McDermott, your advice was on the right track -- at the end, you just have to consolidate the library. In case anyone else wants to try it, the instructions are here.
Word of warning. With your MacBook... don't do what I did, because mine is fucked up and I'm going to the Apple store tomorrow.. -sigh-
I put it to sleep unplugged and then forgot to plug it in or turn it off before I went away for the next 4 days. I came back and it was off of course, but when I turned it on, the battery icon had an X in it. When you click on the icon it says "No battery available." If the thing gets unplugged, it turns off immediately, just like if you unplugged a desktop. Basically it doesn't even think there is a battery there, and therefore it won't even charge it. I read on the internet that this apparently happens with MacBook batteries when the charge gets too low and it thinks there is no battery...
McDermott, your advice was on the right track -- at the end, you just have to consolidate the library. In case anyone else wants to try it, the instructions are here.
Thanks. Sorry I forgot that step...it's been a long time since I had to do it on mine.
McDermott, your advice was on the right track -- at the end, you just have to consolidate the library. In case anyone else wants to try it, the instructions are here.
Thanks. Sorry I forgot that step...it's been a long time since I had to do it on mine.
So... what makes the Airport Extreme worth the $180 price point? I was in the market for a good wireless router and with Linksys having offerings for $40ish, that seems a bit steep... Is it just the 802.11n?
...I don't really know anything about wireless internet which makes it a bit difficult...
It really peeves me how many problems these MacBooks have sometimes. I've been to the Apple Store 3 times already and once more today since I got it in August, each time with increasing seriousness of the problem...
And what's really bad is that this seems to happen to tons of people too. They should give us all goddamn replacements or something.
So... what makes the Airport Extreme worth the $180 price point? I was in the market for a good wireless router and with Linksys having offerings for $40ish, that seems a bit steep... Is it just the 802.11n?
...I don't really know anything about wireless internet which makes it a bit difficult...
Apparently the USB port on it means that it can be used as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device.
That's pretty much why it's expensive. Also, it has a Apple logo on it.
So... what makes the Airport Extreme worth the $180 price point? I was in the market for a good wireless router and with Linksys having offerings for $40ish, that seems a bit steep... Is it just the 802.11n?
...I don't really know anything about wireless internet which makes it a bit difficult...
Apparently the USB port on it means that it can be used as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device.
That's pretty much why it's expensive. Also, it has a Apple logo on it.
Just buy a Linksys router and you'll be fine.
In addition to allowing you Network Attached Storage devices that USB port also allows you to use the Airport Extreme as a print server for a single printer.
I personally use a print server and a router and while that still doesn't come near the $180 pricepoint of the Airport Extreme an all in one device is extremely convenient.
Parallels can load your Boot Camp partition, so I suggest installing that and then you can boot into an all-windows environment when you want.
A Windows XP partition can be pretty small, but I'd suggest leaving yourself some space to install windows programs.
Is this all-windows environment nessecary
In the Mac store I was able to just go full screen with WindowsXP and it functioned just like it was a PC running natively
Also, it says on the website that it takes advantage of some "virtualization technology" built into the core duo? What is this?
It isn't necessary, but it might run some things faster. I think the virtualization means that the core duo is a chip that works with windows natively so there's no emulation going on like if it was a PPC.
I'm interested in purchasing a mac, largely because I want to try a fresh operating system.
However, I'd also like to record some music. Unfortunately, my income restricts me the 'mac mini' category by default.
My question: Will a mac mini sufficiently record music via Logic Express with a usb recording device, like this one.
I realize that while the mac falls well within the specs on both fronts, I'd like to know whether the intel processers will effect the quality.
I'm looking at:
Mac Mini 1.66 Core Duo
1 gig RAM
Thanks for your suggestions. Double points to those who have tried a recording setup on a mac mini.
You'll be fine as long as you're not trying to record 16+ of inputs at once. I've got a 1.5ghz g4 powerbook with 512 mb of ram and i can use logic express just fine. The only thing i can suggest is an external drive for more storage.
I'm interested in purchasing a mac, largely because I want to try a fresh operating system.
However, I'd also like to record some music. Unfortunately, my income restricts me the 'mac mini' category by default.
My question: Will a mac mini sufficiently record music via Logic Express with a usb recording device, like this one.
I realize that while the mac falls well within the specs on both fronts, I'd like to know whether the intel processers will effect the quality.
I'm looking at:
Mac Mini 1.66 Core Duo
1 gig RAM
Thanks for your suggestions. Double points to those who have tried a recording setup on a mac mini.
