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. -_-
At least all your installations will stay intact. Reinstalling XP is an adventure in back ups and installations.
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It's been so long since I've posted here, I've removed my signature since most of what I had here were broken links. Shows over, you can carry on to the next post.
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. -_-
If you want to save space this time, just before you hit 'install' there should be a 'customize' button. Go in there and deselct all the printer drivers except ones you're likely to need as well as all the foreign language packs. That should result in a whole heapin' helpin' of extra space.
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. -_-
If you want to save space this time, just before you hit 'install' there should be a 'customize' button. Go in there and deselct all the printer drivers except ones you're likely to need as well as all the foreign language packs. That should result in a whole heapin' helpin' of extra space.
Whoops!
Eh.. I'll try that next time after I fuck up my Ubuntu install.
edit - Uugh. Finished the install... same thing.
edit 2 - whoops again. Looks like I was just updating the old broken install. Oh well. This time I cut a bunch of stuff out and got it down to a 3 gig install. FUCK YOU GARAGEBAND.
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.
AbiWord works for me. It's free, doesn't use X11, and it has more features than TextEdit.
So.. uh.. I ran the updates, rebooted, and now this pops up every time I start the system.
wtf.
Did you grab the update off the Apple site or from Software Update? If you grabbed the update manually you may have gotten the PowerPC update and not the Intel one. You're hosed in which case. Put the disc in the drive that came with the machine, it's grey, and hold down the C key as the machine starts up. That will boot off the disc and allow you to reinstall the OS. If you don't have any personal data on it just go ahead and wipe the drive clean. If you do have data attempt an Achive & Install which will save your personal data but install the OS fresh from the disc.
If it will not boot off the disc or will not boot once you're reinstalled the OS there may be a larger issue. Call up Apple Care (1-800-APL-CARE) and they can walk you through some troubleshooting and/or send you a box to get the machine repaired. If you did purchase it new and it is less than 14 days since you received it they may be able to simply replace your machine as DOA. However, that only assuming you didn't fuck something up yourself and it would otherwise need to go in for a warranty repair. Ask about it but don't demand it as you'll just piss off the person trying to help you out.
Use software update to grab OS updates. If you do this fine but if not start doing it. It's pretty efficient and allows you to grab multiple restart-required updates and apply them all simultaneously.
So.. uh.. I ran the updates, rebooted, and now this pops up every time I start the system.
wtf.
Did you grab the update off the Apple site or from Software Update? If you grabbed the update manually you may have gotten the PowerPC update and not the Intel one. You're hosed in which case. Put the disc in the drive that came with the machine, it's grey, and hold down the C key as the machine starts up. That will boot off the disc and allow you to reinstall the OS. If you don't have any personal data on it just go ahead and wipe the drive clean. If you do have data attempt an Achive & Install which will save your personal data but install the OS fresh from the disc.
If it will not boot off the disc or will not boot once you're reinstalled the OS there may be a larger issue. Call up Apple Care (1-800-APL-CARE) and they can walk you through some troubleshooting and/or send you a box to get the machine repaired. If you did purchase it new and it is less than 14 days since you received it they may be able to simply replace your machine as DOA. However, that only assuming you didn't fuck something up yourself and it would otherwise need to go in for a warranty repair. Ask about it but don't demand it as you'll just piss off the person trying to help you out.
Use software update to grab OS updates. If you do this fine but if not start doing it. It's pretty efficient and allows you to grab multiple restart-required updates and apply them all simultaneously.
Actually it was the automatic updates. For whatever reason I think it just flipped out during the install of the OSX Update, possibly due to the fact that I was messing around with the Dashboard and downloading stuff with Safari and etc.
But even so, I managed a re-install ( on the second attempt... -_- ) and am gonna try the update one more time before I crash for bed.
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.
I used OS X with 512mb ram on my MBP for about a month before I upgraded to 1.5gb ram. It was pure agony. OS X runs a lot worse than XP with only 512mb ram. I would even like to call it unusable. Especially if you have any Rosetta apps running at all.
