I HATE APPLE

so, did anybody else get the nvidia recall notice for their "santa rosa" MBP?

i have been getting scrambled video and really bad screen tearing on "top sites" ever since safari 5.0 went to 5.0.1, and since going to 5.0.2 i get the same thing whenever i have flash running in multiple tabs (say if i have youtube video in two different tabs). i figured this was software-side but since getting the notice i've been thinking otherwise.

i just wonder whether it is worth the trouble if it's not really affecting core system performance.

I haven't, but mine does the same thing. Let me know if you find out anything.

Never mind - mine is an ATI card that does the same thing. Was told I needed a new board because my graphics chip is dying. No point in spending multiple hundreds to fix it at this point.

Ugh. I dont know if this has anything to do with that but im so sick of photobooth recording without sounds. LAME

http://dump.fm/images/20100625/1277486771560-dumpfm-neue-iphonedeal.gif

lol

you're all clearly enraptured by the windows phone 7 launch

techtool deluxe tells me my VRAM is failing. i am still under applecare. do i take it in?

oh, and this is one of the ones with a recalled nvidia geforce card too

DO IT

Apple patents 'anti-sexting' technology:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/10/13/apple.sexting.patent/index.html?hpt=T2

Do you think this kind of technology will bring about the end of sexting and SMS slang?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQVIqjkzD4

wish magic mouse could do expose like the last one :(

When I first saw the news that the new Airs are shipping without Flash, it occurred to me this might account for some of their striking gains over the previous models in battery life. However, Apple told me that their “wireless productivity” battery life test was performed with Flash Player installed on the new MacBook Air models.

WHY'S MY FUCKING MBP SO SLOW

this is a four GB ram / 2.66 ghz model. it was almost top of the top of the line just three years ago. now what?

i'm just trying to run a safari, pages, mail, itunes and ical at the same time. and newsfire and ichat. and things and omnifocus. i don't even have illustrator and numbers or keynote open.

so why's this thing so fucking slow? is i7 so much better than core 2 duo? is a 3MB L3 cache that much better than an 6MB L2 cache?

don't get me started on iphoto.

is it because i have 10 gigs of HD space left?

Might be. I just ordered a 500GB HD for my MacBook as it has gotten very slow since I got below 10GB free. 60 bucks buys a 500GB 2.5" SATA drive these days!

is it because i have 10 gigs of HD space left?

how many new iphones are they gonna come out with that can't list compilation albums correctly under "artist"

vahid i had the same problem and i freed up ~30gb so im at like 40 now. speed was noticeably improved but i still need to restart every 8 hours or so after it gets really slow--safari seems to be the worst esp when i have a lot of tabs open

ive seriously spent the past 2hrs cleaning up my macbook to try and speed it up. are you pretty good with computers? if so, check out the Console.app in Applications/Utilities/ and google every weird lookin error in system.log

also what do you have inside /Library/Internet Plug-Ins? apparently i had about 3yrs worth of terrible buggy 3rd party plugins mucking shit up

check to see if you have any conflicts in your font book

the occasional clean-up care/of Onyx and it's ilk doesn't hurt too much.

also there's some free preference cleaner apps.

Have as much free space as possible and turn off fonts and deal with font conflicts.

oh shit. how do i clean up my fonts? i know those are a mess, i had a really ridiculous linotype fontexplorer x system set up and one day i just abandoned it because i was so pissed at it. will just asking it to clean up the fonts fix it, or do i have to do something else?

like mentioned above, look for duplicates. If you turn everything off in Fontexplorer then open Font Book, how many fonts are loaded? Are there any black dots?

Fontexplorer does a fine job and what it's for, but it won't save you from conflicts you may already have.

ok, i deactivated 1420-ish fonts down to 72 or so and turned the font requests back on. for some reason a lot of my documents seem to call for fonts they don't actually use?!? already running faster. now i need to get that 500 gig HD ...

http://www.fontgear.net/fontdoctor.html

you had 1420 fonts active? well shit there is your answer.

hahah yeah that is definitely like "why does my car run slowly" "I forgot to mention I have a grand piano strapped to the roof at all times"

I can't recommend those new Seagate Momentus XT drives enough. I threw one into my new-this-year MBP (that I admittedly stuck with the stock 5400rpm drive on) and it's like night and day. I mean, it's partially because the drive isn't spinning so slowly, but the 4GB of flash read cache is excellent.

got a barely one y.o. MBP and keep getting really long "beachball" freezes in iTunes. Is this normal.

is it reading mp3s from an external drive

nope - huge library but all saved on the internal drive. The freeze seems to occur at very random moments too, not when searching or playing songs.

check to see if there are any repeating errors on Console.app

My 500GB HD shows up tonight. What is the easiest way to take my current HD image and get it onto the new drive?

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/

Cool. So I guess I just need an external SATA to USB/FW case, and I should be good o go. I don't have to boot up from a CD or anything, right?

Yeah, get a case, put the drive in it, plug it in to your computer, let SuperDuper copy your current drive to the new one, then swap drives and boot up.

I can't recommend those new Seagate Momentus XT drives enough. I threw one into my new-this-year MBP (that I admittedly stuck with the stock 5400rpm drive on) and it's like night and day. I mean, it's partially because the drive isn't spinning so slowly, but the 4GB of flash read cache is excellent.

...is that kinda like addin 4gb of RAM?

it's really like 1000% better

now i'm going to delete like 30 GB of roleplaying and comic book scans that i never look at

baaderonix are you using a ton of smart playlists? if you are, turn off live updating

It's not really like adding ram at all, it's like a halfassed SSD attempt that is really economical! Basically, the drive itself does all the caching of blocks (not files) that are often read. So your most often used 4GB of data is read at SSD speed, and the rest is read at a decent 7200rpm, I believe.

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It's not really like adding ram at all, it's like a halfassed SSD attempt that is really economical! Basically, the drive itself does all the caching of blocks (not files) that are often read. So your most often used 4GB of data is read at SSD speed, and the rest is read at a decent 7200rpm, I believe.

ohhhhh. neat! how many dolla

Ta da!

Like a hundo.

wow, one last bump in performance to eke out of my old pwerbook perhaps?

hard drive is not the bottleneck in a powerbook

:(

an faster but less transparent alternative, btw, if you can live with the mental overhead of two partitions/drives is to move the OS and apps to one of these http://www.amazon.com/FileMate-PCI-Express-card-Retail/dp/B001QSZDJ8/ref=pd_sim_e_1.

what pb do you have?