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I've been looking at benchmarks for 2.5" hard drives, and I see platter drives pushing over 100MB/s. Meanwhile, my current drive usually reads in the mid-single-digit-MB/s range. The fastest I've ever seen it hit is ~15MB/s. Are the synthetic benchmarks totally out of tune with actual usage, or is my drive screwy?
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Single digit MB/s read speeds? Are you sure you have a hard drive and not a record player?
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Oct 25, 2016 07:19
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That is very slow. Is it an external drive with a broken USB cable? e: oh poo poo The New York Times bought The Wirecutter for $30 million. Brian Lam started that site after quitting Gizmodo in 2011. He's the reason Gizmodo was banned from Apple events for years after he did the whole stolen iPhone prototype thing. He did well for himself. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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Linguica posted:Single digit MB/s read speeds? Are you sure you have a hard drive and not a record player? Probably and old busted 5200rpm 250GB drive
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Oct 25, 2016 14:06
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Gonna be a lot of butthurt people next week when they go to sell their rMBP's to finance the purchase of the latest and greatest, and find out they're only worth $500-700
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Bob Morales posted:Gonna be a lot of butthurt people next week when they go to sell their rMBP's to finance the purchase of the latest and greatest, and find out they're only worth $500-700 Oh, I'm going to be very happy personally. I'm almost positive I'll be dropping most of my $$ on a refurbished iMac at this point, but if I can pick up a RMBP to go with it for another $600 I'll be fine with that  I'm still rocking a 2009 MacBook as my main machine...
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Oct 25, 2016 16:16
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Bob Morales posted:They still make poo poo with FireWire? That's why I'm asking- I bought the Drobo before macs dropped firewire for Thunderbolt, and I'm hoping it will still be useful assuming I keep it full of working hdds
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I don't know much about modern mobile graphics cards, and I can't find any info/rumors/ideas about what the new MBP might have in it. I have a 15" 2013 MBP with a 650M. Looks like my computer is worth $800-900 on eBay, maybe more since it has a new battery and screen. Since I've used this computer more than daily since I got it 3.5 years ago, its probably about time to update. It can run most things I want, but the ability to have a smoother & cooler (temp) game and video experience would be nice, in addition to more storage space and whatever other random features. Anyone have any wild guesses as to what it might have?
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Oct 25, 2016 20:56
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I was reading that the new MBPs are going to remove standard USB ports. Is this true? Has it already been discussed?
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Oct 25, 2016 20:58
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It's likely going to have an AMD Polaris graphics chip. Likely to come with 4 USB-C ports, no SD card reader or regular USB ports. Magsafe fate is undetermined. Pics that are in OS X 10.12.1  
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Oct 25, 2016 21:01
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Looks like the Macbook keyboard. Let the weeping and gnashing of teeth commence.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:06
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Other than the "magic toolbar", it looks like a 13" but with speakers?
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Oct 25, 2016 21:07
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Well, lets hope that there are a lot of really nice 15" 2015s dropped on Craigslist over the following weeks. I've seen plenty for about 1300-1800 depending on the hard drive size and whether or not it has Applecare, but I'd love to see that drop substantially lower.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:10
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Bob Morales posted:It's likely going to have an AMD Polaris graphics chip. Likely to come with 4 USB-C ports, no SD card reader or regular USB ports. Magsafe fate is undetermined. At risk of being that guy who declares he's underwhelmed after seeing 2 screenshots without a lot of context or details, I'm underwhelmed. This doesn't seem the like the "most significant update in years" analysts have been predicting. Also not sure how much I like the idea of a non-physical escape key. The OLED toolbar in general feels gimmicky to me, but maybe I'm just not seeing the possibilities. It will probably depend on whether or not developers actually do something interesting or consistent with it. As for the keyboard, I wasn't a fan of the MacBook keyboard, but if they increase the key travel a bit I could see it being awesome. The lack of USB-A ports will hurt me way more than the lightning adapter kerfluffle. Half the poo poo on my desk connects via USB-A. (I use the poo poo out of the built-in SD card reader, too, and will miss it if it's indeed gone).