With 1.5gb ram, however, it's the exact opposite. It's soooo smooth, and never pages in/out anything. With my 2gb XP machine, despite having free ram, whenever I maximize an app that has been minimized for a while, XP pages like a bitch.
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Heard the proposition that RIAA and MPAA should join forces and form "Music And Film Industry Association"?
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.
I used OS X with 512mb ram on my MBP for about a month before I upgraded to 1.5gb ram. It was pure agony. OS X runs a lot worse than XP with only 512mb ram. I would even like to call it unusable. Especially if you have any Rosetta apps running at all.
With 1.5gb ram, however, it's the exact opposite. It's soooo smooth, and never pages in/out anything. With my 2gb XP machine, despite having free ram, whenever I maximize an app that has been minimized for a while, XP pages like a bitch.
That's what I don't get about Windows. It seems to love paging to the hard drive. It pages when you do anything, even though you have plenty of ram space left.
One thing I noticed when first installing linux is that it hardly ever pages anything. The biggest size the swap file has gotten in Linux was 5 MBs, and that was once.
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It's been so long since I've posted here, I've removed my signature since most of what I had here were broken links. Shows over, you can carry on to the next post.
Apple shipped a total of 1.606 million Macs during the quarter, representing 43 percent of the company's total revenue. This included sales of 969,000 notebooks and 637,000 desktop systems.
Very strong "MacBook Pro" quarter. Apple saw many customers "buying up the line."
The 1.6 million Macs shipped during the quarter were much higher than what Apple had projected internally. The company is "thrilled" with Mac shipments.
Mac sales grew at about 3 times IDC's published growth rate for the PC market during the quarter.
The Mac has outgrown the overall PC market 8 of the last 9 quarters.
The Pro market met internal expectations for the quarter, but those expectations were tempered by customers still waiting on the next version of Adobe Creative Suite. Lots of positive feedback from the Photoshop CS3 beta released by Adobe last month.
Boot Camp downloads have exceeded 1.5 million. The Windows compatibility software continues to be "a great interest to a number of different people."
A survey of student buyers shows that the intent to buy a Mac portable has increased to 28 percent from 17 percent.
Apple sold 21.066 million iPods during the quarter, representing a 50 percent increase in units and 18 percent increase in revenue year-over-year. Sequentially iPods grew 141 percent in units and 120 percent in revenue.
All three iPod models did exceptionally well during the quarter.
The iPod share of the US digital music player market was 72 percent in December according to NPD.
During the quarter, the iPod gained share in every international country for which data is available.
iTunes continues to lead the legal download market, with an over 85 percent share.
Apple retail saw approximately 28 million visitors during the quarter, or 13,000 visitors per store, per week. The company expects to open 7 stores during the March quarter and 35-40 overall in fiscal 2007.
Apple increased its cash balance during the quarter by a staggering $1.75 billion to end with $11.9 billion.
Any tips for easy volume control for a MacBook running in bootcamp?
The volume buttons should work normally. They work normally on a regular computer with the Apple USB Keyboard. (No drivers even.) It just doesn't have the screen showing your volume.
You may need to push the FN key unlike OS X though.
Okay, this may seem a little stupid (question wise) but Apple likes to brand thier products for the "consumer" and "professional" market. Do they mean"professional" as in someone who makes thier living in the technology/video/music/ industry which would require more computational power or do they mean it in a more traditional sense that "professionals" like (architechts, doctors, lawyers). I've been looking everywhere and nobody seems to have the exact distinction between consumer and professional Apple hardware.
I plan on getting a mac notebook before I go to law school (if they can accomodate macs with the testing software) so I'm not sure if being a lawyer/lawstudent would mean that I would be better suited to getting the future (next two or three years) equivelant of the MacBook Pro (Professional) or the MacBook (Consumer).
If anything I wrote was too jumbled and confusing let me know, I'm kind of typing this in a rush.
Okay, this may seem a little stupid (question wise) but Apple likes to brand thier products for the "consumer" and "professional" market. Do they mean"professional" as in someone who makes thier living in the technology/video/music/ industry which would require more computational power or do they mean it in a more traditional sense that "professionals" like (architechts, doctors, lawyers). I've been looking everywhere and nobody seems to have the exact distinction between consumer and professional Apple hardware.
