Core 2 Duo Macbook are more stable then the original line though, right?
The first MacBook (I have one) was only unstable for a month after its initial release; they fixed everything in software. None of the problems had to do with the CPU, they were mostly the video driver.
Good god somebody hire me to do something for them, I can't eat Super Noodles much longer
I'd be afraid of wording that the way you did. unless male prostitution is your desired career path :winky:
Is that a job offer :P
Anyway, Mac thread. I've been good to you, now I ask a favour.
Is there anyway of telling iTunes to give all tracks in an album the same album art if one of them has it? I've been using a Dashboard widget and Coverflow to add album art to my music, but it only actually adds it to the first track, and this ain't ideal.
You click on the +(music note) icon and it will display three "icons". First is to add art to the song, second is to add art for all albums (and it did it for my whole library too), last is to delete or something.
So, I called the Apple Store to inquire about exchanging my MacBook for the "update". 10% Restock Fee = $150. Are 160 MHz and 40 GB and faster SuperDrive worth the $150 or should I just be happy and elated like I already am? :[ This is really getting to me ;/
Oh, and they would put the extra gig of memory from my MacBook into the new one and transfer my HD data to the new one ;[
So, I called the Apple Store to inquire about exchanging my MacBook for the "update". 10% Restock Fee = $150. Are 160 MHz and 40 GB and faster SuperDrive worth the $150 or should I just be happy and elated like I already am? :[ This is really getting to me ;/
Oh, and they would put the extra gig of memory from my MacBook into the new one and transfer my HD data to the new one ;[
you wont' notice 160MHz, but if $150 is worth the extra $40GB space to you, and they will transfer the ram and your data to the new one for free, then do it.
Personally, I'd do it just because they will transfer the data over for free and not screw you over on the ram.
I'm not impressed with the update. At least now the Macbook Pros are less enticing to me so I can save up instead of blowing a wad I don't even rightly have yet.
About a year ago - I tried to use gmail with Apple Mail. It didnt really work, the "conversation" style gmail uses resulted in my sent emails coming back in my inbox etc.
Does anyone know if this issue has been addressed? are there any plugings for it, or gmail settings? Does anyone do this successfully?
Just make a rule in Apple mail that automatically moves email you sent using the web interface to the sent items folder in Apple mail.
1. Go to Mail>Preferences>Rules tab
2. Click "Add Rule"
3. Use the following settings:
a. If "any" of the following conditions are met:
b. "From" "Contains" "youremail@gmail.com"
c. Perform the following actions: "Move Message" to mailbox: "Sent"
4. Click OK
Now, any time you open Apple mail after sending email from the web interface, the email you sent will automatically go to the sent folder in Apple mail.
About a year ago - I tried to use gmail with Apple Mail. It didnt really work, the "conversation" style gmail uses resulted in my sent emails coming back in my inbox etc.
Does anyone know if this issue has been addressed? are there any plugings for it, or gmail settings? Does anyone do this successfully?
Just make a rule in Apple mail that automatically moves email you sent using the web interface to the sent items folder in Apple mail.
1. Go to Mail>Preferences>Rules tab
2. Click "Add Rule"
3. Use the following settings:
a. If "any" of the following conditions are met:
b. "From" "Contains" "youremail@gmail.com"
c. Perform the following actions: "Move Message" to mailbox: "Sent"
4. Click OK
Now, any time you open Apple mail after sending email from the web interface, the email you sent will automatically go to the sent folder in Apple mail.
How Can I organize my mail, so when I recieve mails how can I sorth them out in folders I created in mail?
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I remember hearing about a program that was faster and better for Spotlight before I got my Mac.
What was this program?
Quicksilver.
The functionality doesn't totally overlap though. Quicksilver is mostly a quicklaunch and I find it bad at sorting search results, say, for a document, and sometimes it prioritizes totally bullshit things. Spotlight is still better if say I need to find my grandmother's phone number but have no idea where I saved it or whether it was in an email or a text file or what.
