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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2015 19:06 Edited at: 2nd Feb 2015 19:07
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do i get page?

indeed i do lols rofl

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indeed i do lols rofl"

*Glares*

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 00:42 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2015 00:43
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Quote: "I saw a video of someone who was working on a custom hexacopter flight controller. He had been working for 8 months and it wasn't ready yet"


Yes but I'm way better than he

Quote: "I got my FPV gear 2 days ago and finally got to take it out for a flight today. I managed to fly through 3.5 batteries before I crashed into a tree and broke an arm. Guess I have to wait for a replacement now"


Oops

Quote: "Quad component selection has taken me much longer than I expected, but I have finally decided on this frame. I didn't want to cut corners on the base frame quality, but some frames are ridiculously priced. Plus $7 in shipping is nothing compared to what I've seen on some (I'm in the US so costs are much cheaper when they aren't international)."


Yep, it's way more complicated than you'd think, isn't it?

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I finally solved all problems with communication and controlling my quad!! I mean, it doesn't fly as such yet (it does more of a backflip sort of thing), but at least that's entirely down to my stabilising algorithms and not some weird intermittent serial problem! Now to go design a Rate mode so I can base my Angle mode off it and have the thing react quickly enough for stable flight...

EDIT: Oh no, I have a dentist appointment today! Noooo... I truly hate going to the dentist...


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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 01:30 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2015 01:47
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Quote: "Yep, it's way more complicated than you'd think, isn't it?"

Yes. Every time I think I have my parts narrowed down I run into a new problem.

For instance. I loved these motors. The problem is that the benchmarks are all for their 2.7 pitch propellers that are insanely priced . I don't see a way to purchase 2.7 pitch props anywhere else so I guess they're a no go I put some of my gear into a prop/motor calculator (including those motors) and apparently using a pitch over 2.7 will pass the max amps on the motor There are also these but I don't think they help the situation. I'm too uneasy trying out non-suggested prop specs on a motor. I'd love to have just used the suggested motors for the frame but they're 56 grams each... hah no. Another build used 1800 kv motors which I find absurd any suggestions?

Quote: "I finally solved all problems with communication and controlling my quad!! I mean, it doesn't fly as such yet (it does more of a backflip sort of thing), but at least that's entirely down to my stabilising algorithms and not some weird intermittent serial problem! Now to go design a Rate mode so I can base my Angle mode off it and have the thing react quickly enough for stable flight... "


Quote: "EDIT: Oh no, I have a dentist appointment today! Noooo... I truly hate going to the dentist..."



Edit: This is just mind blowing. link Who can afford that?

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 02:07 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2015 02:11
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IMO you needn't be looking at expensive websites. I bought a lot of my parts (including motors and props) from HobbyKing. They have warehouses all over the world, not just in China. If you live in the US, Australia or the UK, you can get parts very quickly (like, only a few days - probably less for those lucky US-people). If you live in Europe somewhere, they have a warehouse there, but I believe Europe's pretty big, so if you don't live near the warehouse the parts may take a while. There's also a Russian warehouse, but I'm pretty sure you're not Russian

My suggestion is to look at the Turnigy Multistar motors from HobbyKing. They're extremely popular and pretty cheap, too. And the props from there are cheap and most are well-balanced from the factory, so you can buy a couple of different sizes and experiment (like I did).

Quote: "Edit: This is just mind blowing. link Who can afford that?"


That's insane, but it's clearly designed for professional filmmakers and the like who are virtually guaranteed not to crash due to years of experience and who need the very best equipment money can buy. Definitely not hobby-grade

EDIT: If you're looking at HobbyKing, just make sure you check which warehouses the parts are available from. I believe every single item they sell is available from their "international warehouse" (the one in China) but only the most popular stuff is available in the localised warehouses. Also, if a part isn't in stock on HobbyKing, try eBay. My ESCs came from eBay because they weren't in stock in the Australia warehouse on HobbyKing.