I plan on getting a mac notebook before I go to law school (if they can accomodate macs with the testing software) so I'm not sure if being a lawyer/lawstudent would mean that I would be better suited to getting the future (next two or three years) equivelant of the MacBook Pro (Professional) or the MacBook (Consumer).
If anything I wrote was too jumbled and confusing let me know, I'm kind of typing this in a rush.
They mean it in the first sense, people who need actual computing power. For law school, a regular Macbook will be just fine.
You may want to wait for Office 2008 before buying Office. (Apparently to be released in the summer of `07. They give the Windows and Mac versions different years.) And if you don't need it NOW, wait until Spring/Summer for Leopard.
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Okay, this may seem a little stupid (question wise) but Apple likes to brand thier products for the "consumer" and "professional" market. Do they mean"professional" as in someone who makes thier living in the technology/video/music/ industry which would require more computational power or do they mean it in a more traditional sense that "professionals" like (architechts, doctors, lawyers). I've been looking everywhere and nobody seems to have the exact distinction between consumer and professional Apple hardware.
I plan on getting a mac notebook before I go to law school (if they can accomodate macs with the testing software) so I'm not sure if being a lawyer/lawstudent would mean that I would be better suited to getting the future (next two or three years) equivelant of the MacBook Pro (Professional) or the MacBook (Consumer).
If anything I wrote was too jumbled and confusing let me know, I'm kind of typing this in a rush.
Well Macs are for anyone just like Windows is for anyone. As long as you can get the programs you need (I would assume Microsoft Office) then going in any direction would be good for your needs.
When Apple labels something with "Pro" it means one of two things currently:
1. It's using workstation-class hardware (Mac Pro).
2. It's not using integrated graphics (MacBook Pro).
Essentially, if you were using high-end, professional applications (Final Cut Pro, Maya, etc.), you would consider Pro-class hardware for the simple fact that the 'lower-end' models would not cut it with that kind of professional workload.
If you're going to be doing typical student work, the MacBook would be perfect. If you want to game or edit video or whatever else would be hampered by not having a dedicated video card/chipset/whatever, I'd consider a MacBook Pro.
Okay, this may seem a little stupid (question wise) but Apple likes to brand thier products for the "consumer" and "professional" market. Do they mean"professional" as in someone who makes thier living in the technology/video/music/ industry which would require more computational power or do they mean it in a more traditional sense that "professionals" like (architechts, doctors, lawyers). I've been looking everywhere and nobody seems to have the exact distinction between consumer and professional Apple hardware.
I plan on getting a mac notebook before I go to law school (if they can accomodate macs with the testing software) so I'm not sure if being a lawyer/lawstudent would mean that I would be better suited to getting the future (next two or three years) equivelant of the MacBook Pro (Professional) or the MacBook (Consumer).
If anything I wrote was too jumbled and confusing let me know, I'm kind of typing this in a rush.
They mean it in the first sense, people who need actual computing power. For law school, a regular Macbook will be just fine.
You may want to wait for Office 2008 before buying Office. (Apparently to be released in the summer of `07. They give the Windows and Mac versions different years.) And if you don't need it NOW, wait until Spring/Summer for Leopard.
Thanks alot. It's kind of embarrasing for me to ask computer questions since my mom is a computer specialist. For some reason that makes everyone think I must be some kind of computer expert as well.
I don't plan on buying a Mac until the next generation of portables comes out. I still have around three more years of undergrad (not to mention my current laptop's warranty) so I'll be admiring apple hardware from afar for awhile and waiting won't be a problem.
Thanks for the quick replies everyone.
I don't plan on doing anything heavy duty with my computer. The only game I would play would be WoW, and I promised myself I wouldn't play that during school semesters in an attempt to keep my grades up. This thing is going to be used mostly for email, word processing, and web browsing. Plus someplace to store my iTunes collection.
If you're going to be doing typical student work, the MacBook would be perfect. If you want to game or edit video or whatever else would be hampered by not having a dedicated video card/chipset/whatever, I'd consider a MacBook Pro.
