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GoldfishStew posted:iPad Pro is actually the do everything computer. 
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GoldfishStew posted:iPad Pro is actually the do everything computer. Oh cool are they porting Xcode to go along with the introduction of a file manager?
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Jun 12, 2017 06:38
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Oh great, after making GBS threads up the iPhone threads for months GoldfishStew found SH/SC.
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Jun 12, 2017 06:40
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Oh great, after making GBS threads up the iPhone threads for months GoldfishStew found SH/SC. You should see his lovely posts in the hiphop thread. Stick him on your ignore list!
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Jun 12, 2017 08:27
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I read it as a joke on Apple and smiled.
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Jun 12, 2017 10:11
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My 10.5 arrives tomorrow and will be replacing my 2016 Macbook. We have a hardly used iMac that I can do advanced poo poo on, should I need it.
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Jun 12, 2017 15:46
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Cingulate posted:I read it as a joke on Apple and smiled. I read it as the truth and felt salty tears on my face. The iPad really is the future though.
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Jun 12, 2017 15:53
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Residency Evil posted:Is the 13" TB MBP the way to go as a do-everything computer? Are any of the CPU upgrades worth it? GoldfishStew posted:iPad Pro is actually the do everything computer. But seriously, anything else worth it?
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Jun 12, 2017 16:25
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Krispy Kareem posted:I read it as the truth and felt salty tears on my face. But I don't want to touch my drat screen  .
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Jun 12, 2017 16:55
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You know if you say that enough, Tim is gonna take away your touchscreen too and you'll have to program your apps in collaboration with Siri.
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Jun 12, 2017 16:57
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Residency Evil posted:Is the 13" TB MBP the way to go as a do-everything computer? Are any of the CPU upgrades worth it? If you need >8GB RAM, I'd say it's worth stepping up to the 15". 15" has twice the cores as well, and the 15" base config is actually pretty nice.
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Jun 12, 2017 17:38
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:If they require Metal going forward it'll be interesting. Maybe they'll let you run it if you have the right video card? Ah I see. I had a 2014 for a while and I swapped the spinning platter drive for a 2.5" SSD and assumed the earlier one was the same with drive bays. The 2014 only comes with the SSD slot IF you ordered with an SSD originally. if it came with a spinning platter drive there's no way to put in the stick based SSD so I went with a 2.5" drive instead.
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Jun 12, 2017 17:42
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GutBomb posted:Ah I see. I had a 2014 for a while and I swapped the spinning platter drive for a 2.5" SSD and assumed the earlier one was the same with drive bays. The 2014 only comes with the SSD slot IF you ordered with an SSD originally. if it came with a spinning platter drive there's no way to put in the stick based SSD so I went with a 2.5" drive instead. Yeah, this is pretty much why I'm sticking to the 2012 models as finding a dual drive 2014 for a reasonable price is hard work and I'm convinced in the apps I use (mainly Lightroom, bit of Photoshop, no games) I'd really notice the difference between HD4000 and Iris 5100. I know the latter has it's own memory, but I'm trying to get a 16GB model to make that less an issue.
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Jun 12, 2017 18:06
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Twerk from Home posted:If you need >8GB RAM, I'd say it's worth stepping up to the 15". 15" has twice the cores as well, and the 15" base config is actually pretty nice. I'm only saying I'd get 16gb to future proof, as I seem to keep my laptops for ~5-6 years. Am I wrong in upgrading the RAM?
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Jun 12, 2017 19:49
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I bought the new Macbook Air. Don't know why... but I did.
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Jun 12, 2017 20:25
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eightysixed posted:I bought the new Macbook Air. Don't know why... but I did. But that screen 
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Jun 12, 2017 20:33
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I... I... know
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Jun 12, 2017 20:36
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eightysixed posted:I bought the new Macbook Air. Don't know why... but I did. 
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Jun 12, 2017 20:39
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eightysixed posted:I bought the new Macbook Air. Don't know why... but I did. Aren't they only like $699 at Microcenter?
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Jun 12, 2017 20:48
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Bob Morales posted:Aren't they only like $699 at Microcenter? No clue. No Microcenters in this state. However online it says $949.99. So yeah, even more money wasted
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Jun 12, 2017 20:53
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The only bad part of the MacBook Air is the display. In all other respects it's a perfectly fine laptop.
