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Checking in here guys. I just received my Haswell laptop 2.6/16GB/512GB and it is great. Samsung screen. My issue is trying to do a clean install of Mavericks. I am getting this error:

this version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform mavericks

I wasn't even able to download from the App Store. I actually have a 2009 macbook pro. I downloaded the mavericks installer, made a bootable USB, and turned on verbose booting to display that error. Anyone else having this issue? I believe this is because my version is 13A3017 instead of retail
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DaGr8Gatzby said:
Checking in here guys. I just received my Haswell laptop 2.6/16GB/512GB and it is great. Samsung screen. My issue is trying to do a clean install of Mavericks. I am getting this error:

this version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform mavericks

I wasn't even able to download from the App Store. I actually have a 2009 macbook pro. I downloaded the mavericks installer, made a bootable USB, and turned on verbose booting to display that error. Anyone else having this issue? I believe this is because my version is 13A3017 instead of retail
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It is possible that the version shipped with your mac is newer than the released version of Mavericks. This happens often when a new machine gets shipped just after an OS X release as there might be newer drivers needed for your mac.

Call apple support and ask them what to do. That is what they are there for.
 
DaGr8Gatzby said:
Checking in here guys. I just received my Haswell laptop 2.6/16GB/512GB and it is great. Samsung screen. My issue is trying to do a clean install of Mavericks. I am getting this error:

this version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform mavericks

I wasn't even able to download from the App Store. I actually have a 2009 macbook pro. I downloaded the mavericks installer, made a bootable USB, and turned on verbose booting to display that error. Anyone else having this issue? I believe this is because my version is 13A3017 instead of retail
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If you have the 13" model it does come with a slightly different build of Mavericks for some reason. I'm not sure if we can install the regular build.
 
DaGr8Gatzby said:
Checking in here guys. I just received my Haswell laptop 2.6/16GB/512GB and it is great. Samsung screen. My issue is trying to do a clean install of Mavericks. I am getting this error:

this version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform mavericks

I wasn't even able to download from the App Store. I actually have a 2009 macbook pro. I downloaded the mavericks installer, made a bootable USB, and turned on verbose booting to display that error. Anyone else having this issue? I believe this is because my version is 13A3017 instead of retail
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This was also the case when the 2012 13" rMBP's came out. You have to do an OSX Internet Recovery. At least that's what I had to do back then. If you have a wired connection, it tends to work more reliably.
 
DaGr8Gatzby said:
Checking in here guys. I just received my Haswell laptop 2.6/16GB/512GB and it is great. Samsung screen. My issue is trying to do a clean install of Mavericks. I am getting this error:

this version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform mavericks

I wasn't even able to download from the App Store. I actually have a 2009 macbook pro. I downloaded the mavericks installer, made a bootable USB, and turned on verbose booting to display that error. Anyone else having this issue? I believe this is because my version is 13A3017 instead of retail
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Why don't you just hold CMD+R while booting? Then open Disk Utility and Erase your Macintosh HD, then quit Disk Utility and choose "Install OS X Mavericks" :) Easy - no need to download it from App Store as you can just reinstall from your recovery partition. Then you're sure that it's the correct version.
 
golf1410 said:
So, image retention is exist on late 2013 rMBP.

http://youtu.be/qCPYJnsWbuo
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Every single laptop model in the world will have IR issues on some models, it's not possible to ever totally eliminate it across the board on every display LG, Samsung, etc. makes. Attributing that as a fault of the rmbp is not only unintelligent, but it's simply wrong. It may have been the case when it first came out, but even then, only a small percentage of customers had IR problems. The only reason why this seems like a huge problem is because people aren't going to search up IR issues with Retina Macbook Pros on Google because their display is working perfectly fine, it's only people whose display has a problem. Why do people keep on having to bring these things up? It may even seem like LG screens are worse than Samsung screens, but in reality, they're brighter and have better blacks than Samsung's displays. Every manufacturer will have a problem with something that'll affect someone, but unless it happens on a large scale, and is very noticeable, no one is going to do something in the public-eye's about it. Apple just announced a recall of a very small subset of iPhone 5S users have a bad battery. The scale on which IR affects users would probably be even lower than that.
 
So I hovered over the icon next to this thread and realized how many posts I had in this thread over the past 7 months, thus I had no life.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Macs.
 
PDFierro said:
So I hovered over the icon next to this thread and realized how many posts I had in this thread over the past 7 months, thus I had no life.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Macs.
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I agree, I'm done.

Thanks for sharing everyone, enjoy your new "long awaited" computer.

Bye for now.:)
 
I'm still looking for a good leather messenger bag before Christmas... :D

and also, when is 802.11ac coming to the airport express!? I want to extend an 802.11ac network via ethernet. :cool::D
 
just received mine today, 2.3ghz, 16g ram, 512ssd and gt750.
got three questions

1. how to i check if it is a samsung screen or not ?
2. the trackpad seems to has a little more gap on the left hand compare to the right side, is it normal?
3. sometimes the rainbow shows up for like 1/10 of a second, is it normal?

plz help me out, i am completely new to mac

thanks
 
rainbowsofwhite said:
My screen looks great, no image retention what so ever.
I just did this terminal command:

ioreg -lw0 | grep "EDID" | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6


and got:

Color LCD
LSN154YL01-A01
DLM3377012EFF0QA3
Color LCD

So I think that means that I've got a Samsung screen. :D
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all i got was:

@.`0 6
Color LCD

this is after i was forced to download the developer tool.
 
Ordered my 15"/2.6/1TB on Tuesday. Wasn't expecting it to ship until tomorrow. Got a notification an hour ago that it shipped out from south from San Francisco to Portland! Stoked! No projected delivery as of yet. Is Saturday shipping standard for FedEx?
 
I just realized a possibly unwanted side effect of the rMBP. My trusty 23" monitor is about to look like crap. Not only is it dark, it's only 2048x1152.


What's a good monitor to accompany an rMBP?
 
abemonkey said:
Ordered my 15"/2.6/1TB on Tuesday. Wasn't expecting it to ship until tomorrow. Got a notification an hour ago that it shipped out from south from San Francisco to Portland! Stoked! No projected delivery as of yet. Is Saturday shipping standard for FedEx?
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FedEx ships on Saturday home deliveries.
 
Time Less said:
all i got was:

@.`0 6
Color LCD

this is after i was forced to download the developer tool.
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Do you have the 13 or 15 inch?

(yes, I was forced to download the developer tool also.)

After the developer tool updated, I opened, closed, then opened the terminal again.
Tried the code again and it worked.
 
Time Less said:
I have the 13", I'll try terminal again later.
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Not going to work. It never did with the 13 inch model. As far as I know it's only working on 15" machines and this generation only with the once with GT 750M (not working with Iris Pro only)
 
In other news, Toronto's mayor, Rob Ford, has been photographed multiple times with his drug dealer by the police and the police have obtained the contreversial video in which he was allegedly smoking cocaine.


Back to the Mac:

What's everyone's biggest problem with the new rmbps?
 
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