Even if there IS and update, anything Apple holds it value quite well. You can sell your current mac and buy a shinny brand new one and not be too much out of pocket.
Or you could become some kind of "retro" elitist and claim that the new design is horrible etc.
In other news, my MBP froze up on me last night. It wouldn't respond to anything, after hard powering it off it refused to actually boot into the OS a few times. I boot camped into XP successfully tho and then upon restart booting into leopard was fine.
Even if there IS and update, anything Apple holds it value quite well. You can sell your current mac and buy a shinny brand new one and not be too much out of pocket.
Or you could become some kind of "retro" elitist and claim that the new design is horrible etc.
In other news, my MBP froze up on me last night. It wouldn't respond to anything, after hard powering it off it refused to actually boot into the OS a few times. I boot camped into XP successfully tho and then upon restart booting into leopard was fine.
*shrug*
Weird. Running Leopard? Happened to be mucking about the System Prefs?
Even if there IS and update, anything Apple holds it value quite well. You can sell your current mac and buy a shinny brand new one and not be too much out of pocket.
Or you could become some kind of "retro" elitist and claim that the new design is horrible etc.
In other news, my MBP froze up on me last night. It wouldn't respond to anything, after hard powering it off it refused to actually boot into the OS a few times. I boot camped into XP successfully tho and then upon restart booting into leopard was fine.
*shrug*
Weird. Running Leopard? Happened to be mucking about the System Prefs?
Nah, I wasn't messing with anything, just listening to some music, msning/ircing and browsing the interbuts... pretty much the only things i use this beast for. However the system uptime was about 37 hours. I think i have a dodgy hard drive, it was clicking like mad the times when it wouldn't boot. Seems all good now tho.
multitouch trackpad is cool. i hate that "right click" on a mac requires holding down a button on the keyboard, though, so i use a mouse sometimes too.
multitouch trackpad is cool. i hate that "right click" on a mac requires holding down a button on the keyboard, though, so i use a mouse sometimes too.
Look through the preferences, you can set right click to "two fingers+trackpad button." The way I have it set-up with two finger scrolling almost makes my mouse obsolete except in videogames and lots of multitasking (setting expose extra buttons on mouse)
multitouch trackpad is cool. i hate that "right click" on a mac requires holding down a button on the keyboard, though, so i use a mouse sometimes too.
try two fingers on the trackpad + click
you will like it more than regular mouse rightclicking
So. Very. Exciting. The Australian MacTalk Forums are reporting that Apple Australia has begun informing Apple resellers about their iPhone rollout plans.
The good news is that we're looking at a 3G iPhone launched in the last week of June across multiple carriers and with no contract. Current resellers will also be able to sell the device, completely breaking with how the deal has been done in every other part of the world.
The iPhone SDK Beta 3 has barely been out for a few hours and Zibri, maker of the ZiPhone iPhone tool, has found references to a future 3G chip inside the new firmware. The chipset is the SGOLD3, which follows up the current S-GOLD2 in today's iPhone. Here's what the S-GOLD3 has support for, not all of which will make it into the next-gen iPhone: HSDPA category 8 (7.2 Mbps), cameras of up to 5-megapixels, MPEG4/H.263 hardware acceleration and "video telephony, streaming, recording and playback." Again, Apple might not enable all these features in the actual 3G iPhone, but at least we know that they're theoretically possible.
So I ran Coconut on my Powerbook last night after my battery reported it would last 30 mins on a full charge. I've already replaced one battery on this laptop, so it kinda sucks that number 2 is on its way out, but hey, what can you do.
What I learned was that my Powerbook is 55 months old. I'll deeeefinitely be buying a new one before school starts in the fall.
Despite how much I paid for it at the time and the upgrades and repairs I've had to it, I think the investment was worth it. I don't know a single person who has used a laptop for 4.5 years straight and doesn't complain about how slow it is. My Powerbook is still my main workhorse machine; it runs Leopard great, keeps up with everything I throw at it.
When I get my new machine, a redesigned (hopefully) Macbook Pro (probably 15" or whatever the smallest size they offer at the time is), I'll probably switch back to Tiger Server on the Powerbook and set it up as an official fileserver with tons of external storage.
So I want to get a MacBook Pro to be able to use both Avid and Final Cut at home. As far as Windows boots go, the only game I play on PC is TF2. Will that run on a MacBook Pro in XP?
So I want to get a MacBook Pro to be able to use both Avid and Final Cut at home. As far as Windows boots go, the only game I play on PC is TF2. Will that run on a MacBook Pro in XP?