From what I understand, video editing and rendering has very little to do with the graphics chipset and pretty much everything to do with the processor. Games and 3d rendering are the opposite, relying heavily on the graphics chip.
From what I understand, video editing and rendering has very little to do with the graphics chipset and pretty much everything to do with the processor. Games and 3d rendering are the opposite, relying heavily on the graphics chip.
[quote=Apple.com/Final Cut Pro]Final Cut Studio is not supported on systems using the Intel Extreme Graphics 950 GMA[/quote]
Editing isn't videocard-intensive, but rendering and compositing is -- especially if you want to do both in realtime.
Apple has been pushing more and more graphics stuff onto the GPU, as well. It's how they're able to render real-time previews of stuff so quickly. It's entirely the point of CoreImage, and one of the reasons people like Apple's software offerings in the video world.
As for the consumer/professional distinction, Apple is one of the few companies that actually draws that line accurately. For most companies, the "gimped" version is their consumer line, which offers some horrible templates with no real options or flexibility. Their pro line is confusing to the point where you'd have to go to school for 2 years. With Apple, I initially figured that I needed Final Cut Pro and all these other fancy tools. But, shit, iMovie is sweet! I mean, I generally just chop things up, add some music, maybe fix some colors/contrast, and it's good to go. I'm not making Lord of the Wings or anything.
So yeah, unless you truly need something on the pro-level, you're often fine getting by with the cheaper 'consumer' level software. Which is quite nice, both for your wallet and for the time spent learning it.
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.
I used OS X with 512mb ram on my MBP for about a month before I upgraded to 1.5gb ram. It was pure agony. OS X runs a lot worse than XP with only 512mb ram. I would even like to call it unusable. Especially if you have any Rosetta apps running at all.
With 1.5gb ram, however, it's the exact opposite. It's soooo smooth, and never pages in/out anything. With my 2gb XP machine, despite having free ram, whenever I maximize an app that has been minimized for a while, XP pages like a bitch.
YMMV then on the intel processors, I have no complaints on my g4
From what I understand, video editing and rendering has very little to do with the graphics chipset and pretty much everything to do with the processor. Games and 3d rendering are the opposite, relying heavily on the graphics chip.
[quote=Apple.com/Final Cut Pro]Final Cut Studio is not supported on systems using the Intel Extreme Graphics 950 GMA
Editing isn't videocard-intensive, but rendering and compositing is -- especially if you want to do both in realtime.[/quote]
While not all of Final Cut Studio can be run efficiently on a MacBook, Final Cut Pro most certainly can... I use it very frequently.
Why is it that no matter where I put my hard drive, windows partition, external drive and DVD drive icons on my desktop, when I restart (which.. ya know, I do sometimes) they always go back to the top corner of the screen.
It seems somewhat weird that you can't put them where you want, and they'd never stay there.
Anybody try a triple boot with a macbook? I've been attempting and after a few tries got XP sorta working then after trying to unstall ubuntu it seemed to screw up my mbr and now XP doesn't load up at all.
Probably just give up for now and try again over the weekend with a new tutorial.
Why is it that no matter where I put my hard drive, windows partition, external drive and DVD drive icons on my desktop, when I restart (which.. ya know, I do sometimes) they always go back to the top corner of the screen.
It seems somewhat weird that you can't put them where you want, and they'd never stay there.
Am I missing something?
Delete com.apple.Finder.plist from /Users/<your username>/Library/Preferences/
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.
I used OS X with 512mb ram on my MBP for about a month before I upgraded to 1.5gb ram. It was pure agony. OS X runs a lot worse than XP with only 512mb ram. I would even like to call it unusable. Especially if you have any Rosetta apps running at all.
With 1.5gb ram, however, it's the exact opposite. It's soooo smooth, and never pages in/out anything. With my 2gb XP machine, despite having free ram, whenever I maximize an app that has been minimized for a while, XP pages like a bitch.
That's what I don't get about Windows. It seems to love paging to the hard drive. It pages when you do anything, even though you have plenty of ram space left.
