I HATE APPLE

Don't discount Virtualisation (VMWare, Parallels) It is neat being able to copy paste between windows and Mac applications.

is it possible (or make sense) to do both?

brute performance in XP is a consideration...

I have a separate bootable XP partition on my imac so that it run at full power, but I can also use that version of XP within parallels if I need to access some of it's software when I'm working in OSX.

I hate that in windows that the X closes the application and not the window

hah, me too. mind, the more i use windows (boo for my fucking job), the more i find to hate.

I've gone through the two finger tricks, including the goatse style pull apart to change text size. I'm just pissed that there's three keys dedicated to volume when I would rather page/document navigation aids.

Space and shift-space work for paging down and up in most web browsers and a lot of applications where you're not editing text (i.e. not Word, TextEdit, etc.).

And the spaces/expose thing is very cool to look at, but takes longer to use (and so is kinda pointless eye candy) than good old alt-tab. oh okay there's command-tab.

Yeah, it's mostly useless apart from in the rare occasion when you "lose" a window, which is perhaps more common on Mac because it doesn't encourage you to maximize all windows so they cover the entire screen. The only bit of it I use is F11 regularly (this might have moved on newer hardware), which quickly gets everything out of the way so that you can see the desktop. It's better than Windows-M on Windows because, when you release F11/press it again, everything goes back to how it was.

Sorry to wander into a Mac thread and talk Windows, but that's the difference between Windows+M and Windows+D: M minimises everything and won't put them back, D shows you your desktop and if you press it again it puts everything back (but don't restore anything individually first or it won't).

ooh films now on the uk itunes store

wow i can rent hitman!

xxpost: I was not aware of that. Thanks.

i've just spent the last 50 minutes on the phone to my dad, who's tried to install the iWork trial on his shiny new iMac. it sounds *fucked*: running the "tour" hangs the machine spectacularly (seems to be a problem with keynote); nothing else seems to do very much. we've now got to the stage where software update is busy downloading new versions of all the apps. this is for a demo he downloaded, umm, yesterday.

way to go, apple! you fucking dickwads.

it works now it's updated everything. which leads me to ask: why in the name of fuck would apple have software for download that immediately needs updating? WHY NOT JUST PUT UP THE LATEST VERSION?

tools.

perhaps my old man was just very unlucky with the timing. but i'm not sure.

telephone support is not fun.

what gets me here, though -- and it's not the first time i've thought this about apple -- is: what would my dad have done if he didn't have a minor-mac-geek son to call on, eh? phoned apple support? made a 200-mile round-trip to the nearest apple store? given up, pissed off? fuxxake, this is demo software for dudes who've just bought a mac. it shouldn't be in any way challenging. you can understand why, for a relative n00b, downloading something that then immediately wants to re-download itself would be a bit off-putting.

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Wait, isn't the point of Apples that everything Just Works? So, um, wtf??

yes, MY POINT EXACTLY :(

Oh, yes, I know, just gobsmacked.

shiny new macbook pro arrived this morning! only 72 hours from when i got on the phone with the corporate office ... and they sent me a penryn model for my santa rosa!

hopefully this one turns out not to have terrible hinge construction :-/

oh-man-do-i-have-a-problem. I-have-a-window-that's-stuck-open-on-my-desktop-and-whenever-i-hit-the-space-bar,-it-pops-to-the-front,-thus-this-wonderful-solution.-Is-it-some-quicklook-bug?-anybody-seen-this?

Kill the application that owns the stuck window?

my 2 year old macbook has started shutting itself off when the battery gets down to about 50%. it just shuts down completely black screen etc, and any attempts to restart stop before it can load up again. it doesnt happen when its plugged in to the mains, and when i press the button on the battery 2 dots light up, indicating that it still has 40+% charge. i've tried resetting the PRAM, run the hardware diagnostic but found nothing. anyone got any ideas?

There were some battery firmware updates a while back, it may be worth checking if those were applied.

oh yeh, i tried the new battery firmware. no change.

