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Macbook Pro Retina 2.3 VS 2.6 GHz Which is the bang for your buck?

Hello everyone,
So today i am contemplating whether i should go with the 2.3 or the 2.6 GHz macbook pro with retina display, no matter which one i get i will be upgrading the ram to 16GB and leaving the processors at the same clock speed. The price differentation from the 2.3 to the 2.6 is quite a big leap going from 2496.06 to 3174.96 that is a difference of $ 678.90, I am a college business student who does school work so, microsoft word, powerpoint, excel, text edit and other regular school programs on the computer, i also do web browsing, emailing, itunes, downloading, bootcamp, videos, photos and playing games such as Dota 2, Crysis 2, Modern Warefare series, Battlefield 3 and so on.
So my main concern with getting the 2.3 GHz is that it has 256 GB less of SSD than the 2.6, this worries me because i use bootcamp extensively so im just worried i might run out of space when doing all the things i do on my macbook, also another thing that i need the apple community to clear up is the CPU for the things i do is 2.3 GHz enough power for what i wanna do, or will it be overkill if i go for the 2.6 GHz?
Take in mind that i do have enough money for the 2.6 GHz one, but if i do not need it i will not spend the extra $678.90. So in clear detailed explanation can you guys and girls please explain which one you prefer, and why you prefer it?, also please give me some suggestions on things i could do with the $ 700.00 i have if i did go with the 2.3 GHz
Both models really appeal to me excluding that they are the exact same only difference being the CPU and the size of the SSD. So what do you guys think is the 2.3 GHz good enough for what i do or shall i go with the 2.6 GHz?
Best answer will be noted.

So here is the thought process I used to buy:
1. Memory soldered on the motherboard so buy the max. I dont plan to upgrade this computer for years.
2. Faster CPU is just not necessary unless you are doing computaional tasks. Even if so, cI an see no reason why the base model i7 cannot handle just about anything
3. The 256GB SSD is plenty big. Can see no reason to shell out BIG $$$ just so I can carry around media that I am not watching. With USB 3 and TB there will be ample opportunities to get a far less expensive, and very fast external harddrive. Something that is easy to carry around. I expect something like the g-drive slim will be available in USB 3. Right now I use an external 6gps drive to backup on my Win system via USB 3 and its fast. I expect the same performance on the Mac.
4. I have 2 external monitors and so I bought 2 TB to DVI adapters.

Does Cellular iPad Air provides more bang for your buck than iPad 2?

My question is really, with a Bell iPad flex-plan, would you get faster downloads and get do do more with 1 or 2 GBs of data, if you were subscribing with an iPad Air rather than an iPad 2?

I'm not talking about what to buy. I have an iPad 2 already. Plan to wait for next release before buying again.
Would only consider buying an air IF it was going to be much faster and allow we to stream video and download apps, etcetera using significantly less data -- so I get more bang for my cellular buck.
Most likely, only someone who has actually used a cellular service provider with both an iPad 2 and then with an iPad Air will be able to answer this question.

Upgrading a 3-node Hyper-V clusters storage for £10k and getting the most bang for our money.

