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Apple, when Ivy Bridge comes out please release a 13" MacBook Pro Air aka an 13" Air with a black bezel. Thanks.
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2011 Mac Mini with Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, wireless keyboard and 8 GB RAM upgrade. I'd be stupid not to take this for $600, right?
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Feb 27, 2012 18:55
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ZShakespeare posted:Is there any 13" Macbook Air cases/bags that stand above the rest? The Speck cases look pretty slick without adding significant bulk. It's basically identical in practice to the Incase Snap on my iPhone 4: minimal bulk, minimal fall protection, protects from scratches, and minimal aesthetic impact.
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Feb 27, 2012 18:56
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ZShakespeare posted:I think he's hoping that if they charge $30 for a release every two–ish years that they'll start charging $15 for a yearly release. I think it's more likely that if you want to spend $15 yearly that you will be skipping every other release. I'm pretty sure he's talking about the program they did for Lion where if you purchased a Mac within a certain date before Lion's release, you got it for free instead of paying for the upgrade. Of course, that was within around a month or so, and Mountain Lion isn't hitting until summer, so he's SOL.
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Feb 27, 2012 18:58
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ZShakespeare posted:I think he's hoping that if they charge $30 for a release every two–ish years that they'll start charging $15 for a yearly release. I think it's more likely that if you want to spend $15 yearly that you will be skipping every other release. When I was looking for a bag for my MBA, I wanted something very slim that could hold basically my MBA and my iPad2 and a few accessories. I wound up buying this http://www.amazon.com/Oakley-Mens-Checkpoint-Vertical-Computer/dp/B003Y3B0F4 and are very happy with it.
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Feb 27, 2012 18:58
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ZShakespeare posted:Are there any 2011 MacBook Air accessories that are generally considered necessities? I've got a $35 balance on my amazon.ca account, and I think I'd like to get something nice for it. USB ethernet adapter
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Feb 27, 2012 19:12
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ZShakespeare posted:Is there any 13" Macbook Air cases/bags that stand above the rest? The Speck cases look pretty slick without adding significant bulk. I have the SeeThru SATIN and it makes me feel a lot better about toting it around. It adds like nothing to bulk and gives slightly more cling to your skin (if you're one-handing it while putting it in a bag). Reviews said the hard clear case gets hairline cracks. For a bag I use the size "Small" Timbuk2 classic messenger in black. At that particular size it's perfect for iPad2, MBA 13", several paper notebooks and some snacks while still feeling weightless. Waterproof liner and ballistic nylon. I bike with it, too.
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Feb 27, 2012 19:23
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mediaphage posted:I'm not surprised about eSATA since it's a dumb standard. No power? wtf. illcendiary posted:2011 Mac Mini with Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, wireless keyboard and 8 GB RAM upgrade. I'd be stupid not to take this for $600, right?
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Feb 27, 2012 20:21
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ZShakespeare posted:Is there any 13" Macbook Air cases/bags that stand above the rest? The Speck cases look pretty slick without adding significant bulk. There was the Acme Clutch that was shown on MacRumors a few weeks back. It looks really slick, only downside is that its $100. I really, really think it's worth it though. http://www.acmemade.com/product/The-Clutch,50,11.htm
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Feb 27, 2012 21:22
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I'm picking up an early 2008 Macbook tomorrow, and had a couple quick questions. I'm basically buying it as I've never had the Mac "experience" before and wanted to give it a shot before maybe upgrading in a couple years. Anyways... 1. Would it be worthwhile to upgrade from 2GB to 4GB of RAM? I really only plan on using it for internet, word processing, netflix and playing music basically and am not sure if I would see any advantage of upgrading the RAM. 2. Its coming shipped with Leopard on it, it seems obvious I should upgrade to Snow Leopard but would it be worthwhile spending a total of $60 to upgrade to Lion? I know as of this time this particular model will be obsolete and not support Mountain Lion when it comes out.
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Feb 28, 2012 00:36
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ZShakespeare posted:I think he's hoping that if they charge $30 for a release every two–ish years that they'll start charging $15 for a yearly release. I think it's more likely that if you want to spend $15 yearly that you will be skipping every other release. I own this and proudly stand behind it. http://www.be-ez.com/la-robe-air-bw.html It's made of a memory foam, unlike any other case I've seen. It's actually pretty drat hard, but you can sense the necessary give. Snug and stylish, too.
