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Post by aaplsauce on Mar 17, 2022 21:31:34 GMT -8
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Post by CdnPhoto on Mar 18, 2022 4:03:17 GMT -8
I hope none of us gets a warning like this, but it's nice to know that should this happen, we have a back up indicator of something wrong. That is one fine gift. Saved her life.
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Post by chinacat on Mar 18, 2022 4:52:36 GMT -8
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Post by JDSoCal on Mar 18, 2022 7:47:44 GMT -8
I'm seeing 10-12 weeks for the top-of-the-line (64 core) Mac Studio Ultra delivery. About 8-9 weeks for lesser (48 core) Mac Studio Ultra, but some available for pickup locally.
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Post by chinacat on Mar 18, 2022 8:29:40 GMT -8
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 18, 2022 8:33:42 GMT -8
I'm seeing 10-12 weeks for the top-of-the-line (64 core) Mac Studio Ultra delivery. About 8-9 weeks for lesser (48 core) Mac Studio Ultra, but some available for pickup locally. Costco! It's not just for picking up super-sized muffins. They are now out of the preorders of the Ultra, but it says if I order now, my expected delivery date of the Mac Studio with the Max chip would be Monday. Plus it's $50 off (nearly the annual membership fee), and using the Costco credit card I'd get a 4 year warranty instead of the default 1 year (or 2 years if buying at Costco, but without their special credit card). I have no need for one right now, but I'm tempted just the same. www.costco.com/CatalogSearch?keyword=APPLESTUDIO0311&dept=All&sortBy=item_page_views+descWhen they have the config you want (so not when custom ordering with extra memory or a larger SSD), they are a great place to shop for Apple stuff. And they seem to pre-order allocation, as the same thing was true this summer with the 24" iMac, where on the default config it has next day availability while the online Apple store was looking a couple weeks or more out.
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Post by archibaldtuttle on Mar 18, 2022 8:43:54 GMT -8
Not too shabby, Mr Weekly Chart.
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 18, 2022 8:45:41 GMT -8
We did this for my wife's iPhone 13 pro, being able to pick it up the day they came out. For those, appointment times filled up quick, so her appointment was something like 1:30. Apple lets you see a bunch of stores at once (you click on the store listed, and then can search by zip or city, but it gives a list of 12 so a search for Portland, OR pulled up the Boise one too). Right now, I see availability for the Ultra in Santa Rosa, CA, Boise, Las Vegas, and a couple places in the Phoenix area. If you want it ASAP, Vegas and Phoenix aren't too far for a quick road trip.
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 18, 2022 8:51:17 GMT -8
Not too shabby, Mr Weekly Chart. RSI just above 50 on the daily chart too, and passing the 20 DMA at 161.26. The 50 DMA is up at nearly 166.5. Nice moves. Like anytime with huge outside influencers, it's hard to know if it will stick. OTOH, being in the middle ground (an RSI of 50 is the middle ground based on the timeframe, and the default timeframe is normally 14 periods, so 14 trading days if looking at the daily, or 14 weeks if looking at the weekly) shows that the market is less worried about these big outside influencers.
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Post by JDSoCal on Mar 18, 2022 10:21:12 GMT -8
My new desk is like 3 weeks out, so I'll wait a bit and see how inventories adjust. I want an Ultra and 2TB. Looking to sell some 3/25 175 puts.
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Post by Lstream on Mar 18, 2022 10:26:51 GMT -8
My new desk is like 3 weeks out, so I'll wait a bit and see how inventories adjust. I want an Ultra and 2TB. Looking to sell some 3/25 175 puts. I am interested in your use case for the Studio? Mainly real time trading or other stuff?
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Post by macster on Mar 18, 2022 10:57:28 GMT -8
Picked up my new IPhone SE this afternoon. Absolutely great service as they got me up and running out the door. It was busy as I handed over my old iPhone 7. The rep was fantastic.
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Post by duckpins on Mar 18, 2022 11:21:00 GMT -8
Only SE issue for me is the touch ID. I could never get this to work.
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Post by JDSoCal on Mar 18, 2022 11:36:57 GMT -8
My new desk is like 3 weeks out, so I'll wait a bit and see how inventories adjust. I want an Ultra and 2TB. Looking to sell some 3/25 175 puts. I am interested in your use case for the Studio? Mainly real time trading or other stuff? Yeah, my Alienware laptop is getting crushed by by 300-400 open Firefox tabs, 2 trading software apps, and trying to stream CNBC/Fox Biz/Bloomberg/NCAA Tournament (OK that last one is on my iPad). Some of it is RAM problems (16GB), but I need more CPU. Trading software is crawling.