I don't see why it wouldn't. TF2 isn't exactly a demanding game either, so I think it should run just fine.
Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
edited April 2008
The really interesting thing though is if Apple is selling iPhones in Australia without any locks and stuff.
Could you just reflash an American iPhone to the australian settings and have a jail broken phone without actually jail breaking it?
As the only thing that is worrying me currently is the price for the Australian iPhone, I would probably look very closely at importing one if this is the case.
The really interesting thing though is if Apple is selling iPhones in Australia without any locks and stuff.
Could you just reflash an American iPhone to the australian settings and have a jail broken phone without actually jail breaking it?
As the only thing that is worrying me currently is the price for the Australian iPhone, I would probably look very closely at importing one if this is the case.
I'm calling BS on this rumour. If it were true, then the entire lock-in market that Apple has cultivated for a slice of the call profits would be destroyed.
If resellers are going to sell Aussie phones, they would be very expensive. And I very much expect there will have to be some form of hacking to move from a US -> Aussie firmware.
Last summer I had an internship and this summer I might have that same internship. Anyway, when I worked there last summer I did a great deal of work in Excel programming in VBA. I bought a MacBook in January, and I'd like to be able to do some VBA code in Excel on this thing, but I heard the most recent Mac versions of Excel don't have VBA coding capability. Would I be better off installing a partition of windows and buying a windows version of Excel, or are there any old versions of Excel for Macs that include VBA functionality?
Last summer I had an internship and this summer I might have that same internship. Anyway, when I worked there last summer I did a great deal of work in Excel programming in VBA. I bought a MacBook in January, and I'd like to be able to do some VBA code in Excel on this thing, but I heard the most recent Mac versions of Excel don't have VBA coding capability. Would I be better off installing a partition of windows and buying a windows version of Excel, or are there any old versions of Excel for Macs that include VBA functionality?
Office 2004 for Mac has VBA functionality. Be warned, it runs under Rosetta because it is PowerPC-native. Performance is going to suffer.
Office 2008 for Mac lacks VBA functionality. No way around it with that version.
I would suggest either A) a Boot Camp partition with WinXP and Office 2007 or virtualize WinXP within OS X using Parallels / Fusion and run Office 2007.
I'm pretty ignorant of the horsepower requirements for VBA. If it's nothing too incredibly steep, virtualization might be your best bet because it will allow you to still run OS X full time while retaining the development functionality you want.
The really interesting thing though is if Apple is selling iPhones in Australia without any locks and stuff.
Could you just reflash an American iPhone to the australian settings and have a jail broken phone without actually jail breaking it?
As the only thing that is worrying me currently is the price for the Australian iPhone, I would probably look very closely at importing one if this is the case.
I'm calling BS on this rumour. If it were true, then the entire lock-in market that Apple has cultivated for a slice of the call profits would be destroyed.
If resellers are going to sell Aussie phones, they would be very expensive. And I very much expect there will have to be some form of hacking to move from a US -> Aussie firmware.
I think it's not going to happen.
No it all seems pretty legit.
Here is a more direct source.
Australian iPhone Release Info Given to Resellers by Apple Australia
Rumours have been rampant for months since the launch of the iPhone in the USA back mid-2007 regarding Australia's chance to taste the iPhone. There have been many dates and leaks of false info, so much so that some people even think Australia is never going to get it. Today however, Apple have been informing resellers of their iPhone strategy for Australia.
Resellers have been informed of the following things:
Last week of June release
More than 1 carrier
No contract lock in
Current resellers will be able to sell iPhones
That's a lot of juicy info there and might not make sense off hand. Let me break down the significance of this.
Last week of June release
This ties in perfectly with the Sydney Apple store opening, any WWDC announcements, iPhone 2.0 software and time for stock to filter in to the country.
WWDC is in the first week of June this year, which could be the announcement of the 3G iPhone we're all waiting for. A 3G iPhone lends credence to the fact resellers have been told the iPhone will be on multiple carriers, as every telco in Australia has a 3G network. The current iPhone will only give high speed data on Telstra.
iPhone 2.0 software will be released then, and a late June release gives it time to be rolled out on new factory models for shipping to Australia, so the iPhone can be sold on the new features v2.0 brings.
A late June release also ties in well with the Sydney and Melbourne Apple stores currently under construction. It's well reported that at the progress of the Apple stores, a June opening is likely. What better grandstanding event to launch the store with than a new 3G iPhone? Would be be worthy of a visit to Australia from Steve Jobs - I'm sure he'd like to have a nice holiday in Sydney too.
