• Apple and Mac Discussion
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[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;42994225]I work at a Apple Reseller and we can do replacements.[/QUOTE] probably sub par service compared to visiting an actual apple store though, at least from my experience of dealing with third party resellers
[QUOTE=.Lain;42997019]probably sub par service compared to visiting an actual apple store though, at least from my experience of dealing with third party resellers[/QUOTE] I do have one complaint. When my iPad Mini broke I REALLY needed it replaced and the Apple store just said nope you need an appointment, no emergency help for you. Luckily, someone cancelled one of their appointments the next day. If they hadn't I would have been stuck for a week without it and that would have really sucked.
[QUOTE=.Lain;42997019]probably sub par service compared to visiting an actual apple store though, at least from my experience of dealing with third party resellers[/QUOTE] Well tbh we fix pretty much everything, it's hard to be better at fixing apples product because of how anal apple are.
[QUOTE=.Lain;42997019]probably sub par service compared to visiting an actual apple store though, at least from my experience of dealing with third party resellers[/QUOTE] mofuker insultin MY BUSINESS. I like my routine of: run apple's diagnostic, run your own goddamn diagnostics to find out what the hell is actually wrong, call and confirm pricing, repair, run apple's diagnostic AGAIN, invoice out. [editline]27th November 2013[/editline] I also agree with some third party resellers. there's some that are crap, and some that are fantastic
So I think that I need a new laptop soon. I got my Macbook Pro at a shitty time (the 13" mid 2010 model) because a few weeks after I got it the new model came out which has way better internal stuffs. Right now, I am just struggling to do things like edit 1080p movies in FCP7 and edit my 24MP photography stuff in Photoshop CS5, and when this thing does eventually die in what I expect will be a year or so as its pretty shitty right now, what route should I go? Should I stay 13" or step it up to something really expensive like a 15" retina model, whatever the most expensive model is. I literally run out of space on my HDD when converting video files for editing because there is so little space on it so I have to go on a deleting binge for an hour, and just a few weeks ago I almost lost the entire hardrive contents after the bracket for the drive broke.
Well, if you're sticking with 13 inch, go retina. The regular one hasn't been updated with a shiny new Haswell CPU. If you're doing video editing, you'll probably wanna step up to a 15 inch retina so prepare your wallet.
13" is fine for video editing. if you really need the extra screen space you'll have a secondary monitor either way. you'll also want to invest in a NAS, with whatever mbp you go with. it's useful [editline]28th November 2013[/editline] unless you want to upgrade to something with a better GPU, but the 5100 is pretty good as it is.
I'll add an amen to that: I remember the 5100 performing better on synthetics and compute benchmarks than the 750M; shit's right up a GPGPU-accelerated video editor's alley.
is the new ipad mini worth its $400 pricetag? [editline]28th November 2013[/editline] i want the hipster shit like paper
[QUOTE=Ezhik;43009988]is the new ipad mini worth its $400 pricetag? [editline]28th November 2013[/editline] i want the hipster shit like paper[/QUOTE] I'm loving mine right now. They're a bit hard to get ahold of though, i had to reserve mine for collection.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;43009988]is the new ipad mini worth its $400 pricetag? [editline]28th November 2013[/editline] i want the hipster shit like paper[/QUOTE] I'd check out the Nexus 7 as well, but if you want it for gaming and such, it's really the way to go.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;43011744]I'd check out the Nexus 7 as well, but if you want it for gaming and such, it's really the way to go.[/QUOTE] Plus the Nexus 7 doesn't have apps like paper.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;43009988]is the new ipad mini worth its $400 pricetag? [editline]28th November 2013[/editline] i want the hipster shit like paper[/QUOTE] For the average person, yes. There are people here who will say otherwise, however.
Its been a while, how much longer till iOS 7 gets jailbroken?
Who knows, you'll just have to check the blogs of the guys that do the jailbreaks. I think they've slowed down as less and less people are wanting to jailbreak now since each iOS release adds in features that could only be achieved through a jailbreak before
The day activator comes to vanilla iOS is the day I don't want to jailbreak (aka never)
I love iOS 7 but I miss my little jailbreak tweaks. Whenever an app would open Safari or Maps, it would open the Google equivalent. I could slide my finger across the keyboard to change where the cursor was. I didn't have the annoying carrier name in the corner either.
