Re: man discovers the limit of unlimited internet
@Green Gables Fan: in a word, yes. And indeed, I think prepaid is the answer. Inconvenient and painful it may be, but at least its honest!
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Re: Getting Gentoo, Arch-Linux, Debian, etc. working on my Mac Book Pro?
@Ethin: CSM mode means BIOS emulation, i.e. not booting from an EFI loader. If you copied the installation onto a flash stick, you might be able to boot using the EFI loader. Alternatively, try holding down the Option
Re: man discovers the limit of unlimited internet
I agree, you trade convenience for control. I just like control more. Really, what we need is responsible people to estimate their requirements and allocate their resources such that they are unlikely to run out, or if they do, that they
Re: Getting Gentoo, Arch-Linux, Debian, etc. working on my Mac Book Pro?
EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) is basically the replacement for BIOS, featuring modern runtime services for the operating system, a space for operating systems to dump their loaders into and register, and a new
Re: Remapping keys for use under bootcamp
If youre happy with single-key combinations, of course you can just use Fusion itself; it supports holding keys down too. However that only works for single keys; you cant use it for key combinations AFAICT.
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Re: an internet speed question
Its hard to deny speed, but there are good cable companies and bad cable companies, and if its a bad one, youll be glad youre on DSL. Can you get VDSL? That might be a worthwhile upgrade path, if you can get it.Generally cable is less flexible, both because
Re: Gwconnect's Dead. Thanks a ton, Window Eyes.
Even more incredible, the Twitter web app is now insanely accessible. The only part thats missing now is the means to copy a link from Safari with its page title; then I wont need a Twitter client at all.
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Re: Gwconnect's Dead. Thanks a ton, Window Eyes.
Even more incredible, the Twitter web app is now insanely accessible. The only part thats missing now is the means to copy a link from Safari with its page title; then I wont need a Twitter client at all.And to everyone whimpering about the
Re: How much does spelling matter
To be sure, its easier to spell correctly when youve got immediate feedback of spelling mistakes.Dark: its time you got that Mac.
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Re: How much does spelling matter
Try setting it to lower pitch rather than speak. I find that to be a good compromise.
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Re: Getting Gentoo, Arch-Linux, Debian, etc. working on my Mac Book Pro?
Use Disk Utility in OS X to split up your boot partition into two partitions, and you can reformat and install Linux onto the blank partition. This however will make BootCamp very unhappy, so you need to be prepared
Re: Weird stuff found on a new braille note?
Fortunately, erasing the BrailleNote is possible using an (undocumented, naturally) command.My BrailleNote Apex now does exactly two things: act as a braille terminal, and play z-code games.
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Re: Weird stuff found on a new braille note?
Fortunately, erasing the BrailleNote is possible using an (undocumented, naturally) command.My BrailleNote Apex now does exactly two things: act as a braille terminal, and play z-code games.Edit: OK, four; it also tells the time, and looks up
Re: Countermeasures 3 Released Next Month
I actually thought the second world war characterisation was pretty pretty, as it goes. Nice, authentic air-raid sirens. Of course, this really only works if youre not tracking the other stuff BF put out, as you said its really a separate
Re: any recommendations for website hosting that isn't paid?
The hard part isnt creation. I mean, there are loads of tools that will do that. The hard part really is just to secure the machine where the stuff comes from, and make sure that its configured right. I, personally, wont settle
New Apple Announcements: iPhone 6, iOS 8, AppleWatch, ApplePay, U2
Bleh.People who have not yet bought and read Fallen Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs should do so. Its on iBooks.AppleWatch is a wearable computer. Accessibility has been neither confirmed nor denied by Apple accessibility,
New Apple Announcements: iPhone 6, iOS 8, AppleWatch, ApplePay, U2
Bleh.People who have not yet bought and read Fallen Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs should do so. Its on iBooks.AppleWatch is a wearable computer. Accessibility has been neither confirmed nor denied by Apple accessibility,
Re: New Apple Announcements: iPhone 6, iOS 8, AppleWatch, ApplePay, U2
LOL re the opposition to the word Phablet. Its very … strained, isnt it? Ive decided to get the plus, yes the screen helps, but lets face it, when youre going above 4-inch, whats the point of conserving space any more?
Re: Countermeasures 3 Released Next Month
Yep, Ive started graceless now, and just need more time to enjoy it. Its definitely one for the headphones, so its only going to get listened during the boring bits or when nobody else is home.
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Re: any recommendations for website hosting that isn't paid?
