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Electric Bugaloo posted:Crosspost from yesterday in the iPad thread. I’m glad the throttling issue seems to have been resolved but: I think the iBooks had a silcone membrane on them and they started to smell like BO after several years.
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FCKGW posted:I think the iBooks had a silcone membrane on them and they started to smell like BO after several years. G4's had that fart smell after a while, due to the glue or something?
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FCKGW posted:lol this is gonna be the exact same thing as the 2017 MBP when there was some bug affecting battery life and everyone wrote breathless articles on how "apple has lost it's way" and "can't believe they would make a laptop with such terrible battery life" and everyone swore up and down this was a severe hardware defect that could not be fixed via software and even consumer reports said it was poo poo and apple went "whoops, here's a firmware patch" and the laptops were fine and went back to normal and everyone forgot about it well to be fair you never know with apple. it's either. "oh hey we didn't do as much work QAing this as we thought and here's a software fix that we made" or, "this keyboard is quieter" 2 revisions later. so if you don't get mad enough about it apple takes their sweet time and asks you to file a class action lawsuit before they'll address it.
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Relegating Aliens to the level of bored pedestrians probably didn't add to the suspense/thrills value.
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The worst thing about Aliens Colonial Marines is Randy Pitchford essentially lied to Sega about the progress of the game, then siphoned off money they got from Sega to fund Borderlands 2, and subsequently Sega had to cancel an Aliens RPG from Obsidian because of the poor sales of Aliens Colonial Marines. So gently caress Randy Pitchford.
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I'm shopping for dongles and I'm not sure if I should get one multidongle or multiple dongles. The connectors I need are HDMI and USB-A (at most only 2). VGA (be it VGA to HDMI or VGA to USB-C) would be useful to have since old projectors still exist but I can cross that bridge when I need it. I don't care about Ethernet or SD Cards. I keep seeing something about USB-C passthrough charging but unless I need that to charge my iPhone/iPad then I don't care for it either. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just get this Anker USB-C to HDMI and two of these Anker USB-C to USB-A dongles instead of one of those $50+ all-in-one dongles with ports I don't need (and reportedly according to the Wirecutter reviews they heat up to like 100+ degrees?). e: Is it just me or does the Touch Bar look really blurry/like poo poo next to the nice screen? I notice it every time I glance down. The text are blurry and the icons aren't sharp. The worse offender is Safari, which for some reason tries to render the websites in the Touch Bar but the result is just a blurry mess of white boxes. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Jul 25, 2018 |
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Jul 25, 2018 06:48
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Boris Galerkin posted:I'm shopping for dongles and I'm not sure if I should get one multidongle or multiple dongles. The connectors I need are HDMI and USB-A (at most only 2). VGA (be it VGA to HDMI or VGA to USB-C) would be useful to have since old projectors still exist but I can cross that bridge when I need it. I don't care about Ethernet or SD Cards. I keep seeing something about USB-C passthrough charging but unless I need that to charge my iPhone/iPad then I don't care for it either. USB-C Passthrough is to connect your power supply so you can use the hub and power your rMBP at the same time. It’s really less of a concern with the touchbar rMBP and more a feature with the rMB it non-touchbar rMBP. Boris Galerkin posted:e: Is it just me or does the Touch Bar look really blurry/like poo poo next to the nice screen? I notice it every time I glance down. The text are blurry and the icons aren't sharp. The worse offender is Safari, which for some reason tries to render the websites in the Touch Bar but the result is just a blurry mess of white boxes.
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Proteus Jones posted:Not really (except for the “thumbnail safari tabs” which is weird). Obv: did you peel the protective film off? (So satisfying). Personally I’ve found the thing is a fingerprint magnet, so I clean it clean pretty often. There's a protective film on this thing? That could explain why it looks "blurry" then. I'm looking at it right now though and I can't find any edges to peel from.
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Jul 25, 2018 12:06
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You gotta take sandpaper to it to get it to peel off, get a good low grit and really go to town on it.
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xzzy posted:You gotta take sandpaper to it to get it to peel off, get a good low grit and really go to town on it. But then my keyboard won’t work anymore
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Boris Galerkin posted:There's a protective film on this thing? That could explain why it looks "blurry" then. I'm looking at it right now though and I can't find any edges to peel from. Maybe not. I seem to recall that my 2016 had the film, but that could be early onset dementia.
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Proteus Jones posted:USB-C Passthrough is to connect your power supply so you can use the hub and power your rMBP at the same time. It’s really less of a concern with the touchbar rMBP and more a feature with the rMB it non-touchbar rMBP. The caveat here is that the passthrough-capable hubs I've seen will take the 85W coming in, keep 15W for themselves, and pass 60W max to the laptop. At least for my use pattern, it's not enough to keep the battery charged as I work.
