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Fallom posted:I really like this one: I have that very one, except grey. I love it. Fallom posted:Edit: oh no they don’t make it anymore Boo
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I love my Peak Designs Tech Pouch, although its a bit pricy: https://www.peakdesign.com/products/tech-pouch 
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Thanks guys! I ordered some cheap BUBM bag off Amazon but if it doesn’t work I will check some of those additional listings out.
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A few random questions if anyone here has any ideas: 1. Anyone know of a decent piece of "burn in" software for Mac OS which can stress test RAM, CPU, and GPU? 2. We have an old 2013 Mac Pro which has had these freezing issues throughout its entire life. AppleCare was never helpful and it ended up just sitting in a closet the past three years since it was unacceptable to have productive employees on a computer which froze 2+ times/day. I was rummaging around and found it the other day and now am curious about if anyone's found any solutions for this over the past 3 years, since with a cheap CPU upgrade this would still be a very capable desktop? 3. Apple has said that they will replace the guts of the computer for $450 in order to fix the problem. But since they don't even know what the problem is I'm not exact confident this will fix it. It looks like upgraded 2013 Pros are still selling for decent amounts ($1,000+) on eBay, so I'm curious if the replacement would be worthwhile, if only so it'd then be sellable.
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Does running a diagnostic show anything? (Hold D on boot)
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American McGay posted:Does running a diagnostic show anything? (Hold D on boot)
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Sent from my iPad posted:A few random questions if anyone here has any ideas: Many of the 2013 Mac Pros had issues with the GPU sockets. I had one that would run fine headless, but as soon as you plug a monitor into it it'd freeze. I believe there was a recall for that. Maybe try running it without a display?
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smackfu posted:Now that I got a new monitor, I’m finally living the USB-C one cable life... except I have to switch the cable between a MBP and a mini sometimes. Does anyone make a switch that would avoid manually repluggjng? Just needs two USB-C going in and one going out. (Lots of KVM boxes that have a bunch of other junk going out.) I’ve been looking for this also; have read a few reviews but no clear standout yet
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Ended up sending my MacBook 16" for repair. The wake from sleep issue just kept getting worse. While I was there and they were looking at it the idiot turned the MacBook upside down and slide it across the desk and ended up scratching the top of it. gently caress my life.
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Thinking about picking up a CalDigit TS3 Plus dock, and Amazon has it for $279 while Apple has it for $249? WTF? I've seen it as low as $229 on Amazon, maybe I'll just wait until then..
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Binary Badger posted:Thinking about picking up a CalDigit TS3 Plus dock, and Amazon has it for $279 while Apple has it for $249? WTF? I bought one directly from Apple and used the difference in price to justify getting the two hour delivery.
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Caldigit is selling that directly on Amazon so they are setting the price and probably discouraging you from using Amazon.
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Mu Zeta posted:Caldigit is selling that directly on Amazon so they are setting the price and probably discouraging you from using Amazon. Yeah, that's probably to account for the % that Amazon takes from the sale. Monoprice does the same thing, everything on their Amazon store is the price of their own website + shipping + Amazon's cut.
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Binary Badger posted:Thinking about picking up a CalDigit TS3 Plus dock, and Amazon has it for $279 while Apple has it for $249? WTF? What about the USB-C Pro dock? It has TB3, and when CalDigit has their usual sales, can be had for $160-180 usually. It doesn't have as many ports as the TS3, so that would be the only issue.
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I actually couldn’t ever get the TS3’s Ethernet working in MacOS. Is Tim just that committed to dongle life?
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Hed posted:I actually couldn’t ever get the TS3’s Ethernet working in MacOS. Is Tim just that committed to dongle life? Mine works fine. 
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Bought a 2019 13" Air a week ago. My first Mac laptop, replacing a Pixelbook that just died (Don't buy those). I went with the 128GB model, which seems to maybe have been a mistake. Do you all think it's worth the hassle of returning to get the 256GB model? I bought it on sale for $899, so I think I got a decent deal and it's not that price anymore. I'm also super jealous because my wife just picked up a 16" i9 a few weeks ago.
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I think so. 128gig SSDs aren't as durable as the larger sizes and are usually slower too.
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Daniel Bryan posted:Bought a 2019 13" Air a week ago. My first Mac laptop, replacing a Pixelbook that just died (Don't buy those). I went with the 128GB model, which seems to maybe have been a mistake. Do you all think it's worth the hassle of returning to get the 256GB model? I bought it on sale for $899, so I think I got a decent deal and it's not that price anymore. 128gb ruined my experience with my old Air. Within about a year and a half I’d maxed it out and it became a huge pain in the rear end to deal with. Ended up giving it to my parents. If it matters to you the Air is due for an update this year (at least I hope they swap in the new keyboard). Even if the new features aren’t worthwhile it means 2018 models get a more permanent and sizable price cut (there is no 2019). Edit- fwiw, refurb 128gb models are currently $929 and 256gb are $1019 straight from Apple, and that price ain’t changing until new models come out. And if you haven’t heard the pitch before, Apple refurbs are legendarily impossible to tell apart from new. Many are just new-in-box that got picked out for a company event or demo and never used. In fact some posters say they’re better than new since even the ones that came in with defects get run through their own QC individually and given new serial #s. Plus you get warranty and AppleCare access and so forth it’s a good deal. I’d do 256gb for $1019 vs 128 for $899 any day, even if Apple still overcharges for storage. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Feb 22, 2020 |
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Daniel Bryan posted:Bought a 2019 13" Air a week ago. My first Mac laptop, replacing a Pixelbook that just died (Don't buy those). I went with the 128GB model, which seems to maybe have been a mistake. Do you all think it's worth the hassle of returning to get the 256GB model? I bought it on sale for $899, so I think I got a decent deal and it's not that price anymore. The correct option is steal your wife’s laptop, perhaps running off to Costa Rica to live in a van if necessary. If that’s too unappealing I’d return for at least 256, 128 with the OS is going to be really rough imo.
