Hello, I'm a [Mac Thread]

Crazy Old Morise

THE OFFICIAL MACINTOSH THREAD.
for pretty much everything made by Apple that is not the iPod.
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So I made the original thread when I first got my iMac Core Duo. Since then I've pretty much figured out what you need to get everything up to snuff.

Video Playback:

VLC: This will cover pretty much everything except QT. EDIT: VLC now handles WMV like a charm, so yay!

Flip4Mac: Plug this into QT to handle all your WMV/wmv streaming needs.



Torrents:

Azureus: My personal favorite, with a great suite of options, and it seems to have more success in general at connecting to trackers.

Bits on Wheels: Kinda bare-bones, but completely native, if thats your thing.



[Chat] software:

Adium: My personal favorite chat program, and probably the only one you'll need besides...

Snak: mIRC for the mac. Yessir.



Miscellaneous:

Connect 360: If you have an XBOX360, but not a PC, and want music etc. on your BOX, this is your program.

USB Overdrive: If you don't use the mighty mouse (and who could blame you?) or even if you do, you will probably like this plug in.


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Also make sure to check out Apple's site now and then, they put up nice streams of all their keynotes, and have some great support.


So, yeah, ... macs rule.

Threepio

First Poast.

Future Shop and Best Buy have pre-orders up for iPods. I wrote the content on my MacBook . It was a fun day on Tuesday.

Kriz

I have heard recent rumblings of a new Mac Cube in the works.

Engadget just had an article about a week ago where they found a recent Apple patent for a "cube shaped computer case".

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/07/a-new-apple-cube-on-the-horizon/

Migliori

Kriz wrote:

I have heard recent rumblings of a new Mac Cube in the works.

Engadget just had an article about a week ago where they found a recent Apple patent for a "cube shaped computer case".

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/07/a-new-apple-cube-on-the-horizon/

Hopefully that's correct and we see something soon. Apple have left a big gap in their range currently.

GiantRobo

Migliori wrote:

Kriz wrote:

I have heard recent rumblings of a new Mac Cube in the works.

Engadget just had an article about a week ago where they found a recent Apple patent for a "cube shaped computer case".

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/07/a-new-apple-cube-on-the-horizon/

Hopefully that's correct and we see something soon. Apple have left a big gap in their range currently.

Are there just people that sit around looking for new patents from big companies to try to guess what their new product(s) will be?

Terrorbyte

Love the new title.

Vanilla Coke

I'm gonna be getting a macbook soon. It'll be sexylicious.

Migliori

GiantRobo wrote:

Migliori wrote:

Kriz wrote:

I have heard recent rumblings of a new Mac Cube in the works.

Engadget just had an article about a week ago where they found a recent Apple patent for a "cube shaped computer case".

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/07/a-new-apple-cube-on-the-horizon/

Hopefully that's correct and we see something soon. Apple have left a big gap in their range currently.

Are there just people that sit around looking for new patents from big companies to try to guess what their new product(s) will be?

I'm sure some people get a kick out of researching patents, and then there will be those in the patent industry or some other profession that causes them to be aware and it gets onto the net and spreads.

Cariblue

I will post this since it didn't get answered in the old one

I was in the store today talking to a guy and we went over the differences between the 1.83 and the 2.0. I am a student with a budget and I can't really spend to much money, does the extra .17 ghz really make much of a difference. The guy at the store said basically when I am burning things.

I will mostly be using this for design purposes (Photoshop, InDesign)

catalyst

So I decided to buy a Mac for college after being a lifetime Windows user. I justified buying the MacBook Pro because I would be able to run Windows for mostly everything.

It's two months later and I havent even installed Boot Camp. Great computer and great OS!

Kriz

Cariblue wrote:

I will post this since it didn't get answered in the old one

I was in the store today talking to a guy and we went over the differences between the 1.83 and the 2.0. I am a student with a budget and I can't really spend to much money, does the extra .17 ghz really make much of a difference. The guy at the store said basically when I am burning things.

I will mostly be using this for design purposes (Photoshop, InDesign)

I doubt that anyone would notice such a small jump in CPU power. a ram upgrade would make a far bigger difference performance wise than an extra 170 mhz.

ToadTheMushroom

I want a cheap Mac Laptop computer, for nothing other than writing for work, basically a wordprocessor at most.

Something small.

Something cheap.

Ideas?

Kriz

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

I want a cheap Mac Laptop computer, for nothing other than writing for work, basically a wordprocessor at most.

