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ShadeofBlue posted:It's a great deal compared to eBay, I was following prices for the last couple of weeks until I settled on a 2014 model. They are willing to sell it to me for $1500. I am going to go for it.
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Eletriarnation posted:a brand new one wouldn't be that much faster Unless they offer a quad core again. One can dream...
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Binary Badger posted:Don't forget to check the AppleCare status. Ends October this year.
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Are there any go-too good off brands for replacement magsafe chargers? I need one for my old 2009 MBP, so an 85W model. I'm seeing Apple selling them for $85, but then a poo poo ton of assorted Chinese companies and American resellers of chinese crap offering them in the $15-25 range. For that much of a discount I don't need it to last another 7 years, but I"d prefer it if it didn't damage the computer or burn my house down.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Are there any go-too good off brands for replacement magsafe chargers? I need one for my old 2009 MBP, so an 85W model. I'm seeing Apple selling them for $85, but then a poo poo ton of assorted Chinese companies and American resellers of chinese crap offering them in the $15-25 range.  ). From the review it sounds like it's just missing retail packaging and the long cable/plug attachment.https://eshop.macsales.com/search/magsafe%2085w
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Cyrano4747 posted:Are there any go-too good off brands for replacement magsafe chargers? I need one for my old 2009 MBP, so an 85W model. I'm seeing Apple selling them for $85, but then a poo poo ton of assorted Chinese companies and American resellers of chinese crap offering them in the $15-25 range. Anyone I know who's ever bought a non-apple magsafe charger has had it break in a few weeks and then they just bought the apple ones.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Are there any go-too good off brands for replacement magsafe chargers? I need one for my old 2009 MBP, so an 85W model. I'm seeing Apple selling them for $85, but then a poo poo ton of assorted Chinese companies and American resellers of chinese crap offering them in the $15-25 range. Interesting teardown and comparison of a fake charger and a real charger http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-teardown.html
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Picked up my retina Mac. Holy poo poo this screen.
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I said come in! posted:Picked up my retina Mac. Holy poo poo this screen. 
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buglord posted:Now nothing else is ever going to look as good Also the speakers on this thing seem fantastic for laptop speakers.
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I said come in! posted:Also the speakers on this thing seem fantastic for laptop speakers. I was watching a documentary or something on Netflix and I got tripped out by how well the macbook speakers handle positional audio. One point I had to mute the audio because I thought the sound of birds was coming from outside my window, despite it being dusk.
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Bob Morales posted:Interesting teardown and comparison of a fake charger and a real charger I'm saving this and providing it to anyone who whines to me about 'Apple markup'. Go ahead and buy the goddamn gas station version. See you when your house burns down or your computer explodes.
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I said come in! posted:Picked up my retina Mac. Holy poo poo this screen. I've had my machine for almost two months and I'm still agog at the screen. (I'm also an outlier who actually prefers the new keyboard to the old ones.)
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Doctor Zero posted:I'm saving this and providing it to anyone who whines to me about 'Apple markup'. Go ahead and buy the goddamn gas station version. See you when your house burns down or your computer explodes. The third party ones are only poo poo because Apple refuse to license to 3rd parties so they can do the 'mark up'. It's very possible to make cheaper chargers that are safe, which is why Apple don't license it out.
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Boiled Water posted:what license do you need to make sure a charger doesn't burn your house down? You don't need one, but if you are essentially immune to Apple's enforcement of the license because you are a random sketchy entity in China you are also immune to lawsuits over burning houses, so, who gives a poo poo, crank up that profit margin. No licenses means no companies like Amazon/Monoprice/Anker aren't able to design out and contract build safe chargers and sell them for a reasonable price.
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This is one handy dandy reason why USB-c rules as a charging platform for the new MacBook pros. The cable is replaceable and the included charger is just a solid rear end brick (it was always the cables that broke anyway). Thanks Apple 👍
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Ocrassus posted:This is one handy dandy reason why USB-c rules as a charging platform for the new MacBook pros. The cable is replaceable and the included charger is just a solid rear end brick (it was always the cables that broke anyway). Is there anything USB-C can't do? It seems to be the golden age of cables is finally here with USB-C.
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I said come in! posted:Is there anything USB-C can't do? It seems to be the golden age of cables is finally here with USB-C. Not pull my laptop off the table when the dog runs across the room and catches on it or when I'm just an idiot and get the cable around my ankle when getting up from my desk. It's kind of bullshit that the magsafe adapters didn't have removable / replaceable cables (I mean, gently caress, they have it going the other direction with the removable extension cord going to the wall) but magsafe itself is a good idea. Ultimately I'd rather replace a $80 apple-only brick once every few years than watch my $2000+ laptop hit the floor.