Hi all, looking for some discussion and advice on a few questions I have regarding storage for our next cluster upgrade cycle.
Our current system for a bit of background:
3x Clustered Hyper-V Servers running Server 2008 R2 (72TB Ram, dual cpu etc...)
1x Dell MD3220i iSCSI with dual 1GB connections to each server (24x 146GB 15k SAS drives in RAID 10) - Tier 1 storage
1x Dell MD1200 Expansion Array with 12x 2TB 7.2K drives in RAID 10 - Tier 2 storage, large vm's, files etc...
~25 VM's running all manner of workloads, SQL, Exchange, WSUS, Linux web servers etc....
1x DPM 2012 SP1 Backup server with its own storage.
Reasons for upgrading:
Storage though put is becoming an issue as we only get around 125MB/s over the dual 1GB iSCSI connections to each physical server. (tried everything under the sun to improve bandwidth but I suspect the MD3220i Raid is the bottleneck here.
Backup times for vm's (once every night) is now in the 5-6 hours range.
Storage performance during backups and large file syncronisations (DPM)
Tier 1 storage is running out of capacity and we would like to build in more IOPS for future expansion.
Tier 2 storage is massively underused (6tb of 12tb Raid 10 space)
Migrating to 10GB server links.
Total budget for the upgrade is in the region of £10k so I have to make sure we get absolutely the most bang for our buck.
Current Plan:
Upgrade the cluster to Server 2012 R2
Install a dual port 10GB NIC team in each server and virtualize cluster, live migration, vm and management traffic (with QoS of course)
Purchase a new JBOD SAS array and leverage the new Storage Spaces and SSD caching/tiering capabilities. Use our existing 2TB drives for capacity and purchase sufficient SSD's to replace the 15k SAS disks.
On to the questions:
Is it supported to use storage spaces directly connected to a Hyper-V cluster? I have seen that for our setup we are on the verge of requiring a separate SOFS for storage but the extra costs and complexity are out of our reach. (RDMA, extra 10GB NIC's
etc...)
When using a storage space in a cluster, I have seen various articles suggesting that each csv will be active/passive within the cluster. Causing redirected IO for all cluster nodes not currently active?
If CSV's are active/passive its suggested that you should have a csv for each node in your cluster? How in production do you balance vm's accross 3 CSV's without manually moving them to keep 1/3 of load on each csv? Ideally I would like just
a single CSV active/active for all vm's to sit on. (ease of management etc...)
If the CSV is active/active am I correct in assuming that DPM will backup vm's without causing any re-directed IO?
Will DPM backups of VM's be incremental in terms of data transferred from the cluster to the backup server?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can be bothered to read through all that and help me out! I'm sure there are more questions I've forgotten but those will certainly get us started.
Also lastly, does anyone else have a better suggestion for how we should proceed?
Thanks

