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Boiled Water posted:It was a joke for the server racks of mac minis. I guess also a clear question, why not just use vms instead of banks of aluminium husks? Probably compliance with the license agreement assuming they wish to use Mac OS.
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Bob Morales posted:They don't care and they are on the OpenCL train with AMD As for the new MP, same wacky prediction I had a while back: a slot or two but with with a funky caveat like short length cards only, and only PCIe SSDs for storage (in whatever specific form factor that may be). I can't see them bothering with 2.5" drive bays. If the Mac mini survives it'll probably just be big enough for the heat sink (...or "all new thermal architecture" or whatever). Course that's being super vague and could be anything from a NUC type to a little cooling tower with desktop CPU.
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GutBomb posted:Probably compliance with the license agreement assuming they wish to use Mac OS. The Macs Mini are shells, unpowered and not running, for plausible deniability. Behind that rack is a single Dell blade system running a hacked copy of VMware and 100 OS X Client VMs.
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Binary Badger posted:I don't think he (Electric Bugaloo) ever had to do anything serious on the TrashCan because it's a motherfucking pain to actually get to the CPU or switch out either of the graphic cards. Not complex, but very very tedious because of Apple's "I hate the techs who actually have to work on these" philosophy. Yeah, people who care about size/noise/heat can feel free to hate on the cMP all they want, but I've found it pretty amazing to work on. At this point I've swapped out the CPU, RAM, installed a 2.5 mm SSD PCIe adapter card, the GTX 980, replaced the SuperDrive and the PSU, and added an airport card to it. It's been amazingly simple to work on. On an unrelated note, do you have your MP on a UPS? Edit: japtor posted:As for the new MP, same wacky prediction I had a while back: a slot or two but with with a funky caveat like short length cards only, and only PCIe SSDs for storage (in whatever specific form factor that may be). I can't see them bothering with 2.5" drive bays. Honestly if it meant having a couple of PCIe slots back, I'd be ok with it. There's enough small GPU options now that it could be done. They even have SFF 1080 Ti cards now. At the same time, the professional cards (Volta, Vega Pro) probably won't be small format cards so if Apple truly has learned from the Trashcan, they'll provision space. Edit 2: I thought the NCASE M1 was mATX but it's mITX. Whoops. Canned Sunshine fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jun 10, 2017 |
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~Coxy posted:The Macs Mini are shells, unpowered and not running, for plausible deniability. Just like those RAWK BANDS that play in front of a 12'x40' backdrop of fake Marshall stacks
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Is there any hardware which can function as a Thunderbolt "hub" and add more TB ports? Every dock I see only has two ports and uses one to connect to a Mac.
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~Coxy posted:The Macs Mini are shells, unpowered and not running, for plausible deniability. Pretty sure it's from Microsoft's Mac Office team, doing testing.
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Dick Nipples posted:I had the LG5K. It was trash. I bought two Dell P2415Q's - both are 4K. How have you liked the Dell P2415Qs? These look like they're about what I need. Edit: Did you get the dual monitor display stand that Dell makes? And what display cable did you connect through? (Wondering how many dongles I'm going to have to deal with!) Mandibular Fiasco fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Jun 11, 2017 |
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If I see someone selling a Mac Mini with a 680gb Fusion drive, and the screenshot confirms 'Fusion' but shows a logical volume of a 180gb Intel SSD and a 500gb Apple 'branded' drive, this is a DIY bodge yeah? I don't really want to deal with Fusion so if I can reverse this and have a 180gb fast system/apps drive and a 500gb storage (mainly iTunes I guess as all my photo stuff is on a WD 2tb USB 3 external which I'm guessing would bench a bit faster anyway) it sounds better to me.
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Mandibular Fiasco posted:How have you liked the Dell P2415Qs? These look like they're about what I need. I didn't get the dual monitor stand. I do really enjoy the monitors though. They're great for the price point - I paid about $725 for the two of them at the time. The 24 inch is great for Retina standard displays. If you don't know what that means then lookup what the Apple standard is for DPI. In other words, 27" 4K is actually not great. On the other hand 24" 4K is excellent. I actually bought DisplayPort to USB-c cables. They work great and I've had no problems.
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Is Apple known to use some kind of byproduct in their Earpods that animals like to eat? Cause my cat keeps chewing the poo poo out of mine, especially when I just bought a new pair two hours ago god loving dammit. If anybody knows how to repair a chewed up portion of the wire, I'd love some advice. Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Jun 11, 2017 |
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Pollyanna posted:Is Apple known to use some kind of byproduct in their Earpods that animals like to eat? Cause my cat keeps chewing the poo poo out of mine, especially when I just bought a new pair two hours ago god loving dammit. Is that the kitty in your av? Would pet that catte. I've heard of cats having habits of chewing on some kinds of wire. You could try smearing on some of that odorant that's supposed to repel cats which most pet stores sell, but that might not be great for other reasons. (On the plus side if you can't fix your earpods you've got some junk to test on to see if it discolors the insulation or has other undesirable effects!)