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Feb 28, 2012 00:50
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Auron posted:1. Would it be worthwhile to upgrade from 2GB to 4GB of RAM? You're about 6 browser tabs of forgotten browsing away from making use of those extra 2 GB. You'll need it less than you would on a PC but if it's cheap, why not? The Lion app store download can be easily examined to extract and burn a bootable, installable Lion image if I'm not mistaken. Read up on it. Maybe ask a pal if you can borrow use of their 10.6+ machine for a few hours?
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Feb 28, 2012 01:26
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I was having trouble with my Mini connected to a Dell monitor's Display Port by mini-DP to DP cable flickering on and off recently but couldn't verify which device was causing the problem since I have no other monitor or computer with a Display Port or computer to test with. An EFI update for the 2011 Mac Mini was released recently, wondered if anyone else here was having problems with a display connected to the Thunderbolt port? The changelog was extremely vague as usual but it mentioned something about HDCP issues.
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Feb 28, 2012 01:54
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Mu Zeta posted:About goddamn loving time. This issue has been really annoying and only started a couple months ago. gently caress. My fuckin wifi worked fine until this update and now it won't reconnect when waking up.  Apple
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Feb 28, 2012 02:38
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withak posted:My fuckin wifi worked fine until this update and now it won't reconnect when waking up. It's alright, the firmware update on the 2011 iMac to "correct" usb devices being ejected and fix HDCP issues has made both problems worse for me. I'm now unplugging my external monitors multiple times per hour and about ready to say gently caress osx. This static poo poo is so annoying that I'm seriously considering going back to Windows.
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Feb 28, 2012 05:36
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kuskus posted:You're about 6 browser tabs of forgotten browsing away from making use of those extra 2 GB. You'll need it less than you would on a PC but if it's cheap, why not? Hmm, how does the App store purchase thing by having a friend proxy work with regards to the tying of the copy of Lion to the hardware serial check for the Lion recovery feature? Or was that a Lion beta thing?
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crazysim posted:Hmm, how does the App store purchase thing by having a friend proxy work with regards to the tying of the copy of Lion to the hardware serial check for the Lion recovery feature? Or was that a Lion beta thing? So assuming you want to do this legitimately, get on some 10.6 or 10.7 machine and log into the App Store with your account to purchase Lion. From there you download the installer app and find the disk image inside of it to do the DVD/USB thing, then go install on your machine. Alternatively if this other machine is already on Lion I think you can make a USB recovery stick (needs a 1GB partition and proper formatting) to install on your machine. You'll still need to purchase Lion to do this...and for all I know created sticks may be tied to hardware, although that might just be for newer machines shipped with Lion. I remember it giving me some message about that when using a stick created on my 2011 Mac mini to boot my 2009 one, but not on a stick from the 2009 booting my 2006 model.
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Feb 28, 2012 07:17
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Feb 28, 2012 08:04
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Seriously am I the only one that gets poo poo like this on external displays? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii8RLpFaneU Happened with my Hackintosh, Mac Pro and now iMac.
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Feb 28, 2012 17:43
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I've been running an external display for 3ish years now on OS X and have never seen that issue.
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I wonder if I switch to mini display port > HDMI adapters if that would help.
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Feb 28, 2012 17:58
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flyboi posted:Seriously am I the only one that gets poo poo like this on external displays? I never had this issue on my 2011 mbp until last night when my external display started acting wonky and doing this. It seems like it only does it when my mbp display Is closed and I'm using an external as the primary display. It was pretty annoying, I hope a recent update didn't break this for me. I am using a mini-dp to hdmi adapter as well.
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Feb 28, 2012 18:08
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Do old Macbook Pro batteries just outright stop charging? I've had the same battery for 5 years. Bought a new charger for my 2007 MBP and that worked for a week and now my computer just won't recognize that there is a charge coming into it. No green lights at the bottom or anything and now I can't get it to come on. I'm hoping it's just the battery. If not it's either the female end of the charging port or the alcohol poisoning I accidentally committed that finally killed it. I can probably fix the port, but an outright logic board failure I'm not going to bother with on a 5 year old computer. I've got a shiny new iMac anyway. Looks like a fruit stand trip for me to see if they'd have any old batteries laying around. cheese eats mouse fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Feb 28, 2012 |
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Feb 28, 2012 19:11
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flyboi posted:Seriously am I the only one that gets poo poo like this on external displays? I've never had that issue, either, on my MBA, Mac Mini, or the bf's MBA, MB or iMacs. Also for gently caress's sake, stop taking video like that.
