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Post by elstoof on Nov 2, 2023 9:22:44 GMT
He lost me at plugging his computer into the tv
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Nov 2, 2023 9:29:11 GMT
B) Pressing *any* key at all should move the user forward
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Nov 2, 2023 10:28:33 GMT
That was basically me yesterday, yes, apart from the mac didn't tell me to push the any key, it didn't say anything 🙈.
Like jeepers says it really should tell users to use the key it wants to continue. Even any key 😝
I guess most people use a mouse too so it's not a common problem.
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Post by nexus6 on Nov 2, 2023 10:34:30 GMT
Looks like you’re blowing the ‘thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters’ thing out the water
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Post by ozthegweat on Nov 2, 2023 10:40:02 GMT
M3 Max benchmarks reveal it's about as fast as an M2 Ultra.
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Post by dmukgr on Nov 2, 2023 11:48:13 GMT
I thought most of us here had grown up with bootleg games and used to randomly prodding a keyboard to work out what key does what.
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Post by ozthegweat on Nov 2, 2023 16:36:53 GMT
TBF the use case "using a computer without a mouse" has not been a widely used one in the last 30 years.
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Post by azurelas on Nov 3, 2023 11:10:08 GMT
M3 Max benchmarks reveal it's about as fast as an M2 Ultra. I'm an avid PC gamer with a great desktop and a very average laptop. But I want a 16" MBPro in space black with 64GB of unified memory, a 2TB SSD and the M3 Max. Unfortunately I can't justify a use-case and I definitely can't justify the price. How do you non-PC people do it? Apple might be good but they're worse than Nvidia when it comes to pricing (and that's saying something).
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Post by Fake_Blood on Nov 3, 2023 11:20:02 GMT
I just can't choose and got both.
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Post by ozthegweat on Nov 3, 2023 18:09:09 GMT
M3 Max benchmarks reveal it's about as fast as an M2 Ultra. I'm an avid PC gamer with a great desktop and a very average laptop. But I want a 16" MBPro in space black with 64GB of unified memory, a 2TB SSD and the M3 Max. Unfortunately I can't justify a use-case and I definitely can't justify the price. How do you non-PC people do it? Apple might be good but they're worse than Nvidia when it comes to pricing (and that's saying something). I play on consoles ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Post by elstoof on Nov 3, 2023 18:25:01 GMT
If you’re buying a Mac for gaming you’re in the wrong place
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Nov 3, 2023 19:13:10 GMT
From my 2 days as a mac user, it's for everyday computing not gaming. The super expensive stuff is for making stuff. I don't do that..apart from spreadsheets.
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Post by darkling on Nov 3, 2023 19:16:28 GMT
Yup, Macs don't have the necessary cooling, the hardware affordability, or the software support for gaming (yet).
You can get away with a bit of light gaming of course, but you should buy a Mac if you want usability that's second to none, a logical OS, and the convenience of the device lasting for years. Great speakers, screen, and a telepathic trackpad count for everything.
I'm 40, and I used Windows for work and gaming until about 6 years ago when I bought a refurbished MacBook Pro, and I'd never go back to a Windows machine now, particularly a Windows laptop. Happy to game on console and work on Mac.
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Post by Phattso on Nov 3, 2023 19:25:13 GMT
Cooling?! Given that you can play last gen AAA games (both of them that were released on Mac) in absolute silence suggests that the ARM chips have solved that.
I’ll be intrigued to see how the M3 Max actually handles a RT workload mind you. My work machine is getting upgraded in a few months so I should find out.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Nov 3, 2023 19:25:43 GMT
They are getting there, my M1Pro can run Metro Exodus at 30fps, the problem is fuck all games actually have native ports for the M chips. And if they do, like RE:Village, it’s only the version on the apple store, not the Steam version. Steam on mac just sucks. Just getting a controller working is a hassle.
