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Yeah I wondered this also. I've never had to pay for a firmware update in any of my router / modem devices. My fritzbox is working great after about 4 years and it has a coverage for the entire house including my neighbours place also. -Original Message- From:

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If that’s the case then you should disconnect everything and shut off your services immediately. Your a security risk to the rest of the world by not acting responsibly. You yourself should learn this, it’s a good skill, you can be helpful to others once you learn and if you get far enough

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So waiting for you to get one to review . once I know hat they pas your revie test I will get them. but for now I am thining what will be the difference between the erro an the plu ones. that will be something I will be looking out on the wire cutter which does the best reviws on this sort of

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Well, I have lots of Netgear routers and they do not charge to upgrade firmware. It’s available for free on the website to download, remember I have a netgear R8500 in service now and supported thousands of them in the field for COVAD. You go to a web site, download the code, browse to your

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Yeah probably for a penny or two or three. I wouldn't be the one updating the firmware, it would be my father. And he doesn't have patience to do anything like that anymore. So that's out of the question. Joseph Hudson Email jhud7...@gmail.com I device support

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Ok, thanks for hat one. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 1:38 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of

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Well this was not your themselves so you can explain that to Netgear the next time you g and that's my two pennies worth. And so I'm done discussing this.et one. Oldest continue to do what we've always done. S it's been the best thing. Joseph Hudson Email

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BTW, I’m happy to talk you through it it’s so easy. You should always always always update your firmware. To not do so is extremely bad from the security side and also keeps you from enjoying the new features. > On Jun 8, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Joseph Hudson wrote: > > Oh no,

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All Netgear firmware is free full stop. All routers are free to upgrade. For the most part they don’t even have the time limitations like the phones do. Again, if someone is charging you to upgrade your firmware you are being ripped off. This is a totally simple and free process. > On Jun

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Oh no, it was not free. They wanted to charge my parents. Eight it was a Netgear. Joseph Hudson Email jhud7...@gmail.com I device support Telephone 2543007667 Skype joseph.hudson89 facebook https://www.facebook.com/joseph.hudson.9404 Twitter

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What do you mean? Firmware upgrading is free. > On Jun 8, 2017, at 4:36 PM, Joseph Hudson wrote: > > Yeah but they want you to pay an arm and a leg to update the firmware a.m. > Which is why we don't do that. > Joseph Hudson > > Email >

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The reviews say the plume is the best unit and it’s $320 for 6. They are made in your home state as well in San Jose I believe. Google plume WiFi and see what you find. I’ve seen comparisons of the Netgear, Google and Plume systems and the plume wins on speed, reliability and performance.

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Hi Gary, so I’m going to grab the plume system that our friends Mary from this list and the Android list and Warren pointed out. They look very good. In your case this is probably perfect. Put them in bridge mode, attach to your existing router, configure with the android or iPhone app and

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Yeah but they want you to pay an arm and a leg to update the firmware a.m. Which is why we don't do that. Joseph Hudson Email jhud7...@gmail.com I device support Telephone 2543007667 Skype joseph.hudson89 facebook https://www.facebook.com/joseph.hudson.9404

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What about mesh routers like the erro which maybe about 300 for a pair of 3 and would they do a better job then a regular router . -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Thursday, June 8,

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Scott, I have heard this in the tech shows as well. they are promoting the fac that these routers use cheap Chinese parts an that’s why they wear out over a 2 to 3 year time frame which I find hard to believe.if you get a good quality router it should last a good 5 to 10 years no matter

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So my DLink router from 2005 supported up to 40 devices at a time. These were all draft N but still. The airport falls over at about the 40 mark, not really falls over but wouldn’t support my gigabit link as it only forwards at about 200 megabits. But again you don’t need the newest and

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Hello Scott, actually no he was very tech savvy. See at best buy, you're going to pick up the kind of router bitch meet your needs, which we needed one comment that would take up to six devices or more. Because my parents have a tablet each of iPhone each, and then they both have computers.