As long as its just static files, you just need software for your platform that creates so-called Buckets in S3 that match the DNS name of your entity, and then point a CNAME record to that bucket. A bit harder if you put
Re: Countermeasures 3 Released Next Month
I know, completely agree, and when I get the chance, the headphones are always preferred. But sometimes, I just dont get the chance. Its been quite a while since I actually looked through my BF collection, so Im going to do that again and see
Re: New Apple Announcements: iPhone 6, iOS 8, AppleWatch, ApplePay, U2
You can access iCloud Drive like a drive, which may or may not help with getting rid of iTunes. Except, it requires Windows 7 or better on the PC. But I agree that 128 GB is a welcome addition, even now. As it happens,
Re: jaws 16 beta: death of screen reader innovation illustrated
At this point, I just upgrade as a duty, to get the latest bugfixes. There really is nothing here I actually want. Hmm, perhaps this is the end of the line for me? After all, Im now on OS X most days, and XP is my only VM and
Re: any recommendations for website hosting that isn't paid?
The problem really is that not paying is fundamentally uneconomical. I know, its just you and your silly test site, but imagine if everybody had the same idea. It cant work, because hosting and bandwidth arent free. The solutions
Re: Countermeasures 3 Released Next Month
Indeed, I have the complete BBC cannon here and they really are splendid. The BF set is, well, somewhat less on story and better on theatricals. Worth it just for that, I suppose. Some truly excellent acting there, and continuity too.
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Re: jaws 16 beta: death of screen reader innovation illustrated
@Gellman: you may be right. Let us hope that networking interfaces become standardised. To judge from touch-screen printers and set-top boxes, though, you would seem to be correct, so far.JAWS Pro has no business existing; it
Re: New Apple Announcements: iPhone 6, iOS 8, AppleWatch, ApplePay, U2
Well, the decision is much easier for me now that my brother is rooting for my iPhone 5S. So I bought the 6 plus. This is definitely unusual for me; I dont usually like to upgrade every single year. But now I have the
Re: Countermeasures 3 Released Next Month
The Valley of Fear. A sad story thats almost impossible to listen to again because its so horrible, but as you said superbly dramatised, with that truly heartbreaking revelation at the end. I do think a couple of the BBC stories, by contrast, were
Re: Countermeasures 3 Released Next Month
Silver Blaze actually was amazing, one of my favourite truly epic detections, to rival The Three Napoleons. Although Id agree that The Noble Bachelor wasnt an amazing story, I do still think that the BBC production fell down face first, where even
Re: BT Sync: Older version needed
And the Mac version? Theyd better not have fucked that up …@Gellman: come on, thats not the way to move us forward. Youve got to be as positive as circumstances allow. I agree, auto-update is more of a problem than it should be, but living under abject
Re: btSync: Is het good or are there simular accessible apps?
And SyncThing? How is it? Id better arm myself.
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Re: Went ahead and bought the iPhone 6, some questions
I think its sad. iPod Touch with Aeroplane Mode on makes the best audio player youve ever owned; even when on Wi-Fi only, and with notifications off, the small amount of network connectivity is typically sufficient to sync over the
Re: BT Sync: Older version needed
Awesome. Thanks SLJ. So sorry to hear about the Windows version though; less useful when there is no platform interop.
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Re: iPod Shuffle: Experiences? Worth it?
Yeah, just iTunes for me. But I do remember something called GNUpod, which is what you get when a Free Software advocate starts yearning for shiny tat. Anyway, so, er, no, sorry. I dont know of another solution. But there *must* be one, surely.
Re: iPod Shuffle: Experiences? Worth it?
Yeah, just iTunes for me. But I do remember something called GNUpod, which is what you get when a Free Software advocate starts yearning for shiny tat. Anyway, so, er, no, sorry. I dont know of another solution. But there *must* be one, surely.Edit:
Re: iPod Shuffle: Experiences? Worth it?
Sorry to disappoint anyone, but thats not what Disk Mode is for. Turning that mode on simply means iTunes wont disconnect, which lets you copy stuff onto the file system of the iPod and use it as a Flash disk. Pretty sweet, indeed, and applicable to
Re: Windows 10 "Technical preview" released by microsoft.
Well, from what Ive read so far it seems pretty mediocre. Mostly this is about giving back exclusive desktop users some amount of flexibility and convenience, but much of it is just Eye candy rather than actual feature improvement.
Re: iPod Shuffle: Experiences? Worth it?