Resellers have been told specific dates, but they have all been told different dates within the same week. If a specific date is said in the media, then Apple knows who leaks it and can slap them around. As the sources of my info are also my friends, I haven't included the dates. However, it is fairly certain Apple will not pre-announce the iPhone very far in advance, or at all, with a simple "iPhone is available now, come and buy it!" approach, compared to the dates given overseas to let people prepare.
More than 1 carrier
Having multiple carriers is a shock, but not unbelievable. Our telcos have been notoriously stubborn dealing with Apple, not seeing the potential benefits of having exclusivity of the device. It is highly likely Apple simply said "Seeing as you won't play with us, we'll give the iPhone to anyone who wants it, meaning you all lose out on exclusivity for your network".
More than 1 carrier also leads to the rumours of a 3G iPhone. In Australia, the only high speed network the current iPhone works on is Telstra's EDGE network. If Apple was to release the current model here in Australia, they would need to be exclusive to Telstra, or persuade another telco to upgrade their GSM network to EDGE to support it (like what O2 is doing in the UK). However, if a 3G iPhone is released, it won't matter, as all telcos have a 3G HSDPA network (either running on the 2100mhz or 850mhz frequency, both of which are supported by multiple 3G chipsets in mobile devices).
No contract lock in
No contract lock-in ties into the idea of multiple carriers, as there's no need to hold anyone in to a certain provider to use the iPhone, unlike in the USA and other countries. Perhaps Apple have learned that there's no point holding the iPhone back to a certain provider, as we're all unlocking them anyway and are using Australia as a test-bed for rolling it out elsewhere due to Australia's high adoption rate of mobile phones and new technology, but our small market that won't hurt them if it fails.
Current resellers will be able to sell iPhones
In the USA and other countries, you can only purchase iPhones from Apple, or from branded stores for the provider (AT&T stores for example). In Australia however, Apple are planning on letting resellers stock and sell iPhones, just like any other product, as the range of telco stores and official Apple stores is low, but resellers are wide-spread - together with driving people into stores where Macs are, so they'll look at what else Apple does. Also, it's the reason Apple is telling resellers in the first place, because they'll be selling them - otherwise Apple would do what they need to do without them.
So that's what we know about the iPhone so far. No doubt more info will be released over the coming weeks. Australia finally gets the iPhone - now let us all speculate on the plans and whether it will be 3G or not!
That's not a direct source. Hell, that's not even a source for the internet. That's some random forum post. Yay for optimism and all, but that's a really poor thing to base your argument on.
Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
edited April 2008
You mean the website's founder (oh and ex reseller) decided to randomly post all of these rumours for the chance to get all the attention when the website is pretty much the website to go to for mac stuff in Australia?
Last summer I had an internship and this summer I might have that same internship. Anyway, when I worked there last summer I did a great deal of work in Excel programming in VBA. I bought a MacBook in January, and I'd like to be able to do some VBA code in Excel on this thing, but I heard the most recent Mac versions of Excel don't have VBA coding capability. Would I be better off installing a partition of windows and buying a windows version of Excel, or are there any old versions of Excel for Macs that include VBA functionality?
Office 2004 for Mac has VBA functionality. Be warned, it runs under Rosetta because it is PowerPC-native. Performance is going to suffer.
Office 2008 for Mac lacks VBA functionality. No way around it with that version.
I would suggest either A) a Boot Camp partition with WinXP and Office 2007 or virtualize WinXP within OS X using Parallels / Fusion and run Office 2007.
I'm pretty ignorant of the horsepower requirements for VBA. If it's nothing too incredibly steep, virtualization might be your best bet because it will allow you to still run OS X full time while retaining the development functionality you want.
Thanks, this is precisely the information I needed.
I have an early MBP, with the X1600 graphics card. I remember rumours about it being underclocked when they first came out. My question is now, what should I do to get optimum performance out of my machine for gaming?
I'm not really looking to overclock and risk heat damage or anything, I'm just wondering if there are optimised drivers or something that can squeeze out the best performance on my bootcamped machine.
Posts
Will this do?
http://jay.tuley.name/pages/software (the iEatBrainz software, which is also at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ieatbrainz/ )
UPDATE: I see now that it no longer works? Or perhaps it does, but it is discontinued. The page is not clear.
i don't see any sort of auto mp3 tagger?
edit - i see you edited your post heh
SON OF A.
B.net: Kusanku
Or you could become some kind of "retro" elitist and claim that the new design is horrible etc.
In other news, my MBP froze up on me last night. It wouldn't respond to anything, after hard powering it off it refused to actually boot into the OS a few times. I boot camped into XP successfully tho and then upon restart booting into leopard was fine.