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Who ever is telling you that you need to replace your router every 2 to 3 years is smoking crack. I would say honestly 4 or more is perfectly fine for most. The standards just don’t change that frequently and there’s not much in them to break over time. I left my airport in service for 5

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Will Scott, the routers that we have her Asus brand. And it worked really well. My parents haven't had any problems since they but that particular brand. It tends to last 2 to 3 years which is the lifetime of expectancy of a router according to technicians at six places such as Best Buy. Which

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The two have nothing to do with each other. The included antennas with routers only provide on average 3DB of gain. So whether she gets a new one or an old one it’s going to have the same issues if we’re dealing with a propagation or building materials problem. What might be most helpful is

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Scott, what would you rather do, go spend a bunch of money on antennas, that are possibly going need to be replacing over and over again? Or would you rather go buy you a new router that's a lot faster, and okay for itself and 2 to 3 months depending on how much it is. I'll just point this out,

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Or, you could spend a lot lot less money and upgrade the antennas if your router supports it. I just bought 4 superpower supply antennas that provide 4 times the gain than the ones included. Cost all of $34 US from amazon and they have the SMA connectors already as part of the units. > On

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Hello Helga, I think we've talked about this before and I think we came to the conclusion that you need to upgrade to a different wireless router. I would be glad to discuss with your father and you about new routers if necessary. It Is replacing the Internet router would probably be something

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It could also be the materials the room is made of, whether the door is opened or closed, the channel you’re on, and so forth. I’m with Sean it sounds more like the room if everything works outside it. > On Jun 8, 2017, at 11:18 AM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Hey Helga.

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Hi, So the clock rate or the GHz you listed is meaningless for the most part. In the old days this was an indication of speed. Today though it’s all about how the chips are designed and constructed. A better measurement is flops or floating point operations per second as this tests the real

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I’m down for some VR. I put a suit on years ago and tried out a system but it was pretty primitive. Used a silicon graphics server as the head end. > On Jun 8, 2017, at 5:10 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > As displayed in the presentation of high sierra > The iMac Pro

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Hey Helga. How do you know that it's your MBA that's responsible for the wifi issues you're having? I ask this because sometimes when I'm somewhere far away from my modem, I get around 1 or 2 wifi bars but when I'm down here in my room, I get full signal. I guess what I'm saying is, it might

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Hi, Regarding 2.7 vs 2.1 processor speed, you need to be careful just looking at numbers. I have rooms full of 3.06 GHz iMacs at work that I guarantee wouldn't stand up at all to even a 1.7 GHz MacBook Air. the number is only one portion of the equation. There's the number of cores, the

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I know. It's fun to hear some of those songs again. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 8, 2017, at 4:44 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi Donna, > > Yeah it's all part of the marvel commics family, > What gets me is the great music they use for the theams > Go the 80s. > >

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Hi all! How are you all? So by reading your message Scott, the new Mac with touch bar is not great at all! Well guys, I was thinking in getting a new Macbook computer. I need a Mac computer with a great processor guys! My MacBook Air is great,but for some reason I'm having issues with wiFi at

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Hi Donna, Yeah it's all part of the marvel commics family, What gets me is the great music they use for the theams Go the 80s. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin Sent: Thursday, 8 June 2017 6:49

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I've just setup a new Mac computer for work, It cost me $15 NZ dollars and runs sierra 10.12.5, I can take it anywhere in a pocket so long as I can find a Mac computer to use when I get tto my location, Yeah ok it's Mac OS sierra installed to a 32GB USB flash drive and I just use it in all

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As displayed in the presentation of high sierra The iMac Pro will be for the wing nut staff / creators of virtual reality or augmented reality video. Not something we mortals would really get the best use from but hell it would make a great machine for bootcamping windows 10 on.

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Hello, you can still buy the older Macbooks with regular keyboard, just so you know. > On 7 Jun 2017, at 09:26, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Talking of the new macbooks from 2016. > I saw one today and the fact that the keyboard was so integrated into the > computer

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Isn't it great! Both the Guardians movies have been fun. I was glad to see they're clearly planning on a part 3. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 7, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > What a great movie, I went to the movie in IMAX and it was fantastic. Then >

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What a great movie, I went to the movie in IMAX and it was fantastic. Then again, a test pattern in IMAX is pretty good.;) > On Jun 7, 2017, at 1:18 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Yep. We went to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Sunday, and I had to laugh > when they were

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Yep. We went to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Sunday, and I had to laugh when they were talking about the protagonist's Walkman. When I went to study in Spain as a college student, I allocated way to much of my luggage space to bringing cassettes with me. Kind of nice that that's a thing of

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All I have to say to that is Call -151 Apple command to enter the 6502 assembler. > On Jun 7, 2017, at 12:16 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > My Apple II+ had the shit key mod that hooked a wire from the keyboard into > the game controller

