New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

not going to grump about the color gamut?

omg all the colors you are missing

(I want a mini retina)

what if you want to look at a picture of a rainbow get a big ipad

am seriously fucked off w/mavericks

it's easily the worst, least stable release of OS X I've installed in my 13 years as a user of OS X. first issue was all the hard reboots and now I'm getting lots of horrible screen artefacting

symptomatic of apple's neglect of OS X as it increases its focus on iOS? iunno, I always got the impression that OS X was still p.well resourced

I think your mac is dying

it's a mid-2011 MBP. they usu last a bit longer than 2 years ime

mebbe a rebuild & restore is in order

Take it in under applecare

I've ran it on four macs so far no issues

You could try with a clean install on a new drive, maybe booting off USB. If it runs well the it's your hard drive / specific install. If it still does all that your logic board is probably borked

p.sure my logic board has been replaced w/in the last year in this machine

most likely the HD I reckon. maybe I'll SSD

Will be the best decision you ever make

I've had zero issues on a 2010 MBP and an old-ass Mac Pro that isn't even supposed to be able to run mavericks

my 17" mbp has been waking up from sleep a lot since mavericks installation, never did that before; just think it's getting jealous of all the time I spend with my rmbp though

I'm 50/50 on that -- the mbp that previously kept having trouble w/sleep mode is perfectly fine now, but the mac pro (which I never really used sleep mode on) seems to wake up.

yeah coz this is not an unusually unstable release afaict (two machines upgraded). i would start with a clean reinstall and take it from there.

Fyi http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mavericks-usb-install-drive/

can I be arsed backing up all the bumpf on my computer y/n hmmm

what, you don't already have a backup strategy?

jesus christ man it's 2013

* throws computer out window, restores new one from backup *

don't really have much to backup tbrr, store most everything in the cloud as is

movies - netflix
music - spotify
pics - flickr
docs - dropbox

madness

mavericks is solid as a rock on my 2010 mbp.

re backups: switch on time machine, buy a cheap-arse external hdd and plug it in once a week. worth the hassle imo. my recent (internal) hdd drama was not in any way a drama.

when will macbook airs have 1tb harddrive im waiting

ok it's time. i'm going to replace the HD in my mini with an SSD and install a 1TB secondary HD.

if anybody's been thinkin about this stuff, what are:

1) the best drives to get these days? a samsung 840 for the SSD? and?

2) good strategies for data migration? i have a SATA enclosure, so i was thinking i'd put the 1TB HD in that and copy all my data directories to it. then install it in my mini. on the SD i'd do a clean install of les mavericks? put that in the mini and bam?

I did something similar and after looking into it, decided to only put music and movies on the larger drive (maybe my Lightroom photos too, can't remember.) Basically just to have as much on the SSD as possible.

For the 1TB I use a cheap western digital and it's fine

5400 v 7200 is not a big concern I think since the platters are so dense data seeking times probably won't differ by much

But you can maybe look at tech review sites to see if that's true

Data migration strategy seems good, make sure you put the SSD into the mini first before you install mavericks

It's easy to make a usb bootable Mavericks w/ Diskmaker X

Biggest pain will probably be getting your programs to find the new libraries but should be okay if you had iPhoto or w/e keep all the actual photos inside the iPhoto library file

My pro tip for life now is to make sure, if you have two-step authentication turned on for anything (say, for your Apple ID) that you keep your list of trusted devices/phone numbers up to date, and make sure you know EXACTLY where that recovery key is.

Very narrowly dodged a bullet in the last 24 hours. On a side note, two-factor auth is really secure!!

1-factor 4eva

i use a password keeper, it makes me indescribably smug just thinking about it (iow don't burst my bubble)

and furthermore no one will ever guess my password

is it "namaste"

tracer69

fidelio

Hey people! my dad has a line on a used rmbp for $1250 and a used 2011 mbp for $1000. I'm trying to talk him into getting the retina with future proofing as my argument. Am I correct in thinking the retina is a much better deal? What other talking points should I be considering?

― the late great, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:58 PM (2 days ago)

he shd get an air

why? what's a fair price for a used air?

theyre cool and light and the battery life is good, unless hes doing some srs processing he prob doesnt need the pro, idk how much they cost

i guess wanting a larger screen could be an argument for the pro too, but the 13" air is a p nice size all things considered

13" rmbp only costs a little more (mod the same ram/hd size), is .02" thicker, and weighs .5 lbs more; same battery life too. not sure what the advantage of the 13" air is supposed to be

hmm its cheaper thinner and lighter maybe

Eh the 13" MB Air starts out at $1100, you can get it $930 refurbished off of Apple (I just did this) and it's fine, as new, 1 year warranty

Sure you don't get 8 GB RAM or 256 GB SSD

But it's also $200 cheaper

And you get 3 more hours of battery life

Oh wait the base rMBP is also 128/4

my gmail is still not playing nice with maverick's mail

but i really love this airmail app

i can't see the air advantage. it's cute but the non-retina screen is going to look a bit past-it soon.

4 gb ram for OS X seems like a bad idea

anecdotally ive been using this 2011 air for two years now and its by a long shot the best apple computer ive ever used in terms of performance, has handled every os x update w/ ease--i keep sparrow and twitter app and a bunch of tabs open at once and its never had a problem, whereas the 2011 imac i use at work is constantly hanging and i havent even upgraded it to mavericks yet

i think the dream setup would be an 11" air and a big thunderbolt display with a few drives daisy chained

4 gb ram for OS X seems like a bad idea

― Euler, Friday, November 22, 2013 10:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

You would think so but I think Maverix has this new RAM whizzy bang thing sweeper jig

In real world use it's fine, also the SSDs are now PCIe instead of SATA and that's great too

Anyway RAM/storage upgrades happen in lockstep so there's always that $200 gap

And both are solder, non-user upgradeable so you're stuck with what you ordered when you ordered

Re: future proofing, I can see that but I dunno how much of the internet is retina ready since I've never been on it w/ a retina mac

I don't notice any big difference between my iphone 5 and computer screens in terms of resolution

max strangely enough I also had/have a 2011 air and my parents have a 2011 imac

the imac definitely feels really 'slow' in comparison and I'm 100% sure it's because it has a mechanical hard drive instead of a SSD

Want really badly to swap in a SSD but the process involves taking off the glass front panel and that's frightening to contemplate

pretty much everyone seems to think the air is the best computer theyve ever had, and yeah the internet is very much not at all retina ready and prob will be v slow to adapt, but theres other stuff a sick ass screen is good for like watching movies or w/e

Yah watching movies for sure would be pretty cool

Tho most movies max out at 1080p but I bet VLC or w/e has some sick upscaling algs

Still only a 15" screen tho

http://i.imgur.com/85h08TX.jpg

Ive my boy there's got to be a better way