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I was pretty gungho about getting a MBP this fall, but I ended up getting an iPad Mini and I think I kinda want a desktop mac? Is there any real benefit to thermals with apple's new direction?
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anothergod posted:I was pretty gungho about getting a MBP this fall, but I ended up getting an iPad Mini and I think I kinda want a desktop mac? Is there any real benefit to thermals with apple's new direction? AFAIK it should be the exact same as the MBP.
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Oct 7, 2021 03:36
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anothergod posted:I was pretty gungho about getting a MBP this fall, but I ended up getting an iPad Mini and I think I kinda want a desktop mac? Is there any real benefit to thermals with apple's new direction? Yeah Apple silicon runs demonstrably cooler than intel. What that means in products actually built for M1 and not retrofitted with it remains to be seen. they’ve been able to completely remove a fan for one notebook moving from intel to Apple silicon, while also increasing performance and battery life. So it’s pretty promising so far.
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Oct 7, 2021 03:38
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I'll have to decide whether to keep my current 13" M1 MBP or trade it in for a 14" MBP M1X edition!
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Oct 7, 2021 03:49
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Give me a big beefy MBP that can drive three external monitors and I will pay however much I have to.
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Oct 7, 2021 04:14
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anothergod posted:I was pretty gungho about getting a MBP this fall, but I ended up getting an iPad Mini and I think I kinda want a desktop mac? Is there any real benefit to thermals with apple's new direction? They put the M1 in an iPad Pro, a sealed case with no vents at all, and it runs like a champ. Thermals are very efficient.
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Oct 7, 2021 04:20
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italian quid posted:ya iirc the price was the same, it seemed like a stupidly good deal for what you got when I bought mine. That’s not entirely true, the Mac Mini dropped in price by $100!
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Oct 7, 2021 04:21
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Ultimate Mango posted:Come on come on, M1X big iMac or Mac Mini M1X with more ports and stuff and can drive a fuckoff big widescreen monitor already. Daddy needs a new computer. At this point, I'm just assuming that the various chip shortages are delaying large scale rollout. I think these machines are going to be popular, although maybe that's just echo from my usual circles.
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Oct 7, 2021 06:45
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edit: sorry, duplicate. Every once and a while when I click my external mouse, it seems to register two clicks. Annoying.
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Oct 7, 2021 06:45
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Small White Dragon posted:edit: sorry, duplicate. By any chance is it a Logitech?
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Oct 7, 2021 10:11
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Fedule posted:By any chance is it a Logitech? Microsoft multitouch mouse. I wanted one with a USB dongle because I can swap a single USB-C cable between laptops and viola -- monitor, keyboard, mouse, everything is now connected.
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Oct 7, 2021 17:24
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https://twitter.com/ColbySheets/status/1445513559580893200?s=20
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Oct 7, 2021 22:19
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Awesome! Who said M1 iMacs don't have height adjustable stands  If only the screen was larger
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Oct 7, 2021 22:50
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G4 was/is the best looking Mac.
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Oct 7, 2021 23:17
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Quicksilver was nicer than the mirror door as well
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Oct 7, 2021 23:20
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punk rebel ecks posted:G4 was/is the best looking Mac. I was just thinking about how high-end places would buy them to sit on tables and just play slide shows.
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Oct 8, 2021 00:51
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Can an external drive be partitioned into two: one being exFat and the other being macOS Extended? I have a 1 TB external SSD. I want to create a 984 GB exFat partition for general data storage purposes and a 16 GB macOS Extended bootable partition so I can image Monterey installer onto it to perform a clean install. So far, it doesn't look like this is possible. Any other alternatives if I want to do a clean install from USB (besides formatting the whole external as macOS Extended)?
