Rumor is a new major ATV upgrade to be announced on Sept. 9. Supposed to be Apples play on smart tvs, apps, and watching TV over the Internet... Worth it to wait.
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Rumor is a new major ATV upgrade to be announced on Sept. 9. Supposed to be Apples play on smart tvs, apps, and watching TV over the Internet... Worth it to wait.
User 479360
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When I went to college, I had to rent a MacBook Pro from the school. They'd charge quite a bit, too - something like $1500/year if I'm not mistaken, because of the Adobe software suite or something.
It was an advertising course. Half design, half sales.
At the end of the course, we could buy the computer for $1. They wiped and reformatted them all before that, though, so we didn't get to keep the software. They'd also add/remove stuff during the summers.
The Real Abed
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That's stupid. What about people who already own a computer and want to use it instead?
AlexMeloche
Member
It seems a few people also have the same prblem. We'll have to ask the IT guys when we officially start school since there's no Apple Stores around here.
In my case, if you had a Macbook Pro from 2013 or more recent, you could just pay for the programs and stuff.
User 479360
Banned
You had to rent the MacBook pro with the supplied software. There was no choice available.
It jumped my tuition up from about $3000/year to $4500.
I know and the rumored gaming aspect actually interests me but my gf already bought it a while ago as a present for me.
I hope Apple at least updates the third generation model with some of the features.
Suggestions on which SSHd to buy?
SSHD or SSD? I have no real experience with the former. The latter, can't go wrong with Samsung EVO 850s (500GB$175) or Crucial MX200 (500GB$170)
My wife is still using her 2008 Macbook. Baggage handlers shattered the screen, the GPU is starting to fail (there's a ribbon of distortion in the corner of the screen whenever the GPU is stressed), and she loads it with files so there's never any disk space on the damn thing, but it still works. Were the GPU and screen not a lost cause I would have suggested an SSD or RAM upgrade a while ago. Even with its problems I'm still willing to be it's got at least another year in it.
I went 6 years between an upgrade of my '08 pre-unibody Macbook Pro to a '14 model.
StopMakingSense
Member
Finally had no need to keep an SSD I had been using as a backup for my wife's iMac and went ahead and threw it into a FW400 enclosure and installed Yosemite on it for my iMac. About 90% of my IO is vastly improved!
Pretty impressive for a FW400 interface.
I'm going to be interested in seeing the speed improvements when I finally get around to tinkering with the MDD G4 I've got sitting around for use as a nostalgia and classic games machine. It's got an SSD, but it'll have to go through an ATA/66 bus...
StopMakingSense
Member
it really only gets a bit bogged down when a lot is happening on the bus with big file transfers. Otherwise anything random access is much quicker. Yosemite's boot times on my HDD were just getting by too painful for me.
Does anyone have issues with external monitors sometimes not being recognized on a Macbook Pro (maybe same issue for iMacs/other Macs in general)?
I use my Macbook closed most of the time, and it's hooked up to my triple monitor setup at my desk. Sometimes one of the displays will not be recognized, and if I'm remembering correctly, it isn't just one of the displays that is always the issue, it seems to move around.
I'm hesitant to buy new cables because most of the time there isn't an issue, but sometimes I have to either unplug/plug back in the cables or just restart the Macbook until the display is recognized.
I use my Macbook closed most of the time, and it's hooked up to my triple monitor setup at my desk. Sometimes one of the displays will not be recognized, and if I'm remembering correctly, it isn't just one of the displays that is always the issue, it seems to move around.
I'm hesitant to buy new cables because most of the time there isn't an issue, but sometimes I have to either unplug/plug back in the cables or just restart the Macbook until the display is recognized.
NinjaCatfish
Member
Yup, I get that too. I use a Dell U2711 which I know has had issues with Displayport with other computers of mine (though that was with an AMD card so it might have been drivers rather than the monitor. Who knows?).
I occasionally have to do the same thing, unplug/replug, reboot, power cycle the monitor, until it works.
NinjaCatfish
Member
Yeah, I thought the same. Have tried three different cables from three different stores/brands and they all had the same issue. It doesn't happen as much with my 2011 MBP as it did with my 2008 MBP, but it still happens ._.
And this is why I asked, thanks! Won't be trying any other cables now.
I never had any problems with my old iMac on Snow Leopard via VGA. I don't know if it's hardware or software related. :/
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/09/01/google-logo
Gruber gonna Gruber.
Skylake details out: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...-faster-core-m-and-ultrabook-gpus-with-edram/
Good news: The 15W (MBA) and 28W (13" MBPr) chips look great. eDRAM now default for all Iris GPUs!
Bad news: Not shipping until next year. Intel..smh.
Good news: The 15W (MBA) and 28W (13" MBPr) chips look great. eDRAM now default for all Iris GPUs!
Bad news: Not shipping until next year. Intel..smh.
Mr. Wonderful
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They could update the MB and 13" MBP. The 15" could be updated, but the integrated GPU wouldn't have eDRAM and would need to rely on a dedicated GPU.
Unfortunately, the 15" is what I was interested in.
Even if the 15" dGPU models are updated, it might make more sense to wait for next Winter/Spring's refresh, as we might get some early 14nm/16nm FinFet+ dedicated mobile GPUs?
Couldn't you just open up the packages for each one and copy stuff into the other one?
When I "open package contents" I see a huge number of esoteric file names and I have no idea what to move and what not to move.
Edit: I'm going to try to use aperture if Apple lets me redownload it.
I would recommend against this.
Messing about in the package structure is asking for trouble.
As far as I know there's no automated way of merging multiple photos libraries.
Your best bet is probably to take the originals files of the smallest library and import them into the largest. You will lose alba and edits and all that.
