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I have my laptop connected to my HDTV as a second monitor, so when I want to watch Netflix or a DVD I can just mirror the displays, lower the backlight all the way on the laptop screen and watch it on my HDTV. So far, so good. When I un-mirror the displays, however, all my windows that I had open on my laptop screen (Firefox, iTunes, whathaveyou) migrate over to the HDTV screen. If the TV is still on I can just drag them back over, but if it isn't then I pop into Spaces and drag them over that way. My question is, is there any way to make the windows default back onto the laptop screen instead of the HDTV screen? At first I thought they defaulted to the left-most screen (my TV is to the left of the laptop), but when I switched the positions in the Displays preference screen, the windows still migrate over to the TV when I un-mirror.
*looks sadly at my MBP that I bought a month before the unibodies came out*
Sometimes, all the still-connected screens go blue for a second, the orphaned windows auto-gather on the primary display, and the extended display disappears. This is the desired behavior.
Other times it acts like noting has happened and windows end up offscreen. There's a "Gather Windows" button in the display control panel for such times. You can deal with it through the control panel or, alternately, shut the top and re-open it. The sleep cycle will manually refresh displays.
You feel bad? My wife and I got our white macbooks about two months before the unibodies came out. I figured an update was coming, but I didn't know it would be such an awesome update. I thought it would just be something like faster processors and a better screen or more memory or something. That shows me.
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I got an iBook G4 in April 2006. Try to top that.
The reason we got the two macbooks in such a hurry was our old powerbook g4's hard drive ate shit so we just treated ourselves to two new laptops. Now I'm in the process of reviving the old computer and replacing the hard drive and all, and if my old apartment deposit gets refunded in full (about 900 dollars) I will probably get a unibody just because. But I'll probably wait till snow leopard, though.
I can't stop buying apple products...
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The next time some dude comes around and says "Bah you don't need a unibody Macbook just get the white plastic one" can we count on your opinion to be there?
As far as dashboard widgets, the only ones I recommend looking for are Countdown and Delivery Status. All the other ones I use are pack-ins (iCal, Calculator, Address Book, Weather, Movies, Calculator).
Or you could just use Macfusion which gives you a nice GUI for mounting FTP/SSH, and it's free. Also, I'd recommend using a beta build of MacFUSE as they've improved performance considerably over the stable release.
I find it really helps keep my distractions at a minimum when all I can see while in Space 2 is work-related things.
I tried the "Gather Windows" button and it does... nothing. All it does is bring the "Display" preferences window for both monitors to the active screen, leaves everything else where it is. Looks like other people have this problem too: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8463391
Seems like a pretty worthless button if that's all it does.
You see, I'm forced to use them at Uni (my course being out-and-out Audio Engineering - Mac's seedy headquarters), and I personally hate the OS, it's clunky, unintuitive, requires the memorisation of EVERY single program you have open. Do you know how annoying it is, when you open photoshop, and it has no background window? If you have firefox or Protools open underneath, you can't tell what's firefox and what's photoshop. Even when you alt-tab or use expose, the windows underneath still remain up, because it's all on the desktop.
Anyway, enough ranting. My point is that when you factor out OSX, Macbooks (the only Apple laptop I can afford) are really just fancy metal computers that are horrendously overpriced.
What I'm trying to say here, CJ, is that you might want to get used to the Mac OS X multi-window style because it's starting to invade other operating systems. You might think that it drives you crazy now, but come a few years, you'll look back at XP and think: wow, that was really annoying to multitask on.
I too rock the 6 spaces setup. I blame ubuntu for my muti-desk space obsession. I've got 2 rows of 3 setup like so:
Top Left: iTunes Top Middle: Adium Top Right: Virtualboxed WinXP
Bottom Left: Mail Bottom Middle: Vuze/Handbrake Bottom Right: Safari,Firefox or Camino, depending on how jaunty I feel...
And the only Dashboard Widget I suggest that I haven't seen mentioned yet is CryptBoard, an Encrypted and password protected notepad, great for holding passwords that you tend to forget... that or your 20+ digit WPA-2- passkey.........
