Anyone notice that Apple updated the white plastic macbook up to almost the same specs as the low end unibody? the white one now has a better processor, the 9400M graphics, 2GB ram standard, all the goodies. only thing that doesn't match is that it still has DDR2 ram instead of DDR3.
Makes the White one a better deal than the "cheap" unibody one now I think.
Wow, that's kind of cool.
Wonder how much of a difference the DDR2 would make for gaming? Cause the unibody is prettier, but I'm not sure it's $300 prettier.
i don't think you'll see much, if any difference between 2GB of DDR2 and 2GB of DDR3. Although.......the Macbook is not really for gaming anyway =/.
But yea, the aluminum body and DDR3 are definitely not worth $300.
i don't think you'll see much, if any difference between 2GB of DDR2 and 2GB of DDR3. Although.......the Macbook is not really for gaming anyway =/.
Actually I did some looking and it seems the nVidia 9400m isn't a bad chip. I've seen videos of the unibody Macbook running Left 4 Dead and CoD4 pretty nicely.
i don't think you'll see much, if any difference between 2GB of DDR2 and 2GB of DDR3. Although.......the Macbook is not really for gaming anyway =/.
Actually I did some looking and it seems the nVidia 9400m isn't a bad chip. I've seen videos of the unibody Macbook running Left 4 Dead and CoD4 pretty nicely.
Benchmarks I've seen make it look comparable to the X1600 in my MacBook Pro, which is "good enough" for a lot of things, where by "a lot of things" I mean Source games at medium settings.
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Well I got a macbook to work on from the university, and it has been great until now. I wanted to pick up a mouse for it myself, but I am not sure which ones are compatible with it while being affordable and decent for use. I am looking for a simple wired optical mouse that is not too expensive, any good recommendations ?
None of that crazy-amount-of-buttons rubbish, goes into your USB port, is white. (If you have a MacBook of a different color, you can buy this in black, too: I have a white one for my Mac and a black one for my PC.)
Well I got a macbook to work on from the university, and it has been great until now. I wanted to pick up a mouse for it myself, but I am not sure which ones are compatible with it while being affordable and decent for use. I am looking for a simple wired optical mouse that is not too expensive, any good recommendations ?
None of that crazy-amount-of-buttons rubbish, goes into your USB port, is white. (If you have a MacBook of a different color, you can buy this in black, too: I have a white one for my Mac and a black one for my PC.)
I ordered one of those recently, was really disappointed. Feels hella cheap, side buttons are amazingly easy to click by accident so it's not worth binding them to anything.
Edit: Wait, that's a different MS mouse isn't it. Still, that type feels light and cheap too. I guess I am a little spoiled by my Logitech though.
ok posted this in H/A but maybe someone here might know
I made a Powerpoint file that contains graphs for a paper i am publishing. this was made on windows office 2007 version of powerpoint. i did this because the graphing program i use is windows only and wouldn't paste into the mac version of ppt.
when i open the windows created version of the file on the mac version, things are cut off and some stuff is rearranged. though it does open up fine on other windows machines.
anyone else have experience with this and have a fix?
Interesting.
I deleted opera a while back, but under my 'open with' option for an animated gif, I noticed that opera was an option. I tried it and it works... I just cant find the app files anywhere... any ideas on how to find it?
Start Opera using this same method, then Command click on its icon in the Dock. That'll open a Finder window focused on the application in your filesystem.
Sweet tip, thanks! I like that it also works for folders in the dock too.
I also forgot to mention about the new updated white macbook that it actually still has the firewire 400 port. so if you were pissed that the new Macbooks didnt' have that port, go nuts with the white one, still has it.
Sweet tip, thanks! I like that it also works for folders in the dock too.
It's pretty useful. On the one hand I like that there are all of these little things hidden in the operating system, but on the other it'd be nice for Apple to come out and say "Here, do this, it will be useful" in documented form.
