I am tired of PC users calling Mac users smug in some sort of double reverse backlash from Apple's renewed popularity. You know what's smug? Assuming everyone who buys a Mac did so because they're a moron who sucks off Steve Jobs and can't figure out how to use a computer. Oh man, you smart guy, you didn't fall for Apple's traps to steal your money. I must be such an idiot for buying this overpriced piece of shit that's exactly the same as a PC priced 50% less. No way I could also own a PC and have a good grip on both operating systems. Not only that, I also agree with every detail of every ad Apple puts out and I need to answer for every asshole who owns a Mac and spouts nonsense. Yes, I'M the smug one. Holy shit someone needs to keep me off of Digg. By force. I need an example of this. I don't use Digg and I'd love get a good laugh.

Steve jobs Is the best cult leader ever. You people are cheering a billion dollar company on like it cares about you. "YEA GO APPLE A DURRR!" Yet he brings his laptops out at insanely high price points for crap hardware. Oh ye man Steve is looking out for you. Apple fanbois are so sad. Mind you, this is is one of the first posts. It was entirely unprompted. Spoiler: show spoiler hide spoiler buried for claiming apple is making inroads into the enterprise, er, inaccuracy also for referring to those beret turtleneck wearing douchebags at starbucks as "wunderkinds" if you can count on one thing, it is the ability of Apple Co. to separate foo.. I mean Apple customers, from their money. Fuck Apple. Overhyped GARBAGE. This coming from a graphic designer.

Their loss, I really don't care about others judgment based on the glowing apple on the lid of my laptop. In most cases these types of people are passing assumptions based on little to no experience with what they're criticizing. "Oh man that sucks you have to quit each application, why would you want that?" "Dude you pay up the ass just for a brand. All Mac users are gay" (I hear that one all the time). Yeah go stick that Hollister shirt up your ass, you've never even been to California. Change the subject please.

Urgh, some of the things I hear. "You're so pretentious and stupid, buying Mac. They're soo expensive and they're just PCs in fancy boxes" FUCK YOU. I am a trained, educated and damned-bloody good IT Technician for Macs, Windows and Linux Machines. I have forgotten more than you will ever know about computers and the IT industry. I have a list of glowing references as long as my arm. I have companies tripping over themselves to offer me contracts. And it is precisely because of this that I use a Mac. Not because I think it makes me look cool, or because I'm an idiot, but because I, somebody who spends days at a time at a computer, demand the absolute best in my tools. I don't buy 1€ screwdriver sets, nor do I forge my own screwdrivers. I simply buy the best available. The same applies to the computer I use.

I don't think anyone has a problem with the people who use a Mac for quantifiable reasons. It's the people who believe that a Mac is superior simply because of its inherent "Macness."

I don't think anyone has a problem with the people who use a Mac for quantifiable reasons. It's the people who believe that a Mac is superior simply because of its inherent "Macness." I haven't encountered those people in ages, maybe since I stopped reading all the increasingly-shitty Mac magazines.

I don't think anyone has a problem with the people who use a Mac for quantifiable reasons. It's the people who believe that a Mac is superior simply because of its inherent "Macness." I haven't encountered those people in ages, maybe since I stopped reading all the increasingly-shitty Mac magazines. I run in to them all the time. The people who don't even know a technology exists until Apple "invents" it, or think it sucks until Apple says it doesn't (x86 anyone?).

Is Macworld one of those magazines?

Is Macworld one of those magazines? No, but last I saw it was incredibly terse, dull, shallow, boring, and not worth reading.

Has anyone here tried the new Firefox beta? It'll break all of your addons (except for AdBlock Plus) but it's very fast and the new ctrl+tab switcher is awesome. Also, filtering the awesome bar results is very useful.

So, I finally pulled the trigger on a closeout, last-matte-screen-ever MacBook Pro, it's here, and it's time for the Migration Assistant. I was all ready to string a cat5 between the PowerBook and the MBP and use network mode, but I've discovered the Migration Assistant in Tiger on the PB doesn't have that mode. I tried copying the app from the new machine, but it won't launch (must be Leopard-only). I can go out and get a firewire cable and do it the old-fashioned way, but what's the point of network migration assistant if it can only migrate from a new computer to another new one? Is there somewhere I can download an updated version for Tiger?

So, I finally pulled the trigger on a closeout, last-matte-screen-ever MacBook Pro, it's here, and it's time for the Migration Assistant. I was all ready to string a cat5 between the PowerBook and the MBP and use network mode, but I've discovered the Migration Assistant in Tiger on the PB doesn't have that mode. I tried copying the app from the new machine, but it won't launch (must be Leopard-only). I can go out and get a firewire cable and do it the old-fashioned way, but what's the point of network migration assistant if it can only migrate from a new computer to another new one? Is there somewhere I can download an updated version for Tiger? DO NOT migrate stuff from a ppc system to an intel system. It's one of the sure fire ways to fuck your new system. A better (longer) way to do it is to just reinstall everything you use.

I think they'll revise the line with matte screen notebooks sometime around the holidays due to the outcry against them.

I think they'll revise the line with matte screen notebooks sometime around the holidays due to the outcry against them. The matte-screen iMac does set a precedent for this.

