerbook.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Howdy howdy- I have a 13" retina MBP that I purchased new last April after they were refreshed. It's been going great and all, but within the past couple weeks, I've occasionally had situations where suddenly the built-in trackpad stops working, then a moment later the MBP freezes and I have to do a hard reboot. This can happen any time and doesn't seem to matter what is running at the time (Safari, Messages, whatever), and I DO have the machine hooked up to a Cintiq while I'm running Clip Studio, but it hasn't frozen with that until earlier today. I've got the latest versions of the magic trackpad and keyboard in my place, so occasionally my MBP will announce that it lost connection with them if I go to another room, although I doubt that would have anything to do with it. I've got the 13" i5/16/128 and I've been having crashes since the 11.4 betas came out. Usually in Safari for what it's worth. I was hoping it was just a beta thing but they're still happening. One unadvertised feature of the new trackpads - they're a solid indicator of a system crash. No more waiting to see if the system will start responding again :/
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) so I have an appointment to have that done on thursday. Nonetheless, has anyone else been seeing these freezing problems on the 2015 models? It sounds more like a motherboard issue. I'm really worrying as I've had to restart the machine twice today, and this is my primary work machine.
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OGB posted:Ad blocker wise, I recommend Wipr. Got nothing on the SA side. I installed this on Safari. Am I right in thinking there's no settings? There's no button on the toolbar, and I can't seem to make custom rules with the right-click menu like I was expecting to be able to do.
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isthisonetaken posted:I've got the 13" i5/16/128 and I've been having crashes since the 11.4 betas came out. Usually in Safari for what it's worth. I was hoping it was just a beta thing but they're still happening. Ha, true. I wasn't clear that this happens mostly with the built in tracked as well. 
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Electric Bugaloo posted:TBH, it only really makes sense (relative term) if you've got something like a 5k iMac. Is there any way currently to connect the eGPU to the Retina iMac's screen?
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Hey all. Getting a Macbook (the USB-C) one, and am checking into peripherals. Is there a recommended hub or other 'gotta have' accessories from the 8 billion options on Amazon? I have a lot of Anker stuff and am happy with them normally. Getting this - http://smile.amazon.com/Anker-Charger-PowerPort-Android-Devices/dp/B0196JB1ZS/ref=cm_wl_huc_item - as a travel charger.
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wdarkk posted:Is there any way currently to connect the eGPU to the Retina iMac's screen?
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I think I remember them saying things are more performant if you game off a screen connected directly to the GPU rather than using the built in screen, but I haven't been able to find any info on what the impact is when trying to do that.
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pipebomb posted:Hey all. Getting a Macbook (the USB-C) one Hey, that's fine. Just be sure you know what you're getting yourself into with this. It's quite underpowered, and due to the thermal solution of "laptop body as a giant passive cooler", it's prone to throttling itself frequently. There's a nice video by Linus Tech Tips where he demonstrates that the only feasible way to prevent it from throttling is to apply a constant cooling pad to the entire bottom of the laptop, such as his method, by setting it in contact with a pan of ice water while all of the ports are sealed with kneaded eraser. On the other hand, I helped get my BF a Mac Mini from the current generation, the 2.6GHz model with no extra perks, with a 30% markup from the shipping clearinghouse that's forwarding it to Chile for him. It'll still be faster than the not-laptop* he's currently using, and it'll be his first real Mac, so there's that too. I'm going to help him all the way, including remote controlling if he needs me to teach him things. It'll be fun! Plus, he's not really heavy into most games, so the Iris 5100 graphics won't be too much different from the HD Graphics 4000 he's moving away from. * The screen and the keyboard are broken. Maybe best if I don't explain how those happened. I hope he'll be more careful with this little machine.
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Jeherrin posted:I installed this on Safari. Am I right in thinking there's no settings? There's no button on the toolbar, and I can't seem to make custom rules with the right-click menu like I was expecting to be able to do. Yeah, it's all or nothing, which has its downsides.
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japtor posted:In theory yes, basically how Razer's laptops are doing it, copy the output of the eGPU back over the cable to display through the internal GPU. If there's enough bandwidth to scale up and work well at 5K I have no clue though. I vaguely remember hearing other solutions getting noticeable latency or some performance drop doing the same method with whatever computers, but TB3 is a big jump over previous options. TB3 = 40Gbps 5K@60Hz = 21.2 Gbps So there's enough bandwidth there, but losing more than half the GPU-to-system bandwidth to video refresh isn't ideal. If you're playing games the non refresh traffic in that direction isn't high, though.
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BobHoward posted:TB3 = 40Gbps Kind of a general question here: from a latency perspective, is there a noticeable lag between me pushing forward (W) in a game, having that command get sent out to the external graphics to process the movement, then having that information sent back to the local machine then out to the monitor? (I might be wildly misunderstanding how external graphics over TB3 work).
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There will be extra latency, yes. Exactly how much is hard to say. The simple ways of implementing it would add an average of a half frame of latency and some tearing.
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Also, I'm pretty sure you need DisplayPort 1.3 to actually handle the video signal at that bandwidth and as far as I'm aware Skylake was only DP 1.2 with TB3 so you're still stuck with the current limitations of anything using DP 1.2. I think the next processor release (Kaby Lake?) is going to include DP 1.3 in the ThunderBolt 3 support that the chipset provides so it should be possible at that point.
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BobHoward posted:There will be extra latency, yes. Exactly how much is hard to say. The simple ways of implementing it would add an average of a half frame of latency and some tearing. Can't be much higher than the 16ms of latency I incur when using Steam In Home Streaming to play games from my Windows tower to my Retina 5K iMac, using NVEnc on the Windows PC, and software decoding on the Mac, because the hardware decoding is buggy. I don't even really notice the single frame of latency from just the encode to GigE to decode pipeline. TB3 and even TB2 should be similar, if not better due to the lack of H.264 compression and decompression going on.