Quicksilver has other fantastic functionality though, like adding universal hotkeys to iTunes, and performing actions on the things you find (though that's not always practical thanks to how. fucking. long. it takes to load the actions menu). However, there are a lot of plugins that seem like they might be useful (Xcode module?), but come with no info as to how they might actually be used.
About a year ago - I tried to use gmail with Apple Mail. It didnt really work, the "conversation" style gmail uses resulted in my sent emails coming back in my inbox etc.
Does anyone know if this issue has been addressed? are there any plugings for it, or gmail settings? Does anyone do this successfully?
Just make a rule in Apple mail that automatically moves email you sent using the web interface to the sent items folder in Apple mail.
1. Go to Mail>Preferences>Rules tab
2. Click "Add Rule"
3. Use the following settings:
a. If "any" of the following conditions are met:
b. "From" "Contains" "youremail@gmail.com"
c. Perform the following actions: "Move Message" to mailbox: "Sent"
4. Click OK
Now, any time you open Apple mail after sending email from the web interface, the email you sent will automatically go to the sent folder in Apple mail.
How Can I organize my mail, so when I recieve mails how can I sorth them out in folders I created in mail?
Mail rules are your friend, man. You can have Apple mail filter your mail through rules based on pretty much any criteria you can think of.
Example: Let's say you want all email from your mom to go to the "Mom" folder.
1. Go to Mail>Preferences>Rules tab
2. Click "Add Rule"
3. Use the following settings:
a. If "any" of the following conditions are met:
b. "From" "Contains" "mymom@gmail.com"
c. Perform the following actions: "Move Message" to mailbox: "Mom"
4. Click OK
Again, you can set them to filter pretty much any variable related to email: subject line, date, message content, etc. It's a very versatile feature.
Is anyone using Parallels on a MacBook? I registered for the matlab kit that's supposed to be free, but hasn't been sent to me yet. Class just started today, so I can't really wait for it to come, if ever. My roommate has a copy of Matlab I'd be using, and I downloaded the Parallels trial version. I have a 60 gig HD, with 15 gigs reserved for Boot Camp, and ~5-6 gigs left free. When I try to run XP off my Boot Camp partition with Parallels, it always says not enough memory. I'd be fine restoring my 15 gigs of Boot Camp back, since I hardly use it anymore (I'm assuming it's on Apple's site somewhere), but would the added 15 or so gigs make Matlab via Parallels workable?
*edit* tl;dr 5 gigs isn't enough for using XP via Parallels on a MacBook, will another 10 or 15 (I'll have to reinstall XP with Parallels after doing this) do the trick?
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okay the update wasn't enough to make me want to return mine
okay the update wasn't enough to make me want to return mine
160MHz and 40GB isn't worth the hassle
Yeah I was super pissed that I bought one last week, until I saw the details. If I needed larger numbers, I would have bought the Pro to begin with. It still stings a little, but it's not soul crushing.
Ugh, I am in a bit of a situation. I am going to college next year and every student gets a new-ish Dell laptop. I however have really wanted to get a Macbook. I can use the Macbook but I will still have to pay and receive the Dell.
With this light update I'm thinking maybe I would be better off holding off on the Macbook, using the Dell for a while, and when it gets a real upgrade then I will go all out for the Macbook. I don't know what to do.
Is anyone using Parallels on a MacBook? I registered for the matlab kit that's supposed to be free, but hasn't been sent to me yet. Class just started today, so I can't really wait for it to come, if ever. My roommate has a copy of Matlab I'd be using, and I downloaded the Parallels trial version. I have a 60 gig HD, with 15 gigs reserved for Boot Camp, and ~5-6 gigs left free. When I try to run XP off my Boot Camp partition with Parallels, it always says not enough memory. I'd be fine restoring my 15 gigs of Boot Camp back, since I hardly use it anymore (I'm assuming it's on Apple's site somewhere), but would the added 15 or so gigs make Matlab via Parallels workable?
*edit* tl;dr 5 gigs isn't enough for using XP via Parallels on a MacBook, will another 10 or 15 (I'll have to reinstall XP with Parallels after doing this) do the trick?