I also forgot to mention about the new updated white macbook that it actually still has the firewire 400 port. so if you were pissed that the new Macbooks didnt' have that port, go nuts with the white one, still has it.
The updated White Macbook looks like a sweet deal, New nVidia chipset, 9400m, FireWire and 2 gigs ram standard. Same price as the old one too.
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So, is it still the case as per the OP that I should be looking for Office 04 and not 08?
Do you have a PPC Mac? Do you need VBA in Excel? If you've answered "yes" to either question then you probably want Office 2004. Otherwise you're a fool to go with it.
Office 2004 used to be faster for me than 2008 even on Intel, but in recent updates 2008 has started up significantly quicker. Go for 2008, and be sure to update it.
Honestly, unless it's absolutely essential that you use Microsoft Office, I'd recommend saving the money and just downloading Open Office.
Really? I found OpenOffice to be worth every penny I paid for it, and nothing more. You could get by using it maybe, but it wasn't pleasant. Even word processing seemed to suck on it, somehow.
I prefer 2008 to 2004, but I never use the VBA stuff in Excel. 2008 just seems much more polished and pleasant to use.
iWork 09 is pretty too. But more expensive than Office as a student, and you'd be a fool to take iWork over Office given the choice (excluding the presentation program in iWork, which is good).
Now, when you guys are name dropping Open Office, do you mean the X11 version, or do you mean NeoOffice?
Doesn't OO3 have native support for OSX now?
Yeah, it does.
I've edited documents between Word and OO Writer and I've encountered no problems. The functionality is nearly identical between the two programs; the only reason to use Office, in my opinion, is for the 1% of features it has over the free alternatives.
If the OP wants maximum and guaranteed compatibility, I'd recommend running Excel 07 off Boot Camp and/or Virtualization software. Otherwise, Mac Office 2004 has macro support.
speaking of office has anyone had any issues opening up windows made powerpoint shows on office for mac? it has been messing up graphs etc i have inserted into the show and its annoying
Honestly, unless it's absolutely essential that you use Microsoft Office, I'd recommend saving the money and just downloading Open Office.
Really? I found OpenOffice to be worth every penny I paid for it, and nothing more. You could get by using it maybe, but it wasn't pleasant. Even word processing seemed to suck on it, somehow.
I prefer 2008 to 2004, but I never use the VBA stuff in Excel. 2008 just seems much more polished and pleasant to use.
iWork 09 is pretty too. But more expensive than Office as a student, and you'd be a fool to take iWork over Office given the choice (excluding the presentation program in iWork, which is good).
If your the kind of person who does a lot of Presentations, Keynote is worth buying iWork for.
You will never need to use powerpoint again once you have keynote.
And now, you can even control your keynote presentations from your iPhone and be a professional motherfucker, never having to look at the screen and reading your notes straight from the phone. How about that? Let's see some other piece of shit smartphones out there do that with power point.
You will never need to use powerpoint again once you have keynote.
And now, you can even control your keynote presentations from your iPhone and be a professional motherfucker, never having to look at the screen and reading your notes straight from the phone. How about that? Let's see some other piece of shit smartphones out there do that with power point.
I played with Keynote last month for my comps and never really got the love. Its got some really pretty and smooth transitions which we never use because they make my bosses sick. That was about all I noticed that was different. They both will use one screen to show notes/timers/upcoming slides if you want. I've even gone to some websites looking for what sets it apart and all I can find is some bitching about OfficeMac and some praise for Apple's templates (which again, we wouldn't use because my bosses hate anything that distracts from the slide's contents).
KeyNote 09's auto transition thing looks pretty nifty and useful for us, but I'm not paying full price again just for that.
And how the hell is staring at your phone during a presentation (not to mention trying to juggle a phone and a pointer), any better than just occasionally looking at your screen?
I'm getting a new mp3 player as my samsung one is dying quickly and I am currently stuck on transit for a few weeks to work (and possible in the future when I move next month).