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Jun 12, 2017 20:59
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eightysixed posted:No clue. No Microcenters in this state. However online it says $949.99. So yeah, even more money wasted 
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Jun 12, 2017 21:05
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Correct. In store only.eightysixed posted:No Microcenters in this state. edit: that's also the old 1.6ghz not the blaaaaaaaaaazing fast 1.8ghz one i just bought 
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Jun 12, 2017 21:06
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eightysixed posted:Correct. In store only. Isn't it running a two generation better CPU though? GPU performance alone is twice as good (but 5 times worse than a regular video card). So that 1.8ghz is far better than the extra 200mhz would suggest. And dat battery life. It's no iPad Pro, but you got a nice computer.
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Jun 12, 2017 22:16
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I would consider returning the Air. The display is a raging dumpster fire.
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Jun 12, 2017 22:25
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Mu Zeta posted:I would consider returning the Air. The display is a raging dumpster fire. Woah, MBA screens are a major fire risk? I have to go tell the TSA and MacRumours right now
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Jun 12, 2017 22:31
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Mu Zeta posted:I would consider returning the Air. The display is a raging dumpster fire. Having experienced 100+ Hz IPS, anything below is a raging dumpster fire by comparison. So basically everything in Apple's lineup except the new iPad Pro.
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Jun 12, 2017 22:44
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I mean, $70 more could buy you a refurbished 12" Macbook https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FLH72LL/A/Refurbished-12-inch-MacBook-11GHz-Dual-core-Intel-Core-m3-Space-Gray
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Jun 12, 2017 22:47
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I have an Asus UX305 13" laptop with a 1080p IPS display and it cost me $600. There is no excuse for paying a grand for a garbage display. Maybe in 2012 it was acceptable but not now. Get literally any other Apple laptop than the Air.
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Jun 12, 2017 22:47
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Mu Zeta posted:I have an Asus UX305 13" laptop with a 1080p IPS display and it cost me $600. There is no excuse for paying a grand for a garbage display. Maybe in 2012 it was acceptable but not now. Get literally any other Apple laptop than the Air. But can the Asus run macOS, the greatest desktop operating system ever created?
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Jun 12, 2017 23:29
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Weedle posted:But can the Asus run iOS, the greatest desktop operating system ever created? Fixed it for you.
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Jun 12, 2017 23:34
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Mu Zeta posted:I would consider returning the Air. The display is a raging dumpster fire. Interesting. I've never owned an Air and would never buy one, but what's wrong with the display?
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Jun 12, 2017 23:43
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Try tilting the display and it completely washes out. The resolution is also too low. It's the same quality displays used in the ultra budget laptops from Dell. Even most Chromebooks have better quality.
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Jun 13, 2017 00:30
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Mu Zeta posted:Try tilting the display and it completely washes out. The resolution is also too low. It's the same quality displays used in the ultra budget laptops from Dell. Even most Chromebooks have better quality. I have used a lot of those budget Windows laptops at work and the Air's display is nowhere near as bad as those.
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Jun 13, 2017 00:51
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sure the macbook air has a pretty good TN panel display, but at the end of the day it's still a TN panel display
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Jun 13, 2017 01:20
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BobHoward posted:Originally the Fusion SSD was always 128GB, but the past couple of years or so Apple decided to reduce cost on 1TB configs by using a weird 24GB SSD instead. It's still a separate drive, just small. Natural confusion though, what with things like Seagate's SSHDs which integrate a small amount of flash into a spinning disk. Western Digital actually built the frankenstein all in one drive in the form of the WD Black Dual Drive and it was a huge turd. I had to gently caress around with firmware until it was ready to be provisioned as a Fusion drive. At that point it actually performed pretty well for about a year before the SSD portion failed and it nuked the entire drive.
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Jun 13, 2017 06:41
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That WD Black2 was such a huge turd.
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Jun 13, 2017 06:43
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For the 12" MB, how big of a battery hit will having an i7 and 16GB of RAM have relative to the base model?
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Jun 13, 2017 10:35
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The "i7" is still a low-power Y chip like the "m3" but with a couple hundred MHz more base and turbo. I don't know why they changed the branding - it's still a low-TDP fanless Y series, not at all comparable to actual i7s. I imagine battery life for typical tasks would still hover around 8h to 9h30m like last gen, more dependent on your use than the CPU clock. If you're decoding a lot of video, probably a nice boost there over last year. I don't have two side by side to test but I question the value of the "i7" chip to begin with, probably pay a hefty BTO premium for effectively 200MHz.
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