90% new MBP won't be at March event
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90% new MBP won't be at March event
Literally the same here, still using the 11" Air to type this. I love it to bits, but it's time to upgrade.
killertofu
Member
Anyone have a 2015 MacBook Retina?
Im slightly talking to someone about trading my 64 GB iPad Air 2 and a crappy lenovo laptop for the baseline space gray...
I've given up trying to get an older Macbook Pro
Im slightly talking to someone about trading my 64 GB iPad Air 2 and a crappy lenovo laptop for the baseline space gray...
I've given up trying to get an older Macbook Pro
People always freak out when there aren't lots of rumors about the Macs, but the Macs are boring.
On the other hand, it's somewhat surprising there aren't *some* leaks out there.
I'd say 30% chance they're at this event, 20% they're stealthed sometime in the spring, and the remaining 50% they get WWDC'd.
CrudeDiatribe
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Are they your primary computers? I still love my 2011 i7 11" as a secondary Mac. Thinking about replacing the battery but that's it.
Aside iPhone the Mac is the most interesting product to me.
I say new MBPs are at WWDC only if they don't have a new design but it's been 4 years since the rMBP being unveiled and i would expect them to do something new at this point in time and since there are no leaks they will in my opinion be at the September event.
They are and probably always will be the most interesting product line for Apple for me personally, but the wider world cares a lot more about the iOS lines and so that's where the intense speculation and market for leaks comes from. Much more of an audience when there's a hundred million iOS devices being sold versus five million Macs.
I mean Apple managed to keep a lot of its recent product devs a secretfrom the redesigned Mac Pro to the riMac; any "leaks" were really just common sense deductions, compared to seeing basically the entire phone disassembled a month before the new phone intro.
Yep, it's been my main computer since near the end of 2011. Had a battery replacement and a touchpad replacement or two (all for free from Apple) but it's truckin' along. I don't really do much gaming on it, I have consoles for that.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Uh, 4GB was the max for (or I would have 8). Do you have a 2012?
Delete them? It's not like your Mac is running Win32 code or could run them, so at worst you're hanging onto files that might infect a Windows install and at best files you can't use anyway.
neurosyphilis
Definitely not an STD, as I'm a pure.
How long should my MacBook last me ? I got it about 5 months ago, like in August. I was thinking of selling it when the next gen MacBook Pro's come out, but I don't think I'll be in a financial position to upgrade this year, because I want to get a 15" version. The laptop is practically brand new and I think I'll get a good 2-3 years out of it, but I always want the latest and newest thing.
Sorry I have a 2013 MBA 11" i7 with 8gb ram. I confused it with my 2011 MBA 13" with 4gb ram. I do notice a big difference with the extra 4gb ram for sure.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Depends on what you do with it and what other computers you use to measure it against. As I wrote above I still love my 2011 MacBook Air which I use for writing and coding and network sysadmin stuff. It is a billion times faster than the Core 2 Mac Mini I have on my desk at work but not as fast as my 2008 Mac Pro.
I worried about the 4GB, but it hasn't ever been a problem with how I use it. I am normally pretty militant about closing things, though I have left a ton of things open for the past several weeks for a
Depends what you do with it. For basic uses it could last until the machine dies pretty much, for more intensive uses who knows. CPU progress has stalled significantly, main thing holding it back there might be stuff requiring quad core or higher end mobile performance. GPU would be the real question...but there's so much more mobile stuff out there it could last a while as a target. 8GB RAM should be fine, storage could be another thing to consider, but if you have modest needs there it's also not a big deal. Can't really upgrade it (without paying out the ass for Apple's SSD blades) but worst case there's still external storage if necessary.
Again depends on your uses, but should be fine for a while, particularly if it's meeting your needs now. If not (like if you want the 15" for a discrete GPU?) then I guess that answers the question. Update to update there probably won't be any single huge performance reasons to upgrade, barring something unexpected like them making a high power 13", which would be another one of my fanciful Mac dreams.*
*Wacky lineup idea I saw postulated once:
12" and 14" MacBooks, latter for people that just want a bigger screen, like the 12" and 14" iBooks way back.
13" and 15" MacBook Pros for more performance, upping the 13" power budget to allow quad core CPU w/Iris Pro, and 15" keeps its discrete GPU.
neurosyphilis
Definitely not an STD, as I'm a pure.
Thanks, I don't do anything on my computer except browse the web and school work, it should last me for many years then.
Zeyphersan
Banned
So a bug crawled out of the opening near the hinge of my 13" MBPr, and when I tried to get it out of the hinge area it crawled back in
So you know, fuck. Big guy, too
So you know, fuck. Big guy, too
killertofu
Member
Can someone please slap some sense into me before I buy a damn retina MacBook.
