"PyramidHat" (pyramidhat)
04/29/2015 at 23:32 • Filed to: MacOppositeBook
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"PyramidHat" (pyramidhat)
04/29/2015 at 23:32 • Filed to: MacOppositeBook | 0
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Hi Folks -
OK, so not car related, but computer-related.
My MBP shit the bed last night. I think it started about a week ago when it started losing the WiFi signal...not just dropping the connection, but it could not find any WiFi at all, until I rebooted. Then last night, I was searching for a news article and suddenly everything went bullshit. I forced a restart which got me a dark gray screen. Doing some research, I did an SMC reset which had no effect, then a PRAM reset, which got me a light gray screen...but that’s it. Made an appointment with the Apple store to have their rocket surgeons have a look, but I’m fairly certain the GPU failed...which is welded to the motherboard...which costs $800. While I do like the MBP, I’m not up to laying out $1500, just yet as I put $1650 into the Volvo yesterday. Thank God, I have one of my old laptops that I wiped clean and reloaded...so it works, but it’s sort of slow for my taste. I’m looking at getting a Chromebook - does anyone have any experience with them? Is one particularly better or worse than the others?
Thanks for letting me vent...
TheHondaBro
> PyramidHat
04/29/2015 at 23:38 |
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Fellow Retina MBP victim here. I had that issue too. All the “geniuses” did was reformat my computer.
JGrabowMSt
> PyramidHat
04/29/2015 at 23:42 |
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I have a Chromebook and love it. Tempted to get a new one, but other bills come first. A couple other Oppos do as well, I think the general consensus is that they’re great for what they are, but don’t think they can go too far above and beyond. They’re neat, but not for everyone.
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PyramidHat
> TheHondaBro
04/29/2015 at 23:44 |
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Damn. That must have played hell on your files...
TBH, I can’t bitch too much: It’s a mid-2009. So 6 years old is a long life for any machine...I was just not planning on replacing it so soon....
scoob
> PyramidHat
04/29/2015 at 23:48 |
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This might(?) help you decide.
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TheHondaBro
> PyramidHat
04/29/2015 at 23:48 |
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And it didn’t even fix shit. Seriously, violently DONE with Apple. Their pea-brained engineers are morons.
Nibby
> TheHondaBro
04/29/2015 at 23:51 |
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I ditched Apple right before they decided to go anti-upgradability. Ain’t goin’ back.
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TheHondaBro
> Nibby
04/29/2015 at 23:56 |
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Right on brother, though I was sorta on the fence until my MacBook POS decided to not be reliable. Built a PC, and haven’t regretted it.
GeorgeyBoy
> PyramidHat
04/30/2015 at 00:19 |
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Frantically backing up rn.
MLGCarGuy
> PyramidHat
04/30/2015 at 00:25 |
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I don’t want to rub it in, but I’ve had my Macbook Air for 4 years and have had no issues.
*frantically knocks on wood*
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PyramidHat
> GeorgeyBoy
04/30/2015 at 00:35 |
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I recommend. The only reason why I haven’t cut of my head and put it in a bucket is because I’ve been using Backblaze and my last backup was yesterday morning, so I only lost one short document. All the pics and other stuff seem to be there in cloud storage, right now...
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PyramidHat
> MLGCarGuy
04/30/2015 at 00:36 |
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Cool! Hopefully you won’t suffer the same fate, then (not sure if the MBA’s use the same GPU as MBP’s). Regardless, I do recommend backing up frequently.
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MLGCarGuy
> PyramidHat
04/30/2015 at 00:58 |
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My MBA uses an Intel GPU, seems that all the MBPs with issues have AMD GPUs. So hopefully I'm safe.
And yes, I back it up daily.
SCSxxxSCS
> PyramidHat
04/30/2015 at 01:24 |
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http://business.financialpost.com/business-insid…
boxrocket
> PyramidHat
04/30/2015 at 01:40 |
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Skip the Chromebook. For same or not much more money, you can have a full Windows laptop, or tablet and Bluetooth keyboard. Chromebooks are severely limited without internet, and you have to live fully in Google's ecosystem.
Case in point, a few months ago I was about to replace my laptop with something faster and more powerful, but bought a $99 WinBook TW801 from Micro Center instead after a bit if research (it was a close fight between the WinBook and an HP Stream 7 Signature Edition). I used the difference from my $750 laptop budget to get a nice Bluetooth keyboard, new components for my desktop, and saved the rest for later. Sure the WinBook is no Surface Pro, but it runs full Windows , came with Office, fits in my pocket, runs Photoshop well enough, and plays well with Kinja. Plus USB port, MicroSD expandability, and MicroUSB charging, so it's usable in the car as a media player or whatever.
I like it more than I thought I would, use it daily, and don't really use my desktop or laptop anymore, even though they're technically more powerful.
orcim
> PyramidHat
04/30/2015 at 02:32 |
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Poo.
You convinced it’s HW vs. SW? DiskWarrior has fixed multiple non-booting, blank screen Mac’s for me in the past. Does CMD-s during boot give you single user? If it does, that might be a good indication of SW vs. HW. Or buy a hard disk enclosure for the disk and plug it into another computer - it’s it’s good, then prolly HW on the MBP side.
One thing I’ve done is that when a unit fails, I can usually get a CL or Ebay unit for much cheapness. I just take my disk and throw it in, and voila’, my machine is back. Ymmv, but I’ve used that twice in the past without changing architectures.
Leon711
> Nibby
04/30/2015 at 03:33 |
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I had an iPod nano this one time, never had anything else Apple, probably never will.
this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> PyramidHat
04/30/2015 at 03:43 |
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Did tech support for Chrome OS for a while. I might be young but I’m a fan of local storage still, or at least a traditional file structure... things like graphic design really don’t work so well on the cloud yet. I’m also uncomfortable with the lack of access to the firmware (real command line, utilities, etc) that the OS gives you, it seems (or seemed, it’s been a while) as if it was designed for the average modern end user, without even taking the semi nerd into account.
However, if you’re not a power user, and you don’t spend much time away from a wifi or cell connection, Chrome is a really stripped down, efficient and secure OS. It’s a unix kernel running an enhanced version of the chrome browser, really, and everything is sandboxed just like chrome tabs on any computer. A chromebook with the same hardware specs as a Windows or OS X machine will probably outperform both in many aspects, as the efficient software design means there is simply less crap to load at any time.