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Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Three-Phase posted:

Is it just me or is FileVault on any modern Mac with an SSD almost transparently fast?

We've done testing at work and at most it's 4% difference in performance which you're not going to notice.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 19:30

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 21:41

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Amphetama posted:

He sent me this right after I last posted, too: "The refurbish was through apple. The issue was not hardware, it was a software reboot and HD recovery that led to them replacing all the RAM.

What the Christ does that even mean? I mean what actually happened here? Did they just re-install OSX?? Is he on loving :catdrugs:

? What?

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 01:34

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

I Am Crake posted:

Wait, there's porn you have to pay for?

The best porn you have to pay for.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 23:07

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Binary Badger posted:

You didn't buy from them personally, did you?

I would in a heartbeat. 3000+ feedback at 100% while selling refurbished computing equipment is loving amazing.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2017 19:02

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Khablam posted:

Anyone who expected Apple's first show to not just be a showcase for their own products was being naive

For a company that sells a "premium" product that sure is a rather non-premium level thing.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2017 22:08

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

TACD posted:

Oh, farts. My 2011 Pro has succumbed to that graphical issue and won't boot up - a tidy 45 days after the repair program ended

Hopefully the Fruit Stand will take pity and do me a solid anyway. Welp that's my story.

Dunno if this helps at all but if you bought it later you may still be okay.

Apple posted:

The program covers affected MacBook Pro models until December 31, 2016 or four years from its original date of sale, whichever provides longer coverage for you.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2017 01:14

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Chris Knight posted:

Steamed clams.

I have to admit to laughing WAY too hard at this. :golfclap:

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 21:02

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Just buy an iPad pro. It's basically the same as an iMac.

I never even knew I wanted a 27" iPad Pro until just now.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 04:01

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Yeast posted:

I worked for Apple for 5 years, expanded batteries were extremely common.

9/10 it was a result of people ignoring the 'service battery' warning. In most instances, once the battery was replaced, the top case would 'pop back' into form and continue working. On the Airs at least.

Very occasionally the trackpad glass would fracture as well. SOP was to charge the customer for a new battery, but to replace any damaged components for free.

Popcorn!

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 01:36

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Platystemon posted:

Yeah you can?

You have to use a dongle, but it comes with the phone.

Or join us in the future and get a drat Bluetooth headset.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 17:54

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

My 2011 MBP finally started to graphically poo poo the bed 3 months to the day after the extended repair period ended so I did the only logical thing and ordered a 2016 MBP with a 1tb drive and the Radeon 460 in it.

:toot:

Feels good.

Apple also called me to confirm I really did order one and then tell me it was shipping today instead of in 10 days like the mac store app said.

:sotw:

# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 20:01

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

If Apple had an ounce of humor they would have announced the new Mac Pro yesterday.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2017 13:33

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

So apparently "we're shipping it today" said last week was in relation to the USB-C adapter I ordered at the same time and NOT my goddamn laptop. APPLE!!!!! :argh:

# ¿ Apr 4, 2017 23:47

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Bob Morales posted:

Interesting teardown and comparison of a fake charger and a real charger

http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-teardown.html

I'm saving this and providing it to anyone who whines to me about 'Apple markup'. Go ahead and buy the goddamn gas station version. See you when your house burns down or your computer explodes.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2017 03:26

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Despite UPS' best efforts*, I finally got the new MBP. I absolutely love it! Th only thing is that the trackpad is only slightly smaller than my whole house, so I keep making things happen randomly with the sides of my hands. Is there some way to crank down the sensitivity or am I just going to have to get used to it? I just accidentally sent a partial email because of it.

E: Actually I just realized I accidentally hit the SEND button on the new touch bar. Hmmm. I think I'm going to have to be careful with the way I hover my fingers over it.

*My wife was waiting for the driver and heard something at the door. When she looked, he had left a SORRY WE MISSED YOU sticker without ringing, knocking, or barely making a peep. :argh:

Doctor Zero fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Apr 12, 2017

# ¿ Apr 12, 2017 22:56

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Pivo posted:

Well that's not very consumer-friendly and has got to be against the law in some jurisdictions and hasn't been my experience. What's stopping repair places from charging you for unnecessary repairs under the guise that it might fix it?

