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smackfu posted:Is there a way to diagnose? It is failing right after it shows the Apple logo. Start your Mini up in single user/verbose mode and see what error it provides.
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So I'm looking to replace the PSU in my 2009 Mac Pro. (flashed to a 5.1, though it shouldn't matter for this I would assume since it sounds like I can just do a SMC reset to re-set the fan profiles?) I'm looking at DV Warehouse that appears to have new PSUs in stock (I've heard they're trustworthy, so I'm assuming when they say it's new, it actually is). They show two models though for the Early 2009 Mac Pros: a model 661-5011, and a model 661-5449. Does anyone know the difference/which one would probably be correct, or if either could work? They're the same price so I just want to make sure I get the right one. I'm hoping that whenever Apple provides a revised new Mac Pro, I might pick that up, but since I'm assuming that's probably realistically a few years out, I'd like to get a bit more life out of my current one. Canned Sunshine fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Platystemon posted:I don’t know how you haven’t already replaced the fans multiple times. Speaking of fans, what's the average RPM for a mid-2009 15 inch MBP fan to be at? Mine is always stable at around 2000 RPM, is that normal?
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Busy Bee posted:Speaking of fans, what's the average RPM for a mid-2009 15 inch MBP fan to be at? Mine is always stable at around 2000 RPM, is that normal? Two thousand RPM is the minimum on many models. I don’t know about mid‐2009, specifically, but it’s probably normal.
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~Coxy posted:We can't be that much of an outlier or they wouldn't have done that unprecedented "state of the Mac Pro" thing. Remember that Schiller (or was it Federiche) said the Macintosh part of Apple earns enough to be a Fortune 100 business all by itself. Of course I'm also old enough to remember Apple telling //gs customers how important the Apple II market was to them with the Apple II Forever theme playing in the background, but I feel it's different this time. 
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Yeah but when did he say that? Lol
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Chris Knight posted:Yeah but when did he say that? Lol IF you're referring to the Fortune 100 thing, Phil said it almost right off the bat. (emphasis mine..) Leapin' Phil Schiller posted:
As for the Apple II, it wasn't him but some other Apple bigwig at the time whose name escapes me
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After having my new MacBook Pro for a week (15" Retina w/o USB-C), I'm beyond impressed. Haven't even used my Windows PC since last Sunday when I was moving the last of my files to my external drive. I wasn't expecting to adjust this quickly after having not touched a Mac in nearly 10 years. The gestures were easy to remember and I'm not trying to do Windows stuff on here out of habit. Performance is incredible. Between the 16 GB of RAM and SSD drive, stuff that took forever to load or was always slow before is now instant or near-instant. It's nice to use Premiere and Photoshop without constantly needing time to catch up. Power is also surprising. I'm at 20% and the last time I charged was Thursday. I've never used a laptop that didn't need to constantly be near power. It also powers faster than I've ever seen on a laptop. I'm also really pleased with the comfort. Both on a desk or on the lap. I was worried 15" would be too big, but it's actually a little smaller than my old Vaio. I did end up getting a Magic Mouse, mainly to make Adobe stuff easier to use, even though this is the best trackpad I've ever used. I probably won't use the mouse outside Adobe. Some of the bells and whistles are cool like my Apple Watch unlocking it and all the stuff it does automatically. I hooked up my PC monitor to test second screen via HDMI and it popped up immediately without me having to set it up first. Just wish I hadn't waited this long since I could have done a lot more when I had some video editing projects the year before last.
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Binary Badger posted:IF you're referring to the Fortune 100 thing, Phil said it almost right off the bat.
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SourKraut posted:So I'm looking to replace the PSU in my 2009 Mac Pro. (flashed to a 5.1, though it shouldn't matter for this I would assume since it sounds like I can just do a SMC reset to re-set the fan profiles?) So there isn't a whole lot of info out there, but it sounds like they're probably the same part... Can I walk into an Apple Store and ask them if I can buy a PSU for a 2010-2012 Mac Pro? Or is going through an online site probably my best bet?
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SourKraut posted:So there isn't a whole lot of info out there, but it sounds like they're probably the same part... Can I walk into an Apple Store and ask them if I can buy a PSU for a 2010-2012 Mac Pro? Or is going through an online site probably my best bet? Apple won't sell you parts, and your machine is now Vintage, so yeah- online 3rd party.
