[QUOTE=Rixxz2;46361852]
(Unless I'm wrong, perhaps it's still possible to upgrade in a non-time consuming manner?)[/QUOTE]
Can't you just download the full Mavericks installer and run that? It shouldn't give you the error that it's too old for your OS if you're on Lion.
[QUOTE=Kaabii;46362469]Can't you just download the full Mavericks installer and run that? It shouldn't give you the error that it's too old for your OS if you're on Lion.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I was under the impression that you could only download it from the appstore? I've tried googling it, but all I find is either old articles talking about how to get it from the appstore, or links to Yosemite
[QUOTE=Kaabii;46361676]Your old laptops must have been designed by crazy people because it should be doing passthrough from the AC to the hardware, with the battery not even being touched. Keep your MBP on the charger as often as possible to reduce how many battery cycles get used.[/QUOTE]Would you say less battery cycles = better battery health? The reason I ask is because when I owned a 2010 MBP that I used daily for two years it was plugged in for 90% of that time and when it was taken off battery it wasn't great at all compared to when it was new. I did a bit of online reading for when I got my rMBP in June this year and it said to keep it cycled regularly, something I do daily.
a full cycle is something you do monthly if even, doing it daily you'll just kill it quicker
[QUOTE=Rixxz2;46361852]After looking up some additional information, I've found out that I absolutely hate the look of Yosemite, and that it also struggles with some older dedicated GPU's (such as the GeForce 320m in my Macbook).
Thus I decided to upgrade to Mavericks instead, seeing as it's apparently actually faster than both Lion and Mountain Lion, but it seems like Apple doesn't offer a simple upgrade solution to that anymore, and so you need to do it manually by putting Mavericks on a USB stick and reinstall the entire OS, something which I honestly can't be bothered to do, I'll just stay on Lion for now.
(Unless I'm wrong, perhaps it's still possible to upgrade in a non-time consuming manner?)[/QUOTE]
i had no issues running it on my Mac from 2008, plus if you have an iPhone, it really make a lot of sense.
I managed to find the files for Mavericks ([URL]https://mega.co.nz/#!LMZFjKLK!LPUFWHhhXQ1L2Jaqn2DtgmeBzlJjBxl0Z6Op5tvAsWI[/URL])
Currently installing it
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plus if you have an iPhone, it really make a lot of sense.
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Visually, yes, but quite frankly, I think the newer iOS versions look like garbage, as well. I'm really not a big fan of this whole "Let's make everything look ~modern~, completely flat, and eye-straining!!!" fad
And I've got a Galaxy Note 3 :v:
[editline]30th October 2014[/editline]
Mavericks runs [U]a lot[/U] faster than Lion, like, wow
[QUOTE=MisterM;46362846]Would you say less battery cycles = better battery health? The reason I ask is because when I owned a 2010 MBP that I used daily for two years it was plugged in for 90% of that time and when it was taken off battery it wasn't great at all compared to when it was new. I did a bit of online reading for when I got my rMBP in June this year and it said to keep it cycled regularly, something I do daily.[/QUOTE]
The advice you read and have been following has degraded your battery.
[editline]30th October 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Rixxz2;46364678]
Visually, yes, but quite frankly, I think the newer iOS versions look like garbage, as well. I'm really not a big fan of this whole "Let's make everything look ~modern~, completely flat, and eye-straining!!!" fad[/QUOTE]
It's not a fad. A fad implies it's going to go away soon because the appeal is based on a novelty, which is incorrect. Anyone who has education in design knows that there are serious objective functional benefits to Apple's current design compared to the old style. That quote from Jony Ive about how design isn't how something looks, but how it works, is pretty spot on.
[QUOTE=Kaabii;46369753]The advice you read and have been following has degraded your battery.
[editline]30th October 2014[/editline]
It's not a fad. A fad implies it's going to go away soon because the appeal is based on a novelty, which is incorrect. Anyone who has education in design knows that there are serious objective functional benefits to Apple's current design compared to the old style. That quote from Jony Ive about how design isn't how something looks, but how it works, is pretty spot on.[/QUOTE]
Jony Ive channels a lot from people like Eero Saarinen and Dieter Rams, more than we give him credit for. His philosophy about function through design is basically Charles Eames's core philosophy. I think that's part of why Ive's designs are so timeless. I just wish they'd overhaul everything all at once, but I can sort of understand why they don't. That said, the Reminders app on OS X still uses virtual leather...