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So i just bought one of those refurbs, are there any must-do things or programs i should get asap? Never had a mac before Also i need an external hdd and blueray drive, a guy at store mentioned some $40 thing on amazon that can be a hub for multiple hookups, should i just grab whatever decent rated brands or look for certain ones? I didnt get it for gaming but i was hoping i could play wow with a buddy and maybe a few steam games got any sevens fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jul 26, 2018 |
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got any sevens posted:So i just bought one of those refurbs, are there any must-do things or programs i should get asap? Never had a mac before Use Safari as your browser, it always gets preferential treatment from Apple and generally runs the best. At this point Apple does a really good job of keeping it competitive with good third party browsers in terms of features and it has great popup and tracking blockers built in. Avoid Chrome if you can as it’s still kind of a resource hog and tends to slow things down and make the computer run hot. Otherwise, get whatever you want to run I guess. Most stuff out there that you probably want won’t be on the App Store (same as with the official Windows App Store) but probably exists for Mac OS unless it’s a game. But you didn’t buy a Mac for gaming right? (Steam has a version for Mac and there are actually a fair number of great games on it with Mac versions if you want, so does Fortnite, and if you really want- Nvidia’s beta streaming service is still free for Mac users).
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Jul 26, 2018 01:14
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Google apps will do their best to force you onto chrome though, if you use it for work or anything. Don’t let them push you around
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Jul 26, 2018 01:29
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Main reason to avoid Safari is if you have non Apple computers and want to sync bookmarks.
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FCKGW posted:I like Firefox 
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OTOH, if you have an iPhone/iPad, using Safari is the only way to make that data sharing ecosystem work as intended.
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I share browserstuff between iPhone/iPad/MacBook/Windows pretty well using Firefox. Haven’t really found it wanting.
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Data Graham posted:OTOH, if you have an iPhone/iPad, using Safari is the only way to make that data sharing ecosystem work as intended. Yeah, it's a rough world getting my porn bookmarks across all my devices. Why can't tech companies get along. 
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xzzy posted:Main reason to avoid Safari is if you have non Apple computers and want to sync bookmarks. iCloud on windows will sync Mac Safari bookmarks with Firefox, Edge, and probably Chrome. You're SOL on Linux, though.
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Subjunctive posted:I share browserstuff between iPhone/iPad/MacBook/Windows pretty well using Firefox. Haven’t really found it wanting. "Send Tab to Device" on Firefox is dope and I use it all the time.
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Jul 26, 2018 03:28
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I still just instapaper everything like prehistoric man.
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I’ve used Firefox on Mac for years and it’s fine. I use Safari or Chrome when my draconian ad/JavaScript blocking in Firefox causes websites I still want to use to break (looking at you Postmates)
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The case on my 2017 15' MBP has been "popping" a lot the past month. Any of you guys run into this? I found a number of reports of it happening from 2016 15' MBP owners.
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Small White Dragon posted:The case on my 2017 15' MBP has been "popping" a lot the past month. Any of you guys run into this? I found a number of reports of it happening from 2016 15' MBP owners. Yeah. For me (2016 15”) it was related to the computer changing temperature quickly (like using Premiere for 20 minutes in a cold room). Apple didn’t really acknowledge the problem but did end up replacing something (my display? display assembly?) under warranty and the problem went away.
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Wikipedia Brown posted:I still just instapaper everything like prehistoric man. Disabled for Europe.
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Instapaper has been bought and sold so many times. Never seen anything like that for a small app.
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Data Graham posted:OTOH, if you have an iPhone/iPad, using Safari is the only way to make that data sharing ecosystem work as intended. Chrome, Edge and Firefox share their data across all their different OS versions including iOS/Android. As soon as Firefox can get Containers to work across different devices I'll probably switch over to that over Chrome.
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Well that's what I get for assuming I guess. Good ecosystem, better behaved than I'd thought.
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Chrome is great across ecosystems, its just battery life is greater using Safari (on Macs) so I recommend that.
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grahm posted:Yeah. For me (2016 15”) it was related to the computer changing temperature quickly (like using Premiere for 20 minutes in a cold room). Apple didn’t really acknowledge the problem but did end up replacing something (my display? display assembly?) under warranty and the problem went away.
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Jul 26, 2018 15:51
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Housh posted:I need to go in before my apple care runs out and just get them to rebuilt my whole computer 
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That'd be great but they'd have to run out of stock parts for the 2016/2017 first. The 13-inch quad-core 2018 rMBP appeals to me but my 2015 rMBP will have to burst apart into a cloud of flaming radioactive chunks before I pony up for one.
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Binary Badger posted:That'd be great but they'd have to run out of stock parts for the 2016/2017 first.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:All I had to do was ask for a new model after enough legit repairs. I have until April 2020 on this 2016
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Housh posted:So should I keep going one by one for repairs now? I got the crack sound, and bad keyboard. Could bitch about some weird GPU things too. In theory if you wanted a new unit, then yeah you should probably be opening as many legit repairs as possible, but I don't know what Apple's criteria is for replacement units.
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I'm honestly happy with this laptop. I have these issues but I don't know if I can recreate them on the spot because they are intermittent. Just don't want my mbp to turn into dust right when the Apple Care runs out. The smart thing to do is to sell it before Apple Care runs out, no? I end up holding on to my poo poo forever because of sentimental attachment. Hoarder
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Binary Badger posted:That'd be great but they'd have to run out of stock parts for the 2016/2017 first. I'm drooling over a quad 13"
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