The video card in this Alienware is sick - Nvidia RTX-2080 with Max-Q (990Mhz). I can poop out over a million points a day in Folding@Home (which everyone here should look into running, although Tim has been a turd about allowing it on iOS), which is just amazing performance for under 200 watts. But for 2D everyday tasks this i9-9980HK @2.40 GHz 8-core doesn't do a whole lot. I need a badass multi-cored CPU-centric computer.
I want to drive at least 2 4K monitors with high refresh, so I need those Thunderbolt 4 ports. I've thought about just getting a Mini as a placeholder, and use it to drive monitors and the like. But those max out at 16GB. And it only has 8 cores like my current laptop.
I don't see the point in building a huge, energy-hogging Wintel box. Thing is, I'd have to get Parallels running Windows decently. This guy seems to think Windows actually runs better on M1 Macs. Not sure if I could figger out the Keyboard differences though. I'm assuming that eventually Windows Arm will be licensed for Boot Camp.
Anyway, AAPL popping, I have an order to sell 177.50 puts, but prices won't budge.
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 18, 2022 11:59:29 GMT -8
Yeah, my Alienware laptop is getting crushed by by 300-400 open Firefox tabs, 2 trading software apps, and trying to stream CNBC/Fox Biz/Bloomberg/NCAA Tournament (OK that last one is on my iPad). Some of it is RAM problems (16GB), but I need more CPU. Trading software is crawling. ... I want to drive at least 2 4K monitors with high refresh, so I need those Thunderbolt 4 ports. I've thought about just getting a Mini as a placeholder, and use it to drive monitors and the like. But those max out at 16GB. And it only has 8 cores like my current laptop. Personally, if doing something that really needs speed and reliability, I'd push any tasks that don't need to be on the same setup to a second one. Whether that's the iPad, the "old" wintel machine, a mac mini, or whatever. When things don't have to be on the same machine, and you have something that is critical, then things shouldn't be on the same machine. It's just too easy to have one thing go wrong, like a bad ad one one tab, and then slow the whole thing down or even take down your machine. It doesn't happen too often these days, but does still happen. For instance, right now I have 70-80 tabs open in Safari, there for over a week. I believe something there is causing wifi connect issues, such that when I wake the machine up from sleep, sometimes it doesn't connect to my primary network. Offhand that seems like a grasp, but I can connect to another network and then back to this one perfectly, and in the past I've seen that getting onto the wifi network is slowed down by the number of tabs you have open. I'm betting that things just fire up too quick, trying to update and get info, and that mucks with things giving something similar to a denial of service attack. FWIW, this is something I've seen for years across many computers and MacOS's, and probably what BlueHerring showed me 16-18 years ago when complaining his Mac was slow to connect to WiFi on wake. Anyways, we all have different issues, but for something critical, offload what you can. I don't have to do this often, but normally do for taxes, both for reliability and security, but also for my own focus.
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 18, 2022 12:07:47 GMT -8
Only SE issue for me is the touch ID. I could never get this to work. My wife said she had the same problem. Make sure that you use the same finger, and touch/push with about the same force. It nearly always worked for me. The only problem was if my hands were wet, or if they were really cold. I think I also had once where it didn't work, after getting glue on my fingerprint or something like that. But it worked so well and so consistently that it made it hard to imagine anyone having problems with it. The biggest downside I see is the footprint it takes on the front of the iPhone. Oh how quickly we get used to the "everything but the notch", as opposed to the 8 or SE where the screen starts above the home button.
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Post by chinacat on Mar 18, 2022 12:33:17 GMT -8
Picked up my new IPhone SE this afternoon. Absolutely great service as they got me up and running out the door. It was busy as I handed over my old iPhone 7. The rep was fantastic. Congrats! Please do let us know your early impressions.
