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[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;42653248]Mine is not reconnecting after I close the lid and reopen it. I have to go up to the Wi-Fi and click on my AP to reconnect.[/QUOTE] that as well. [editline]26th October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Anglor;42653359]Eduroam has always sucked ass for me for some reason, especially around the more important areas (for our programme) of our campus.[/QUOTE] guess it's just pish signal. works fine after a reboot??
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;42655021]might be a stupid question, but is the port DVI-A?[/QUOTE] It is. [editline]26th October 2013[/editline] It'll work for a few minutes before everything becomes pixelated and the tv loses signal.
[QUOTE=Makol;42655421]It is.[/QUOTE] then that's why DVI to HDMI isn't working, it's only outputting an analog signal :v: unless there's some kind of conversion chip on the cable. [editline]26th October 2013[/editline] ah, that does sound weird. maybe the cable is slightly faulty?
Do you think this may work? [url]http://www.microcenter.com/product/203959/HDMI_M-DVI_F_Video_Adaptor[/url] [editline]26th October 2013[/editline] Wait no. Thats the wrong thing. [editline]26th October 2013[/editline] Wait I'm stupid. The 2005 Mac Mini does have DVI-F. [editline]26th October 2013[/editline] And the current DVI to VGA cable I'm using is DVI-A. All these DVIs are confusing me.
should do, yes. dvi is an odd standard
Ok so if I just get that and use my normal DVI cable I should be go to go yes?
probably safer asking someone else, i'm not terribly well versed with DVI. sorry :x
I'm heading to MicroCenter now. I'll go bug them about it :v:
in a perfect world everything would use displayport and everything would be icecream and rainbows
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;42656120]in a perfect world everything would use displayport and everything would be icecream and rainbows[/QUOTE] I've never used displayport, what makes it so good? :o
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;42656133]I've never used displayport, what makes it so good? :o[/QUOTE] higher bandwith than HDMI, royalty free and has well designed, rigid connectors
[QUOTE=codenamecueball;42655399] guess it's just pish signal. works fine after a reboot??[/QUOTE] Yeah I think so, or it's usually enough to flick the wifi toggle on and off to make it work for a while, but it stops responding eventually.
Ah, I forgot to mention. I made this overly dramatic thing with some of the new Mavericks features [video=youtube;8uEQD3yUFPE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uEQD3yUFPE[/video] it ends abruptly and is mostly just sync with music
[QUOTE=Cronos Dage;42656523]Ah, I forgot to mention. I made this overly dramatic thing with some of the new Mavericks features [video=youtube;8uEQD3yUFPE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uEQD3yUFPE[/video] it ends abruptly and is mostly just sync with music[/QUOTE] seems like a waste of time for a demo like that, 10 seconds with app update, 10 seconds with you logging in etc. Also, IMO the most important thing, energy meter / app nap isn't even included? Audio sync doesn't really make any sense, because it misses so many beats due to it's pace and finally it's barely 40 secs. [sp]I'm sorry, but I might as well be honest[/sp]
Help, my 4s is having this wierd phantom app update thing. Every other time I unlock it, there's an update indicator on the App Store icon, but when I open it there are no updates. Then the notification goes away until the next couple times I unlock it. I'm still on iOS 6.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;42656172]higher bandwith than HDMI, royalty free and has well designed, rigid connectors[/QUOTE] Also, it comes in two varieties, so you can use it on smaller devices... Also also, the smaller variety can also be used as a data transfer port as well as outputting video. I, personally, like dual-use ports.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;42656557]seems like a waste of time for a demo like that, 10 seconds with app update, 10 seconds with you logging in etc. Also, IMO the most important thing, energy meter / app nap isn't even included? Audio sync doesn't really make any sense, because it misses so many beats due to it's pace and finally it's barely 40 secs. [sp]I'm sorry, but I might as well be honest[/sp][/QUOTE] the earlier parts were synced much better before but I edited out useless later parts and didn't take much time to resync earlier parts it's also be meant to be dumb, welcome to youtube.com/cronosdage energy meter / app nap are useless to me and the description says I forgot to include them anyway
got that dvi adapter it works! [editline]26th October 2013[/editline] aaaaaaaand now it isn't worked for a little less than a hour boo
So I've hit a strange point in my life. I'm traditionally a strong Apple hater, mostly on the iPhone. That's not what this is about and I really don't want to come off as a fanboy. Anyway, I've been looking around for a laptop that's lighter than my 1.5 hour battery life 'portable' laptop. I then stumbled upon the 13" Retina Macbook Pro with a 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. The $1400 price (after educational discount) gave me a better screen and battery life than anything else available, and I'm legitimately considering switching from my Windows laptop to a Mac within the next year. So what I want from you guys is: How did you convert? What are the disadvantages of using OSX to Windows, and more importantly, what are the advantages? I'm a Computer Science Major, so I'll be working with command line, virtual machines, and all that fun stuff. I know I'll have bootcamp available to me, so what disadvantages (if any) will that create?
