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rear end Catchcum posted:So $200 off on the latest model is pretty crazy, right? That must mean the new ones are right around the corner. They've been on sale off and on for the past few months. I think they're just trying to goose sales a bit.
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JHVH-1 posted:The rumor sites are saying since WWDC is in June it could mean we will see some updates then.
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It's about time for USB-C / Thunderbolt 3. That would be a pretty significant update.
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I doubt we'll see anything significant regarding USB-C / Thunderbolt until Kaby Lake which will include native USB 3.1 Support. As far as I'm aware there isn't a single company that's made a good USB 3.1 Chip. Apple's the sort of company that'd dare skipping a processor generation. 
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JHVH-1 posted:Every driver I had ever tried before this update maxed out at 4K resolution. They updated it at one point for Windows 10 and all and it had good performance, but still didn't do 5K. Driver date on this one is from 2/9/2016 I hate that I'm quoting Mac Rumors on this, but this thread shows the Boot Camp software was updated in November for 5K resolution and that's when I remember getting it too.
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JHVH-1 posted:Every driver I had ever tried before this update maxed out at 4K resolution. They updated it at one point for Windows 10 and all and it had good performance, but still didn't do 5K. Driver date on this one is from 2/9/2016 Guess what? AMD just released the Crimson driver for Boot Camp as well, 15.301.something, just released yesterday. Here you go. It's only a few months obsolete, too! (15.11 series)
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Tab8715 posted:I doubt we'll see anything significant regarding USB-C / Thunderbolt until Kaby Lake which will include native USB 3.1 Support. I didn't realize Skylake didn't. Disappointing.
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Really torn between that Macbook deal and selling it in a few years or sucking it up and getting a 15" MBP that I will use for 5 years like my old MBP (RIP 2007-2012). :|
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I've got a cat that has a tendency to chew on power adapter cords. My current power adapter is breaking apart at the block-smaller cord interface, plus it gets really hot sometimes and it feels like I'm holding a bomb, so it's time to get a new one. (It's been less than a year since I got a new one what the gently caress Apple  )I want this one to last as long as possible, so I'm looking for cord protectors that are good for handling pet chews. What are some recommended options?
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The brick has a year warranty
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Mu Zeta posted:The brick has a year warranty Now I find out. Well, I don't have the receipt for it anymore, and I ended up chopping into it to test my wire cutters when it shorted out enough to shut my computer off (as well as piss me off), so it's over and done with. I'll just buy a new one, and keep the receipt this time.
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Pollyanna posted:I've got a cat that has a tendency to chew on power adapter cords. My current power adapter is breaking apart at the block-smaller cord interface, plus it gets really hot sometimes and it feels like I'm holding a bomb, so it's time to get a new one. (It's been less than a year since I got a new one what the gently caress Apple I bought an extra oem 85 watt adapter off eBay for like $40 for my 15" rMBP. Check eBay for your power brick needs. Make sure you get an OEM one though and not a knockoff.
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Pollyanna posted:I've got a cat that has a tendency to chew on power adapter cords. My current power adapter is breaking apart at the block-smaller cord interface, plus it gets really hot sometimes and it feels like I'm holding a bomb, so it's time to get a new one. (It's been less than a year since I got a new one what the gently caress Apple My cat does this as well, so I bought some split tube stuff off of Amazon. Just search for 'cord tube' or something. He still tries to chew that, so I added some bitter apple spray on top of the tube as well.
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The duck-head is kinda loose on my rMB-P power supply. The grounded cord works fine but the duck-head is loose. Not sure if I can just buy a replacement duck-head.
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Mandals posted:My cat does this as well One of the components they used to replace the PVC in the cord sheathing is a pork derivative. Some animals can smell this, and naw on them.
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Three-Phase posted:The duck-head is kinda loose on my rMB-P power supply. The grounded cord works fine but the duck-head is loose. Not sure if I can just buy a replacement duck-head. If you ask nicely at the Apple Store they'll often just toss some at you. Otherwise, there are loads of replacements and even mod-replacements that add things like extra charging points for your phone or cable winding yokes online.
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Well today I learned there is pork in a macbook so there's lots of jokes that just wrote themselves.
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Mu Zeta posted:You don't, or didn't, need a receipt. If it came with the notebook you need the serial number for the notebook. If it was purchased separately you need proof of purchase to show its within a year
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I'm coming up to the point where I need to decide whether to buy AppleCare for my MacBook, or just save the money and put it towards any repairs that may come up. I know there's provision to get the battery replaced, but am I reading it right in thinking that if the battery dips below 80% of original capacity within 3 years of the purchase date I can get it replaced for free? If so that seems a no-brainer, especially given how integrated the MacBook battery is to the design (making replacements harder) and that I'm on 223 cycles in just under a year. AppleCare Protection Plan posted:The AppleCare Protection Plan must be purchased within 12 months of the original purchase date of your Mac and provides up to three years of additional service options from the original purchase date of your Mac. Service coverage is available only for the Mac and/or Apple display and its original included accessories for protection against (i) defects in materials or workmanship and (ii) batteries that retain less than 80 per cent of their original capacity. Edit: From the output of ioreg it looks like I'm down at 90% capacity after a year.. Froist fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Apr 11, 2016 |
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Said "gently caress it", built a $1.4K PC for games/Vive/Octane & modern GPU tasks. Drives HiDPI displays with a single cable at 60Hz, smokes my rMBP & work Mac Pro in those tasks. To stay thread-related but totally unscientific: My benchmarking makes me think stock Macs won't have comparable GPU hardware for a good long while: the higher end GPUs right now, 980 GTX / Ti & R9 390, etc. can't drive 4K games at 60fps sustainably with bells & whistles (without SLI). It requires so much PSU power to try; and of course if you overclock a hair or two you can get there but current GPU generations just aren't ready for "retina" PC games yet. Graphics need to be scaled down considerably for VR (but those same cards seem to get 90fps in the released bundled titles for Vive/Oculus). Yet, on iPad Pro, you can get GPU performance "better than" intel Iris 5200. So perhaps Apple could stick 2-4 of those chips in a mini form factor? Architecture differences notwithstanding. TL;DR, I feel graphics hardware is presently a grey area where we'll have to wait a year before immersive games can be enjoyed lag-free on retina displays or pixel-dense head-mounted displays. Please correct me 'til you're blue in the face.