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Post by darkling on Nov 3, 2023 19:44:20 GMT
Cooling?! Given that you can play last gen AAA games (both of them that were released on Mac) in absolute silence suggests that the ARM chips have solved that. I’ll be intrigued to see how the M3 Max actually handles a RT workload mind you. My work machine is getting upgraded in a few months so I should find out. My point was that both the iMacs and MacBooks still heavily prioritise form factor over thermals, but you're right, the M chips are certainly a game changer in terms of efficiency. Work bought me an M2 MacBook Pro, and I've yet to hear the fan spin up and it barely ever gets hot... The complete opposite of the 2017 MacBook Pro they gave me previously.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Nov 3, 2023 20:41:48 GMT
I've got a feeling the entire laptop market is going to switch to ARM processors. Both AMD and Nvidia are said to be working on ARM chips for PCs and even servers. Launching somewhere in 2025 apparently. Worst case we'll get a half decent version of Windows ARM, and bootcamp becomes a thing again. I miss bootcamp.
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Post by elstoof on Nov 3, 2023 20:45:44 GMT
Maybe they’ll start working on arm compatible graphics cards
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Post by ozthegweat on Nov 3, 2023 21:21:59 GMT
There's always Apple Arcade. IIRC all games also run on Apple silicon Macs.
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Post by azurelas on Nov 4, 2023 14:34:34 GMT
Yup, Macs don't have the necessary cooling, the hardware affordability, or the software support for gaming (yet). You can get away with a bit of light gaming of course, but you should buy a Mac if you want usability that's second to none, a logical OS, and the convenience of the device lasting for years. Great speakers, screen, and a telepathic trackpad count for everything. I'm 40, and I used Windows for work and gaming until about 6 years ago when I bought a refurbished MacBook Pro, and I'd never go back to a Windows machine now, particularly a Windows laptop. Happy to game on console and work on Mac. I agree with everything except the logical OS part. As someone who's worked in IT support (I'm a system/network engineer now) nothing is more logical than Linux and MacOS is just Ubuntu in fancy dress (inasmuch as early versions of iTunes ran natively on Linux distros). I wish there was a MBPro windows equivalent. With and RTX 4070ti equivalent GPU.
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Post by askew on Dec 3, 2023 17:54:17 GMT
Set up a new phone this week. Usually I go for the direct transfer, but thought I'd opt for 'Restore from icloud': never again. iCloud has shit the bed, so I've got duplicate devices and tabs in triplicate.
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Post by otto on Dec 7, 2023 9:39:38 GMT
That's a bummer. I always restore from iCloud, must have done it dozens of times without any issues, wonder what happened?
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Post by elstoof on Dec 7, 2023 9:58:10 GMT
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Post by tincanrocket on Dec 7, 2023 10:40:11 GMT
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Dec 7, 2023 10:51:05 GMT
My daughter/her phone keeps turning whatsapp icloud backups back on and filling up the entire storage, killing regular phone backups for everyone. Her friends dont half send some shit to each other.
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Post by dfunked on Dec 7, 2023 12:54:08 GMT
Not much help to you apple funboys, but I've taken to backing up and then deleting any WhatsApp media older than a year every once in a while. Went from 15GB daily WhatsApp backups that kept failing or just took ages to complete, to a couple of GB that backs up in moments.
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Post by askew on Dec 8, 2023 18:43:42 GMT
Hah. That was something else I lost: never backup WhatsApp messages to iCloud, but again, it's always transferred device to device. Was miffed that I'd lost four years of messages.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Dec 9, 2023 12:08:17 GMT
I’ve finally done it. Chrome has molested my batteries for the last time and I’ve migrated every device over to safari.
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Post by Derblington on Dec 23, 2023 19:13:47 GMT
Question for any TV 4K owners. You can have multiple accounts and switch between them, but can you have and switch between a UK and US account freely? I do this in the TV+ app, and it just changes the store region so that you can buy/rent from either. I’m curious if the TV box has restrictions on this, like all the mobile devices do.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Dec 23, 2023 21:33:44 GMT
Sitrep on the above: safari is so much gentler and kinder on your battery, it’s ridiculous. It’s probably in part due to the fact it blocks a lot of background crap and adverts but even so.
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