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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 02:35
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The $35.00 USD prop? That is expensive, although not as bad as I was guessing from you guys' commentary on it. Granted, you do need four...

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 05:45 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2015 05:52
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Quote: "IMO you needn't be looking at expensive websites. I bought a lot of my parts (including motors and props) from HobbyKing. They have warehouses all over the world, not just in China. If you live in the US, Australia or the UK, you can get parts very quickly (like, only a few days - probably less for those lucky US-people). If you live in Europe somewhere, they have a warehouse there, but I believe Europe's pretty big, so if you don't live near the warehouse the parts may take a while. There's also a Russian warehouse, but I'm pretty sure you're not Russian "

A large majority of my parts will be coming from HobbyKing Motors were the main place in which I wanted to try pushing it but that clearly isn't going to end up being the case heh a lot of the motors the other retailers sell seem horribly cheap but I think I've found some options. I went through all of the SunnySky and Emax motors on their websites HobbyKing usually carries those. Haven't gotten the chance to yet but I'll look through all of the Turnigy motors to see what I can find

I have heard shipping can be quite high through HobbyKing (probably the international items). Shouldn't be too big of an issue though. They tend to list lower prices when shipping is higher so it balances out. Btw can you get those discounts for viewing a page for a while back by clearing web cookies? Or perhaps viewing from another computer? Hopefully it's not by IP I could probably save a dollar on each item that way haha

Quote: "The $35.00 USD prop? That is expensive, although not as bad as I was guessing from you guys' commentary on it. Granted, you do need four..."

Carbon fiber props tend to be a lot but some of the decent quality plastic ones can be $2.50 for 4

Edit: Thanks btw I might experiment with props a little (probably in build quality and not size/pitch) but I think the area in which I'm willing to experiment a bit more is batteries. It's so hard to know what size will be just right. Having an extra battery certainly can't hurt anyways. I should be able to support a pretty low C so the batteries are really cheap.

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 07:45 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2015 07:46
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Quote: "The $35.00 USD prop? That is expensive, although not as bad as I was guessing from you guys' commentary on it."


Yeah, but $35 per prop is $140 on a quadcopter for the props. As Swissolo said you can buy packs of 4 good quality plastic props for <$5, and even a pack of 4 carbon fiber props for about $12.

Quote: "A large majority of my parts will be coming from HobbyKing"


Ok cool

Quote: "I have heard shipping can be quite high through HobbyKing (probably the international items). Shouldn't be too big of an issue though. They tend to list lower prices when shipping is higher so it balances out."


It's actually quite reasonable. It's when you have to buy a single prop or something like that that the postage seems too high. When you're buying a box of stuff it matches the size of the package really well.

Quote: "Btw can you get those discounts for viewing a page for a while back by clearing web cookies?"


I believe if you clear your cache it'll reset. Be careful, though. If you're not in the US you have to remember it's displayed in USD, regardless of what localisation settings you have on the website. For example, in Australia, a $26 (AUD) motor might come up with an offer for $18. That seems like an amazing deal until you do some searching and realise the offer is in USD. People have complained repeatedly about the lack of currency marker on the offer box.

Also, while my brother didn't notice any issues when he was using it, I've had the HobbyKing shopping cart just randomly empty on me, even if I was signed in when adding the items. I wouldn't rely on it to remember items for me. That's why I created a big spreadsheet for the parts I was choosing

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 08:24 Edited at: 4th Feb 2015 00:06
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EDIT: was missing the last character of the YT code


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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 09:16
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I love being a mod. When a post fails I can edit it to see what it was supposed to be easter bunny, that video says it doesn't exist when I opened it via YouTube.

Quote: "When you've finished 90% of your game, you only have 90% left"


That is ridiculously and frustratingly true!


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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 12:36
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Quote: "Carbon fiber props tend to be a lot but some of the decent quality plastic ones can be $2.50 for 4 "


I used some cheap plastic slowflyer props from hobyking for my tri. They worked but they were really fragile and I had to turn up my gains quite a bit to get it stable.