Current Plan:
Upgrade the cluster to Server 2012 R2
Install a dual port 10GB NIC team in each server and virtualize cluster, live migration, vm and management traffic (with QoS of course)
Purchase a new JBOD SAS array and leverage the new Storage Spaces and SSD caching/tiering capabilities. Use our existing 2TB drives for capacity and purchase sufficient SSD's to replace the 15k SAS disks.
On to the questions:
Is it supported to use storage spaces directly connected to a Hyper-V cluster? I have seen that for our setup we are on the verge of requiring a separate SOFS for storage but the extra costs and complexity are out of our reach. (RDMA, extra 10GB NIC's
etc...)
When using a storage space in a cluster, I have seen various articles suggesting that each csv will be active/passive within the cluster. Causing redirected IO for all cluster nodes not currently active?
If CSV's are active/passive its suggested that you should have a csv for each node in your cluster? How in production do you balance vm's accross 3 CSV's without manually moving them to keep 1/3 of load on each csv? Ideally I would like just
a single CSV active/active for all vm's to sit on. (ease of management etc...)
If the CSV is active/active am I correct in assuming that DPM will backup vm's without causing any re-directed IO?
Will DPM backups of VM's be incremental in terms of data transferred from the cluster to the backup server?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can be bothered to read through all that and help me out! I'm sure there are more questions I've forgotten but those will certainly get us started.
Also lastly, does anyone else have a better suggestion for how we should proceed?
Thanks
1) You can use direct connection to SAS with a 3-node cluster of course (4-node, 5-node etc). Sure it would be much faster then running with an additional SoFS layer (with SAS fed directly to your Hyper-V cluster nodes all reads and writes would be local
travelling down the SAS fabric and with SoFS layer added you'll have the same amount of I/Os targeting SAS + Ethernet with its huge compared to SAS latency sitting in between a requestor and your data residing on SAS spindles, I/Os overwrapped into SMB-over-TCP-over-IP-over-Etherent
requests at the hypervisor-SoFS layers). Reason why SoFS is recommended - final SoFS-based solution would be cheaper as SAS-only is a pain to scale beyond basic 2-node configs. Instead of getting SAS switches, adding redundant SAS controllers to every hypervisor
node and / or looking for expensive multi-port SAS JBODs you'll have a pair (at least) of SoFS boxes doing a file level proxy in front of a SAS-controlled back end. So you'll compromise performance in favor of cost. See:
http://davidzi.com/windows-server-2012/hyper-v-and-scale-out-file-cluster-home-lab-design/
Used interconnect diagram within this design would actually scale beyond 2 hosts. But you'll have to get a SAS switch (actually at least two of them for redundancy as you don't want any component to become a single point of failure, don't you?)
2) With 2012 R2 all I/O from a multiple hypervisor nodes is done thru the storage fabric (in your case that's SAS) and only metadata updates would be done thru the coordinator node and using Ethernet connectivity. Redirected I/O would be used in a two cases
only a) no SAS connectivity from the hypervisor node (but Ethernet one is still present) and b) broken-by-implementation backup software would keep access to CSV using snapshot mechanism for too long. In a nutshell: you'll be fine :) See for references:
http://www.petri.co.il/redirected-io-windows-server-2012r2-cluster-shared-volumes.htm
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=12844
3) These are independent things. CSV is not active/passive (see 2) so basically with an interconnection design you'll be using there's virtually no point to having one-CSV-per-hypervisor. There are cases when you'd still probably do this. For example if
you'd have all-flash and combined spindle/flash LUNs and you know for sure you want some VMs to sit on flash and others (no so I/O hungry) to stay within "spinning rust". One more case is many-node cluster. With it multiple nodes basically fight for a single
LUN and a lot of time is wasted for SCSI reservation conflicts resove (ODX has no reservation offload like VAAI has so even if ODX is present its not going to help). Again it's a place where SoFS "helps" as having intermediate proxy level turns block I/O into
file I/O triggering SCSI reservation conflicts for a two SoFS nodes only instead of an evey node in a hypervisor cluster. One more good example is when you'll have a mix of a local I/O (SAS) and Ethernet with a Virtual SAN products. Virtual SAN runs directly
as part of the hypervisor and emulates high performance SAN using cheap DAS. To increase performance it DOES make sense to create a concept of a "local LUN" (and thus "local CSV") as reads targeting this LUN/CSV would be passed down the local storage
stack instead of hitting the wire (Ethernet) and going to partner hypervisor nodes to fetch the VM data. See:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-native-san-on-two-physical-servers
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/sw-configuring-ha-shared-storage-on-scale-out-file-servers
(feeding basically DAS to Hyper-V and SoFS to avoid expensive SAS JBOD and SAS spindles). The same thing as VMware is doing with their VSAN on vSphere. But again that's NOT your case so it DOES NOT make sense to keep many CSVs with only 3 nodes present or
SoFS possibly used.
4) DPM is going to put your cluster in redirected mode for a very short period of time. Microsoft says NEVER. See:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh758090.aspx
Direct and Redirect I/O
Each Hyper-V host has a direct path (direct I/O) to the CSV storage Logical Unit Number (LUN). However, in Windows Server 2008 R2 there are a couple of limitations:
For some actions, including DPM backup, the CSV coordinator takes control of the volume and uses redirected instead of direct I/O. With redirection, storage operations are no longer through a host’s direct SAN connection, but are instead routed
through the CSV coordinator. This has a direct impact on performance.
CSV backup is serialized, so that only one virtual machine on a CSV is backed up at a time.
In Windows Server 2012, these limitations were removed:
Redirection is no longer used.
CSV backup is now parallel and not serialized.
5) Yes, VSS and CBT would be used so data would be incremental after first initial "seed" backup. See:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399619.aspx
http://itsalllegit.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/dpm-2012-sp1-manually-copy-large-volume-to-secondary-dpm-server/
I'd look at some other options. There are few good discussion you may want to read. See:
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1209963
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/316868-server-2012-2-node-cluster-without-san
Good luck :)
StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS

Hello! I have an iPod Touch 4th Gen. of 8GB and I was wondering if I could just pay the difference for an iPod 5th Gen. 32GB or do I only get the 10% discount. Also, are there any times where Apple has special offers and discounts? Thank you :)

This is a question that I really need answered so that I can figure out what to plan to get the money to pay for the new iPod. Thank you!

