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Thanks, I did. Final specs are i7, 8gb of ram, radeon 580, 2tb fusion drive. I did potentially open another can of worms because I ordered through the educational website. My wife is faculty at a major university so I hope thats enough to appease them.
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They did shrink the 1tb Fusion option down to only 24GB of flash though. Don't get that one.
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Binary Badger posted:I stand corrected If you want to future proof don't get spinning disks.
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FCKGW posted:They did shrink the 1tb Fusion option down to only 24GB of flash though. Don't get that one. Because most people who order stock iMacs only get 8 GB of RAM? 24 GB SSDs are cheaper than 128s? Apple's bean counters probably ordered this because of all the money they were losing giving people bigger flash drives. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Aug 1, 2017 |
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I really wish I could buy a longer USB-C cable for my 15" tbmbp. Granted the battery charges really fast but still I could use a bit more length. Really wanted that Anker braided cord to be legit since I have the lightening version which is great for my iPad Pro but too worried to use it on my 15" Does anyone have the link to that spreadsheet with tested cables? Were there any longer usb-c cables that were approved? I guess now I have to make sure they can charge up 15" too.
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Housh posted:Does anyone have the link to that spreadsheet with tested cables? This one? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wJwqv3rTNmORXz-XJsQaXK1dl8I91V4-eP_sfNVNzbA/edit?usp=sharing
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Housh posted:I really wish I could buy a longer USB-C cable for my 15" tbmbp. Granted the battery charges really fast but still I could use a bit more length. Really wanted that Anker braided cord to be legit since I have the lightening version which is great for my iPad Pro but too worried to use it on my 15" Does the Apple extension cord thing not do it for you? It came with my MBA but they still sell it and I love that thing.
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tuyop posted:Does the Apple extension cord thing not do it for you? It came with my MBA but they still sell it and I love that thing. I have a couple knocking around from when they still included them with old pre-retina unibody models, but you can get an Apple one for $19.
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tuyop posted:Does the Apple extension cord thing not do it for you? It came with my MBA but they still sell it and I love that thing. When did apple stop including the extension cord? I think the one I am using came with my 2006 mb.
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I got the extension cord with my 2015 rMBP.
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loving Apple!  I guess I'll have to buy another power extension cord for this dongle life style. Anyways, I have some work situations that my backpack doesn't seem appropriate. Anyone recommend a light briefcase for a 15" that fits the charge brick and accessories? The Tom Bihn ones don't look professional from the pics on the site.
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If you don't want to pay the Apple Tax to have it look pretty, it's just a figure-8 power cable. https://www.amazon.ca/Fosmon-2-Slot-Standard-Power-Figure/dp/B006348FTA
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Housh posted:Anyways, I have some work situations that my backpack doesn't seem appropriate. Anyone recommend a light briefcase for a 15" that fits the charge brick and accessories? The Tom Bihn ones don't look professional from the pics on the site. I've used a smaller version of this for several years to tote around my Air. Never had a problem.
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Pivo posted:If you don't want to pay the Apple Tax to have it look pretty, it's just a figure-8 power cable. Weedle posted:I've used a smaller version of this for several years to tote around my Air. Never had a problem. That looks perfect! I wish it wasn't branded though. Maybe I can take it off. edit: the price is really high in Canada. Anyone have experience with Samsonite laptop bags? Housh fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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Housh posted:That looks perfect! I wish it wasn't branded though. Maybe I can take it off. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DUGZFWY Is this any more reasonably priced for you? Seems pretty similar in style and construction. The Amazon logo is just a little stitched-on rubber badge so you could probably remove it easily with a seam ripper.
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I have used lots of anker usb-c cables with my MacBook. all have worked fine.
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With all of the SSD talk, I've been wondering can you still run normal SMART tests on it like a regular platter to watch for degradation and slowly failing tell tales, or does it just die one day without any notice?
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I had an OWC that died completely, my mbp failed to even recognize it as a drive. No warning given, just failed to boot one day.
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rdb posted:I had an OWC that died completely, my mbp failed to even recognize it as a drive. No warning given, just failed to boot one day. Yeah, but what I'm asking is - Was that your fault for not regularly checking drive health/integrity and seeing the red flags popping up - or is that just not a thing? Basically does S.M.A.R.T. work normally on solid state drives?
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eightysixed posted:Basically does S.M.A.R.T. work normally on solid state drives?
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From my understanding the controller in the SSD randomly died, it wasn't something that would have triggered a smart warning.
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eightysixed posted:With all of the SSD talk, I've been wondering can you still run normal SMART tests on it like a regular platter to watch for degradation and slowly failing tell tales, or does it just die one day without any notice? SSDs still implement SMART. What is there depends on the manufacturer. Look for fields like program fail count, erase fail count, and uncorrectable error count. E: and, what SWSP said. For SMART, working normally involves false negatives.
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What are the reliable vendors of replacement mac batteries? I'm looking to swap the battery on a 2010 Unibody MacBook A1342
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Boiled Water posted:If you want to future proof don't get spinning disks. This is what I was going to say, too. Especially in something like an iMac where getting to the disk is going to be an ordeal I'd go SSD only internal and keep whatever spinning disks in externals.
