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Ok Comboomer posted:I’ll buy the excellent non-dented one that you decide not to keep if you end up going that route. LMK. My guy says he can deffo get another one but might take a minute. I have you and El Bromance both interested. I'll message you both once I secure the last unit.
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Shaocaholica posted:My guy says he can deffo get another one but might take a minute. I have you and El Bromance both interested. I'll message you both once I secure the last unit. rad, I call dibs on the better one
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Shaocaholica posted:Is Unigine Valley the best/only 3D stress test you can run on an intel Mac? GLViewer and lots of Boxing Kings maybe
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Ok Comboomer posted:rad, I call dibs on the better one I was first, and I request yours is thrown down a flight of stairs first 
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Shaocaholica posted:Is Unigine Valley the best/only 3D stress test you can run on an intel Mac? One of the Tomb Raider games has a native intel port and a timedemo benchmark mode.
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On the subject of cheap, old hardware, this reseller is offering really cheap old Mac Minis, if one has a need for such a thing: https://orchardresales.com/collections/all After reading about OpenCore Legacy Patcher I went for a 2012 i7 quad core with max ram and SSD for $61. Also, I too would be interested in a high core count, dual graphics card trash can.
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That’s a good price for those minis, but we had a few at my last job from that era and be warned: they are slooooow. I don’t know if theyre underclocked or if the hdd/fusion drives were wonky, but they seemed slow when they were new
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Last Chance posted:That’s a good price for those minis, but we had a few at my last job from that era and be warned: they are slooooow. I don’t know if theyre underclocked or if the hdd/fusion drives were wonky, but they seemed slow when they were new I still have one!  They use a laptop-spec second-gen Core ix chip rather than desktop, and laptop drives are dogshit slow compared to even a sata ssd. Also the ram is pathetically slow as well. Then there's the repeated performance nerfs from all the patched exploits that were published in 2017-19
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I don’t remember my 2012 being that bad, but I’d swapped out the SSD and upped the RAM. It was being tasked to video capture until my gf moved in and needed the room it was set up in, but I don’t recall its performance being detrimental.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I don’t remember my 2012 being that bad, but I’d swapped out the SSD and upped the RAM. It was being tasked to video capture until my gf moved in and needed the room it was set up in, but I don’t recall its performance being detrimental. It can't handle the higher bitrates/av1 YouTube uses for 1080p now without stuttering
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It's not high on my list but I would like to have a space gray 2018 max spec mini to go with my space gray iMac ProAino Minako posted:Also, I too would be interested in a high core count, dual graphics card trash can. Get in line pal. But I think the lower spec ones are pretty cheap now if you're willing to upgrade a $30 cpu, $30 ram and whatever nvme SSD. It's the GPU in the trashcan that's gonna cost ya.
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I have a 2012 Mini riced up with 16 GB RAM / 512 GB SSD and it's running Sonoma 14.0 with OCLP 1.0.1.. it's not half bad, considering the laptop class CPU and low tier GPU.. 2014s were crap mainly because Apple limited them to dual core CPUs only.
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Mister Facetious posted:It can't handle the higher bitrates/av1 YouTube uses for 1080p now without stuttering Hmm feels like this can be worked around just from my knowledge if yt-dl and its forks where you can pick what versions of the files you want (funnily enough I’m dealing with a ton of AV1 files from that process). I wonder if simply playing with the browser identification to something incompatible with AV1 is enough to tell it to use VP9 or whatever instead. Shaocaholica posted:It's not high on my list but I would like to have a space gray 2018 max spec mini to go with my space gray iMac Pro That’s my daily machine, and I still do really like it except it’s the one I moan about a ton because I bought it just before the Apple Silicon announcements were made. It also doesn’t have a very big SSD as I had to cheap out, but I upped the RAM by hand at least.
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Binary Badger posted:2014s were crap mainly because Apple limited them to dual core CPUs only. Yeah I think these were the ones we had, never realized they were dual core tho drat lol
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I think the ram was soldered in too on that year.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I was first, and I request yours is thrown down a flight of stairs first you sure about that?  Shaocaholica posted:12core/D700/64G/1T for $300 Ok Comboomer posted:That's an excellent price, especially for the D700. If he's got one and you pass on it but he's willing to ship, I'd love to be put in touch, if you don't mind. Shaocaholica posted:The only issue I have with one of them is a dent on the bottom vent that’s not seen in use. The shell is also a bit stiff to unlock but overall looks excellent. The other one is excellent. I’m sure the 3rd would be excellent as well. Ok Comboomer posted:I’ll buy the excellent non-dented one that you decide not to keep if you end up going that route. LMK.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I think the ram was soldered in too on that year. Yup you had to order all the RAM you could afford ahead of time but you could still pop in a 2.5" SSD instead of the Apple crapstan 5400 RPM drives
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2018 mini would be almost perfect if it could take an m.2. And a socketed CPU. And 2020 cpus.
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Ok Comboomer posted:you sure about that? Yep! Shaocaholica posted:Dammit I got offered another fully loaded trashcan for $300. EL BROMANCE posted:drat I’d probably buy that just for the sheer fun of it. Don’t suppose they want to ship? EL BROMANCE posted:Ah neat, well if you get bored and can’t find a use for it I’ll probably be up for it. Just shout in this thread! Enjoy the dents my friend!
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yep! lol curses beaten fair and square
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Sry. Now I have to roll one down the concrete stairs. It’ll probably sound like those gungan balls from ep1
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Seeing how we're barely five months from the release of the 15" MacBook airs, now would be a decent time to pick one up, no? There seems to be an decent supply on the refurb store and I have a birthday coming up...