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A refurb 256GB Air is $1099 if the place you bought it from stopped doing the deal. I’d say it’s worth swapping, 128GB is very restrictive
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hatty posted:A refurb 256GB Air is $1099 if the place you bought it from stopped doing the deal. I’d say it’s worth swapping, 128GB is very restrictive $1019 from Apple
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I bought a Surface Laptop 3 while I wait for 13" MBP refresh and the drat thing has a known issue since launch where it disables one of its antennas and puts the other one in a low-power state and then fails to wake them from ACPI Sleep, resulting in seriously degraded WiFi performance on wake without a cycle of the network adapter. They haven't even acknowledged the issue and it's universal. And this is supposed to be one of the best Windows laptops out there, too! I guess it was hoping for too much that PC manufacturers caught up in the last 4 years of darkness for Apple portables
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hatty posted:A refurb 256GB Air is $1099 if the place you bought it from stopped doing the deal. I’d say it’s worth swapping, 128GB is very restrictive Are refurbs okay? I remember reading about 10 years ago how the refurbs were good and then I had 2 refurb iMacs have major issues out of the box.
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Keyword being “Apple”. Official refurb store or bust. I wouldn’t buy a refurbed Mac from literally anywhere else, unless it was some sort of vintage collectors thing or whatever. Every once in a while we’ll get a newb complaining about the terrible state of the “professionally refurbished” MacBook they got from Amazon or Best Buy or eBay.
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Well yeah, obviously. The iMacs I bought were from the Apple store. What I may end up doing is waiting to see if the MBA goes on sale within the next few weeks again, and exchanging if it does. If not, I'll probably just stick with what I have and get an external SSD. This isn't my main computer anyway, mainly used for web browsing, word processing, and a few other things that shouldn't take up much additional space.
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Famous last words but ydy Sounds like a pretty generous return policy on that laptop
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American McGay posted:Apple refurbs are perfect and better than new. An accurate statement if you consider that through Apple's refurb process, all defective parts are replaced, so you get a machine that's already been tested at least twice and had any flaws in it corrected. Refurbs come in plain white boxes to show that they're refurbs, though. Some law about not selling 'used' SKUs as new in original packaging applies. Electric Bugaloo posted:Keyword being “Apple”. Official refurb store or bust. I wouldn’t buy a refurbed Mac from literally anywhere else, unless it was some sort of vintage collectors thing or whatever. Yes, because Apple has a real refurbishment process. Anything from Amazon or Best Buy probably went through this process: 1) open box 2) everything in there? (ignore if not) 3) close box and re-shrinkwrap 4) put up for sale Anything from eBay: 1) hold box in your arms, think 'this unit is REFURBISHED!~!!@!!' 2) put up for sale Lastly, IMHO Apple shouldn't be offering 128 GB in a laptop ITYOOL 2020, just because anyone who is serious into video and music media will fill that up immediately.
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American McGay posted:Apple refurbs are perfect and better than new. I've had a bad experience with an officially-Apple-refurbed iPad. The lock switch would jump states without physically moving positions, and the back camera would sometimes refuse to initialize (so any software that tried to use it would freeze or crash). But, since Apple refurbs have a full warranty, they took care of it. Binary Badger posted:Lastly, IMHO Apple shouldn't be offering 128 GB in a laptop ITYOOL 2020, just because anyone who is serious into video and music media will fill that up immediately. Streaming is a thing, and it's become the norm for most people. I don't think I'd recommend 128GB to anybody buying a Mac in the first place, but a college student looking to type papers could probably get by without horrible hassle. Space Gopher fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Feb 22, 2020 |
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A friend of mine had a refurb 13” MBP show up DOA. Super weird but I guess poo poo happens. At least the return was straightforward.
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MrBond posted:A friend of mine had a refurb 13” MBP show up DOA. Super weird but I guess poo poo happens. At least the return was straightforward. I had a brand new 15 inch MBP show up DOA. Definitely wasn’t expecting that. Easy swap though.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Famous last words but ydy I have 30 days from date of purchase, so a few more weeks to decide. Binary Badger posted:Yes, because Apple has a real refurbishment process. Anything from Amazon or Best Buy probably went through this process:
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Daniel Bryan posted:The hard drive is usually wiped at least twice with zeroing In 2020
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benisntfunny posted:Wrong but okay. Gonna run “VMs” on 16gb? The gently caress? i run dozens of vms on 16gb. They just aren't using 4GB+ at the same time since they are stripped down to the essentials.
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Malcolm XML posted:i run dozens of vms on 16gb. They just aren't using 4GB+ at the same time since they are stripped down to the essentials. Think that really depends on what your essentials are. Probably better off using docker.
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benisntfunny posted:Think that really depends on what your essentials are. Probably better off using docker.
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japtor posted:Hell I assumed dozens of stripped down VMs in 16GB was referring to Docker in the first place. Same
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Pakistani Brad Pitt posted:I just a couple of Windows VMs on my 16GB 2013 -- but mostly just for QAing the frontend of some non-resource intensive software, so 2GB per VM is fine, probably overkill. All depends on your use case. Sheesh, I did it in 8GB on my old 2012, windows and Linux both.
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