The iPod is always accessed as a disk mounted natively by the OS, even by iTunes. In Disk Mode, iTunes simply keeps it visible in Finder/Explorer and makes it a requirement that you eject it when youve finished, instead of doing it for you at the
Re: The Best Means of Editing Config Files via SSH on Windows?
Just a thought, but have you considered simply running a Linux VM on Windows? I know, overkill just for the text editor, but it does solve your problems. Linux already uses correct formats, its easier to test your changes, and
Re: Mack voices addon for NVDA
What I really dont get is: Why? Why would you want to use a Windows screen reader with OS X voices? Putting aside that I think youre better on Windows already, the technical impossibility of doing this without using some extremely heavy-handed (think
Re: Mack voices addon for NVDA
What I really dont get is: Why? Why would you want to use a Windows screen reader with OS X voices? Putting aside that I think youre better on Windows already, the technical impossibility of doing this without using some extremely heavy-handed (think
Re: Went ahead and bought the iPhone 6, some questions
My iPhone 6 Plus failed to appear today, because the carrier, TNT, marked it as absent (customer not home). This is of course patently wrong; Ive been at home, with a flu no less, for the past week. So GRR! This at the end of
Re: Went ahead and bought the iPhone 6, some questions
As for posties, glad its not just me then, and certainly this block is quite hard to find. But only TNT has issues … hmm.As for preordering, they sent it out on 27 Sep, so that was still quite a wait. Not sure what they want customers
Re: The Best Means of Editing Config Files via SSH on Windows?
@camlorn, Im talking about the screen reader, rather than the synth, just in case there was any misunderstanding about that. Orca, speakup, YASR, BRLTTY all provide very acceptable speech output, for my uses anyway. Not brill,
Re: best audio player?
I couldnt tell if you meant hardware or software player.For hardware, its Apple.Nowadays, for software, its iTunes, on both platforms, sharing the same library folder and handling management, ripping, playback and some buying. Say what you like about Apple, but they
Re: streaming netflix in Italy off a school network
Proxy server configuration is not for the faint of heart. If you leave a proxy server open, you provide a route for bad people to do bad things. And although powerful, Squid and mod_proxy are insanely tedious to configure.My advice:
Re: For those who want it, the KNFB reader is here.
Well I bought it, but am dismayed to find that it crawls to a stop under iOS 8. Anyone else find likewise?
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Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
I dont advise rejecting external storage. Whichever way you go, you will end up connecting much disk, so you should plan for space and power, whether over USB/Firewire/Thunderbolt. Otherwise, as you said, you will end up building a monster, which
Re: Windows 10 "Technical preview" released by microsoft.
OS X will run on non-Apple hardware, but the experience is always a bit sucky. My advice to the naughty people who want to do this is to obtain VMWare Workstation and then apply a patch that disables the safety check. That check
Re: The Best Means of Editing Config Files via SSH on Windows?
Fair enough, if it works for you. Personally I cant imagine console support without BRLTTY; that has the bestest most kick-arse braille support there is. But each to his own.
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Re: iPod Shuffle: Experiences? Worth it?
The music itself is unprotected. Presumably its not actually malicious, its just stupid. The engineers were more worried about meeting checkbox requirements than making geeky types feel better. Even the ability to automatically add to iTunes from a
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
Well, if you can manage with a single disk or maybe a couple depending on your form factor, but I would prefer to separate my Disposal collection from my proper data archive and OS installations, both because data loss is recoverable when you have
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
Yep, that case looks nice, but its way too tall (37.5 cm) to go under your telly. On the other hand, at least right now, I have about 300 GB spare on my smallest disk (the MacBook Pros hot-swapped 1TB SSD) including the media collection, so I can
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
Yep, that case looks nice, but its way too tall (37.5 cm) to go under your telly. On the other hand, at least right now, I have about 300 GB spare on my smallest disk (the MacBook Pros hot-swapped 1TB SSD) including the media collection, so I can
Re: Went ahead and bought the iPhone 6, some questions
Indeed!And now that its well past close of business, I have to think that TNT meant it when they said Earliest opportunity.Maybe tomorrow. Perhaps next week. I give up trying to guess, because they seem to think everybody knows that
Re: For those who want it, the KNFB reader is here.
It was an iPod Touch. If the iPhone 4S is having trouble, that might explain whats going on. But it also works correctly on iOS 7 using the same hardware, so somethings not quite right somewhere. I know for a fact that iOS 7 cleared fine
Re: Windows 10 "Technical preview" released by microsoft.
