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by rsync 3386 days ago
Great - many thanks - this is very helpful.

"Next was a NVIDIA GTX 970 card"

How many PCI slots does that card take up ? I currently drive four monitors with my mac pro and the single slot aspect of the gt120s makes that easy ...

"All in all this is the best Mac I've ever owned and it amazes me it works as well as it does being almost 8 years old now."

I know, right ? I regularly have 20+ chrome tabs open along with 1-2 VMs running in vmware fusion and I have never once felt like the system was slow. My only issue is that I have only ever run snow leopard on it and now chrome no longer has updates, so I need to move to ... mavericks maybe ? I feel like mavericks is the most stable/sane OSX release since SL ...
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kalleboo 3385 days ago
> My only issue is that I have only ever run snow leopard on it and now chrome no longer has updates, so I need to move to ... mavericks maybe ? I feel like mavericks is the most stable/sane OSX release since SL ...

This will obviously depend on the hardware/software you use but Mavericks was the buggiest and worst OS X release on my rMBP. I was rebooting weekly due to weird graphics drivers glitches and inexplicable OS slowdowns. El Cap had a rough start, but was fine after a couple point releases. I've had no issues whatsoever with Sierra.

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arm 3385 days ago
El Capitan is probably the best choice at this time; Sierra is an absolute train wreck:

http://tidbits.com/article/16966

EDIT: 10.12.3 doesn’t seem to be much better, sadly:

http://tidbits.com/article/17010

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kalleboo 3385 days ago
Sounds like it's only an "absolute train wreck" if your workflow depends on editing PDFs with annotation layers in software that uses PDFKit.

My interaction with PDFs starts with viewing a linked one in Safari and ends with "save as PDF to web receipts folder" and for that kind of usage there are absolutely no problems. I always thought that for anything half-advanced with PDFs (like filling out forms) you'd want to install Acrobat Reader anyway...

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photojosh 3384 days ago
Filling out PDF forms is a pretty normal consumer task these days, I wouldn't call it even half-advanced.
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