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Shmoogy
Mar 21, 2007

cbirdsong posted:

There's customizing to suit your needs, and then there's thinking you know how to manage temperatures in a laptop better than Apple engineers.

The whole thing is a heatsink guys, I'm pretty sure the fans aren't really necessary. Dude probably even gets an extra 5 minutes of battery life without all those garbage fans sucking up energy too. Sarcasm.. just in case it wasn't obvious

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Shmoogy
Mar 21, 2007

Shin-chan posted:

If that 1/2 lb makes the difference between you lifting your laptop to put it in a travel bag start lifting weights buddy. :cheeky:


Extra 1/2 lb here and there in a messenger bag really can stress your back/shoulder over time.

I don't think the 13 rMBP is really worth it until the next refresh, but I'm also not the target for it- so I prefer an MBA to it.

Shmoogy
Mar 21, 2007
I don't think most businesses/professionals who would use a mac pro would use a hackintosh for their work. They're generally pretty stable, but when every bit of downtime or trouble potentially costs you a lot of money, it's better to pay more and get a secure and stable machine. For the record, I've been exclusively using a hackintosh and it's been extremely stable over the past 6 months - but occasionally my stock trading program will crash, and it never did on my macbook air- but that could be coincidental with newer versions of java causing problems, not necessarily the machine.

Shmoogy
Mar 21, 2007

etalian posted:

So looks like the Haswell Retina models got delayed?

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/20/next-generation-13-inch-macbook-pro-benchmarked-with-modest-performance-gains/

Looks as if it's going to be a silent refresh? Modest speed upgrade probably mean the same excellent increase in battery life.

Shmoogy
Mar 21, 2007

Choadmaster posted:

As mentioned a few months back:
Fiber-optic Thunderbolt (20 meters)
Now you just have to get someone in Japan to buy it for you, since they won't ship elsewhere.

Wow wow wee wow- $860~ USD for the 20 meter cable.

Shmoogy
Mar 21, 2007

Pseudo-God posted:

I'd really love to run two of these. The ultimate desk setup! Too bad I am poor as poo poo.

I do that and it's awesome. Going to get a third within the year, hopefully.

If you do anything that makes the real estate worth spending the money, it's so worth it.

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Shmoogy
Mar 21, 2007

movax posted:

It's totally an effect of PSU load / transients, I'm just disappointed because I hold Apple to a higher standard of engineering and they messed up something simple. :(

My Lenovos all screech when you load the 5V rail which is also extremely disappointing, but I don't hold them to the same expectations as Apple.

Yeah I looked up the issue and it doesn't look like it was "only" a bad batch of PSUs - lots of people have noted the issue, but it doesn't appear to be something that geniuses acknowledge and replace - from what I saw.

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