The drivers cover all the hardware Apple has, of course. Sometimes builds of the operating system diverge briefly during the intro of some new hardware while Apple has not yet released an update, but largely it will converge again
Re: Went ahead and bought the iPhone 6, some questions
And …MY IPHONE HAS ARRIVED! And what a gorgeous piece of art--I mean, hardware--it is. Such a shame that the first thing Im going to do to it is put it in DFU mode and install the 8.1 beta on it. But not before pleasuring Apple
Re: cere proc voices
Yeah, I know this lot. I didnt know about the Mac voices though; should check that out. There were also Rhetorical Systems for specific domains, but they were subsumed by the one true TTS provider, Nuance, so youll probably never hear them again.
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Re: cere proc voices
At £25 a voice, it doesnt look likely. Oh well, worth a look.
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Re: best audio player?
There is a dedicated player for OS X called Decibel.Myself, I dont understand the hatred of iTunes or iPod. But weve been here before.
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Re: best audio player?
Of course, choice is a wonderful thing, and Im not disputing that, for whatever reason, people make different choices. I just find some peoples stated reasons for hating iTunes to be a bit irrational. Having been on both sides of the fence at one time or another,
Re: best audio player?
This does make sense, especially when you think in terms of the level of enjoyment youll get using the software in various screen readers across platforms. If I were full-time Windows, I might decide that its no longer worth it to struggle with the iTunes UI, and
Re: can't connect to internet
How is your computer connected to the Internet? Do you usually connect your phone to the Internet from the same network? If so, then simply rebooting everything may well work.
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Re: question for you guys about install old packages on linux...
Just curious: why do you want to install GCC 3.x? It is ancient, and its not clear to me why youd want to do that.
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Re: Best method to build a minimal operating system using UEFI?
A minimal operating system?Most EFI programs simply load the boot code or kernel of some other, existing OS. Sometimes they provide useful utilities, like shells. Although EFI is certainly capable of being used as a basic
Re: best audio player?
Are you sure about that? WinAmp scores very well for particular baroque file forms, such as ChipTunes.
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Re: Best method to build a minimal operating system using UEFI?
Well.You can port Emacs. No, seriously … what about the fact that you wont have speech or braille feedback in the environment? Emulation is great but how is your program going to be useful once you run it from a real EFI ROM?I
Re: BT Sync: Older version needed
Good lord, BTSync 1.4 for Mac has been given the dribbling luser treatment and is now simultaneously less advanced and more inaccessible.It wouldnt last forever, of course. Oh, well. Next stop?
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Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
Well, I dunno. SSD for the main OS disk, RAID for bulk storage. You could do that.As for me, I am eyeing up one of Lacies Thunderbolt dumb enclosures, with 5 4 TB disks inside. The enclosure costs way more than its worth for simple enclosure, but
Re: Does this exist for email yet?
Challenge the email you get. Dont accept build-up that isnt warranted. If much of the list traffic isnt getting looked at, or if youve thought of doing a delete-all on the folder contents, then unsubscribe or, if you still need to send occasionally, go
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
I know this isnt entirely relevant if youve decided against the Mini, CX2, but Ill just mention it here regardless for whosoever benefits as its been driving me bloody mad for the past week. What follows is a whinge …Apple released a 2014 Mac Mini
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
I know this isnt entirely relevant if youve decided against the Mini, CX2, but Ill just mention it here regardless for whosoever benefits as its been driving me bloody mad for the past week. What follows is a whinge …Apple released a 2014 Mac Mini
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
A superlative little rant as usual, Dark. Im surprised they even released iTunes 12 for XP, to be honest. Be thankless for small mercies. I would urge you to consider upgrading to a newer OS at this point so you dont have to deal with the
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
Yeah, youve got to admire the slight of hand there, where they announce the Mini after talking about the actually upgraded (though not by much, TBH) iPad Air.I really, really hope Apple hasnt turned to counting beans before considering the user
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
Script-heavy just meant _javascript_-heavy. The page is a web 2.0 monstrosity with custom-drawn selectors and everything, and since it was quite a challenge for even me to get it, I thought Id spare you the effort.I agree that the customer
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
Yeah, I do appreciate and sympathise with your position. If Apple werent so obviously intent on looking after their own skins, theydve developed a better protocol for transferring stuff to the device which made the media manager optional. iTunes
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
Indeed.Turns out my Mac Mini 2012 no longer has Apple support behind it, so its time to put in a couple of decent SSDs and run them in RAID0, then maybe swap out OS X for Linux. Its all fine by me.I wouldnt mind paying Apples upgrading pricing if
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
Maybe, Dark, just maybe. The question is: which player?iOS is surprisingly standalone right now. You only need iTunes if you want to use the native apps for non-Apple-store content except for Podcasts (the Podcasts app can get subscriptions from
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
Maybe, Dark, just maybe. The question is: which player?iOS is surprisingly standalone right now. You only need iTunes if you want to use the native apps for non-Apple-store content except for Podcasts (the Podcasts app can get subscriptions from
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
The process doesnt have to be complicated. Launch an app, and start its FTP/WebDAV server. Then use your PC to open a shortcut on your desktop or wherever, and in the Explorer view thus displayed, copy over your stuff. Now you use the disk app
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
iTunes, of course, didnt start out as a synchronisation tool, or a client of Apples stores. It was formerly a product called SoundJam MP, with the goal to organise your music. Then, indeed, it played your MP3s, conveniently, from a simple
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
Ah. Well it makes no odds either way; you cant replace the memory without destroying the machine. Im just not going there. Shame.