You'd probably find a better deal with another store trade-in program. I know Radio Shack in years past purchased used Apple products and in return customers received a gift-card; I think you'd get more bang for your buck... more than the messily 10% Apples offers.

Best bang-for-buck video card for hi-end Photoshop work..?

When I bought my rig 3 or 4 years ago, I was told that when it comes to 2D performance, all modern video cards are created equal. That the price differences really only affect the 3D side of things.
So I bought a NVIDIA GeForce GT 240.
Why this thing has a fan, I have no idea. Like I said, even when I bought it it was considered "bottom-of-the-heap". Anyhoo, long story short, the fan died on me a couple of days ago. I can now keep the card from overheating through a house fan pointed at the open case. Naturally, I can't keep this going forever. I need to buy a new card.
The good news is that I don't need ANY 3D performance (unless vector logos count). I only use my computer for hi-res Photoshop work (at 1920x1200+ resolution with PSD files that sometimes reach 5 or 6GB) and full-screen video playback. No games are being played on this rig whatsoever.
The bad news, however, is that money is an issue. I can't just go buy the latest $300 card, especially not to put on a 3 or 4 year old rig. The Core i7 920 CPU and 10GB of ram (on Windows 7 64) will keep me going for a couple of years more, but I don't expect to still be using this rig much further beyond that.
I just want to keep using my Adobe suite and play movies in hi-res on this thing. That's it.
I've been told to look into the NVIDIA Quadro series, but that appears to me out of my price range. I'd like to keep it under $150. Or even $100 if at all possible. Other cards quoted to me are the GT630 and R7-250 (which is apparently a rebranded Radeon HD 7770).
What would you guys recommend that would be the best bang for my buck in this scenario? I'd hope most of today's cards - even the cheapest ones - are at least a step up from the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240. Right?
If anyone has any advice...

Trevor Dennis wrote:
There was an article on Tom's Hardware yesterday, announcing that nVidia are stopping driver support for it's older cards.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-eol-graphics-card,26304.html
This goes back to the 300 range and earlier cards, but also includes the Geforce 405 from the 400 range.
Be that as it may, my GT 240 is still being listed as supported in last week's 335.23 driver release. And that's the driver that fried it. This "1 driver for all our cards" thing is really for the birds. There's no way for product owners to know what the latest, safest driver for their card is. I don't think NVIDIA thought this thing through when they announced they'd be going with a "single driver for all" model.
I don't think NVIDIA realizes what a huge potential lawsuit could be headed their way from other owners like myself (but not me, I'm not very letigious) who saw their cards get physically damaged by drivers that were supposed to be compatible with them.
I see you recommending I stay under $100, which was my original plan, but then you said I should definitely get a Quadro. When I checked, Quadro cards were more expensive than the GeForce line. Did I misunderstand? Were you saying NOT to touch the Quadros?
On other forums, they tell me to push for the new GTX 750, swearing its 2D performance makes it worth the price, despite the fact that it's clearly a GAMING card, and I don't game.
I'm so confused.

Best Display for my buck...

Hi all, I have found these forums invaluable and I hope someone has some insight into my query...
I am getting a Mac Pro soon to replace my aged PC desktop and was originally thinking about adding a 23" display to my order. I primarily do digital coloring for comic books and a bit of video/dvd as well as some intense Shake work for my own projects.
What I want to know is, I know that Mac displays are GREAT for color but what other monitors also compare and can maybe save me some money? I have done lots of searching online and just end up with my head swimming from an overload of info.
Hopefully someone can recommend a good monitor set up for me out there. If I am going to spend 1000 on a display should I get the Apple 23" (I do need accurate colors) or can I get more bang for my buck (and maybe more screen space?) from somewhere else.
Thanks and as always I appreciate your thoughts,
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Original poster has three options:
1) Increase budget significantly
2) Accept reduced performance of a laptop within their intended budget compared to what they want
3) Buy a desktop. He can meet his performance desires with his budget limits with a desktop.
Actually, he can get very close to his performance desires for around $500-600. A Core 2 Quad Q6600 + 9800GT setup with premium motherboard/power supply, etc. can be purchased for around $600 (IF you build it yourself using parts ordered from a site that has eggs that are not old.) A Core 2 Duo + 9800GT setup with a slightly lower end motherboard (but still good) can be done for around $490 + tax/shipping. These prices do NOT include a monitor, keyboard, or mouse though. It's assumed that the user already has these since they are posting on the forums.
While such a configuration will not necessarily be "good" 2 years from now, only some components will need upgrades to do so, and as a result given their $900-1300 budget, they could spend $600ish now and $300ish 2 years from now for upgrades at the low end, or at the high end of their budget buy a $600 desktop now and a $600 desktop 2 years from now.
If their budget is $900-1300 now but will have some additional money freed up for upgrades but not a replacement 2 years from now, they can get a gaming desktop and a nice netbook now. No games on the road, but at least the capability to surf web/check email/IM on the road.
*disclaimer* I am not now, nor have I ever been, an employee of Best Buy, Geek Squad, nor of any of their affiliate, parent, or subsidiary companies.