I then got some carbon fibre plastic mix multirotor props which were a lot quieter and my gains could be turned down. With the SF props the trii would lean over to one side when climbing which didn't happen with the slightly more expensive props.

Im not saying you need 35$ props but it might be nice with a bit higher quality than the cheapest ones.

Quote: "Btw can you get those discounts for viewing a page for a while back by clearing web cookies?"


I was able to get them by just refreshing the page and waiting a while, I think.


My replacement booms got shiped today so i'll hopefully be able to fly tomorrow or the day after that. The good thing about it is that I was able to redo my wiring so that should be a lot tidier now.

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 22:06 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2015 22:06
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 22:14 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2015 22:25
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It's still white.

You do realise you have to copy the code from the link, right? And not the entire link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvRypx1lbR
[[/b]youtube]HvRypx1lbR[[b]/youtube]

and you have to use a valid link.

[EDIT] Oh, it's an image this time.

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Rekt.

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At least it's not an image that logs you out when you look at it.

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That would be OP.

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repost just 'cause I can





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out of curiosity, what do you think of prop savers? This motor seems fantastic but it comes with prop savers seems like a ridiculous way to attach a propeller. I suppose I could replace the shaft and add prop adapters but that will increase the (currently fantastic) weight and I'm worried it would change how the motor actually performs (since it wasn't intended for prop adapters).

I narrowed down to a few motors but I might have to keep searching. I've been using text files to notate everything I do here are my motor notes

The links aren't intended buying locations, just places to see the specs

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eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Lol

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I have a can of peanuts.

MODs, look at my previous edits for this post; you'll realize the great levels of my indecisiveness.

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If you coat then with cocaine, you have a chance.

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StarCraft units to scale: http://i2.minus.com/idKJOHIciRf0E.jpg

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Quote: "what do you think of prop savers? This motor seems fantastic but it comes with prop savers"


How does that work?

Also, I just got the spare boom for my tricopter, got everything hooked up and something went wrong. Turns out there was a hole in the shrink wrap on one of my ESCs where some snow got in during my last crash. The water shorted the connection between the battery and 5v regulated output which sent 16V into my flight controller and fried that. I guess im waiting for replacement parts again

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Ah, I was just trying to spell 'moderators', but typoed it to 'moderatugs'.

Today I shall attempt to make another logic gate from string!!!!! Using thread today instead of fishing line, which should be soooooo much easier to work with. Fishing line is pure evil. In addition, knots and friction points shall be handled with tiny glass beads, which shall be excellent.

If I get it to work, I shall make a video and post it here.

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Posted: 5th Feb 2015 02:12 Edited at: 5th Feb 2015 02:17
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Quote: "I used some cheap plastic slowflyer props from hobyking for my tri. They worked but they were really fragile and I had to turn up my gains quite a bit to get it stable."


How fast were you spinning them? Slowflyer props will vibrate and become inefficient above their rated speeds.

Quote: "out of curiosity, what do you think of prop savers?"


I think there's no reason not to use them (i.e. there's no disadvantages that I know of) and if you crash the props are far less likely to break. I didn't get any because my motors came with normal threaded shafts with nuts. In other words, if it comes with prop savers, use them. I wouldn't worry about it that much

The X2206-14 looks like a pretty good choice, if those weights are correct

Quote: "Turns out there was a hole in the shrink wrap on one of my ESCs where some snow got in during my last crash. The water shorted the connection between the battery and 5v regulated output which sent 16V into my flight controller and fried that. I guess im waiting for replacement parts again"


Oh no, that's terrible!

Quote: "If I get it to work, I shall make a video and post it here."


Please do, that'd be awesome!