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fivehead posted:What are the reliable vendors of replacement mac batteries? I'm looking to swap the battery on a 2010 Unibody MacBook A1342 Newer Technology or Anker. https://www.amazon.com/NewerTech-NuPower-Watt-Hour-2009-Mid-Polycarbonate/dp/B0136RQH6O/ $92 bucks.
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:This is what I was going to say, too. Especially in something like an iMac where getting to the disk is going to be an ordeal I'd go SSD only internal and keep whatever spinning disks in externals. The hard drive died in my old eMac. I booted via Firewire for a little while, but eventually it went to a landfill. Because screw trying to open that thing up. The iMac is easier to access (and safer) but still no one opens those for fun.
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I am looking at a late 2012 iMac (21") with 8gb of RAM on craigslist for $500. Is it worth buying at that price to do development work on? It's purely front end development in JavaScript, with a bit of working on web servers and the like. I don't think it'd be under powered for the task, but is it worth that price? It's in nearly flawless condition with mouse and keyboard.
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Utopian Mind posted:I am looking at a late 2012 iMac (21") with 8gb of RAM on craigslist for $500. Is it worth buying at that price to do development work on? It's purely front end development in JavaScript, with a bit of working on web servers and the like. Yes. It'll easily fulfil those tasks.
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rdb posted:Thanks, I did. Final specs are i7, 8gb of ram, radeon 580, 2tb fusion drive. I have almost the same machine but I kept the i5 (3.8GHz quad core) and went with the 512 SSD (with an external Sandisk USB3 500 GB SSD). It's been really great. Just finished a 4 minute video project in FCPX and even with multiple Safari tabs and iTunes running, 8GB of RAM was just fine.
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So if Apple were to actually care about the Mini and announce an updated version of it, is there anything coming up that might be a venue for such an announcement? The September event is usually mobile-oriented so I guess next May?
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It's going to be an "one more thing" piggybacking on the new Mac Pro reveal. the Mini is dead
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With the Mini I can totally see them just issuing a smarmy press release about updating it to Skylake and slapping in the obligatory Intel low end integrated processor and making absolutely no other changes. Maybe about the only other changes that might happen is that they do put in USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 because it would be too expensive to get a vendor to crank out the older TB2 chips. It's sad that people still buy minis because it's the cheapest 'ground floor' entry to the Mac world..
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Binary Badger posted:It's sad that people still buy minis because it's the cheapest 'ground floor' entry to the Mac world.. That said, the Mini is basically dead, so my only alternative is the $3000 Mac Pro that's over-specced for the stuff I'd be using it for. What, then, are my options? I could go the hackintosh route but that requires a degree of fiddling and faith that I just don't want to deal with anymore. The iMac is more affordable relative to the Mini but I don't need the monitor part of it. It feels like Apple is actively ignoring people like me and it's pretty frustrating.
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IAmKale posted:The Mini is appealing to me because I already have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse setup that I like. Therefore, the Mini would have been a good drop-in solution to get access to OSX in a desktop setup. You could always ditch the monitor you have and go with the iMac, the monitors on the iMacs are really nice.
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GutBomb posted:You could always ditch the monitor you have and go with the iMac, the monitors on the iMacs are really nice. You can run a video signal from a Windows box into an iMac like it's just a monitor?
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ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:You can run a video signal from a Windows box into an iMac like it's just a monitor? Only for another Mac. Won't work with windows.
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Proteus Jones posted:Only for another Mac. Won't work with windows. also they removed this feature in the 5k generation  GutBomb posted:You could always ditch the monitor you have and go with the iMac, the monitors on the iMacs are really nice. this is a perfectly legitimate decision; you're going to get years of use out of the thing plus the screen in the iMac is absolutely loving best in class and will remain so for the forseeable future. the only things that are really going to outclass it are newer imacs and ridiculously high end professional grade monitors. it's not as if you're going to wake up one day and find that you can buy a £300 chromebook with a comparable screen; i think most windows laptops you can buy still ship with 1366x768 tn panels. the lack of target display mode is a bummer but considering how the rate of processor advancement is slowing down i reckon you could see a convergence between the lifespan of the average computer and the lifespan of the average monitor. plus it's a mac so if you fancy an upgrade you can always sell it five years on for 75% of the price you paid for it to some loving lunatic on ebay Generic Monk fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Aug 6, 2017 |
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Microsoft makes a desktop with a giant touch screen that can be adjusted to almost sit flat on the desk. It's not selling well but it's the type of thing that artists would like I imagine.
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Generic Monk posted:i think most windows laptops you can buy still ship with 1366x768 tn panels this is not true. unless you are buying some $300 budget af laptop, 1080p is the minimum and 4K touch screens are surprisingly an option on quite a lot of them Mu Zeta posted:Microsoft makes a desktop with a giant touch screen that can be adjusted to almost sit flat on the desk. It's not selling well but it's the type of thing that artists would like I imagine. the Surface Studio is absolutely gorgeous; unfortunately it is very underpowered and completely non upgradeable for the extreme cost. i'm talking trashcan Mac Pro levels of cost + worse un-upgradeability. it targets a very niche market. and it doesn't adjust to sit flat, it does go down to a fairly shallow angle like a drafting table. since you are paying so much for that display and hinge, and it can't be paired with more powerful hardware, it's a bit of an issue. i do recommend playing with one though, the hinge and display is incredible.
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