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- oey_oey0
I wanted to buy a second hand iMac from 2017 last year.
A 27" with i7" 16 GB RAM, 512GB for around 1700€.So if I understand correctly a MacMini with the same RAM and drive size which would cost 1200€ is def better?
And I would save 500€ to use in a display or two.
But I can't upgrade above 16GB RAM....
- antimotion1
Heads up if you use the apple pencil next to the magic mouse -
I was working on an illustration project this afternoon.
With the apple pencil still in my hand, I reached over and changed some tunes on iTunes - all the sudden my mouse (magic mouse) went haywire and wouldn't respond correctly - Thought maybe the sensor underneath was funky but realized it was being affected by the pencil -
- oey_oey0
Crazy that a second hand laptop from 2015 is more expensive than a MacMini...
- Crazy that they engineered their entry level machine to be this powerful.monospaced
- I'm so happy I didn't waste my money in a second hand computer two months ago. can't stop repeating that to myself.oey_oey
- still working on a 2012 MacBook pro 13" that cost me less than 500€ a year ago. glad I don't make film.oey_oey
- Crazy that a Mac mini M1 is now more powerful than a mid 90s Silicon Graphics machine that cost over $100K. Ahh, wonders of technology.NBQ00
- PonyBoy2
Buyer’s Guide: Don't Buy a MacBook Pro Now
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/0…
"major upgrades expected to key features such as the chipset, display, Touch Bar, charging, ports, and design customers eyeing a new MacBook Pro may be better off waiting for updated models to arrive later this year."
I'm about 2 weeks from pulling the trigger on a new M1 machine as my 2013 machine has slowed down quite a bit (still very functional but has it's noticeable lagging issues)... I think I'll hold off tho.
btw... fingers crossed this is true:
"Finally, Apple is looking to remove the Touch Bar and restore the physical function key row. Apple introduced the Touch Bar on the 2016 MacBook Pros, providing a small OLED touchscreen strip along the top of the keyboard to offer customizable controls and different functions on a per-app basis, but the Touch Bar never seemed to catch on with consumers."
- would wait also over the iMac and iPad until the new 2021 editions pop upgrafician
- No doubt there will be new Macs with Apple silicon this year, but it could be another 6+ months.monospaced
- shapesalad-8
mac mini m1 as laptop by using iPad as monitor:
- 11 inch monitor...?inv
- I've done this with iPad Pro 12.9"; it's great and "mobile"-ish.
: )ideaist - Why?jmckinno
- Wait, this works?Gnash
- Hmmm. This would be handyGnash
- I wonder if the Luna dongle would allow me to use an old iMac as a screen.Gnash
- It probably will as long as that old iMac is in good working order. I've never tried anything like that device before. Curious.monospaced
- this whole setup looks very...soviet._niko
- Clunky keyboard aside it works well; the "smart case" works fine as a keyboard.ideaist
- Some people swear by mechanical keyboards — this that do a lot of writingGnash
- innovationutopian
- great for watching animated gifs under 6oopxutopian
- that $ can get you a nice PC gaming rigGuyFawkes
- Utopian = Innovation in CommentsHayzilla
- cute, haha very cute.i_was
- The point isn’t that this guy is suggesting this as a system...Gnash
- Just that if you have a mini, an iPad and that gizmo, you could put em togetherGnash
- I have an iPad Pro, and I’m looking at the mini to replace my iMac (with a real monitor)Gnash
- But because the mini is so portable, I can bring it up to my cabin and use my iPad Pro as it’s monitor.Gnash
- instagram friendly setup, he'll make so much likes with that setup. much wow, such greatBennn
- Even a midget would be fucking pissed at this shit.babydick
- ideaist0
Anyone resolve the monitor / Mac Mini M1 yet?
Still on the fence for 4k monitor(s).
- I know @monospaced is pro Dell.
; )ideaist - I’m interested as well. I certainly don’t need 5k, but want a bigger screen - 27”minGnash
- From what I've heard, they work with any monitor they can connect to, and more (see previous post). I like a specific Dell because low $, quality, and USB-C.monospaced
- @monospaced; i agree! After looking endlessly at the same monitors, their seems to be a large gap that no one has filled in the $500 - $1000 space WITH USB-C...ideaist
- ^ +1Gnash
- I know @monospaced is pro Dell.