How is light gaming with Intel Iris graphics? I'm looking into the 13" Retina and [I]rarely[/I] play Dota 2 and starcraft 2. Would I be able to run these at playable framerates? (Obviously not at retina resolution)
My mum just bought a 128gb 4g iPad air from the authorized apple reseller that I work at and it had 3 massive pressure dents in the back of it when she opened it up. No damage to the box, was obviously an incident in the production line. Apparently there have been reports of the same dents in some other 128 4g iPads, now we have to negotiate with apple which is always a pain. Surely the devices must go through some kind of visual inspection before being boxed up? seems a bit ridiculous.
[QUOTE=someguyihate;43023715]My mum just bought a 128gb 4g iPad air from the authorized apple reseller that I work at and it had 3 massive pressure dents in the back of it when she opened it up. No damage to the box, was obviously an incident in the production line. Apparently there have been reports of the same dents in some other 128 4g iPads, now we have to negotiate with apple which is always a pain. Surely the devices must go through some kind of visual inspection before being boxed up? seems a bit ridiculous.[/QUOTE] My Air had a corner machined smooth when I got it. Bugged the crap out of me. I was able to take it back to Best Buy, and they swapped it no questions asked.
So I've been thinking of investing in an IMac, I'd be doing a bit of gaming (mostly just tf2) some coding and some writing, would the IMac be a good fit?
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;43023664]How is light gaming with Intel Iris graphics? I'm looking into the 13" Retina and [I]rarely[/I] play Dota 2 and starcraft 2. Would I be able to run these at playable framerates? (Obviously not at retina resolution)[/QUOTE] it's great for light gaming. newer source games fail to launch for me on OSX though, dunno why.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;43023664]How is light gaming with Intel Iris graphics? I'm looking into the 13" Retina and [I]rarely[/I] play Dota 2 and starcraft 2. Would I be able to run these at playable framerates? (Obviously not at retina resolution)[/QUOTE] You can play pretty light games. TF2 runs pretty slowly when I launch it on the retinas. That's across most resolutions. Even with civilization, my coworker will play it all day long and the fans whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr for hours [editline]30th November 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=.Lain;43027444]it's great for light gaming. newer source games fail to launch for me on OSX though, dunno why.[/QUOTE] probably due to the integrated graphics.
I kinda want an iPad mini to replace my iPod touch because I mainly use it around the house, but I don't want to look like the biggest butthole ever when I take it into a restaurant or something, albeit very rarely.
[QUOTE=Dr. Flame;43028664]I kinda want an iPad mini to replace my iPod touch because I mainly use it around the house, but I don't want to look like the biggest butthole ever when I take it into a restaurant or something, albeit very rarely.[/QUOTE] Honestly nobody has ever given me weird looks when I had my iPad anywhere, mini or large one. They're definitely more accepted than when they first started showing up 4 years ago.
[QUOTE=Unreliable;43027879]You can play pretty light games. TF2 runs pretty slowly when I launch it on the retinas. That's across most resolutions. Even with civilization, my coworker will play it all day long and the fans whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr for hours [editline]30th November 2013[/editline] probably due to the integrated graphics.[/QUOTE] it shouldn't have any problem playing those games. valve just haven't bothered supporting Iris on OSX. [editline]30th November 2013[/editline] also i can play Civ V at 1920x1200 flawlessly, and you can hardly hear the thing over the sound of typing or general office ambience
I can run source games on my rMBP but they are blurry as fuck even at native resolution.
what do you mean by blurry? fuzzy or motion blurring?
[QUOTE=.Lain;43029356]what do you mean by blurry? fuzzy or motion blurring?[/QUOTE] It looks like I'm running it at a low resolution [t]http://i.imgur.com/8tQCRRA.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/wypuswg.jpg[/t]
If that screenshot is actually at the native resolution then something is fucked up because even the console text is unreadable
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