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Gimrigz posted:I use this supplied by work: https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/accessories-and-monitors/docking/universal-cable-docks-thunderbolt/Thunderbolt-Dock-Gen-2-US/p/40AN0135US Are you absolutely sure that the dock is Thunderbolt? Are you using a Thunderbolt cable with it? (although I'd presume that would not work at all.) The Lenobo non-TB DisplayLink version of that dock looks exactly the same.
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I’m now a bit worried that the anker 5 in 1 I bought that someone upthread recommended will be rear end for driving a monitor. I should’ve bought the one with power pass thru anyway but will definitely need to now if I need to get a TB to HDMI converter too. Only a 1080p screen at least.
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My 16" let itself go under load without ever turning the fans on, making it just a little toasty. I rebooted and the fans still didn't spin up. I downloaded Macs Fan Control and the fans started working again, then seemed to work as expected once I closed the program. Is this a known issue? I didn't see much when searching.
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Thunderbolt docks are a monumental pain regardless of manufacturer. I've got one of the LG 5K ultrawide monitors that uses Thunderbolt and they didn't include a Thunderbolt out so you're quite limited in what you can hook into the thing. At work we're primarily a Dell/Apple shop and we've found the Thunderbolt version of Dell's 2019 dock (WD19tb) works pretty well with both Macs and Windows PCs with one caveat. Dell have done something stupid and however they've wired all the video inputs on the back of the dock (possibly using MST?) it doesn't have enough bandwidth to properly do two screens, Ethernet, USB and power delivery over the single Thunderbolt channel. Despite that design problem they've thankfully included a second full Thunderbolt channel in it for daisy chaining so you can just plug one screen into that via USB-C and the other into one of the other ports. If you don't Macs don't detect more than one display and Windows PCs can't do two 4K+ on one channel like they should be able to.
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May 1, 2020 04:59
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~Coxy posted:Are you absolutely sure that the dock is Thunderbolt? Yeah, it's a thunderbolt dock for sure. Looks like the problem was the connection between monitor and the dock itself.
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May 1, 2020 05:04
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Bob Morales posted:Did Anker quit making older MacBook batteries?
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Dunno but the only brand I trust for replacement batteries is NewerTech NuPower, it's an OWC brand and they're better than OEM in my experience. Just trying to decide if $80 is worth it on a 10 year old lappy
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May 1, 2020 14:05
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Bob Morales posted:Just trying to decide if $80 is worth it on a 10 year old lappy just ask yourself: would you watch someone do this on youtube yes, duh
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Arivia posted:just ask yourself: would you watch someone do this on youtube yes, duh 
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Bob Morales posted:Just trying to decide if $80 is worth it on a 10 year old lappy Is it worth spending a couple bucks more for piece of mind that your sketchy new battery won't corrode your 10 year old laptop or set it on fire?
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NuPower purchased. Between this, a $24 PNY SSD, and the 4GB RAM chip I found in a box I'm already another $100 into this dumb project.
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May 1, 2020 15:36
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I'm spending way too much building out the ultimate Core 2 laptop because Core 2 owns.
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American McGay posted:"Refurbished by Apple but no Apple warranty" is wild. Never seen that before. Who knows what these are or where they came from, but I'd stay away. Late reply , but word of warning. If there's any repair extension programs for these machines, these won't qualify. It basically means apple has dis-owned these machines for whatever weird reason.
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Shaocaholica posted:I'm spending way too much building out the ultimate Core 2 laptop because Core 2 owns. Austin Evans said he was doing that but only upgraded to 8GB 
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Bob Morales posted:Austin Evans said he was doing that but only upgraded to 8GB I don’t know who that is. Youtuber? Mine is Core 2 Extreme Quad mobile, 16GB, WUXGA LED, ATI FirePro M7740 (RV740, DX10).
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Shaocaholica posted:I don’t know who that is. Youtuber? Yea. https://www.austin-evans.tech/building-the-ultimate-200-macbook/
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May 1, 2020 19:31
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Oh I know this guys face. I have a 2009 MBP17 with the top end T9900 CPU but its kinda meh in Catalina. Max mem is only 8GB on it as well. If they had a Core2 quad in a MBP I would be all over that.
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Bob Morales posted:Austin Evans said he was doing that but only upgraded to 8GB “HAY GUUUYS, ITS AUSTAAN”
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That Austin guy has a lot of subs but I'm not sure what his niche is among all the other tech youtubers.
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~Coxy posted:Are you absolutely sure that the dock is Thunderbolt? I thiiiink the lovely DisplayLink one is a little shorter. The full fledged TB3 one is great, works with Macs like a champ.
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Shaocaholica posted:That Austin guy has a lot of subs but I'm not sure what his niche is among all the other tech youtubers. He was pro-Apple at a time when Linus still wasn’t touching Apple products at all except to poo poo on the principle of them or somehow use them to show that Razer products were superior.
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May 1, 2020 20:18
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I used to poo poo on Apple back in 2000 and now I'm daily driving them so it worked.
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Speaking of bad YouTubers that don't do their research, I'm done with that Max Tech guy. Dude doesn't know that the Air is constrained by its wattage limit (10w sustained) and not its thermal design. Compares it to the XPS 13 and says, "Oh yeah, this does so much better because better cooling,"  No, you're comparing a 10 watt chip to a 15 watt chip. Performance is pretty directly correlated with the energy you can supply to it after the turbo winds down to the wattage limit. "They both say 'i5' so they must be the same!" 