We bought a new motorbike yesterday. A neighbour was having a garage sale and sold us a '98 Honda CT200 Ag bike for $200. It's in pretty good nick, and $200 is way cheap for a bike like this! He also sold us a petrol-powered pressure cleaner, so we pressure-cleaned the bike. Unfortunately, we also pressure-cleaned the rust/paint that must've been holding the fuel in and it sprung a leak. A lot of fuel-on-the-grass later, and we got a sheet-metal screw and a rubber washer (made of fuel hose so it wouldn't dissolve) in the hole and then put cheap epoxy resin on it. That seems to be holding perfectly for the time being. Just depends whether petrol will eat through cheap epoxy resin.


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I think this copter discussion could warrant it's own thread.
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It is own thread?

Also page.
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Been thinking the same thing Here we go: The RC Multirotor Thread

Quote: "It is own thread?"


lol


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You have to play the timed game to upload a score to the scoreboard.

Your new challenge: Beat my high score. Mwuhahahahaha

Be warned though; this game is harder than it looks.

Good luck! (You'll need it if you accept this challenge)


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This is my favorite type of salad. A bowl of freshly cut lawn grass topped with a petrol dressing. So delicious. Always sends me to the hospital, sadly.

Quote: "Please do, that'd be awesome!"
Aye, the logic gate is mostly finished tonight. Sadly some *issues* got in the way of my progress, so the video shall have to wait till tomorrow.

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Whey, being sarcastic about an inconsistency in the English language like a tool.
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Dammit! My iMac's hard drive appears to have bit the dust. Disk Utility won't find it and when I attempt to reinstall the OS it can't find it either. So something is wrong with the hard drive, it would seem.

And of course, I never bought AppleCare because by the time I could afford it my warranty was void anyway... so now to see what to do.

At least I built my gaming PC when I did! Otherwise I would SOL right now in terms of having a computer.

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What's worse is I don't have Apple Care. According to my research (i.e., massive amounts of The Googles), Apple with do one of the following:

Either completely deny me any service and tell me I'm screwed, or...
They will charge me an arm and a leg for the labor of replacing the drive, and add the cost of the drive to the labor charge, resulting in a bill (depending on the hard drive) anywhere from $200-$500. Ridiculous? You bet!

I ought to just cut my losses, and decide whether or not I want to save for another iMac, or wait a while and see where they go with the Mac Pro line. Those are seriously good video editing machines.

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Who was being sarcastic?
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Why don't you just replace the hard drive?
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Well, you see, iMac.

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What inconsistency? "It's" is always "it is", and "its" is always the possessive.

Quote: "or wait a while and see where they go with the Mac Pro line. Those are seriously good video editing machines."


Good machines, yes, but after you've seen how expensive it would be to replace the HDD in your iMac, are you sure you want to continue on the Mac line? 'Tis up to you, however

Quote: "Why don't you just replace the hard drive?"


lol. 'nuff said.


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Because it requires a lot of disassembling and the tools I would need to purchase would cost almost $150 anyway.

This video shows just how "easy" it is to replace an iMac HDD:


Quote: "Good machines, yes, but after you've seen how expensive it would be to replace the HDD in your iMac, are you sure you want to continue on the Mac line?"


The only reason it's that expensive is because I refused to pay $250 for "AppleCare" that would have extended my warranty for only another year, which would have made this a "complimentary" service. Although now researching this, I've read a lot of horror stories about how Apple likes to claim that most failures are a result of users tampering with their Mac/iPhone, and thus are not obligated to service it since tampering results in a void warranty. Crazy.

The only reason I would go with a Mac Pro would be for super-duper 4K video editing, but it would be cheaper to modify my current (and now only ) computer for that instead. I just like Macs because I like Final Cut Pro. But now I can't use Final Cut Pro, and I can't afford to get the hard drive replaced, let alone buy another iMac or Mac Pro.

I might be done with Apple for a little while. The iMac didn't even last much past a year and a half, figures that's my luck. Most people I know with iMacs still have ones from the early 2000's that run fine, and so I get a nice and shiny late 2012 model and it craps out in less than two years. Thanks, Universe, you always find a way to make me mad at you.