- utopian-2
Innovation Never Sleeps
Fuck You Tim Apple!
- mg330
RE: BenQ monitors:
Anyone have experience with the BenQ PD27OOU? It's right in my price range at $500.
- < Also, someone mentions "This model doesn’t offer Adobe RGB or specialized gamut filter" - does that make a difference?mg33
- Getting good reviews
https://www.youtube.…ok_not_ok - Eying this as well; Can easily justify 2 of them at this price BUT no USB-C...
*sigh*ideaist - ideaist - what makes usb-c so crucial for you? I get it's benefit, but I'm not bothered by plugging my work laptop into a separate plug.mg33
- babydick3
Hey Apple and Samsung, you cucks. No headphones and chargers included to be more environment friendly?
What about not releasing the same shit, just with a different camera EACH AND EVERY FUCKING YEAR?
I can't wait for iPhone 14. Sam Hyde fans will get it.
Fuck off.
- Agree. And most corporate environmentalism is profit-motivated.nb
- It always is. "Green" was not main market until it saved/made money.formed
- hear hearPonyBoy
- By "Sam Hyde fans", you mean fans of a fat racist misogynist trust fund pig person that has nothing but free time to whine about how hard it is to be a..garbage
- ..an unfunny white dude in America? Boohoo. There's a point to what you said, but you shat all over it with a name drop that nobody should care about.garbage
- ^ He's funny, though. Patrice O'Neal was also funny, and he said some naasty shit. And my point is still valid, either you like it or not.babydick
- Yeah. Mickey Rooney Chinese caricatures, rape jokes, crypto-nazi jokes, memeing yourself as a school shooter in a desperate attempt to get your name out, and..garbage
- ..and general boring edgelording is funny to you, then I dunno. You have shit taste in humor.garbage
- Whoa I just looked him up, he looks like a 50 year old lump of diseased cheese now, lol.garbage
- ^ Yup, he's a human wreck, and that is funny af.babydick
- Don't be a pussy - some grim shit can be funny. I'd rather laugh at this than Letterman, fucking old creep, or kings of cringe - Kimmel & Fallon.babydick
- I'm a pussy because I think Sam Hyde is a fat lazy bag of hate that just regurgitates 4chan and thinks he's an artist?garbage
- Or the time Charls filmed strangers out of his window and talked about killing as many minorities as he could. Yeah, a real laugh riot.garbage
- World Peace had maybe one good skit, but the majority of it just devolved into them bitching and moaning about how hard it is to be a white dude. Wah.garbage
- "You have shit taste in humor" aight, suggest some funny ppl, pleasebabydick
- Ignore legit criticism of why edgy ≠ funny, and then get defensive and demand names. That's kind of a typical alt-right cuck move.garbage
- To use your terminology.garbage
- Only a brainwashed cuck like you can go straight into labeling people with "alt-right" BS, ignoring the fact an individual can have a fucked up sense of humor.babydick
- I labeled you a "cuck", though, but at least I'm right. I just want to know your fucked up sense of humor, nothing defensive about it, so fuck off with that BS.babydick
- Lol, so much projection. All I said is that the alt-right edgelord you like sucks. He's not funny. Sorry that bothers you so much.garbage
- BRB, gotta call my mom and let her know that babydick has labeled me a cuck. I want her to hear it from me before it hits the front pages.garbage
- "Did he call you that, or did he label you? Labeled?! Oh honey, you can't come home for Christmas."garbage
- ^ HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL. Filthy Frank fans will get it. A cuck like you doesn't understand that that he's not funny _to you_babydick
- Oh I get it. It's just childish and lowbrow. Sorry that I got your panties in a wad, but honestly you're fucking boring. End of.garbage
- You don't get it. Fuck off, snowflake.babydick
- You woke cuck, you can suck those hashtag buzzwords you picked up along your retarded journey. I hope your mother is ashamed of you.babydick
- Yawn. Is this what living rent-free inside a moron's head is like? Pretty empty in here.garbage
- Yawn? Haha, you write like a fucking Mormon with Down syndrome. Grow some balls or ask someone to help you out, because you got ******** (even too harsh for me)babydick
- Yeah, yawn. It takes zero effort to troll you. Go take your meds. Out.garbage
- End of. Out. Fuck off, cuntbabydick
- jonny_quest_lives0
Silver Sparrow is an activity cluster that includes a binary compiled to run on Apple’s new M1 chips but lacks one very important feature: a payload.