Oh and I take offense to you aluminum obsessed folk downing us 'Whiteys'. I for one enjoy my early '09 White-shelled MacBook. 2ghz core2duo, 4gb ddr2 goodness, 500gb aftermarket HDD and a Geforce 9400m, for almost 350 less with my evil corporate discount. (Though I'll likely look at a metal pro at somepoint. Lottery, I'm looking at you:winky:)
because real estate is cheap and free
and it's not like your killing the planet or whatever by putting one little program in it's own tiny space
I personally have 9 spaces. It's like having a 30 inch monitor, but bigger.
I'm not really in any position to order the unibody, and the specs that are different for the unibody are:
1 less Firewire port
Multitouch trackpad (w/o a button).
Battery status on the side
Faster Ram (DDR3 vs DDR2, but you can upgrade the white to 800MHz)
160GB HD (vs 120GB, but you can upgrade to 7200RPM)
So...I know it's sexy, and I know it's a work of art, but $300?
My only regret is that this must happen 4 weeks before WWDC.
It makes things easy for me as switching spaces involves quick keystrokes, and with programs like Virtual Box, iTunes, and Vuze, you really benefit from having the full screen dedicated to a single program. With iTunes you can see more albums, Vuze nets more space to search for the perfect ubuntu distro torrent (that would be 9.04 32 bit dvd, for those who are curious), and Virtual Box needs it's own home unless you run it interated. or you like windows in a tiny... window...
Adium on the otherhand doesn't need it's own home, in a pinch I could put it with mail... but 5 spaces is just wierd...
Wow, it really died. I assume it fell or something else fell on it?
Also, don't buy the white macbook unless you enjoy regretting purchases. Just read the last 2 pages.
There may be a $300 on the new Macbooks as the white macbooks are discontinued.
What will the heathens say then
fucking jail sucks ass man
I don't understand the retardedness behind being unable to edit your fucking posts
we may be in jail but we are still human beings
god damn
No, never dropped. Just wear/tear from taking it to classes every day of the week I guess. It was always in a case. The display just started to die slowly...it's been a problem for about 4-5 months now.
The battery died about 3 weeks ago. Just lost 80% of it's charge capacity within about a 3 day span. I guess a cell died.
The keyboard and trackpad have been going out whenever I used it with my external monitor for about a month now. Now they just never work as of 3 days ago.
Can you elaborate on "the last 2 pages"? I mean, I did read stories of people buying laptops just before the laptop event, but that's it. I've yet to hear anything about notebooks being released at WWDC (or just haven't looked that up) and I really don't have the time to wait until WWDC to get a new computer.
If the regret you mentioned is about White Macbooks, I'll have AppleCare. Apple recently acknowledged that the cracks in the plastic are from normal use and they do replace that.
From a swift google, this is apparently an issue with unibody MBPs with 4GB of RAM - a condition mine meets. Does anybody else have any information about this rather irksome problem? I must add that this has only happened recently, as it'd been flawlessly stable with many days of uptime on many occasions since I'd bought it. The most recent, significant change which I can attribute to before these problems is my configuring Boot Camp.
(I'd take it into the Apple Store, but at the moment I can't justify being without my machine, spontaneous freezes or not)
Pfft, I have been a Windows user for most of my life and this shit is intuitive as fuck, son
Programs all flyin' around with Exposé, things bouncing around in my Dock
I love it, personally. My biggest fear with the OS X interface was that it would be clunkier and slower to navigate than Windows, but it's so, so much faster to use, in my opinion. Don't know exactly where a file is? Just navigate to the upper right and search for it. Want to brush things aside to look at your desktop? Mouse over a different corner. Very nice.
If one was hellbent on a one-application only view (we won't get into the insanity of this) then you could:
a) put Photoshop into a new space all of it's own
b) Get used to using Command-Option-H "Hide others", as listed in the program menu.
Year and 10 months. It's sad, really. The battery was not a retail replacement (manufacturer replacement?) since the first one I received was prone to overheating and had it replaced under my 1-year warranty.
Still deliberating buying a white macbook 4 weeks before WWDC. Any input is appreciated, critical or opinionated.
The Google Quick Search Box is good for launching programs. It's the spiritual successor to QuickSilver, and is only marginally more broken (it's still very beta).
Also, the guy that made quicksilver was hired by google to make the google version, which is why quicksilver has no updates anymore.
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Quicksilver @ Google Code