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[Mac] OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion Released
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I do agree: Apple's unibody notebooks are basically the best laptops in existence. My old unibody Macbook, which literally looks like new and still holds 80% of its original charge, even though it's going on 4 years old, and accompanied me to school every day for three years (most of which consisted of sitting on dirty lab benches covered in pointy, abrasive rock and mineral samples), and is now being used by my mom to help teach sticky-fingered, destructive children drawing and painting, is a testament to that. My friend's ever so slightly older (like 2 months) non-unibody Macbook Pro, on the other hand, hasn't held up nearly as well.
How are you planning on "building a new laptop from scratch"?
By building one? Buying the hard drive, etc.
But I think I'll just go with the new Macbook Pro and Boot Camp.
Where are you getting the monitor, battery, mobo, case?
Unless you have a machine/fabrication shop (or at least a nice CNC router), you won't be building a laptop.
Yeah, I have a feeling @Fiskav is a little muddled about these kinda things.
I am
Anyhow, problem solved.
New discussion: Upcoming Macbook Pro feature speculation time!
Best upgrade I ever made to my MacBook Pro was removing my optical drive and hard drive and replacing them wih two SSDs.
I'd just about bet on it becoming the standard config. If not with this next refresh, then within a year.
It wouldn't be hard. I run two hard drives (120GB SSD and 500GB HDD) in my early 2011 mbp
But you lost your optical drive right?
I've got the micro-SD in a regular SD-card adapter in the SD slot on my Macbook Pro (mid-2009, OS 10.6.8). However, when it's connected that way, I can't erase/format/whatever the card; Those options are all grayed out in Disk Utilities, and trying to do it through the terminal (like in that guide) tells me I don't have permission or whatever
When the micro-SD is inserted in the Nook Color and hooked up to my Macbook, I can do that stuff. However, it didn't seem to work as per the guide (it got to the installation screen but then turned off and had B&N stuff on the SD card)
How come Disk Utilities won't let me do anything with the card? Is it something to do with the adapter?
edit: and yes I have the SD card switch on unlocked
DropBox invite link - get 250MB extra free.
Yeah. Which is the way they seem to be going. I wouldn't be surprised if the next MBP is in the current chassis with the cd slot removed.
Yeah. A simple 45-degree angled bevel would solve all those issues, and still look great.
Yeah, I'm gonna toss it up on Craigslist for $300 and see what happens.
The i5 is nice, but I'll just sell this one for close to what I paid when the new 15"s come out. Luckily I had the cash in the bank to get this.
Already sold it for $300. ; )
I'm going to bootcamp on here and do 128gigs for each OS. I'm good on windows but I'll be using the mac side much more often than I normally do (I have been using a iMac for years as a mac troubleshooting machine but not as my primary workstation) and I need suggestions on software and whatever is essential!
I use Alfred but beyond that I'm really a blank slate as, again, I don't use MacOS too much anymore these days. So what are your suggestions!
OTOH, there is no laptop casing that comes close to the unibody aluminum sexyness.
i forget the criteria apple uses
Dropbox, Caffeine, Self Control, Pidgin, VLC...
What do you do with it? That'll help for recommendations.
I need a good IM client (i heard adium?), something better than textedit I suppose, something a bit more fully featured than Terminal would be good for SSHing, and anything else people just think is cool on the mac that might not be available anywhere else
Watts is kind of nice, itll remind you to recalibrate your battery.
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Caffeine is without a doubt the first app I install. Always.
Seconding Sparrow; running it on both the Mac and my iPhone. Perfect for using Gmail features that are annoying to use with regular clients.
DoublePane is a pretty niche app - it lets you quickly maximize a window, or put it on the left/right half of the screen if you need two windows side by side. I use it a lot when coding - console on one side, editor on the other.
- unrarx (opens .rar files)
- CCleaner (it exists for OS X, and it does a pretty good job cleaning crap up)
- Libreoffice (open source office suite... definitely worth downloading if you don't use Office or iWork but can see yourself needing an office suite occasionally)
- Tuxguitar (good open source guitar tab reader/editor)
- iStat Pro widget (great system monitor for the Dashboard)
- Virtualbox (should you decide that booting into Windows separately is a pain in the ass)
I'm a big fan of Adium for IM. Especially since I can connect it to my twitter and use it for facebook chat.
If you want something for ssh-ing.. filezilla is pretty nice. Turns all ssh transfer into drag and drop.
Check out TextWrangler if you want an alternative to TextEdit. Its especially great if you have to do any coding.