Right now I'm thinking 8GB nano (4th gen) or 8GB touch (2nd gen)
nano is $150CAD
touch is $220CAD
Is the touch better enough for the cost? I want to do video playback so I imagine the increased screen real estate is helpful (I haven't seen video on a nano) and also the idea of apps is something I like. Other thing is size as I use the mp3 player at the gym so is the touch too large to easily keep in a pocket while working out? or would I be supplimenting it with something like a cheap shuffle for gym use?
And how the hell is staring at your phone during a presentation (not to mention trying to juggle a phone and a pointer), any better than just occasionally looking at your screen?
It's not. You will look like a tool by just reading what's on your slides during a presentation, no matter what source you're using to see the slides. A good presenter will know his information enough that he can just place key points on the slides, and then robustly expand on those points while looking at the audience. You could use your iPhone I guess to display bulleted notes of your key points as a self-reminder for flow purposes, something which any "piece of shit smartphone" can do. :P
Other thing is size as I use the mp3 player at the gym so is the touch too large to easily keep in a pocket while working out? or would I be supplimenting it with something like a cheap shuffle for gym use?
Personally, I wouldn't use my touch during a workout, as it definitely has some heft to it, and would piss me off. A nano is about the biggest size of mp3 player I would want to use for a workout.
And how the hell is staring at your phone during a presentation (not to mention trying to juggle a phone and a pointer), any better than just occasionally looking at your screen?
It's not. You will look like a tool by just reading what's on your slides during a presentation, no matter what source you're using to see the slides. A good presenter will know his information enough that he can just place key points on the slides, and then robustly expand on those points while looking at the audience. You could use your iPhone I guess to display bulleted notes of your key points as a self-reminder for flow purposes, something which any "piece of shit smartphone" can do. :P
Other thing is size as I use the mp3 player at the gym so is the touch too large to easily keep in a pocket while working out? or would I be supplimenting it with something like a cheap shuffle for gym use?
Personally, I wouldn't use my touch during a workout, as it definitely has some heft to it, and would piss me off. A nano is about the biggest size of mp3 player I would want to use for a workout.
Jesus.
You don't need to read from your phone. Your phone just replaces notecards, if you even use notecards at all. I don't. Your phone basically helps you move slides along rather than having to be taping on your laptop or buying a bluetooth remote or whatever.
Obviously there are stuck-ass people who hate transitions or anything with graphical flourish, but for some types of people with greater aesthetic tastes it may help you. Viewer discretion is advised.
And how the hell is staring at your phone during a presentation (not to mention trying to juggle a phone and a pointer), any better than just occasionally looking at your screen?
It's not. You will look like a tool by just reading what's on your slides during a presentation, no matter what source you're using to see the slides. A good presenter will know his information enough that he can just place key points on the slides, and then robustly expand on those points while looking at the audience. You could use your iPhone I guess to display bulleted notes of your key points as a self-reminder for flow purposes, something which any "piece of shit smartphone" can do. :P
Other thing is size as I use the mp3 player at the gym so is the touch too large to easily keep in a pocket while working out? or would I be supplimenting it with something like a cheap shuffle for gym use?
Personally, I wouldn't use my touch during a workout, as it definitely has some heft to it, and would piss me off. A nano is about the biggest size of mp3 player I would want to use for a workout.
Jesus.
You don't need to read from your phone. Your phone just replaces notecards, if you even use notecards at all. I don't. Your phone basically helps you move slides along rather than having to be taping on your laptop or buying a bluetooth remote or whatever.
Obviously there are stuck-ass people who hate transitions or anything with graphical flourish, but for some types of people with greater aesthetic tastes it may help you. Viewer discretion is advised.
So if all you meant was that your iPhone would replace notecards, then why can't other "piece of shit smartphones" handle that capability? o_O
Haha. Let me make myself clear. I just had a problem with him calling all other smartphones "shitty" because they can't interface with powerpoint, when all he's saying it's good for is to have presentation reminder notes, which can be easily created in another form (ie. text document). That is all. :P
You will never need to use powerpoint again once you have keynote.
