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Re: MacBook Pro Line Updated (July 2018) * up to 32GB RAM * up to 4TB Storage - 4 months ago

Quotejdc QuoteZoidberg Comparatively -- and just for comparison, mind you -- an Asus i7 with 32GB RAM and a 2TB HDD/1TB SSD is around $2200. Or about 1/3 the price. Damn, 17.3" screen (not 4K) and almost 7 pounds. Almost the size of a tabliod piece of paper 11" x 16" x 1"... Not really a "traveling" laptop. Maybe theres a 15" with closer specs. And

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Re: good-bye girl?!.....Apple also discontinuing..... - 4 months ago

Quotefreeradical QuoteAcer Apple had a photo printing service of its own? Huh. My first thought too. Used it many a time; for post-vacation photo books, for Christmas gifts for family out-of-state, and for regular prints from wallet to poster sized. It was great and the quality was always top-notch.

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Re: MacBook Pro Line Updated (July 2018) * up to 32GB RAM * up to 4TB Storage - 4 months ago

Quotejardster What say they masses... 16 or 32? If you have the money, do it. You'll never regret having "too much" RAM, just not having enough.

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Re: MacBook Pro Line Updated (July 2018) * up to 32GB RAM * up to 4TB Storage - 4 months ago

Quotedecay QuoteZoidberg Options page finally working; "entry level" 15-inch with 32GB RAM and 4TB SSD will set you back over $6,200. Does any "entry level" user need 32 GB of RAM? Asking for a friend. Beg my pardon. By entry level, I meant when you chose the first model 15" and then upgraded the RAM to 32GB. It comes as-is with 16GB.

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Re: MacBook Pro Line Updated (July 2018) * up to 32GB RAM * up to 4TB Storage - 4 months ago

Comparatively -- and just for comparison, mind you -- an Asus i7 with 32GB RAM and a 2TB HDD/1TB SSD is around $2200. Or about 1/3 the price.

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Re: MacBook Pro Line Updated (July 2018) * up to 32GB RAM * up to 4TB Storage - 4 months ago

Options page finally working; "entry level" 15-inch with 32GB RAM and 4TB SSD will set you back over $6,200.

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Re: MacBook Pro Line Updated (July 2018) * up to 32GB RAM * up to 4TB Storage - 4 months ago

More from ArsTechnica (hands-on), including discussion of keyboard changes:

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MacBook Pro Line Updated (July 2018) * up to 32GB RAM * up to 4TB Storage - 4 months ago

Apple Launches 2018 MacBook Pros: 8th Gen Core, Up to 32GB of RAM, Third-Gen Keyboard, Quad-Core on 13-Inch and More Apple today announced the release of 2018 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models with a wide range of new features, including up to six-core eighth-generation Intel Core processors, up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM, up to 4TB of SSD storage, True Tone displays, Apple T2 chips, quieter th

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Re: Your Mac Lineage - 4 months ago

If we're going pre-Mac, I'll add to my list (going backwards): * DOS-based PC (DX2/66) built by company contact * Commodore 128 * Coleco ADAM No kidding on that Coleco. I got through a few years of college using its daisy-wheel printer and crappy word processing software. After it went belly-up, I tried using the Commodore 128 but printing was near impossible. So I got a hold of a sur

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Re: Is your phone doing all it should...or maybe too much? - 4 months ago

Quotejdc I want it to completly replace my wallet. Drivers lic, costco card, target card -- and have every place I shop take it. I remember having a few apps that would collect your various membership cards so you could have them w/o having a wallet full of them. Later on, one by one, each of the places we went to (e.g., the zoo, the kids museum, the art museum) stopped allowing that, saying th

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Your Mac Lineage - 4 months ago

pRICE's thread on the most beautiful Mac tower got me thinking about my Mac lineage. I hardly remember what I had and when I had it, but thinking back from current, I came up with the following list. I'm sure I'm forgetting something in the middle era. * MacBook Pro Retina (2013) * Mac mini (temporary; don't remember what model year) * MacBook Pro (17") * iMac G5 (one of the white piz

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Re: Which Mac tower was the most beautiful to you? - 4 months ago

I loved the cheese-grater era. Such a versatile case. Would love something like that back. pRICE's pick would be my second. But I woulda loved something like this: (I'm a fan of utilitarian/industrial design)

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Re: Tom Petty fans - An American Treasure box set announced today, first single available now - 4 months ago

Have always been a huge fan of Tom Petty's since a friend got me listening back in high school (early 80s). Saw him live in Texas around that time -- the Long After Dark tour -- absolutely amazing. Perfect show, perfect sound.

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Re: Shuffle is no more - 4 months ago

I really liked the no-display Shuffle; was great for walks and runs. I would load it up and let it go as I went out. Some days I had the whole Beatles catalog on shuffle. Other days it was Pink Floyd (but not on Shuffle). Simple, light.

