Yeah I'm a bit baffled as to why you need to hack the AppleTV when it works great with everything I've already ripped and dropped into iTunes.
There's your answer right there. What if I want to rip/encode to a format that iTunes doesn't support? What if I don't want to have to use iTunes as the ONLY content-management software for my media-PC (media-Mac?)?
...but iTunes is so goddamn perfect I don't see why you wouldn't want to use it. Besides, what format would you rip to that iTunes wouldn't support since the only things I can think of that I'd want to play video are my iMac, my AppleTV and my iPhone/iPod.[/QUOTE]
What if the places that I want to play my videos aren't the same places you want to? What if I don't want to re-rip things just to make sure I can use iTunes?
And off the top of my head, iTunes wont play WMV or MKV (though, if the video+audio contained in the MKV are the right format you could change the file's extension). iTunes won't play FLV or RealMedia formats. And AppleTV won't connect to nearly the same amount of sources as ATV+XMBC will.
Yeah I'm a bit baffled as to why you need to hack the AppleTV when it works great with everything I've already ripped and dropped into iTunes.
There's your answer right there. What if I want to rip/encode to a format that iTunes doesn't support? What if I don't want to have to use iTunes as the ONLY content-management software for my media-PC (media-Mac?)?
...but iTunes is so goddamn perfect I don't see why you wouldn't want to use it. Besides, what format would you rip to that iTunes wouldn't support since the only things I can think of that I'd want to play video are my iMac, my AppleTV and my iPhone/iPod.
What if the places that I want to play my videos aren't the same places you want to? What if I don't want to re-rip things just to make sure I can use iTunes?
And off the top of my head, iTunes wont play WMV or MKV (though, if the video+audio contained in the MKV are the right format you could change the file's extension). iTunes won't play FLV or RealMedia formats. And AppleTV won't connect to nearly the same amount of sources as ATV+XMBC will.
But those are all dinosaur formats (With the exception of FLV). Who the hell uses Realmedia or WMV anymore? MP4 video has more or less taken it's place completely. It's like complaining that my iPod doesn't play OGG and my iMac doesn't read floppies anymore.
Just about any movie ripped from an HD source is ripped to MKV, unless it's being ripped to specifically play on Mac devices. WMV and AVI are still extremely popular formats for digital-video-distribution websites.
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Just about any movie ripped from an HD source is ripped to MKV, unless it's being ripped to specifically play on Mac devices. WMV and AVI are still extremely popular formats for digital-video-distribution websites.
Whoa whoa whoa! WMV, MKV, and AVI are all containers. If the actual video/audio encoding plays nice in the Appleverse then you're golden. For example:
If the MKV was video encoded in h.264 (as far as I'm concerned anything that isn't h.264 is not worth my time) and with AAC or AC3 audio you can just open it in Quicktime if you have Perian installed. Then save it as a movie (no re-encoding done) and change the extension to M4V or MP4.
Viola! iTunes/Airplay/ATV2 friendly!
I used to do that a lot then tag it with either MetaX or Subler and come out with videos that looked like they were bought from the iTunes store.
So hey, Time Capsule. If I buy an external HDD, and use it as such, will that automatically take the ENTIRE hdd or can I hold off a part for my ladyfriends backup?
So hey, Time Capsule. If I buy an external HDD, and use it as such, will that automatically take the ENTIRE hdd or can I hold off a part for my ladyfriends backup?
You can partition the drive in Disk Utility before configuring Time Machine to use it.
Whoa whoa whoa! WMV, MKV, and AVI are all containers. If the actual video/audio encoding plays nice in the Appleverse then you're golden. For example:
If the MKV was video encoded in h.264 (as far as I'm concerned anything that isn't h.264 is not worth my time) and with AAC or AC3 audio you can just open it in Quicktime if you have Perian installed. Then save it as a movie (no re-encoding done) and change the extension to M4V or MP4.
Viola! iTunes/Airplay/ATV2 friendly!