You'll be fine as long as you're not trying to record 16+ of inputs at once. I've got a 1.5ghz g4 powerbook with 512 mb of ram and i can use logic express just fine. The only thing i can suggest is an external drive for more storage.
Thanks for your suggestions.
I've always experienced wierd delays on my PC. While monitoring, the track I was laying down would rarely "time" correctly the track being played back.
I'm just hoping that the usb interfaces are as low-latency as they are advertised.
I'm interested in purchasing a mac, largely because I want to try a fresh operating system.
However, I'd also like to record some music. Unfortunately, my income restricts me the 'mac mini' category by default.
My question: Will a mac mini sufficiently record music via Logic Express with a usb recording device, like this one.
I realize that while the mac falls well within the specs on both fronts, I'd like to know whether the intel processers will effect the quality.
I'm looking at:
Mac Mini 1.66 Core Duo
1 gig RAM
Thanks for your suggestions. Double points to those who have tried a recording setup on a mac mini.
You'll be fine as long as you're not trying to record 16+ of inputs at once. I've got a 1.5ghz g4 powerbook with 512 mb of ram and i can use logic express just fine. The only thing i can suggest is an external drive for more storage.
Thanks for your suggestions.
I've always experienced wierd delays on my PC. While monitoring, the track I was laying down would rarely "time" correctly the track being played back.
I'm just hoping that the usb interfaces are as low-latency as they are advertised.
PC sound drivers have pretty high latency, and are totally unsuitable for monitoring. You need ASIO drivers and a sound card made made for recording if you want to record and monitor what you're playing at the same time. Macs have pretty good drivers. Shouldn't be a big deal.
re: airport express. They used to be expensive because they included a modem and allowed you to use dialup wirelessly. It appears that they've dropped that feature, but replaced it with 802.11n. Are there cheaper routers out there? Yup. But I've also got 2 friends with an Airport (older models) and they really like the things -- they're very mac-oriented and they set up dead-easy. If you're comfortable setting up a router, though, and don't need the features it offers, then there's no point in spending the extra money.
re: music on a mini. Yeah, no problem at all. Do you already own an audio interface? If not, get a FireWire one, not USB2. You'll be able to record more tracks and run into fewer problems with popping and skipping. Sweetwater ran a thing on the older G4 macminis where they were able to record dozens upon dozens of tracks (like, almost 100) on a stock machine. Granted, that was just a raw record, no plugins or anything, but as you don't plan on getting 4 chained MOTU 828mk2s in order to record all of that, I wouldn't worry about it.
Just make sure you have a good interface. CoreAudio will handle the drivers just fine, and will work better than ASIO by far (hey, more than one software can access the device at once, w/o fucking up the sample rates! wow!).
Can someone recommend some free word-processing software for my brand-new Macbook?
I write a lot and I generally do most of my writing on Google Docs and Blogger. So I don't need anything too fancy. I'm looking for reliability more than fancy options.
I remember someone recommending Neo Office but their website looked sketchy.
Can someone recommend some free word-processing software for my brand-new Macbook?
I write a lot and I generally do most of my writing on Google Docs and Blogger. So I don't need anything too fancy. I'm looking for reliability more than fancy options.
I remember someone recommending Neo Office but their website looked sketchy.
Can someone recommend some free word-processing software for my brand-new Macbook?
I write a lot and I generally do most of my writing on Google Docs and Blogger. So I don't need anything too fancy. I'm looking for reliability more than fancy options.
I remember someone recommending Neo Office but their website looked sketchy.
Can someone recommend some free word-processing software for my brand-new Macbook?
I write a lot and I generally do most of my writing on Google Docs and Blogger. So I don't need anything too fancy. I'm looking for reliability more than fancy options.
I remember someone recommending Neo Office but their website looked sketchy.
It's a turd in that it's a windowing system that essentially ignores all aspects of the operating system's windowing system.
So it runs just fine, but doesn't work as one would expect an OS X app to act. It's fine for a stop-gap, but generally not preferred. it also has issues w/ text rendering.
For really basic stuff, uh, TextEdit? It comes w/ your mac and allows for basic formatting, style support, fonts, etc.
Honestly, TextEdit combined with Notes is perfect for basic word processing. Granted, it's not as pretty as Word as it doesn't throw a ton of useless windows at you, but you generally don't need that sort of stuff. Being able to italicize, bold, make headings, adjust font size, etc. If you set "Wrap to Page" it'll look just like a print-ready word processor. if you don't, it'll be perfect for web-ready stuff.
