scorcho said:
- The Magic Trackpad touvh surface is at an incline.
- The Magic Trackpad has a larger touch surface.
- The Magic Trackpad's bumper click buttons aren't as good imo.
If I had spare cash I'd get something like this:
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If I had spare cash I'd get something like this:
UtadaBarkley
Member
With a little bit of tweaking the Mini is better now... Much faster and responsive. i also think that i was running Parallells at the time, which is a no no if you want speed. Heh. I'm learning folks. 
CaramaC said:
I think you need one of these
http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10423&cs_id=1042301&p_id=2671&seq=1&format=2
Technical assistance required.
Anyone here ever use DiskWarrior?
Will DiskWarrior help repair a HDD that won't mount?
The HDD 'Invalid node structure' error comes up when a HDD repair is attempted, and is listed as 'not mounted.' I don't believe this is a hardware issue but I can't boot directly from the HDD. Will DiskWarrior be able to repair this if I am booting from an OSX disk? Can I boot directly from DiscWarrior or does it have to be installed on the HDD it's attempting to repair?
My other options are a total reformat or target disk mode which aren't the most desirable.
Most of the most important data is backed up.
Anyone here ever use DiskWarrior?
Will DiskWarrior help repair a HDD that won't mount?
The HDD 'Invalid node structure' error comes up when a HDD repair is attempted, and is listed as 'not mounted.' I don't believe this is a hardware issue but I can't boot directly from the HDD. Will DiskWarrior be able to repair this if I am booting from an OSX disk? Can I boot directly from DiscWarrior or does it have to be installed on the HDD it's attempting to repair?
My other options are a total reformat or target disk mode which aren't the most desirable.
Most of the most important data is backed up.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
I hope we can keep this thread :'(
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for. I have to go buy the disc later today when the stores open. I knew about an issue with this drive's file system after trying to partition it a while ago; I really should've taken care of it back then.hirokazu said:
It's been a while since I've had to open up a computer and fix things. I feel like such a badass figuring this stuff out. /nerdery.
Kong Fisso
Banned
Would i be able to take the hard drive from my old toshiba laptop (something like this Toshiba satellite pro)
and put it in my black macbook (2 ghz core duo, late 2006, i believe)?
and put it in my black macbook (2 ghz core duo, late 2006, i believe)?
cooljeanius
Member
I don't see why not, it's not like this thread is that much of an insular community or anything...Mecha_Infantry said:
I should be doing hw
Member
Mac Rumours seems to think new Pros are due sometime around November this year. That seems a little soon to me, does that sound right to anyone else?
I really want a 13" Pro but I just can't bring myself to pay $1500 for a machine that has a Core Duo in it.
I really want a 13" Pro but I just can't bring myself to pay $1500 for a machine that has a Core Duo in it.
I should be doing hw
Member
I thought they refreshed the regular MacBook quite recently...
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
It doesn't matter when this stuff was last updated. They'll update it when they want and with whatever newer technology they have available to them.
This is why the regulars get their shit stirred up whenever someone asks for date predictions. No one can possibly know.
This is why the regulars get their shit stirred up whenever someone asks for date predictions. No one can possibly know.
UtadaBarkley
Member
I wouldn't call it much of a tweak... Mainly just disabling parallels. That program destroys the mini, using it made it completely unresponsive. Other than that, it's handled everything I've thrown it lightning fast, and that's with a normal HDD and and stock amount of ram. I will put 8gb in it soon and perhaps a SSD boot drive one of the days...MDJCM said:
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Really? I could see a silent spec bump, but honestly I don't know if it makes sense to do a major upgrade with Sandy Bridge like three months away.I should be doing hw said:
Macho Madness
Member
GChat as in GTalk? In iChat, you can just simply login to your account right from the preferences screen.Bboy AJ said:
I should be doing hw
Member
Yeah that's a bit more feasible then, November is too soon.Firestorm said:
How much of an upgrade will Sandy Bridge be compared to C2D, in terms of processor speed and graphics? Is it a pretty much a lock that they will go this route? An i3 is never happening, I'm curious why they haven't gone the AMD route with their MBP line.
