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You mean the ones that gathered so much dust on the inside that the GPUs died because you couldn’t open them to clean them out? MacBooks were only good when they were the only thing around with good build quality, good screens and SSDs by default. The rest of the world on the other hand has caught up to them and overtaken. Macs have always had issues, like the hot exhaust air melting the glue holding the screen togehter or the GPUs coming off from the boards or other such nonsense.

The ipad has always been a stupid device. It’s nothing more than a glorified email machine. It’s not portable enough to justify replacing your oversized phone with it (mind you, most phones these days are more powerful than an ipad), and it’s nowhere near powerful enough to rival a decent laptop in the same price range (or cheaper), so you can’t do any real work on it either.

I don’t have any dust and heat issues with a late 2012 IMac. I have issues with macOS though (my cloud services won’t work starting from next year but it’s actually 8 years old…)

And yup, here any other computer with the same build cost nearly non the less than a Mac. Money course and oil issues you know

Just because you don’t have the issue, doesn’t mean it’s not there. The dust problem has been known for ages. It sometimes gets so bad that the dust somehow manages to seep in between the layers of the screen construction.

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Ah, the 2010 model screen heating. Yup I’ve heard of that

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I realise that 7W is a kind of meaningless number to wrap your head around if you have no experience. So I did some digging, my electric toothbrush on high power mode consumes 7.5W. So, the Macbook Air is technically weaker than a toothbrush…let that sink in for a moment :joy:. More to the point, my tooth brush doesn’t catch fire or explode when I turn it on.

All of this begs the question. If a waterproofed toothbrush with no real cooling and a higher power dissipation can run just fine, how did Apple manage to burn something weaker out WITH a heatsink AND a fan (despite them not being thermally connected)?

It will be more effort to try and burn a 7W component out than trying to cool it. Only Apple… :joy:

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I don’t know guys, I’m very happy with the one I have. Zero problems.

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I hope for your sake it stays that way, you’ll be paying through the nose should something go wrong.

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What’s yours ? Air series 2016 and earlier or 2018 and later ?

2019 MacBookAir, but customised.

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Customised? What did you mod on it?

i7 instead of i5, more space.

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Ah, when you said customised, I thought you meant you had something aftermarket done to it. Although, are you sure you have an i7? The Airs didn’t have an i7 for that model.

They don’t but when you proceed to buy one it asks you if you want to customise it and add extras.

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Yeha, I know, I stalk their site occasionally. Customisation is a term they use rather loosely by the sounds of it, maybe it’s just me being a PC snob, but spec-ing it up from the factory and customising are different to me. :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah that does make it a bit more doable, but I’m really getting tired of being at home all the time and not being around colleagues and other people

Had to end production run 2 short at 75 frames as opposed to 82, because my stock adhesion is so good that my mat couldn’t take it, I’m pretty sure there’s a couple of frames with bits of mat embedded in them. lol. I’ll probably temporarily bodge it with superglue and kapton tape and try to move the print slightly as I wait for the replacement to come in. I also need more filament.

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I fell off the face of the LPU forum-earth again, whoops. Personal stuff on top of the virus stuff making life boring takes a lot out of me

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This is mostly done now

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I spent $13 on a program that will make better rips of the smileys. No more cropped edges or missing eyes. I need to crop them better though

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I also found a handful of unused ones too

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Visor frame update (for whoever even cares at this point lol):

Finished production run 3 very early this morning, managed 58 frames. My output numbers per production run are rather inconsistent, but they’ve all lasted different durations. My throughput has been slowly increasing by 1 frame/day with each run. PR1 was 8 frames/day, PR2 was 9 and PR3 was 10.

I borrowed some larger diameter nozzles today, so am back on speed research duty to try and further decrease print times.

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I started work on LPU 7 & 8. Unfortunately 7 has very little to reference so it’s not going to look the best

Edit: Made a new, more appropriate theme as well
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I made myself a table. It’s pretty awkward and has a small lack of symmetry but for the first attempt in making a piece of furniture the result is good. I might take a pic a bit later and upload it here. Actually, with that table I got myself a great working place in the smaller house - just because when there’re two little kids in the main house, the house is never ever ever silent

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