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Feb 28, 2012 19:55
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Why can't I buy a desktop Mac that has that has similar power to MacBook Pros, but doesn't have the price of a MacBook pro? Or: why can't I buy an iMac without a monitor attached? TheAngryDrunk fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Feb 28, 2012 |
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Feb 28, 2012 20:00
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Why can't I buy a desktop Mac that has that has similar power to MacBook Pros, but doesn't have the price of a MacBook pro? Build a hackintosh.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:You're asking the same questions about the mythical xMac that people have been asking for over a decade. The answer's always the same: there's no money in it. I had a feeling I wasn't the first person to wonder that.
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Feb 28, 2012 20:09
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I just upgraded from a 2008 whitebook to a 2009 Macbook pro 13" and OMG, this machine is so much nicer than the whitebooks. And it's all mountain lion compatible. $800 on ebay and I managed to not get scammed ( I was nervous the whole time I was buying it and getting it shipped to me ). Anyway, point is, if you have a whitebook, get a Macbook Pro. I really didn't realize how much nicer they were until I had one.
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Feb 28, 2012 20:26
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Why can't I buy a desktop Mac that has that has similar power to MacBook Pros, but doesn't have the price of a MacBook pro? The iMac is an excellent deal. It's what, $700 less than a comparable Macbook Pro?
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Feb 28, 2012 21:19
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Why can't I buy a desktop Mac that has that has similar power to MacBook Pros, but doesn't have the price of a MacBook pro? What are you going to do with this hypothetical desktop that the Mac Mini can't do?
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Feb 28, 2012 21:22
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Why can't I buy a desktop Mac that has that has similar power to MacBook Pros, but doesn't have the price of a MacBook pro? Get the dual-core i7 Mini and put an SSD in it. You won't be able to tell the difference.
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Feb 28, 2012 21:23
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mediaphage posted:What are you going to do with this hypothetical desktop that the Mac Mini can't do? Edit photos. Specifically, 25mb raw files (and possibly larger depending on the next Canon 5d file size) in LR and Photoshop. DEUCE SLUICE posted:Get the dual-core i7 Mini and put an SSD in it. You won't be able to tell the difference. Isnt that limited to 8 gb of ram? More processing power would be nice, too. TheAngryDrunk fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Feb 28, 2012 |
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Feb 28, 2012 21:55
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The current Mini will actually take 16GB.
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kuskus posted:You're about 6 browser tabs of forgotten browsing away from making use of those extra 2 GB. You'll need it less than you would on a PC but if it's cheap, why not? The problem is I don't know anybody with a Mac  . Oh well, I'll just end up splerging on it probably.
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Feb 28, 2012 22:26
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I'm getting issues with my Wifi on my 2011 27 inch iMac (the 3.1GHz i5 model). It says I'm connected, with internet access, but it won't actually work. Turning Wifi off and on again solves the problem. Any other iMac owner get this problem?
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Feb 28, 2012 22:47
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Edit photos. Specifically, 25mb raw files (and possibly larger depending on the next Canon 5d file size) in LR and Photoshop. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_Mac_mini/DDR3_1333 Yeah, as said, 16GB. Also, if you spring for the server model, you could get a quad-core CPU - but you'd be limited to integrated graphics instead of discrete.
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Feb 28, 2012 23:57
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mediaphage posted:http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_Mac_mini/DDR3_1333 The 16GB would definitely work, but even the mini server has weaker processors than the top MacBook Pros.
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TheAngryDrunk posted:The 16GB would definitely work, but even the mini server has weaker processors than the top MacBook Pros. Buy an iMac then. You can buy dirt cheap 4GB chips and use the savings from memory to get a faster CPU.
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Bob Morales posted:Buy an iMac then. You can buy dirt cheap 4GB chips and use the savings from memory to get a faster CPU.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:My 27" iMac is soon to be two generations old after the upcoming refresh, and it still absolutely flies in Aperture and Photoshop CS5. It's only a lowly quad-core i5 750, but I upped it to 8GB of RAM and threw in a 256GB SSD and now I imagine I'll keep it at least another 2 years. Yeah. If the maxed Mac Mini is still insufficient, that's what the iMac is for. mediaphage fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Feb 29, 2012 |
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