I used to do that a lot then tag it with either MetaX or Subler and come out with videos that looked like they were bought from the iTunes store.
Well, the "if I have Perian installed" thing is kinda the kicker there. iTunes/QT needs me to give it a plugin so that it can play formats in popular containers. I thought I said something to that effect about contianers; something that was supposed to mean "I know these are containers." :P
I'd just prefer iTunes to let me play-back just about anything. I know there are limitations to that, but if it could play more stuff back I'd use it for more.
Also, since you threw it out there, are MetaX or Subler good for "advanced" tagging? There are two description tags in MP4 video files that Apple uses. One's a short description, and the other is a long description (can't remember the Atom names at the moment). iTunes only lets you get at the short one, will one of those others let me get at/add the long desc atom?
@pug: I do use VLC to play video on my Macbook. 'Cause it plays urrythang. Plus hotkey customization and whatnot.
Also, since you threw it out there, are MetaX or Subler good for "advanced" tagging? There are two description tags in MP4 video files that Apple uses. One's a short description, and the other is a long description (can't remember the Atom names at the moment). iTunes only lets you get at the short one, will one of those others let me get at/add the long desc atom?
I'm not the biggest fan of MetaX, I mostly use it to fill in data on movies (I think subler does this now though). But both do allow you to get at the 'long description' and 'description' tags. Subler also allows for awesome things like the HD flag, MPAA ratings, and the 'contentID' tag. If you have an HD version and an SD version, you can give them the same contentID and when you add both to your library you see the HD-SD flag next to the entry.
Also, for TV Show or Movie artwork I like to go here.
I'm very strict about my iTunes library. Probably too strict.
Thanks for the Subler mention/suggestion, Keenbean. I'll definitely check it out. And the getvideoartwork site. I'm kind of a freak about my library as well.
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So hey, Time Capsule. If I buy an external HDD, and use it as such, will that automatically take the ENTIRE hdd or can I hold off a part for my ladyfriends backup?
You can partition the drive in Disk Utility before configuring Time Machine to use it.
Yup, I did this exact thing recently. My work grants us each one external hard drive for backup purposes. One of my coworker's computer crashed recently, so I finally went and claimed mine. Turns out, it was a 500 GB external drive - on which I was supposed to back up my 100 GB laptop hard drive. Waste.
So I partitioned out the other 400 GB and now use it as a time machine backup drive for my home iMac as well. Works great.
So hey, Time Capsule. If I buy an external HDD, and use it as such, will that automatically take the ENTIRE hdd or can I hold off a part for my ladyfriends backup?
You can partition the drive in Disk Utility before configuring Time Machine to use it.
Yup, I did this exact thing recently. My work grants us each one external hard drive for backup purposes. One of my coworker's computer crashed recently, so I finally went and claimed mine. Turns out, it was a 500 GB external drive - on which I was supposed to back up my 100 GB laptop hard drive. Waste.
So I partitioned out the other 400 GB and now use it as a time machine backup drive for my home iMac as well. Works great.
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It does not handle 1080p content very well (I hear), bur since everything I have is 480p or 720p, this is a non-issue.
XBMC scrapes conent information better than any media manager I have ever used, and with maybe 20-30 minutes of tinkering, I have the absolute nicest content management system on my TV that I have ever used.
Also, there is a program out there called seas0npass which makes the jailbreak process painless. Yah, 4.2.1 requires a tethered jailbreak, but so long as you can reach your computer with a USB cable, it's not something you have to do often. I mean, I haven't rebooted since I jail broke it, and I have installed all sorts of shit and really have been messing with xbmc pretty hard.
And the nicest part? When you exit xbmc, you are right back on the standard AppleTV interface, with an easy link to xbmc between internet and photos.
This is now the most feature rich 99 dollar set top box ever.
So i am intrigued by this.
