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My aim is to replace my 2011 MBP 13" with an air (resolution is sooo much nice on my friends) and buy an iMac for my desk at work. The issue is cash as I cant sell my MBP until I have an Air. Also the prices on ebay are stupidly high compared to the refub store.
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thegasman2000 posted:My aim is to replace my 2011 MBP 13" with an air (resolution is sooo much nice on my friends) and buy an iMac for my desk at work. The issue is cash as I cant sell my MBP until I have an Air. Also the prices on ebay are stupidly high compared to the refub store. Sell on eBay, buy on refurb store.
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Mar 21, 2012 16:02
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Bob Morales posted:Sell on eBay, buy on refurb store. Be careful about selling on eBay-- after ebay + paypal fees + shipping + insurance you're looking at something like 13-15% of the price going away- unless you're a power seller and have lower eBay fees. Always try selling on forums/craigslist first unless you're scared of being ripped off (which still happens on eBay).
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Mar 21, 2012 16:08
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I'd get a iMac 2011 refurb right now if there wasn't the possibility of USB 3.0 being supported in iMac 2012. The transfer rate between USB2.0 and 3.0 is incredibly worth waiting for, especially since I will want a bunch of direct attached storage to go with this.
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Mar 21, 2012 17:20
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My parents have multiple iPhones and Macbook Pros. My dad bought a Netgear router with the hopes of connecting a USB drive to it so he could backup his files to it and use it to store and stream his iTunes library. He can't get the router to properly see and share the drive, so he's looking for a better solution. I know the Airport Extreme and Time Capsules don't act as iTunes servers, do they? Would he need an always-on computer to stream his music? Any recommendations?
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Mar 21, 2012 18:08
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Violator posted:My parents have multiple iPhones and Macbook Pros. My dad bought a Netgear router with the hopes of connecting a USB drive to it so he could backup his files to it and use it to store and stream his iTunes library. He can't get the router to properly see and share the drive, so he's looking for a better solution. If he wants his iTunes Library to be available to the iPhones through Home Sharing, yes, he's going to have to have one computer on all the time with iTunes open to stream his music. If he just wants the iTunes folder itself available to all computers on his network, an Airport Extreme with an external USB drive hooked up to it would work fine.
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Mar 21, 2012 18:31
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Aren't people installing Leopards on old AppleTV's to do this?http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1224785
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Mar 21, 2012 18:48
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Getting a mac to replace an HP envy 14 as my primary work computer. I travel a fair bit would the current Airs be an acceptable purchase to hook up to my 28" monitor or should I get the macbook pro instead? Work use entails a lot of SSH, web browsers, remote desktop, occasional light photoshop. Also my monitor is HDMI, no DVI.
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Mar 21, 2012 19:06
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whaam posted:Getting a mac to replace an HP envy 14 as my primary work computer. I travel a fair bit would the current Airs be an acceptable purchase to hook up to my 28" monitor or should I get the macbook pro instead? I've got my 13" current gen Air hooked up to a 24" Dell IPS monitor and it works great. 28" shouldn't be an issue.
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Mar 21, 2012 19:08
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whaam posted:Getting a mac to replace an HP envy 14 as my primary work computer. I travel a fair bit would the current Airs be an acceptable purchase to hook up to my 28" monitor or should I get the macbook pro instead? Work use entails a lot of SSH, web browsers, remote desktop, occasional light photoshop. Also my monitor is HDMI, no DVI. My 2011 13 air can power a 27 inch 2560x1440 with no problems (I had to pay $60 for an active converter minidp-> dual link dvi though). It can also run the screen on the laptop at the same time. The MBP can do 2 displays out though.
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Mar 21, 2012 19:29
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Ok so we're reasonably sure the refresh for the MBP is coming next month, right? Because I'm going to buy one but I don't want to get one now if the new one is coming out less than a month away. Also, has anyone played the Diablo 3 beta on their MBP? I know it runs fairly slowly on the Air, and honestly it's one of my reasons for getting the Pro.
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Mar 21, 2012 20:06
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Daric posted:Ok so we're reasonably sure the refresh for the MBP is coming next month, right? Because I'm going to buy one but I don't want to get one now if the new one is coming out less than a month away. As of right now, it looks likely that we'll see new MacBook Pros in April.
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Mar 21, 2012 20:47
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Star War Sex Butt posted:There's no "reasonably sure" until a picture of the retail packaging shows up online. All we can do is interpret rumors and compare those against Intel's roadmap. Yeah, I know with Apple there's no real way to tell but the rumor is April? Do we have any idea what the specs might be in say the better 15" MBP? How would they differ from the MBP now?
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Mar 21, 2012 20:51
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Daric posted:Do we have any idea what the specs might be in say the better 15" MBP? How would they differ from the MBP now?