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Froist posted:I'm coming up to the point where I need to decide whether to buy AppleCare for my MacBook, or just save the money and put it towards any repairs that may come up. One argument against AppleCare is that it covers you during the lowest part of the "bathtub curve" of defect rate, i.e. a curve that is high initially due to manufacturing defects, then low for 2-3 years, then rises again as parts wear out and fail. You might as well just have the money set aside for a repair if you should ever need one on your laptop. You will want to check up on it, but I'm pretty sure battery replacements under AppleCare are only done for a defective/dangerous battery, not a battery worn out from normal use. I got AppleCare back when I got my 2010 MacBook. There was little point in my case. When I started to have hardware problems it turned out there was internal corrosion because it somehow got exposed to water (and I somehow didn't know this had happened) so my AppleCare was worth basically nothing. I doubt I will get AppleCare on anything in the future.
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The OWC Thunderbolt 2 dock is an absolute piece of useless poo poo. That is all.
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fleshweasel posted:
Correct, though Apple Stores have obscene amounts of leeway, depending on how nice / desperate you are / sound.
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Imagination Technologies (the guys who make the PowerVR GPUs in all iDevices, practically all but owned by Apple) was showing a realtime raytracing GPU at CES 2016, just their GPU chip mated to a PCI board, supposedly uses very low power. I can't imagine that this isn't one of Apple's skunkworks projects because Apple would love to not depend on AMD/nVidia to deliver decent GPUs and not be dependent on NIH (not invented here) technology. quote:TL;DR, I feel graphics hardware is presently a grey area where we'll have to wait a year before immersive games can be enjoyed lag-free on retina displays or pixel-dense head-mounted displays. Maybe even more, Apple always wants the cheapest GPUs they can get away with, gonna be a long time before the next-gen AMD and nVidia GPUs that are coming later this year will get produced in enough quantities to bring the prices down.
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Yet, on iPad Pro, you can get GPU performance "better than" intel Iris 5200. So perhaps Apple could stick 2-4 of those chips in a mini form factor? Architecture differences notwithstanding.
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A lot of it is dependent on the model year and whether you luck out into one of the tanks that will just keep chugging or if you get one of their lovely years where everything falls apart after 24 months or so. If it was something with a dGPU I sure as gently caress would get the extended warranty. It also depends on how much the computer costs. Getting the extended apple care on a entry-tier MBA is probably a shittier proposition than a maxed out 15" rMBP.
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kuroshi posted:Guess what? AMD just released the Crimson driver for Boot Camp as well, 15.301.something, just released yesterday. Here you go. It's only a few months obsolete, too! (15.11 series) Weird, that one is actually what I got in the update. I had been running apple software update every couple weeks hoping it would get an update again. Maybe cause I had messed with it so much before the last update it didn't apply correctly. I have the M295X, and never saw 5K show up even after the Nov update. Things worked fine on most games, but the new drivers work a ton better.
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Cyrano4747 posted:A lot of it is dependent on the model year and whether you luck out into one of the tanks that will just keep chugging or if you get one of their lovely years where everything falls apart after 24 months or so. If it was something with a dGPU I sure as gently caress would get the extended warranty. I got AppleCare on my Air because every laptop I had ever owned prior to that had one of the hinges go out after a year or so and I was drat sure not going to put up with that again. As it happens my Air is about a year and a half old and still feels as solid as the day I bought it.
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Binary Badger posted:Imagination Technologies (the guys who make the PowerVR GPUs in all iDevices, practically all but owned by Apple) was showing a realtime raytracing GPU at CES 2016, just their GPU chip mated to a PCI board, supposedly uses very low power. I can't imagine that this isn't one of Apple's skunkworks projects because Apple would love to not depend on AMD/nVidia to deliver decent GPUs and not be dependent on NIH (not invented here) technology. As much as I would love that ray tracing tech to be an Apple skunkworks project, it's not. I was working on the software side of the project until about a year ago and I don't think I'm telling you any secrets by saying that the relationship between Apple and Imagination is very separate. It may still end up in an Apple product but it's not so much of a sure thing since Imagination still has to convince Apple that it's worth licensing. It is cool tech though (I'm biased).
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13" Retina MBP new for $1,405 after tax, or 13" Retina MBP (Apple Certified refurbished) with 3-yr Applecare for $1,458?
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via posted:13" Retina MBP new for $1,405 after tax, or 13" Retina MBP (Apple Certified refurbished) with 3-yr Applecare for $1,458? Apple Refurbished is as good as new, if it's a configuration you want. So, it's really do you want to pay $53 for AppleCare. I probably would for that price.
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Second year with the MBA, ~95% capacity.  I use the tape trick to keep it at around 50% battery as much as possible, seems to be working perfectly.
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What is the tape trick.
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rear end Catchcum posted:What is the tape trick. People forget that Apple has built brains in to the battery and charging system, people don't care and they put tape over a pin of the magsafe and it doesn't charge the computer but you can still run on AC. They believe that holding the battery at 50% will result in longer life. But then they have to charge to 100% before they go anywhere, or they get 4 hours of battery life instead of 9. Lenovo has/had a software utility that does a similar thing.
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