my 2013 MBA is sitting at 83% right now and the estimated time remaining is 14:55 hours which is unreal.

 

That really is all day computing

 

My Macbook Aluminum Unibody's (2008) battery doesn't last very long anymore. Any recommendations for a replacement battery?

 

I would stick with an OEM battery. I know the cost difference can be substantial, but it's worth knowing it's going to work well.

 

Still haven't charged it since Tuesday night. This is pretty insane.

 

Just ordered the 13 rMBP with 2.6GHz, 8GB and 512GB SSD

I chose to stick with the integrated graphics because I'll get much better battery life when I run Windows on it. Normally if you run boot camp you're stuck using the discrete graphics and it gets much worse battery life and is hotter when in Windows. They should get similar battery life now.

 

I want one

 

Nice. Im highly considering selling my Air for one, but my Air is maxed out and not sure if anyone will pay what I want to sell it for.

 

Yeah my 2010 15 MBP has the matte hi-res screen, bumped to 8GB and a 500gb Seagate hybrid drive (4GB SSD inside) so I'll try selling it on ebay. Better chance for someone looking for the hi-res screen finding it and paying a little extra for it. Gazelle doesn't give a shit about that. They only ask how big is your screen and how fast is the CPU, that's all they care about.

 

Want to buy a 2012 MBA, i7 8GB 512GB SSD?

 

No, too low res screen, no haswell, no want

 

 

How much?

 

 

Try Amazon's Electronic Buy Back program....

http://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Tr...ode=2226766011

They only give you amazon store credit, but if they give you more money and less hassle than selling on eBay, it's a win-win. And you don't have to worry about the overpriced eBay and Paypal fees.

 

It's here!

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Yeah they do give better money than Gazelle. I might've gone that route if I had seen that before I purchased from mac mall.

 

I just found out I'm getting an Airport Extreme for Christmas.

Do any of you have experience with them and using the usb port for "AirDisks"? Even more specific, running a hub and running multiple external drives?

How was the performance?

 

You won't be happy with the performance of connecting a USB external drive to an AE. There are benchmarks that show the poor performance.

I do not believe you can put multiple disks on it... Could be wrong about that.

 

Yea but the only thing I'm wanting out of the disk is music and basic docs. No movies. Was curious if anyone had done that yet.

And I believe I read on the Apple site itself it will support a hub.

 

I also don't think it will take a hub. You can get a nice 3TB drive and partition the disks. Ive done it before, its fine, performance is fine and you can get content off it and backup, etc.

 

http://www.apple.com/lae/airportextr...vesharing.html

Assuming the new unit does the same. Which I believe it does as long as it's a powered hub.

Thanks for the help though guys. I'll give it a shot!

 

Mac Pros are coming!

 

Supposed to be on the shelves tomorrow.

 

It'd be much better if they also added a thunderbolt port to the device to allow a thunderbolt equipped NAS to be shared on the network. Yay or nay?

 

Agreed. But I doubt the airport unit even has the computing power to really do anything with that kind of bandwidth.

For what I'm going to use it for (music/docs) it *should* do well. I've already ordered a powered hub for it. So we will see.

We are waiting at work for the storm to pass but I have go ahead to order 3 new mac pros when we deem the time has come. I can't wait.

 

If Apple were smart they should make an NAS powered by a streamlined/simplified version of OSX that can be paired with the airport extreme, apple tv, or their computer lineup. And even better, allow it to sync to iCloud, but I doubt they would do that because it would eat into their iCloud subscriptions.

 

And to add to my Apple NAS idea, if done properly, would allow all those individuals, myself included, the ability to move their iMovie catalog off their computer to the NAS instead.

 

Icloud is not a backup solution at all. Its more of a temp storage / sharing solution. There are plenty of firewire NAS devices out there. OSX has native RAID as well.

 

I've always had the impression that Apple treats it as a backup solution. Otherwise you would have the ability to sync to your computer and to iCloud, but alas, you can only choose one right? Many of my friends also treat it as a backup solution.

As for native RAID support in OSX, all the more reason an Apple NAS would be successful.

 

I also agree with all that but you have to remember who Apple targets. And those people who need say a 8TB NAS aren't one of them.

Hell I'm actually surprised they are making a new mac pro. I could see them doing away with that line as well because it targets such a niche market.

And I don't agree with that logic at all. Creating/maintaining the environment is paramount. Even if some of the branches of the tree are small ones.

 

I am constantly correcting my clients that its not a backup solution. As of now at least.

 

There were enough people asking for an updated MP after rumors of Apple stopping the line to get them to make it. I am sure there are not that many being produced and the asking price will get the profits. There is a lot of interest in it.

 

Because of the what it is or the radical design?

I understand there is some demand. But they aren't expecting to saturate the market with these things.

Personally I'd rather see them go back to making a rack-mountable unit. But I guess these are for power users not servers.

Edit: They will be servers here though.

 

The design is what Apple has done in the past - different, but different for a reason, just not to be. And yes, while Im sure that they could have made it look like a more typical PC, people like change when its, well, cool.

The big hurdle Apple has is convincing the power users to be ok with external expansion rather then internal. It makes sense, but power users like the fact that they can open the case and do things in there. One of my clients gave me a G5. The thing is huge and heavy, but its a dream to stick things inside of it. But, its huge and heavy.

 

G5s! Great machines expect for effin PPC!

 

Yep, looks great but only goes to 10.5.8. Thinking about using it as a foot stool. The wife is not happy.

 

Load them up and they really aren't that bad. And neither is 10.5.8 except for iTunes limitations...

Music, browsing, minor Office work...

 

 

Is the new router any better? The old one drops my network alot. And I have a hole in my room with bad reception. Always have to use LTE on my iPhone. And my iPad can't do shLt