The Monkey

This. Little Monkey is downstairs with Grandma. They understand each other.

This is good to know about Newegg.

If memory serves, I think the ECD-1 may be an exception to Nate's Golden Rule.

Sports. I need the live sports.

I wonder if the ECD-2 maintains that Norwegian sound.

lol. If I see one for 800ish I'll buy it. Enjoy!

Apple Store down for an update...

Happy Birthday, Naaman!

Just rented a 6D rig for the weekend. Got the 24-70 and the 70-200 because those are the ones I have the most experience with with Nikon, understanding they might not be the best examples of the Canon lenses, though I've read good things about the 24-70/2.8 mk2.

Is there a "holy trinity" equivalent in the Canon lens range?

For some reason that wind map gives me the creeps.

I've never gone near Migration assistant. I've always just manually copied the files and stuff I need to an external HD, then put them on the new HD. What does Migration Assistant do that is better? Not arguing here, just trying to figure out what I'm missing.

We'll see. Replacement will take a while to get in.

I like the HeadAmp DAC and the Audioquest DragonFly.

They're taking care of it. Basically the Apple Store will order the BTO to replace it.

Brought the iMac to the Apple Store today where they agreed it was the logic board that needed to be replaced, so they placed the order and I signed off on the repair and left the machine at the store. Then, a few hours later, the store called and said they had decided to offer me a replacement machine instead. I said of course YOU BETCHA. I'm pleased with that result.

That's because computers like you, Ric. And while Apple has been pissing me off lately (or again), I am now very happy with this rMBP 13.

32GB is certainly overkill for me, but 16GB isn't, at least in my recent Mac past, and I really don't do much. But a big Aperture library, a bunch of browser tabs and a few other apps and all of sudden things bog down. Regardless, I could easily live with the 16GB, but now my concern is there is something bigger going on that will lead to other probs down the road.

Every combo I have tried ends up not recognizing more than 16GB of RAM and reports back 2 of 4 slots empty when all 4 are populated. This occurs with Apple RAM, Crucial and any combo thereof. Fuck. EDIT: But I can put one DIMM in any slot and have it recognized and boot fine, basically proving that the DIMMS are good and the slots are good, but they're not all getting along for whatever stupid-ass computer mumbojumbo reason.

Back to the fucking Apple Store tomorrow for a possible logic board replacement.

fair enough. And it really does seem like a BIOS thing. Or, more likely, a logic board thing. Blech.

Happy Birthday, Dan!

Thanks Dusty. I hesitate to screw with the BIOS lest Apple decides to screw with me, but that information is very useful for when I speak to support.

I've now tried both Crucial and whatever it is that Apple is forcing down our throats. I'm really unimpressed with the "Genius" support I received. Now I need to decide if I go back to the store or if I try to deal over the phone. I'm thinking the latter since it's a BTO and they won't be able to swap it out at the store anyway. Fucking idiots.

So my fuckin' iMac still won't recognize 2 slots worth of RAM when all 4 slots are filled. Fuckers. Apple Store was really useless. Need to call AppleCare and try to get a new machine. Fuck. AAAAA AAAAA AAA, AAAAA AAAA!