Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

In all honestly will welcome something new, just waiting for a big update a Air/Pro as the current line is looking a little 2011 still...

My current laptop is clocking on for 6 1/2 years and it's still pretty quick. Battery is terrible only last 30 mins at best but I use it at my desk pretty much all the time so it's no problem

Suspect something new coming this year laptop wise... 12inch something... Retinas are pretty nice too.

There is always something new coming out from apple every year. A colleague has been wanting to buy a mac for about 3 years now, she is still wanting for the newest and latest. I said to her just buy it coz 6 months down the line, whatever she would have would become old model. Apple can be slightly annoying on this front.

Same for any company, it's just more noticeable as they have a small number of products and proper updates rather than fucking mess. Trying to buy a non apple monitor has proven to me how fucking shit pc manufacturers are

^ very true. Apple also always make bigger noise when he products are round the corner, which isn't a bad thing...

What monitor are you looking at? I have an older model of the dell one mentioned up thread, it's alright...

I'd like something decent 27-30". If I can get away cheaper than an Apple Cinema for £800 I'd be a happy man, but it has to be good. Spending £450 on a Dell with ghosting is a waste of money, rather spend 800 and get something actually good.

Go Apple, the extra features make it well worth the extra cash imho...

Mine's paid for itself many times over...

Saving time plugging in just the one cable instead of two?

I'm keen on the apple for all obvious reasons, but bosswoman wants to keep it sensible

iPad air and chrome cast on their way.

What apps are people using for virus / mac tidying?

None.

Do we need to worry about viruses yet? Has the time come?

For tidying up I just re-install from fresh every two years or so

Viruses? Nah.
Cleaning- Onyx... fixes permissions etc. DO NOT use Clean My Mac (on Mavericks) as it has a really nasty bug in which breaks Apple software (mail. ical etc).

Wish they'd hurry up and release the new Mac mini.

ahah you sound like me Ben... i've given up...

Viruses? Nah.
Cleaning- Onyx... fixes permissions etc. DO NOT use Clean My Mac (on Mavericks) as it has a really nasty bug in which breaks Apple software (mail. ical etc).

Yeah no way I would use that or Norton etc etc.

Will have a look at Onyx

Just comitted myself to a 2nd hand 2012 mac mini, just the box standard configurarion, good condition and all. £299 including the HDMI cable. Have I got a good enough deal?

Got my degree show coming up and leaving a cheap mac out there is better than leaving either of my laptops... Yap, we are based in New Cross and yap things go walkie all the time!

Yeah damn good.
I recommend getting an additional SSD drive fitted... should cost less than £150 and make the world of difference...
If you can afford it get 2 equal SSD's and set them up RAID 0... dead fast.

Yeah damn good.
I recommend getting an additional SSD drive fitted... should cost less than £150 and make the world of difference...
If you can afford it get 2 equal SSD's and set them up RAID 0... dead fast.

sounds like complete bullshit

Saving time plugging in just the one cable instead of two?

I'm keen on the apple for all obvious reasons, but bosswoman wants to keep it sensible

I've got my external drive and keyboard permanently plugged into it so I chuck my laptop on the stand, plug the Thunderbolt and power cables in and I'm ready to go... Call me lazy... :)

lazy..

Yeah damn good.
I recommend getting an additional SSD drive fitted... should cost less than £150 and make the world of difference...
If you can afford it get 2 equal SSD's and set them up RAID 0... dead fast.

Nah, just needed a cheap computer to play stuff etc, not gonna bother upgrading it.

sounds like complete bullshit

Really? Please explain...

Really? Please explain...

a single drive nearly saturates sata III. You don't gain anything in the real world
except loss of data becomes more likely.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-raid-benchmark,review-32689-10.html

Yeah, but you are splitting data over 2 drives hence doubling speed... startup/shutdown is not where the gains are felt (or needed)... I believe.

I was offering advice, to someone asked... no need to be rude.