I'm not sure why parallels isn't working for you. Granted, with only 1 GB of RAM (wait, do you only have 512? IIRC the lowest MacBook had that until recently, and you need at least a GB to even contemplate using Parallels in any significant way) it can get very slow (I recommend setting the VM to 320 MB, which seemed to give me the best performance at 1 GB), but the most recent version worked fantastic with Boot Camp on my MB Pro. Basically you tell it to use Boot Camp, it starts up, installs its software, and you're good (though you might have to reactive XP again, not sure if they fixed that completely).
I have 2 gigs of ram. I set-up Parallels to use my BootCamp partition to run XP, and I had 5-6 gigs of free HD space. I upped the ram to 768 megs, and still wouldn't turn on.
Ugh, I am in a bit of a situation. I am going to college next year and every student gets a new-ish Dell laptop. I however have really wanted to get a Macbook. I can use the Macbook but I will still have to pay and receive the Dell.
With this light update I'm thinking maybe I would be better off holding off on the Macbook, using the Dell for a while, and when it gets a real upgrade then I will go all out for the Macbook. I don't know what to do.
Tell your school that you are bringing your own laptop, and that they are seriously bent if they won't let you use your own platform.
If that doesn't work, just use the Dell. When it's a choice between $1000 and free, it just isn't worth it.
I have 2 gigs of ram. I set-up Parallels to use my BootCamp partition to run XP, and I had 5-6 gigs of free HD space. I upped the ram to 768 megs, and still wouldn't turn on.
So what exactly is the error message? You can certainly ditch Boot Camp and try an image, but without more knowledge of the problem I can't guarantee it'll be any different. (XP can run off 10 GB I know for a fact, and Parallels images start small and only expand as needed.)
If it is indeed "out of memory" or somesuch, it could very well mean virtual memory, as you mentioned you only have 5 GB or so free in Mac land.
Apple's done the Mac+iPod thing over the summer every summer for the past several years. Do you seriously thing this year they decided "nah, let's not print money"?
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I'm eyeing a Macbook for college next year. My dad hasn't been a fan of Apple since the 1980s, and he's definitely not going to buy me a Macbook over a Dell with similar specs if it's $100+ more. Does anyone have a good article on hand about how while a Macbook might cost more, it's still just as good of a value?
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Ok, is there any true reason to choose a macbook over a vista counterpart that has roughly the same specs but is quite a bit cheaper? I'm looking into getting a laptop, but I'm not entirely too sure if I should go with a dell or a macbook. So really, you guys sell me on a mac.
I'm eyeing a Macbook for college next year. My dad hasn't been a fan of Apple since the 1980s, and he's definitely not going to buy me a Macbook over a Dell with similar specs if it's $100+ more. Does anyone have a good article on hand about how while a Macbook might cost more, it's still just as good of a value?
Also, somebody asked about dashboard widgets...many people like iStat mini (I think that's what it's called). And you must get the dancing hula girl widget (you can change it to dancing homer or dancing jesus, too!)
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Mac OSX just works, with very little screwing around. I'm looking for a laptop now myself, and there is no way I could go back to a Windows system after spending eight months using my iMac.
I'm eyeing a Macbook for college next year. My dad hasn't been a fan of Apple since the 1980s, and he's definitely not going to buy me a Macbook over a Dell with similar specs if it's $100+ more. Does anyone have a good article on hand about how while a Macbook might cost more, it's still just as good of a value?
Go and get specific numbers. I may very well be crazy, but I just priced out the cheapest MacBook and a Dell XPS M1210, which uses a lot of the same components (same RAM specs, same Intel graphics model, roughly the same processor, etc) and I'm told is an equivalent machine; after doing nothing other than bumping both up to 2gb of RAM (and Apple's RAM is notoriously overpriced), the MacBook was cheaper, and this is with a 2.0gHz processor instead of the Dell's 1.8, before the Mac educational discount, and without adding a built-in webcam or 802.11n support to the Dell.