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Post by aaplcrazie on Mar 18, 2022 12:35:28 GMT -8
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 18, 2022 13:28:41 GMT -8
Blast from the past! My first Mac -booted right up after Decades in its case! Tho could not get the ext HD to mount...... I hadn't seen that type of external HD before. What is the wire coming out of the front of the SE? Is that a microphone? My SE had an internal HD, and I upgraded the ram in it, maybe going from 1 meg to 4 megs, and still have one of the 30 pin simms on a keyring here. My sister had one a year later that had an external pivoting 1 page display with video card. Even back then you could run multiple monitors
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Post by CdnPhoto on Mar 18, 2022 14:58:29 GMT -8
Blast from the past! My first Mac -booted right up after Decades in its case! Tho could not get the ext HD to mount...... My original Mac (Mac 521k aka Fat Mac) didn't even have a hard drive. I did have a second floppy drive on the side, and upgraded the drive to 800k or was it more?
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Post by JDSoCal on Mar 18, 2022 15:22:05 GMT -8
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Post by benoir on Mar 18, 2022 18:39:46 GMT -8
Blast from the past! My first Mac -booted right up after Decades in its case! Tho could not get the ext HD to mount...... SCSI drive?
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 18, 2022 20:28:25 GMT -8
Blast from the past! My first Mac -booted right up after Decades in its case! Tho could not get the ext HD to mount...... My original Mac (Mac 521k aka Fat Mac) didn't even have a hard drive. I did have a second floppy drive on the side, and upgraded the drive to 800k or was it more? I've bought a few Mac 128k's over the years. One cool thing about them is they have all the signatures inside. But sometimes on these old machines, possibly even on that SE, they rewire the motherboard if there had been an issue, having a little jumper wire. I sold a couple of the 128k's, but still have one in the garage that I haven't turned on in possibly 15 years. It has an external floppy too. Maybe it's time to fire it up! Thinking about it gets me curious about the Apple 1 of a neighbor, in a set of condos on Nile drive a mile from Infinite Loop. I wonder if he ever sold it? That was only 18 years ago, with it then sitting in his garage.
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Post by JDSoCal on Mar 19, 2022 8:39:57 GMT -8
Blast from the past! My first Mac -booted right up after Decades in its case! Tho could not get the ext HD to mount...... SCSI drive? Scuzzie was the worst. Non-standard and so temperamental. I had a friend come over with his SE30 that just wouldn't boot. I don't recall how I diagnosed it, but it seemed to have a problem recognizing the drive at power up. So I took it apart and hot-booted it (attached the drive after the Mac was powered on). That might sound like no big deal in the era of USB, but it was a no-no with SCSI's. But it worked; it booted up and he was able to replace the driver and then it would boot OK after that. Desperate times require desperate measures.
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 19, 2022 11:20:26 GMT -8
Nice! A bunch of Macs have used special SSD connectors. I don't know much about it, but when fixing a friend's MacBook from maybe 4 years ago, I read a bit about it. If I wasn't able to get the laptop working again, I wanted to be able to plug it in to something to read the data. That was the nice thing about a standard, like IDE or even SCSI. I don't think I ever had much trouble with SCSI, being taught the important parts of needing termination and unique IDs. The only real trick I remember was knowing the IDs of an internal drive or drives, and if it was terminated internally. There were times where things not done properly (ie terminated right) could still work, but then when extending the SCSI chain it wouldn't work. Plug and play is easier most of the time. In trying to recover some HDs with issues, and firing up a pile of old HDs to see what DVDs I had on them, there are some that have a hard time mounting. It's still possible to have problems. It's just not something that is hit anywhere as often, partly because the huge size of them these days makes upgrades less needed. But along with the special Apple SSD drives, there are also times where the drive is just too fast for the computer. I had a MacBook Pro with a dying HD that I thought would be great to stick a SSD into. But it turned out the one I bought was 4x (I forget the proper terminology), whereas the MacBook Pro only used 2x. On this drive there wasn't a way to force it to run at the slower speed, and apparently the protocol didn't use a handshake to decide on a slower speed, so it would feed the MacBook Pro too much data and panic maybe 30 seconds into boot. There's still edge cases around. Apple uses a lot more common port and protocol standards now, but they are also willing to do something else if there is a reason to. At the same time, since I don't look at it much I still get a little confused when they use a port type that can have multiple types of connections. It just seems strange to the average person, even if the ability to have a faster speed or use a different protocol makes sense. Offhand, it's just weird.
