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I'm not sure if this is a software question or a hardware one, but here goes: At some point, are refurbished MBPs going to start coming with Lion pre-installed? I know you get a download toke, but that's not practical for my sister, who is looking into getting one soon.
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Mex posted:Does she have any problems accessing the app store? Other than the couple of hours wait, Lion OSX upgrade is seriously, retarded easy. I think you have to click Accept like 3 times and you just wait 30 minutes. It's honestly very smooth. She is in the boonies on satellite internet with a 200MB/day cap.
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Jul 21, 2011 04:43
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The $799 Mini really seems like the way to go, just because you're going to spend some amount to upgrade the base model to 4GB of RAM anyway.
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Jul 23, 2011 18:38
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The 13 inch MBP could certainly disappear, but I'm really hoping it becomes something much more deserving of the name "Pro". Ditch the optical drive for a HDD/SDD combo, and put in a proper graphics chip like the new Mac Mini. It can be priced at a premium compared to the cheaper Air - perhaps $1500 or so for the base model.
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Jul 26, 2011 05:46
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illcendiary posted:What's the difference between this: I think the best solution is an iOS device with Touchpad installed. http://www.edovia.com/touchpad
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Aug 8, 2011 00:24
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My Magic Trackpad is feeling a little sticky thanks to the AC going out. What's the best way to clean this guy?
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Aug 13, 2011 03:59
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There were some refurb 2011 minis very briefly sometime last week, according to this: http://refurb-tracker.com/ Prices were $519 for the low end, $699 for the high end.
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Oct 17, 2011 22:03
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Pixel-doubled web sites are going to look so bad on that screen.
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Dec 14, 2011 16:47
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Bob Morales posted:It's like Firewire all over again: Nobody buys it because it's too expensive and it's expensive because nobody buys it. Don't write it off quite yet. If I've understood these crazy hardware sites correctly, Intel's Thunderbolt support starts on the new Ivy Bridge boards, so it really hasn't had a full industry-wide launch. Apple should also get USB 3.0 once they start using Ivy Bridge parts, since it's built into the chipset.
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Mar 2, 2012 19:24
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I am not sure if it would affect the sound quality, but this (pretty decent) Logitech headset comes with this little doodad, which does exactly what it looks like it does: If you are attached to your current headset, you could get it and just plug in yours instead.
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Mar 5, 2012 01:26
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chupacabraTERROR posted:I'd like to do it this way, since I want to leave my desk speakers plugged into the "audio out" plug and the headset plugged into the "audio in", as if it were just a standalone microphone. A USB mic is definitely the best option for this, since you can just leave it plugged in all the time, and switch what is active by option-clicking on the sound menulet.  (Though, confusingly, OS X refers to the audio out jack as 'headphones,' even on a desktop Mac.)
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Mar 5, 2012 15:22
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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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The version of Civ V on the Mac is pretty poorly optimized. It runs orders of magnitude better in boot camp.
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Mar 28, 2012 16:01
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Casao posted:What's the outlook on the mini? Mac rumors says don't buy, but they don't show any rumors about updates and it's only about halfway through its usual cycle. It's waiting on Ivy Bridge, like the rest of the line.
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Apr 15, 2012 16:58
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FlashBangBob posted:Or, we're going to install the operating system on built in 64-128GB SSDs and give you a spinning drive for storage, standard across all laptops. It would be great if an unannounced feature of Mountain Lion made this simple. They're not going to tell normal people they have to manage storage in the way it would currently be set up.
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May 3, 2012 13:52
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How do the Momentus drives work if you use Boot Camp? It seems like the caching would get reset every time you switch OSes.
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May 8, 2012 04:24
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Sinestro posted:He is saying that it would be useless for a while after you switched OSes because it would be caching all the files for the other OS. This is what I was wondering about - it seems like time spent on another OS would uncache files for the primary OS. I just wasn't sure how quickly the drive decided that the files (or just sectors of the hard drive) cached were no longer useful.
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May 8, 2012 04:45
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That's a mockup made by some lovely website, not the real thing.
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May 15, 2012 18:14
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If Apple ditches ethernet, they may decide to include two Thunderbolt ports instead, which should allow for two standard monitors with adapters?
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May 21, 2012 21:01
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Mercurius posted:I'm kind of hoping that 2560x1600 resolution isn't correct for the 15" MBP, because that's only effectively 1280x800 in HiDPI mode. This is why the 13" still has a 1280x800 screen!
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Jun 6, 2012 23:35
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AlternateAccount posted:HiDPI needs to really have a 50% or 75% mode which is smoother, but doesn't outright double. Would probably increase the size of apps way too much to have 3-4 different sets of their graphic assets, but it would be nice. You could even run the different apps in different HiDPI modes. That would be superkeen. The reason HiDPI and 2x mode on iOS work so easily is that they simply double the number of pixels. Any app that doesn't support HiDPI will just look ugly, but function the same, since they can just multiply it by two. I am not sure a retina Mac will be a very pleasant experience for the period just after it's released, and potentially much longer. Lots of older Mac apps that aren't being actively developed will probably never get retina updates, and there's no good way to deliver retina images on the web, so almost any picture or graphic online is going to look like crap.
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Jun 7, 2012 04:09
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I wonder if you can actually plug three monitors into the new MBP. It has HDMI and two Thunderbolt ports.
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Jun 11, 2012 20:12
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badjohny posted:I thought thunderbolt was two monitors each. So couldn't you have five monitors hooked up? Two on each TB and one in the HDMI? True! I was thinking purely of non-$800 monitors.