But am confused by what exactly the xbmc is doing on teh apple tv.
every show I watch, easily indexed, checkmarks to let me know if I've seen it or not, auto-added to the library when my DVR system records/indexes/drops into the appropriate folders on a separate computer, requiring absolutely no maintenance from me whatsoever. With a user interface that is not only slick as hell, but usable by my fiance. It launches easily from the appleTV, exits gracefully when we want to use netflix or rent a movie or use AirPlay, and could not be easier to use.
Honestly, it's a better interface for television shows than Apple TV at the moment, and it is really good about indexing and tagging.
edit: also, this lets me keep all my media on a 2TB NAS unit, and it doesnt have to clog up my iTunes with a bunch of useless stuff.
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It has a 1TB hard drive, so if I'm going to use time machine, I'd need a 1TB drive to do that, right? I mean, the hdd in the iMac is emptyish now, but eventually....?
It has a 1TB hard drive, so if I'm going to use time machine, I'd need a 1TB drive to do that, right? I mean, the hdd in the iMac is emptyish now, but eventually....?
1TB would be good for now; 2TB if you wanna future-proof yourself a little bit and be able to keep more history/revisions.
Also, I'm excited for you. I want to get my wife one of the new iMacs. She's on the 1st gen Intel iMac (Core Duo).
Yeah... I'd take it to a friends place but I pulled my shoulders out lugging the thing from the shop to my car. Not moving it again. Oh, and I've noticed the top/rear surfaces of the iMac getting EXTREMELY HOT when all ive really been doing is watching a DVD. Is this normal?
Edit: I'm jealous, BTW. I had a '07 iMac that was replaced last year via Applecare with the entry level 27" model. If I was buying new I would have gone for the quad but I had no say in the matter.
Like most metal-bodied macs, a good deal of its cooling is via radiant heat loss through the case rather than having any insulating plastic body and a bunch of fans to drive all the air out.
also I'd guess that it's the GPU handling the DVD decoding that's heating up
There's been a lot of talk about a new backup service at Macworld called Dolly Drive. From Maclife:
The service lets you use Time Machine to back up to the cloud. When you install it, it creates a volume on your Desktop that Time Machine sees as any old external hard drive—but it's a cloud drive. Yes, the first backup to the cloud will take forever, it's true. And what about a bootable backup in case your hard drive fails? Dolly Drive knows you can't boot from the cloud, so the software also has a one-click button to make a bootable backup onto an external drive too. You really only have to do it once, though, so you have something to boot from, then grab the rest of your data from the cloud, using the familiar Time Machine interface you know and love. Smart thinking.
Dolly Drive's Quick Start plan is $10/month for 250GB of storage, which they bump up by 5GB every month as a little reward. Or pay $5/month for 50GB, or $7.50 for 100GB, and both those grow by 5GB per month too.
It sounds great and I may try it. I use Time Machine now, but I've been wanting both a cloud backup and a bootable clone and this seems to solve both problems. I'll wait till there are some reviews first but I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.
There's been a lot of talk about a new backup service at Macworld called Dolly Drive. From Maclife:
The service lets you use Time Machine to back up to the cloud. When you install it, it creates a volume on your Desktop that Time Machine sees as any old external hard drive—but it's a cloud drive. Yes, the first backup to the cloud will take forever, it's true. And what about a bootable backup in case your hard drive fails? Dolly Drive knows you can't boot from the cloud, so the software also has a one-click button to make a bootable backup onto an external drive too. You really only have to do it once, though, so you have something to boot from, then grab the rest of your data from the cloud, using the familiar Time Machine interface you know and love. Smart thinking.
Dolly Drive's Quick Start plan is $10/month for 250GB of storage, which they bump up by 5GB every month as a little reward. Or pay $5/month for 50GB, or $7.50 for 100GB, and both those grow by 5GB per month too.
It sounds great and I may try it. I use Time Machine now, but I've been wanting both a cloud backup and a bootable clone and this seems to solve both problems. I'll wait till there are some reviews first but I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.
