All Things Mac/ Apple
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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.
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hey guys, i know this may not be a dedicated mac forum but i'm tired of joining forums and i thought maybe some one could answer my question. if any of you might be a techie for mac..
so here goes..
i've managed to get my 2011 15' mbp video card replaced under the apple replacement program. so right now, i'm hoping to upgrade my HDD to a SSD (thinking of owc's ssd). i've been reading online to figure out how to do it properly and so on. here's where the main problem lies. all the instructions have been to set up the ssd then back up your old files into the new ssd. however, what if i do not want to back it up? do i just plug and play? or do i have to reinstall the os x?
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Yep, you'll need to either make a memory stick drive of your current OS, or have a disk version of anything from Snow Leopard onwards in order to have the App Store to download the latest OS and updates.
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cheers @Megatron1505 ! i read that you actually did it to your macbook. may i ask what ssd you're using?
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It's a 250gb Samsung, not sure on the model number. Want me to find out for you dude? I recommend the swap, performance increase is incredible.
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@Megatron1505 Thanks but it's alright. i've actually not looked at samsung, i've been looking at crucial m550 and ocw mecury 6g. i'm looking for 1tb models too.
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Don't get a hybrid.
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@Megatron1505 that's the problem i have now. too much terms and i'm not that well versed. what's a hybrid?
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A hybrid is part SSD part spinning disk. They are cheaper but the SSD part is small and only used to boot your Man, your data is still stored on the normal hard drive, so less stable.