Sounds like an old, used-up battery to me. A heavily-used battery really doesn't last much longer than 2 years, if that.

i'm not so sure. i managed to get three and a bit out of mine (12" PB): i replaced it earlier this year. i was getting less than an hour of life out of it at full charge *but* it never displayed the wrong amount of life, as zappi's seems to be doing, and i always got the usual "you are now running on reserve power" sort of messages.

that said: i don't have a fucking clue what the problem *is*, right enough.

Myself, I have noticed similar behavior on my old batteries, though not quite as bad as zappi's. I mean, I replace it when there's less than an hour of battery time left on a full charge.

right now i'll put up with any apple shit after my pc spent most of today locked in a scandisk loop

I hear a lot of "but aren't Macs just supposed to just work??? So why was there this failure? Aren't Macs perfect?" The truth of the matter is that they're just computers and susceptible to failure just as any other computer is, whether it's an HP SuperDome or a $300 eMachine. Macs fail sometimes. Do they fail less often than other computers? Yes, if Consumer Reports is to be believed. Is Applecare better than Dell support? Yes, according to CR. Is the Mac experience on the whole better than the PC experience? That's entirely subjective. Even if it is and you accept what I have to say, you will still have problems with Macs. It's inevitable.

(NB: I had a major PEBKAC yesterday: I got a super-powerful magnet too close to my lappy and it rendered the hard disk unreadable. The magic of Apple was unable to protect my lappy from user error, sadly. Hello, reinstall time.)

its kinda frustrating, i have used it quite heavily over the 2 years, but it seems to be a problem with the macbook sensing what is left in the battery. i get no warning messages before it shuts down btw. i guess i'll just keep using it on mains until i can save up the money for a new battery (£99!).

Kill the application that owns the stuck window?

it was the finder though! I closed everything out, ran some leopard cache cleaner stuff, restarted. Seems to be ok now.

I got a super-powerful magnet too close to my lappy

neodymium?

so this new macbook pro they sent me is quite nice, feels much sturdier than the last one, and it's nice that they sprung for an upgrade ... but now they sent me one with awful fan noise, as soon as it warms up to 40C it starts making this nasty BRRRRRRRRRRRR on the right-hand side. should i take it in or should i just give up?

lol dan why don't u just run os 9?

neodymium?

Not sure. I have two, and they're each about the size of a stack of 4 half-dollars. I can put one on one side of my wrist and one on the other and they will stay on of their own accord.

so this new macbook pro they sent me is quite nice, feels much sturdier than the last one, and it's nice that they sprung for an upgrade ... but now they sent me one with awful fan noise, as soon as it warms up to 40C it starts making this nasty BRRRRRRRRRRRR on the right-hand side. should i take it in or should i just give up?

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mine got much louder when i installed a faster HD. was worried that it would drive me crazy but i got used to it in like 3 days. i'm sure you will too.

when will they offer mbp with ssd

Just after you have given up hope and plumped for an HD.

i really want os x on a umpc

me too. I have seem it shoehorned onto a samsung Q1, but I would like apple to do it right.

I think a lot of those machines lack SSE3 which sux to emulate with SSE2.

does Atom have SSE3?

Yes.

very interesting.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/asus-eee-pc-901-priced-reviewed/

^ asus eee w/ atom

keep wondering where i can buy an 'acer aspie'

So my 4 year old beer damaged powerbook is finally starting to give up the ghost by making a "click of death" and not booting (making the ? folder). Any folk remedies for this that could get me a last few days to get my synth patches off of it?

Also, what is most $able solution to dispose of near dead pb?

Target Disk can get the disk up on another system where booting up fails. Target disk to another system, copy off what you need then try and repair disk.

yea, target disk doesn't seem to start but I'll try again

Ouch, that is pretty dead, USB enclosure for the disk to try and salvage the data?

I was wondering if there was some heating/cooling thing to do? this happened after leaving the laptop in a sweltering apartment a few weekends back

I think I got screen burn of a dog's bum on my macbook LCD... wtf, I thought LCD's couldn't burn in??

a dog's bum?