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I remember them. I believe I ran a 2FX something like that, maybe cx, when working with a Synclavier. I mostly used the synclavier front panel buttons because I didn’t know of accessibility on the Mac at the time. (Boy wish I did). Very cool hardware though. At the time I thought it was

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My Apple II+ had the shit key mod that hooked a wire from the keyboard into the game controller plug so I could actually type upper and lower case. I also had discovered $C030 was the address of the speaker to make it click. Do that often enough and you get a tone. Turned out $C020 was the

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Back in the day when I switched from Apple II to Mac I bought a discontinued Mac IIcx which had no hard drive, no monitor and a full megabyte of RAM on four 256K DIMMs. If I recall it was about $1600. I quickly added a hard drive as running from floppy disk was horrible. It was a huge 105MB

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Good ol Moore’s law, everything gets faster, cheaper and better exponentially. Remember spending $300+ on a walkman or how about hundreds for a digital watch. Talking calculators were $600, Kurzweil Reading machines $50,000, GPS navigation, $10,000 and on and on. Today I can do all that with

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Just giving you a hard time, Scot.. Yes, I do more than your mom, but your computer needs are far greater than mine, without a doubt. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 7, 2017, at 9:39 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > > No doubt, but my mother doesn’t.:). She does her taxes, emails,

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It's funny to think that a machine that looks so lame now, cost that much money. But that is the way it was. You're right, it was a whole different world. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 7, 2017, at 9:27 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > > We probably had a similar laptop. I liked

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No doubt, but my mother doesn’t.:). She does her taxes, emails, plays games and helps me with my paper work on occasion. That’s about it.:). You’ve got all sorts going on in comparison. > On Jun 7, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hey! I do more than play

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Hey! I do more than play solitaire and work crossword puzzles! lol Cheers, Donna > On Jun 7, 2017, at 9:28 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > > You’re absolutely right, it would be like putting that Mac in the hands of my > mother. You don’t need that much horsepower to

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You’re absolutely right, it would be like putting that Mac in the hands of my mother. You don’t need that much horsepower to play solitaire and crossword puzzles. > On Jun 7, 2017, at 10:18 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Don't get me wrong, for someone like you, it makes

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We probably had a similar laptop. I liked Toshiba back in the day, they fell off years ago but for a while they had top shelf hardware. My first computer was an Apple 2E with the upgraded 128K memory, two 180 K floppy drives, Apple Cat 300/1200 baud modem, applied engineering clock card

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Don't get me wrong, for someone like you, it makes total sense. But for someone like me, it absolutely doesn't. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 7, 2017, at 8:53 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > > It will be for this user but I run a lot of virtual machines for network > simulation

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lol I never spent that much, but you're right, computers back in the early days cost a chunk of change. And yeah, I remember being so excited when I bought a Toshiba laptop that had a 20 mb hard drive. Nowadays, that's just laughable. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 7, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Scott

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I wonder how long Apple will allow that high end hardware to be updated on the OS side? > On Jun 7, 2017, at 8:06 AM, Jeff Berwick wrote: > > True…And they will be fairly future proof for years to come. > Jeff > >> On Jun 7, 2017, at 8:05 AM, Donna Goodin

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It will be for this user but I run a lot of virtual machines for network simulation so I can justify it and also take it as a deduction on the business side. I suspect you’re right though that some would buy a machine like this for personal use. > On Jun 7, 2017, at 8:05 AM, Donna Goodin

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Some of us spent almost that much on our first computers back in the day and got far far less for the money. The regular iMac line seems to have had a refresh as well. I customized one and came in under 5 grand with 64 GB of ram and a TB of SSD. They still start at 1099 or so for the basic

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I hear you, I’m working with my Mac using a magic keyboard which isn’t bad but I would prefer having a good built in keyboard. I totally agree though, I like the 2015 design myself. > On Jun 7, 2017, at 4:26 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Talking of the new

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True…And they will be fairly future proof for years to come. Jeff > On Jun 7, 2017, at 8:05 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Oh, I don't know. It probably will be for someone out there. :) > Cheers, > Donna >> On Jun 7, 2017, at 6:58 AM, Jeff Berwick

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Oh, I don't know. It probably will be for someone out there. :) Cheers, Donna > On Jun 7, 2017, at 6:58 AM, Jeff Berwick wrote: > > That is exactly the point…The iMac Pro with up to 18 cores of processing > power is for a power user—such as those who would create

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That is exactly the point…The iMac Pro with up to 18 cores of processing power is for a power user—such as those who would create audio and/or video. It isn’t a personal computer for the average user. Jeff > On Jun 7, 2017, at 7:56 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > OK, let me

