Apple Laptops

oh no! i remember the thread where in the end you decided to get one. what happened? do you not like it? does it suck?

I just a peek around Apple's UK site and I suspect you might be better off going direct (I'm in Canada)...

...ummm, can anyone get me a really cheap (i.e. free) copy of OSX Jaguar? My new version of Final Cut won't work without it (and I'm supposed to be a freelance editor). And am I allowed to say that here?

Please don't kill me, Mr Apple.

Nick and I are seriously considering getting an Apple Powerbook 12". It's a G4 as - opposed to the G3 Ibook - and is supposed to be better for recording and mixing music.

What say you??

airport is much more expensive than wires in the wall, or trailing across the living room floor, but it works great. However, you will have to plug your computer into the power, and much more often with airport on.

This sentence doesn't read very well. So you mean because it is power hungry?

In other news, it looks like Panther is going to be released in about two weeks.

Yellow, I tells ya. (How does that read? ha ha)

There's always Virtual PC.

OH, my dearest PowerBook G4 12", Please don't turn your back on me! Not now!

http://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/abac57c5eda094/www.apple.com/powerbook/images/nav12over09162003.gif

and installing a soulseek client on os x (it's called nicotine, haha) is pretty easy when you have access to a great guide like this: The Moron's guide to SoulSeek on a Mac.

seems like I've seen more references to purchasing new apple laptops in the past month than ever before. is it just b/c I'm paying more attention since I'm now a switcher?

But anyway, as Ned might say, RAH!

I love the glowing apple behind the screen.

Nick is home playing with the laptop. I'm at work. Blah.

Software wise, especially OS revisions, I generally let other people install them first and see what happens to them. There are lots of boards out there where people will report back within hours of an update appearing to report successes and failures.

Really, how tempting...this would include my trusty G4 Cube?

Clean install is best of all as it will wipe your disk and you can put back everything onto a clean system, but no one has that much time.

Upgrade will work just fine but you miss a great opportunity to give the system a spring clean.

I don't really mind re-installing my 3rd party apps, it's just holding onto data in my user folder (music, docs--not much else) that I care about.

Been running it on several different machines and started in on installing it on machines at work.

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An imminent G5 (or otherwise-named next-gen) PowerBook has been rumored since January 2004. Sooner or later, the rumors will be true. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

As far as the value goes, the OS is a nice perk that you can only get with an Apple laptop. As is nigh-invulnerability to malware of all kinds, for which I'd happily pay a one-time fee of, say, a few hundred bucks.

Beyond that, the 1.67gHz pbooks actually stack up pretty well against similarly configured "stylish" PC laptops (e.g., Sony VAIO with Bluetooth/wifi/80GB HD, DVD-RW). They're just less customizable and there are fewer "budget" options.

A thin'n'light would be more apples-to-apples, and the lowest I can get in comparably configured would be about $1700, saving a pound or so on a pbook but giving up a diagonal inch of screen.

Anyhoo, I freely acknowledge that you can get a PC box for less. Just not so much less, all things considered.

Of course, OS X for Intel is already rumored to have leaked into the wild, which could make this whole conversation moot (no matter how staunchly Apple insists that OS X will not be licensed for use outside of Apple machines...)

i'm not going to be doing any real graphics work but i'll be doing lots of matlab/mathematica and lots of desktop publishing.

so, um, what's better criteria?

Comparing "1.5gHz w/1GB vs. 1.67 gHz w/512MB" makes not so much sense, as the 1.67 is just as easily upgradeable. If you get the machine from Apple and opt for the 1-stick upgrade to 1GB it's actually kinda reasonably priced. Otherwise, Crucial/Other World is definitely the way to go.

The point is, it's a cheap, easy upgrade that you can do any time. So it makes sense to go for the machine with greater expandability (15"). And for desktop publishing you'll appreciate the screen (and potentially the VRAM upgrade as well (ONLY available if you order from Apple).

Haha purple money!!! Thank god only you think like that or I'd be just another drum machine busker.

OS X VNC could give you a little more time to figure out the answer, I would think.

http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html

Tom that's interesting, but I would still need a... screen.

Ed, ditto, but what the hell am I serving. Oh yeah, nothing.

There's a 1.33 GHz powerbook here for $200 less than the 1.5, except it has a Spanish keyboard!! I seriously think I might get it. Are there any other major diffs between them? I can't really tell and the staff here is a little overwhelmed.

