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~Coxy posted:Only the best Macs Apple ever made. I am kinda shocked the Twentieth Anniversary Mac isn't in there. I STILL lust after one of those.
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I am seeing the big lag spikes on my Haswell 13" MBA and the older generation Airport Express as a wireless bridge to my Buffalo gigabit router on the 5GHz band. No packet loss either. I plugged in via my Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit adapter and everything was sub 0.5ms like it should be. Edit: terminal output Terminal posted:ping 192.168.2.1 mayodreams fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Nov 1, 2013 |
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PRADA SLUT posted:What practical applications do 16GB of RAM in a 13" have anyway? Games don't utilize that much and I thought things like video editing held files on the disk. Virtual Machines and a lot of browser tabs (lol Chrome) can have a heavy impact on ram. Using a Mac for pro IT work means having Outlook, a VM, and a number of other apps open. Even on 8GB, that can get cozy depending on the Windows apps you are running.
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Nov 3, 2013 13:59
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BlackMK4 posted:2.5mm to RCA I know this is nit picky, but technically its a 3.5mm / 1/8" jack. The smaller 2.5mm jacks were on smart phones for a while during the last decade, but 3.5mm has been the standard headphone jack for most headphones aside from the more expensive/professional 1/4" ones.
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Nov 4, 2013 16:29
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CygnusTM posted:First, don't borrow one. Buy one, and start doing regular Time Machine backups. You will appreciate this one day. I can not emphasize this enough. Going to echo this. People who have a cavalier attitude towards backing up their data have never lost it before. Pro Tip: data recovery costs WAY more than an external hard drive, and doesn't always work.
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Nov 12, 2013 18:30
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kuskus posted:...but I'd like to get ~600MB/s. I ordered another SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB ($156) and since I have an extra OWC enclosure that can RAID 2 drives, I'm scheming on doing this on Thursday: Doing a RAID0 on your boot volume is an exceptionably bad idea. I like to call it RAID roulette where your data is what catches the bullet in the bits.
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Nov 12, 2013 22:42
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~Coxy posted:As long as you have your boot volume backed up then who cares? Sure, you could keep your volume backed up, but why risk a failure? I think you will have a hard time finding anyone who would advocate using RAID0 for a boot volume. Because with SSDs, the speed change is marginal in normal desktop usage. If you are looking to do more pro workflows, then you have the wrong computer to start with. Using a low rent RAID device is hardly the same as using a purpose built commercial controller. Good enterprise level raid controllers start at more than the cost of a 256GB SSD. If you want stupid fast, get one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AJ1344529 and a PCI-E thunderbolt enclosure: http://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpressiii.html Although, I have no idea if that would boot OS X, but it is WAY faster than a RAID0 of consumer grade SSDs.
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Captain Lou posted:Anyone getting one? I'm strongly considering it. I'm a software dev and dabble in audio so I'd definitely be using the thing, it still feels like it would be overpowered though. No use for the GPU, for one, besides being able to have dual monitors (without some crappy setup). I am not really sure who this machine is aimed at. I won't go full nerd rage, but no one should really consider this thing for like 99% of applications. No workstation should ever lack drive expansion, have graphics cards soldered in, and rely on an expansion technology that offer very little in the way of bandwidth and real world products.
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Dec 18, 2013 23:43
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Caged posted:What he said. I can't see what the new Mac Pro would be good for that an iMac wouldn't be equally good at. What are people doing that uses ATI GPU rendering on a Mac? The acceleration Apple is building into the OS uses both AMD and Nvidia hardware, but almost NO ONE in the professional space uses AMD tech for computational uses. OpenCL is coming along, but is no where near the foothold CUDA has. It is not even close. The fact that Apple is turing a very blind eye to this oversight is the most ridiculous thing about this Mac "Pro".