Exactly. Imagine if the iPhone 4 was released today. Ignoring the obvious issue of screen size, the design itself would look just as good now as it did in 2010. Meanwhile with my Galaxy S1...
[QUOTE=Kaabii;46370105]Exactly. Imagine if the iPhone 4 was released today. Ignoring the obvious issue of screen size, the design itself would look just as good now as it did in 2010. Meanwhile with my Galaxy S1...[/QUOTE]
The iPhone 4 will always look as good as it did at launch. That's part of the value of simple designs. I'll be honest, I don't see the iPhone 6 having that sort of staying power in design alone. It's not Ive's fault, I just don't think it's where they want it yet. That said, it's a good picture of what's to come, especially with the bubbled edges that we're seeing across the smaller devices.
So some redditer seems to put forward some kind of evidence indicating apple might have changed the internal design of the iPhone 6 plus. He compares his newly acquired plus with his wife's (around release date) and it seems like there are certain differences between them. Interesting read: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2kqlgh/does_anyone_think_apple_had_quietly_fixed_the_6/[/url]
[QUOTE=Anglor;46372675]So some redditer seems to put forward some kind of evidence indicating apple might have changed the internal design of the iPhone 6 plus. He compares his newly acquired plus with his wife's (around release date) and it seems like there are certain differences between them. Interesting read: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2kqlgh/does_anyone_think_apple_had_quietly_fixed_the_6/[/url][/QUOTE]
I would say the whole thing was pretty much a non-issue, considering how the entire thing is dead on social media and there are no more reports of people bending their phones. However, that one writer for...I think it was Wired had a bend in his so obviously the 6 Plus was more susceptible than other devices to some degree, and I have no trouble believing that Apple implemented a fix into newer models.
[url=http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/31/new-outlook-mac-available-office-365-customers/]New version of Outlook available, rest is coming second half of 2015 with public beta in the first half[/url]
partitioning on mac isn't as flexible as I'd have hoped. I've lost count of how many times I've had to boot into recovery to fix the drive, or how many times I've had to boot into single user mode to fix other stuff related to the drive. it's almost as if I'm only allowed to do a single partitioning task before it shits itself and needs to be fixed again. at least OSX remains bootable, but I can't say the same about Windows. its bootmanager keeps disappearing when messing with the partitions. was thinking of popping linux into this thing but now it's stuck on "preparing drive" when trying to shrink the OSX partition. was thinking of using gparted and do stuff from there since that'll at least do what I tell it to do, but I'm worried OSX is gonna complain and shit itself if messed with by thirdparty tools
the "Macintosh HD" partition keeps complaining about "Incorrect number of file hard links". no idea why, I keep fixing it and it keeps coming back
[editline]1st November 2014[/editline]
for some reason my recovery partition is gone as well so now I have to download the internet recovery every single time I boot into recovery. no idea if I'm doing something wrong, but I don't think so. windows and linux just does it, but OSX complains about something new everytime
So I'm going to ramble on about how much I like the previous, non-retina generation MacBook Pro keyboards. The pressing distance is just right and typing on it feels amazing. Now give me the lighter retina MacBook Pro and the pressing distance is a lot less which ruins the typing experience for my hands. I also seem to type with a lot of pressure too.
[QUOTE=garychencool;46388357]So I'm going to ramble on about how much I like the previous, non-retina generation MacBook Pro keyboards. The pressing distance is just right and typing on it feels amazing. Now give me the lighter retina MacBook Pro and the pressing distance is a lot less which ruins the typing experience for my hands. I also seem to type with a lot of pressure too.[/QUOTE]
I want a classic MBP with a Retina display. Is that too much to ask, Apple?
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;46388666]I want a classic MBP with a Retina display. Is that too much to ask, Apple?[/QUOTE]
Like I'm OK with the thickness difference and in general, the weight difference too.
Why do you have to make it so hard Apple?
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;46388666]I want a classic MBP with a Retina display. Is that too much to ask, Apple?[/QUOTE]
Yes because basically nobody else wants that
[QUOTE=.Lain;46390955]Yes because basically nobody else wants that[/QUOTE]
I personally wouldn't mind the 2011 Unibody platform with a retina display. I like being able to do some basic hardware mods myself, but I know that doesn't really fit with the current Apple vision. Hardware upgrades have always been a bit of an afterthought outside of the Mac Pro line.
