My other reason for getting an older Mac is that you can't easily fit RAM to
retina Macs. That's because on newer Macs the RAM is soldered to the
motherboard rather than clipped in. Also newer Macs don't come with a DVD
drive and firewire port. Can get around the firewire issue by getting a
thunderbolt adapter but don't think they are cheap :-( Got to love Apple for
removing features from machines that I and developers love ;-)
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kevin Gibbs
Sent: 18 February 2016 03:25
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Question For Sean Cummins, DJX, Or Anyone else, Which
SSD Drive Should I Put in A Mid 2012 15 Inch Mac Book Pro
Who is doing this work? Please keep us posted. I bought A copy of Windows 7
in advance of buying a Mac sometime ago. So, I'm ready to install it if I
can buy a new Mac that will accommodate it under Bootcamp.
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 18, 2016, at 12:19 PM, D!J!X! <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Some work is being done to try and get this "fixed" as it is an issue
between EFI and the windows installer.
Regards, DJX
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kevin Gibbs
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 10:17 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Question For Sean Cummins, DJX, Or Anyone else, Which
SSD Drive Should I Put in A Mid 2012 15 Inch Mac Book Pro
Problem is, for those of us who would like to buy new Max, no new Macintosh
computers will run Windows 7 under Boot Camp anymore. That sucks.
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 18, 2016, at 7:58 AM, Michael Ciarciello <m_dsmusic@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey Phil, I'm so glad that you are able to get your system running with
Bootcamp, in fact this is what I do to all of my systems too,
I just love that I can have both environments on one machine.
Too bad that you couldn't have elcaptain installed because it really is a
much more responsive OS indeed there are some glitches like in all systems,
however the typing response in elcaptain in programs like mail, and Pages is
kick ass.
Hopefully the cloner will get compatible with elcaptain soon.
At any rate if you ever need anything let me know, I'm here.Cheers
On Feb 17, 2016, at 8:50 AM, Phil Muir <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Cheers Michael. Yes know about Partition GUID extended journaled with
regard to formatting etc and ultimately will also be bootcamping this as I
do with all Macs. BTW, I see you now can't purchase Windows 7 Retail or,
product keys for that so this could b interesting. Thanks for the memory
stick tip though. Downloaded Mavericks as don't think Pro Tools 10.4 will
install on Yousemity. There's a trick you can do by altering the
SystemVersion.plist file that full's the Pro Tools installer but not
personally managed to get that to work yet. As for El Capitan, not going
anywhere near that. Just want to get the system up and running and the Mac
partition backed up with Carbon Copy Cloner. Now using Paragon Boot Camp
Backup to backup my bootcamp partition rather than Winclone. The great
thing is that when restoring my Bootcamp partition with this, my Sound Forge
8 authorisation doesn't get hosed but Winclone couldn't restore that
properly or CD Architect so I had to reinstall both as I got an error when
trying to open them. Also, Paragon Boot Camp does secttor by sector backup
and you can do incrimental backups with it although not tried that yet.
Paragon Boot Camp Backup is currently free but would spring some cache for
it if I had to as it works really well. Note: El Capitan doesn't work with
Paragon Boot Camp Backup yet so that's yet another reason not to upgrade the
OS. Unfortunately my Jaws authorisation gets hosed if I use any of the
above-mentioned software so think I shall move to getting a dongle for Jaws
ASAP.
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michael Ciarciello
Sent: 17 February 2016 11:38
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Question For Sean Cummins, DJX, Or Anyone else, Which
SSD Drive Should I Put in A Mid 2012 15 Inch Mac Book Pro
Hi Phil when I was considering upgrading my hard drive to a solid state mid
2011 model with 2.2 quad core at an i7 processor, I was recommended here in
Montreal by Microbytes to go with the kingston hard drive at 480GB.
Currently I have an
: APPLE SSD SM0512G solid state drive installed on my new MacBook pro
2015.The kingston will be fine though, as long as you have it formatted
under the following:
Partition GUID extended journaled.
Hope this helps.
P.S. make sure you have a memory stick with at least 8 GB formatted under
the same specs mentioned above, as you will need to install the OS X using
this device whilst booting up in the recovery mode.Hope this helps.
On Feb 17, 2016, at 4:28 AM, Phil Muir <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi all!
Managed to get hold of a mid 2012 15 inch Mac Book Pro 2.7 GHz quad core.
Already ordered 16 GB of Kingston RAM for it and a black 7200 Western
Digital hard drive which unusually ships with a 5 year warranty. Now
wondering if I should have gone solid state instead but not too sure which
drive to go for? I know there were issues with read write cycles but I also
know that a lot of that has been sorted out. Any feedback is greatly
appreciated!
Regards, Phil Muir
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