According to data provided by Malwarebytes, Silver Sparrow had infected 29,139 macOS endpoints across 153 countries as of February 17, including high volumes of detection in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Germany.
Though we haven’t observed Silver Sparrow delivering additional malicious payloads yet, its forward-looking M1 chip compatibility, global reach, relatively high infection rate, and operational maturity suggest Silver Sparrow is a reasonably serious threat, uniquely positioned to deliver a potentially impactful payload at a moment’s notice. Given these causes for concern, in the spirit of transparency, we wanted to share everything we know with the broader infosec industry sooner rather than later.
- mg331
Would any of you ever go with a single 32" monitor over two 27" monitors?
- I find anything above 27" tough on the eyes for some reason. 32" doesn't seem like to far of a stretch, though.
Which are you looking at @mg33?ideaist - this s relevant to my interests. similar to: would anyone go with one 27" instead of two 24"oey_oey
- On Mac, don't folks use "virtual" desktops and move between them instead of physical displays?ideaist
- Yes, but I hate dual monitors.section_014
- @ideaist, you can have several desktops to swipe between, and you can do it on any of the physical displays that are typically connected.monospaced
- I hope you weren't implying Macs don't support multiple external displays. lulzmonospaced
- @monospaced Haha, no!
I know some folks need their 2nd/3rd/etc. monitors, BUT I've found simply swiping between the "virtual" desktops on a single monitor...ideaist - ...Works a charm!
IMO
: )ideaist - AND using a tool like https://www.irradiat… to further divide said spaces into halves, quarters, etc.
OCD satisfied.ideaist - I do it too. I have one monitor that has my Creative apps. The other one has "work" admin apps, and each one I can swipe between apps. It's like 6 desktops.monospaced
- @monospaced I don't care what anyone else says abut you brother; I knew you were a class act!
; )ideaist - i'm testing this right now with a 34" LG, replaced 2 of the nicest 27" dell ones.
they got this desktop app what lets you split the screen to 2-8 desktopssted - forgot to hit save after the second note.sted
- so it has this support app what lets you split the desktop into 2-8 areas and everything will snap into those boundaries, plus proper picture-in-picture.sted
- I just bought this 32 LG
https://www.youtube.…Leigh
- I find anything above 27" tough on the eyes for some reason. 32" doesn't seem like to far of a stretch, though.
- uan2
how do you fix that rubber(?) silicon(?) thingy around the display on a 2012 retina mbp when it's falling of?
- Gorilla Glue fixes everythingutopian
- remove it and clean it off. then you choose your replacementStoicLevels
- Nothing a naked flame can’t fixsausages
- Put it in the microwave for 3 minutesGuyFawkes
- post on qbn and complain about all the fanboysinteliboy
- thanks, finally found a link. https://discussions.…
maybe just a cosmetic thing.uan
- mg331
Back to monitors and Mac mini M1 and this is mostly for you ideaist, particularly around the non-USB C Ben-Q monitors
My setup would be the following:
- Mac mini connected to monitors.
- Work MBP connected to monitors.
(Does this mean two outputs from Mini to two monitors, or, does it mean one output to it, and the monitors daisy-chained together?The BenQ has the following connections:
1 - HDMI (v2.0)
1 - DisplayPort (v1.4)
1- MiniDisplayPort (v1.4)
Daisy Chain Technology Thunderbolt 3
1- Thunderbolt 3 ( PowerDelivery 65W, DisplayPort Alt Mode, Data )
1- Thunderbolt 3 out ( PowerDelivery 15W )
2 - USB Type B ( Upstream )
4 - USB 3.1 ( Downstream )
DisplayPort out (MST) YesI've got multiple things connected to the iMac and a USB hub. Looks like across two BenQ monitors there's more than enough connectivity.
Am I missing anything here? I think these monitors would allow me to freely switch between the Mac mini displayed on both, or my MBP displayed on both, simply toggling between inputs or something on the monitors. That about right?
- I believe you're correct @mg33.
Ideally between a Mac Mini and my MacBook Pro, we'd use 2 USB-C driven monitors, BUT the price is right on the BenQ.ideaist - AND I think you can single output to monitor 1 with thunderbolt 3 and then daisy-chain to monitor 2 with thunderbolt 3.