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OK, let me re-state: No way will I spend $10,000 on a Mac! :) As someone else said, if I ran a professional studio of some sort, or for some other reason had those financial resources and the need for such a high end machine, then maybe. But neither is the case for me. $10,000 for a personal

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Hi! Talking of the new macbooks from 2016. I saw one today and the fact that the keyboard was so integrated into the computer that you hardly can type on it makes me a bit frustrated. I have my model from 2015 and really like the keyboard. I do hope i can use this mac for a very long time. /A > 5

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A mac book pro but an iMac Pro. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of lenron brown Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2017 12:03 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop

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It’s a lot of money but it’s not the worst thing electronics wise I’ve bought. I had a VIdikron projector for a while that cost almost as much as a house new. (I bought it used so it cost as much as a nice car for me). Fantastic projector and all but I left and sold it with my house when I

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I was just guessing about the 10K but knowing Apple and how they over charge for ports, if we’re talking 18 cores and 128 GB of storage along with 16 GB of video ram I bet the box is expensive. Not to mention 4TB of SSD storage. > On Jun 6, 2017, at 2:44 AM, Simon Fogarty

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I wish the Drobo Dashboard worked with voiceover. CB On 6/5/17 2:27 PM, E.T. wrote: Chris, I am not a speed demon. I plan tasks so I can walk away and do some fun things like watching tv or sleeping. Been times I knew a task might take hours so I do those at night. I had a WD drive

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No way would I spend 10 Grand on a Mac book Pro. Only way I would buy that if I had some type of major video production company. At least you know it should be future proof bro. On 6/6/17, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Scott, your crazy dude, > > Yeah I'd like one but still I'm

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Scott, your crazy dude, Yeah I'd like one but still I'm not that crazy. When the pricing comes out check out the apple.co.nz site and price the fully spec'd iMac Pro. Yor 10K dollars is nothing compared to our pricing. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

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Hi, No it isn't mag safe, Infact if you pull it out or should I say to pull it out you have to give it a pretty tough pull and it's a three pin socket in the back such as used on the back of a windows tower PC -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

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Hi ET, That's what I did to a 2012 MBP for my neace, I used the spindle drive in a different machine I had. As for using SSD for time machine backups I personally wouldn't as they will ware out quicker with the reading / writing A spindle drive although slower would be a better option for

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BTW, what do you think of the iMac pro? Mine will probably cost over 10,000 but I’m going to get one. > On Jun 5, 2017, at 4:41 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > My IMac has a round circle type of cable in the middle of the machine. Is > that not a Mac Safe? I thought it

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Hi Kawal, magsafe is the magnetic connector that used to be used on laptops. It’s a round connector with a flat side that sticks with a magnet in to the port. > On Jun 5, 2017, at 4:41 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > My IMac has a round circle type of cable in the middle

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My IMac has a round circle type of cable in the middle of the machine. Is that not a Mac Safe? I thought it was. > On 5 Jun 2017, at 00:57, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi Kawal, > > I'd be very surprised if your Imac had a magsafe power adaptor as well, > > I work with

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Thisis myt approach 3 2 1 backup. That mean 3 version of anything , 2 different sources that being external drive, ddvd, or usb key, one backup storage in the cloud. That backup approach has been thought to me by pros in the photo industry who follow this approach. -Original

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Chris, I am not a speed demon. I plan tasks so I can walk away and do some fun things like watching tv or sleeping. Been times I knew a task might take hours so I do those at night. I had a WD drive go south and it had data not stored elsewhere. So I am now a believer in redundancy.

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Seems like an external SSD would slow things down to whatever the limit is on your USB. USB 2.0 real-world throughput usually peaks at about 30MB/s or so. If you don't have to have the speed, such as for backups or archvies, spinning disks are a lot cheaper per GB. USB 3.0 seems to peak at

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Thasts one place I regulary go for ssd fro even windows pc as well. also like Kingstoneas well. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 6:58 AM To: MacVisionaries 'Chris Blouch' via

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Yes. Loving those returns from them. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 7:02 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of laptops I can

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Chris, I replaced the spinning drive with an SSD, much faster. I put the old drive into an OWC USB enclosure, and may use it as a backup. Currently I use some WD My Passport externals for backups, keeping Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner on separate drives. As funds come in, I may

