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i don't even care about the function keys, fn+1 is fine as f1 for me, but i want a goddamn hardware escape key
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Jul 9, 2019 23:56
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remap Caps Lock
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Jul 9, 2019 23:59
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Honj Steak posted:Man, I recently built a Hackintosh that performs about as well as a mid-range iMac Pro, but it was literally 4000€ cheaper and Continuity, Airdrop and Handoff work more reliably than on my rMBP. Apple's profit margins are so ridiculous So what 5k monitor are you using?
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Jul 9, 2019 23:59
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Honj Steak posted:Man, I recently built a Hackintosh that performs about as well as a mid-range iMac Pro, but it was literally 4000€ cheaper and Continuity, Airdrop and Handoff work more reliably than on my rMBP. Apple's profit margins are so ridiculous Lol How did you manage to integrate everything into that 5k screen?
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Jul 10, 2019 00:01
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Very carefully
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Jul 10, 2019 00:05
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Lazyhound posted:remap Caps Lock no because 1. CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL 2. there's a little light on the caps lock and it will go on and off with no meaning if i do that 3. caps lock is not where the escape key goes because i'm not from the 1970s
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Jul 10, 2019 00:12
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I wonder what "about as well" actually means.
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Jul 10, 2019 00:13
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American McGay posted:I wonder what "about as well" actually means. Well it definitely boots.
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Jul 10, 2019 00:15
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DELETE CASCADE posted:i don't even care about the function keys, fn+1 is fine as f1 for me, but i want a goddamn hardware escape key Only nerds need a hard escape key. You’re not the target audience have you seen a real Mac user reach for escape I don’t think so 
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Jul 10, 2019 00:18
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Shaocaholica posted:Only nerds need a hard escape key. You’re not the target audience have you seen a real Mac user reach for escape I don’t think so It's true.
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Jul 10, 2019 00:21
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DELETE CASCADE posted:no because Fine, map ESC to the `/~ key instead. I'd love to see you guys try and program with a 40% ortho keyboard with QMK layers.
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Jul 10, 2019 00:38
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I bet a significant number(all) of Apple's own internal devs are using older non TB macbooks for both work and personal.
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Jul 10, 2019 00:45
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MarcusSA posted:Lol My Z390 mainboard has a natively supported Titanridge Thunderbolt Controller, so it is no problem to run the Ultrafine 5K with a Hackintosh nowadays. American McGay posted:I wonder what "about as well" actually means. It means depending on the application it is about as fast as the iMac Pro with 10 cores, Vega 56 and 64 GB Ram, sometimes a bit slower, sometimes even a bit faster because the Hackintosh doesn’t thermal throttle. That machine costs 7469 € in Germany, which is exactly 4240€ more than I paid. Assembling the computer and installing the OS took 4 hours and it’s been running flawlessly for the last 6 weeks now, so I’m pretty happy about it.  Long term I probably will be moving towards Premiere Pro, but my current work requires FCPX, so the Hackintosh made a lot of sense for me, especially seeing that I get the same functionality for a price that allows me to also get a better camera at the same time!
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Jul 10, 2019 00:51
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Shaocaholica posted:I bet a significant number(all) of Apple's own internal devs are using older non TB macbooks for both work and personal. CompSci/IT classes are full of high-priced MacBook Pros, touchbar and all. I'd wager 50%+ of students have them.
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Jul 10, 2019 00:51
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12” will be reincarnated as the ARMbook
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Jul 10, 2019 01:15
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The reason Apple dropped the non-TB 13 Pro seems kinda obvious: the new retina Air also has no Touch Bar and a 15W dual core, so it fills the same niche. The new SSD pricing across the product line is actually kinda... reasonable?!? Yes I know you can buy a 1TB QLC NVME for 100 bucks right now, but I’ve recently spent a lot of time pricing out Dell workstations and servers, and Dell is charging nearly $1K for a MLC “class 50” NVME, which seems comparable to the performance of Apple’s $400 1TB option as far as I can tell. Aftermarket you’re looking at something like a Samsung 970 Pro 1TB, current amazon price $300. You still don’t get the option to save a bunch of money by downgrading to cheaper QLC flash, but that’s classic Apple. Dell’s fine with showing you a zillion options for 1TB of flash, and with offering cheap options, Apple wants to show you only one option and it’s going to be an expensive one. It’s just surprising to me that the one option Apple gives you is now competitive for its price/performance class.
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Jul 10, 2019 01:35
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For the most part, 1TB SSD upgrades have dropped by $200 on the iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini; and 2TB SSD upgrades have dropped by $400 on the Mac mini and MacBook Pro. The ultra high-end 4TB SSD upgrade for the MacBook Pro has dropped by $1400. Niiiice
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Jul 10, 2019 03:07
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DELETE CASCADE posted:no because Karabiner’s control/esc (keycombo/single-keypress) mapping for capslock is where it’s at. No flashy light.
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Jul 10, 2019 04:25
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Spime Wrangler posted:Karabiner’s control/esc (keycombo/single-keypress) mapping for capslock is where it’s at. No flashy light. You don't even have to use Karabiner to disable to the Caps Lock light - if you change the Caps Locks in macOS to function as a different modifier, the light automatically gets disabled. 