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Mar 21, 2012 20:54
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Star War Sex Butt posted:Ivy Bridge which will be ~15% better performance, and probably a bit better battery. Radeon 7000M series. Possible chassis change finally? 13" MBP will probably get the Air's resolution, and maybe the hi-res option on the 15" becomes stock, but that's wishful thinking at this point. Mercurius fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Mar 21, 2012 |
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Mar 21, 2012 21:13
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Star War Sex Butt posted:Ivy Bridge which will be ~15% better performance, and probably a bit better battery. Radeon 7000M series. Possible chassis change finally? 13" MBP will probably get the Air's resolution, and maybe the hi-res option on the 15" becomes stock, but that's wishful thinking at this point. Now that the Air has the low end covered, I really hope the 13" Pro continues to exist, but with actual advantages over the Air. The screen and discrete graphics, at least, and perhaps space for the Air-style SSD stick along with a standard hard drive. I have no interest in a 15-inch laptop, but really want the added horsepower/storage.
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Mar 21, 2012 22:09
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Mercurius posted:I've also seen rumours of a 2880x1800 screen bandied about but I'd probably say that's wishful thinking at this point. The HiDPI stuff still hasn't been completely finalised in Lion and Mountain Lion won't be out for a few more months yet so if they are going to try putting a retina screen into the MBP's, I'd expect them to hold off releasing then until ML is out. I don't know if I see this happening -- we have rumors that production has started and yet nothing regarding a leak on the screens. If there is some crazy display on them, I'd expect the rumors to start flying very soon.
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Mar 21, 2012 22:19
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cbirdsong posted:Now that the Air has the low end covered, I really hope the 13" Pro continues to exist, but with actual advantages over the Air. The screen and discrete graphics, at least, and perhaps space for the Air-style SSD stick along with a standard hard drive. I have no interest in a 15-inch laptop, but really want the added horsepower/storage. Not sure if they would trade the room free'd up by removing the optical drive for an SSD+discrete graphics.
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Mar 22, 2012 01:09
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I was editing some video the other day (lots of HD activity), and my computer beachballed. I hard reset it, and it came up with the "missing file system" flashing icon. Plugged my backup drive in via firewire, and it booted just fine. Then I put in a new drive and it still didn't recognize the new one. Genius bar replaced the HD cable no problem. Took like ten minutes. I put the new drive in when I got home and it booted just fine. Weird thing is that the old drive is still hosed. It won't mount in either OSX or Windows. Did a failing HD cable destroy my HD, or did a failing HD destroy the HD cable, or did it all just take a gigantic coincidental poo poo? Or maybe I tweaked the HD cable in the wrong direction while removing the broken drive? it is a mystery!!!!!!!! (also thank god for backups.)
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Mar 22, 2012 02:20
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You didn't try to reformat it in Disk Utility or see if you could fdisk it on a PC?
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I have an old Unibody Macbook (the very first ones) that I'm looking to sell (actually I probably should have sold it the moment I got my Air, but that's another story entirely), and I just had a few questions about clearing poo poo off of it. What's the best way to clear the laptop of all of my personal information and important stuff, and if I do that, will it drop back to the OS that I bought it at? I've upgraded to Lion on this machine, and Snow Leopard before that (I have the discs for Snow Leopard, but I can't remember if they'll be usable more than once), and it will probably add to the resale value if I can say it's got the latest OS on it. (I just got the battery replaced for free, so there's that as well.) Also, are there any other cheap things I can do to add a bit to the resale value? I'll be including a charger (duh), a case (if I can find it), and as many of the discs/booklets that came with it that I can find (which should be most, I've kept them fairly organized). I lost the box long ago, but I don't think that matters too much.
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Mar 22, 2012 15:19
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Yoshifan823 posted:I have an old Unibody Macbook (the very first ones) that I'm looking to sell (actually I probably should have sold it the moment I got my Air, but that's another story entirely), and I just had a few questions about clearing poo poo off of it. What's the best way to clear the laptop of all of my personal information and important stuff, and if I do that, will it drop back to the OS that I bought it at? I've upgraded to Lion on this machine, and Snow Leopard before that (I have the discs for Snow Leopard, but I can't remember if they'll be usable more than once), and it will probably add to the resale value if I can say it's got the latest OS on it. (I just got the battery replaced for free, so there's that as well.) You can run Disk Utility from the install DVD and do a 'secure wipe' - just do the one-pass, anything else is waste of time. After that, install like normal.
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Mar 22, 2012 15:48
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So Lion is a no-go, then?
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the aluminum unibodies? Those will run lion.
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Mar 22, 2012 17:33
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fleshweasel posted:the aluminum unibodies? Those will run lion. Well yeah, it has Lion on it now, but I gather that it won't if I wipe the computer and reinstall. Right?