Something small.

Something cheap.

Ideas?

depends on your defineition of cheap, but a refurbed iBook or Macbook would do that just fine.

SpazMuffin

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

I want a cheap Mac Laptop computer, for nothing other than writing for work, basically a wordprocessor at most.

Something small.

Something cheap.

Ideas?

Apple doesn't have a huge selection. You obviously are in the Macbook range, and proably the low end model for the price.

ToadTheMushroom

Well for cheap I mean something that does what I want, but not something fancy. I dont neccesarily want the cheapest Mac but I certainly dont want to pay for something that I dont need.

Crazy Old Morise

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

Well for cheap I mean something that does what I want, but not something fancy. I dont neccesarily want the cheapest Mac but I certainly dont want to pay for something that I dont need.

Yeah a simple macbook is all you need. You can choose what you want or not in the customization section, but there isn't much to customize anyways.

Hardtarget

Threepio wrote:

First Poast.

Future Shop and Best Buy have pre-orders up for iPods. I wrote the content on my MacBook . It was a fun day on Tuesday.

are teh preorder prices still wrong with teh 8gig nano is the same price as the 30gig ipod?

The Cheese

The 8 gig nano and the 30 gig iPod are both $300, dude.

stigweard

8Gb of flash memory isn't cheap. If it turns out to be compact flash, there could be a recurrance of hobbyist photographers buying them just to rip them out for their camera.

musanman

I bought my macbook a couple weeks ago. I put bootcamp on it like the 3rd day I had it and I think I've booted into windows like once since then.

I come home and drink a beer, put the macbook on the table and do whatever I want. Having a laptop is so liberating...having os x on said laptop is like reaching the mountaintop.

cwen82

Has anyone here used Transmission for Bittorrent? It's the best BT client I've found for the mac...largely because the GUI is so pleasing to the eye and...well...Apple-ish. I haven't tried the Bits-on-wheels program yet though.

http://transmission.m0k.org/

And anyone else here waiting on a MacBook to return from repair for the RSD? I'm so lonely without it.

SpazMuffin

The_Cheese wrote:

The 8 gig nano and the 30 gig iPod are both $250, dude.

Fixed

Brodo Faggins

cwen82 wrote:

Has anyone here used Transmission for Bittorrent? It's the best BT client I've found for the mac...largely because the GUI is so pleasing to the eye and...well...Apple-ish. I haven't tried the Bits-on-wheels program yet though.

http://transmission.m0k.org/

And anyone else here waiting on a MacBook to return from repair for the RSD? I'm so lonely without it.

I love this program, but the only thing I don't like about it is the fact that you can't decide with files within a torrent you want to exclude...other than that, it's fantastic. Azureus runs a bit slow on my PowerBook.

Spruchy

Ordered the macbook pro 17'' model today...couldnt wait for memrom anymore. Im excited.

ginguskahn

cwen82 wrote:

Has anyone here used Transmission for Bittorrent? It's the best BT client I've found for the mac...largely because the GUI is so pleasing to the eye and...well...Apple-ish. I haven't tried the Bits-on-wheels program yet though.

http://transmission.m0k.org/

And anyone else here waiting on a MacBook to return from repair for the RSD? I'm so lonely without it.

Nice link, lacks a few things I need but I will keep my eye on it. Very Apple-ish as you say

MaskedWallaby

All the other design students are making me jealous with their fully-loaded 17in Macbook Pros. As a graphic designer, would I really need a 17inch model, or can I go the 15inch route? I have a monitor at home with a DVI connection, so it's not like I can't connect it to a higher-resolution screen.

Won't be able to afford one without a loan, so I'm SOL until at least winter...which is hopefully not long before Adobe CS3 suite comes out, which should work natively with Intel-based macs. Hooray!

maximumzero

I'd like to request links for the first post.

Colloquy, another IRC application.

Tomato Torrent

maximumzero

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

Well for cheap I mean something that does what I want, but not something fancy. I dont neccesarily want the cheapest Mac but I certainly dont want to pay for something that I dont need.

Or look at the Refurb iBooks either online at Apple or someplace else.

Brodo Faggins

MaskedWallaby wrote:

All the other design students are making me jealous with their fully-loaded 17in Macbook Pros. As a graphic designer, would I really need a 17inch model, or can I go the 15inch route? I have a monitor at home with a DVI connection, so it's not like I can't connect it to a higher-resolution screen.