It's a legacy of the Win95 codebase. I'm given to understand that paging is far less of an issue in Vista unless you have under a gig of RAM, in which case you probably shouldn't be running the OS in the first place.
So is there an Apple Application that works similarly to Winzip? There are files that I don't necessarily want to get rid off from my computer but I hardly ever acess them and they are just sitting there taking up room.
Space on my lappy is becoming pretty tight and I'd like to conserve as much as I could becuase my music collection is always increasing.
Also along with a WinZip like app, if anyone has any other tips for conserving hard disk space I'd greatly appreciate them.
1 more thing. Does anyone have any tips for cleaning ones laptop? Because mine is getting kinda gross from the oil in my hands.
Does anyone know of a "free-er" solution? Being a starving College Student isn't condusive to buying a lot of software.
There's a free version on that site.
Also consider getting an external hard drive. I have an 80gb hard drive on my computer and it was filling up fast, so I got a 250gb hard drive for 89.99. If you search around on Newegg, you'll find all kinds of crazy deals.
Does anyone know of a "free-er" solution? Being a starving College Student isn't condusive to buying a lot of software.
There's a free version on that site.
Maybe he wants them to pay him to download it?
Alternatively, it could be hard to find a free version from that page that isn't advertised as a 15 or 30 day trial.
Also, from what I recall Stuffit has the most hostile free trial system I've ever laid eyes on. Last time I checked, they wanted a credit card number and everything for trials, and make you jump through email confirmation hoops.
It's real free if you just want to expand files, though.
Also along with a WinZip like app, if anyone has any other tips for conserving hard disk space I'd greatly appreciate them.
Use Monolingual (http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/). This app will delete all the foreign language fonts/support that you never use from the OS. You can recover 1.5 to 2 gigs of disk space by removing all that crap.
You also might want to invest in an app like AppZapper (http://www.appzapper.com/). Apps like these will *completely* remove an application when you want to uninstall it. OS X's uninstaller, no matter how much the zealots will disagree, blows ass and doesn't remove everything related to whatever app you're uninstalling.
Lastly, uninstall all the apps you never use. OS X comes pre-installed with as much bloatware as XP does, so if you take the time to remove the garbage you don't use, you'll recover some space.
I went and made a seperate thread for this like a jerk, but I'll ask here anyway: Has anyone been able to download and update the ATI card with the Catalyst drivers & software on the Windows side? I've tried it twice, and each time I get an error message saying that it won't install because it can't find the VGA driver.
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At least all your installations will stay intact. Reinstalling XP is an adventure in back ups and installations.
If you want to save space this time, just before you hit 'install' there should be a 'customize' button. Go in there and deselct all the printer drivers except ones you're likely to need as well as all the foreign language packs. That should result in a whole heapin' helpin' of extra space.
Whoops!
Eh.. I'll try that next time after I fuck up my Ubuntu install.
edit - Uugh. Finished the install... same thing.
edit 2 - whoops again. Looks like I was just updating the old broken install. Oh well. This time I cut a bunch of stuff out and got it down to a 3 gig install. FUCK YOU GARAGEBAND.
AbiWord works for me. It's free, doesn't use X11, and it has more features than TextEdit.
Did you grab the update off the Apple site or from Software Update? If you grabbed the update manually you may have gotten the PowerPC update and not the Intel one. You're hosed in which case. Put the disc in the drive that came with the machine, it's grey, and hold down the C key as the machine starts up. That will boot off the disc and allow you to reinstall the OS. If you don't have any personal data on it just go ahead and wipe the drive clean. If you do have data attempt an Achive & Install which will save your personal data but install the OS fresh from the disc.
If it will not boot off the disc or will not boot once you're reinstalled the OS there may be a larger issue. Call up Apple Care (1-800-APL-CARE) and they can walk you through some troubleshooting and/or send you a box to get the machine repaired. If you did purchase it new and it is less than 14 days since you received it they may be able to simply replace your machine as DOA. However, that only assuming you didn't fuck something up yourself and it would otherwise need to go in for a warranty repair. Ask about it but don't demand it as you'll just piss off the person trying to help you out.