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Re: Off the hook -- I've gotten 5 calls in the last 45 minutes from insurance offer robo-callers - 4 months ago

Quotecbelt3 hiya on the cell phone. Ooma on the VOIP phone. Except the insane amount of callerid spoofing makes all of that pretty much useless. Best way is to use iPhone's "Do not disturb' function to ignore all calls from anyone not in my contacts. I do use Hiya and its pretty good but not great. Again, though, it's come to the point where I only answer calls from known contacts. But th

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Re: Shuffle is no more - 4 months ago

QuoteNewtonMP2100 ....iPods have become 'vintage' items since they are no longer made........ Agreed; what Newt said. They're back in the hip zone.

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Off the hook -- I've gotten 5 calls in the last 45 minutes from insurance offer robo-callers - 4 months ago

Not kidding; 5. Used to be that I typically got at least one an hour. My phone stays on silent, and if the number isn't in my address book (and thus shows up on my iPhone's/Watch's screen), I just decline it. Hearing out the message and pressing anything to be removed does nothing. The "Do Not Call" list is just a joke, now. Of course, these aren't from legitimate businesses

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Re: Pathological punning. Yes, really. Inability to stop making jokes & laughing at your own jokes is a brain disorder. - 4 months ago

I've posted about that a few times before. And, yes, I am actually worried about it re/one of our regulars here.

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Re: The Crown - 4 months ago

Watched it a ways back. Very enjoyable, if fictionalized by more than a measure. Great casting, IMO. Absolutely loved John Lithgow as Churchill. There are articles and mentions on the Queen's reaction to the series and its portrayals of history, if you care to know about it. Looking forward to S3, where it will advance by some years. (from Wikipedia; "By October 2017, "early

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Re: It's Brett Kavanaugh - 4 months ago

I believe this is more part of Pence's end game. He's been pretty vocal in saying that he will see abortion ended in his lifetime; this is one more step towards that goal.

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Re: It's Brett Kavanaugh! - 4 months ago

QuoteSpeedy QuoteBuck He's a judge. Impartial. Not political.

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Re: Do you ever check "Page 2"? - 4 months ago

Quotecbelt3 Quote3d What's with option 4? Is that some kind of joke I'm not getting? It's an old "In" polling joke from the DealMac forum days that has been brought over here. The joke is probably, what, 15 years old ? Similar to the 'CowboyNeal" joke on slashdot. POMTL ;)

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Re: AT&T wants to overhaul HBO, says it isn’t profitable enough - 4 months ago

I subscribed to the HBO app for about half a year; caught up on (up to then) all the GoT and re-watched a handful of HBO originals and some movies I hadn't seen in a while. I unsubscribed and have never felt a pull to try it again. For me, it's a costly unnecessary channel. Doesn't offer enough for what they ask. I would put HBO in the $5.99 to $7.99 range, but that's based on my tastes. They

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Re: It was forty years ago, yesterday - 4 months ago

Massive congrats! Awesome pic, eh?

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Re: I really want a new Mac mini - 4 months ago

QuoteRAMd®d My litmus test for my next capital outlay for a MacBook is an option for at least 32GB of RAM. THAT'S what I'm talkin' 'bout! I'd probably only go 24G, at least for a time, but I'm so over 16G. As to a laptop, the Lenovo Carbon is attractive. If it ran macOS and had >16G I'd truly be tempted. The company I work for is more prone to buy me a new laptop if it is Windows

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Re: I really want a new Mac mini - 4 months ago

QuoteRAMd®d If Apple ever upgrades the mini, I'd want to see >16G of memory, and much better video. I've got 16G of memory and I often get slowdowns (and a lot of pageants) with my 2010 i7 mini. I've yet to utilized the i7 at or beyond what an i5 might do, but it seemed like the thing to get, at the time. My litmus test for my next capital outlay for a MacBook is an option for at least 3

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Re: PSA: Apparently There’s A Hurricane Headed This Way.... - 4 months ago

As far as the systems go, I think August is going to be a really active month this year. And I am already picking up on the tension from some family & friends back in NO and Biloxi.

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Re: PSA: Apparently There’s A Hurricane Headed This Way.... - 4 months ago

QuoteCarnos Jax That would explain their expectations for it to weaken. Interesting that there are two systems (Beryl and Tropical Depression 3) out there this early in the year. Dude that’s cool you have a weather connect from your old hood up here. I don't recall Baskin in the GNO/SELA area, though -- he was the weekend guy @ WVUE (ABC affiliate) in N.O. in the post-Katrina years, so I

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Re: don't go chasing waterfalls?!....3 Youtube Vloggers die..... - 4 months ago

Quotehal They seem worthy of my sympathy. But news sources know that young kids doing outrageous things gets we oldsters all riled up and click happy. Crux of it; pandering to the crotchety curmudgeon demographic gets them clicks. Each will have an opinion on these darn kids and the risks they took. QuoteYoyodyne Two of them dove into the water to save their fallen friend, that seems pret

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Re: Nice reprieve from the humidity - 4 months ago

Was around 104 and high humidity yesterday; had a nice drop in temp after a front moved through; dropped to 74 and very low humidity. I've had 50 degree drops, day to night, in the winter, but I will take *any* drop in temp (and, moreso, drop in humidity) during the summer.

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