Just a quick question for you mac-experts. I recently got myself an eeepc901, meaning I no longer use my macbook for mobile computing. I still need it, since there are some programs that are exclusive to osx that I occasionally need for my work, but I have not powered the macbook up in a month now. This feels like a waste, so I started thinking about what I could use it for. The first thing that came to mind was to use it as a fileserver and leave it up 24/7, since this might actually be useful and I have a 100 Mbit connection at home. I started looking for a suitable app for this, but as usual it is really hard to find useful, free mac-apps. I do not want to spend any money on this, so what is my best option? Just set up a FTP-server? Is there anything easy to use that offers more functionality? I'm open to suggestions here, but it has to be freeware.

I think they'll revise the line with matte screen notebooks sometime around the holidays due to the outcry against them. I really don't think they will. the all glass display doesn't really make matte a possibility.

So, I finally pulled the trigger on a closeout, last-matte-screen-ever MacBook Pro, it's here, and it's time for the Migration Assistant. I was all ready to string a cat5 between the PowerBook and the MBP and use network mode, but I've discovered the Migration Assistant in Tiger on the PB doesn't have that mode. I tried copying the app from the new machine, but it won't launch (must be Leopard-only). I can go out and get a firewire cable and do it the old-fashioned way, but what's the point of network migration assistant if it can only migrate from a new computer to another new one? Is there somewhere I can download an updated version for Tiger? DO NOT migrate stuff from a ppc system to an intel system. It's one of the sure fire ways to fuck your new system. A better (longer) way to do it is to just reinstall everything you use. Hmm. Aren't there settings to just copy your files and not the apps/settings? Although I guess I wouldn't necessarily need the assistant for that.

So, I finally pulled the trigger on a closeout, last-matte-screen-ever MacBook Pro, it's here, and it's time for the Migration Assistant. I was all ready to string a cat5 between the PowerBook and the MBP and use network mode, but I've discovered the Migration Assistant in Tiger on the PB doesn't have that mode. I tried copying the app from the new machine, but it won't launch (must be Leopard-only). I can go out and get a firewire cable and do it the old-fashioned way, but what's the point of network migration assistant if it can only migrate from a new computer to another new one? Is there somewhere I can download an updated version for Tiger? DO NOT migrate stuff from a ppc system to an intel system. It's one of the sure fire ways to fuck your new system. A better (longer) way to do it is to just reinstall everything you use. Hmm. Aren't there settings to just copy your files and not the apps/settings? Although I guess I wouldn't necessarily need the assistant for that. In regards to PPC -> Intel, yeah moving apps would be bad but user files really shouldn't matter. I believe there are ways to tell it to copy just your user files (checkboxes), however, I hate Migration Assistant. Seems to break something every time I've used it. Speaking of migrating...I discovered a neat trick recently. You can copy your entire home folder over to a new computer (must do this as root). When you're done copying your folder, go into system preferences, create an account with the same name as your home folder. Leopard warn/ask you that there is a home folder with that name already there, would you like to use it? Click yes/ok and Leopard will fix the permissions on the folder and set it as the home folder. Makes moving accounts to new computers really, really easy.

I think they'll revise the line with matte screen notebooks sometime around the holidays due to the outcry against them. I really don't think they will. the all glass display doesn't really make matte a possibility. Acid etch the screen until it's like picture framing glass. Problem solved, matte screen.

So, I finally pulled the trigger on a closeout, last-matte-screen-ever MacBook Pro, it's here, and it's time for the Migration Assistant. I was all ready to string a cat5 between the PowerBook and the MBP and use network mode, but I've discovered the Migration Assistant in Tiger on the PB doesn't have that mode. I tried copying the app from the new machine, but it won't launch (must be Leopard-only). I can go out and get a firewire cable and do it the old-fashioned way, but what's the point of network migration assistant if it can only migrate from a new computer to another new one? Is there somewhere I can download an updated version for Tiger? DO NOT migrate stuff from a ppc system to an intel system. It's one of the sure fire ways to fuck your new system. A better (longer) way to do it is to just reinstall everything you use. Hmm. Aren't there settings to just copy your files and not the apps/settings? Although I guess I wouldn't necessarily need the assistant for that. In regards to PPC -> Intel, yeah moving apps would be bad but user files really shouldn't matter. I believe there are ways to tell it to copy just your user files (checkboxes), however, I hate Migration Assistant. Seems to break something every time I've used it. Speaking of migrating...I discovered a neat trick recently. You can copy your entire home folder over to a new computer (must do this as root). When you're done copying your folder, go into system preferences, create an account with the same name as your home folder. Leopard warn/ask you that there is a home folder with that name already there, would you like to use it? Click yes/ok and Leopard will fix the permissions on the folder and set it as the home folder. Makes moving accounts to new computers really, really easy. Yeahg, it's pretty awesome. means I've had the same user account since about 2003 or so

Do you know what Windows does when you do the same thing? It makes a new folder with the user name, a dot, then the computer name. If you foresee that and try to head it off, it adds a number to the end too. If you try to hack the registry to force it, may god have mercy on your soul.

Found an thread where a Macbook user is benching the shit out of a lot of games using the 9400M: http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/app...08-models.html It's running the Source engine quite well, as well as other games.

Just got my Macbook via fedex. Apparently two day shipping takes a week to Alaska. The improvement from my iBook is a radiant thing to behold. Just the difference in screen brightness is something utterly extraordinary.

Just got my Macbook via fedex. Apparently two day shipping takes a week to Alaska. The improvement from my iBook is a radiant thing to behold. Just the difference in screen brightness is something utterly extraordinary. Got a comparison shot?

Do you know what Windows does when you do the same thing? It makes a new folder with the user name, a dot, then the computer name. If you foresee that and try to head it off, it adds a number to the end too. If you try to hack the registry to force it, may god have mercy on your soul. Couldn't help myself.