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Jun 11, 2012 20:15
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chupacabraTERROR posted:Oh no, they're not immediately updating their massive creative suite for your first generation high-end laptop?! A few months until an update? Definitely getting hosed here. If they don't update the version released just a few months ago, as implied by Apple in the WWDC keynote, and instead wait until CS7, then you'll have to shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars for an upgrade that is probably a year or more away. So yeah, you would be getting hosed.
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Aug 27, 2012 17:14
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Bob Morales posted:Amazon, NewEgg, wherever there is a sale. Watch slickdeals There's a thread in Deals, too: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3475459 Just don't buy OCZ.
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Sep 27, 2012 02:28
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I really hope that a Mac Mini refresh keeps the dedicated graphics on the higher-end model.
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Oct 16, 2012 16:14
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Bob Morales posted:They wouldn't have any justification for going to the new, proprietary SSD other than 'gently caress users who upgrade themselves', right? Economies of scale?
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Oct 16, 2012 16:53
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RIP, Mac Mini with dedicated graphics. 2011-2012. You will be missed.
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Oct 23, 2012 19:32
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Oxford Comma posted:How does it compare to the GPU in the 2011 Mac Mini? The 6630M? It's a big improvement over the base 2011 Mini, but well behind the 6630M. 2011 base 2011 with 6630M 2012 Edit: beaten, but I've got links
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Oct 23, 2012 21:37
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"Fusion Drive" is entirely a software thing. quote:For starters, the 128GB of NAND is simply an SSD on a custom form factor PCB with the same connector that's used in the new MacBook Air and rMBP models. I would expect this SSD to use the same Toshiba or Samsung controllers we've seen in other Macs. The iMac I played with had a Samsung based SSD inside. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6406/understanding-apples-fusion-drive Cheap SSDs won't be getting anywhere near this kind of space for the foreseeable future. I assume Fusion drive is a major part of whatever Mac Pro plans Apple has next year.
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Oct 25, 2012 17:59
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Electric Bugaloo posted:I'm going to add that I signed up for iTunes match in September, and it's been amazing. I still haven't wiped the music from my Air- and I'll probably replace it before I'd do that just out of habit (and also because I frequently travel to areas without fast wifi for long stretches and I want to have my music)- but it's a fantastic option for people with small capacity drives. You could easily get by- especially if you're always on campus during the school year- with uploading everything to Match, backing it all up on an external drive (or better, keeping it on another computer), wiping the music from- let's say- your MBA, and just streaming it all. Just remember to always pay your annual $25 fee and you should be set. iTunes match has been mostly great, but there's definitely some weird edge cases you have to watch out for. I've had trouble with getting clean versions of explicit songs, and the mono versions of the Beatles albums are downloaded elsewhere as stereo.
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Oct 30, 2012 16:07
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Daric posted:Does anyone here use a Mac Mini for a media center? I have a giant desktop I built a few years ago. It was my only computer until i got a Macbook Pro in June. Now I just use to as a media center for the house. I'm thinking about switching it out with the Mac Mini because it'll take up way less room and be compatible with my Pro. If you are already on board with having a complicated-rear end computer involved in playing videos, and don't find it to be a bit much, the mini makes for a fine media center, considering how tiny and quiet they are. If you buy a recent one, you can even play some basic games. But, I think I'm about to sell my 2006 mini and switch over to an AppleTV, because I just want things to be simple.
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Nov 5, 2012 20:46
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I always thought this was a convenient-looking Macbook Air storage solution: http://theniftyminidrive.com Unfortunately, the 11-inch lacks the SD card slot.
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Nov 27, 2012 21:55
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So this is what Disk Utility says after I format my new Intel 330 SSD: http://db.tt/bXmxETZJ But this happens after anything tries to put stuff on it: http://db.tt/KBP1Hlqa Seems like I have a bad SSD? (Apologies for Dropbox image links, posting from iPad)
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Jan 2, 2013 01:49
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I wonder if Apple/someone else might ever build a video card into a Thunderbolt display, which would streamline things significantly.
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Jan 23, 2013 19:28
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Logikv9 posted:It's totally subjective but I just don't know how to use it. I haven't spent a lot of time on an macbook, but I use my university's iMacs a lot (with a keyboard and mouse) and I try to do things and I feel that I'm doing it slower than I would be normally on a windows machine. I think you'd be fine as long as you go in with an open mind. There are things that are different, but as long as you're willing to go with the flow and accept that things are going to work differently, you should be okay. (Also, having a machine that is yours alone should help immensely. I can never really feel comfortable on a someone else's computer, Mac or otherwise.)
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Feb 15, 2013 22:01
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I like Cmd because I can hit it with my thumb easily. Ctrl requires me to contort my pinky in unnatural ways. This, however, renders the argument moot: 
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Feb 15, 2013 23:45
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SourKraut posted:Why? Someone can both like Apple products and want to customize them to suit their needs. 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.
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Mar 19, 2013 21:50
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Maniblack posted:My girlfriend has a 15 inch rMBP and she complains constantly about websites and applications that are "blurry". I have taken a look at what she is describing and sometimes I can see it, but sometimes I can't. Is this a common problem, and what have you guys done to resolve it? I would guess she is just seeing websites and apps that have not been properly optimized for the retina display.
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I don't really see them releasing a retina 13" Air in the next few years, now that the retina 13" Pro exists. If they both had retina displays, they'd be almost identical, and if they could sell the retina machines for the price of the Air, they wouldn't be selling them alongside the non-retina machines in the first place. It makes much more sense to keep the Airs as non-retina machines that prioritize battery life, and keep pushing the price down.
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