Won't be able to afford one without a loan, so I'm SOL until at least winter...which is hopefully not long before Adobe CS3 suite comes out, which should work natively with Intel-based macs. Hooray!

I'd get the 15 inch. Processor speed differences are negligible at this point, and with the 17 inch, you lose portability.

Salvation122

Is anyone else having serious issues with iTunes 7 playback? Anything I do anything - and I mean anything - on my machine besides scrolling down a webpage, the tracks stutter and skip, and my entire machine slows down.

pxlshftr

I can't stand itunes 7 for windows, I wish I hadn't sold my Mac right before the hot new features came out

ginguskahn

Salvation122 wrote:

Is anyone else having serious issues with iTunes 7 playback? Anything I do anything - and I mean anything - on my machine besides scrolling down a webpage, the tracks stutter and skip, and my entire machine slows down.

Loving iTunes7 on my 1.42Ghz/1Gb Ram Mac Mini (touch wood).

victor_c26

Salvation122 wrote:

Is anyone else having serious issues with iTunes 7 playback? Anything I do anything - and I mean anything - on my machine besides scrolling down a webpage, the tracks stutter and skip, and my entire machine slows down.

It looks like everyone is having different problems with it:

victor_c26 at the Apple forums wrote:

I just got the problem, when it played fine for me on the desktop while browsing the net.

I like playing music in the background while playing PC games sometimes. especially MMOs.

I noticed that the skipping/distortion bug appears when something else is also using the soundcard at the same time. In my case, it was a game.

Once I disabled all sound from the game, and restarted iTunes, that fixed the problem so far. I'm typing this message with iTunes and Silkroad (MMO) running at the same time.

iTunes used to play music just fine when playing games with sound being used by the game before. This is new.

Brodo Faggins

I'm having no problems whatsoever with iTunes 7. Just curious, are you intel mac owners having problems? My friends with PPC macs aren't, have yet to hear results from the newer macs.

ben0207

In two or three weeks time I should easily have enough wages built up that I can buy a 24" iMac. I am most excited about this.

Oh and no problems with iTunes 7 here (1.2ghz G4 eMac)

Lewisham

Can we add Quicksilver, Vienna (or NetNewsWire) and Menuet to the OP please? Oh, and iTerm, PSPWare, Cyberduck, Fugu, Fink, Handbrake, Poisoned, Seashore, TextMate and Smultron.

Thanks

Oh, and something about the Macbook vs Macbook Pro thing. About how the only difference is integrated graphics, so, right now, the MBP does not represent good value for money against the Macbook and spending the extra cash on a bigger monitor. If the MBP gets a Core2 Duo upgrade, then it's worth more consideration.

Yay.

TIE Fighter

Delicious Library is pretty awesome, though it's not quite so cool anymore now that iTunes 7 is out.

DeathsHead

Hey Mac thread, I'm thinking of sticking my macbook on a stand when I'm at home and using a cordless mouse and keyboard. Which is better to shoot for, a bluetooth Mac keyboard and Mighty Mouse (expensive option), or a cheap(er) Logitech RF combo? I could tolerate an RF dongle as long as it's not big and heavy enough to drag a Macbook of it's stand/riser.

Dratatoo

I'd get the 15 inch. Processor speed differences are negligible at this point, and with the 17 inch, you lose portability.

You can always use an external monitor with your macbook.

Project Mayhem

DeathsHead wrote:

Hey Mac thread, I'm thinking of sticking my macbook on a stand when I'm at home and using a cordless mouse and keyboard. Which is better to shoot for, a bluetooth Mac keyboard and Mighty Mouse (expensive option), or a cheap(er) Logitech RF combo? I could tolerate an RF dongle as long as it's not big and heavy enough to drag a Macbook of it's stand/riser.

You'd probably get by with the logitech... but i'd go for the apple keyboard/mouse... nothing like sexy integration

Lunker

Heya, Mackies I've got a question for you -- my fiance's a designer and she currently has a G5 20" iMac (the one without the iSight built in), which she uses for Abode CS2 and all of the other designer-y programs.

She's moving in with me, and her mother floated the idea of keeping my fiance's mac and instead buying one of the new Intel iMacs for her. However, I did some research and found that there's no universal setup for CS2, so it would be running through Rosetta and allegedly takes a performance hit as a result.

So: Any opinions on if we should take up the offer for the Intel iMac or stick with our G5? Also, will the inevitable Adobe CS3 have a universal binary, and are there any release rumors of that coming down the pipeline soon?