I see you've never taken a car to a mechanic.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 20:20

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Animal posted:

Is the dongle life that bad?

The dongle life is awesome. Embrace the dongle.

:dong:

# ¿ May 1, 2017 16:17

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

ehnus posted:

How are people liking life with the touch bar? Or, rather, without a physical escape key?

I love it. I love being able to customize it. I love that it figures out that I'm typing in an address or email in web fields and shows me helpful suggestions that I can just tap. I love the volume and video controls.

I don't love how sensitive it is and how I have to adjust how I hold my fingers over the keys otherwise i accidentally hit send a lot while typing email. However a quick reconfigure to move the send button over to the right helped a LOT.

I totally respect that people don't like it but it just works for me.

E: I loving ADORE the Touch ID reader especially since my password vault uses it. Unlocking with my watch is also cool but that's not really a touch bar thing.

# ¿ May 6, 2017 16:02

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

vivisecting posted:

while I understand where you're coming from, I need to consider the fact that $200 CAD would definitely buy me a weekend away with my girlfriend in an exotic European locale.

lesbian sex romp? or the ability to play my emulated games slightly faster? HMMMMMMMM

Use your fat SSD to record movies of said lesbian sex romp and sell them in order to afford a whole lot of vacations. Duh.

# ¿ May 25, 2017 19:00

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

What are people using for a dock for a MacBook Pro 2017?

# ¿ Feb 18, 2019 00:57

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Hope this is the proper thread, but does anyone have any recommendations for a Mac-friendly NAS? I hooked a decent SSD to my AirPort Extreme but it's slow as poo poo if my Mac is on Wireless. The Airport's HD is for Time Machine which works fine. I want to have something that I can keep files on centrally between my machines, ideally something fault tolerant.

TIA

# ¿ Jan 1, 2021 00:55

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Roadie posted:

Probably the lowest-end one that will both be reliable and won't annoy the poo poo out of you would be the Synology DS220j. Synology is general is about the gold standard for NASes you don't have to babysit (and that past the most basic ones are also useful as general-purpose servers), though their product line is an awful mess of fiddly differences between models.

Cool thanks. I was looking at that and looked at all the options for different models and figured I�d ask here. Glad I was on the right track.

:wotwot:

# ¿ Jan 1, 2021 07:06

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

I was definitely updating my MacBook Pro 2017 when the new models come out, but my cat tried to climb on the clamshell while the little stands I have were on and he cracked the LCD on the lower right.

I had planned on trading it in, but that�s probably hosed now. Should I bother getting it repaired? How much is a new screen vs how much will it reduce what I get for it?

drat cat. :argh:

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 03:49

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

akadajet posted:

So mostly music and movie piracy. Just get an Apple Music and Apple TV sub.

JFC stop telling other people how to spend their money.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2021 14:43

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Since the cat hosed up the screen on my 2016 MacBook Pro, I was hoping to get a nice M1 Mac, but this has far exceeded my expectations and I �uh� may have went a liiiiitle crazy with it, but it feels loving great to finally have a top of the line machine.

I cannot wait to see how fast renders are. :toot:

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 14:38

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Oh, do people recommend just starting from scratch and installing everything fresh with the New Mac Pro? I�ve been importing the old machines to the new for like 12 years, and I suspect some of the odd things I experience like finder pref corruption is because of that.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 14:40

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Hasturtium posted:

Hey, look at that. Johnny 5 is still alive.

And needs input. :parrot:

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 18:30

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Ok Comboomer posted:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/19/apple-polishing-cloth-sold-out-november/

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 22:24

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Shaocaholica posted:

I'm trying to think of a real or imagined scenario where the thickness matters.

The self-burns. They write themselves.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 17:48

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Ok Comboomer posted:

I wonder if you could create a crowdfunding website where people could prebuy a specific port of a game.

So like say it�s going to cost a dev $500k (I don�t know how much ports cost ) to port their PC game to Mac.

If the game�s popular enough you could probably dig up 7,000-10,000 nerds who�d shell out $50-$100 or more to special-request it and pre-fund that work.