No real diff between the 1.33 and the 1.5, other than the bleeding obvious.

Tell the salesduder @ tekserve you'll take the Apple Store offer! Show it to him! Fuck you pay me etc.

Tom I don't get it though, I would need to like, go over to a friend's house in order to use my computer, right? Unless you are talking about the SHHHH OPTICAL IMPLANTS SHHHHH I NEVER SAID THAT.

Assuming the other specs are the same, this should be a no-brainer.

A. It's a more recent vintage.
B. It has a keyboard en ingles.
C. iirc, the Apple refurbs come with a full warranty and are AppleCare eligible. (Which would be the clincher!)

Apple recalls laptop batteries
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
Friday August 25 2006
The Guardian

Apple is recalling almost 2m laptop batteries as fears of computers catching
fire spread, following a recall by Dell last week.

The company said yesterday that it had received nine reports of overheating
laptops, and was issuing an immediate global recall of 1.8m batteries in
cooperation with the US consumer product safety commission (CPSC).

Last week Dell, the world's biggest computer maker, issued a recall of more than
4m batteries after laptops caught fire.

Apple said it knew of two cases of minor burns from overheated laptops, and
asked customers to check with its website to find out if they are affected. The
recall affects a large number of 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4, and
15-inch PowerBook G4 laptops sold since October 2003. The CPSC said most were
sold in the US, but 700,000 were sold elsewhere. It is not yet clear how many
went to Britain.

Both recalls are batteries made by Sony.

The envelope I got when my iBook battery was recalled last year was a prepaid courier envelope. All I had to do was organise a time to have it picked up.

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*if they're ever released or indeed turned on

why does black Macbook http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/8376/8376134fp.gifcost more then white Macbookhttp://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/8376/8376125fp.gif?

cuz it's black. i have one they're super sweet.

Because Apple knows people will pay the premium. The specs are (or used to be) exactly the same between the top white Macbook and the black one.

the specs are slightly different. the black one is kind of inbetween the macbook & the macbook pro specs. i forget the specifics, but i've been laptop shopping & am leaning toward the black macbook.

$200 difference in cost.

i thought the specs were the same UNLESS u got the higher up black macbook

that has to be for more then jsut the color.

the black does look nice though

maybe it's material - the black exterior isn't glossy/shiny, it's a matte finish

it is really sexy

40GB of HD space for $200 - what isn't a fantastic deal about that?

Surmounter's a one man crew ensuring that no one ever buys a black Macbook again.

why's that milo?

i might just say fuck it and get the black one. stay home and drink with my new BLACK macbook instead of going out for a few weeks

You certainly pay a premium for black. You can customise the white one and bring it up to the specs of the black one if you like, and it'll still be a lot cheaper.

the specs are here:

http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html

the black one has a slightly larger hard drive. otherwise, it shares everything else with the higher white macbook.

i had an iBook for a really long time, so the thought of getting a white iBook was too much for me. i also really, really missed my old black Powerbook.

excuse me the thought of getting a white MacBook was too much. white is great but it was old.

Of course, if you happen down Buchanan Street in Glasgow on a Saturday in the very near future, you could get a McBook for £250.

???

you pay a premium cuz it looks more fashionable to some. paying more for style = not really a new concept.

(though personally i think it just makes them look like PC laptops)

way more stylin

i love black macs, cuz i always felt they were the less common mac. and black is just so great.

i love white too but something about the black seems so powerful.

which is why in terms of style, the black PowerBook has earned my fondest memories when it comes to apple laptops.

I like black in its place, but not in that styling. White forever, black never.

The black MB costs more than the white MB for the same reason the black iPod cost(s?) more than the white iPod.

Welcome to capitalism.

but the black ipod doesn't cost more?

doesn't it?

black shows scratches and shmutz more easily anyway.

but which one will help me pick up the hawter chicks?

eh debatable. my white iBook looks kinda dirty cuz it's white.

um the black for chix

sold

The black one cost much more when it was introduced. I dunno now.

The same may happen to the black iBookMacBook eventually.

The black looks more like a Thinkpad, which is nice because I'd rather have a Thinkpad than an Apple notebook anyway. Except for Windows, obviously.

I still wish I could get a MacBook Pro in a gun metal blue color

Any chick that picks you up bcz of your MacBook or laptop in general is not a girl you want to date. I made you some soup.

I made you some soup.

Best pickup line ever.

My friend K used to make pies at the drop of a hat. Like, "K, what are you doing?" "Nothing." "Would you like to make me a pie?" "Sure!"

