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Shaocaholica posted:Dang it I might want to get a almost maxxed out 16" MBP M2. That kind of spec out is probably not something that goes on sale often or at all? Yeah most sales are on what stores stock rather than BTOs, so for the 16" that'd be one of the 3 configs you see on Apple's store page. So if you require > 32 GB of RAM or > 1TB internal SSD, you're out of luck. You could wait until something that meets your requirements gets put on the refurb store, but you could be waiting a while for that.
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Apple retail stores also will sell an ‘ultimate’ spec of the new machines, that’s technically a BTO but will be kept in stores for sale off the shelf. It’s normally the fastest processor, 4 Tb of storage, and 64gb of memory.
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Feb 1, 2023 02:00
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My M2 MBP is apparently in the area and I’m going to go goddamn nuts if it doesn’t show up tomorrow.
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Feb 1, 2023 02:54
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Splinter posted:Yeah most sales are on what stores stock rather than BTOs, so for the 16" that'd be one of the 3 configs you see on Apple's store page. So if you require > 32 GB of RAM or > 1TB internal SSD, you're out of luck. You could wait until something that meets your requirements gets put on the refurb store, but you could be waiting a while for that. I'm guessing they might show up occasionally on the refurb site, which should be a way better deal if you can find what you want.
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Feb 1, 2023 03:04
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Thanks. Is there a breakdown of MBP M2 SSD performance per storage tier? Something about the M2 512G tier being slower than the M1 512G tier. For me I’m deffo getting 2T or higher.
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Feb 1, 2023 06:25
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Shaocaholica posted:Can you finance refurb store items on the Apple Card? You can charge refurb store items to the Apple Card. You can't do installments for them though.
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Feb 1, 2023 06:39
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Shaocaholica posted:Thanks. SourKraut posted:You can charge refurb store items to the Apple Card. You can't do installments for them though.
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Feb 1, 2023 06:56
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Before I went to the M1Pro last year I was rocking a 2018 i7 A1989 MBP where I’d physically hosed up the keyboard trying to remove some crap that lodged itself under a few keys. Obvious thing to do would have been to just take it to the fruit stand to do the keyboard replacement program, but at that point I’d just plowed through it and made things worse and I just assumed that Apple would tell me to go pound sand when they saw mangled/snapped butterfly mechanisms, so I wrote it off thinking I’d just use an external KB if I ever wanted to use it again. Fast forward to this MBP having sat under my desk unused and unloved ever since, and today I decided to be ballsy and ordered a replacement keyboard unit for it. $90 investment and I can either try to flip the laptop or maybe hang onto it for when I need to run that last Intel native app without rosetta (cough Fusion360 cough). The disassembly looks difficult but not impossible. And really when I say it looks difficult, it just looks /tedious/ but if you don’t yank on small ribbon cables it doesn’t look particularly dangerous. Anyone have experience doing this, or is everyone actually of sound mind unlike me?
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It is tedious to do any work on a 2016-2020 Intel MBP that involves a battery change, keyboard replacement (they're both basically the same thing, replacement of the top case assembly) or logic board because they all involve a near total disassembly of the laptop. You are 100% right when you say it's tedious; its all careful removal of tiny ribbon cables, tiny connectors, and tiny screws that are literally at the limit of human manipulability, and it must be done in the right order So long as you have a method of carefully setting aside the parts for ordered retrieval like a magnetic pad or a compartmented tray, and you allow yourself plenty of time and don't rush, it should be doable
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The laptop came in  Everything seems great and it feels solid as hell, but I was mildly surprised to find that the box it came in was kind of dirty. The shipping box was sealed up pretty good so I’m not sure what happened. It’s not a big deal and the laptop itself is pristine so idgaf.
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Feb 1, 2023 18:47
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Shaocaholica posted:Does Apple let people download and run random apps on their store display models? I think you can as long as it doesn't require admin privileges.
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So this neural engine part of the SOC. What kind of practical workloads does it support? I think people are thinking it will make Macs do AI art faster but pretty sure that's not how AI art generation works is it? It's all behind the scenes housekeeping crypto work right? Not user workloads like image filters and such.