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Rex-Goliath posted:Don't want to buy a gaming laptop but I probably don't have a choice I use that in tandem with a Mac Pro where I make all the assets & combine with Unity. But like also- people have had success with the Thunderbolt 2 PCIe solutions & bootcamp. Pick your poison?
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 source: http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-brand-ratings The reddit comments of owners with new 15" machines make me want to buy another old model 15" rMBP and save it in a closet until mine dies.
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I though it would only have taken one year for consumers to forget super fish.
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What do those rankings even mean
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Bob Morales posted:Hypothetical markets for Mac Pro: - People who write all those extremely well-selling iPhone apps and want them to compile fast - Engineers at Apple Completely unrelated question: who the hell would want a Xeon iMac?
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Cingulate posted:Possibly the most important groups: What's becoming abundantly clear is that the user base for proper 'pro' Macs is so small and fragmented that none of them can agree on what the new Mac Pro should be. There will be people for whom a Xeon iMac fits the bill. We're talking fractions of fractions of Mac users at this point because the overwhelming majority of Mac users are notebook users who probably don't care what the hardware is.
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Bob Morales posted:What do those rankings even mean Laptopmag is pretty respected and if you just click the link and scroll down it explains their reasoning for each. Think of it as a review, but of the market.
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Bob Morales posted:What do those rankings even mean That chart is lovely, but the blue dots represent Lenovo's standings that year. The colors of the shapes correspond to the poo poo-rear end legend on the right, the shapes are irrelevant. Whoever made the chart needs to crawl back into the middle management hellhole they came out of. Note, these rankings are based on Laptop mag's reviews--not popularity or sales. The metrics laptop mag uses to decide these rankings: Reviews 35% (only considers laptop mag review) Design 15% (you'd think laptop mag would consider this in their review but here we are in idiot chart land) Tech Support 20% Innovation 10% (this entire thing is such idiotic bullshit) Value and selection 15% (price and # of SKUs) Warranty 5% (doesn't this fall under support?) Worthless chart.
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I remember when PC Magazine used to review like 50 desktop PC's at once and they'd time how long it took to get support when you called the company's 800 number
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eames posted:
I just see a lot of complaining about the price there. I'm very happy with my laptop that cost almost as much as my car is worth and I'd recommend it. 
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gently caress that new keyboard right in the rear end. The new ones feel even more solid and are much slimmer than the Retinas.
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Bob Morales posted:gently caress that new keyboard right in the rear end. You don't like the new keyboard? Give it a day or so. I hate going back to my 2012 MBP keyboard. My only complaint is it's very loud.
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Krispy Kareem posted:You don't like the new keyboard? no glowy apple logo means people have to know it's a mac somehow!
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The new keyboard is amazing but it's hard going between different typical pc keyboards all day then working on the Mac in the evening. I have no choice but to use other machines during the day most days. When I go back to the Mac I end up not consistently actuating some keys sometimes until I readjust. Is there a desktop keyboard with similar switches or feel?
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Krispy Kareem posted:You don't like the new keyboard? I've had it for almost a year. Not even travel and you can't feel the key shapes (like the arrows). My 2023 feels a little mushy now but at least I know what keys I'm hitting and that they are registering as keypresses
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I dunno. The two days I had my 2016 I thought the keyboard was fine. Then again I use a Microsoft membrane keyboard for my desktop that is already mush. I really like my Logitech K811 keyboard that I think is based off the 2010-2015 MacBook Pro keyboards. I highly recommend the K811 for people looking for a nice Bluetooth that can hot swap between 3 systems.
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Housh posted:I dunno. The two days I had my 2016 I thought the keyboard was fine. Then again I use a Microsoft membrane keyboard for my desktop that is already mush. I really like my Logitech K811 keyboard that I think is based off the 2010-2015 MacBook Pro keyboards. I thought I hated the new Keyboard for ages, then I used my old 2015 13" - and somehow those felt too weird. That being said, the Magic Keyboard 2 that I use on my desktop all day is still, in my mind the great compromise between the two. It feels lovely to type on all day.
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A little while ago I posted about the SSD dying in my Late 2014 MBP. I decided to go the M.2 + Adapter route with an open box SM951 from Microcenter for dirt cheap and the Sintech adapter. Replaced it today and it worked perfectly, way easier to replace than I was picturing it, and it booted up with Internet Recovery no problem, formatted and installed Mavericks and everything is working well and I think it is faster than the original SSD.
