All Things Mac/ Apple
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So funny how individual our experiences are. Apple has been a complete train wreck for me and many of my friends since 7.0, and I've had a pretty good experience (with some compromises, but everything generally works) on a top of the line Windows phone.
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Tomorrow's the day of the next event. Hoping for some good news on hardware and software.
Interestingly enough I converted another guy to Mac this week. Unintentionally. When I started @ my workplace I was literally the first mac in the entire company. Just over 18 months in and there's at least 5-10% of the company rocking macs, seemingly gaining at least 1-2 users a month who are buying and using their own hardware. I love it.
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The ghost of Steve Jobs is proud of you.
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Ghost? Wasn't he reincarnated as a future Foxconn employee?
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Apple should at least take you out to dinner and a movie before selling you a mini. 4GB or RAM, now soldered on. $100 extra to get a usable amount of RAM (8GB). They went digging around an antique store and found some 5400 RPM spinning disks. You have to pay $250 to upgrade that nonsense to a Fusion Drive. So now you're at $850 for an entry-level desktop running a processor from 2009. That's simply not acceptable.
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Mine's been great too, but sticking your customers with decade-old (being literal here) storage technology when you're supposed to be a premium marque is a slap in the face.
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Or hey, if you feel the need to use spinning disks, make them somewhat modern. 5400 RPM on a system with only 4GB of RAM is not the Apple experience. It's a pig.
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Just upgraded my Macbook Antique to Yosemite. It all seems to have gone smoothly, and was a free download. But I've only just restarted my machine, so I don't know if there are any problems lurking.
The UI and icons now reflect the flat look that iOS has adopted. I'm not sure what other changes have taken place.
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I'm a bit scared to upgrade, I'll let the early adopters sort it out first.
I also probably don't have enough storage.
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I love my Mac Mini from Spring last year. No problems at all, although I might wait a week or so to upgrade to the new OS. The iPhone 6 Plus arrives on Thursday and I'm looking forward to seeing how useful a big phone is after three years with the 4S.
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Good to know!
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MBPr has arrived. My god that screen, just stunning. Running Yosemite. Love the hand-off features and 'green texting' from a laptop!
Did a clean build (instead of migration), was a matter of 'git clone', and rsync between old home directory and new.
Battery is AMAZING on this thing. Running 10 hours doing upgrades/package installs, reboots, full time machine backup, and the fan's yet to kick in. I'm going to have a lot of fun with this for the next few years.
Yosemite's colours take a bit of getting used to, I've turned a lot of it down, and re-enabled a few of the accessibility features (like 1 finger tap/drag lock). All in all, A+.
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which MBPr did you get? i've been needing to replace my 15MBP 2011 since it died. something to do with the GPU or something like that when i brought it down to the genius bar. i've been waiting for the supposed refresh to the broadwell chips before actually getting one..
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13" 3.0GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz (SSD)
I couldn't wait for Broadwell / didn't see much point/need. The current generation gets crazy battery life & power, and will last through another couple of years without issue. With Broadwell, whenever it comes, I'd not want to be on the very first release of the chipset either, which would have delayed my purchase even further.
The laptop this replaces was a 2011 2Ghz i7 Dual-core, 256GB SSD, 4GB RAM. The speed difference between the two is night and day with everything fully loaded. They've done a lot more than add 1Ghz between the 2 lines.