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Electric Bugaloo posted:In fact, I'd argue that the worst mistake Apple made with this thing is that they waited so long. They forced a lot of people to switch platforms who otherwise might've stuck around. You hit the nail on the head. I literally sat in a meeting with the FCP lead straight from Cupertino about two years ago where he said "What if the Mac Pro went away?". And we told him we'd ditch Apple because we need actual workstations, regardless of how Apple thinks we should use computers. My major objection to his suggestion we use iMacs was huge lack of RAM and number of cores because we did a lot of 2D and 3D animation, and there is no substitute for cores. He said "you should send out those jobs to a third party and just use iMacs'. For a University.  The Mac Pro was dead, and the reason this loving thing took so long was because they had to start from scratch when literally everyone was pissed that they did not have a modern workstation. The combination of the Mac Pro never updating, thus being VERY overpriced for old hardware, and the complete gently caress you they gave to the FCP crowd has driven people to Adobe and Avid in droves. And funny enough, those platforms work better on Windows, and that is where you can get real workstations from Dell and HP too. Edit: clarity and some more details. mayodreams fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Dec 19, 2013 |
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Dec 19, 2013 01:49
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Smashing Link posted:How long should we expect to wait for the old Mac Pro prices to drop? I really want one of those awesome aluminum cases to set up a server. Nothing in that case is standard, and it is a HUGE pain in the rear end to work in unless you are dealing with RAM or a PCI-E card.
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Dec 19, 2013 16:46
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A few places are reporting that the CPU in the Trash Bin Pro is removable.MacRumors posted:Using a removable socketed processor rather than the soldered processors found in most of Apple's Macs means that users may be able to upgrade their machines in the future as their needs change and/or chip prices decline. http://www.macrumors.com/2013/12/27/new-mac-pro-confirmed-to-have-removable-cpu/ Someone clearly does not understand how Intel prices the professional line... Edit: I made the mistake of reading the comments on that thread, and it made me truly appreciate the number of smart and knowledgeable people we have on SHSC. 
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Dec 28, 2013 18:41
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movax posted:Intel doesn't drop prices pretty much ever after launch; remember it costs them about the price of a dinner at Applebee's to produce a single Haswell. After recouping R&D/capital expenses, it's a money fountain. That is precisely my point. Mac bloggers don't understand the real workstation situation. There were idiots in there saying RAM would get cheaper over time too. My experience is that is NOT the case with ECC/Registered RAM. In the more recent Mac Pros, the CPU's didn't have the heat spreader and idiots cracked the die trying to replace them. I think even Anand did on his first try, and if it can happen to him, scrubs buying an expensive pretty looking Mac are doomed.
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Dec 28, 2013 23:57
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Binary Badger posted:I'm still hoping Apple will eventually cave in and get nVidia to offer a solution for this model. They've always been a fan of the 'not relying on a single vendor' model if they could help it, and especially if the alternate vendors give them some kind of a price break. I know a lot of people who salivate at the thought of having workstation class CUDA available to them in such a small package (a lot of PhotoSlop editors.)
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Dec 31, 2013 21:37
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wdarkk posted:I'm unwilling to pay for access to a dude that was super-wrong about the Apple ARM notebooks and was so smug about it. Me too. Industry rumors are hard to come by, and I really like being on the cutting edge, but when he did the Cartman-esque "SCREW YOU GUYS, I'M GOING HOME" I lost interest. If anyone has a better place for that type of coverage, I'd love to see it.
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Dec 31, 2013 22:57
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GregNorc posted:So once again, my macbook pro (13-inch, Mid 2010 model) is refusing to send audio over HDMI to my hdtv. I think your cable may be suspect. Personally I prefer using a MDP to HDMI dongle then a reputable cable. Not all HDMI cables are equal, as some support the newer standards and some don't. Don't run to best buy and drop $70 on a MONSTER one, but a quality one in the $10-20 range at retail or something from monoprice may be a better bet. As for a free option, assuming you are on Lion or newer, boot into the recovery partition and do a permissions repair on your boot volume. I've had fix external audio issues in the past.
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GregNorc posted:I actually did get it at monoprice... this is a decent one right?: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=102&cp_id=10246&cs_id=1024603&p_id=9475&seq=1&format=2 I was getting at using an Apple MDP->HDMI dongle and a good HDMI cable combo. We used to buy the monoprice MDP adapters and cables, but they turned out to be garbage and were really flaky. It is not worth the $10 or so to cheap out on them.
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