I don't use DVD rips. I prefer to have portable MPEG-4's or MKV's for convenience. I honestly don't get the appeal of keeping the whole DVD. You're wasting so much space on MPEG-2 content (A codec that has been around for decades and is so outdated it's been surpassed a dozen times by more compressed codecs.) when you could be saving SO MUCH SPACE by taking the time to encode to MKV or H.264 and cut out all the shit you don't need. If you need special features just keep the disc around for the once in a blue moon you'll actually watch them. You can even keep both the normal track and the commentary if you need to and switch between them. Plex/Nine is amazing. Just suck it up and encode to portable video files, or wait for an update to fix it.Charred Greyface said:
I don't have the Plex iOS app but I want it eventually when I have a new Mac mini in the future.
I bought a cheap DVI Mini to HDMI adapter from Monoprice. Less than $10 and it works great.
On December 21st, 22nd and 23rd of 2006, Universal HD ran Back to the Future trilogy UNCUT and COMMERCIAL FREE. At the time I had both a brand new TiVo Series 3 and an Elgato eyeTV. (Well, a Magila TV Mini HD with eyeTV software) Luckily the eyeTV software was able to detect UniversalHD of all channels. (It's how I found out about the airings after all.) I recorded all three movies on both devices. I lost the first movie on my computer in a misunderstanding of which selection cropped out the end commercials and which was the movie. I ended up deleting the movie and keeping the ends. Fuck. Thankfully I had them also recorded on my TiVo. 4 years later I use some TiVo downloading software (KMTTG) to download them from my TiVo since back then Universal HD was unlocked and unprotected by DRM.quadriplegicjon said:
It would probably never work with your Comcast box because those Motorola boxes are so shitty they forced me to pay $800 the day before Thanksgiving 2006 to buy a Series 3 TiVo. That's how horrible they were. Freezing, overheating, crashing, dying all the time. Fucking Motorola POS. It was worth the $800 to never have to put up with a horrible UI and unintuitive interface again.
What machine do you have? I use my new 13" MBP and it is able to encode a half-hour sitcom with two-pass encoding in about 30 minutes. I just leave it going over night.Charred Greyface said:
The cable is video only. You'll need an alternate way to do audio out. I just use a headphone to RCA adapter since my sound system is shitty anyway.
UtadaBarkley
Member
So, did we ever get a definitive list of OSX apps yet?
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
There are a few crazy things I wanna do with my desktop wallpaper, but I haven't found a way to do them. Can someone help?
I will be fine with either of them, but if I could get them both at the same time, that would be awesome.
- Wallpaper that changes based on the time of day, each wallpaper assigned a specific time slot
- Wallpaper randomized at startup
Both at the same time would be impossible right? It would mean that only if a specific one is drawn out, THEN it would start listening to time slots.
I will be fine with either of them, but if I could get them both at the same time, that would be awesome.
- Wallpaper that changes based on the time of day, each wallpaper assigned a specific time slot
- Wallpaper randomized at startup
Both at the same time would be impossible right? It would mean that only if a specific one is drawn out, THEN it would start listening to time slots.
I think there is a rumour that the 13" is going to get a CPU bump to match the high spec 15" and 17" models. That might be the only "refresh" coming up over the next few months. The actual shell won't change for a while, and the CPUs are pretty much up to speed for now, so I don't know what they could do so soon anyway.Firestorm said:
If you are happy to get your hands dirty with scripting, you can probably do something nice.upandaway said:
http://thingsthatwork.net/index.php/2008/02/07/fun-with-os-x-defaults-and-launchd/
This way is not ideal, not by a long shot, as you have to refresh the dock process to update the wallpaper.
One thing that might work though...
You know you can set up to automatically cycle through a folder of photos? You could setup a folder with two files in it, and cycle between them, but have a script that copies the correct file for the current time into that folder, with the filename to overwrite your existing two images. That should work in theory.
Yeah, I have a 2007 2.0GHz MB that is slowly dying that I use as the current backup/media server. (The one in the pictures) It encodes video but about 150%-200% slower than my new 2010 2.4GHz MBP. Eventually I want to replace it with either an older Mac mini with at least 2.2GGHz (So I can use the Plex app and its transcoding to iPod over wifi) or a new flat mini. Something to replace this noisy poor machine who needs to be run with the topcase off because it overheats and shuts off as soon as I do anything high processor intense like encoding or even playing 480p/720p+ H.264 video. The fan makes a noise like a jet engine dying. But it works.. for now. So it will serve me well until I can replace it.Charred Greyface said:
I don't encode on it much anymore because it just takes longer. I can set up a whole series of an old TV show and let it run overnight with my new machine and it'll work its way through quite a bit of it while I sleep and go to work. I got all of my 3rd Rock, ALF, NewsRadio, Titus and The Tick (Live action) DVD's encoded in a relatively short amount of time with a little bit of preparing.
