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Quantum of Phallus posted:Literally one of the stupidest things I've ever read in this thread. give me some time, I'm sure I can come up with something to top it
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Krispy Kareem posted:If you haven't priced SSD's in awhile, they're dirt cheap. I think I got a 400gb Samsung for $150 earlier in the year. Depending on how awesome you want to make your 6 year old laptop you can put two drives in it and rock lots of cheap storage. Right now my Time Machine drive is in my laptop. You don't need a backup, a USB to sata cable will do the trick.
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Boiled Water posted:You don't need a backup, a USB to sata cable will do the trick. I'll probably resort to that. I had a SSD boot failure and Time Machine couldn't access it's own backups (at that time it was plugged into an Airport Extreme like a good backup should be) and I just haven't had a chance to figure out a wired solution since I no longer trust the automatic wireless network backups. In other news, Amazon updated their Cloud backup app (not S3 or Glacier - their $60/year for unlimited storage plan) and now it has folder sync whereas before you had to do all of that manually. Time Machine is probably going to be my backup of last resort going forward. It looks good and seems to work, but when it doesn't you're boned.
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I bought a 200GB microSD that I just leave in the side of my rMBP as a third-line Time Machine destination. Really convenient.
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Y'all seem to know you're being retarded about this but it's worth mentioning the gold standard is: 3 backups 2 locations 1 offsite I'm a die-hard fan of crashplan, because you can do all this on their free tier; just appoint another computer you own/control as a backup location for 'cloud' storage.
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Khablam posted:Y'all seem to know you're being retarded about this but it's worth mentioning the gold standard is: Yeah, users really need The Gold Standard here and not just Dropbox / Google Drive.
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Krispy Kareem posted:If you haven't priced SSD's in awhile, they're dirt cheap.
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I've just discovered a neat (if ever-so-slightly alarming) party trick you can do with a metal-body macbook. Plug it in with the two-prong ungrounded flip-down adapter, not the three-prong cable. Then ground yourself -- touching a screw on a wall plate works great, but standing barefoot on a hard floor is good enough -- and run your fingers lightly over the casing. Enjoy the tingly sensation of the mild electrical shock as your body acts as the macbook's ground connection. At least, it does this on my old mbp with the magsafe power connector, I don't know if it still happens with the new usb-c one. But it turns out it's been happening for more than a decade. I guess I'm just the latest one to notice it.
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Powered Descent posted:I've just discovered a neat (if ever-so-slightly alarming) party trick you can do with a metal-body macbook. Plug it in with the two-prong ungrounded flip-down adapter, not the three-prong cable. Then ground yourself -- touching a screw on a wall plate works great, but standing barefoot on a hard floor is good enough -- and run your fingers lightly over the casing. Enjoy the tingly sensation of the mild electrical shock as your body acts as the macbook's ground connection. My Dell E6400 does that at work. Yay for not following the electrical code!
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rsjr posted:Yeah, users really need The Gold Standard here and not just Dropbox / Google Drive. Wait
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The last place I worked wasn't wired properly and every so often I'd get shocked by the mac's keyboard. Not fun.
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CyberPingu posted:Has anyone found a decent USB C to HDMI 2.0 converter yet, the hubs we bought in only support 4k at 24hz This one? http://club-3d.com/index.php/products/reader.en/product/usb-type-c-to-hdmi-20-uhd-active-adapter.html
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dongle nation everybody https://twitter.com/caseyneistat edit: hmm thought tweets autoexpanded. 
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Strong Sauce posted:dongle nation everybody God I love Casey. I wish he still daily blogged.
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Finally got to play with a touch bar rMBP at the Apple Store. I don't know how you people like this crap. The only rMBP I would buy is the 15" since I use it as my primary machine, and that starts at basically 2500 CAD for 8gb RAM and 256gb SSD, and the touchbar is completely unintuitive. Not having a physical escape key and not being able to force the F-keys to always display (and use Fn to toggle the fancy stuff) is a complete deal-breaker for me. Really don't know how you guys that like it, do.
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Strong Sauce posted:dongle nation everybody Remember when Steve wanted to hide as many cables as possible because he hated how cluttered they made a desk look? 
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My touchbar mbp is cool. It's almost as worthless as the function keys except I can use a slider for my iTunes volume and that's fun. Also touchid I guess but I can't use my fingers for when I turn on the computer and I gotta type my password like a loser.