BAM! Then you had a pie, made from SCRATCH.

Anyway, "I made you a pie." is even >>>>> than "I made you some soup."

Cozen, Grand Opening

My mom got a black MacBook a year after she bought that silvery looking Apple Laptop (which heats up so much you could warm up the entire eskimo population). She doesn't like the keyboard so much, says it's a bit of hassle. She likes to complain. :-)

I regret having bought an iMAC, should have gone with a laptop. :-(

Cozen, Grand Opening

see, all i can see there is something about a free T-shirt (w00t) and a grand draw. stet is convinced that he's going to come away with a lucky bag packed with macbooks and some of steve jobs's spare gold ingots, but i'm not.

that said, i'm just jealous 'cos i won't be able to make the opening day. bugger. can someone pick me up some ingots? ta.

I like ingots

Mister M has ordered me a new iBook because this one is full (which I suppose is a bit like buying a new car because the ashtrays in the current one are full). We're giving my current iBook to his sister. Thing is, the trackpad is a bit fucked on it - it has a tendency to get stuck scrolling or not scrolling, and sometimes the cursor won't move, and I've just noticed the up arrow key is having a problem too. Is there any point in trying to get this fixed before we give her the thing, or should I just say "hey, here's a laptop. It's a bit shit, but it's better than nothing"?

My 12" iBook finally died this month.

I took it apart into seven pieces (RAM, screen, upper casing, bottom casing, touch pad, battery, logic board) and ended up Ebay auctioning those working pieces off for more than the whole thing was worth in working order. Crazy.

Yeah, pricing for used Apple parts is wacky. A friend of mine was looking for an Airport card for a G4 tower and online they were going for $200. This is one of the only instances in which I can think of computer parts appreciating in value.

I broke down and bought a MBP 2.4GHz yesterday, refurbished, to replace the one I was using from the job I just got laid off from. The one I'd had there worked flawlessly; this one just had the trackpad freeze up on me. Has this happened to anyone else? This is one of the new unibody aluminum laptops with the 'glass' trackpad. I had to do a full reboot to get out of it. There were definitely some apple software updates that needed to be installed and I've done that but now I'm afraid to put the thing to sleep.

If it's messed up now you're better off figuring it out now, within the first two weeks, so you can send it back and get it fixed for free (if it's a physical hardware problem)...

Take it straight back to the store and they should give you a new one straight away.

iirc one of those software updates may have fixed the issue for you

if it happens again, hie thee to the genius bar

That has happened exactly once to me - IIRC mine was also coming out of sleep. After a reboot all was fine. Haven't had it since, nor have I tried to bother duplicating it - I trust that Apple will take care of me should this reoccur.

Also, interesting fact: I heard that the reject rate on manufacturing the glass trackpads at the factory is something like 50%, so it's conceivable a few duds made it out the door...

does anyone else have this macbook problem where clicking once on the trackpad button makes a double-click? so when you hit your back button it goes back two pages, and then you hit forward and it goes forward two pages? or you can't really check a checkbox because it checks and unchecks in one click? argh. it's ok as long as i stay away from the left side of the button but i would like it to be normal again

finally bumped my 15.4" macbook pro up to 4GB of RAM yesteray, it is like a whole new machine. It's a bit disappointing to realize that 2GB on this was barely enough, I kept having slowness changing b/w apps (admittedly, memory hogging apps like photoshop/dreamweaver and firefox, which still has some kind of horrible memory leak if you leave it running all day); running vmware fusion was almost pointless; now it's so smooth it makes me drool. hopefully snow leopard will turn out to be the slimmer, faster OS its rumored to be.

so my superdrive has bit the dust as far as DVD media is concerned, maybe after snow leopard, I can't really tell. Hitting the apple support pages I found something like 25 pages of similar complaints all logged in the past few days. WTF? I have a Matsushita drive, which seems appropriately named. Although I should note that the drive in my mac mini which is a pioneer also seems to be fucked for dvds after snow leopard. Tell me I'm not the only one. At least I have applecare for the laptop.

The Matsushita drive in my MBP did they same thing and eventually wouldn't read cds either. This began long before Snow Leopard. They replaced it last May with a HL-DT something-or-other, which I believe is made by LG. I think the Matsushita drives just crap out, regardless of OS.

