I HATE APPLE

seems normal - if it gets above 85-90 it'd be cause for concern...

other than that dunno - suspect it's a faulty logic board but I'm no apple tech.

yeah there seems to be a number of things it could be - the connexions betwixt hard drive and rest of computer seems likely. it had a good innings last night when i was just using text edit + google chrome, but the problems started when i was watching youtube clips and using itunes. since my first post here it's actually been fine - i turned itunes off! so it could be that.

what's infuriating is the apple so-called genius being so confident it was the hard drive, and that having no effect at all.

oooh youtube flash video - flash video will peg your cpu at 100% usage and cause your temperature to rise pretty fast. try it out and see!

i will if i can - have to go to appointment w/apple store now! you may next see me in court, where i will be charged with the actual murder of any/all apple employees i face today

it was the fan, apparently. first so-called "genius" bar replaced my hard drive for nothing. are there any reasons that apple employees don't all need to be horse-whipped?

not that i'm aware of

Ha! Great time for a revive. I just ordered a new macbook yesterday morning and when I went to open my 5-year-old ibook last night, i had to take out the battery and press the power button a bunch of times and open and close it a bunch of times in order to get anything. Like it knew I betrayed it.

has anyone had quicktime X fuck up the aspect ratio of a movie? it played fine on vlc but quicktime wanted to squash 2.35:1 to something more like 16:9.

Isn't there a button on the control bar to do that? It formats widescreen movies to fill your screen. You might have clicked it accidentally, though I'm not sure if it remembers the preference.

my macbook air makes a lot of noise when it plays flash. googling revealed that it is the fan that is making noise. also I would have problems with the date not being saved when using the battery so that the date would have to be reset upon restart. so now I don't use the battery unless I have to.

yeah, flash is terrible on osx, often uses 100% cpu, which inevitably turns the fan on.

did you try resetting the SMC for your battery/time issue? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 and while you're at it you could try http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379.

While ago my Macbook started to crack near where my wrist rests. My Mac-phile cousins told me there was a super-double-secret-extended warranty covering just such an occurrence, and indeed, Apple fixed it for free, replacing/reinforcing where necessary. But now the damned thing is starting to crack again, and it really bugs me.

yup, I've got that too; haven't got round to taking it in for a fix yet

i've had that three times. they don't reinforce it. there is no fix. it's a design flaw that was fixed in the unibody macbooks. it's worth getting fixed. you get a brand new keyboard. looks like new!

So I can get it fixed multiple times, in perpetuity?

on mine the edges of the wrist rest thing sort of fell off. i don't really care though. also some of my keys are deteriorating! F and C especially, they are bumpy. must be something corrosive about my fingers.

so get a free new keyboard!

yes, you can do it in perpetuity if my experience is anything to go by. they have seen it 1,000,000 times. (although i haven't tried this year, which is four years since i bought it, i.e. out of the usual warranty.)

Apple doesn't replace individual keys out of warranty, though. They tried to sell me on a whole new keyboard for a couple of scuzzed letters, despite no guarantee that the same problem wouldn't happen again.

thanks, caek. I will look at those support threads and experiment.

This is starting to get ridiculous:

http://gizmodo.com/5562802/the-latest-examples-of-apples-stupid-editorial-censorship

wow, come on

£499 for an unlocked payg phone

any chance the locked-to-network payg phones will be about £50/£70 cheaper?

new mac minis too, nice

HDMI out, SD reader, the nvidia chipset, and it's tiny
http://www.apple.com/macmini/

$699, or £649 in the UK. FFS.

it does look nice but when i saw the price tag i balked

17.5% VAT is £113, so there's a £62 premium on that UK price.

bring back 2007 when $699 was the equivalent of 30p pls

The exchange rate is back to what it was in mid-2008, though.

went to america in oct 2007, it was glorious - October 2007 2.04529 USD : 1 GBP

Gruber, trolling hard:

You write on your site; I write on mine. That’s a response. I don’t use comments on Wilcox’s site to respond publicly to his pieces, but somehow it’s unfair that he can’t use comments on my site to respond to mine? What kind of sense is that even supposed to make? And if there aren’t any comments on DF, how are DF readers “adding to the noise”? (I realize, alas, that DF readers do sometimes leave noisy comments on sites to which I link. But how is that an argument for allowing comments on DF itself?)

yep, giving up on DF was the right decision

What makes DF an efficient and effective soapbox is exactly that it is not noisy. My goal is for not a single wasted word to appear anywhere on any page of the site.

i'd like to hear gruber's boring thoughts on the vuvuzela

honestly the piece he was responding to is just nuts.. a 1200 word rant about how unfair it is that he doesnt allow comments on his site.

yo is it true gruber got sonned by a blogger after a blog beef??????

Stephen Fry on the new iPhone

The iPhone 4 is an object of rare beauty. Noticeably slimmer but a trifle heavier than predecessors, its new heft only adds to the profound feeling of quality and precision that the device exudes. Sharper edged, it is girt by a stainless steel band which cleverly houses all the antennae required by a modern smartphone. Jobs himself made a comparison between iPhone 4 and a classic Leica. With this device in my hand, I feel that I am holding its designer Jonathan Ive's personal prototype, hand-machined as a proof-of-concept model. Ive is surely one of the most influential and gifted designers Britain has ever produced and the iPhone 4 may well be his masterpiece.

From the latest Private Eye:

“We have no commercial arrangement with apple other than as a registered app developer like many others”. So a spokesman for the Grauniad assured the Eye a fortnight ago, when we asked about the paper’s endless column inches and the prominent use of its website in Apple’s own billboard campaign for the new gadget.

Curious, then, that just days after we were told this, the Guardian’s director of consumer media Adam Freeman invited all editorial staff to “an informal update on recent marketing activity across the Guardian and Observer” at which he promised to fill them in on how “over recent months we have seen increased marketing activity during the election, in partnership with Apple and Nike, and of course our own campaign in preparation for the World Cup.”

please to stfu Stephen Fry

They deleted a slew of comments accusing them of being Apple shills from that page.

jesus that review

With this device in my hand, I feel that I am hand-machining its designer Jonathan Ive's personal cock.

I worked at MS ten years ago and it is so interesting how Apple has taken their place as the closed-system evil corporate scapegoat. Seriously can't justify getting another Mac and I have been an Apple user since 1992. All it would take to make me reconsider is to have iTunes support flac files, but no dice.

pretty weird thing to hold against an entire line of computers and OSes but

maybe I spoke too soon, I hear there are plugins for flac/iTuens but it is pretty frustrating

is there no other program u could use?

There's Songbird, but that doesn't work with an iPhone. Also flac doesn't play on iPods or iPhones, support for which is implied by iTunes support.

http://code.google.com/p/flukeformac/

yeah, that's the one (you may even have mentioned it on that other thread). dunno if it works with iPods but I have a different portable now anyway cuz of the flac issue.

Fluke didn't work well for me (files are imported into iTunes as 'Quicktime Movies' or something), but I downloaded another program that converts FLAC to Apple Lossless. Which I now seem to have lost.

I use Max to convert

http://sbooth.org/Max/

u r insane if u listen to flacs on your iphone or ipod imo