Thanks. Congrats on not enjoying the present!
Yes sir. It played one lone CD at a time and I had to mash the buttons for it to work. I had it for nearly 10 years if I remember right.
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Thanks. Congrats on not enjoying the present!
Yes sir. It played one lone CD at a time and I had to mash the buttons for it to work. I had it for nearly 10 years if I remember right.
I had a walkman in 1994-1996 when they were expensive, and in 1997 I got the cutting edge $300 Diamond Rio MP3 player (first that I remember) with a whopping 32 MEGABYTES. This before anyone even heard of MP3s, LOL. People told me I was crazy for getting rid of a physical media player, and that was 20 years ago.
Then in 2004 I got the iPad Mini. Since then I have never bought a CD.. with the iTunes store, I don't know why anyone would. If nothing else, the environmental impact is absurd to needlessly produce plastic to make a CD and a case. Gross.
Funny Limp Bizkit comment. LOL
I remember when I was so excited to buy a MiniDisk player.
What do you know about bumping to the 69 Boyz on a piece of dead tech?
Minidisk. I knew that was a go-nowhere tech from the start. A disk inside a cartridge. No thanks.
Literally nothing. Growing up in the 2000s, my taste including bands like Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, Seether, and August Burns Red to name a few long running ones that started early-mid decade and beyond. I know a lot about dead tech though. I was severely grilled as well as complimented on that Walkman as a senior in high school. Come to think of it I did have an MP3 player for a short while. I am pretty confident it was a SanDisk perhaps, don't know the capacity. Maybe 1GB. I ended up going back to the CD player though until I went to an iPod.
Jeez, I graduated HS in the same decade, and if I would have showed up to school with a CD-player, I'd have been an outcast. Tho I grew up in a fairly affluent area, either way... by 2005 spinning media was dead as far as music was concerned. By 2010, spinning media for video was dead for all intensive purposes.
You just named some of my favorite bands. We make poor choices as kids so don't hold those against me.
I don't consider myself "retro," but I'm definitely old school.
I mainly stick to mechanical drives. I plan on getting a high quality digital watch soon. I use a last generation console. I have a FHD monitor with integrated speakers. I have a cheap 1080p TV. I use a Wi-Fi only device as a phone. I write things down on paper with a pen. I have the option but don't use cable TV. I have a DVD player and carefully labeled DVDs and software in sleeves. My notebook has an internal CD drive. My computers have dual-core processors. I use USB 2.0. I still own FireWire accessories. I have a point-and-shoot camera. I always use wires unless I can't. I plug my printer into my computer. My printer only prints and copies.
I AM ME. /dramatic end
Nice. If BB was one of them, they have a new album coming with all new band members excluding the vocalist (Ben) in a week or so if you're unaware. It's going to be literally amazing by the looks of it.
Oh, and ABR has a new one coming this month too. Check out "The Wake" if you're unaware. BTW, I do music in digital downloads. I only preserve DVDs in physical form. CDs don't bother me, while I do own some though, because I can just burn them in a few minutes. I don't mind not having the album or cover. I actually enjoy and take pride in creating my own little box of burned, cased, and labeled CDs heh.
This is widely offtopic, but I will defend my right to be a pleb at all costs.
Flash has been overly resource intensive on OS X since the start, it has improved in recent years equally it still pushes up internal temperatures, eats though battery cycles needlessly. Thankfully with the far greater uptake of HTML5 Flash will be consigned to history in the very near future.
Personally I ceased using Flash on portable Mac`s years ago, as it brings absolutely no benefit to my workflow, only resulting in significantly reduced runtimes on battery, and certainly not new news to the OS X community as a whole.
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Personally I ceased using Flash on portable Mac`s years ago, as it brings absolutely no benefit to my workflow, only resulting in significantly reduced runtimes on battery, and certainly not new news to the OS X community as a whole.
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Nope, not new, and in fact it's dropped significantly in the last few years as far as sites that use it... namely YouTube which was the biggest offender for years. But nonetheless I don't want to have to approve it every time I use it. Never had an issue on my Macbook Air, and never known anyone to need to disable it for website performance, generally just for battery saving\ad blocking purposes.
No it doesn't. It shows that people are really happy with their RMB's. And since you are all alone on this one amongst dozens of other owners who have no lag and no issues, what does that tell you?
You should stop right there and take corrective action instead of whining about it over and over again. If 100 people suddenly appeared and agreed with your position you'd still be in the same place, owning something you should not have bought.
Here's the lesson boys and girls: If a year ago you purchased a large and powerful notebook and turned around a year later and bought a small and less-powerful notebook you're going to be disappointed because its smaller and less-powerful. Rocket science.