Can't comment on the mini.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/28/apple_investigating_alleged_issues_with_superdrives.html
they seem to all be crapping out this week though which is a little weird.

if I have applecare on this mofo, will they just replace my laptop for me when I go into the genius bar, or are they going to make me send it in and be computerless for a week?

I went to the genius bar, they said up to 72 hours and had it back to me in 2.

My (three year-old) macbook has been refusing to pick up wi-fi the last couple of days, it says `invalid password´ for PWs I know to be correct. What could be wrong? Nothing else appears to be up with it, aside from a little inevitable slowness due to age and fullness.

trash the airport pref file

Thanks... Ive gone open network preferences>advanced then deleted all preferred networks, and the problem is persisting. Is this what you meant?

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22718

once you're in that folder I would delete anything with an 'airport' in it - restart, your mac will create new default pref files

I think thats pretty much what Ive done, hasnt worked. Reckon I might need to show an IT pro my computer personally. Thanks so much for the help though.

there's a difference between clearing everything via system prefs and doing it via the finder... I would trash anything related to networks in that folder and restart.

this is prob a stupid sugg but i remember having to put a dollar sign before some wifi passwords

what dayo said - you need to trash the files, empty the trash and restart

rather impressed apple rebuilt a friend's macbook for free, esp after the abuse she'd put it through

not entirely on topic, but...

can anyone recommend a good USB "presentation remote" that can be used easily with Mac--hopefully with both MS PowerPoint and Open Office?

? ?

would bet some monies that someone has made a wiimote interface to do that.

You could try these -

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipporemote-lite/id357348996?mt=8

http://www.senstic.com/iphone/iclickr/iclickr.aspx

why USB and not bluetooth?

i don't know if i have bluetooth on this thing or if i need to buy something to enable it. /dummy

i have a macbook pro--it's about 2 years old.

would also bet monies you also have bluetooth. in the menubar there is usually a hieroglyphic-style "B" icon for bluetooth that you can click and select to activate. P.S. wii controllers work on bluetooth.

newest macbook pro EFI update fixes my flickering screen...nearly 4 years after I bought the damn thing.

10.9.1 is out...and items in the finder still take a year to show up...should never have upgraded from 10.8

hey y'all

i'm looking to get a new integrated amp for my turntable and CD player, but the main thing is that i want an amp that can accommodate bluetooth streaming from my macbook. sick of either having to plug in my laptop (or iPod) to the receiver directly, or just listening through my laptop's teensy speakers.

do you folks know if you can reliably stream stuff from VLC (which can play more audio formats than iTunes, like e.g. FLAC) via bluetooth? i really have never done this stuff before so i'm a little in the dark. and how /far away/ can you stream audio to another bluetooth device? if my computer is upstairs (2nd floor) and the amp is downstairs, will they 'find" one another?

not sure if there's a digital-audio/streaming thread that i should post this to.

I don't know anything about it either but this might help (or might not,) School me on SONOS and other home streaming systems

I know this is First World Problem but I absolutely HAVE to buy a new MacBook Pro today knowing full-well that the new MBPs are coming out in 3 months.

I'm essentially buying 3-4 year old technology when the next gen is just around the corner.

I'm thinking I should just get a refurb with low memory capacity to keep it as "cheap" ($1,099) as possible and then flip it in November.

Any thoughts?

Worst possible timing. Can't you beg or borrow another laptop to make do until then?

I'm afraid not, my current build is not robust enough to handle the processes I'm sending it and the next 12 weeks of projects are pretty critical for me.

You could aways go to Tekserve. Oh wait, no you can't, not anymore.

my macbook crashed and I was just going to go to the apple store tommorrow to fix it and/or get a new one, y'all saying I should hold off until the next series comes out?

Definitely.

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac

I got a 16” pro and the sound is pretty amazing. First time I’ve ever heard honest bass on laptop speakers

agree

I have a 2016 Macbook Pro running Monterey 12.7.4. Everything seems fine except that for a few months now, I've been getting a weird pixelated effect on the display, most notably in text displayed in browsers, but also in some videos and other documents. For instance, as I type this in the Add a Post box in Chrome, there are strange, faint underlines below some of the text that seem to shift and reform as I type. Switching windows and/or scrolling sometimes clears it up temporarily.

Any suggestions for what this could be?

haunted

2016 means could be flexgate related https://www.macrumors.com/guide/flexgate-macbook-pro-display-issue/

Thanks. It doesn't really look like the flexgate pictures I have seen, but the display top of the laptop is also way looser than when new so maybe related.