*shrug*
Weird. Running Leopard? Happened to be mucking about the System Prefs?
Noooooo...
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Nah, I wasn't messing with anything, just listening to some music, msning/ircing and browsing the interbuts... pretty much the only things i use this beast for. However the system uptime was about 37 hours. I think i have a dodgy hard drive, it was clicking like mad the times when it wouldn't boot. Seems all good now tho.
Dooooo iiiiiit.
I had a perv at a 24" when i was out buying a TV yesterday, damn they are hot.
multitouch trackpad is cool. i hate that "right click" on a mac requires holding down a button on the keyboard, though, so i use a mouse sometimes too.
Look through the preferences, you can set right click to "two fingers+trackpad button." The way I have it set-up with two finger scrolling almost makes my mouse obsolete except in videogames and lots of multitasking (setting expose extra buttons on mouse)
try two fingers on the trackpad + click
you will like it more than regular mouse rightclicking
Works perfectly.
Well, no it doesn't. It runs Vista as well as Vista can run.
The only reason i boot into XP is for MS related dev (VB.NET) etc.
And sometimes to play TF2...
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/04/rumour_iphone_australian_release_in_june_multiple_carriers_3g.html
So. Very. Exciting. The Australian MacTalk Forums are reporting that Apple Australia has begun informing Apple resellers about their iPhone rollout plans.
The good news is that we're looking at a 3G iPhone launched in the last week of June across multiple carriers and with no contract. Current resellers will also be able to sell the device, completely breaking with how the deal has been done in every other part of the world.
And
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/04/3g_iphones_upcoming_chip_found-2.html
The iPhone SDK Beta 3 has barely been out for a few hours and Zibri, maker of the ZiPhone iPhone tool, has found references to a future 3G chip inside the new firmware. The chipset is the SGOLD3, which follows up the current S-GOLD2 in today's iPhone. Here's what the S-GOLD3 has support for, not all of which will make it into the next-gen iPhone: HSDPA category 8 (7.2 Mbps), cameras of up to 5-megapixels, MPEG4/H.263 hardware acceleration and "video telephony, streaming, recording and playback." Again, Apple might not enable all these features in the actual 3G iPhone, but at least we know that they're theoretically possible.
Satans..... hints.....
ZING
Fucking gallons.
Thanks, it felt good saying it.
What I learned was that my Powerbook is 55 months old. I'll deeeefinitely be buying a new one before school starts in the fall.
Despite how much I paid for it at the time and the upgrades and repairs I've had to it, I think the investment was worth it. I don't know a single person who has used a laptop for 4.5 years straight and doesn't complain about how slow it is. My Powerbook is still my main workhorse machine; it runs Leopard great, keeps up with everything I throw at it.
When I get my new machine, a redesigned (hopefully) Macbook Pro (probably 15" or whatever the smallest size they offer at the time is), I'll probably switch back to Tiger Server on the Powerbook and set it up as an official fileserver with tons of external storage.
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I don't see why it wouldn't. TF2 isn't exactly a demanding game either, so I think it should run just fine.
Yes, but it ain't pretty. I'm probably going to do it in Windows via Parallels just to save some time.
Could you just reflash an American iPhone to the australian settings and have a jail broken phone without actually jail breaking it?
As the only thing that is worrying me currently is the price for the Australian iPhone, I would probably look very closely at importing one if this is the case.
Satans..... hints.....
I'm calling BS on this rumour. If it were true, then the entire lock-in market that Apple has cultivated for a slice of the call profits would be destroyed.
If resellers are going to sell Aussie phones, they would be very expensive. And I very much expect there will have to be some form of hacking to move from a US -> Aussie firmware.
I think it's not going to happen.
Office 2004 for Mac has VBA functionality. Be warned, it runs under Rosetta because it is PowerPC-native. Performance is going to suffer.
Office 2008 for Mac lacks VBA functionality. No way around it with that version.
I would suggest either A) a Boot Camp partition with WinXP and Office 2007 or
I'm pretty ignorant of the horsepower requirements for VBA. If it's nothing too incredibly steep, virtualization might be your best bet because it will allow you to still run OS X full time while retaining the development functionality you want.
No it all seems pretty legit.
Here is a more direct source.
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
Thanks, this is precisely the information I needed.
They just cost about as much as a bloody Macbook would.
- Gary Busey
A Glass, Darkly
I'm not really looking to overclock and risk heat damage or anything, I'm just wondering if there are optimised drivers or something that can squeeze out the best performance on my bootcamped machine.
I'd like to play Company of heroes for example.