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System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException: The invocation of the constructor on type 'BrightnessController.MainWindow' that matches the specified binding constraints threw an exception. System.NotImplementedException: The method or operation is not implemented. Just curious, is anyone using this on a PC.
With a 'hackintosh' partition? I was looking at this last year and recently it appears that Mountain Lion is more compatible than ever with good gaming hardware: Ivy Bridge CPUs, GTX 600 series, even a Thunderbolt motherboard: That's one fancy way of controlling the brightness PS: was really debating about the Thunderbolt monitor but I'm not rich so I don't have the luxury of experimenting. AnandTech's review of TB was very interesting. My understanding is that you are tied to the Lucid MVP software, should it not work with a game for some reason, you would not be able to take advantage of the GPU. Another interesting consideration.
If I buy a motherboard with a DisplayPort or MiniDP, then I would be able to connect the ACD and boot into the OS thanks to the Ivy Bridge CPU's HD 4000 graphics I presume. I don't expect the GPU to fail but I suppose that's not bad to have.
Just curious, is anyone using this on a PC. With a 'hackintosh' partition? I was looking at this last year and recently it appears that Mountain Lion is more compatible than ever with good gaming hardware: Ivy Bridge CPUs, GTX 600 series, even a Thunderbolt motherboard: That's one fancy way of controlling the brightness PS: was really debating about the Thunderbolt monitor but I'm not rich so I don't have the luxury of experimenting. AnandTech's review of TB was very interesting.
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My understanding is that you are tied to the Lucid MVP software, should it not work with a game for some reason, you would not be able to take advantage of the GPU. Another interesting consideration. If I buy a motherboard with a DisplayPort or MiniDP, then I would be able to connect the ACD and boot into the OS thanks to the Ivy Bridge CPU's HD 4000 graphics I presume. I don't expect the GPU to fail but I suppose that's not bad to have. Does anyone here have a ACD for two years or more? Is it durable?
I'm pretty bummed about my iMac right now. It probably only has a problem with the heat sensor, which makes the fan rev up erratically.
Much more often lately. And I understand it's not Apple's fault all harware can have faults. But this has been really grating on me, besides other small things. To make me want to sell this iMac and build a PC again. However I really love the screen and I'm a bit torn about spending 999 with Apple again. Is it really worth it? Is this the screen that will last me for the next five years?
Is it really reliable? Because I don't know about you, but for us in Europe there's only been a bit of legal wrangle lately in Italy but for the most part the warranty is one year unless you're willing to pursue Apple with consumer association.
Which very few people do AFAIK. Also though I don't mean to derail from the thread, because I really want to get an ACD, is there ANYTHING at all really at lower price ranges that looks remotely as good as this? That's the main issue for me. A friend bought a 900 screen from Dell I think, IPS 27 inch and all that and I thought it looked crap,.personally. Really strong anti-glare coating, it felt like looking at an image throuhg some kind of grid, and very dark colours. So with ACD at least I know what I'm getting into.
I just don't know if it's a very durable monitor. Does anyone here have a ACD for two years or more? Is it durable? I'm pretty bummed about my iMac right now.
It probably only has a problem with the heat sensor, which makes the fan rev up erratically. Much more often lately. And I understand it's not Apple's fault all harware can have faults. But this has been really grating on me, besides other small things. To make me want to sell this iMac and build a PC again. However I really love the screen and I'm a bit torn about spending 999 € with Apple again. Is it really worth it?
Is this the screen that will last me for the next five years? Is it really reliable? Because I don't know about you, but for us in Europe there's only been a bit of legal wrangle lately in Italy but for the most part the warranty is one year unless you're willing to pursue Apple with consumer association. Which very few people do AFAIK. Also though I don't mean to derail from the thread, because I really want to get an ACD, is there ANYTHING at all really at lower price ranges that looks remotely as good as this? That's the main issue for me.
A friend bought a 900 € screen from Dell I think, IPS 27 inch and all that and I thought it looked crap,.personally. Really strong anti-glare coating, it felt like looking at an image throuhg some kind of grid, and very dark colours. So with ACD at least I know what I'm getting into.
I just don't know if it's a very durable monitor. Nah, the iMac is too bulky to use as a monitor. Fine if you keep using the iMac, but otherwise probably better value to resell it. At least with an ACD display there are less avenues for hardware problems.
On this iMac there is a problem with the heat sensor, which makes the fan rev up now and then making a lot of noise. This problem can also happen at boot, so presumably it can also happen while using it as a monitor. I'm better off getting rid of it while its under AppleCare, and get a stand alone display. Yeah Retina on this 27 inch panel would be silly.
For design and photographers perhaps? That would be a very very niche market. I love that I can see individual pixels if squinting my eyes. In Photoshop I quite like that I can move the mouse a smidgeon, and finetune a selection by one pixel. But otherwise unless squinting or focusing on an area of the screen, the pixels are barely noticable. @melomania Do you have an iMac already?
I wouldn't recommend one unless you are looking for an 'all in one', and really interested in OS X (which you should really test drive before by lending a Macbook from a friend or colleague. Because completely changing your OS is not at all trivial, there is quite a bit of learning no matter how pleasant the UI can be). One word to sum up my iMac feelings of late: powerless.
