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Why would I install Linux? Scrivener stopped updating their Linux version, and while I love fade in, installing Linux just for it seems like a hassle
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Shaocaholica posted:Oh the wonders that could be achieved using the form factor of the 2012 MBP. Or even better the 2008. Imagine if they had just kept the form factor of the 2015 Pro and replaced MagSafe, HDMI and TB2 with TB3 while keeping the two USB-A ports and sure, the card reader, I guess.
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Shaocaholica posted:Linux is great EL BROMANCE posted:Linux is also a great Linux just worked when I installed it on an early 2008 MacBook and it's just worked on everything I've installed it on since. Stop trying to do arch builds you loving nerds.
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My work laptop is a 2017 MBP and my personal one is a 2015. I work from home and I want to use the same 4K monitor, etc with a minimum of screwing around. Right now my desk is a horrible mess of cables and adapters. Wirecutter's page with Thunderbolt 3 dock reviews says that the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter works both ways, and allegedly you can use one to connect a Thunderbolt 2 MBP to a Thunderbolt 3 dock. Anyone do this and have success?
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I dunno about docks but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen people using the adapter to connect TB3 eGPU enclosures to TB2 Macs so I think what you’re proposing would work too.
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kitten smoothie posted:My work laptop is a 2017 MBP and my personal one is a 2015. I work from home and I want to use the same 4K monitor, etc with a minimum of screwing around. Right now my desk is a horrible mess of cables and adapters.
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redeyes posted:I use WIndows for most things but video editing.. ARRRG! The new place I work for is exclusively windows and holy gently caress I absolutely hate using Premiere in Windows. The way it scrolls through the timeline is just disgusting.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:The new place I work for is exclusively windows and holy gently caress I absolutely hate using Premiere in Windows. The way it scrolls through the timeline is just disgusting. ?? How so?
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It's just nowhere near as smooth as on Mac
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Quantum of Phallus posted:It's just nowhere near as smooth as on Mac Like.. the scrolling animation? We use it on Mac and PC at work and it seems the same to me.
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BonoMan posted:Like.. the scrolling animation? We use it on Mac and PC at work and it seems the same to me. Maybe they just gave us poo poo PCs 
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Or maybe it's becase I have yet to see a PC where scroll gestures are in even the same universe of smoothness as on a Mac when using, say, two fingers on a trackpad. It's like Windows is stuck perpetually in "mouse with little detentes all around the wheel like it's 1997" mode
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Here’s a review of the top end model. Mostly some benchmarks against the iMac Pro, and includes some eGPU results http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180712/
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Mercurius posted:Yeah, we've tested this at work and it's fine both ways. Either TB2 MacBook to TB3 dock or TB3 MacBook to TB2 dock. You need a TB2 cable as well as the adapter in both cases and you don't get power charging using TB2 so you need a separate power adapter as well. Cool. And video works as well? I've seen reviews for the adapter that say "it doesn't pass DisplayPort unless it's channeled over Thunderbolt." I don't know if that means that the dock is smart enough to ask the laptop for video over Thunderbolt and then it peels the video out to emit as DisplayPort on the back. I do understand the caveat that if it works, the 4K video will take up like 75% of the available TB2 write bandwidth.
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crazysim posted:The accelerometer is back? Is it accessible from macOS? I can't wait to go and make lightsaber noises again. Actually, it's been a part of rMBPs since the beginning, far as I can tell. There's probably tools to access it. Only thing I can't figure out is WHY it's still part of the system. As far as I remember, the accelerometer was there chiefly to signal platter-based hard drives 'Hey a big shock is coming/happening, park your heads somewhere safe!' to prevent data loss. Totally unnecessary with SSDs, which have been in rMBPs since 2012. I'm sure someone will post a reason my 2-dimensional mind can't come up with, as I'm very sure Apple isn't keeping the accelerometer (also probably a single chip somewhere on the logic board) for the gigantic 'make lightsaber sounds with your laptop' app market. Also sure it's not for your laptop to detect that its in battle and suddenly sprout Anti-Borg armor.
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Maybe they can use the accelerometer to stabilize the screen when your chauffeur takes a speed bump too fast. There was a cool bit of software several years ago to turn a MacBook into a seismograph, geologist that was working on it had this dream of recording earthquakes from thousands of laptops. Obviously never got traction.
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Geekbench results are smokin' fast for the 2018's Who woulda thunk it https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/geekbench-shows-2018-macbook-pro-has-biggest-yearly-performance-gain-since-2011.2127645/ Geekbench 4 scores indicate the latest 15-inch models have a 12 to 15 percent increase in single-core performance, while multi-core performance is up 39 to 46 percent, compared to the equivalent 2017 models. A new 15-inch MacBook Pro with the best-available 2.9GHz six-core Intel Core i9 processor, with Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz, has a multi-core score of 22,439, for example, a 44.3 percent increase versus a 2017 model with a then-best 3.1GHz quad-core Core i7 and Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz. Likewise, for the latest 13-inch models, Geekbench scores show a 3 to 11 percent increase in single-core performance, and an impressive 81 to 86 percent increase in multi-core performance versus equivalent 2017 models.
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Me and my wife make a decent amount of money off of our hyper inflated CA wages but those $3k MBPs are still 'feel' expensive for us. How the hell are poors buying them? Apple surely is selling enough of them that it can't just all be rich people buying them.
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I used to work at an Apple store near a college and an alarmingly large percentage of students signed up for loans to buy the $2k laptop. The APRs ranged from like 28% and over.
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Apple should get into the financing business  'Ecosystem' I mean seriously they're going to anyway for their cars. Just imagine a world where your whole life can belong to Apple  Just pay a fixed rate every month and they'll give you a phone, laptop and car! Just sign on the dotted line on this iPad.
