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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    Mavericks automatically found and added all of my Windows PC shares on my local network! Hurray!
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    Good news! Bootlegged Mavericks 10.9 will load from a boot-able DVD and won't necessarily wipe out your existing files. Still doesn't have spot light search, but, based on really lousy reviews of Yosemite and El Capitan, I'm probably going to stop at Mavericks and wait for Apple to figure out...
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    Router fail - D-link DIR-825. Decent replacement, Linksys WRT1200AC

    Well, my D-LINK DIR-825 wi-fi router (Which by the way has been a piece of junk from day 1) finally failed today. After bringing my Mac Pro on-line apparently so much data is now traveling through this router that it just randomly shuts down all the ports and wi-fi channels and re-boots itself...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    #$#(@*#&^... 1-800-275-2273 offices are closed. I am convinced that my Apple ID was flagged because the serial number on my Mac Pro was off the radar awhile. Or something. Here's what Apple would probably say if you asked them: "Well since this serial number was gone for awhile and is now...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    App Store sucks, and so does Apple support (unless you pay $150 an hour for premium support but I'm not about to try that). But seriously I shouldn't have to pay for support just to get going with App Store where I would fork over more money to purchase things. If I register for a new Apple...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    Safari sucks. Still can't understand why Mac OS can't ship with a functional browser. Installed Chrome. Safari would just keep randomly stopping and not loading pages, requiring constant refreshing. There is a search bar separate from the address bar, which is different than Opera, Firefox...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    While running the last round of updates on the Mac Pro, I noticed still an annoying electronic humming from behind me. My Windows PC was already off. Is it the printer? No my Brother printer is off. It's the large power brick for my XBOX One console. My Mac Pro is literally quieter than the...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    Well, now we are on the update roller-coaster. I guess this is to be expected of any desktop computer of any variety in this day and age. In the process of running all these updates and sitting in front of the Mac OS X computer, I realized there was a really annoying noise behind me. A...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    Now that the system appears stable, it's time to take a stab at updates. Updating is much less painful that the Windows Update system. Go to the Apple icon, go to Software Update. It analyzes your system rather quickly and then proposes some updates. (Note that one dislike I have about Mac...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    First up, Windows PC build: Single-core score: 1766 Multi-core score: 6281 Full results here: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/4028358 Next up, Mac OS X build. Single-core score: 1935 Multi-core score: 7298 Full results here...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    Well, holy canoly. It turns out the Amazon seller shipped us a tower that already included the ATI Radeon upgraded GPU! I went in there to replace the old card, but it was already the same as the card I purchased from E-Bay. Anyone want to buy a Mac-ready ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB for a good...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    All right. What do we have so far? We have a working Mac Pro tower with Snow Leopard 10.6 installed. We have 6GB of RAM (better than stock) and a slow-as-hell stock video card. Impressions so far? This Mac Pro aluminum case is HEAVY! I like it. Accessing the insides is super easy...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    The Mac Pro tower was received, along with mystery RAM upgrade and ATI video card upgrade. Before tackling the video card and RAM, we should power up and test the Mac. Plug it in... press the button... hear that familiar Mac start-up sound and..... flashing folder icon with quesiton...
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    From Windows to a used budget Mac Pro - My Experience

    For the past 30 years I have been a Microsoft operating system user. I have never owned a Mac. However, I need to do web development, and frankly, Windows is not friendly for web development (at least not for open source platforms such as javascript, python, php, etc.). Since Mac has a unix...
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    Xbox One Elite controller

    As far as I can tell they were planning on this all along (they suspiciously left a lot of extra room on the interior of the controller on the initial release in 2013). Unless it just happened to work out that the insides ended up cavernous based on what the exterior shape needed to be based on...
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    Xbox One Elite controller

    I saw pictures of the insides. It's the same circuit board as the 3.5mm jack controller (for the most part) with some other stuff bolted on. I have to wait to get a controller in my hands to verify but I imagine our existing Ragnarok modchip will work on there. As far as Berserker, I still...
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    Microsoft saves gamers $150, brings Xbox One button remapping to all controllers

    Thanks for posting. I'm literally too lazy to launch my XBOX One sitting here next to me, so now I can just follow the video link you posted.
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    Xbox One Elite controller

    Don't hold your breath for any elite controller mods from Viking in 2015. We have too many other projects on our plate already.
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    PS4 Berserker.

    It's basically going to just show up one day (we'll post in facebook, send out newsletter from vikingdigital.com, etc.). In the past we've done pre-orders, but this time around we are doing beta testing pre-release first and then wait until the product is totally ready before opening up for...
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    Need help with my Macro

    Maybe you can post the .vks macro set you are currently using we could take a look at it?
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