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Feb 1, 2023 22:45
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Shaocaholica posted:So this neural engine part of the SOC. What kind of practical workloads does it support? I think people are thinking it will make Macs do AI art faster but pretty sure that's not how AI art generation works is it? It's all behind the scenes housekeeping crypto work right? Not user workloads like image filters and such. no.. i think it's supposed to make ai art generation faster? i don't understand this poo poo though https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/stable-diffusion-coreml-apple-silicon
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My new MPB arrives Monday. What's the best option for cloning an SSD? I'd prefer to simply clone my 2018 Intel MBP to the new one, but if that's not the best option, tell me. My 2018 was also cloned from a mid-2012 MBP, and I don't know if that's an issue. I don't know if a clone of a clone will lead to problems. Obviously, I don't want to manually re-install every single piece of software if I don't have to.
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Shaocaholica posted:So this neural engine part of the SOC. What kind of practical workloads does it support? I think people are thinking it will make Macs do AI art faster but pretty sure that's not how AI art generation works is it? It's all behind the scenes housekeeping crypto work right? Not user workloads like image filters and such. It's a coprocessor accessible through Apple's Core ML framework. So no, it is not just for behind the scenes crypto work. (It's not intended to run cryptography algorithms at all, though I'm sure in theory it could.) Apple ships a bunch of features which depend on the Neural Engine with the OS. For example, in Monterey and one of the recent iOS releases, they added a feature called Live Text, which adds realtime OCR to lots of system provided apps (Preview, Safari, camera app on iPhone). On the Mac, hover the mouse cursor over text in an image and if Live Text recognizes it, you'll get the text selection cursor and will be able to select text and copy it to the clipboard.
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Lincoln posted:My new MPB arrives Monday. What's the best option for cloning an SSD? I'd prefer to simply clone my 2018 Intel MBP to the new one, but if that's not the best option, tell me. My 2018 was also cloned from a mid-2012 MBP, and I don't know if that's an issue. I don't know if a clone of a clone will lead to problems. I bought a thunderbolt cable. When you do first boot on your new machine it'll ask you if you want to import data / user accounts / etc from another Mac with Migration Assistant, and if you do that there will be an option to connect the two machines with thunderbolt. It might also work over WiFi, I don't remember if that was an option. I was happy with Thunderbolt because the migration went really really fast and I thought I might have future uses for the cable.
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Shaocaholica posted:So this neural engine part of the SOC. What kind of practical workloads does it support? I think people are thinking it will make Macs do AI art faster but pretty sure that's not how AI art generation works is it? It's all behind the scenes housekeeping crypto work right? Not user workloads like image filters and such. But anyway one example of user workloads, Pixelmator's Super Resolution upscale thing uses CoreML and apparently runs really fast on the ARM Macs: https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2019/12/17/all-about-the-new-ml-super-resolution-feature-in-pixelmator-pro/ https://twitter.com/pixelmator/status/1329396180917362688
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anybody with M1 or M2 machines have Stable Diffusion installed? I'm considering upgrading just for the AI art abilities. I'm curious how fast they are on base machines, like an m1 air or mini with 8gigs of ram. I know I need to upgrade machines at some point, but If even a base air can run batches of images well I'm hoping to get a good deal then on a base air for that for awhile. (I'm currently using a 2015 MacBook pro with 128 SSD and 16 gigs of ram, and a late 2015 iMac 5K as my work machine. I suspect for even photo shop a base m1 machine is faster than both, but I don't want to think about that just yet).
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Do the latest Intel/AMD chips have anything like the AS neural engine?
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Shaocaholica posted:Do the latest Intel/AMD chips have anything like the AS neural engine? The Nvidia and Intel GPUs do. I guess Intel's QuickSync feature on their CPUs kinda counts? though it is for something far more specific.
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Kibner posted:The Nvidia and Intel GPUs do. I guess Intel's QuickSync feature on their CPUs kinda counts? though it is for something far more specific. QuickSync is not under the coreml umbrella but video toolbox. It doesn't expose metal or opencl.