And now, you can even control your keynote presentations from your iPhone and be a professional motherfucker, never having to look at the screen and reading your notes straight from the phone. How about that? Let's see some other piece of shit smartphones out there do that with power point.
The software has existed for winmo for ages, and you can edit the presentation on the fly. I'm pretty sure the latest version has enabled a browser mode that works with any phone. I like how you added other to the last sentence - inclusionary.
Has Apple fixed the asstacular Boot Camp drivers yet? I'd love to actually play games in Windows and have it not sound like the audio is coming out of speakers made of styrofoam.
Has Apple fixed the asstacular Boot Camp drivers yet? I'd love to actually play games in Windows and have it not sound like the audio is coming out of speakers made of styrofoam.
Noper. I even tried updating to a different one of the Realtek website, but I must have did it wrong, cause my audio is still nowhere near the quality that I get out of OS X.
When I run something in full screen on the secondary screen (the one to the right of my macbook), it makes all the dock icons and menu bar disappear.
Also, is there any way to run two instances of firefox because i'd like a forum browser open on one screen and a hulu screen on my other one. Much thanks.
Edit: Hurf durf, file > new window
The first issue still applies.
Edit 2: It seems it only happens with hulu... The ABC player works. Gonna try with VLC...
VLC just takes over my main screen, and I can't get it over to full screen. This is maddening.
Has Apple fixed the asstacular Boot Camp drivers yet? I'd love to actually play games in Windows and have it not sound like the audio is coming out of speakers made of styrofoam.
Noper. I even tried updating to a different one of the Realtek website, but I must have did it wrong, cause my audio is still nowhere near the quality that I get out of OS X.
Yeah, everywhere I go people tell me "Use these realtek drivers *link*" but it doesn't fix a damn thing.
External Speakers/Headphones sound perfect, but I really don't want to have to buy external speakers or even use them as the iMac speakers sound great and I'm trying to keep things clean.
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i don't think you'll see much, if any difference between 2GB of DDR2 and 2GB of DDR3. Although.......the Macbook is not really for gaming anyway =/.
But yea, the aluminum body and DDR3 are definitely not worth $300.
Benchmarks I've seen make it look comparable to the X1600 in my MacBook Pro, which is "good enough" for a lot of things, where by "a lot of things" I mean Source games at medium settings.
This one!
None of that crazy-amount-of-buttons rubbish, goes into your USB port, is white. (If you have a MacBook of a different color, you can buy this in black, too: I have a white one for my Mac and a black one for my PC.)
I ordered one of those recently, was really disappointed. Feels hella cheap, side buttons are amazingly easy to click by accident so it's not worth binding them to anything.
Edit: Wait, that's a different MS mouse isn't it. Still, that type feels light and cheap too. I guess I am a little spoiled by my Logitech though.
I made a Powerpoint file that contains graphs for a paper i am publishing. this was made on windows office 2007 version of powerpoint. i did this because the graphing program i use is windows only and wouldn't paste into the mac version of ppt.
when i open the windows created version of the file on the mac version, things are cut off and some stuff is rearranged. though it does open up fine on other windows machines.
anyone else have experience with this and have a fix?
Sweet tip, thanks! I like that it also works for folders in the dock too.
It's pretty useful. On the one hand I like that there are all of these little things hidden in the operating system, but on the other it'd be nice for Apple to come out and say "Here, do this, it will be useful" in documented form.
The updated White Macbook looks like a sweet deal, New nVidia chipset, 9400m, FireWire and 2 gigs ram standard. Same price as the old one too.
I've been using OO, but one of my professors is requiring Excel. :S
Really? I found OpenOffice to be worth every penny I paid for it, and nothing more. You could get by using it maybe, but it wasn't pleasant. Even word processing seemed to suck on it, somehow.