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I commented to a friend on Facebook who was talking about his new MacBook Pro that the USBc was a turnoff for me on it, nad he responded that it was "much more versatile" How
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It is a faster port that can also be used to charge the laptop
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Rubiks Pubes posted:I commented to a friend on Facebook who was talking about his new MacBook Pro that the USBc was a turnoff for me on it, nad he responded that it was "much more versatile" It will be versatile in about 3-4 years. Right now it's kind of poo poo.
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Lazyhound posted:It's this drive (2.5", 1TB, 5200RPM [sic]) Update:  
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Strong Sauce posted:dongle nation everybody The current elegance of Apple computing.
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I'm in the market for a new laptop, after getting sick of being tied to my desk with my iMac. I've been looking for a few months, but wanted to wait until the new MacBook pros came out. Unfortunately, they are a lot pricier in the UK than I was expecting. How is the performance on the MacBook? I'll mainly be using it for web browsing, very occasional light photo and video editing, and the occasional game of Civ V or Kerbal Space Program.
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Col.Kiwi posted:Yeah you're right, instead of following his suggestion of making an offsite backup people should follow your entirely different suggestion of putting a backup on google drive. A single offsite backup is not The Gold Standard. Look at you putting your data at risk.
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Strong Sauce posted:dongle nation everybody What the hell did he attach?
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Strong Sauce posted:edit: hmm thought tweets autoexpanded.
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That MacBook is so dirty, it's making me sick. Also lmao at the adapter not sitting flush
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Tab8715 posted:What the hell did he attach? Probably this. Also switching from an old laptop HD to SSD was much more mindblowing than expected. Everything is like instant. Also RIP Apples better previous laptop design, not only was swapping a breeze but it was simple as hell to clean out any excess dust in the machine.
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Tab8715 posted:What the hell did he attach? Everything in the blasted house. I'm so so sick of USB c complaints when I have two ports on my 2015 and I barely ever use more than one yet I keep seeing ham photos of people pretending they need their iPhone and their loving go pro plugged in at same time , so an attachment would be perfectly fine for me. that said I tripped over my MagSafe cord yesterday which surely would have destroyed the 2016
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unlawfulsoup posted:Also switching from an old laptop HD to SSD was much more mindblowing than expected. Everything is like instant. I laughed just yesterday when I realised it was quicker to restart my 2012 mbp with a new SSD in it than it was to manually re-open all the launch programs I'd closed to save battery. It's the best thing ever. It used to take literally minutes to boot and now it's seconds. SSD+Sierra makes it feel brand new.
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ethanol posted:that said I tripped over my MagSafe cord yesterday which surely would have destroyed the 2016 there is a solution https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-power-cable but it's basically more dongle
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Has there been a resolution to the MacBook Pro battery life issues? I am getting about 4 hours of battery life per charge just performing light browsing. I do not think my use is intensive at all, definitely do not think it qualifies as anything over light use. Screen brightness is set to 80 and the only programs I am running are safari and Spotify. I'd hate to believe the rumors that the battery life is shorter than advertised are true as I heard most people should be getting 10 hours of use on this machine.
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Nope. Apple just removed the estimated battery remaining time with a software update.
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unlawfulsoup posted:The current elegance of Apple computing. You don't have to use all of that poo poo. And if you need to, maybe the computer isn't for you.
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Biodome posted:You don't have to use all of that poo poo. And if you need to, maybe the computer isn't for you. The computer is definitely not for me, but I find it amusing nonetheless.
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Mu Zeta posted:Nope. Apple just removed the estimated battery remaining time with a software update. Those developers showed courage. Is there any way to dim or turn off the TouchBar? A cursory Google search says no, but it'd be interesting to see how the TouchBar enabled MBP's do battery-wise when that is turned way down or off.
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:I'm in the market for a new laptop, after getting sick of being tied to my desk with my iMac. I've been looking for a few months, but wanted to wait until the new MacBook pros came out. Unfortunately, they are a lot pricier in the UK than I was expecting. It'll eat a dick trying to play either game, it's really not something you want to game on. It'll thermal throttle playing them and perform poorly. You can build a basic desktop PC with the cash saved buying a MB over a MBP and play them there though. ethanol posted:Everything in the blasted house. I'm so
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