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Mar 22, 2012 17:46
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Yoshifan823 posted:Well yeah, it has Lion on it now, but I gather that it won't if I wipe the computer and reinstall. Right? It depends what you use, if you use the recovery partition or internet recovery, you can wipe and then immediately install Lion. You might also be able to do that with the disk image from the installer, but I'm not sure about that one.
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Mar 22, 2012 17:50
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Binary Badger posted:You didn't try to reformat it in Disk Utility or see if you could fdisk it on a PC?
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Mar 22, 2012 22:48
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vas0line posted:Tried both, neither worked. Connected with the external case, DU said something like "This drive cannot be formatted. Back up the data as soon as possible." It wouldn't even mount with the internal cable. I lost a SSD like this. It was really, really weird. Wouldn't detect -any- drives but the unformattable SSD with the stock cable. Replaced stock cable, wouldn't mount unformattable SSD but would see other drives. 
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Mar 23, 2012 00:46
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I personally want to punch bitches in the face when they post about rumors here, but I just saw this (from Mac Rumors but it was posted on Reddit):quote:Keep in mind that Apple only makes a redesign once every 4 years. The PowerBook G3 was released in 1997, the PowerBook G4 in 2001, the MacBook Pro in 2004 and the unibody MacBook Pro in 2008. Apple never considerably changed the internals within a design generation, offering only incremental updates to the CPU, GPU and storage capacity but keeping the same screen and storage type. Here's to hoping for a re-design.
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Mar 23, 2012 03:40
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That statement certainly twists the facts to suit its conclusion. It ignores the AlBooks and the remarkable differences between each PowerBook G3. Even in more recent times screen baseline and options have changed within a design.
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Mar 23, 2012 04:14
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And this part: "Apple never considerably changed the internals within a design generation, offering only incremental updates to the CPU, GPU and storage capacity but keeping the same screen and storage type." ...ignores the whole PPC-Intel switch (where only the MacBook was a completely new design), along with the Nehalem and Sandy Bridge updates.
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Mar 23, 2012 05:01
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I am fairly confident the next MacBook Pro will not so much be a MacBook Pro as it will be a TabletBook Pro(TM). Seriously though, if there is a redesign, I'm eager to see what it is. I've got my dreamlist of features as I'm sure we all do.
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Mar 23, 2012 14:47
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The only guarantee I can imagine is removal of the optical drive. Maybe retina screens if the release is late in the year. I have a feeling that's going to be a 2013 thing though.
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Mar 23, 2012 15:02
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movax posted:I am fairly confident the next MacBook Pro will not so much be a MacBook Pro as it will be a TabletBook Pro(TM). I'd imagine a thinner, optical-drive-less Macbook Pro, but not Wedge like the Air. Also guessing that MBPs will only come in 15 & 17 Inch, but include by default 128 GB Flash + 500 GB HD. So you'll have a SSD only, wedge MBA in 11, 13, and 15 inch models, and then a MBP thats thinner than its previous generation, but with more storage, RAM and graphics options, at 15 and 17 inch. All laptops with the standard "HD" resolutions.
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Mar 23, 2012 15:12
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In the process of clearing my old Macbook for sale, I'm not able to find the install discs, neither the one it came with nor the one for Snow Leopard. Is there a way I can do a wipe without those? I have iLife and iWork and the applications disc that it came with, but that's all I can find.
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Yoshifan823 posted:In the process of clearing my old Macbook for sale, I'm not able to find the install discs, neither the one it came with nor the one for Snow Leopard. Is there a way I can do a wipe without those? I have iLife and iWork and the applications disc that it came with, but that's all I can find. http://www.hackmac.org/hacks/how-to-create-a-new-administrator-account/ Then delete the user account you are using right now, after you are logged in as the new admin account.
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I have some pretty distinctive image persistence on my 23" ACD.  It appears that nearly the entire Chrome address bar is 'burnt' into the screen. I've tried a few things like LCDScrub and having a completely white image fullscreened for a few hours every day but that's a no go and my regular screensaver kicks in automatically pretty often to no avail. What puzzles me is how quickly the 'burn' happens, it only took a day of moderate use for it to add a new bookmark icon on the bookmark bar into the image, but hours of white does nothing? How does Apple handle these things? I mean, the display is quite old and I've probably lost the receipt by now but would it be feasible to get it fixed? Can it be fixed, and are there any practical home remedies for it apart from LCDScrub and such?
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My '07 Macbook that somehow still exists has been having heating problems due to an unusually warm spring. Usually it's streaming video- sometimes it just stutters but if it gets bad enough and really plotzes then I have to restart, and that can't be healthy. Given the age it's probably on its way out, but in the meantime, are there any good easy cooling solutions? Do the "cooling stands" that get sold do any good or what?
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Mar 25, 2012 19:27
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There's probably some dust clogged up in the fans. Try blowing them out.
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Mu Zeta posted:There's probably some dust clogged up in the fans. Try blowing them out. How do I access them? I've literally never opened up this thing.
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