I wonder how much they will "upgrade" you over time for. I'm a (somewhat) patient man. An extra 5gb a month is a lot to gain quite shortly!
It sounds great and I may try it. I use Time Machine now, but I've been wanting both a cloud backup and a bootable clone and this seems to solve both problems. I'll wait till there are some reviews first but I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.
Speaking of Time Machine backups, has anyone had much luck with setting up a SMB share on Windows 7 as a Time Machine backup location? I attempted to follow a guide posted on Lifehacker a few months ago, and had little luck with getting it to work. I could create the sparsebundle and connect to the share, but any time it tried to back stuff up, it would throw a communication error.
As the months go on it really bums me out that Apple doesn't fucking support Blu-Ray in OS X. This 27" display is goddamn beautiful and is in fact the biggest display I have in the house (Beating out all the TVs) and yet all I can watch on the damn thing is DVDs.
As the months go on it really bums me out that Apple doesn't fucking support Blu-Ray in OS X. This 27" display is goddamn beautiful and is in fact the biggest display I have in the house (Beating out all the TVs) and yet all I can watch on the damn thing is DVDs.
That lets you hook HDMI sources up to the mini displayport on the back of the iMac. Soooo... a 27" HD monitor to play PS3 games and blur ays on? Maybe...
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As the months go on it really bums me out that Apple doesn't fucking support Blu-Ray in OS X. This 27" display is goddamn beautiful and is in fact the biggest display I have in the house (Beating out all the TVs) and yet all I can watch on the damn thing is DVDs.
That lets you hook HDMI sources up to the mini displayport on the back of the iMac. Soooo... a 27" HD monitor to play PS3 games and blur ays on? Maybe...
As the months go on it really bums me out that Apple doesn't fucking support Blu-Ray in OS X. This 27" display is goddamn beautiful and is in fact the biggest display I have in the house (Beating out all the TVs) and yet all I can watch on the damn thing is DVDs.
That lets you hook HDMI sources up to the mini displayport on the back of the iMac. Soooo... a 27" HD monitor to play PS3 games and blur ays on? Maybe...
Only outputs in 720p.
wow, super shitty.
Yeah, it's a real failing on the part of the mac.
I mean, if you install boot camp, and an external blu ray drive, and some good software... you can do it... but jesus, at that point why do you even have a mac.
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As the months go on it really bums me out that Apple doesn't fucking support Blu-Ray in OS X. This 27" display is goddamn beautiful and is in fact the biggest display I have in the house (Beating out all the TVs) and yet all I can watch on the damn thing is DVDs.
That lets you hook HDMI sources up to the mini displayport on the back of the iMac. Soooo... a 27" HD monitor to play PS3 games and blur ays on? Maybe...
Only outputs in 720p.
wow, super shitty.
Yeah, it's a real failing on the part of the mac.
I mean, if you install boot camp, and an external blu ray drive, and some good software... you can do it... but jesus, at that point why do you even have a mac.
Yeah I'm lookin' at what... $150 for an external drive, $100 for Windows, plus time to set it all up.
As the months go on it really bums me out that Apple doesn't fucking support Blu-Ray in OS X. This 27" display is goddamn beautiful and is in fact the biggest display I have in the house (Beating out all the TVs) and yet all I can watch on the damn thing is DVDs.
That lets you hook HDMI sources up to the mini displayport on the back of the iMac. Soooo... a 27" HD monitor to play PS3 games and blur ays on? Maybe...
Only outputs in 720p.
wow, super shitty.
Yeah, it's a real failing on the part of the mac.
I mean, if you install boot camp, and an external blu ray drive, and some good software... you can do it... but jesus, at that point why do you even have a mac.
Yeah I'm lookin' at what... $150 for an external drive, $100 for Windows, plus time to set it all up.
my solution is to buy a blu ray, put it in my mac's external burner, and encode it into a lossless MKV, so that I can watch it either on my 27" iMac, or on my television via XBMC.