Ah screw it I'll just use the Mac Mini with my spare monitor and play my old Mac games like Halo: CE, Diablo2, Risde of Nations, Star Wars Galatic Battlegorunds, and AoE 2.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;42658780]So I've hit a strange point in my life. I'm traditionally a strong Apple hater, mostly on the iPhone. That's not what this is about and I really don't want to come off as a fanboy. Anyway, I've been looking around for a laptop that's lighter than my 1.5 hour battery life 'portable' laptop. I then stumbled upon the 13" Retina Macbook Pro with a 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. The $1400 price (after educational discount) gave me a better screen and battery life than anything else available, and I'm legitimately considering switching from my Windows laptop to a Mac within the next year. So what I want from you guys is: How did you convert? What are the disadvantages of using OSX to Windows, and more importantly, what are the advantages? I'm a Computer Science Major, so I'll be working with command line, virtual machines, and all that fun stuff. I know I'll have bootcamp available to me, so what disadvantages (if any) will that create?[/QUOTE] I have an iMac at work and one was recently given to me although I'm actually just using it as a monitor ATM because it's wiped and someday I'll get around to putting Mavericks on. If you plan to plug a mouse into your Macbook you'll want to Google how to disable or at least minimize the OSX acceleration curve because it's legitimately awful. It's not even like I'm just used to Windows, it really is just inaccurate and sluggish. Works great for trackpads(there's a reason it's free to change the stock mouse to a magic trackpad), not for mice. If you're working with a command line and need to do anything with a terminal I'm sure you already know OSX actually has a good shell built in so you don't need to do something like install putty like you would on a Windows machine. Xcode is really nice from what what I've seen/used. Bootcamp works fine, although be warned in advance that Windows' DPI scaling is bad and unfixable until Microsoft locks Windows to certain 1x and 4x resolutions that they'll support(never gonna happen) and compared to OSX it's terrible even in Windows 8.1, but it's much better on Win8 in general than it was on 7 purely because of the 200% scaling option. If you want to read through a bunch of stuff or write code and display a lot of it on screen, I'd do it in OSX. Oh and OSX doesn't use the same keyboard shortcuts for stuff. I still try to hit F5 to refresh in the browser on it, to no success.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;42658780]So I've hit a strange point in my life. I'm traditionally a strong Apple hater, mostly on the iPhone. That's not what this is about and I really don't want to come off as a fanboy. Anyway, I've been looking around for a laptop that's lighter than my 1.5 hour battery life 'portable' laptop. I then stumbled upon the 13" Retina Macbook Pro with a 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. The $1400 price (after educational discount) gave me a better screen and battery life than anything else available, and I'm legitimately considering switching from my Windows laptop to a Mac within the next year. So what I want from you guys is: How did you convert? What are the disadvantages of using OSX to Windows, and more importantly, what are the advantages? I'm a Computer Science Major, so I'll be working with command line, virtual machines, and all that fun stuff. I know I'll have bootcamp available to me, so what disadvantages (if any) will that create?[/QUOTE] If you're running Bootcamp, it's just like a Windows laptop. You won't, however, be able to take advantage of the battery optimizations in Mavericks if you're on Windows. Aside from that, they're solid machines. Better than most equally-priced laptops.