Use software update to grab OS updates. If you do this fine but if not start doing it. It's pretty efficient and allows you to grab multiple restart-required updates and apply them all simultaneously.
Actually it was the automatic updates. For whatever reason I think it just flipped out during the install of the OSX Update, possibly due to the fact that I was messing around with the Dashboard and downloading stuff with Safari and etc.
But even so, I managed a re-install ( on the second attempt... -_- ) and am gonna try the update one more time before I crash for bed.
I used OS X with 512mb ram on my MBP for about a month before I upgraded to 1.5gb ram. It was pure agony. OS X runs a lot worse than XP with only 512mb ram. I would even like to call it unusable. Especially if you have any Rosetta apps running at all.
With 1.5gb ram, however, it's the exact opposite. It's soooo smooth, and never pages in/out anything. With my 2gb XP machine, despite having free ram, whenever I maximize an app that has been minimized for a while, XP pages like a bitch.
That's what I don't get about Windows. It seems to love paging to the hard drive. It pages when you do anything, even though you have plenty of ram space left.
One thing I noticed when first installing linux is that it hardly ever pages anything. The biggest size the swap file has gotten in Linux was 5 MBs, and that was once.
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[quote=AppleInsider]
- Apple shipped a total of 1.606 million Macs during the quarter, representing 43 percent of the company's total revenue. This included sales of 969,000 notebooks and 637,000 desktop systems.
- Very strong "MacBook Pro" quarter. Apple saw many customers "buying up the line."
- The 1.6 million Macs shipped during the quarter were much higher than what Apple had projected internally. The company is "thrilled" with Mac shipments.
- Mac sales grew at about 3 times IDC's published growth rate for the PC market during the quarter.
- The Mac has outgrown the overall PC market 8 of the last 9 quarters.
- The Pro market met internal expectations for the quarter, but those expectations were tempered by customers still waiting on the next version of Adobe Creative Suite. Lots of positive feedback from the Photoshop CS3 beta released by Adobe last month.
- Boot Camp downloads have exceeded 1.5 million. The Windows compatibility software continues to be "a great interest to a number of different people."
- A survey of student buyers shows that the intent to buy a Mac portable has increased to 28 percent from 17 percent.
- Apple sold 21.066 million iPods during the quarter, representing a 50 percent increase in units and 18 percent increase in revenue year-over-year. Sequentially iPods grew 141 percent in units and 120 percent in revenue.
- All three iPod models did exceptionally well during the quarter.
- The iPod share of the US digital music player market was 72 percent in December according to NPD.
- During the quarter, the iPod gained share in every international country for which data is available.
- iTunes continues to lead the legal download market, with an over 85 percent share.
- Apple retail saw approximately 28 million visitors during the quarter, or 13,000 visitors per store, per week. The company expects to open 7 stores during the March quarter and 35-40 overall in fiscal 2007.
- Apple increased its cash balance during the quarter by a staggering $1.75 billion to end with $11.9 billion.
[/quote]Seems like it's a good time to be a Macolyte.
You may need to push the FN key unlike OS X though.
I plan on getting a mac notebook before I go to law school (if they can accomodate macs with the testing software) so I'm not sure if being a lawyer/lawstudent would mean that I would be better suited to getting the future (next two or three years) equivelant of the MacBook Pro (Professional) or the MacBook (Consumer).
If anything I wrote was too jumbled and confusing let me know, I'm kind of typing this in a rush.
You may want to wait for Office 2008 before buying Office. (Apparently to be released in the summer of `07. They give the Windows and Mac versions different years.) And if you don't need it NOW, wait until Spring/Summer for Leopard.
Well Macs are for anyone just like Windows is for anyone. As long as you can get the programs you need (I would assume Microsoft Office) then going in any direction would be good for your needs.
1. It's using workstation-class hardware (Mac Pro).
2. It's not using integrated graphics (MacBook Pro).
Essentially, if you were using high-end, professional applications (Final Cut Pro, Maya, etc.), you would consider Pro-class hardware for the simple fact that the 'lower-end' models would not cut it with that kind of professional workload.