I have my ACCOUNT in The US, Moved to Chile and wanted to change but since still have US$1.00 in my account can not do it and can't find anything for a buck... What can I do?

Pls need help I have my ACCOUNT in The US, Moved to Chile and wanted to change but since still have US$1.00 in my account can not do it and can't find anything for a buck... What can I do?

Changing your iTunes Store country:
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Upgrade bang for the buck?

With the increasing percentage of time I'm spending on HD projects as well as Motion work, I need to speed up my setup. I'm weighing bang for the buck between investing in my current machine or scrapping it and buying a new machine. My principle issues are:
1) I need to be able to drive a 32" HD display for my clients in addition to my 20" monitor. Can't afford a broadcast HD monitor so I'm using a consumer display.
2) Need to improve render times on FCP and Motion
3) Would like to improve compression time for QT output
If you had $2500 for upgrades or $4000 for a new machine (assuming I can sell this rig for $1500) what would you do? New video card, increase ram, faster disk i/o? New quad processor xeon machine (on the low end of the spectrum)? I'm struggling with whether it's worth putting considerable money into a G5 machine in this Xeon world.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.

Not exactly sure how to tackle this. But the bottom line is: get a new machine! There's a couple ways to view it, I suppose:
1. Performance: Let's say you spend only the $2,500 on 'upgrades' to the G5. That's (about) 62% of the $4,000 route. Will that G5 perform 62% as well as a new Mac Pro. My guess is: no. The new Mac Pro will so handily spank that G5 that it's not even a contest.
2. Upgrades: whatever the fastest GFX card you can get into that G5 is a finite element. If you get a Mac Pro you could start with the "stock" card which is probably on par with the best of the G5 candidates. You could then upgrade to an ATI 3870. If you waited a little bit you could upgrade to the ATI 4870. (Not available yet.) Point being: the best options out there for the Mac Pro trounce the G5's options and we haven't even seen the end of the tunnel yet.
3. Longevity: let's peek into a worst case scenario: You spend $2,500 on 'upgrades' and the G5 poops out. Motherboard meltdown or something that renders it a doorstop. What recourse is there then? If you buy new, you've got a warranty and the ability to extend that as well. I like that peace of mind personally.
4. Future: Things are only going to grow more and more optimized for Leopard (and beyond) and the Intel platform. The PowerPC is already starting to get phased out. For example, Adobe has said After Effects CS4 will not even run on PowerPC. You can't expect any vendors - even Apple - to continue to focus on PPC when those resources can be put to optimizing the present and future: Intel & Leopard.
Just my 2 cents worth. But if it were me, I'd bust out the buffing cloth, put it to work, and introduce that G5 to some new friends over here.

Bang for the buck board and ram ?

well ive looked thru the sticky about ram and i really dont feel like spending an hour looking thru a million posts of each persons different experience with different ram
so
whats my best nvidia based mobo to get and which ram ?
or which is going to be the best bang for the buck ?
k8n neo fsr ? k8n neo fs2r k8n neo platinum ? too many different boards.
and if i dot his 64 bit jump and fork out all this money which is actually better the nvidia or the via based boards.
also if you know for sure which cpu is going to be the best bang for the buck.
im not trying to go cheap i just dont have alot of money to throw around, if i do this i want to do it right the firs time.