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May 1, 2020 21:55
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Mister Facetious posted:Speaking of bad YouTubers that don't do their research, I'm done with that Max Tech guy. I still want the thread title I suggested. The current one is super stale and not funny
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Is the Air significantly thinner/lighter than the XPS 13? I have no interest in either. I do feel like Apple likes to use constraints that no one asked for tho.
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Shaocaholica posted:Is the Air significantly thinner/lighter than the XPS 13? I have no interest in either. I do feel like Apple likes to use constraints that no one asked for tho. no the xps 13 is slightly smaller and lighter than the air
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Shaocaholica posted:Oh I know this guys face. I have a 2009 MBP17 with the top end T9900 CPU but its kinda meh in Catalina. Max mem is only 8GB on it as well. If they had a Core2 quad in a MBP I would be all over that. I can imagine that Catalina won't run great but wonder if these are any good for Linux. I have a 17" with a T7700 somewhere, but I'm not sure if it is fast enough for current Linux distributions. Most cheap chromebooks would probably be faster at this point. That matte 17" screen though... 
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eames posted:I can imagine that Catalina won't run great but wonder if these are any good for Linux. I have a 17" with a T7700 somewhere, but I'm not sure if it is fast enough for current Linux distributions. Most cheap chromebooks would probably be faster at this point. That matte 17" screen though... Depends on the distro/config but any C2D is plenty. I’m able to get 1080p playback on a single core pentium-M in a modern Linux distro. Can’t do that in MacOS or Windows10.
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Little 2020 MBA Trip Report: the thing obviously starts very quickly heating up when under literally any pressure, but seems to cope quite well with being hot and doesn't need to blare the fans even when working at like 90°C. The use case I had going was, AirPlaying a 1080p twitch stream and its chat (in separate windows in one fullscreen view), unmirrored, to my (4K) TV using an ATV, while also having Discord and a couple websites open in the usual spaces. Little i7 was pulling around 8W from the battery for hours and running constantly at around 85°C. Silence from the fans the whole time. At one point I did crack open Music and it decided to do a check of all my album artwork and according to Power Gadget this briefly caused a power draw of about 250W. Sure that's fine. Anyway after a week and a bit of daily driving plus a handful of this kind of test I'm quite happy with how this thing is holding up. One thing I wasn't prepared for, having skipped the entire Butterfly Years, is how good the force touch trackpad is. I'd heard the rumours, but god drat. This thing really is magic. Fuckin' science, man.
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Fedule posted:One thing I wasn't prepared for, having skipped the entire Butterfly Years, is how good the force touch trackpad is. I'd heard the rumours, but god drat. This thing really is magic. Fuckin' science, man. Maybe it's mostly because I've used a late 2013 Macbook Pro for 6 years, but I dunno. I feel like the newer Force Touch trackpads are just too large. I like the new and improved clickiness, but man, the proportions of the trackpad to the keyboard on older retina Macbooks just feels perfect to me. But I'm sure if I get a 2020 MBA, which I'm heavily considering because of the rave reviews and how often I work from home now.
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Hypothetically speaking, if an older 2013 MBP thermal compound was going bad and I replaced it with new 'enthusiast' paste, how could I measure the difference? Idle temp delta? Load temp delta (but what if both before and after hit tjmax)? I was thinking a deterministic multi threaded CPU task would theoretically finish faster if the CPU could stay cooler for longer but what tools can do this? I think the prime95 stress tests runs for way too long and I'm not sure if it runs the same stress test every time?
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Shaocaholica posted:Hypothetically speaking, if an older 2013 MBP thermal compound was going bad and I replaced it with new 'enthusiast' paste, how could I measure the difference? Idle temp delta? Load temp delta (but what if both before and after hit tjmax)? CPU frequency in Intel Power Gadget. As you mentioned they’ll both hit 100 Celsius under a sustained full load, but the one with the better TIM will turbo boost much higher while the one with the old TIM might not even be able to hold base clock. I would be hesitant to run Prime95 on a mobile Mac, a simple video encoding task should be enough.
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Oh right duh I already thought about running a ffmpeg encode of something quick but long enough that I can measure the difference in encode time. Thanks for jogging my memory.
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Picked up my 2nd pandemic craigslist find. 2014 MBP 15" base config. All of the 2014 15" models had 16GB right? $400. For a friend who busted their similar vintage 13" retina. Was cheaper than a replacement screen and my labor during a lockdown. No delimitation or screen defects. Missing 1 foot and one minor dent on the bottom case. These things really holding their value on the secondary market.
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Shaocaholica posted:Picked up my 2nd pandemic craigslist find. 2014 MBP 15" base config. All of the 2014 15" models had 16GB right? $400. For a friend who busted their similar vintage 13" retina. Was cheaper than a replacement screen and my labor during a lockdown. No delimitation or screen defects. Missing 1 foot and one minor dent on the bottom case. These things really holding their value on the secondary market. 16GB of RAM in a 2014 model is definitely high end. They started at 8 I believe.
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Mactracker says 16GB standard. I’m surprised too given the age.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Mactracker says 16GB standard. I’m surprised too given the age. Oh oops, I was looking at the 13" . Interesting
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Brain Issues posted:Rumor has it that the new 13/14" is coming out today. It’s out: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/
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