I guess technically, you could move one photos library to another computer and activate iCloud Photo Library on both computers to merge them on the cloud.... That's kinda crazy talk though.
They were actually iPhoto libraries, and Aperture has an import iPhoto library function. I used it. Not sure if it's perfect, but I have now have a Photos library that is about the size it should be for merging the two older libraries.
But yeah with Photos I don't see a merge function, and when you export the photos from Photos for some reason it doesn't include any of the photos metadata. So that stinks.
I guess this is a strike against using Apples Photos program. If you want to export all your photos later then it's not as good as I should be.
That's one of the reasons I prefer Google Photos; all the photos are just in normal folders inside the Google Drive folder (Google Drive/Google Photos/2015/09/photo.jpg) arranged by date instead of hidden away in a database.
In other Google news, Chrome beta 46 is out. Battery life improvements are really impressive, comparable to Safari now! Check out yourself if you don't believe me.
https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/browser/beta.html
In other Google news, Chrome beta 46 is out. Battery life improvements are really impressive, comparable to Safari now! Check out yourself if you don't believe me.
https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/browser/beta.html
Does google photos have a functionality like apples photo stream that will work automatically with your camera app on iOS and doesn't hog your battery?
I use it on Android and the syncing is extremely robust. I haven't heard anything bad about it on iOS either.
serversurfer
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I actually merged a couple of libraries setting up iCloud Photo Library. Seemed to go okay. I don't remember the exact process, but basically, as you enable iCPL from different devices/libraries, it just merges whatever is stored locally there with the cloud store, which is obviously then available from all enabled devices. I didn't really notice any duplication, so there may be something to handle that on the server side during imports.
I was working on 92GB of photos from ancient busted computers so merge in the cloud would have been problematic even if I was paying apple for that much storage space.
Angelus Errare
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At least Apple didn't go AMD and charge the same price.
serversurfer
Member
lol Well, that is indeed a lot, but just FYI, you can get 200GB of storage for $4/mo. I've no idea if that's actually competitive, but it doesn't strike me as unreasonable. If you're not interested in the cloud access and "access everywhere" might be nice with 92GB of pics and counting you could just upgrade to 200GB for a month, get your libraries merged and downloaded to your primary repository, then go back to the 5GB of free storage after that.
FakeEdit: If, when you referred to old and busted computers, you were concerned iCPL enrollment wouldn't be an option on them, you can just copy the library files to a Mac new enough to sign up, and then use the standard multi-library tricks from there.
User 479360
Banned
Still having the issue where my Bluetooth devices won't wake the computer up, after a complete/refresh with a new install and resetting the PRAM and SMC or whatever they call it.
Any ideas? I need this computer to last for at least another year, and would prefer to not have to deal with a costly repair.
EDIT: Support got information from my computer and they're going to analyze it. But this issue has now happened twice tonight, after not recurring for a couple of weeks.
I can still wake the computer up by pressing the power button -- so far, at least -- but clicking the mouse or touching a key does nothing. Their power lights are off, and if I turn the mouse on and off, it just tries to connect.
Any ideas? I need this computer to last for at least another year, and would prefer to not have to deal with a costly repair.
EDIT: Support got information from my computer and they're going to analyze it. But this issue has now happened twice tonight, after not recurring for a couple of weeks.
I can still wake the computer up by pressing the power button -- so far, at least -- but clicking the mouse or touching a key does nothing. Their power lights are off, and if I turn the mouse on and off, it just tries to connect.
You have to open the app to initiate a sync. It can sync in the background for a certain amount of time after you leave the app, though.
It might do some scheduled things throughout the day, but I know it won't start syncing right after you take a picture or anything like that (unless, of course, you open the app right after).
victreeb3l
Member
I could really use an upgrade on my 15" rMBP. Next time def opting for the 1TB HDD.
I have like 20 gigs of space left and my machine has been chugging. Not as snappy as it once was.
I have like 20 gigs of space left and my machine has been chugging. Not as snappy as it once was.
There's your issue.
victreeb3l
Member
Haha I meant SSD. I have the 2013 15" rMBP. Wow its been 2 years already.
Try putting a bunch of stuff that you don't use frequently on an external drive?
Zeyphersan
Banned
So I was thinking "You know, eventually I'm going to have to get a Surface tablet because I need Windows 10 for Steam In-Home Streaming and Xbox streaming and whatnot. There goes $500" before totally remembering that I can just BootCamp my MBPr and only spend the money on the Windows license
So that's nice
So that's nice
NinjaCatfish
Member
It doesn't do it instantly, but it will scan for new photos occasionally using Background App Refresh.
It hasn't missed a shot for me yet. Only annoying thing is going through and deleting screenshots I take that I don't really want kept.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1106717
Does anyone have a recommendation between these models?
Raised my budget, about $1600. My main concern is I heard it's really difficult to add ram on the 21-in models, but it fits my available space a lot better (would like to have 16gb right away). Unless the 27in is that much a better value, I'd probably not go with it, though it seems fairly stacked. Really don't know the difference or the superior value 21-in iMac.
For reference, I'm going to be using this as primary computer for Photoshop, After Effects, Animation, Editing, some Maya, some Unity. Still has to be budgeted though. Thanks!
Does anyone have a recommendation between these models?
Raised my budget, about $1600. My main concern is I heard it's really difficult to add ram on the 21-in models, but it fits my available space a lot better (would like to have 16gb right away). Unless the 27in is that much a better value, I'd probably not go with it, though it seems fairly stacked. Really don't know the difference or the superior value 21-in iMac.
For reference, I'm going to be using this as primary computer for Photoshop, After Effects, Animation, Editing, some Maya, some Unity. Still has to be budgeted though. Thanks!