I then tricked out a black MacBook on Apple's store (2gb of RAM, 200gb HD), and then priced out an equivalent XPS M1210 (2.16gHz, 2GB RAM, 200gb, 802.11n, webcam), and the MacBook was $500 less. It's entirely possible there's something crucial I'm missing, but it would appear to me that the MacBooks are cheaper than the Dells despite using almost exactly the same internal components.
I priced a Dell at $1,083 with roughly the equivalent stats as MacBook, except with a 15" screen. Note that I'm 100% Apple fan, but don't start with XPSes, they have fancy video cards in them. In fact, the cheapest Core 2 from Dell has a X1400, an arguably better video card. (Although both the MB and Dell laptop shares VRAM with the main RAM.) However, they are roughly the same and I didn't account for inherent benefits like OS X vs Vista Home Basic, iLife, etc.
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Ok, is there any true reason to choose a macbook over a vista counterpart that has roughly the same specs but is quite a bit cheaper? I'm looking into getting a laptop, but I'm not entirely too sure if I should go with a dell or a macbook. So really, you guys sell me on a mac.
You are not going to find any decent Core 2 laptop for less than $1000. So why not a MacBook. You additionally are not going to find any decent gaming-class Core 2 laptop for less than $1500, but then why are you looking at a Mac for anything gaming-class.
Now I'm positively baffled by Dell. I'm not arguing with you, I was able to price out a PC like yours and it is indeed slightly cheaper than a MacBook. This still doesn't explain the XPSes; when I priced them out to more than a similarly-equipped MB, the default XPS graphics card was the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, the exact same one they use in the MB. Either I'm missing something (as, once again, I highly suspect), or the XPS series is one overpriced motha.
Anyhoo, to actually contribute something of more substance than veiled fanboyism... Crayon, I would really suggest going into an Apple Store if there is one near you. There are a bunch of nifty little design features of the MacBooks (magnetic power cable, non-gunk-attracting keyboard, etc), but it's really about getting a feel for OS X. To me, it's just that much more graceful than Vista. It's not without its problems, but it is more stable than Windows (if only for the combination of the Unix base and not being a virus target) and to me (after the initial adjustment period), the interface makes a hell of a lot more sense from a design perspective. If it's your sort of thing, iLife is also really cool for what it is.
So, the other day - I'm preparing these photos I took to email them to a few people. I'm manually resizing them, being careful not to overwrite the originals etc. Then I read something about this "Automator" app that I've been meaning to explore. About 4 minute later, I now have the facility to right click on any image and have the option to resize them to a predefined size automatically.
No fuss, no muss. And here I was clicking away like a chump for over a year...
So, it got me to thinking.
What other useful automator actions to you guys find useful? I'm having trouble thinking of examples to try, but there must be a few time-savers we could share with one another.
I dont use Flickr, but this little gem seemed pretty damned useful.
So, the other day - I'm preparing these photos I took to email them to a few people. I'm manually resizing them, being careful not to overwrite the originals etc. Then I read something about this "Automator" app that I've been meaning to explore. About 4 minute later, I now have the facility to right click on any image and have the option to resize them to a predefined size automatically.
No fuss, no muss. And here I was clicking away like a chump for over a year...
So, it got me to thinking.
What other useful automator actions to you guys find useful? I'm having trouble thinking of examples to try, but there must be a few time-savers we could share with one another.
I dont use Flickr, but this little gem seemed pretty damned useful.
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I don't use Automator as much as I could. I've used it for the traditional Windows ability to right click on an image file and set it as my desktop background.
Other than that, I'm much more fond of using Applescripts to sort the tons of files I download directly to my desktop every week or so. I would also suggest people install and play around with Xcode. I've found it very easy to make small utilities that you can use for your own purposes. And, since you made them...the price is perfect.
Edit: Just thought of an automator action I created to help a woman at work. She would select a folder and right click to print. This worked...it opened the files and sent each one to the printer but then, for some reason, it kept all the files open. The Automator action I made to do the exact same function (with the added choice of which printer to send to) would open the document, print it to selected printer, and close it. I did nothing more than add "Print file" to "Finder."