A couple days ago I was a couple clicks away from completing an order for a cheapest-configuration-possible MacBook. (Was going to use Bill Me Later, too -- that's probably a mistake.) Most of the stuff I NEED (OCAML and a word processor) any laptop can do. I'd really like a laptop that can do the following nice-to-have's:
1) Compile and run Torque Game Engine projects. I will NOT be using this laptop for gaming, but I would like to be able to run a TGE project. That requires basic 3D acceleration, like a Geforce 2 MX would have. I don't care if it runs at 10 frames per second.
2) Software development. Apple doesn't sell their development environment, do they?
3) VMware or Parallels. I'd like to be able to run Windows for occasional Windows-only programs, after I look long and hard for Mac or Linux replacements. I'd also like to run one or more Linux VM's, probably console only (so maybe only 64 MB or 128 MB RAM for each VM.)
I think the basic MacBook ships with 512 MB RAM. If I turn off and trim down things in Mac OS X, will it run acceptably with that much memory, not counting those nice-to-have things I mentioned?
If I DO want those nice-to-haves, would 1 GB RAM be sufficient, or should I really consider getting 2 GB?
I thought I heard that, while Apple memory used to never be worth the money, recently their memory seems to perform best and is worth the price premium. Is that still the case, or should I just buy the basic laptop now and put in third party memory later?
Thanks again, guys!
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Their dev environment and documentation is free to download from their website. If you wanted to purchase a dev license (Select Membership) for 500$ you will get a coupon for the same amount towards the purchase of new hardware so it would essentially be free. I'm not sure what it includes other than free access to the beta software.
Os x loves ram, but sodimms are cheap and upgrading the ram on a macbook is easy. If you order the unit stock, there is no extra wait time and purchasing the extra ram separate will be much cheaper than buying from them.
edit: the coupon might not be the same amount as it used to be, I haven't checked.
A couple days ago I was a couple clicks away from completing an order for a cheapest-configuration-possible MacBook. (Was going to use Bill Me Later, too -- that's probably a mistake.) Most of the stuff I NEED (OCAML and a word processor) any laptop can do. I'd really like a laptop that can do the following nice-to-have's:
1) Compile and run Torque Game Engine projects. I will NOT be using this laptop for gaming, but I would like to be able to run a TGE project. That requires basic 3D acceleration, like a Geforce 2 MX would have. I don't care if it runs at 10 frames per second.
2) Software development. Apple doesn't sell their development environment, do they?
3) VMware or Parallels. I'd like to be able to run Windows for occasional Windows-only programs, after I look long and hard for Mac or Linux replacements. I'd also like to run one or more Linux VM's, probably console only (so maybe only 64 MB or 128 MB RAM for each VM.)
I think the basic MacBook ships with 512 MB RAM. If I turn off and trim down things in Mac OS X, will it run acceptably with that much memory, not counting those nice-to-have things I mentioned?
If I DO want those nice-to-haves, would 1 GB RAM be sufficient, or should I really consider getting 2 GB?
I thought I heard that, while Apple memory used to never be worth the money, recently their memory seems to perform best and is worth the price premium. Is that still the case, or should I just buy the basic laptop now and put in third party memory later?
Thanks again, guys!
You should go for a gig of ram no matter what
OSX basically demands it to run the way it was intended
Woohoo my new core duo Mac book has shipped. $824.90 shipped is not to bad, right?
I'm envious...three more months for me.
Did you get a referbished one?
nope, its new.
Now how in the world did you manage that? Not that I'm jealous or anything, as I just received my refurb core duo for the same price. However it came with a gig of RAM instead of 512.
A couple days ago I was a couple clicks away from completing an order for a cheapest-configuration-possible MacBook. (Was going to use Bill Me Later, too -- that's probably a mistake.) Most of the stuff I NEED (OCAML and a word processor) any laptop can do. I'd really like a laptop that can do the following nice-to-have's:
1) Compile and run Torque Game Engine projects. I will NOT be using this laptop for gaming, but I would like to be able to run a TGE project. That requires basic 3D acceleration, like a Geforce 2 MX would have. I don't care if it runs at 10 frames per second.
2) Software development. Apple doesn't sell their development environment, do they?
3) VMware or Parallels. I'd like to be able to run Windows for occasional Windows-only programs, after I look long and hard for Mac or Linux replacements. I'd also like to run one or more Linux VM's, probably console only (so maybe only 64 MB or 128 MB RAM for each VM.)
I think the basic MacBook ships with 512 MB RAM. If I turn off and trim down things in Mac OS X, will it run acceptably with that much memory, not counting those nice-to-have things I mentioned?