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He's adorable when he's not being a hellion. Which is basically just when he chews stuff up. The earbuds are done and gone, so I'm gonna move on and buy some headphones instead. I do have Bitter Apple, but that doesn't seem to faze him.
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Weird, my cat chews constantly on my apple dongles but never any other cords. He's never chewed another cord ever.
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St. John Coltrane posted:I work from home and my usual workflow involves having at least three applications open and running: The Mac Pro owns but High Sierra is going to be the last OS update you will get. The mini will (hopefully) get a couple more OS updates out of it.
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Jun 11, 2017 05:29
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How hard is it for Apple to stick an Intel NUC into a Mac Mini shell and charge $700 for it. Just make one, drat.
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rally posted:Weird, my cat chews constantly on my apple dongles but never any other cords. He's never chewed another cord ever. You know, you might be onto something. The only thing I've really ever had him chew on besides my Macbook power cable, Lightning cable, and my Earpods (  ) was my WiiU tablet power cord. And in that last case, it's for sure an animal product thing - but it was also really easy to repair.
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Cats have an ornate sense of spite, and sniffing out expense.
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EL BROMANCE posted:If I see someone selling a Mac Mini with a 680gb Fusion drive, and the screenshot confirms 'Fusion' but shows a logical volume of a 180gb Intel SSD and a 500gb Apple 'branded' drive, this is a DIY bodge yeah? I don't really want to deal with Fusion so if I can reverse this and have a 180gb fast system/apps drive and a 500gb storage (mainly iTunes I guess as all my photo stuff is on a WD 2tb USB 3 external which I'm guessing would bench a bit faster anyway) it sounds better to me.
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FCKGW posted:The Mac Pro owns but High Sierra is going to be the last OS update you will get. The mini will (hopefully) get a couple more OS updates out of it. Is the Mac Pro comment something that Apple announced or are you just arbitrarily saying that?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Oh man it's been a minute since I thought about Fusion drives (does Apple still offer it in any products?). It's standard on all the 2017 refresh 27" iMac configs and one 21" 4K config. Optional in the rest of the iMacs and probably the Mini.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Oh man it's been a minute since I thought about Fusion drives (does Apple still offer it in any products?). Yeah that sounds like a DIY job, but whether it's an official or DIY Fusion setup you can always undo it. Cool, didn't know you could undo the official one but those drives are so small on the SSD side I guess it's not worth doing. I think they used to offer 3tb fusions but the ones I'm seeing for the newest iMacs only go to 2tb. The lack of ssd in my iMac was the only thing that let it down and it made my Air feel like it was outpacing it sometimes so no way I'm going back to just spinning.
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SourKraut posted:Is the Mac Pro comment something that Apple announced or are you just arbitrarily saying that? Just a hunch. Sierra dropped pre-2010 Mac Pros and I think when the new Pros drop next year or two they can move the generation requirements up again to 2012 or newer.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Cool, didn't know you could undo the official one but those drives are so small on the SSD side I guess it's not worth doing. I think you might have a mistaken impression that there's a large difference between unofficial and official Fusion. There's no custom hardware involved. Fusion is implemented in CoreStorage, the macOS logical volume manager. It doesn't care whether the physical drives are Apple labeled. Apple didn't provide any GUI tools to format Fusion volumes, but they did build that capability into their 'diskutil' command line tool. diskutil's documentation doesn't really talk about Fusion, but naturally people on the internet have reverse engineered what options to use, so guides are a google search away. If you buy that machine you should play around with it set up as Fusion to see if you like it. Long as the SSD and HDD are good ones, you don't need to worry about any higher risk of it spontaneously breaking on you than an official fusion drive.
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Pollyanna posted:Is Apple known to use some kind of byproduct in their Earpods that animals like to eat? Cause my cat keeps chewing the poo poo out of mine, especially when I just bought a new pair two hours ago god loving dammit. 
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My cat really loves using the edges of the MacBook Pro display to scratch his face. It's both cute and annoying. Mac Hardware megathread - They're cat toys, too
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Pivo posted:My cat really loves using the edges of the MacBook Pro display to scratch his face. It's both cute and annoying. They're actually scenting it. Your cat owns it now, sorry.
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SwissCM posted:They're actually scenting it. Your cat owns it now, sorry. On the Internet, nobody knows... 
