Apple: Hardware News and Discussion Thread
12-18-2013, 03:27 PM
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12-18-2013, 03:29 PM
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Everything I read about the new airport extremes is amazing. EXCEPT, and it's a big one for me, no DDNS support. But I can manage.
Speaking of G5s, ever had the loud fan issue before? Resolution?
Speaking of G5s, ever had the loud fan issue before? Resolution?
12-18-2013, 03:39 PM
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I just booted it up and played with it for a bit, no fan issues I heard.
12-18-2013, 03:40 PM
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12-18-2013, 03:43 PM
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Thought about it, its not worth it. Maybe good for scrap metal.
12-18-2013, 03:50 PM
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Load it up with memory and a fast hdd and it'll be fast enough for most.
I've got a graveyard of G5s here at the office because they all have the loud fan issue. It's like the senor on the CPU goes nuts and adjusts the fan to some outrageous speed.
I've got a graveyard of G5s here at the office because they all have the loud fan issue. It's like the senor on the CPU goes nuts and adjusts the fan to some outrageous speed.
12-19-2013, 08:17 AM
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12-19-2013, 08:46 AM
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I maxed it out to about 10K.
12-19-2013, 09:39 AM
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12-19-2013, 09:40 AM
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I was really looking at the new routers but no VPN or DDNS support isn't ideal for me. I'm hearing good things about ASUS routers lately...
12-19-2013, 09:54 AM
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I've honestly never taken the CPU out of a G5. We always just throw them away and move on. Lol
I've been tempted to take one home and take it 100% apart but just never have.
12-19-2013, 09:56 AM
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Want my G5? Ill give it to you...Shipping not included though....
12-19-2013, 11:00 AM
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How much is shipping? What kind of CPU? Would it be better than a core 2 duo e6600?
12-19-2013, 11:04 AM
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Macbook Pro, returns disk02 failure. Can't boot into disk utility. It boots into safe mood by itself with the grey screen, spinning circle, which eventually leads to blue screen with a mouse that does nothing, just keep refreshing itself.
Is the hard drive dead? Have you encountered this? I've tried burning CD and USB with Recovery utilities so I can run a disk scan..but it does not boot, it keeps showing only the hard drive when holding C to boot... Nvram, etc, all is reset.
Ideas?
Macbook Pro, returns disk02 failure. Can't boot into disk utility. It boots into safe mood by itself with the grey screen, spinning circle, which eventually leads to blue screen with a mouse that does nothing, just keep refreshing itself.
Is the hard drive dead? Have you encountered this? I've tried burning CD and USB with Recovery utilities so I can run a disk scan..but it does not boot, it keeps showing only the hard drive when holding C to boot... Nvram, etc, all is reset.
Ideas?
12-19-2013, 11:16 AM
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since we are solving problems here...
Macbook Pro, returns disk02 failure. Can't boot into disk utility. It boots into safe mood by itself with the grey screen, spinning circle, which eventually leads to blue screen with a mouse that does nothing, just keep refreshing itself.
Is the hard drive dead? Have you encountered this? I've tried burning CD and USB with Recovery utilities so I can run a disk scan..but it does not boot, it keeps showing only the hard drive when holding C to boot... Nvram, etc, all is reset.
Ideas?
Macbook Pro, returns disk02 failure. Can't boot into disk utility. It boots into safe mood by itself with the grey screen, spinning circle, which eventually leads to blue screen with a mouse that does nothing, just keep refreshing itself.
Is the hard drive dead? Have you encountered this? I've tried burning CD and USB with Recovery utilities so I can run a disk scan..but it does not boot, it keeps showing only the hard drive when holding C to boot... Nvram, etc, all is reset.
Ideas?
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12-19-2013, 11:47 AM
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12-19-2013, 11:53 AM
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Three of these is expected to take over 3 Mac Pros, 2 mac minis and a handful of G5s here at the office. (servers)
12-19-2013, 12:05 PM
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I was surprised to see them that cheap as well compared to previous years model. However, seeing that they don't let you configure RAID support with up to 4 hard drives anymore is the primary reason it's so cheap.
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12-19-2013, 01:43 PM
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12-19-2013, 01:49 PM
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Yea, they used to give you the option of adding a hardware RAID controller and as many hard drives that could support, which I think was 4 per controller. The RAID controller IIRC, was expensive. I don't recall if it gave the option to add multiple RIAD controllers.
12-19-2013, 01:55 PM
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Its all external inclosures now...
12-19-2013, 01:59 PM
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yes we know...hence 6 TB2 ports.
12-19-2013, 02:36 PM
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I remember when my buddy paid 3 grand for a Gateway 486DX. 
12-20-2013, 08:52 AM
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12-20-2013, 09:28 AM
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Def disk is bad. Im sure if you take the disk out it will boot to USB or CD fine. If the disk has bad blocks and can be rebuilt it will boot with the CD / USB, if not, disk is dead. You can take it out and connect to a external enclosure and try to get data off it, but if you have backup just get another disk drive.
12-20-2013, 10:05 AM
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I was going to comment on that but didn't feel like sucking up that much of my time yesterday.
You should be able to boot to CD no matter the status of the HDD. Hell, can you boot to CD on a Mac without even having a HDD?
You should be able to boot to CD no matter the status of the HDD. Hell, can you boot to CD on a Mac without even having a HDD?
12-20-2013, 10:35 AM
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pardon me if this is a re-post, but it looks like the new mac pros have no option for internal spinning platter drives, all flash and in 256, 500 or 1tb sizes. Is that correct?
12-20-2013, 10:45 AM
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^Yes. But 6 Thunderbolt 2 ports for external HDD enclosure/racks.
12-20-2013, 11:05 AM
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Understood, thanks!
12-20-2013, 11:09 AM
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Like Whiskers said...that will be a hurdle for them to get people to overcome. Getting people to be OK with modular external devices.
12-20-2013, 11:14 AM
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What will be interesting is how they will do in a more pro setting (server farms, etc where Fiber is most commonly used and these machines would need some kind of external adapter.
12-25-2013, 04:42 PM
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just bagged a 3.5 GHz Core i7/16 GB DDR3/GTX 780M NVidia 27" iMac. So far, so good.
12-25-2013, 06:07 PM
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Sweet....
12-25-2013, 06:34 PM
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Sweet, which drive?
12-25-2013, 08:33 PM
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When you consider that the previous pro came in a big ass case, that little can is amazing. I wouldn't have any problem stacking drives next to that.
12-26-2013, 04:47 AM
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12-26-2013, 07:47 AM
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7800? :/
12-26-2013, 08:11 AM
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