[QUOTE=Most wanteD;42639073]when you're shopping for high end consumer electronic products, which are marked up FAR more than almost any other product and as a result have a lot of clout, there are two main things to consider: Will I be satisfied with this company's product, and am I ok supporting this company by purchasing from them? In Samsung's case, the answer to both of those questions for a lot of people right now is no. For HTC, the answer to both is yes. Advertising can affect peoples' answers to both questions, and that's why advertising tactics matter.[/QUOTE] Youre kidding right? The Samsung S4 has sold over 40 million phones, while HTC one sales dropped 40% this month. Statistics disagree with your claim.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;42658780]So I've hit a strange point in my life. I'm traditionally a strong Apple hater, mostly on the iPhone. That's not what this is about and I really don't want to come off as a fanboy. Anyway, I've been looking around for a laptop that's lighter than my 1.5 hour battery life 'portable' laptop. I then stumbled upon the 13" Retina Macbook Pro with a 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. The $1400 price (after educational discount) gave me a better screen and battery life than anything else available, and I'm legitimately considering switching from my Windows laptop to a Mac within the next year. So what I want from you guys is: How did you convert? What are the disadvantages of using OSX to Windows, and more importantly, what are the advantages? I'm a Computer Science Major, so I'll be working with command line, virtual machines, and all that fun stuff. I know I'll have bootcamp available to me, so what disadvantages (if any) will that create?[/QUOTE] If you're a compsci major that's used to Windows you're going to love bash. If you're used to Linux, you're going to love a stable and consistent UNIX experience. The only disadvantage really is there are fewer games available for OSX, although still quite a lot now that Steam and Valve have started supporting it. And the fact that you're going to have to learn how to use OSX, which will probably take a week at the most. Some things are done differently than Windows, but it's mostly just cosmetic changes to be honest.
[QUOTE=rieda1589;42661122]If you're a compsci major that's used to Windows you're going to love bash. If you're used to Linux, you're going to love a stable and consistent UNIX experience. The only disadvantage really is there are fewer games available for OSX, although still quite a lot now that Steam and Valve have started supporting it. And the fact that you're going to have to learn how to use OSX, which will probably take a week at the most. Some things are done differently than Windows, but it's mostly just cosmetic changes to be honest.[/QUOTE] Play games on the rMBP? Ha, I tried that on the 1st gen rMBP and that thing got stupidly hot. Trying to play games on that resolution is pretty hard... @kabaii There is an option to change if the function keys are either standard function keys or change settings under the keyboard option. Just FYI, if you didn't know.
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;42662658]Play games on the rMBP? Ha, I tried that on the 1st gen rMBP and that thing got stupidly hot. Trying to play games on that resolution is pretty hard... @kabaii There is an option to change if the function keys are either standard function keys or change settings under the keyboard option. Just FYI, if you didn't know.[/QUOTE] Was compiling programs on my new one last night with my 2 ext screens plugged in and it got pretty hot, fans were loud too. [img]http://i.imgur.com/3faPtG7.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=rieda1589;42662717]Was compiling programs on my new one last night with my 2 ext screens plugged in and it got pretty hot, fans were loud too. [img]http://i.imgur.com/3faPtG7.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Have you gotten a chance to test the battery life?
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;42662658]Play games on the rMBP? Ha, I tried that on the 1st gen rMBP and that thing got stupidly hot. Trying to play games on that resolution is pretty hard... @kabaii There is an option to change if the function keys are either standard function keys or change settings under the keyboard option. Just FYI, if you didn't know.[/QUOTE] I didn't, and I'm going to make F5 refresh ASAP. Thank you.
[QUOTE=Lord_Schrotty;42641833][IMG]http://puu.sh/4Zadq.png[/IMG] How do I remove this progress bar? I have no active downloads.[/QUOTE] might be obvious and I don't know if you have but: - restart your computer - take it out of dock and put it back in - take it out of dock, restart, put it back in - Terminal → "killall Dock" - Terminal → "sudo rm -d /Downloads" - take it out of dock, "killall Dock," put it back in unless this problem happens often and you don't want to do one of these quick fixes each time
[QUOTE=rieda1589;42661122]If you're a compsci major that's used to Windows you're going to love bash. If you're used to Linux, you're going to love a stable and consistent UNIX experience. The only disadvantage really is there are fewer games available for OSX, although still quite a lot now that Steam and Valve have started supporting it. And the fact that you're going to have to learn how to use OSX, which will probably take a week at the most. Some things are done differently than Windows, but it's mostly just cosmetic changes to be honest.[/QUOTE] The only reason I started considering OSX is because I realized that I don't really game much anymore. I mean, I've been playing Pokemon like it's a full time job for the past two weeks, but my steam games haven't been touched in over a month. Anyway, I'll have bootcamp available to me if some games I want come out.
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