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Jul 15, 2018 23:35
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kitten smoothie posted:Cool. And video works as well? I've seen reviews for the adapter that say "it doesn't pass DisplayPort unless it's channeled over Thunderbolt." I’m also not really sure I understand the comment there as both devices using the adapter need to be plugged in via Thunderbolt to make use of it. Maybe whoever posted that comment assumed that a Thunderbolt adapter was also a male USB-C to female mini-DisplayPort cable and was surprised when it didn’t work like that?
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Shaocaholica posted:Me and my wife make a decent amount of money off of our hyper inflated CA wages but those $3k MBPs are still 'feel' expensive for us. How the hell are poors buying them? Apple surely is selling enough of them that it can't just all be rich people buying them. The 13” starts at $1300 and the Air is $1000.  “Poors” aren’t buying the $3k laptop or any Apple laptop actually.
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Mu Zeta posted:I used to work at an Apple store near a college and an alarmingly large percentage of students signed up for loans to buy the $2k laptop. The APRs ranged from like 28% and over. I signed my life away to MacMall's financing division when I was like 20 for a G4 PowerBook. Paid on that fucker for like 6 years
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All you have to do is peep the number of bottom spec MacBooks that show up on eBay to understand how people are affording these things.
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lol @ the rich guy not understanding there’s macbooks cheaper than $3k
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kitten smoothie posted:My work laptop is a 2017 MBP and my personal one is a 2015. I work from home and I want to use the same 4K monitor, etc with a minimum of screwing around. Right now my desk is a horrible mess of cables and adapters. I saw a Satechi USB-C hub that hangs off the side of the new MBPs, looks pretty awesome. Thinking about grabbing one.  On an unrelated note, I notice the iMac and iMac Pro come in different colors - can you choose the shade with either of them like you can the MacBooks/MBPs? Small White Dragon fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Jul 16, 2018 |
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Small White Dragon posted:I saw a Satechi USB-C hub that hangs off the side of the new MBPs, looks pretty awesome. Thinking about grabbing one. That hub does look pretty rad. Hopefully it's as reliable as it looks. iMac Pros only come in Space Grey, while regular iMacs are silver.
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Bob Morales posted:Likewise, for the latest 13-inch models, Geekbench scores show a 3 to 11 percent increase in single-core performance, and an impressive 81 to 86 percent increase in multi-core performance versus equivalent 2017 models. I mean in terms of absolute performance, that's great for 13" users. But not unexpected since the comparison is 2 cores vs 4 cores.
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Has anyone taken their MBPs in for loose TB3 ports? All four of mine are very loose, always have been and it’s starting to really piss me off.
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Binary Badger posted:Actually, it's been a part of rMBPs since the beginning, far as I can tell. There's probably tools to access it. Only thing I can't figure out is WHY it's still part of the system. Maybe it has an accelerometer. But it isn't exposed as part of that Sudden Motion Sensor thing. At least, this Late 2013 rMBP doesn't. I wonder if iMacs have them. Maybe this reappears on T1 or T2 based Macs?
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FCKGW posted:The 13” starts at $1300 and the Air is $1000. Depends on your definition of poors but they totally are, just not with cash.
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Mercurius posted:I’ve never seen any problems with it and we use Thunderbolt docks extensively (with quite a few TB2->3 adapters so that people didn’t need to buy new peripherals), albeit mostly with 27” monitors rather than 4K. Just keep in mind that Thunderbolt 2 can only do one display output per device in the chain so you can’t run 2 monitors off one dock unless everything is TB3. Sounds great. I wanted a dock but the idea was a total non-starter if I spent $300 on it and could only use it with one of the laptops. And yeah I have no clue wtf that reviewer was saying. Your guess sounds better than any I could come up with. Bob Morales posted:I signed my life away to MacMall's financing division when I was like 20 for a G4 PowerBook. Paid on that fucker for like 6 years One of the local third party Apple resellers around here seems to push people onto a lease program that by all metrics looks pretty bad. I guess it was better than financing it at 29% interest for multiple years, but that's a low bar. It definitely was structured to keep you trading it back in at end of lease and doing another. You had to put up a several hundred dollar security deposit up front, and if you re-upped a new lease they'd roll the deposit into the next one so you didn't have to put money down up front. kitten smoothie fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Jul 16, 2018 |
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Sorry if it has been asked but when you buy a MacBook with Education Pricing can you buy AppleCare for the reduced price after the fact or am I screwed? $303 is much better than $379
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FCKGW posted:lol @ the rich guy not understanding there’s macbooks cheaper than $3k Yeah but ones worth buying. Even the poors know that.
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kefkafloyd posted:That hub does look pretty rad. Hopefully it's as reliable as it looks.
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Small White Dragon posted:With something like that (hub that attaches to the laptop), I wonder if it's better to always take it off before putting the machine away, or if there are cases/bags that would accommodate it. Hmm. I'd take it off. It looks like its just snapped into the USB C port so you'd be risking damage to the ports if something happened.
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FCKGW posted:The 13” starts at $1300 and the Air is $1000. lowest price 2018 MBP is $1800 for the 13"
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Lube banjo posted:lowest price 2018 MBP is $1800 for the 13" Which is crazy. I remember the $1199 13" MBP, and the $899 Air I guess they still have the (128GB) nTB for $1299 and the Air for $999...
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Bob Morales posted:Which is crazy. I remember the $1199 13" MBP, and the $899 Air Yeah I bought back when the 13" MacBook pro was 1200 bucks and it was a great purchase (I admittedly bought it with upgraded RAM). I can't even begin to justify spending 1800 dollars on a laptop with a core i5 when I can get much more power a lot cheaper. While I like OSX, I don't NEED it unless I am building an iOS app.
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