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CaptainCrunch posted:Seeing how we're barely five months from the release of the 15" MacBook airs, now would be a decent time to pick one up, no? There seems to be an decent supply on the refurb store and I have a birthday coming up... They're great machines and if they suit your needs you should get it
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101 posted:They're great machines and if they suit your needs you should get it Thank you for giving me the answer I wanted to hear. Muahahaha. I love my Studio to death, but I need to do some mobile stuff. God how I wish more developers did what Clip Studio did and just port the desktop app to the iPad with the appropriate tweaks. But no, so here I am buying an amazing new laptop.
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Is there some apple way to connect a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse if that’s the only input devices you have? Does it only work with factory fresh apple keyboard/mouse?
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Shaocaholica posted:Is there some apple way to connect a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse if that’s the only input devices you have? Does it only work with factory fresh apple keyboard/mouse? I’ve always had to pair it once with a plugging in even when fresh and all apple but it has been over a decade since i did so
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Found a cute wooden pedestal for the trashcan.
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man that looks great. i always thought the design complaints were overblown with those, with the note that apple failed to help create a good third party thunderbolt expansion ecosystem at the time
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Ikr. I’m looking for some TB2 accessories to complement but I might already own the good ones already.
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If worst comes to worst, and you have an Apple TB3 to TB2 adapter, you can always use a TS3 Plus as a Tbolt hub for the Trashcan: https://www.caldigit.com/is-my-caldigit-thunderbolt-3-device-compatible-with-apple-thunderbolt-1-and-2-computers/ I have one hooked up to beat up 2014 rMBP and it works pretty good with the caveat it won't charge a TB2 laptop.
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If I hadn’t thrown together a cheap ‘n cheerful ITX family machine around a Ryzen 5700GE I’d seriously consider a trash can Mac. They’re handsome little machines - I just wish they’d gotten a Skylake update with a newer GPU. I keep thinking about a Studio. Is the stock 512GB SSD punchy enough? I’ll definitely use an external scratchpad drive for a lot, but keep circling back to thinking a 1TB drive would be my realistic minimum for a desktop in 2023. Everything else would be cheerfully more than I need…
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Hasturtium posted:If I hadn’t thrown together a cheap ‘n cheerful ITX family machine around a Ryzen 5700GE I’d seriously consider a trash can Mac. They’re handsome little machines - I just wish they’d gotten a Skylake update with a newer GPU. get 1tb
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Hasturtium posted:If I hadn’t thrown together a cheap ‘n cheerful ITX family machine around a Ryzen 5700GE I’d seriously consider a trash can Mac. They’re handsome little machines - I just wish they’d gotten a Skylake update with a newer GPU. My understanding is the M2 model has removed the slight noise the cooling system makes when idle and has added HDMI 2.1. I’d definitely expect one to last a long time as a regular computer and then be a good HTPC option later on (since it can do 4k/120Hz or 8k/60Hz through the HDMI) so I’d be upgrading the storage like Ok Comboomer said.
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Hasturtium posted:If I hadn’t thrown together a cheap ‘n cheerful ITX family machine around a Ryzen 5700GE I’d seriously consider a trash can Mac. They’re handsome little machines - I just wish they’d gotten a Skylake update with a newer GPU. When you trace it back, the trash can is really the core impetus for what we have today where Apple controls the silicon, they don’t have to abide by the whims of say, Intel.
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Hockenheim posted:When you trace it back, the trash can is really the core impetus for what we have today where Apple controls the silicon, they don’t have to abide by the whims of say, Intel. Apple made a whole bunch of prototype laptops with AMD Bulldozer architecture chips and mobos in the early 2010s, that run MacOS and everything, as “engineering tests”. This much is known/confirmed to be true after years of speculation and rumor, and a single digit number of working AMD MacBooks have made it out of Apple and onto the internet/into the hands of deep-pocketed collectors over more recent years I use “engineering tests” in quotes because the other, slightly less officially confirmed but very well-corroborated rumor is that these were less about seriously exploring new design options and mainly used in meetings between Tim/Apple C-suite and Intel C-suite as a threat, like “don’t think we can’t/won’t replace you as a hardware partner”. The story goes that a particular conversation between Tim/co. and some Intel execs broke down so badly that they had engineers come in and literally drop the prototypes on the table in front of them and power them on like some kind of melodramatic movie scene Unfortunately for Apple (or I guess especially AMD) at the time, Bulldozer was such a flop that Intel pretty easily called their bluff and was basically like “okay go for it. Try to build a competitive MacBook Air around that dogshit”. And by the time Ryzen was really landing and restoring AMD’s reputation Apple was already hard at work on M-series and “Apple working on desktop-spec ARM” was regularly pinging the rumor mills
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For a desktop like the Studio, upgrading the storage is less essential because it's not really a big annoyance leaving a fast external SSD permanently attached like it is with a laptop
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Now that I’ve purchased mine I can share that 15” MacBook Airs are on the refurb store but are only filterable by year and colour. Also Apple friends and family discount stacks on refurbs.
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i have a dual 2.5in drive raid 0 thunderbolt 2 connected to mine lol. spinning rust but fine for basic bitch storage i do need to put some ssds in there at some point tho. it’s a very nice little old wd unit
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Is there any way to tell if a 2018 mini has 10Gb Eth from just external photos?
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Shaocaholica posted:Is there any way to tell if a 2018 mini has 10Gb Eth from just external photos? If you can make out the serial number, yes. https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/ mllaneza fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Oct 8, 2023 |
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