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Oct 25, 2016 21:19
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I'm wondering if there will be burn-in issues with the new bar. I'd assume most of the time it's showing a static image anyway, of the now-gone function keys. The bezels seem a little smaller, at the very least on the bottom. The MacBook Pro logo (which I hate and wish they kept the clean look of the rMBP) is on the rubberized section of the hinge, which is also changed. I'm actually looking forward to the keyboard 
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Oct 25, 2016 21:24
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Bummer, it looks like it is using the MacBook keyboard.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:23
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It's "the most significant update in years" by default
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Oct 25, 2016 21:24
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Glad to see everyone will finally get the superior keyboard.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:23
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CygnusTM posted:Looks like the Macbook keyboard. Let the weeping and gnashing of teeth commence. The whole thing looks like a MacBook. I'm betting it's just a Pro in a MacBook shell. Gonna be some awkward applause for that reveal. TouchID, though! Took long enough.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:28
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Does anyone other than Apple use USB c? Plus all their USB c poo poo is expensive.
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rear end Catchcum posted:Does anyone other than Apple use USB c? Plus all their USB c poo poo is expensive. All the cool thin laptops have a USB-C port. There's the HP Spectre with 3? ports and the XPS 13 with one
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rear end Catchcum posted:Does anyone other than Apple use USB c? Plus all their USB c poo poo is expensive. Yup, last year's Nexus phones, a couple of Chromebooks use USB-c.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:32
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Anything with Thunderbolt 3 uses USB-C.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:35
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My bad! I just didn't see it as ingrained as USB 2/3.0 yet.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:37
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Thunderbolt 3 via USB-C will be nice for video editing on new MBPs. It'd be even better on a new desktop Mac Pro  Thinking about transferring rushes on those TB3 speeds gets me hot.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:38
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enojy posted:The whole thing looks like a MacBook. I'm betting it's just a Pro in a MacBook shell. Although if they can, that'd be nothing less than amazing.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:47
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Well, Apple is just gonna give up on them being Pros in anything but name then, I guess, because it has to get thinner every generation.
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Oct 25, 2016 22:03
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Sinestro posted:Well, Apple is just gonna give up on them being Pros in anything but name then, I guess, because it has to get thinner every generation. What makes something Pro to you? Is it mass? Computing power, which is almost certainly going to improve? Battery life, also likely to get better?
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Oct 25, 2016 22:05
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Just wait a few more days to see what it really is then start bitching.
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Does the X1 still have the fake function row? loving dumb.
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Nerd Rage in 5..4..3..2..... http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/25/13409258/apple-new-macbook-pro-no-escape-key
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echobucket posted:Nerd Rage in 5..4..3..2..... quote:Forcing people out of their button instincts might also help boost Siri usage on Apple's desktop and laptop computers. Ahahahhhaha
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rear end Catchcum posted:My bad! I just didn't see it as ingrained as USB 2/3.0 yet. The good news is that while it's annoying change now, it's pretty good for the future because this is a do-anything cable. It's fast enough to replace monitor-specific connections and can do bidirectional power, so as it gets more widely adopted it should be possible to remove all the extra power cables from desktop setups (since the same cable can do data and power from the desktop) and to remove extra cables from laptop dock setups (since the same cable can do data one way and power the other way). There are already a fair number of high-end monitors that do the "data one way and power the other way" thing, too. Though, this is assuming that lovely Chinese knockoff USB-C cables don't kill us all from electrical fires before this stuff gets common enough to replace existing medium/low-end gear. Roadie fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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I'll have to see how it pans out but I'm fairly sure my next notebook will be a Razer Blade, particularly if they put the mechanical keyboard into the 13"-ish version. This "Pro" machine without an Esc key and most likely an even thinner case to dissipate the heat is just a step too far towards iPad "Pro" for me.
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Oct 25, 2016 22:56
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Ahahahhhaha "Siri! Escape! Press 'escape' drat you!" 
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Oct 25, 2016 22:59
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I've got the idea, you've got the basic computer engineering ability, let's make some money: USB-C ESC key
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Oct 25, 2016 22:59
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enojy posted:I've got the idea, you've got the basic computer engineering ability, let's make some money: USB-C ESC key Make sure to make it out of fair trade bamboo.
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enojy posted:I've got the idea, you've got the basic computer engineering ability, let's make some money: USB-C ESC key 
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enojy posted:I've got the idea, you've got the basic computer engineering ability, let's make some money: USB-C ESC key A guy on twitter has you covered  https://twitter.com/Gidgerby/status/791010455531745280
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Make your own as a weekend project! http://www.instructables.com/id/One-Key-Keyboard-Hack/
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