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Oh it does the PCI drives are much more expensive. Kind of makes me wish I had an old 2012 model or early 2013. Upgrading that thing would be a lot cheaper. Yes the site sells the complete kit with the screw drivers and all. On 6/5/17, Scott Granados wrote: > I wonder

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I wonder if that has to do with PCI express enabled SSD over regular SATA. > On Jun 5, 2017, at 9:37 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Seem like there is a particular model that requires a different kind of SSD, > and a different higher

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Well that’s part of their success, everything is so cooky cutter, all that customizAtion would suddenly turn your company from Apple to Dell and Dell has had a rough road at times even though I do think Dell has produced a decent product at times. They could include 1 USB-C to 3.0 adapter, I

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One thing you’ll want to check Lenron is that your Mac can be opened. Some need a special tool, Crucial.com should have this information and even sell the tool in most cases. I know the memory isn’t upgradable in the newer models but the drives should be as long as you

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I can back up the crucial suggestion. I use their gear and love it, very fast drives and Gary being a stock trader knows how well Mikron has been doing both on a product level and investment level. Crucial.com is Mikron as I understand it and I love their memory products

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Lenron, check out crucial.com , they have drives for less money than that. Not sure if that included installation but I was able to do the installation with out sited assistance. I do have more experience than your average user but I didn’t find it hard and bet you could

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Seem like there is a particular model that requires a different kind of SSD, and a different higher price. Not sure what that point is but I suspect it's the models that don't having spinning drives. I picked up the 13-inch MacBook Pro from the Apple store last August knowing it was an older

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Hi ET, Great site, However it says there is no possible updates available for my MBA mid 2013, Shame I was hoping for a 1tb ssd to put in it. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E.T. Sent: Monday, 5 June

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Well the cheepest 1 tb drive is $649 and I think that was one that they opened to test. I am speaking for the late 2013 model and later. The 2012 Macbook pro could use the older ssd and they are a lot cheeper. The Cheepest 500 gb ssd goes for 379 and I think that is a drive they tested as well

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To figure out exactly which drive fits which computer they have an online upgrade matching page here: https://eshop.macsales.com/upgrades/ So they would need your exact model identifier, such as MacBookPro 12,1, in About This Mac then System Report. The one I was citing is here:

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Is this the drive for the 2015 and 2014 MBP, and would you happen to have a link to it? 1 tb for 380 is not so bad considering the fact that this drive on some places is close to $900. On 6/4/17, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: > My wife upgraded her

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My wife upgraded her MacBook from a 500GB regular drive to a 1TB SSD. I got the Other World Computing bundle which included the special screwdrivers to take her laptop apart, a USB external drive case to put her old drive in and the new 1TB SSD. That kit is currently $389. I probably could

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This is interesting, All these comments about the current machine range and features we like / dislike Have we actually fed this back to apple as a feedback from a minority user group? I was under the impression that Tim cook listened to feedback and although we are only a minority user

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Hi Kawal, I'd be very surprised if your Imac had a magsafe power adaptor as well, I work with iMacs from 2009 to 2016 models and all of them run from mains power with a single cable into the middle of the back of the machine, They have not to this point made an iMac with magsafe power

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I believe there is still an issue with audio through the USB C standard, Lets face it apple are always doing things out of the ordinary before others, The mag safe power connectors, Getting rid of the 3.5" floppy disks in machines, The tablet touch devices and phones before others really

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Hi Scott, Yes to my knowledge having looked at the latest 13" air a couple of days ago, The air still have the magsafe2 and USB A connectors not the USB C connections, It is the mac book pro that the USB C starts at and there are 2 levels of the MBP one without the touch bar and 1 with,

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The site will verify your model of Mac and what capacities are available. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail:

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this drive is for the mbp 2015? If that's the case will order it soon. On 6/4/17, E.T. wrote: > > > > From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . >"God for you is where you sweep away all the >mysteries of

Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of laptops

From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail:

RE: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of laptops

What brand I am interested in replacing the 128GB ssd in my old pc at home . If yu can give me that and the place where you got it from I would truly appreciate it . -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E.T.

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I Installed a 1tb SSD drive for $250 late last year. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com

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Where are you getting that price tag for ssd drives . I just upgrade a machine with a ssd 512 for $200 .it was one of the brand nname ones. I picked it up off of amazon. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

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Yeah it is pretty cool to see yall here as well. I hope this computer can last because there is no way I want or can really upgrade to another. I mean it's bad enough upgrading a ssd is going to cost me almost 300 for a 256 or 500 dollars for the 512. That doesn't even include if I have to get

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