Don't do it. Early adopter machine.
New ones should be out soon. Like this month soon if the rumors are right.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Yeah. Don't get the first model. At least wait to see how much better the next one is to see if it's ready yet. It's basically the equivalent to the original first and second generation Air. The Air didn't get good until the 2010 redesign when the technology was ready. Give the new MacBook time to mature and find its place.
skylake
Ask Palmer Luckey for his opinion.
killertofu
Member
Retina MacBooks...
It's cool. I sold the Lenovo laptop I got from the Best Buy price mistake and am just using the money for my japan trip.
its cool its cool i think
mmazurkiewicz
Member
I've officially disabled Flash.
Been having almost daily freezes of my computer and I'm going to put the blame on Flash first. If they continue, it obviously isn't Flash.
Never have problems like this with Windows.
Been having almost daily freezes of my computer and I'm going to put the blame on Flash first. If they continue, it obviously isn't Flash.
Never have problems like this with Windows.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
What browser/OS?! Almost impossible for Flash, as shitty as it is, to lock up the computer. Do you have to reboot to recover or does it come back on its own?
Sounds like a hardware problem to me.
mmazurkiewicz
Member
Safari / Mavericks. Yeh usually have to reboot to recover.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Who the fuck is using Flash in 2016?
If youve downloaded Transmission recently you might have some ransomware:
http://arstechnica.com/security/201...ware-hits-transmission-users-researchers-say/
http://arstechnica.com/security/201...ware-hits-transmission-users-researchers-say/
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Transmission is great, that particular issue notwithstanding.
Eaten By A Grue
Member
Has anyone frayed a MacBook Pro power supply near the mag connector with just normal use? This has been my third replacement over multiple MacBooks and the are expensive! I never have this problem with my Windows laptop power supplies.
KharmaPolice
Member
Happened to me. I fixed it with isolation tape. The magsafe cables are pretty bad in this regard.
Eaten By A Grue
Member
I was thinking of wrapping the cord in electrical tape, but I am always worried about fires.
NinjaCatfish
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Transmission is easily my favourite torrent client on Mac. So much nicer than the ad-riddled clients I used to use on Windows.
Just make sure you're using 2.92 😎
Nope. I make sure to grab my cables by the connectors. Still got an '08 model that's trucking along (the original L shaped connectors were IMO worse than the T-shaped ones for having issues though.)
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Not normal— each Safari tab should be its own process and Flash should be further sandboxed. It crashing should not bring the system down. Hope removing it makes the problem go away, though.
I reinforced mine with heat shrink since I have the barrel connector and not the t-connector. Apple needs much much better strain relief. I think part of the problem is that in their quest to remove bad chemicals from their products, they've removed a few really useful bad chemicals and have made their plastic worse— newer power cables feel worse and my impression is that they are less durable than old ones— this is completely baseless supposition on my part.
It was T-, L-, and then T- again with MagSafe 2.
FYI, for any users of Transmission. Update your app to 2.92 ASAP.
https://twitter.com/hyperjeff/status/706798322913181696
edit: late to the party, w/e
https://twitter.com/hyperjeff/status/706798322913181696
edit: late to the party, w/e
CrudeDiatribe
Member
I don't use Photos, but you can pull specific photo/videos off by connecting your iPhone and using Image Capture which is in /Applications.
Wowfunhappy
Member
They suck. Everyone I know who has one hates it. The keyboard is awful, the retina screens are nice but have too many pixels for the underpowered cpu to handle. Everything is slow, unless all you're doing is running a web browser and iWork/Office (in which case you might as well get a Chromebook).
Either
1) Wait for a better model
or
2) Get an 11-inch air
yeah i figured that part out... problem is device wont show in image capture. what gives?
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Electrical tape is fine. I've wrapped literally all of my Apple cables with it because they all suck so much. Electrical tape is rubber and made to isolate the electrical current. It will basically just replace the shitty rubber Apple uses anyway. As long as your wires themselves aren't cut into and touching each other. Then you have a problem. If it's just the outer sheathe then you should be fine.
That isn't to say you shouldn't look into a replacement. But yeah, they're overpriced for how shitty the quality of the cover is.
Eaten By A Grue
Member
I think destroying the environment is worth it for making cables that do not fray!
Well it makes sense that as Apple (and Microsoft, now) lock down the usual vectors that got everyone's grandma and the unscrupulous tormentor that impersonating or infiltrating trusted apps is the way of the future.