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If there's no lag, what am I supposed to blame for my poor performance? My inadequate skills?! Puh-leaze.
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I want optical TB3 cables so I can put my razer core out in the back shed or at least be able to smash a hole in my wall like this drip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NshXgisNly4&t=649s KingEup fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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The Milkman posted:The biggest thing I miss when I'm on Windows is <Space> while in Finder/Desktop to do the quick preview thing. Works on images, audio, video, most kinds of documents, even weblocs.  
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KingEup posted:I want optical TB3 cables so I can put my razer core out in the back shed or at least be able to smash a hole in my wall like this drip: Goddamn could this guy have a more annoying voice? Also lmao at his rackmount PC with a loving window in it for his  lights
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Mercurius posted:Also, I'm pretty sure you need DisplayPort 1.3 to actually handle the video signal at that bandwidth and as far as I'm aware Skylake was only DP 1.2 with TB3 so you're still stuck with the current limitations of anything using DP 1.2. I think the next processor release (Kaby Lake?) is going to include DP 1.3 in the ThunderBolt 3 support that the chipset provides so it should be possible at that point. But in any case DP 1.3 is something else I've wondered about, cause I'm not sure you can just slap on whatever DP version to the TB controller. There might need to be a new controller/TB version to handle a newer DP. Hopefully they can do a minor bump quicker since the bandwidth is already there instead of waiting however many years for TB4 (at which point might line up with DP 1.4).
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Okay, here I am again (13inch rMBP early '15). I was about to really start hating this thing for regularly (once a day to once every two days) crashing just any random app, which I don't expect any modern computer to do. Turns out it's related: every once in a while the file picker just stops working and it will crash whatever app I'm using when I try to open or save something. This will not be resolved by a force quit, only rebooting will help. Applecare basically just said "call us when it happens", which of course I'll do, but maybe someone else has had this happen and found a fix? I can find people who've had the same problem as early as 2013 but so far no fix. If it happens when I want to upload something to imgur, no biggie. Just annoying that I have to reboot. But so far it's resulted in me losing work when trying to save in Photoshop, and that's completely unacceptable.
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I Am Crake posted:Okay, here I am again (13inch rMBP early '15). I was about to really start hating this thing for regularly (once a day to once every two days) crashing just any random app, which I don't expect any modern computer to do. Turns out it's related: every once in a while the file picker just stops working and it will crash whatever app I'm using when I try to open or save something. This will not be resolved by a force quit, only rebooting will help. Applecare basically just said "call us when it happens", which of course I'll do, but maybe someone else has had this happen and found a fix? I can find people who've had the same problem as early as 2013 but so far no fix. If they have no other solution than "welp, just reboot", personally I'd keep pushing for a fix (or most likely replacement).
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Has this exclusively happened in Photoshop only, or can it happen in any application that invokes the open/save window? If the latter, have you tried repairing the disk/partition in Disk Utility?
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Yeah if it's happening everywhere with the file dialogs I'd be thinking disk issue, or some hack/utility that messes with that is broken now.
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flosofl posted:If they have no other solution than "welp, just reboot", personally I'd keep pushing for a fix (or most likely replacement). Why a replacement?
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:Why a replacement? I left out "parts" in case it turns out to be a hardware issue.
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Yup, it happens in any app that uses the file picker. It can happen when I save or open, so whenever the file saver is opened. Just got my first system crash as well when I opened a Powerpoint file so can't say I'm too thrilled with this machine as of yet.
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Anyone else refuse to upgrade from Office 2011?
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I Am Crake posted:Yup, it happens in any app that uses the file picker. It can happen when I save or open, so whenever the file saver is opened. You have a hardware problem. I'd put money on your SSD being hosed, but bad RAM can do similar poo poo. Disk Utility isn't going to help you here. If you're near an Apple Store, bring it in and they shouldn't have too much trouble confirming you have a problem. If you're not, call AppleCare again and demand to send it in for repair.
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Housh posted:Anyone else refuse to upgrade from Office 2011? I got 2016 free through school and it's pretty awesome. No crashes and it's fast as poo poo.
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Housh posted:Anyone else refuse to upgrade from Office 2011? I wouldn't say I've refused to, but I just dont see a compelling reason to. My old Office works just fine for what I need it to do, it's stable, basically I've never had a problem with ti.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I wouldn't say I've refused to, but I just dont see a compelling reason to. My old Office works just fine for what I need it to do, it's stable, basically I've never had a problem with ti. It's a blindingly ugly piece of poo poo. edit:  aragaghgh FCKGW fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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Biodome posted:I got 2016 free through school and it's pretty awesome. No crashes and it's fast as poo poo. though it's not like I was chomping at the bit to kick 2011 to the curb or anything. Office 2011 has been Cyrano4747 posted:just fine for what I need it to do, it's stable, basically I've never had a problem with ti. But compared to 2016, FCKGW posted:It's a blindingly ugly piece of poo poo. So I'd recommend switching on that front alone if you can get a deal on it. Also the UI is consistent with the iOS versions and with iOS/OSX OneNote, which has recently become the A-#1 of note-taking/organization platforms as far as I'm concerned.
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Housh posted:Anyone else refuse to upgrade from Office 2011? Hell no. I couldn't wait to ditch that poo poo. I installed the Mac preview of 2016 the day it came out and never looked back.
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You guys convinced me to give 2016 a shot once I get my newly redesigned rMBP in the summer...Jobs willing.
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The look doesn't bother be at all. I write for a good chunk of my living so I'm looking at it a few hours a day at least.
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Mac Hardware Megathread: have you upgraded to office 2016?
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