Not sure how the makes it different from the built-in action the Finder wants to do but it worked out great for her.
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The first MacBook (I have one) was only unstable for a month after its initial release; they fixed everything in software. None of the problems had to do with the CPU, they were mostly the video driver.
For the record. PA forumers answers questions a lot faster than any other "speacialist" forum I've been on. We should be proud of that, and thanks.
I'd be afraid of wording that the way you did. unless male prostitution is your desired career path :winky:
Is that a job offer :P
Anyway, Mac thread. I've been good to you, now I ask a favour.
Is there anyway of telling iTunes to give all tracks in an album the same album art if one of them has it? I've been using a Dashboard widget and Coverflow to add album art to my music, but it only actually adds it to the first track, and this ain't ideal.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/albumartwidget.html
You click on the +(music note) icon and it will display three "icons". First is to add art to the song, second is to add art for all albums (and it did it for my whole library too), last is to delete or something.
Oh, and they would put the extra gig of memory from my MacBook into the new one and transfer my HD data to the new one ;[
you wont' notice 160MHz, but if $150 is worth the extra $40GB space to you, and they will transfer the ram and your data to the new one for free, then do it.
Personally, I'd do it just because they will transfer the data over for free and not screw you over on the ram.
Just make a rule in Apple mail that automatically moves email you sent using the web interface to the sent items folder in Apple mail.
1. Go to Mail>Preferences>Rules tab
2. Click "Add Rule"
3. Use the following settings:
a. If "any" of the following conditions are met:
b. "From" "Contains" "youremail@gmail.com"
c. Perform the following actions: "Move Message" to mailbox: "Sent"
4. Click OK
Now, any time you open Apple mail after sending email from the web interface, the email you sent will automatically go to the sent folder in Apple mail.
What was this program?
How Can I organize my mail, so when I recieve mails how can I sorth them out in folders I created in mail?
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Quicksilver.
The functionality doesn't totally overlap though. Quicksilver is mostly a quicklaunch and I find it bad at sorting search results, say, for a document, and sometimes it prioritizes totally bullshit things. Spotlight is still better if say I need to find my grandmother's phone number but have no idea where I saved it or whether it was in an email or a text file or what.
Quicksilver has other fantastic functionality though, like adding universal hotkeys to iTunes, and performing actions on the things you find (though that's not always practical thanks to how. fucking. long. it takes to load the actions menu). However, there are a lot of plugins that seem like they might be useful (Xcode module?), but come with no info as to how they might actually be used.
Mail rules are your friend, man. You can have Apple mail filter your mail through rules based on pretty much any criteria you can think of.
Example: Let's say you want all email from your mom to go to the "Mom" folder.
1. Go to Mail>Preferences>Rules tab
2. Click "Add Rule"
3. Use the following settings:
a. If "any" of the following conditions are met:
b. "From" "Contains" "mymom@gmail.com"
c. Perform the following actions: "Move Message" to mailbox: "Mom"
4. Click OK
Again, you can set them to filter pretty much any variable related to email: subject line, date, message content, etc. It's a very versatile feature.
*edit* tl;dr 5 gigs isn't enough for using XP via Parallels on a MacBook, will another 10 or 15 (I'll have to reinstall XP with Parallels after doing this) do the trick?
160MHz and 40GB isn't worth the hassle
Yeah I was super pissed that I bought one last week, until I saw the details. If I needed larger numbers, I would have bought the Pro to begin with. It still stings a little, but it's not soul crushing.
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With this light update I'm thinking maybe I would be better off holding off on the Macbook, using the Dell for a while, and when it gets a real upgrade then I will go all out for the Macbook. I don't know what to do.