I rip the DVD's to my HD with MacTheRipper. When they're all ripped, I can then set up a queue in HandBrake to encode its way through the whole lot of them. I set it off when I go to bed and end it when get off work the next day. HB remembers the queue as long as you don't empty it. I wish HB had a "Rip em all, sort em later" option for TV DVD's that would let me rip everything then go through later and delete the videos I don't need. It's just a little extra work to have to select each episode, press add to queue, select the next, press add, next, add. At least once you choose a preset it remembers the settings.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
Time for 8GB of RAM in my MBP and a SSD...Parallels with one VM is showing my laptops age ...
...Yeah. I'm planning on getting 8GB for my MBP soon. 4GB is nice but I really want to get the most of this. And I'm waiting for 1.5TB laptop HD's to become available for purchase bare. All I've seen is that USB3 portable drive. I want one I can buy off NewEgg bare. I will be putting my entire media collection on this laptop and sync it to my media/backup server. It has been my dream for years and all that's keeping me from achieving it is the lack of 1.5TB (Or 2TB) laptop drives for laptops. Now that they exist, why can't I buy it!?
Question: Is the RAM from a 2010 MacBook Pro compatible with a 2007 MacBook? Or even a Mac mini present and past? Is there a RAM compatibility chart somewhere of all the RAM Mac's use and which machines will run the same ones? When I get 8GB I want to put the 4GB from this machine in the server and put the server's RAM in my girlfriend's machine.
Question: Is the RAM from a 2010 MacBook Pro compatible with a 2007 MacBook? Or even a Mac mini present and past? Is there a RAM compatibility chart somewhere of all the RAM Mac's use and which machines will run the same ones? When I get 8GB I want to put the 4GB from this machine in the server and put the server's RAM in my girlfriend's machine.
Splash Wave
Member
What sort of cable/adapter do I need to plug my 2.5 year old MBP into a TV/Monitor that only has HDMI/DVI inputs? I just have the VGA thing that it came with. Should I go HDMI or DVI?
This is the TV I'm most likely getting:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030CE6C8/?tag=neogaf0e-20
This is the TV I'm most likely getting:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030CE6C8/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Dreams-Visions
Member
does it have a mini displayport?Jimmy Stav said:
This. My MBP still works reasonably well. It has 4GB of RAM and I recently started booting of an SSD in the Expresscard slot. It's fast enough. But the heat and fan drive me crazy sometimes. I won't stream Flash videos anymore; I choose to download them instead. I don't mind so much that converting videos takes hours, but I do mind that the fans will be blaring the whole time, torturing me so much I'll have to use the iPad instead (merely another form of torture). If Apple ever released a MacOSX laptop that was reasonably fast, cool enought to place on my lap, and yet didn't need fans, I would sell all my electronic devices own it!Jasoco said:
Splash Wave
Member
I don't think so--just this:
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/macRyck said:
I have a 2010 MBP (i7) is it possible to hook up to 2 external monitors. They won't be cinema displays (i don't have the cash for that shit) probably samsung 24" lcd displays. I understand there are a few options but i'm looking for a stable quality solution. i.e. i want to be able to run 1080p video on the external displays.
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
Steam is just a store, yes. Some games have transparent multiplayer across both Mac and PC. If you buy a title on one platform and it's a cross-platform title, you don't have to buy it again on the other platform.Ryck said:
So you only have to buy L4D2 once and can play against both Mac and PC gamers on a Mac or a PC with that purchase.
This is actually an unprecedented combination of features for a storefront and has the potential of reviving "proper" mainstream Mac gaming all by itself, so you shouldn't play it down as if it was trivial stuff.
As for what you'd like to have, since DirectX is still prevalent in PC gaming, it's hard to get there. OpenGL is on the rise though, which might change things.
There's some technology out there with that specific cross-platform mindset, for example Java with LWJGL and OpenAL or C++ with SDL. Hasn't reached mainstream status yet though; not by a long shot.