If I DO want those nice-to-haves, would 1 GB RAM be sufficient, or should I really consider getting 2 GB?
I thought I heard that, while Apple memory used to never be worth the money, recently their memory seems to perform best and is worth the price premium. Is that still the case, or should I just buy the basic laptop now and put in third party memory later?
Thanks again, guys!
You should go for a gig of ram no matter what
OSX basically demands it to run the way it was intended
As far as OS X needing a gig of ram to run as it was intended... that's ridiculous, people were saying that it needed 512 to run as inteneded when they were standard with 256 a couple of years ago. OS X runs fine with 512 of ram. However, for the extra 200, you get the faster processor, a gig of ram, the 80 gig hard drive, and the superdrive, which, in my opinion, is worth it. You don't need a ton of ram to run OS X. It will run on 512 just fine.
Alot of t3h hugeness on a fresh new mac is the extra apps they throw in, dispose as needed. Basically most non apple ones got the boot from me, and I moved on from there
Alot of t3h hugeness on a fresh new mac is the extra apps they throw in, dispose as needed. Basically most non apple ones got the boot from me, and I moved on from there
Are there any guides or suggestions? I'm almost a complete OSX noob, aside from dicking around with the macs at school when I have no choice.
Refurbished iMac 20-inch 2GHz Intel Core Duo
512MB (single SO-DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
250GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load 8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon X1600 graphics with 128MB GDDR3 memory
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0
For $1,839 Australian.
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So.. uh.. I ran the updates, rebooted, and now this pops up every time I start the system.
wtf.
What happened after you restarted it?
[See bolded]
Anyway mono said you can just hold down C at startup to boot from CD... so I guess I'm reinstalling OSX. After having the laptop for less than 2 hours. -_-
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I put it to sleep unplugged and then forgot to plug it in or turn it off before I went away for the next 4 days. I came back and it was off of course, but when I turned it on, the battery icon had an X in it. When you click on the icon it says "No battery available." If the thing gets unplugged, it turns off immediately, just like if you unplugged a desktop. Basically it doesn't even think there is a battery there, and therefore it won't even charge it. I read on the internet that this apparently happens with MacBook batteries when the charge gets too low and it thinks there is no battery...
This is sad.
Thanks. Sorry I forgot that step...it's been a long time since I had to do it on mine.
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A tablet MacBook. Now to wait for the Pro version...
Thanks for the help, though :^:
...I don't really know anything about wireless internet which makes it a bit difficult...
And what's really bad is that this seems to happen to tons of people too. They should give us all goddamn replacements or something.
Apparently the USB port on it means that it can be used as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device.
That's pretty much why it's expensive. Also, it has a Apple logo on it.
Just buy a Linksys router and you'll be fine.
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So I'm thinking of taking the plunge and getting Parallels desktop (and coincidently a copy of Windows XP) for my MacBook
I've seen it in action and it is very excellent and It will help me a lot as many of my engineering apps are sadly XP only
I have a few questions to anyone who has used this program
How large is the actuall install of WinXP on my hard drive? I only have a 80gig HDD so I want to make sure I'll still have some usable space
And how does the windows file structure end up on my Mac's HD, does it all get contained within the parallels desktop folder/package?
A Windows XP partition can be pretty small, but I'd suggest leaving yourself some space to install windows programs.
I personally use a print server and a router and while that still doesn't come near the $180 pricepoint of the Airport Extreme an all in one device is extremely convenient.
Is this all-windows environment nessecary
In the Mac store I was able to just go full screen with WindowsXP and it functioned just like it was a PC running natively
Also, it says on the website that it takes advantage of some "virtualization technology" built into the core duo? What is this?
I'm interested in purchasing a mac, largely because I want to try a fresh operating system.
However, I'd also like to record some music. Unfortunately, my income restricts me the 'mac mini' category by default.
My question: Will a mac mini sufficiently record music via Logic Express with a usb recording device, like this one.
I realize that while the mac falls well within the specs on both fronts, I'd like to know whether the intel processers will effect the quality.
I'm looking at:
Mac Mini 1.66 Core Duo
1 gig RAM
Thanks for your suggestions. Double points to those who have tried a recording setup on a mac mini.
You'll be fine as long as you're not trying to record 16+ of inputs at once. I've got a 1.5ghz g4 powerbook with 512 mb of ram and i can use logic express just fine. The only thing i can suggest is an external drive for more storage.
Thanks for your suggestions.
I've always experienced wierd delays on my PC. While monitoring, the track I was laying down would rarely "time" correctly the track being played back.
