Apple - Think Twice

Post by greedo » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 3:15 PM UTC

nileshk wrote: post #395

greedo wrote: post #317

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In my circle, I would disagree. I'm using a 6 year old Mac Pro, have a 2006 Mac mini as an HTPC, another as a fileserver in the basement. Our household has an original iPad, an iPad 3G, two iPhone 3GS used as ersatz iPod Touches for the kids. I did recently upgrade to the iPhone 5 from the iPhone 3GS, but that's because I don't want to be on a two year treadmill. The only issue I ever had was with a balky videocard i…

If you have the right video card, you can get Mountain Lion running with these instructions: http://www.jabbawok.net/?p=47 This worked for me with my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 w/ an ATI HD5770 graphics card. I do have an issue where it often doesn't come back from sleep, so I never put it to sleep, but other than that it's been flawless so far. I haven't spent any time looking into the sleep issue, maybe it's a solvable probl…

Post by zwischenzug » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 4:31 PM UTC

zanny wrote: post #336

zwischenzug wrote: post #329

My perception of Apple has pretty much been like this guy's for 10 years now, ever since I shelled out 250GBP on a 20G iPod whose battery ran out just over a year later. I went to an Apple store and asked whether I could have the battery replaced, presumably for a price. "Just buy a new one, man!" was the response. I'd taken a gamble buying the iPod (I didn't have much money at the time), was prepared to pay to repla…

I have an iphone 3gs I stopped using this summer just due to the battery dying off. Wasn't going to pay the absurd rates Apple charges to get new batteries, especially when I could just get an iPhone 4 if I really wanted to for like $30 more. I still try to use the thing as a groupon screen. The Android groupon app requires a persistent network connection to maintain the barcode, the iphone version downloads the page…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 9:33 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #328

robomartin wrote: post #193

As this article pertains to screen issues how about we discuss this a little bit rather than engaging in senseless rants? The "ghosting" issue the article highlights is a known problem with certain types of LCD screens. With a caveat I'll say that LG LCD panels are known for these kinds of issues much more so than Samsung's. The caveat is that ALL OEM LCD manufacturers have issues, all of them. The other very importa…

So the real test is whether Apple is still buying these known-"bad" LG panels. Anybody got a recently-manufactured rMBP with LG in it?

Post by nileshk » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 7:29 PM UTC

greedo wrote: post #401

nileshk wrote: post #395

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If you have the right video card, you can get Mountain Lion running with these instructions: http://www.jabbawok.net/?p=47 This worked for me with my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 w/ an ATI HD5770 graphics card. I do have an issue where it often doesn't come back from sleep, so I never put it to sleep, but other than that it's been flawless so far. I haven't spent any time looking into the sleep issue, maybe it's a solvable probl…

I have the four core model; I'm not sure for my work flow that faster CPUs or more cores would really help much compared to the cost. My SSD upgrade has really given it new life in terms of responsiveness. Thanks for the link to the workaround. Hopefully it isn't something that will get broken with updates.