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Boiled Water posted:what license do you need to make sure a charger doesn't burn your house down? No reputable 3rd party is going to make unlicensed copies of heavily IP-laden & always uncertified chargers. This isn't really hard to understand. I've never had an Apple charger go wrong, so I've never bought one, but suggesting the current gen of 3rd party chargers is evidence the "apple markup" is for a reason is nonsense.
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My wife and I have both had apple chargers slowly die, mine was a magsafe and hers the newer magsafe 2. Neither were connection issues, just deteriorating power conversion circuitry. In both cases the charging light will be extremely dim and intermittent until the charger is removed from the wall for a while, eventually permanently dead no matter how long they rest. We both tend to buy top spec machines and run them for several years though so it does take a while.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Not pull my laptop off the table when the dog runs across the room and catches on it or when I'm just an idiot and get the cable around my ankle when getting up from my desk. I kind of gave up on Magsafe when I pulled a laptop off the desk using my headphone cable 
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Cyrano4747 posted:Not pull my laptop off the table when the dog runs across the room and catches on it or when I'm just an idiot and get the cable around my ankle when getting up from my desk. THANKS OBAMA https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/imac181-with-xeon-e3-1280-v6-processor/ quote:Good news folks. I am told, by a little bird, that the next iMac (to be released in late October) will be available with (up to) Intel E3-1285 v6 processor with 16 GB (upgradable to 32 or 64 GB) ECC memory. Faster NVMe SSD’s possibly up to 2 TB and AMD graphics to support VR and Pro apps. Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C gen 2 with… tada… a brand new keyboard. Neato. If they're making a bit thicker Mini that could yield some nice changes. I'm still hoping there's kind of a Mini Pro or Mac Pro Lite that's essentially iMac level performance without a display.
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eames posted:I can almost taste the official eGPU support at this point ew. EGPU is crap.
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Matt Zerella posted:ew. EGPU is crap. You know when you go into an apartment building and you smell the other people's cooking on each floor and you go "What are they cookin'?" That, over only 4 PCIe lanes plus crap!
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eames posted:I can almost taste the official eGPU support at this point If Craig Federighi says "I think they have a place" then there oughta be not only software support (which he's in charge of) but maybe a dedicated slot/port for them?
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Binary Badger posted:If Craig Federighi says "I think they have a place" then there oughta be not only software support (which he's in charge of) but maybe a dedicated slot/port for them? I'm expecting it to drop with the next "iMac Pro" they hinted at. The only thing that concerns me is that the 27" 5K iMac has almost double the pixel count of a 4K display and that's an insane amount of bandwidth for TB3 unless they limit eGPU support to external displays.
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Binary Badger posted:So yeah, GTX 1060 / 1070 / 1080 compatibility for cheesegrater Mac Pros! Naturally that should include CUDA, so that will make a lot of pros who haven't abandoned Macs happy! Sweet, going to make the next year a little less painful. gently caress my 9750. gently caress it.
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Binary Badger posted:nVidia adds Pascal support to its Mac web drivers coming later this month! Mac Hardware megathread - Pascal gave me a Fermi
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:We don't have any mods that read the Apple threads anymore You could always volunteer to mod agai- (gets strangled by a very disturbed parrot)
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Awesome. I finally got my hackintosh working on the same chassis as my PC and the nVidia 1060 registers just 10mb of RAM. Which kind of defeats the purpose of building a hackintosh. On charger chat, I have this:  Super small, can charge other devices with interchangeable cables/tips, durable Magsafe adapter, has two extra USB ports, and the company went out of business six months ago so...yeah. They never did put out an USB-C version.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Awesome. I finally got my hackintosh working on the same chassis as my PC and the nVidia 1060 registers just 10mb of RAM. Which kind of defeats the purpose of building a hackintosh. Maybe the official nvidia mac drivers will help?
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Ocrassus posted:This is one handy dandy reason why USB-c rules as a charging platform for the new MacBook pros. The cable is replaceable and the included charger is just a solid rear end brick (it was always the cables that broke anyway). DEUCE SLUICE posted:https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/imac181-with-xeon-e3-1280-v6-processor/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/transcript-phil-schiller-craig-federighi-and-john-ternus-on-the-state-of-apples-pro-macs/ Haven't read it yet but searched for Mac mini for the full snippet: quote:John Paczkowski (BuzzFeed): What about the Mac Mini? It hasn’t come up once yet. Is there a reason?
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