I'm just hoping that the usb interfaces are as low-latency as they are advertised.
re: music on a mini. Yeah, no problem at all. Do you already own an audio interface? If not, get a FireWire one, not USB2. You'll be able to record more tracks and run into fewer problems with popping and skipping. Sweetwater ran a thing on the older G4 macminis where they were able to record dozens upon dozens of tracks (like, almost 100) on a stock machine. Granted, that was just a raw record, no plugins or anything, but as you don't plan on getting 4 chained MOTU 828mk2s in order to record all of that, I wouldn't worry about it.
Just make sure you have a good interface. CoreAudio will handle the drivers just fine, and will work better than ASIO by far (hey, more than one software can access the device at once, w/o fucking up the sample rates! wow!).
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I write a lot and I generally do most of my writing on Google Docs and Blogger. So I don't need anything too fancy. I'm looking for reliability more than fancy options.
I remember someone recommending Neo Office but their website looked sketchy.
NO! Openoffice requires X11 and you should not install that ancient piece of dinosaur turd on your shiny new Mac.
Neo Office is a hobby effort to produce a native version, but it uses too much slow ass Java, imo.
Openoffice Aqua will hopefully be released sometime this year, which is the official and native version.
So it runs just fine, but doesn't work as one would expect an OS X app to act. It's fine for a stop-gap, but generally not preferred. it also has issues w/ text rendering.
For really basic stuff, uh, TextEdit? It comes w/ your mac and allows for basic formatting, style support, fonts, etc.
Honestly, TextEdit combined with Notes is perfect for basic word processing. Granted, it's not as pretty as Word as it doesn't throw a ton of useless windows at you, but you generally don't need that sort of stuff. Being able to italicize, bold, make headings, adjust font size, etc. If you set "Wrap to Page" it'll look just like a print-ready word processor. if you don't, it'll be perfect for web-ready stuff.
I'm envious...three more months for me.
Did you get a referbished one?
1) Compile and run Torque Game Engine projects. I will NOT be using this laptop for gaming, but I would like to be able to run a TGE project. That requires basic 3D acceleration, like a Geforce 2 MX would have. I don't care if it runs at 10 frames per second.
2) Software development. Apple doesn't sell their development environment, do they?
3) VMware or Parallels. I'd like to be able to run Windows for occasional Windows-only programs, after I look long and hard for Mac or Linux replacements. I'd also like to run one or more Linux VM's, probably console only (so maybe only 64 MB or 128 MB RAM for each VM.)
I think the basic MacBook ships with 512 MB RAM. If I turn off and trim down things in Mac OS X, will it run acceptably with that much memory, not counting those nice-to-have things I mentioned?
If I DO want those nice-to-haves, would 1 GB RAM be sufficient, or should I really consider getting 2 GB?
I thought I heard that, while Apple memory used to never be worth the money, recently their memory seems to perform best and is worth the price premium. Is that still the case, or should I just buy the basic laptop now and put in third party memory later?
Thanks again, guys!
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Os x loves ram, but sodimms are cheap and upgrading the ram on a macbook is easy. If you order the unit stock, there is no extra wait time and purchasing the extra ram separate will be much cheaper than buying from them.
edit: the coupon might not be the same amount as it used to be, I haven't checked.
You should go for a gig of ram no matter what
OSX basically demands it to run the way it was intended
nope, its new.
Now how in the world did you manage that? Not that I'm jealous or anything, as I just received my refurb core duo for the same price. However it came with a gig of RAM instead of 512.
Now to just finish getting these updates and to follow http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=187465.
Oh and also OSX IS TEH HUEG. My 60 Gig was down to 38 gigs left by the time it was up and running, and that was without all these updates.
As far as OS X needing a gig of ram to run as it was intended... that's ridiculous, people were saying that it needed 512 to run as inteneded when they were standard with 256 a couple of years ago. OS X runs fine with 512 of ram. However, for the extra 200, you get the faster processor, a gig of ram, the 80 gig hard drive, and the superdrive, which, in my opinion, is worth it. You don't need a ton of ram to run OS X. It will run on 512 just fine.
Are there any guides or suggestions? I'm almost a complete OSX noob, aside from dicking around with the macs at school when I have no choice.
wtf.
For $1,839 Australian.
Oh it's such a nice day, I think I'll go out the window! Whoa!
What happened after you restarted it?
And to Gopher, bump that up to a gig and you should be good.
[See bolded]
Anyway mono said you can just hold down C at startup to boot from CD... so I guess I'm reinstalling OSX. After having the laptop for less than 2 hours. -_-