Key takeaways:
- packs two extra Thunderbolt ports, so you have twice as many places to plug in your dongles.
- the logic board is legit shaped like a moustache
- two speaker grilles—carefully crafted vents that channel sound waves out of the MacBook Pro straight to .... wait...The speakers are not located under the speaker grilles. The speaker grille doesn't even go clear through the case. These speakers likely blast their impressive sound through the side air vents.
- iFixIt broke the OLED panel while removing it so let's hope you never break outs.
- SSD & ram soldered to the main board, making upgrading it impossible
- Battery glued the fuck in, making replacing it nearly impossible (without potentially starting a huge li-on fire)
Can we just make my mid-2012 non-retina MBP with a retina display and new ram? Give me a old 1TB HDD and a CD drive. I'll do the rest.
My brand-new-in-2014 Mac Mini is the second worst computer I've ever owned. Expensive, slow, unreliable... the hard drive took a shit six months ago and despite the fact that I got spinning platters to make it easier to swap out, Apple is now writing proprietary firmware onto their hard disks. Yeah - you can't swap out the hard drive if you want to. Because they won't sell you one of their magical bullshit firmware hard drives unless you send the piece of shit into service. Sure - you can boot off of Thunderbolt, and a good thing, too, but serously, fuck you, Apple. Next up: a proprietary fucking file system.
Kev has his Mac mini from who knows when. 2012? 2010? I have my mid 2012 MBP. We have a Linux machine too. Kev might try to build a hackintosh but I don't have faith that hackintoshes work since the last one I built was an utter failure. We desperately need new computers but this is ridiculous.
Mid-2012 MBP here, reporting in from San Francisco. You guys wanna hang out? I'm here until Friday afternoon for AGU. edit: randomuser
Were in Los Angeles. So if you're end up heading south definitely.
Aw man! I met up with 'bl00 a few months ago down there, I thought you guys lived up here in SF. Mah bad. I'll bother you next time I'm in LA, probably a couple years from now, but it'll fly by. With any luck I'll have more time to contribute around Hubsk in the interim.
The 2011 Mac Mini is an awesome little box. When the 2014 one came out they briefly went over new price on eBay because the specs on the 2014 mac mini were so underwhelming. But I think they're assed out of OS after this one. I ran a Hackintosh for a while. I wasn't happy with the fact that you're basically preserved in amber until the hack community catches up with the software updates, and they may not be using your sound card or motherboard or whatever. I mean it was fun'an'all but what I needed it to do? You can do it on one of these for $80: What do you have in the land of Mac that doesn't exist in the land of Windows? I'll miss Logic when my Mac Pro gives up but Avid hasn't been supporting Logic on the HD Native card for three years now anyway. Pretty much everything else I need is cross-platform at this point. Know what's decadent? buying a phat M.2 and triple-partitioning it production/testing/gaming. And spending 1/4th as much on the whole rig while you're at it.