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rally posted:The new keyboard is amazing but it's hard going between different typical pc keyboards all day then working on the Mac in the evening. I have no choice but to use other machines during the day most days. When I go back to the Mac I end up not consistently actuating some keys sometimes until I readjust. Is there a desktop keyboard with similar switches or feel? Microsoft's slim desktop keyboards are pretty close. Hopefully will update their devices, the current keyboard is just too plasticity and squishy.
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OnceIWasAnOstrich posted:A little while ago I posted about the SSD dying in my Late 2014 MBP. I decided to go the M.2 + Adapter route with an open box SM951 from Microcenter for dirt cheap and the Sintech adapter. Replaced it today and it worked perfectly, way easier to replace than I was picturing it, and it booted up with Internet Recovery no problem, formatted and installed Mavericks and everything is working well and I think it is faster than the original SSD. Good on you, Slamsung 951s are harder to find these days as they're AHCI, the industry pretty much switched gears over to NVMe and 951s are no longer produced. They're only one of three models of SSDs supported by the 2013-2015 rMBP other than Apple OEM, one being the previous gen Samstung X941 and Kingston GyperPerdatorX. I think some of the non-Samsung Apple OEMs (Sandisk if I'm not mistaken) could only get up to 768K/sec, the 951 will definitely get around 1200-1400K/sec for reads. It should also last longer depending on if you got the 256 or 512GB model, pity they never made a 1 TB model.
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Despite UPS' best efforts*, I finally got the new MBP. I absolutely love it! Th only thing is that the trackpad is only slightly smaller than my whole house, so I keep making things happen randomly with the sides of my hands. Is there some way to crank down the sensitivity or am I just going to have to get used to it? I just accidentally sent a partial email because of it. E: Actually I just realized I accidentally hit the SEND button on the new touch bar. Hmmm. I think I'm going to have to be careful with the way I hover my fingers over it. *My wife was waiting for the driver and heard something at the door. When she looked, he had left a SORRY WE MISSED YOU sticker without ringing, knocking, or barely making a peep. 
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Doctor Zero posted:Despite UPS' best efforts*, I finally got the new MBP. I absolutely love it! Th only thing is that the trackpad is only slightly smaller than my whole house, so I keep making things happen randomly with the sides of my hands. Is there some way to crank down the sensitivity or am I just going to have to get used to it? I just accidentally sent a partial email because of it. I don't think I've ever had an erroneous touch on my MBP, but I have accidentally hit the touchbar a few times, which sucks. It's better now that I got rid of the dumb Siri button in the top right and turned it into mute, because muting isn't a big deal.
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I pick up my mbp Friday. Wooo!! Hope it's not defective this time. Edit: oh poo poo got it one day early!!! Housh fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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Can a fresh reinstall of OS X fix a Mac that's been running like a dog for some time now? Or is that just something people do with Windows machines? My Macbook (model 7.1, late 2009 I think) is running Snow Leopard. I've not installed a newer version because I'm still running Office 2004 on here, which needs Rosetta.
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I would recommend swapping out the hard drive with a SSD if you can. It did wonders to my 2006 MacBook running Snow Leopard which I would use for Office 2004 and Firefox.
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In a move of desperation in the interest of remaining barely relevant I got a pretty good deal on a GTX 980 Ti for my cheese grater Mac Pro. Will be interesting to see the performance increase from a GTX 680.
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Theophany posted:In a move of desperation in the interest of remaining barely relevant I got a pretty good deal on a GTX 980 Ti for my cheese grater Mac Pro. Will be interesting to see the performance increase from a GTX 680. Was it a good amount cheaper than a 1070? The mac drivers for pascal are in beta currently but should be final soon.
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jet_dee posted:Can a fresh reinstall of OS X fix a Mac that's been running like a dog for some time now? Or is that just something people do with Windows machines? Otherwise yeah, just get a SSD for a nice speed boost. And RAM upgrade if you're running less than 8GB, although a SSD goes a long way in making slowdowns from swapping less noticeable.
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buffbus posted:Was it a good amount cheaper than a 1070? The mac drivers for pascal are in beta currently but should be final soon. Yeah, ended up costing me £120 all in, which is a pretty irresistible price.
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