Now I have to figure out where to store it... I essentially have a very shiny paperweight. The worst part is I was also using it for Netflix/TV, because it was a 27" monitor and the audio from iMacs is actually quite good. So now I can't watch Netflix comfortably.

Ugh, first world problems.

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Someone use Paint and draw a Moving Average Filter so I understand it.


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Say pretty please? I didn't draw it in paint, but this is from Wikipedia:


Quote: "Given a series of numbers and a fixed subset size, the first element of the moving average is obtained by taking the average of the initial fixed subset of the number series. Then the subset is modified by "shifting forward"; that is, excluding the first number of the series and including the next number following the original subset in the series. This creates a new subset of numbers, which is averaged. This process is repeated over the entire data series. The plot line connecting all the (fixed) averages is the moving average."


Yay, my mechanical And gate made of thread and cardboard is all done and works! Sadly I shall have to delay the video again one more day, due to things I have to get up for tomorrow that are early.

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DJD64 is in fact, a cat. Confirmed.

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SHHHH! You nut, you're going to blow my cover.

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I had a truly BRILLIANT idea! Actually I'll post it in the multirotor thread! It's really good, go read it!


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Quote: "What inconsistency? "It's" is always "it is", and "its" is always the possessive."


Which is inconsistent with the rest of the language..



It looks incredibly simple to replace the hard drive. If i can do my MacBook - you can do the iMac.
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No?

The way I understand it is that the ' marks a contraction, you are becomes you're, it is becomes it's he is becomes he's and so on while the single words don't have the apostrophe

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Posted: 6th Feb 2015 18:09 Edited at: 6th Feb 2015 18:22
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You can't be serious. First off, I don't have the proper tools, and don't want to spend $150+ to get them for a one-time use. Secondly, and this is a big one, I have NO LOCATION that would be safe to even attempt it on my own, without the risk of severely scratching the glass, or getting fingerprints/dust on the screen.

If I can't really afford to have Apple replace it, what makes you think I can afford to buy the hard drive and tools myself? The cost would likely be identical, if anything I'd probably only save a few dollars at the end of the day, but with the extra and completely unnecessary risk of damaging more things by trying to do it myself. Plus, if another problem pops up in the future (one I can't fix), and the Apple Store/Repair Specialists see that it was previously opened by me? They'll outright refuse to service me. Look it up, Apple really loves to make sure you don't touch their products.

I can't believe the girl in the video handled the glass panel like she did, just placing it and leaning it off to the side of the desk.

I think my best bet is to just wait a bit, see if one of the Apple Stores in my location can quote me a price, and decide whether or not I want to spend $300+ on a hard drive replacement, or cut my losses with Apple and invest more into my PC and make it a superb multimedia machine. I'm quite tempted to do the latter, because I'm afraid if I spend $300+ additional on my iMac only to have it fry within another year, I'll be out $300+ on a paperweight, and the money could have been used to invest in a better solution.

If I wanted a Mac I should have just saved up for the Mac Pro, but hey, we live and learn.

EDIT: Oh dear. Apparently the fan running as much as it was can be an indication of severe hardware failure, beyond that of a dead HDD. It appears that the logic board could be dying, which is why it can't communicate with the HDD, and it also explains why doing an SMC reset didn't fix the fan running at top speed (which is surprisingly LOUD for one fan!). Also, like I said, the back of the computer got very warm, very fast. So something is severely wrong. From what I can tell, just by looking and assessing myself, it would not be worth taking in to have it fixed, because they would need to replace a lot of main components.

One other issue I forgot to mention that I was having, was that the lower corners had dark and mysterious "smudges" appear. One was always there, but it had gotten darker over the last week, and then another one appeared on the right-hand corner that had never been there before.

Yeah. I don't think it's worth trying to invest money into fixing it. Time to just cut my loss and save money for a more epic PC setup. I may return to the Mac world at a later date, but only if I become a professional video editor.

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