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SlowBloke posted:QuickSync is not under the coreml umbrella but video toolbox. It doesn't expose metal or opencl. It is still dedicated silicon that frees up the rest of the CPU to do other non-related things. I don't think the Tensor cores or whatever the new stuff in Nvidia GPUs or whatever Intel is calling their AI cores in their ARC GPUs are under the CoreML umbrella, either, but are basically the same thing as the AS Neural Engine. The AMD GPUs don't have any cores for that kind of thing as they just use shaders to do it all. Not sure if they have dedicated hardware for video encoding. It really depends on what exactly kind of thing the OP is talking about.
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Lincoln posted:My new MPB arrives Monday. What's the best option for cloning an SSD? I'd prefer to simply clone my 2018 Intel MBP to the new one, but if that's not the best option, tell me. My 2018 was also cloned from a mid-2012 MBP, and I don't know if that's an issue. I don't know if a clone of a clone will lead to problems. It will sync up with the magic of Apple OP. There’s no need to do android style hard drive finagling
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My MacMini got bumped up from the 17th to the 7th, so that's nice!
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Aye, my 16” went from the 20th to the 8th.
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Yeah and my 14” is scheduled to deliver this Monday instead of next Wednesday. Hope it’s true. Edit: look, as a small business owner, I understand the concept of “under-promise, over-deliver,” but I’m not buying socks, I’m buying an overpriced notebook computer. Please try to be accurate. Lincoln fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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My dbrand skin came in today and a few things have become very clear: 1. I am an idiot 2. Unsurprisingly a 13’ MBP skin does not fit the 14’ one that I have. I’m not even sure how I managed that. 3. The leather skins are lid only and there doesn’t seem to be a way to either get leather for the rest of the laptop or mix and match with another wrap for coverage there either (It being lid only is communicated but only in a way if you know what to look for, see: #1) 4. The packaging and item quality are extremely nice. The return/exchange process seem painless enough but I’m a bit torn. I’d love to put a leather wrap on this thing but not enough to order two skins to do so. Also the 14’ version I need is on preorder so I’d have to wait on that.
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Everyone, don't forget what Mac's are great for... Games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnDAkZLXkPA
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Buhh. My A1989 13” MBP keyboard replacement project hit a bit of a snag. Looks like the keyboard is literally riveted in place, as well as using some even smaller T-bit I don’t own, so I’ve got to put the carcass aside and regroup with the proper tools. Taking the unit apart was actually much less of a hassle than I imagined, until I got to the keyboard. Then it got very frustrating very quickly. But honestly I’m at the point where I’m ready to just part out the LCD/touchpad/misc parts if I do gently caress this up, so I’m being kind of zen about fixing a laptop I forgot I even owned for the last year and change.
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2009 MP 12core 24G GTX680 2G For $300 local pickup?
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Space heaters are generally less these days.
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some kinda jackal posted:Buhh. My A1989 13” MBP keyboard replacement project hit a bit of a snag. It is indeed riveted! When you said you'd ordered a replacement keyboard unit, I thought you meant you ordered the part Apple service techs would replace if you brought the computer to them for keyboard service, which is the entire top case assembly (consisting of the aluminum housing, keyboard, and a glued-on battery). Apple's own techs can't even order a keyboard by itself, how'd you manage to find one? Was it a shady listing on ebay or amazon or something?
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Shaocaholica posted:2009 MP Any 2018 mini you find will be faster real world. The memory bus and difficulty of making nvme work severely hamper it and you’d need to budget for a more modern GPU if you don’t want to stick to pre-Catalina.
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Please don’t buy a 10+ year old computer
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Hey, Snow Leopard will fly on that thing!!
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Shaocaholica posted:2009 MP Please do not buy that for that price
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Shaocaholica posted:2009 MP I'd say that's a $100 computer.
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BobHoward posted:It is indeed riveted! When you said you'd ordered a replacement keyboard unit, I thought you meant you ordered the part Apple service techs would replace if you brought the computer to them for keyboard service, which is the entire top case assembly (consisting of the aluminum housing, keyboard, and a glued-on battery). Apple's own techs can't even order a keyboard by itself, how'd you manage to find one? Was it a shady listing on ebay or amazon or something? Definitely not the upper enclosure; From one of those “fix it” sites so not a shady ebay seller but definitely third party so probably sourced from the same. At this point I’m in so I’ll give it a crack and if it doesn’t go well I’m pretty Ok to cut my losses.
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