You could call it ... Pick Starter? Stick Stopper? Flick Stapper?

There's a good name in there somewhere.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2021 17:00

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Ok Comboomer posted:

I think Apple expects to brute force their way of seeing things through on that front in the same way that they handled Flash.

Right now it�s easy to look at the existing VR/AR space, which is tiny, and say �look at all this infrastructure that Apple doesn�t play nice with� in the same way that people in 2009 said that the internet was full of Flash and built on Flash and all of multimedia was Flash-based instead of HTML5 and that a piddly little mobile phone wasn�t going to change that no matter how many units it sold.

In 2024 when there�s like 50 million Apple Glasses out in the wild the shape of VR/AR will adapt to Apple�s way of doing things.

If they don�t call them iGlasses I�m going to be pissed.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2021 15:32

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

When I get the Max the first thing I�m going to do is play a game on it. HAHA IM MAD WITH POWAH!

And then I�m going to do a bunch of rendering :swoon:

Lastly here is a picture of me actually checking the delivery status. :f5:

# ¿ Nov 8, 2021 14:54

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

I got my shipping notice and it says it will be here in 11 days and that�s it�s coming express. :raise:

It�s not really going to take that long is it?

# ¿ Nov 11, 2021 23:51

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Roadie posted:

Currently shipping is screwed up for a whole heap of things because of the huge backlogs at any number of ports.

Yeah but it's express, so I assume that means via air? if it was by ship it would have been a month at least.

Also, bring back Spaceward Ho goddamn it! :argh:

# ¿ Nov 12, 2021 17:57

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

blastron posted:

This is due to limitations on how large updates pushed by the App Store can be. There�s a reasonably small cap on download size when updating over cellular data, so in order to make sure that the app is always kept up to date the developers will publish their updated code as an App Store update, then require you to download all the content in-app. This also lets them sidestep certification processes when they want to push out new content without any code changes.

This isn�t a problem outside of the mobile space, since those restrictions don�t exist on computers always connected to wifi.

I wish the size were configurable. I know not everyone does but I have 5g and unlimited data so I wish I could set it to �I don�t give a gently caress download it anyway�

# ¿ Nov 12, 2021 20:18

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

hatty posted:

Yeah emulators run great it�s all you need for gaming on a laptop

OMG I just realized I probably won�t be able to run my AtariST emulator on the new laptop. :negative:

# ¿ Nov 13, 2021 15:45

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Martytoof posted:

Good news

code:

$ brew info hatari
hatari: stable 2.3.1 (bottled), HEAD
Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator
[url]https://hatari.tuxfamily.org[/url]
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/hatari/2.3.1 (37 files, 18.1MB) *

I just set up an ST for Cubase on my new M1 yesterday

oh cool! thanks! I just assumed it wouldn't work. :neckbeard:

# ¿ Nov 13, 2021 19:10

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

When you are doing a shitton of renders or video processing, faster makes a huge difference. Especially since I can�t afford the luxury of having a dedicated render box.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2021 22:10

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

duck monster posted:

I remember being a young dude in the early 90s and there was a local band Yummy Fur (Not to be confused with the scottish band of the same name) that did a kind of manchester style britpop-but-with-techno kinda thing and I absolutely covetted t he keyboardists rig. An atari ST but with a green screen monitor that drove an Akai sampler and a bunch of synths.

The Goth/Industrial band Xorcist also used an Atari ST. He did the theme song to The Iron Helix. :corsair:

Nobody probably cares, but my M1Pro came last night and I cannot explain how utterly loving incredible this thing is. I've never had a top-of-the-line computer before and everything this thing does is loving lightning fast. Browsing, program starts, booting up, and as expected the things I have that take direct advantage of the M1 chip are just loving space magic.

As an example, it used to take me 5 minutes or so to render a decent image in Keyshot on my 2017 MBP. This thing is so fast, I literally can't time it. As soon as I hit the tender button, ding it's done! The real time render on-screen only takes about a second to finish if I move things around.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2021 20:28

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 21:41

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

ZOMG the speakers in this thing are insane!! :rock:

# ¿ Nov 18, 2021 17:25

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