MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) recently sold my thunderbolt display though >.>
Also an older larger laptop maybe a late 2010 15inch upgraded to an SSD
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) recently sold my thunderbolt display though >.>
Also an older larger laptop maybe a late 2010 15inch upgraded to an SSD
Macbook Pro 2010 i7 15" glossy. I've since upped the RAM to 8Gb, installed an SSD (thank you iFixit!) and replaced the superdrive with a HDD in a cradle. It never succeeded as the dual booting portable gaming machine I was after, the GTX 330M couldn't cope with much, but for everything else, this machine has done really well by me.
I've done dev work, hours browsing, FTL and Diablo 3 and it's been a my main media driver and server for many years. The laptop itself still looks like better than any 6 year old piece of hw has any right to. It's aged better than me in it's 6 years lol.
I did have an issue with the logic board dying after 5 years due to the well known Nvidia solder design flaw, but Apple were brilliant about replacing the board for free due to it being an affected board.
However, my next laptop will be a Windows 10 device. I think Apple have lost some of their innovation and quality that enticed me to drop £1800 back in 2010. I don't like iCloud and Microsoft has got a lot better.
Got a late 2012 13" MacBook Pro. Looking at potential upgrades but new Macs seem to be ridiculously priced with very low specs. The only package in my price range that is anywhere near powerful enough is the 27" 5K iMac but that is nearly 2 years old now and still not that greatly spec-ed. For the first time, I am really tempted to build a Hackintosh.
anyone running any mad upgraded 5,1 mac pro's?
very nice mate, ideally was hoping to see a 5,1 with dual 6 core 3.63ghz xeons and a 590 as i was highly considering one of these currently but might build a hackintosh but i love the og mac pro case. have you dual booted it sucessfully into windows and gamed on it. those 580 and 590 are such good bang per buck im so tempted but want macos as my main setup.
Holy thread revival!
I've recently bought the M1 MacBook Air, absolutely love the thing, battery life is insane with amazing processing to go with it.
Not here. Nothing against Macs, and they're nice kit, but I'm too set in my PC ways now and can't be bothered to get used to yet another interface and way of doing things. Besides, too much invested in software, and a few essential things don't have Mac versions.
Not dual booted it in this configuration or gamed on it as Monterey was really tricky to get installed on the PCI-E adaptor card and I had to use Open Core Legacy patcher to get it work. However I do dual boot my hackintoshs via OpenCore and both the Ryzen & Intel Hacks work almost perfectly (I think Sidecar doesn't work but I dont use it so don't care).
wot's a mac ?
:P
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The O/S I prefer to use to work on other two ;)
Just bought one of the last Intel i7 iMacs as my experience of the M1 and Studio is, over priced and under built. For the sake of the business I need to put an M1 on the reception desk but I've been struggling to pull the trigger for months. Slowly coming around to Monterey. Bigsur was such a big suck I wouldn't let it near any of my own systems.
2008 first gen 13.3" unibody mbp, mid 2012 13.3" unibody mbp... mid 2012 mac mini - all running ssd's and maxed out ram.