Sweet.ideaist - Tight. So, the BenQ for $500 lacking USB-C wouldn't really be a problem. Would be nice, but the fact that it has so many USB options is still nice.mg33
- Man I can't wait to do this. Especially with the iMac trade in of $840 value. Seems stupid not to upgrade.mg33
- I have a personal MBP too... don't use it much, it's more an around-the-house laptop and for travel.mg33
- Fantastic.
Let me / us know how it goes. I assume you can return IF it/they go disastrous, BUT i'm sure you can figure out the best setup.ideaist - I'm having custom desks and monitor stands made for my wife & i and it's sad how excited I am for the new setup / environment...ideaist
- ^ I know the feeling! You saw my desk project from last May, right?
https://imgur.com/a/…mg33 - ^ Sweet!
This x 2: https://imgur.com/TE… AND this x 2: https://imgur.com/qF….
Being stained now with "White Ash" and cleaned up. Dude 8 hours a day...ideaist - ...We deserve it, yeah?!
; )ideaist - Which monitor did you end up getting?Gnash
- I'm going to hum and haw a bit longer as I get desk(s), riser(s) and chair(s) sorted and use Apple thunderbolt / cinema displays (now vintage) until finally..ideaist
- ...accepting that I can't afford a Pro Display XDR AND also accept that a Display SE is still a ways off from Apple.
See where I settle after that.
*sigh*ideaist - Lol. I totally hear you :)Gnash
- I believe you're correct @mg33.
- zarkonite0
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/…
"The Mac mini can only drive two displays at a time, and one of those has to be over HDMI. Since that HDMI port is HDMI 2.0, it doesn’t have the throughput to handle 4K at 120Hz, or 8K at 60Hz."
- https://www.reddit.c… - You can have two monitors, one via Thunderbolt and one via HDMI.ideaist
- That would really only be critical for 4k video work though, right?mg33
- Yes and only if you need to show 120fps at 4k, which nobody produces. That’s a spec for twitch gaming only. Nobody does that on macs anyway.monospaced
- The only devices that utilize that spec are the PS5 the new Xbox and high end pc gaming rigs with GPUs that cost more than the Mac mini.monospaced
- So the Mac mini can drive two 5k displays no problem. Probably more.monospaced
- You guys were talking about daisy chaining thunderbolt monitors, which can't be done, so I thought I'd link something useful.zarkonite
- zarkonite - https://www.benq.com…mg33
- mg330
Last question for you esteemed Mac nerds.
Even though the M1 maxes out at 16GB of RAM, it should be all-around faster in every measurable aspect than my 2017 iMac 3.8 Ghz, right?
Main uses are Logic Pro and Lightroom. I've got something like 40GB of RAM now in the iMac, but it seems like comparisons I can do just show that the M1 mini just smashes everything with the i5 chip.
- I'd love to see a full comparison, but Mac mini - https://browser.geek…mg33
- 2017 iMac - https://browser.geek…mg33
- Are you using loads of big sample libraries? I was going to upgrade my new Mini's (i7) RAM to 32 from 16, but I haven't pushed it past 10GB.section_014
- And that was with an intentionally large project way more plugins and additive drums instances than I'd ever use.section_014
- I don’t think I use a crazy amount of libraries. Lots of stuff that is default in logic, spitfire audio libraries, sometimes Arturia.mg33
- oey_oey0
Hey, does anyone use an alternative to Apple adapter for usb, display and so on in their MacBook Pro.
Anything you can recommend?
- Hayzilla0
Just bought an iPhoneXR. Upgrade from my 7. Setting everything up on the new phone was pretty simple but I'll be fucked if I can get all my text messages on it. Spent about 4hrs trying last night and another hour this morning. Anyone ever used a good 3rd party app or anything? icloud imessage idrive mumbo jumbo isn't working.
- There's a program call MobileTrans, it allows you to transfer data between devices. Works pretty well. Don't pay for it, get cracked copy.face_melter
- Or just do an actual solid data backup via iTunes and restore your new phone with that backup. Fuck all that cloud shite.face_melter
- ^ thisGnash
- Syncing with Apple has always been awkward. It’s better now, but still messyGnash
- Well it sorted itself out just took 48hrs to sync. Thanks guys. xHayzilla
- DaveO0
Does anyone have any tech support on pumping the stock back up?