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Jul 10, 2019 04:50
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BobHoward posted:The reason Apple dropped the non-TB 13 Pro seems kinda obvious: the new retina Air also has no Touch Bar and a 15W dual core, so it fills the same niche. Most of the $100 1TB NVMe drives on the market are TLC drives and the ones using the Phison E12 controller should perform functionally identically to the Samsung TLC drives. The only QLC drive with any significant market share is the Intel 660p and most people agree only the 2TB version is worthwhile because the savings vs TLC for lesser capacities is minimal. Even if QLC was common they all use SLC caches to hide the performance penalty from QLC. The 970 Pro is an MLC drive (an actual one, not Samsung's bullshit "3-bit MLC" aka TLC) so it would probably perform better than the budget TLC NVMe drives (and certainly the QLC drives after the SLC cache runs out) but considering it's hard to notice the difference between SATA and NVMe in daily use that's not a very convincing argument unless your use-case requires the extra bit of performance or endurance MLC provides over TLC.
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Jul 10, 2019 05:19
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Shaocaholica posted:Let me sell you this aluminum colored sticker that goes over your TB so you don't have to look at it for $99 If it stopped inadvertent touches that would be worth it.
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Jul 10, 2019 10:16
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My MacBook Pro has - of course - a broken keyboard. It’s covered by the replacement program. I also have Apple care. I brought it to the store. Now they tell me they found water damage and want me to pay for it. Does it make any sense to fight them on this?
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Jul 10, 2019 12:30
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Without a hardware esc key, maybe I’ll press the drat thing less which means Safari will stop pointlessly exiting full screen mode. Thanks Tim!
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Jul 10, 2019 14:41
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AppleCare for an iMac: y/n
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Jul 10, 2019 14:57
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Cingulate posted:My MacBook Pro has - of course - a broken keyboard. It’s covered by the replacement program. I also have Apple care. I brought it to the store. Now they tell me they found water damage and want me to pay for it. Does it make any sense to fight them on this? They found some of the stickers changed to pink inside. Lawyer up because that is the only way you'll get anything fixed on that computer anymore.
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Jul 10, 2019 15:28
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redeyes posted:They found some of the stickers changed to pink inside. Lawyer up because that is the only way you'll get anything fixed on that computer anymore.
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Cingulate posted:I doubt a lawyer is worth the 500 they want for the repair. There is no sense arguing with store personell? You can try. Best case they make an exception and worst case they tell you to buzz off
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Jul 10, 2019 15:38
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Bob Morales posted:You can try. Best case they make an exception and worst case they tell you to buzz off
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Jul 10, 2019 16:01
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Seems like it should be pretty easy to determine if the issue with the keyboard is caused by the faulty design or if it was caused by water damage. Even if the stickers are triggered that doesn't mean it actually has any water damage.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:09
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That I imagine would be my case - that the broken plastic knobs are obviously unrelated to any possible liquid damage short of HCL.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:22
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Wait, so they want you to pay for the keyboard of an admittedly defective design because the stickers were tripped? But there's no other indication of damage on the laptop? I'd definitely go up the ladder and bug the poo poo out of the highest ranking person you can find for as long as you can live without a working keyboard. The keyboards are a loss they've already baked into their budgets like they did with the iPhone battery replacements. They shouldn't be nickel and diming owners over them.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:28
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Spime Wrangler posted:AppleCare for an iMac: y/n Personally I haven't since 2012. But I'm super careful with mine and when it travels it's typically in a padded bag and from home desk to office desk. I'd look at things like how clumsy are you in general, how often do you move it around, etc...
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Jul 10, 2019 16:30
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Update from the Apple store Munich: a long list of Apple store people have told me various contradictory things, always ending with politely inquiring if I could wait another five minutes.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:33
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Update: they agreed to maybe replace some key caps.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:48
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Well, here's the thing, if you have the old AppleCare, triggering the liquid exposure sensors results in an automatic 'out-of-warranty' condition, even if it's still in the AC/warranty period. The current plan, AppleCare+ puts liquid damage under the 'other' category (the other two being screen damage and enclosure damage) and is maxed at $299 per incident. Unless the store manager intervenes they're policy-bound to charge you whatever the maximum tier is for that particular model. Meanwhile: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/09/all-2019-macbooks-have-new-material-keyboard/ iFixit confirms that the new 2019 MBA and the new 13-inch 2019 rMBPs get the third generation butterfly keyboards, which explains why they're on the keyboard repair extension list. The new 16-inch 2020 rMBP will have the previous style, proven scissor technology in its keyboard. Kinda strange that we didn't get it for 2019 models but I bet it was too late in the production cycle to switch.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:52
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Mine says AppleCare Protection Plan (A2). Is that old or new? Also it should ALSO fall under the replacement program ... Edit: I read my contract and it says nothing about a cap. Guess that means it’s old. It does say “does not cover damage caused by liquid”. Sure, my keyboard issues were not caused by liquid. Cingulate fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jul 10, 2019 |
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Jul 10, 2019 16:56
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The old one. The new one is "AppleCare+." They've only been doing AppleCare+ for what, the past two-three years so if you got your laptop before then, it's the old one.
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Jul 10, 2019 17:22
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DELETE CASCADE posted:no because And also because caps lock is better remapped as control.
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Jul 10, 2019 17:38
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Now I want to hear someone making a stink about a macbook auf deutsche.
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Setup: 2012 Mac Mini with 3x Western Digital external drives hooked up directly via USB 3 using the cables they came with. Issue I'm getting is the transfer between two of those external drives really isn't all that fast at times, and downright slow at others. I set up a 100gb transfer and it looked like it would take about an hour or so, and I tend to see speeds around 30MB/sec between them, which already isn't particularly fast... now I'm about 3/4 the way through it's slowed to an absolute crawl, literally a MB or 2. Then after about 5-10 minutes it goes back up to the 'full' speed. Drives are all < 2 years old, what should I be looking at? One of the drives is the default download one, and I see speeds of 100MB/sec coming down the pipe to it, it only seems to be an issue when involving 2 of them. I've got Activity Monitor open and the system isn't really doing anything else either across network or drives.
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