Why don't you just advocate piracy while you're at it.
People, if there is a specific type of ad that is a problem, block just that ad, and maybe tell the site why you're blocking it. Many ads are geotargeted, just because YOU see it, doesn't mean everyone is. My blacklist contains exactly that ad (that comes from cdn.morningfalls.com) and a few ad systems that spawn new windows. That's it. The default behavior of adblock is to wholesale block every script in a very long and outdated blacklist plus images of typical ad sizes. You're killing the performance of your browser by using it.
Anyway...
About the Macbook Pro itself, The MBP is largely more repairable than a Dell or HP laptop, because to clean them you have to take out an absurd amount of screws just to take the back off. Most people just let it cool down, and use a vacuum cleaner or compressed air and attempt to blow the dust bunnies out the way they came in. I'd honestly never recommend attempting to repair a laptop made after 2006, as many laptops produced after 2006 don't use socketed CPU's, so there's really nothing worth fixing beyond the back panel in the MBP or the plastic panels in Dell's and HP's. The round-trip shipping of replacement parts will cost more than the labor saved in not just shipping the entire thing in the first place to be fixed.
The default behavior of adblock is to wholesale block every script in a very long and outdated blacklist plus images of typical ad sizes. You're killing the performance of your browser by using it.
Not in my experience, for both performance and hiding things that aren't ads.
Well Appleinsider and the quality of the articles here have hit a new low. This would have been a good place to discuss the new MBPs features and capabilities. Instead we get a non sense article about what makes it thicker than the RMBP.
Come on guys, if AI can't do better than this it is time to close up shop. Many of us would prefer an actual review of the machine, by somebody that actually has their hands on a machine.
Yeah, that's just a typical popup that could show up anywhere, as part of sold advertising space. Not the greatest thing to see with regard to how your favorite sites are selling their ad space, but easy to kill. Safari, IIRC, can only block all or none but since some sites need popup blocking disabled to use it's easy to use one with a selective "whitelist".
Safari has never been successful in blocking pop-ups for me. Maybe a bunch of pop-up ads are blocked (I don't really know), but some websites seem to have learned how to get around Safari's blocking, with pop-up surveys and all sorts of other stuff, including ads.
Safari has never been successful in blocking pop-ups for me. Maybe a bunch of pop-up ads are blocked (I don't really know), but some websites seem to have learned how to get around Safari's blocking, with pop-up surveys and all sorts of other stuff, including ads.
And I've not once had a single pop-up since starting to use Safari a decade ago. Not even on some stupid sites whose functionality magically breaks if it doesn't have that popup. What sort of sites do you visit where you have this trouble?
Why don't you just advocate piracy while you're at it.
People, if there is a specific type of ad that is a problem, block just that ad, and maybe tell the site why you're blocking it. Many ads are geotargeted, just because YOU see it, doesn't mean everyone is. My blacklist contains exactly that ad (that comes from cdn.morningfalls.com) and a few ad systems that spawn new windows. That's it. The default behavior of adblock is to wholesale block every script in a very long and outdated blacklist plus images of typical ad sizes. You're killing the performance of your browser by using it.
Anyway...
What the hell does Piracy have to do with this?
Also, I have a 25mbps internet connection so webpages load up in seconds. I'm not too worried about browser performance. I can wait a couple extra miliseconds to see my content.
What the hell does Piracy have to do with this?
Also, I have a 25mbps internet connection so webpages load up in seconds. I'm not too worried about browser performance. I can wait a couple extra miliseconds to see my content.
AdBlock works and it's awesome, ignore the SEO troll. We're taking back the web browsing experience, one ad at a time.
I use to be able to buy the 15" MBP with the standard spec's and upgrade it on my own for a faction of the cost. I could buy a 512 GB SSD for around $300 oppose to the $900 Apple wants. I could also upgrade my own RAM to max it out at 16GB for less than $100, while Apple wants almost $300 to do the same.
So thats $600 - $700 more for upgrades I could do myself...
It appears that they are capping the non retina display model to 8 GB of RAM (hope that is not true)...
I agree that Apple probably wasn't thinking about repairs when they designed the new MBP. It was designed to meet certain specs without any other concern.
I think the relative ease of fixing the old MBP was primarily because hard drives fail and business customers want to be able to replace them in-house. Making the RAM slots accessible just made sense when you're already making the HD accessible. Now that the drive is an SSD card they see no need to allow any access to the interior.
I expect most people in the market for a new MBP don't care about repairability. Those in the market for a pre-owned Mac, however, have no choice but to worry about it.
Of course Apple doesn't care about the used computer market. It only generates a small amount of income for them by accelerating purchases of new machines by people who would otherwise not be able to afford it and from selling parts for out-of-warranty machines.
Apple may claim their new batteries will get 1000 charge cycles, but I'll believe that when I see it. My wife's last MacBook battery lasted only 100 cycles before getting to point where the machine would shut itself off without warning 45 minutes after coming off the charger. Glued in batteries are going to be a major pain in the ass to get out and a lot of parts are going to get broken in the process.
In the long run these more easily repaired MBPs may hold their value much longer than their retina cousins.
Apple has designed batteries that can be glued into the machine because they last the life of the machine. By the time the machine needs repair or a replacement battery, it will have been overcome by technology and the customer will want a new one anyway.