I am powerless to fix the machine if any part breaks. Sure, you can go to iFixit and learn to open it.
If you're a die hard Apple fan that's definitely an option and it's possible to do your own repairs or replace the drives. But it's one notch above putting together a typical ATX case. You can easily replace the DIMMs, they are accessible from a trap at the bottom of the screen. The upgrade fees are ridiculous, so unless the next iMac refresh comes with built in SSDs in the base configuration, you'd want to get your own SSD and a Thunderbolt enclosure. There are very few affordable TB enclosures at the moment, one of which is mostly a hack, and looks crap next to your iMac. If you're rich, that's cool, you can get some slick aluminium TB racks for RAID SSDs from OWC.
With an external SSD on Thunderbolt the performance would be fine, and at least you can replace easily the SSD if it comes to fail. But now you have an external main drive sitting outside of the 'all in one'. Worth mentioning, installing Windows 7 via Bootcamp directly on the external SSD won't work.
So you would need to install OS X and Windows 7 on the internal drive, and the clone the drive to the external SSD. You can search MacRumors forum there are some detailed posts. Or I think you may use 'Chameleon', which is an open source multi boot solution (which looks really nice and apparently lets you customize all the graphics of the menu as well).
Gaming on the mobility card is not great, but not that bad. It's possible to overclock the mobility card with Afterburner,and there are tools to increase the fan speed like 'MacFan' in Windows, or 'SMC Fan Control' in OS X. Worth mentioning here, the fan logic is so bad, you actually want to manually increase fan for a gaming session because they pick up really slowly and your GPU can easily reach 85-90C on a demanding game. And that means the aluminium computer case sitting a short distance in front of you becomes really hot.
Another lovely thing with the iMac is that if you have a good batch, you will enjoy the ticking noise of the HDD all the time. After all there isn't a whole lot of space in there, and it's all contained a short distance in front of you. To be fair other than the HDD ticking. The machine is very quiet.
For gaming I increase fans to 1500 RPM vs stock 1000, and the max is 3800. So the increase is barely audible, and keeps the overclocked 4850M below or just around 80C depending on the game. The HDD noise may not be noticable in the 2010 or 2011 models. Make sure to check them out before buying one. When you are in a showroom you can't hear these things, it becomes very noticable when you're surfing the web in the evening when things are quiet. I'm going back to a 'PC' but for me it's not because of the price for upgrades: if you count the new motherboard (different socket/chipset) + new GPU + new CPU and sometimes new RAM every 2-3 years, it doesn't cost all that much more than buying the new iMac, after reselling the old one.
That's if you're willing to pay for the form factor, and the gorgeous 27 inch screen. However should it fail after the warranty runs out, you are powerless to replace the parts. There will be repair fees, and you will have to either trust the technicians with your harddrives or remove all personal information from them and logout all your browser sessions.
If you return it for repair.before. the warranty runs out you are supposed to backup everything, because they may issue a complete replacement. Apple doesn't offer something between the laptops and Mac Pro, so you end up having to buy the 'high end' iMac to get a decent GPU for gaming, no matter if you are fine with the 21 inch panel, or if you don't need the extra storage, or quad core CPU. If you have the money go for it, enjoy it.
I wouldn't have it any different. It was a good experience. Working on a Mac opened my mind, made me appreciate good design.
But since I learned I can build a 'custom mac'. That's the end for me. Hopefully it will work out fine in Mountain Lion with great compatibility.
If not, I will use Linux Mint for a nice Bash terminal and a nice windowed VIM which is the most important for my own development environment. Just purchased an Apple 27' Cinema Display, and am very happy with it so far, but I've experienced two instances of a possibly severe problem. I have the display hooked up to a GTX 680, with a Female-Female mini-DP connector, plus a 3 foot Male-Male mini-DP to DP connector.
On two separate occasions, I've noticed some weird signal noise on the display, as well as some popping sound from the speaking (also probably noise). Unplugging my connectors, and re-plugging them back in corrected the issue both times, but I'm not sure if that was because the display shut off and turned back on, or the connector was slightly loose, leading to some signal interference. I had this display plugged in directly to a MBP for a few days, and didn't have any issues during that time. Anyone have any similar problems? On a side note, while the speakers are decent quality, the bass sometimes seems a little off. Am I just expecting too much from built in speakers (planning on getting some stand alone speakers anyway)?
Just purchased an Apple 27' Cinema Display, and am very happy with it so far, but I've experienced two instances of a possibly severe problem. I have the display hooked up to a GTX 680, with a Female-Female mini-DP connector, plus a 3 foot Male-Male mini-DP to DP connector. On two separate occasions, I've noticed some weird signal noise on the display, as well as some popping sound from the speaking (also probably noise). Unplugging my connectors, and re-plugging them back in corrected the issue both times, but I'm not sure if that was because the display shut off and turned back on, or the connector was slightly loose, leading to some signal interference. I had this display plugged in directly to a MBP for a few days, and didn't have any issues during that time.
Anyone have any similar problems? On a side note, while the speakers are decent quality, the bass sometimes seems a little off.
Am I just expecting too much from built in speakers (planning on getting some stand alone speakers anyway)?