It takes about 1-2 hours per disc... but I just start it up before I go out or go to bed, and its done when I wake up or get back.
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As the months go on it really bums me out that Apple doesn't fucking support Blu-Ray in OS X. This 27" display is goddamn beautiful and is in fact the biggest display I have in the house (Beating out all the TVs) and yet all I can watch on the damn thing is DVDs.
That lets you hook HDMI sources up to the mini displayport on the back of the iMac. Soooo... a 27" HD monitor to play PS3 games and blur ays on? Maybe...
Only outputs in 720p.
wow, super shitty.
Yeah, it's a real failing on the part of the mac.
I mean, if you install boot camp, and an external blu ray drive, and some good software... you can do it... but jesus, at that point why do you even have a mac.
Yeah I'm lookin' at what... $150 for an external drive, $100 for Windows, plus time to set it all up.
my solution is to buy a blu ray, put it in my mac's external burner, and encode it into a lossless MKV, so that I can watch it either on my 27" iMac, or on my television via XBMC.
It takes about 1-2 hours per disc... but I just start it up before I go out or go to bed, and its done when I wake up or get back.
Does anyone know if a PowerMac G5 would *boot* from a Snow Leopard DVD?
Here's the issue. My boss's daughter's husband died a few months ago and they're trying to get all of his computing equipment figured out. The daughter doesn't know her husband's admin-account password. So for them to use the administrative functions of the machine I'd like to reset the password for them. I found this nifty support article in Apple's KB about resetting the administrative user's password, but the only OS X install disc that I think I have is my SL disc. I may have install discs that came bundled with my Macbook (Early '08) and my wife's 1st-gen intel iMac, but I don't know if either of those would boot, because they're the bundled copies.
So really, my question is: will a PowerMac G5 boot from a Snow Leopard disc, or is there a better/different way I should be going about this?
Does anyone know if a PowerMac G5 would *boot* from a Snow Leopard DVD?
Here's the issue. My boss's daughter's husband died a few months ago and they're trying to get all of his computing equipment figured out. The daughter doesn't know her husband's admin-account password. So for them to use the administrative functions of the machine I'd like to reset the password for them. I found this nifty support article in Apple's KB about resetting the administrative user's password, but the only OS X install disc that I think I have is my SL disc. I may have install discs that came bundled with my Macbook (Early '08) and my wife's 1st-gen intel iMac, but I don't know if either of those would boot, because they're the bundled copies.
So really, my question is: will a PowerMac G5 boot from a Snow Leopard disc, or is there a better/different way I should be going about this?
You're doing it the right way, but you will need a Leopard disc.
As the months go on it really bums me out that Apple doesn't fucking support Blu-Ray in OS X. This 27" display is goddamn beautiful and is in fact the biggest display I have in the house (Beating out all the TVs) and yet all I can watch on the damn thing is DVDs.
That lets you hook HDMI sources up to the mini displayport on the back of the iMac. Soooo... a 27" HD monitor to play PS3 games and blur ays on? Maybe...
Only outputs in 720p.
wow, super shitty.
Yeah, it's a real failing on the part of the mac.
I mean, if you install boot camp, and an external blu ray drive, and some good software... you can do it... but jesus, at that point why do you even have a mac.
Yeah I'm lookin' at what... $150 for an external drive, $100 for Windows, plus time to set it all up.
my solution is to buy a blu ray, put it in my mac's external burner, and encode it into a lossless MKV, so that I can watch it either on my 27" iMac, or on my television via XBMC.
It takes about 1-2 hours per disc... but I just start it up before I go out or go to bed, and its done when I wake up or get back.
So the OS X can rip Blu-Rays but not play them?
yes. There exists software to rip blu rays, Final cut can MAKE blu rays, and the drives are fully recognized by the OS.
There is just no official software to play it on the Mac, because Apple doesn't want to buy in to the licensing when they are trying to push forward a discless future... something they are more than likely right about, but in persuing their current path they are hurting CURRENT mac fans in favor of pushing the future they fully expect to come to pass.