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Oct 8, 2021 01:36
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Secx posted:Can an external drive be partitioned into two: one being exFat and the other being macOS Extended? Are you using GPT for the drive? This guy does it here: https://streamable.com/hfwm1
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Oct 8, 2021 01:44
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Secx posted:Can an external drive be partitioned into two: one being exFat and the other being macOS Extended? The command for the Big Sur installer is below but all you'd need to do is change the path for the actual Monterey installer (presumably from the public beta or whatever) and replace the volume name with whatever you ended up calling the partition: code:
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Oct 8, 2021 02:11
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Three Olives posted:I was just thinking about how high-end places would buy them to sit on tables and just play slide shows. The Macworld Expo when they were first shown to the public, there were companies on the show floor selling these stands for them that looked like those Star Wars prequel rolling droids or something, with big curved polished metal legs that matched the iMac's stalk diameter, and the little round platform that the iMac sat on was the bottom half of a sphere so the iMac looked like it was completing it. God that was a time
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quote:The Gateway Profile was one of the few Wintel competitors to the iMac G4 in the all-in-one LCD computer market. A reviewer noted that the Profile had better processing power, due to its Intel Pentium 4, whereas the iMac was hampered because its G4 chip lacked the 1 MB L2 cache found on the higher-end Power Mac. The iMac had clear advantages in LCD screen quality (it uses a digital LCD as opposed to an analog LCD), ergonomics (particularly the flexible monitor arm), and multimedia. The reviewer concluded that the iMac worked well as an introduction to the Macintosh ecosystem, but noted that their relatively high prices were approaching that of laptops, which were portable and had higher resolution LCD screens.[2] 
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Oct 8, 2021 02:27
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lol gag
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Oct 8, 2021 02:51
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That was a really fun time in the Mac/PC "war", "WINDOWS PCS ARE OBJECTIVELY BETTER, SEE MY BULLET POINTS!" and consumers were like "So, there is just like this one cord that works for everything? Really?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
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Oct 8, 2021 03:14
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drat. Excellent use of PeeWee’s Big Adventure music.
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Oct 8, 2021 03:58
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Three Olives posted:That was a really fun time in the Mac/PC "war", "WINDOWS PCS ARE OBJECTIVELY BETTER, SEE MY BULLET POINTS!" and consumers were like "So, there is just like this one cord that works for everything? Really?" also it was the year of linux on the desktop
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Arivia posted:also it was the year of linux on the desktop Actually 2022 is the year of the Linux desktop with the release of the steam deck lol. It’s gonna increase the Linux user base 10 fold.
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Oct 8, 2021 04:07
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I remember being so excited about the new iMac reveal, that became the G4 iMac, and while i liked it, I ended up going and buying a Quicksilver G4 PowerMac from the Apple "section" of CompUSA since they were discounting the Quicksilvers with the release/announcement of updated PowerMacs.
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Oct 8, 2021 04:11
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Savage.
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MarcusSA posted:Actually 2022 is the year of the Linux desktop with the release of the steam deck lol. Chrom(e/ium) OS, but Linux nerds would rather salt the earth than admit that Chrom(e/ium) OS is actually Linux in any form they envisioned (spending hours getting a GUI to function terribly).
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Oct 8, 2021 06:23
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Tangentially related: why do people say MacOS is linux?
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Oct 8, 2021 14:53
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Because they don't know what they're talking about?
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Oct 8, 2021 14:54
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anothergod posted:Tangentially related: why do people say MacOS is linux? “Not Windows” is enough of a criteria for people to call it “just a Linux distro” Dumdums also call it “Unix” as if that means anything at all, like there’s a box on a shelf at Best Buy that says “Unix” and Apple made some changes like they’re a modder on Nexusmods or something.
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jokes posted:“Not Windows” is enough of a criteria for people to call it “just a Linux distro” I mean that was what happened ages ago. I don't think MacOS lost POSIX compatibility or maybe it technically lost it with the App Store and stuff like that, but since OS X it has been a variant of Unix at heart. Which meant a lot to the professional base in various disciplines at times, Apple doesn't seem to care a whole lot recently though.
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Oct 8, 2021 15:35
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anothergod posted:Tangentially related: why do people say MacOS is linux? because it’s a UNIX derivative, which is a distinction that mattered way more in the 90s/early 00s when your options were Windows/DOS, NEXT, Macintosh OS, Sun/Oracle, and a bunch of poo poo that nobody remembers anymore Instead of being based on the legacy Mac stuff at the time, MacOS (then Mac OS X) was built on NEXTstep Am I summarizing this right? I know Jack and poo poo about operating systems
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Is MacOS still based on the Mach Kernel? Mach is part of the core of the XNU kernel that Darwin/macOS uses, yes. It’s a hybrid kernel in that there’s also a BSD layer in there and it’s not really a micro kernel in the traditional sense.
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But for the purposes of anyone who is genuinely asking, Linux is not Unix, and MacOS contains no Linux.
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Arivia posted:I mean that was what happened ages ago. I don't think MacOS lost POSIX compatibility or maybe it technically lost it with the App Store and stuff like that, but since OS X it has been a variant of Unix at heart. Which meant a lot to the professional base in various disciplines at times, Apple doesn't seem to care a whole lot recently though. It's apparently unix 03 compliant, but not unix v7 (versions 3 and 4 of the single unix specification) but hell if I know what that actually means, besides that it's a unix system.
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Ok Comboomer posted:Am I summarizing this right? I know Jack and poo poo about operating systems This is the best position to be in, see YOSPOS.
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anothergod posted:Tangentially related: why do people say MacOS is linux? GUYS ITS FREEBSD 
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