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Post by aaplcrazie on Mar 20, 2022 7:53:58 GMT -8
Blast from the past! My first Mac -booted right up after Decades in its case! Tho could not get the ext HD to mount...... SCSI drive? Yes Nova 40 by Microtech but cant get it to mount - definitely hear things moving in the case and it powers up. I cant remember does the empty scsci port need to be terminated? There is a dial on the back for changing the ID I could try play with that.
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 20, 2022 8:21:27 GMT -8
Yes Nova 40 by Microtech but cant get it to mount - definitely hear things moving in the case and it powers up. I cant remember does the empty scsci port need to be terminated? There is a dial on the back for changing the ID I could try play with that. Yep, put an external SCSI terminator at the end of the chain, on the extra port. That should do it. I think the ones with a double floppy don't have room for an internal drive, so no need there for conflicting SCSI IDs. My SE (I don't think it was an SE/30) had an internal drive, maybe 20 meg that I later upgraded to a 80 meg. But I think it just had one floppy. Good luck. I've had some drives go bad, but I think the ones that did went bad over time (couple external seagate drives) from use or a traumatic event (niece throwing a running external drive), not from sitting. (I think I remember that some of the SCSI voodoo was that sometimes chains that weren't properly terminated would work, especially if the chain was short. So sometimes an internal drive that wasn't terminated would work fine, until something was added. Or sometimes maybe even an external chain with one thing but not properly terminated would work. It's been a while, but I think there were some funky things like that, so sometimes things worked that shouldn't have)
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Post by aaplcrazie on Mar 20, 2022 8:51:16 GMT -8
Yes Nova 40 by Microtech but cant get it to mount - definitely hear things moving in the case and it powers up. I cant remember does the empty scsci port need to be terminated? There is a dial on the back for changing the ID I could try play with that. Yep, put an external SCSI terminator at the end of the chain, on the extra port. That should do it. I think the ones with a double floppy don't have room for an internal drive, so no need there for conflicting SCSI IDs. My SE (I don't think it was an SE/30) had an internal drive, maybe 20 meg that I later upgraded to a 80 meg. But I think it just had one floppy. Good luck. I've had some drives go bad, but I think the ones that did went bad over time (couple external seagate drives) from use or a traumatic event (niece throwing a running external drive), not from sitting. (I think I remember that some of the SCSI voodoo was that sometimes chains that weren't properly terminated would work, especially if the chain was short. So sometimes an internal drive that wasn't terminated would work fine, until something was added. Or sometimes maybe even an external chain with one thing but not properly terminated would work. It's been a while, but I think there were some funky things like that, so sometimes things worked that shouldn't have) 4aapl thanks for the advise, sadly i just threw a bunch of scsci stuff out had an ancient Power Mac 9600 and a7200 sitting around and have been purging due to an impending move see if can scrounge up a terminator I kept all the floppies so good to go on that front. Tho if anyone wants a G4 Tower and a 22" Cinema Display let me know! i have to draw the line somewhere, am keeping the SE and every thing from the G5 and above.
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 20, 2022 9:35:03 GMT -8
sadly i just threw a bunch of scsci stuff out had an ancient Power Mac 9600 and a7200 sitting around and have been purging due to an impending move see if can scrounge up a terminator I kept all the floppies so good to go on that front. Tho if anyone wants a G4 Tower and a 22" Cinema Display let me know! i have to draw the line somewhere, am keeping the SE and every thing from the G5 and above. Yep, always hard to get rid of stuff, and once in a blue moon you get rid of something and then need it soon thereafter. Even if it's only once, you remember it and then it can be even tougher to purge. I have a bunch of old Mac stuff. I've gotten rid of a little, but probably only a third of the old mac stuff that we moved up here, now nearly 15 years ago. I manage to get rid of a little each time, but then some of the stuff I start thinking of potential uses (nice new power power supplies and fans) or whatever. Or since I occasionally help friends and family get an old machine running, I try to keep a couple things around. Anyways, if you don't end up with any luck finding a SCSI terminator block, I probably have a spare I could mail. And maybe a "programming key" (plastic thing to access the restart and programming button). Or cables. I hope I tossed any memory and HDs. Awwww, the little things you sometimes squirrel away. Looks like you can find them for $6 shipped on eBay, or $8 on Amazon (scsi terminator 50 pin). I forgot about the passthru type ones, that you could put on the end of a cable before connecting it to a device, in case the device had just one port. More strangeness, especially if trying to use the mental analogy of a water pipe, since that would mean plugging off the end of the pipe/chain, before it got to the faucet/device.
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