I'm not sure why parallels isn't working for you. Granted, with only 1 GB of RAM (wait, do you only have 512? IIRC the lowest MacBook had that until recently, and you need at least a GB to even contemplate using Parallels in any significant way) it can get very slow (I recommend setting the VM to 320 MB, which seemed to give me the best performance at 1 GB), but the most recent version worked fantastic with Boot Camp on my MB Pro. Basically you tell it to use Boot Camp, it starts up, installs its software, and you're good (though you might have to reactive XP again, not sure if they fixed that completely).
Tell your school that you are bringing your own laptop, and that they are seriously bent if they won't let you use your own platform.
If that doesn't work, just use the Dell. When it's a choice between $1000 and free, it just isn't worth it.
So what exactly is the error message? You can certainly ditch Boot Camp and try an image, but without more knowledge of the problem I can't guarantee it'll be any different. (XP can run off 10 GB I know for a fact, and Parallels images start small and only expand as needed.)
If it is indeed "out of memory" or somesuch, it could very well mean virtual memory, as you mentioned you only have 5 GB or so free in Mac land.
I probably should
what are some good widgets for it
although I think I disabled it to save memory
http://www.apple.com/getamac/
Seriously, Apple's site has a ton of good stuff.
Also, somebody asked about dashboard widgets...many people like iStat mini (I think that's what it's called). And you must get the dancing hula girl widget (you can change it to dancing homer or dancing jesus, too!)
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Go and get specific numbers. I may very well be crazy, but I just priced out the cheapest MacBook and a Dell XPS M1210, which uses a lot of the same components (same RAM specs, same Intel graphics model, roughly the same processor, etc) and I'm told is an equivalent machine; after doing nothing other than bumping both up to 2gb of RAM (and Apple's RAM is notoriously overpriced), the MacBook was cheaper, and this is with a 2.0gHz processor instead of the Dell's 1.8, before the Mac educational discount, and without adding a built-in webcam or 802.11n support to the Dell.
I then tricked out a black MacBook on Apple's store (2gb of RAM, 200gb HD), and then priced out an equivalent XPS M1210 (2.16gHz, 2GB RAM, 200gb, 802.11n, webcam), and the MacBook was $500 less. It's entirely possible there's something crucial I'm missing, but it would appear to me that the MacBooks are cheaper than the Dells despite using almost exactly the same internal components.
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You are not going to find any decent Core 2 laptop for less than $1000. So why not a MacBook. You additionally are not going to find any decent gaming-class Core 2 laptop for less than $1500, but then why are you looking at a Mac for anything gaming-class.
Anyhoo, to actually contribute something of more substance than veiled fanboyism... Crayon, I would really suggest going into an Apple Store if there is one near you. There are a bunch of nifty little design features of the MacBooks (magnetic power cable, non-gunk-attracting keyboard, etc), but it's really about getting a feel for OS X. To me, it's just that much more graceful than Vista. It's not without its problems, but it is more stable than Windows (if only for the combination of the Unix base and not being a virus target) and to me (after the initial adjustment period), the interface makes a hell of a lot more sense from a design perspective. If it's your sort of thing, iLife is also really cool for what it is.
No fuss, no muss. And here I was clicking away like a chump for over a year...
So, it got me to thinking.
What other useful automator actions to you guys find useful? I'm having trouble thinking of examples to try, but there must be a few time-savers we could share with one another.
I dont use Flickr, but this little gem seemed pretty damned useful.
Share the love!
I don't use Automator as much as I could. I've used it for the traditional Windows ability to right click on an image file and set it as my desktop background.
Other than that, I'm much more fond of using Applescripts to sort the tons of files I download directly to my desktop every week or so. I would also suggest people install and play around with Xcode. I've found it very easy to make small utilities that you can use for your own purposes. And, since you made them...the price is perfect.
Edit: Just thought of an automator action I created to help a woman at work. She would select a folder and right click to print. This worked...it opened the files and sent each one to the printer but then, for some reason, it kept all the files open. The Automator action I made to do the exact same function (with the added choice of which printer to send to) would open the document, print it to selected printer, and close it. I did nothing more than add "Print file" to "Finder."
Not sure how the makes it different from the built-in action the Finder wants to do but it worked out great for her.
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