In many ways, not so different from keeping flash off of current handhelds so that owners consume HTML5 based content, bringing awareness to the growing capabilities of HTML5 and eventually supplanting flash with it.
As digital downloads hit feature parity with the discs... even if it is at 720p (ugh), the masses will likely follow the easier path, like they have with MP3s.
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On one hand I look forward to the disc-less future. On the other hand we're going to need some MASSIVE MASSIVE OMGMASSIVE infrastructure updates before we can really handle streaming 1080p video over WAN networks.
Ugh, as you said Synd, to dropping back down to 720p. UPWARD AND ONWARD! Moar = bettar.
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...but iTunes is so goddamn perfect I don't see why you wouldn't want to use it. Besides, what format would you rip to that iTunes wouldn't support since the only things I can think of that I'd want to play video are my iMac, my AppleTV and my iPhone/iPod.[/QUOTE]
What if the places that I want to play my videos aren't the same places you want to? What if I don't want to re-rip things just to make sure I can use iTunes?
And off the top of my head, iTunes wont play WMV or MKV (though, if the video+audio contained in the MKV are the right format you could change the file's extension). iTunes won't play FLV or RealMedia formats. And AppleTV won't connect to nearly the same amount of sources as ATV+XMBC will.
But those are all dinosaur formats (With the exception of FLV). Who the hell uses Realmedia or WMV anymore? MP4 video has more or less taken it's place completely. It's like complaining that my iPod doesn't play OGG and my iMac doesn't read floppies anymore.
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Just about any movie ripped from an HD source is ripped to MKV, unless it's being ripped to specifically play on Mac devices. WMV and AVI are still extremely popular formats for digital-video-distribution websites.
Whoa whoa whoa! WMV, MKV, and AVI are all containers. If the actual video/audio encoding plays nice in the Appleverse then you're golden. For example:
If the MKV was video encoded in h.264 (as far as I'm concerned anything that isn't h.264 is not worth my time) and with AAC or AC3 audio you can just open it in Quicktime if you have Perian installed. Then save it as a movie (no re-encoding done) and change the extension to M4V or MP4.
Viola! iTunes/Airplay/ATV2 friendly!
I used to do that a lot then tag it with either MetaX or Subler and come out with videos that looked like they were bought from the iTunes store.
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You can partition the drive in Disk Utility before configuring Time Machine to use it.
I'd just prefer iTunes to let me play-back just about anything. I know there are limitations to that, but if it could play more stuff back I'd use it for more.
Also, since you threw it out there, are MetaX or Subler good for "advanced" tagging? There are two description tags in MP4 video files that Apple uses. One's a short description, and the other is a long description (can't remember the Atom names at the moment). iTunes only lets you get at the short one, will one of those others let me get at/add the long desc atom?
@pug: I do use VLC to play video on my Macbook. 'Cause it plays urrythang. Plus hotkey customization and whatnot.
I'm not the biggest fan of MetaX, I mostly use it to fill in data on movies (I think subler does this now though). But both do allow you to get at the 'long description' and 'description' tags. Subler also allows for awesome things like the HD flag, MPAA ratings, and the 'contentID' tag. If you have an HD version and an SD version, you can give them the same contentID and when you add both to your library you see the HD-SD flag next to the entry.
Also, for TV Show or Movie artwork I like to go here.
I'm very strict about my iTunes library. Probably too strict.
It absolutely does. And the Apple TV streams/Airplays the 5.1 audio nicely.
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Thanks for the Subler mention/suggestion, Keenbean. I'll definitely check it out. And the getvideoartwork site. I'm kind of a freak about my library as well.
So I partitioned out the other 400 GB and now use it as a time machine backup drive for my home iMac as well. Works great.
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Awesome!
