"JGrabowMSt" (jgrabowmst)
06/03/2014 at 18:50 • Filed to: None
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"JGrabowMSt" (jgrabowmst)
06/03/2014 at 18:50 • Filed to: None | 2
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And when it gets this bad, you bet the thing is as good as dead.
michael bleggi
> JGrabowMSt
06/03/2014 at 18:52 |
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... just clean it regularly, mine has been online since 2009 :)
Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
> JGrabowMSt
06/03/2014 at 18:52 |
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u need dis:
KirkyV
> michael bleggi
06/03/2014 at 18:56 |
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Made any upgrades? Mine's been painfully slow for a while now, and I've heard that shoving an SSD in there could give it a whole new lease on life.
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michael bleggi
> KirkyV
06/03/2014 at 19:04 |
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really funny that you've said that. I have an ssd in mine and it takes like 25 second to boot haha, it is faster than i could need for anything that i do as a typical student. It is well worth paying for a middle of the line SSD `
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michael bleggi
> michael bleggi
06/03/2014 at 19:04 |
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and don't update to mavericks ha
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> JGrabowMSt
06/03/2014 at 19:06 |
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Oops the case is open. Bye-bye warranty!
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KirkyV
> michael bleggi
06/03/2014 at 19:07 |
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Too late on the Mavericks, though it's actually been okay—no worse than Lion, at least. I'm definitely going to get one. In fact, I might just get it sorted tomorrow.
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michael bleggi
> KirkyV
06/03/2014 at 19:13 |
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report back, i promise it's fantastic. i bought a kit that took my CD drive out and used it as a bay, so i could make it a carbon copy of my then-current boot drive. Then i just switched them out, using my SSD for the OS and other important programs and the 500gb stock HD for all my music and stuff, all inside the computer. the kit even came with a little USB externam enclosure to still use the CD drive, although i haven't used it yet..
Hermann
> JGrabowMSt
06/03/2014 at 19:30 |
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My 2009 15" is still alive at work. So far the battery, HD and fans have been changed. The trackpad's next (but that's probably gonna be a pain to change).
Performance is... acceptable. Just waiting for Yosemite.
StoneCold
> JGrabowMSt
06/03/2014 at 20:56 |
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My late 2007 can no longer keep up with today's GPU needs :(
Stupid GMA X3100
Brought everything up to tip-top spec (2.4 Core2, two 120 GB SSDs, 4 GB RAM, new thermal paste, OSX 10.6, etc) and now it freezes on me D:
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JGrabowMSt
> StoneCold
06/03/2014 at 21:11 |
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This one has been dropped a number of times, but amazingly the glass in front of the screen hasn't cracked yet.
The drive is failing, and it's got the nVidia 9400 GPU that was known for having trouble, so it has occasional graphics glitch.
Macs are honestly hardly worth the money when it comes to repair. As a repair tech, when I go to replace my 2011 i7 with 16gb RAM, I'll be looking at System76. Great prices for the machines with as much power as they have. No laptop really needs a high end dedicated GPU anymore either, not with how far Integrated Intel GPUs have come.
Besides, I barely need the Chromebook I have, when I can sit down in front of my desktop, and merge two massive 1080p video files in about 5 minutes into a single 22gb file, and then re-render it to a more "friendly" container in less than an hour. Having multi-threaded software really makes the difference though, especially with 12 physical and 12 logical cores to work with.
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StoneCold
> JGrabowMSt
06/03/2014 at 21:39 |
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1) Same, dropped this one with screen open and while shut and was A-Okay. My Lenovo Y470? Cracked when it was in my backpack.
2) I treat drives like I treat my tie rod ends. Need to replace them eventually, but not today XD
And the nVidia is that bad? I remember kicking myself because I got this one like 4 months before that one debuted and it had close to double the graphics capability. Thought about trying to sell this one and buy one of those '09s for the 50-150 price difference.
3) That's not a half bad laptop; and I've never heard of System76 before, thanks for the info!
4) My Lenovo pulls the heavy lifting for now, as my cars are pulling the funds I would've spent building a new tower. I honestly pulled this Macbook out to make this post and check craigslist to see how much they're going for!
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JGrabowMSt
> StoneCold
06/03/2014 at 22:10 |
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Only the nVidia G92/G94 cores. They specifically have issues with thermal cycling, where the constant transition from hot to cool will cause the BGA to dry and crack beneath the core. I have successfully re-flowed BGAs before, but I absolutely hate doing it. I can't give any warranty on the work, and in most cases, I cannot increase the cooling capacity afterwards, which is essential to preventing the problem from coming back in a short time, because it will always come back eventually.
The Y470's are actually pretty nice though. They're on par with some of the lower end Asus laptops, which I got for a friend of mine. She hasn't had a single problem with it yet. Got her through junior and senior years in college, can't ask for much more than that really.
Older MacBook Pros can still sell for the $500-600 range easily. Even older MacBooks can still sell for a solid $200-400 depending on condition. They manage to hold value for what they are. I honestly don't recommend Apple to anyone unless they feel that they absolutely need one. I had a professor ask me about her older MacBook, she ended up selling it for $350, with no hard drive, no power adapter, and a dead battery. They're overpriced, underpowered (in most cases), and don't do anything a $400 Acer couldn't do. That's not to say they don't have a place, they absolutely do, but in the end, it's very hard to justify the price anymore. I bought mine because I worked for a company that required me to have access to OS X and Windows for software support, and a Hackintosh really wouldn't have worked for the software I was supporting. I've got no problem transitioning between OS X, Windows 7 and Windows 8, and I don't really care what brand computer I'm using as long as it works. I've owned or worked on damn near any brand you could mention, and if it works, I don't really care. I prefer things that are easy to work on, but if it works, I don't have to open it.
System 76 should have fine support for Windows, so it doesn't matter if I get it and stick with linux or install something else. I have dedicated linux, windows and OS X machines, and it works fine for everything I do. I very much prefer Linux, but I don't really have the time for it anymore. Mac OS is just gimmicky if I'm being honest. It's a modified BSD kernel, which is really just a step away from "true" linux. Apple really only makes their money on a unified hardware platform and physical design that doesn't require the level of support and troubleshooting that Microsoft handles (moderately well, all things considered).
And that ends my rant for the time being....
Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> JGrabowMSt
06/04/2014 at 19:34 |
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I've fixed Macbooks a few years ago in a co-op position, when the unibody models were coming in. biggest PITA on macbooks in general is the connectors. they're are so fragile.
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JGrabowMSt
> Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
06/04/2014 at 19:49 |
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for the fan connectors, definitely. Most of the ones I work on are from spills actually.
It's a good 20 something screws to get the logic board out, and 67 to separate the keyboard from the top case. I've done a few keyboards. I don't particularly enjoy it, but whatever, money is money.
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Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> JGrabowMSt
06/04/2014 at 20:15 |
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Same here. I wasn't paid for my work, so I envy you a bit.