I don't know, I think some amount of concern over the battery is warranted. My 2007 MBP is on its third or fourth battery, the first one or two were recalled. The third battery, now dead, is about a third thicker now, just sitting on a shelf. And I do run it through the battery cycling recommendation according to the instructions.
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Originally Posted by johndoe98
Use adblock...
Why don't you just advocate piracy while you're at it.
People, if there is a specific type of ad that is a problem, block just that ad, and maybe tell the site why you're blocking it. Many ads are geotargeted, just because YOU see it, doesn't mean everyone is. My blacklist contains exactly that ad (that comes from cdn.morningfalls.com) and a few ad systems that spawn new windows. That's it. The default behavior of adblock is to wholesale block every script in a very long and outdated blacklist plus images of typical ad sizes. You're killing the performance of your browser by using it.
Anyway...
About the Macbook Pro itself, The MBP is largely more repairable than a Dell or HP laptop, because to clean them you have to take out an absurd amount of screws just to take the back off. Most people just let it cool down, and use a vacuum cleaner or compressed air and attempt to blow the dust bunnies out the way they came in. I'd honestly never recommend attempting to repair a laptop made after 2006, as many laptops produced after 2006 don't use socketed CPU's, so there's really nothing worth fixing beyond the back panel in the MBP or the plastic panels in Dell's and HP's. The round-trip shipping of replacement parts will cost more than the labor saved in not just shipping the entire thing in the first place to be fixed.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
So you wouldn't call the iPhone 3GS a legacy product, despite it being three years old?
Legacy denotes an outdated product that is no longer available, but still in use and is thus supported.
Last I checked, I could walk into any AT&T store and walk out with a brand new 3GS in a matter of minutes.
So to answer your question, no, I would not call the 3GS a "legacy" product.
Not in my experience, for both performance and hiding things that aren't ads.
Legacy also denotes products superseded by their successors, regardless of their own status.
Come on guys, if AI can't do better than this it is time to close up shop. Many of us would prefer an actual review of the machine, by somebody that actually has their hands on a machine.
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Originally Posted by jlandd
Yeah, that's just a typical popup that could show up anywhere, as part of sold advertising space. Not the greatest thing to see with regard to how your favorite sites are selling their ad space, but easy to kill. Safari, IIRC, can only block all or none but since some sites need popup blocking disabled to use it's easy to use one with a selective "whitelist".
Safari has never been successful in blocking pop-ups for me. Maybe a bunch of pop-up ads are blocked (I don't really know), but some websites seem to have learned how to get around Safari's blocking, with pop-up surveys and all sorts of other stuff, including ads.
And I've not once had a single pop-up since starting to use Safari a decade ago. Not even on some stupid sites whose functionality magically breaks if it doesn't have that popup. What sort of sites do you visit where you have this trouble?
What the hell does Piracy have to do with this?
Also, I have a 25mbps internet connection so webpages load up in seconds. I'm not too worried about browser performance. I can wait a couple extra miliseconds to see my content.
AdBlock works and it's awesome, ignore the SEO troll. We're taking back the web browsing experience, one ad at a time.
Genius, or Avarice?
I use to be able to buy the 15" MBP with the standard spec's and upgrade it on my own for a faction of the cost. I could buy a 512 GB SSD for around $300 oppose to the $900 Apple wants. I could also upgrade my own RAM to max it out at 16GB for less than $100, while Apple wants almost $300 to do the same.
So thats $600 - $700 more for upgrades I could do myself...
It appears that they are capping the non retina display model to 8 GB of RAM (hope that is not true)...
Of course it isn't true. "Capping"? Drop 32 GB* of your own in there. Why would you want to buy regular RAM from Apple anyway?
*Once 16GB sticks start to exist. Should be a year or two.
I agree that Apple probably wasn't thinking about repairs when they designed the new MBP. It was designed to meet certain specs without any other concern.
I think the relative ease of fixing the old MBP was primarily because hard drives fail and business customers want to be able to replace them in-house. Making the RAM slots accessible just made sense when you're already making the HD accessible. Now that the drive is an SSD card they see no need to allow any access to the interior.
I expect most people in the market for a new MBP don't care about repairability. Those in the market for a pre-owned Mac, however, have no choice but to worry about it.
Of course Apple doesn't care about the used computer market. It only generates a small amount of income for them by accelerating purchases of new machines by people who would otherwise not be able to afford it and from selling parts for out-of-warranty machines.
Apple may claim their new batteries will get 1000 charge cycles, but I'll believe that when I see it. My wife's last MacBook battery lasted only 100 cycles before getting to point where the machine would shut itself off without warning 45 minutes after coming off the charger. Glued in batteries are going to be a major pain in the ass to get out and a lot of parts are going to get broken in the process.
In the long run these more easily repaired MBPs may hold their value much longer than their retina cousins.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Of course it isn't true. "Capping"? Drop 32 GB* of your own in there. Why would you want to buy regular RAM from Apple anyway?
*Once 16GB sticks start to exist. Should be a year or two.
I'd like to just drop in an 8G RAM stick.... oh.
I don't know, I think some amount of concern over the battery is warranted. My 2007 MBP is on its third or fourth battery, the first one or two were recalled. The third battery, now dead, is about a third thicker now, just sitting on a shelf. And I do run it through the battery cycling recommendation according to the instructions.