Well, its doing this:
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every show I watch, easily indexed, checkmarks to let me know if I've seen it or not, auto-added to the library when my DVR system records/indexes/drops into the appropriate folders on a separate computer, requiring absolutely no maintenance from me whatsoever. With a user interface that is not only slick as hell, but usable by my fiance. It launches easily from the appleTV, exits gracefully when we want to use netflix or rent a movie or use AirPlay, and could not be easier to use.
Honestly, it's a better interface for television shows than Apple TV at the moment, and it is really good about indexing and tagging.
edit: also, this lets me keep all my media on a 2TB NAS unit, and it doesnt have to clog up my iTunes with a bunch of useless stuff.
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It has a 1TB hard drive, so if I'm going to use time machine, I'd need a 1TB drive to do that, right? I mean, the hdd in the iMac is emptyish now, but eventually....?
Also, I'm excited for you. I want to get my wife one of the new iMacs. She's on the 1st gen Intel iMac (Core Duo).
It should only need it once to activate/register what have you. After that I think you're good to go.
Edit: I'm jealous, BTW. I had a '07 iMac that was replaced last year via Applecare with the entry level 27" model. If I was buying new I would have gone for the quad but I had no say in the matter.
Oh, right. BUY FUCKING APPLECARE.
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also I'd guess that it's the GPU handling the DVD decoding that's heating up
It sounds great and I may try it. I use Time Machine now, but I've been wanting both a cloud backup and a bootable clone and this seems to solve both problems. I'll wait till there are some reviews first but I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.
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I wonder how much they will "upgrade" you over time for. I'm a (somewhat) patient man. An extra 5gb a month is a lot to gain quite shortly!
I use SuperDuper to make a bootable backup.
So, I have problems with Time Machine. A few days ago it started getting unbearably slow:
11:35 to backup one meg? Yikes.
I've done some googling, but I haven't found anything that doesn't require major file surgery that other google results warn against.
Still getting shitty speeds. Might have a dying USB disk.
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That lets you hook HDMI sources up to the mini displayport on the back of the iMac. Soooo... a 27" HD monitor to play PS3 games and blur ays on? Maybe...
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Only outputs in 720p.
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wow, super shitty.
Yeah, it's a real failing on the part of the mac.
I mean, if you install boot camp, and an external blu ray drive, and some good software... you can do it... but jesus, at that point why do you even have a mac.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Yeah I'm lookin' at what... $150 for an external drive, $100 for Windows, plus time to set it all up.
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It takes about 1-2 hours per disc... but I just start it up before I go out or go to bed, and its done when I wake up or get back.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
So the OS X can rip Blu-Rays but not play them?
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Here's the issue. My boss's daughter's husband died a few months ago and they're trying to get all of his computing equipment figured out. The daughter doesn't know her husband's admin-account password. So for them to use the administrative functions of the machine I'd like to reset the password for them. I found this nifty support article in Apple's KB about resetting the administrative user's password, but the only OS X install disc that I think I have is my SL disc. I may have install discs that came bundled with my Macbook (Early '08) and my wife's 1st-gen intel iMac, but I don't know if either of those would boot, because they're the bundled copies.
So really, my question is: will a PowerMac G5 boot from a Snow Leopard disc, or is there a better/different way I should be going about this?
You're doing it the right way, but you will need a Leopard disc.
Thanks, ben.
There is just no official software to play it on the Mac, because Apple doesn't want to buy in to the licensing when they are trying to push forward a discless future... something they are more than likely right about, but in persuing their current path they are hurting CURRENT mac fans in favor of pushing the future they fully expect to come to pass.
In many ways, not so different from keeping flash off of current handhelds so that owners consume HTML5 based content, bringing awareness to the growing capabilities of HTML5 and eventually supplanting flash with it.
As digital downloads hit feature parity with the discs... even if it is at 720p (ugh), the masses will likely follow the easier path, like they have with MP3s.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Ugh, as you said Synd, to dropping back down to 720p. UPWARD AND ONWARD! Moar = bettar.