If you're going to be doing typical student work, the MacBook would be perfect. If you want to game or edit video or whatever else would be hampered by not having a dedicated video card/chipset/whatever, I'd consider a MacBook Pro.
Thanks alot.
I don't plan on buying a Mac until the next generation of portables comes out. I still have around three more years of undergrad (not to mention my current laptop's warranty) so I'll be admiring apple hardware from afar for awhile and waiting won't be a problem.
I don't plan on doing anything heavy duty with my computer. The only game I would play would be WoW, and I promised myself I wouldn't play that during school semesters in an attempt to keep my grades up. This thing is going to be used mostly for email, word processing, and web browsing. Plus someplace to store my iTunes collection.
From what I understand, video editing and rendering has very little to do with the graphics chipset and pretty much everything to do with the processor. Games and 3d rendering are the opposite, relying heavily on the graphics chip.
[quote=Apple.com/Final Cut Pro]Final Cut Studio is not supported on systems using the Intel Extreme Graphics 950 GMA[/quote]
Editing isn't videocard-intensive, but rendering and compositing is -- especially if you want to do both in realtime.
As for the consumer/professional distinction, Apple is one of the few companies that actually draws that line accurately. For most companies, the "gimped" version is their consumer line, which offers some horrible templates with no real options or flexibility. Their pro line is confusing to the point where you'd have to go to school for 2 years. With Apple, I initially figured that I needed Final Cut Pro and all these other fancy tools. But, shit, iMovie is sweet! I mean, I generally just chop things up, add some music, maybe fix some colors/contrast, and it's good to go. I'm not making Lord of the Wings or anything.
So yeah, unless you truly need something on the pro-level, you're often fine getting by with the cheaper 'consumer' level software. Which is quite nice, both for your wallet and for the time spent learning it.
YMMV then on the intel processors, I have no complaints on my g4
Editing isn't videocard-intensive, but rendering and compositing is -- especially if you want to do both in realtime.[/quote]
While not all of Final Cut Studio can be run efficiently on a MacBook, Final Cut Pro most certainly can... I use it very frequently.
It seems somewhat weird that you can't put them where you want, and they'd never stay there.
Am I missing something?
Probably just give up for now and try again over the weekend with a new tutorial.
Delete com.apple.Finder.plist from /Users/<your username>/Library/Preferences/
Space on my lappy is becoming pretty tight and I'd like to conserve as much as I could becuase my music collection is always increasing.
Also along with a WinZip like app, if anyone has any other tips for conserving hard disk space I'd greatly appreciate them.
1 more thing. Does anyone have any tips for cleaning ones laptop? Because mine is getting kinda gross from the oil in my hands.
I'm using StuffIt.
Does anyone know of a "free-er" solution? Being a starving College Student isn't condusive to buying a lot of software.
There's a free version on that site.
Also consider getting an external hard drive. I have an 80gb hard drive on my computer and it was filling up fast, so I got a 250gb hard drive for 89.99. If you search around on Newegg, you'll find all kinds of crazy deals.
Maybe he wants them to pay him to download it?
Also, from what I recall Stuffit has the most hostile free trial system I've ever laid eyes on. Last time I checked, they wanted a credit card number and everything for trials, and make you jump through email confirmation hoops.
It's real free if you just want to expand files, though.
Check out http://www.unrarx.com/ I've found it works pretty darn welll.
Use Monolingual (http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/). This app will delete all the foreign language fonts/support that you never use from the OS. You can recover 1.5 to 2 gigs of disk space by removing all that crap.
You also might want to invest in an app like AppZapper (http://www.appzapper.com/). Apps like these will *completely* remove an application when you want to uninstall it. OS X's uninstaller, no matter how much the zealots will disagree, blows ass and doesn't remove everything related to whatever app you're uninstalling.
Lastly, uninstall all the apps you never use. OS X comes pre-installed with as much bloatware as XP does, so if you take the time to remove the garbage you don't use, you'll recover some space.
Remove your battery and wipe the notebook down with a damp (not wet) wash cloth.
Help? Thanks!