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Jbasya

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  1. Hi Brian, my daughter wants to know if she can add memory to her 2020 MacBook Pro. Specs are below. She uses AfterEffects and plays Minecraft  

    I think she should be fine and probably just needs to clean it up. Besides cleanmymac, which she uses, can you recommend any other resources that might help a PC person understand how to tune up a Mac? 

    Also she wants to install windows on it for gaming. Is that something we can follow a YouTube tutorial for or should we take it to a professional for that? 
     

    thanks!!

     

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  2. HI Brian

    first screenshot is what I normally get after daily incremental backup

    second screenshot is what I'm getting today... it's now about a third done after several hours

    in windows explorer I've confirmed that today's file is an incremental backup type but the size of a full backup

    (full backup happens every other month and was scheduled for tomorrow, but I suspect that's just coincidence)

    could this be due to a windows update that happened this morning? should I be concerned?

    Thanks!

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  3. realized i never came back to say thanks..... thanks for the help! i wound up getting an alienware 17" laptop from the "deals" section that hit all your recommended specs at a great price--and i know 17" and laptop don't belong in the sentence, but it's fine for my needs. Thanks again!

    edit: where's your donate button? I can only find Damien's

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  4. I want to add: I'm looking to get my money's worth for $2500. Don't want to invest in the latest/greatest at this time. My current xps has given me a solid 5.5 years, but for the last 2 I've been envious of the newer tech (eg usb- charging). I'll be happy with 3-4 years from this one.

    Thanks again!

  5. Hi Brian

    is the better processor worth $400? And is the better graphics card worth the extra $100 if I’m not also getting the better processor? 

    if it makes any difference, I’m getting the base 1920 x 1200 screen for the laptop, I use an external monitor 90% of the time. Also i plan to  (at some point) upgrade the memory to 64gb on my own.

    thanks

    judith 

     


     

     

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  6. I got it to a useable place for now, but I need to try again for better. Had to step away from the task because I was ready to throw things out the window.....

    I've been using "wide led" because that's what the documentation says, but I think maybe it's one of those "in between"s you mentioned on facebook yesterday. U2722D--do you think I should try the regular setting?

    Thanks for checking in :)

  7. Problem is definitely not limited to this batch of photos. In just a few old sooc jpegs photos it's less noticeable, but I suspect that has more to do with the darkness and lack of saturation in those photos than with them being immune to whatever the hell is going on. Any ideas? I guess I should reach out to Spyder....

  8. Hi again, I uninstalled and reinstalled the spyder software and it seems to be working as it should, except for the fact that in the "spydertune" view things look very different from how they look in bridge/photoshop. Photos opened in windows explorer look like the bridge/photoshop version. I checked my color spaces, looked for things amiss in the graphics drivers, everything is updated, do you have any idea why I'm seeing this discrepancy? Should I just pay attention to what I'm seeing in bridge/photoshop?

    in this screenshot the spyder version is a pretty close color match to my prints while the bridge version is insane.

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  9. Hi Damien! I'm having a heckuva time calibrating my new Dell U2722D. I have a spyder X elite and even ordered new prints from a different printer to troubleshoot. No vivid or oversaturated colors in these prints. With all of them, I can't seem to find the sweet spot where all the colors are close enough..... But before I settle on a compromise, can you please tell me if any of the following point to larger problems?

    --Documentation says this monitor is W-LED so I've been checking that box

    --every time I open the software it only has my old monitor in the dropdown box

    --it doesn't recognize the new monitor and only offers me "generic" despite the fact that I have the monitor-specific driver (another thing I thought might help)

    --when checking the calibration prints, things look much different in bridge than in the spyder software--this is my biggest concern!!!

    Despite the above issues, I'm creating profiles and can switch between them so on that front spyder is doing what it's supposed do.

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks!

     

  10. I feel like I missed focus or got motion blur with this one, but also wondering if maybe it's just haze? I don't need this pic but I like how the sun flare hits so thought I'd ask. Thanks!

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  11. Hello Brian! I dropped an old 1tb wd "my passport" drive today, from about waist high, which luckily for me is a mere three feet.  It seems to be OK--but can I trust it? Is there something I can do to test it? I don't need it anymore but I was hoping to donate it somewhere rather than throw it out. Thanks!

     

  12. we are very surprised and f'ing frustrated as hell.

    I did wind up getting great colors, so it's done, but can I manually up my monitor brightness a tiny bit (literally one notch) or do I need to redo the whole calibration yet again?

    Also does either of these portend hardware failure of some sort? the first one happened while calibrating with some early numbers that didn't work out, the second one while trying to adjust the gamma or brightness in "spydertune".

     

     

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