[QUOTE=woolio1;46392635]I personally wouldn't mind the 2011 Unibody platform with a retina display. I like being able to do some basic hardware mods myself, but I know [b]that doesn't really fit with the current Apple vision.[/b] Hardware upgrades have always been a bit of an afterthought outside of the Mac Pro line.[/QUOTE]
No it doesn't fit within the care of most people. The number of people who change the hardware in their laptop or repair it is literally a percentage of laptop users that would be rounded down to zero. I honestly couldn't care less about being able to change things inside the 15" rMBP because they all ship with 16GB of RAM stock and the SSD upgrades are actually reasonably priced when you compare them to other PCI-E SSDs.
[QUOTE=Kaabii;46392736]No it doesn't fit within the care of most people. The number of people who change the hardware in their laptop or repair it is literally a percentage of laptop users that would be rounded down to zero.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but the G4/5 Tower/Mac Pro line was built to be upgradeable. So was the Cube, to a lesser extent. Original iMac mods weren't exactly uncommon. There was a time when Apple put effort into letting people change their hardware, because you don't just magically create a case with additional I/O slots. That stuff's deliberate.
I'm not disagreeing with you, very few people want to change their hardware. But you can't say there wasn't a time when Apple put effort into allowing it.
[QUOTE=.Lain;46390955]Yes because basically nobody else wants that[/QUOTE]
I just want the old keyboard back
[QUOTE=garychencool;46392891]I just want the old keyboard back[/QUOTE]
The only reason you dislike the new key travel distance is because you're familiar with the old one. If you actually go buy a rMBP you'll get used to it pretty quickly. I have an Asus Zenbook UX21 here and the keys feel more like the old macbooks than the new ones, but I don't like it as much as my rMBP because it feels different than what I'm accustomed to.
Anybody good with jailbreaking?
I've got a 5s on 7.1.1 (jailbroken) and at some point I'm going to want to upgrade to 8, is there a way to back up all my tweaks so that when I'm on 8 and jailbreak again, I can just install them all again?
Worst case scenario I just write down all the tweaks in a notepad file and do it manually
[QUOTE=Kaabii;46394022]The only reason you dislike the new key travel distance is because you're familiar with the old one. If you actually go buy a rMBP you'll get used to it pretty quickly. I have an Asus Zenbook UX21 here and the keys feel more like the old macbooks than the new ones, but I don't like it as much as my rMBP because it feels different than what I'm accustomed to.[/QUOTE]
I bummed around at the Apple Store trying to use the rMBP keyboard for an hour or so, browsing FP, other forums and websites, chats, etc. Still disliking the new travel distance. But I guess you're right, I'd have to use it more extensively to get used to it and then actually enjoying it.
Regarding keyboards, I pulled out my old 2011 MBP the other day in order to save some files before selling it and it dawned upon me how great the old keyboard felt, even though I'm used to the rMBP's by now. It just feels a little more tactile.
You know, I have an issue with the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard, even though it's almost entirely the same as the one on the old MBPs.
I don't know why, I just can't type on it as well as I can the one in my laptop. It might be the slant, considering I'm used to a full QWERTY layout on my desk, and that's always slanted.
[QUOTE=woolio1;46394829]You know, I have an issue with the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard, even though it's almost entirely the same as the one on the old MBPs.
I don't know why, I just can't type on it as well as I can the one in my laptop. It might be the slant, considering I'm used to a full QWERTY layout on my desk, and that's always slanted.[/QUOTE]
It feels thinner and has a slightly shorter pressing distance than the old MBPs.
[QUOTE=Flash_Fire;46394092]Anybody good with jailbreaking?
I've got a 5s on 7.1.1 (jailbroken) and at some point I'm going to want to upgrade to 8, is there a way to back up all my tweaks so that when I'm on 8 and jailbreak again, I can just install them all again?
Worst case scenario I just write down all the tweaks in a notepad file and do it manually[/QUOTE]
As far as I know there isn't. I usually just took a screenshot of Cydia sources and then a screenshot of the installed packages.
Is it possible to use my wacom tablet like a macbook trackpad? The touch controls on my tablet feel awful.
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