BJ
Hard to argue with the OP and not get maddened beyond a point. So I'm just taking a walk in here now.... no more arguing .... ;-)
The ignore feature is very useful, simply removes the entire problem
Fundamentally the OP only wants you to agree with his/her position, combine this with the sheer level of arrogance & ignorance, it simply results in the thread continuously devolving into a pointless diatribe, stopping just short of name calling, possible exceeding in places.Bottom line: Everyone`s user experience varies significantly, due to their individual usage, workflow and installed applications. It would indeed be interesting, and likely beneficial to the community to discuss the same, equally this thread is very far from being the appropriate vehicle for obvious reason.
L&G Enjoy your MacBooks
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Honestly, I don't think he is purposefully trying to be a troll, just misguided in how to generalize something that sounds obvious to him. I think he really believes that positive observations of the rMB are either because of lack of experience with higher power Apple products (i.e. we didn't know things could be so much faster with an rMBP), or he thinks cognitive dissonance is biasing everyone in this subforum because of having spent (what he views as) an exorbitant sum of money for a low TDP processor.
It's semi-ironic since when I was originally looking at rMB vs. other laptops a couple weeks back, he had posted being very positive about the rMB's performance after one week. At least he could have given posters the benefit of the doubt that those that are positive have only been using it a week. :-/
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Who knows. Some people need to feel secure and have to feel they are right, even if it means trying to get everyone else to agree.
Sort of like religions. Either you believe in my god(s) or you will go to hell. In that case, everyone goes to hell because no one believes in the same god(s).
Not trying to start a holy war here, so lets kill the flame before it becomes a war.
I still think someone is trying to troll the place, just to waste energy on discussion an issue that doesn't exist, or at least well-known. Could be an... anomaly.
For such issue, the OP would need to do an exchange and get a new unit and play with it. Even if it means all the demo units in store are "like that". Just get a replacement and see if it really improves. Over an internet forum, it's hard to tell if one person's expectation is different than another, or many other reasons. It could be that a 0.5s loading time to some people means fast. To another person, it's too slow for them, they want instant gratification, like they have been used to on their quad-core machine.
Even if it's just your imagination, if you feel this isn't for you, return it, and get what you like instead. Perhaps a rMBP. I have both and I like them both.
Sort of like religions. Either you believe in my god(s) or you will go to hell. In that case, everyone goes to hell because no one believes in the same god(s).
Not trying to start a holy war here, so lets kill the flame before it becomes a war.
I still think someone is trying to troll the place, just to waste energy on discussion an issue that doesn't exist, or at least well-known. Could be an... anomaly.
For such issue, the OP would need to do an exchange and get a new unit and play with it. Even if it means all the demo units in store are "like that". Just get a replacement and see if it really improves. Over an internet forum, it's hard to tell if one person's expectation is different than another, or many other reasons. It could be that a 0.5s loading time to some people means fast. To another person, it's too slow for them, they want instant gratification, like they have been used to on their quad-core machine.
Even if it's just your imagination, if you feel this isn't for you, return it, and get what you like instead. Perhaps a rMBP. I have both and I like them both.
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I'd at this point look to correct the issue either by returning the computer (even if you're out of the 30 day, try seeing if apple will do an exchange) or selling it for a computer that better fits your needs.
I love the rMB's design but there are elements of the computer that are a show stopper for me, especially at the price that apple is charging.
Yep, I realized with BBY elite status (didn't get it until after I bought the rMB) I have a 45 day return period, so I'm going to buy the macbook pro retina and try it out and make sure it's size\speed are good for me. If they are, cool, I'll keep it and eBay\CL the rMB, and if it's not a fit, I'll keep the rMB and return the rMBP within 45 days! I'll keep ya posted!
Bottom line is you need to find a computer that best fits your needs, many people in this thread love the rMB (for good reason), but one size does not fit all. What works for them may not work for you or I. That doesn't mean the rMB is a bad computer, just a bad fit
Yeah totally agree. Just wish people would realize that when someone attacks a product for its shortcomings it's an attack on the product not on them personally just because they have the product. LOL.
Stating your experiences with a product is one thing. Repeatedly telling people who have tested their own workflows and found the performance to be similar to other computers that they must be wrong because you think you know how to read some benchmark charts is another. It's not the message, it's the delivery.
It happens, all I can say is knowing that people are personally and emotionally invested in a product. Knowing this, I'd to people to pick your words carefully and don't take any criticism personally.
Well people tend to embellish when they talk about a product they're financially attached to. Go to the rMBP thread and ask the same questions and you'll have 100 responses discrediting the users claims of same speed. I've owned the MBA and the previous rMBP and am an owner of a rMB. It's silly to even suggest they're on the same performance field. Not saying the rMB doesn't perform well enough to be acceptable for many, I'm simply stating the experience in performance is like a Prius compared to a Porsche and that can be backed by specifications. Lol
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