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Re: any free domains for us?
Free domains and free hosting are available but finding them is quite a challenge and many of them arent really of the required level of quality. Domains will usually be subdomains, not full domains EG myspecialplace.somefreeprovider.org. Search these boards
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
I do agree.Ironically, some media players promise the ability to rebuild their databases using information stored in the file metadata. I think thats awesome; it means your view of the files is still disjoint from the file system, but you still
Re: any free domains for us?
If you pay you can get a nice name, otherwise you probably wont.Web hosting, once you have your domain, is a separate issue. You could use Dropbox, but thats a bit dodgy. You could use one of the free web hosts, but thats maybe risky or full of ads. Its really
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
I suppose this really depends on what Apple thinks the future of Macs and OS X really are. In spite of the Mac Pro, its not clear to me that Apple is at all inconvenienced by hardwiring components. Indeed, a high-end iMac is a professional
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
Is the device even showing up in the devices list?Go to the music options and make sure thats checked. Then make sure selected playlists is checked. Then make sure the ones you want are one and sync. Go through all the options to make sure manal
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
Is the device even showing up in the devices list?Go to the music options and make sure thats checked. Then make sure selected playlists is checked. Then make sure the ones you want are on and sync. Go through all the options to make sure manual
Re: Possible virus on forum
Well, the forum itself isnt listed in Google SafeBrowsing yet, because I can still reach it. Then again I have adblock installed and its likely that the code itself is residing on some known-bad domain, so I would neither see nor be warned about that.
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Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
If your device can play the m4a files, you might consider playing those directly. Converting between lossy formats is always a bit of a risky business.
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Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
Now, I wonder if you just hit on the *real* reason Apple is going in this direction? Its to make iOS developers into involuntary Mac users, by ensuring that their development machines are too great an investment to put just to this use. Hmm.
Re: Possible virus on forum
Just one small problem: ads are how the site makes money, so you can actually visit and participate and stuff.If you dont want ads, join me and the other anarchists and install an ad-blocking extension, and experience this forum the way it was meant to be
Re: Possible virus on forum
Just one small problem: ads are how the site makes money, so you can actually visit and participate and stuff.If you dont want ads, join me and the other anarchists and install an ad-blocking extension, and experience this forum the way it was meant to be
Re: Itunes no longer accessible, please help
Interesting, Phil, which player is that? The iTunes purchases are all unprotected, so pretty much any player should be able to play m4a files; even my old Symbia phone could.
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Re: sansa clip and accessible mp3 players
Thats interesting. Apart from the price I thought the stream seemed quite promising; it has networking, which might come in handy later if you podcast. That is if I ever have the inclination to take an audio player out with me, instead of my
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
Mmm, I dunno. If it were your only computer and you didnt see an upgrade in your immediate future, might still be worth getting the top-spec iMac or MacBook Pro; hard to argue with the designs and durability. And yes BootCamp does mean you get an
Re: sansa clip and accessible mp3 players
Here, try reading the manual. Looks like youll be right at home; it has support for, lets see, DAISY, text files, music, and other books where that just means folders of audio files. It has software but you dont need it; you can just copy your shit
Re: sansa clip and accessible mp3 players
Here, try reading the manual. Looks like youll be right at home; it has support for, lets see, DAISY, text files, music, and other books where that just means folders of audio files. It has software but you dont need it; you can just copy your shit
Re: Accessible HTPC set up, seeking advice
I dunno, I havent found Macs to be a bad investment in general, especially nowadays with TB and USB3. My concern is simply non-upgradability of essential components, and Apples glitzy desire for form at all possible expense. Im sticking with this
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