Kingston 400MHz 512MB CL3
thats pretty much the same mem that i have CL3 @ 400mhz.
im still torn between a nforce or via board.
i just havent heard much good about either chipset over the last few years. they both have had some serious issues especially in the AGP driver area. and that i dont need to have problems with.
overall im getting the sneaky feeling that there isnt much difference from teh nforce or the via, but maybe the nforce is better. also i get the picture that the 64's arent really good for much unless your a gamer.
windows and everything else isnt going to run any better then my current rig.
can anyone confirm or deny this ?
im also curious for those who switched to amd 64's what was your old computer ? did you make a big leap from an old POS to the 64 or was it a newer system. meaning if you were on a newer system and went to the 64, are you seeing a drastic difference in performance and how well programs and windows runs ? or is it about the same, until you start gaming ?
i just wont throw a bunch of $$$ out there until i know its worth it to do it. but like i said if gaming is the only good thing, along with maybe audio and video converting, then i aint gunna do it. it isnt feasible for me, i need a cpu and mobo that kicks the snot out of what i got. which i why ive commented before maybe i just need to wait another year.
but thats why im here asking for you gentleman's thoughts.

Capture Cards fro Premiere: What is best bang for the buck

I am looking to upgrade to the new Premiere and I am having a computer built for it. I wanted to find out what would be the best solution for capture cards. I will be wanting to capture analog (S-video cable) video in larger chunks, maybe up to 30 minutes or more. But doing this through firewire in the past, the audio would get out of sinc. What capture card has the best bang for the buck to accomplish this?

The challenge of using 3rd party tools (sw and hw) to bolster PPRO is you will be forever in the game of updating drivers here and there to make sure this or that works with that or this. Then when adobe updates their sw, the game begins anew with no guarantee of anything working together.
So; the promise of faster and better comes at a price of complexity and sometimes frailty and often a very short life. Well worth it for some; nightmare for others.
Consider a simple A/D converter for acquiring analog sd video. Or a cam with analog passthr.
Curt Wrigley

I bought my iPhone 4 in Canada and have been using it here for the past 7 months. In september i will be moving to the UK and am wondering if I get a UK sim card will I be able to use it as my cell phone over there?

I bought my iPhone 4 in Canada and have been using it here for the past 7 months. In september I will be moving to the UK and am wondering if I get a UK sim card will I be able to use it as my cell phone over there?

Hi: I don't believe that Telus provides unlocking for the iPhone. Other phones, yes, iPhone no.
Follow-up info from Telus:
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2010 iMac 2.93 i7 27" or 2011 2.8 i7 21.5" - which will suit better long-term? I do a fair amount of audio, video editing and photoshop, but I have a limited budget. What's going to give the best bang-for-buck for the next 3-5 yrs?

I do a fair amount of audio, video editing and photoshop, but I have a limited budget. What's going to give the best bang-for-buck for the next 3-5 yrs? My current machine is a 13" Macbook unibody 2.4 Core 2 Duo w/ 4Gb Ram so it's time to move forward with more power and screen real estate!

Hello, Jeff
I could never edit on a 13" screen. I'm currently using a 17" MBP i7 Early 2011 as a fast replacement to my aged 20" Intel iMac.
Both systems are not that far apart on stats and you will find that processing HD video will rely highly on the read/write to your storage. Myself, I'd be eye balling the 2011 for the Thunderbolt port so HD Video export/compression doesn't take forever! Currently processing a finished HD project for DVD uses at most 20% of my total CPU capacity. The FW800 drive is the big bottleneck! (I know I need at least a RAID to see a real speed boost).
How good your eyes are and your usage style would dictate if the difference in screen size make a difference to you.

I bought an Ipad3 from an estate sale for 20 bucks previous owner passed away. i thought i had come upon the deal of a lifetime i felt as though things were looking up but ive tried everything to get passed the icloud activation, is there a chance o

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