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BobHoward posted:I think you might have a mistaken impression that there's a large difference between unofficial and official Fusion. There's no custom hardware involved. Fusion is implemented in CoreStorage, the macOS logical volume manager. It doesn't care whether the physical drives are Apple labeled. Oh interesting, I was always under the impression hardware wise for the official ones it was a single physical unit due to the SSD size reportedly being tiny for most implementations. quote:If you buy that machine you should play around with it set up as Fusion to see if you like it. Long as the SSD and HDD are good ones, you don't need to worry about any higher risk of it spontaneously breaking on you than an official fusion drive. I've found one I'm more interested in, but it's good to have the info to hand as everything I'm looking at does have both ssd and spinning disks. I've always liked Fusion from an 'on paper' POV but always read so many people complain about how it doesn't really get you the speeds you were hoping, and the automated movement of files between the drives doesn't work that good. I just presumed putting system and apps on the ssd by hand, and content on the other drive would just simplify everything. I don't really want it moving something I don't use often but would really benefit from the speed off the ssd because I'm listening some albums a bunch of times, but maybe it's smarter than that.
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It is smarter than that and I don't think there are 2 drive bays in a Mac mini so it would have to be VERY custom (not worth the effort) for someone to have a spinning platter and an solid state drive in there. I'm thinking that it's a legit fusion drive and that's just how the hardware reporter is displaying the info.
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GutBomb posted:It is smarter than that and I don't think there are 2 drive bays in a Mac mini so it would have to be VERY custom (not worth the effort) for someone to have a spinning platter and an solid state drive in there. I'm thinking that it's a legit fusion drive and that's just how the hardware reporter is displaying the info. 2010-2012 minis can fit two drives, you just need to get the dual cable. I believe the server version had dual drive as a BTO option and the cases are the same. https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Parts/Mac-Mini-Dual-Drive-Kit/IF171-005-1 I had a diy fusion in my 2010 mini and it worked the same as a regular fusion drive because you're using the same apple tools. If you have a big enough SSD you'll see same performance as you would separate drives. FCKGW fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Jun 11, 2017 |
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I have a 2008 White Macbook I'm having an issue with. It will not charge or run from the battery. Things I have tried: 1) Reset SMC 2) Different A/C adapter 3) Bought new battery. Lion can see the battery but says it's not charging. The new battery I bought has about 70% charge which OS X can see but will not power on. Light on charger stays green. Coconut Battery sees the battery but says that it's charging with 0.0 watts. Any thoughts? I'm giving this away but I would like to get the battery fixed first if I can.
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Those have a separate power board that connects to the mainboard, don't they? https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Core+Duo+MagSafe+Board+Replacement/288 I'd try that, if you're really intent on salvaging it.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Oh interesting, I was always under the impression hardware wise for the official ones it was a single physical unit due to the SSD size reportedly being tiny for most implementations. Originally the Fusion SSD was always 128GB, but the past couple of years or so Apple decided to reduce cost on 1TB configs by using a weird 24GB SSD instead. It's still a separate drive, just small. Natural confusion though, what with things like Seagate's SSHDs which integrate a small amount of flash into a spinning disk.
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Pivo posted:Those have a separate power board that connects to the mainboard, don't they? $2.45 from PowerbookMedic. I already took it apart to get a kids toy out of the Superdirve, I'll give that a shot. Thanks Pivo.
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FCKGW posted:Just a hunch. Sierra dropped pre-2010 Mac Pros and I think when the new Pros drop next year or two they can move the generation requirements up again to 2012 or newer. If they require Metal going forward it'll be interesting. Maybe they'll let you run it if you have the right video card? * Nvidia – GeForce gtx 4xx and newer * Intel – HD4000 and newer (ivy bridge and newer) * AMD – HD7000 and newer GutBomb posted:It is smarter than that and I don't think there are 2 drive bays in a Mac mini so it would have to be VERY custom (not worth the effort) for someone to have a spinning platter and an solid state drive in there. I'm thinking that it's a legit fusion drive and that's just how the hardware reporter is displaying the info. 2012 and earlier have room for two 2.5" drives. 2014 has one 2.5" and a spot for a pcie SSD stick.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Cool, didn't know you could undo the official one but those drives are so small on the SSD side I guess it's not worth doing. I think they used to offer 3tb fusions but the ones I'm seeing for the newest iMacs only go to 2tb. The lack of ssd in my iMac was the only thing that let it down and it made my Air feel like it was outpacing it sometimes so no way I'm going back to just spinning. The two highest end 27-inch iMacs can be custom configured with 2TB or 3TB Fusion drives, but the 21-inch iMacs no longer have an option for anything higher than 1TB, be it Fusion or SSD.
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