I prefer 2008 to 2004, but I never use the VBA stuff in Excel. 2008 just seems much more polished and pleasant to use.
iWork 09 is pretty too. But more expensive than Office as a student, and you'd be a fool to take iWork over Office given the choice (excluding the presentation program in iWork, which is good).
Yeah, it does.
I've edited documents between Word and OO Writer and I've encountered no problems. The functionality is nearly identical between the two programs; the only reason to use Office, in my opinion, is for the 1% of features it has over the free alternatives.
If the OP wants maximum and guaranteed compatibility, I'd recommend running Excel 07 off Boot Camp and/or Virtualization software. Otherwise, Mac Office 2004 has macro support.
If your the kind of person who does a lot of Presentations, Keynote is worth buying iWork for.
Keynote is definitely a powerpoint-killer.
And now, you can even control your keynote presentations from your iPhone and be a professional motherfucker, never having to look at the screen and reading your notes straight from the phone. How about that? Let's see some other piece of shit smartphones out there do that with power point.
KeyNote 09's auto transition thing looks pretty nifty and useful for us, but I'm not paying full price again just for that.
And how the hell is staring at your phone during a presentation (not to mention trying to juggle a phone and a pointer), any better than just occasionally looking at your screen?
I'm getting a new mp3 player as my samsung one is dying quickly and I am currently stuck on transit for a few weeks to work (and possible in the future when I move next month).
Right now I'm thinking 8GB nano (4th gen) or 8GB touch (2nd gen)
nano is $150CAD
touch is $220CAD
Is the touch better enough for the cost? I want to do video playback so I imagine the increased screen real estate is helpful (I haven't seen video on a nano) and also the idea of apps is something I like. Other thing is size as I use the mp3 player at the gym so is the touch too large to easily keep in a pocket while working out? or would I be supplimenting it with something like a cheap shuffle for gym use?
It's not. You will look like a tool by just reading what's on your slides during a presentation, no matter what source you're using to see the slides. A good presenter will know his information enough that he can just place key points on the slides, and then robustly expand on those points while looking at the audience. You could use your iPhone I guess to display bulleted notes of your key points as a self-reminder for flow purposes, something which any "piece of shit smartphone" can do. :P
Personally, I wouldn't use my touch during a workout, as it definitely has some heft to it, and would piss me off. A nano is about the biggest size of mp3 player I would want to use for a workout.
Jesus.
You don't need to read from your phone. Your phone just replaces notecards, if you even use notecards at all. I don't. Your phone basically helps you move slides along rather than having to be taping on your laptop or buying a bluetooth remote or whatever.
Obviously there are stuck-ass people who hate transitions or anything with graphical flourish, but for some types of people with greater aesthetic tastes it may help you. Viewer discretion is advised.
So if all you meant was that your iPhone would replace notecards, then why can't other "piece of shit smartphones" handle that capability? o_O
The software has existed for winmo for ages, and you can edit the presentation on the fly. I'm pretty sure the latest version has enabled a browser mode that works with any phone. I like how you added other to the last sentence - inclusionary.
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Noper. I even tried updating to a different one of the Realtek website, but I must have did it wrong, cause my audio is still nowhere near the quality that I get out of OS X.
When I run something in full screen on the secondary screen (the one to the right of my macbook), it makes all the dock icons and menu bar disappear.
Also, is there any way to run two instances of firefox because i'd like a forum browser open on one screen and a hulu screen on my other one. Much thanks.
Edit: Hurf durf, file > new window
The first issue still applies.
Edit 2: It seems it only happens with hulu... The ABC player works. Gonna try with VLC...
VLC just takes over my main screen, and I can't get it over to full screen. This is maddening.
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Yeah, everywhere I go people tell me "Use these realtek drivers *link*" but it doesn't fix a damn thing.
External Speakers/Headphones sound perfect, but I really don't want to have to buy external speakers or even use them as the iMac speakers sound great and I'm trying to keep things clean.
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