― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
If Apple store in Clarendon cannot do anything for me worthwhile like, I will be coming back up to NYC and hitting u up on the favor, though. I like desperately, desperately need this to work ASAP.
Graphics are nonsense; I had that system and just customized the entire thing with graphics of my choice. Of my choice, since I was like 14 at the time, was like a bunch of lame ass Monty Python cartoons and/or Madonna album covers but what the fuck ever.
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
You know what else? This lamp-shaped iMac is stupid. There's no reason the screen needs to be this adjustable, and in fact with an LCD screen that has color-shifting problems, it's best if it doesn't move at all. It's only to make the computer more anthropomorphic, more... cute. So people will fall in love with the computer like it's a kitten. Crafty to the point of being kinda evil.
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I have thought, on a few occasions, that OS7/8/9's desktop was more customizable than OSX's.
Maybe they are trying too hard to make things look pretty or cute and not spending enough time on making things sensible and working, anymore.
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
When I've been put off the G5 iMac as my next desktop computer because I hear too many stories about the power supply overheating thanks to them shoving everything in a thin white IKEA slab, it's time to reconsider the role "award-winning design" plays in your product development.
I kind of hate the OS X desktop. I have a menu bar, and a hard drive icon. I don't want a fucking DOCK, I never asked for a fucking DOCK, the whole rest of the computing world gets by without a DOCK. take that shit away and let me pick my own fonts. Dickholes.
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
In an office where multiple people are using the same computer and there's limited desk space the lamp iMacs have been terrific.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Hold down the trackpad button on startup.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I will be at a loss forever, though, as to why pressing F12 (the eject button) worked to eject The Marriage of Maria Braun not ten minutes earlier, but refused to work just now.
Any suggestions on the other stuff, besides setting the thing on fire?
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
massive xpost
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Font management/selection/preview is atrocious in OS X. I got Suitcase but all that does is move fonts into and out of your Font folder, rather than you going and doing it yourself. Uh alright thanks I guess.
You know what I've never understood about computers? Why should anyone have to "save" anything, ever? Why isn't it just all on there all the time? I spent 3 hours working on some document, you tool, you think I don't want to "save" it? I mean really now.
xpost: you could try shooting it.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Download Yasu, let it run everything.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― just adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.laptops4me.com/images/pict/SNY-TR3AP1_LG.jpg
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― just adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
And yeah, Tracer, I'm kind of hoping that this is a display issue somehow, not a computer-itself issue, but everything I'm reading indicates this is not the case. :(
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I didn't notice the all-white screen hassle upthread. Did you try booting into open firmware and reseting the NVRAM?
(cmd-opt-o-f on bootup, then type "reset-nvram" "set-defaults" "reset-all" )
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
so I can just walk into the apple store with this thing and someone will help me out?
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
tracer otm. i often have totally differing degrees of success w/customer service if i just take a different approach.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
I like a little glitz. The trouble with OS X is that it's not likely to be *your* glitz, just theirs, which is arrogant on Apple's part (shockah!). Like Tom says, you can't even change the system font. I don't much care for Lucida Grande, but guess what? Apple likes it, so I get to stare at it every day for several hours.
I do want my desktop to be prtyy though, since I spend so much time there. It's like my apartment -- in a way it's even more personal. I mean honestly, cooking and watching TV and sleeping, how glamorous does it need to be?
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
This is only for particular models. I looked it up before buying a G5. I don't have any problems (yet).
This lamp-shaped iMac is stupid. There's no reason the screen needs to be this adjustable, and in fact with an LCD screen that has color-shifting problems, it's best if it doesn't move at all.
Well, no, I don't think so. In fact I have a hard adapting to the non-moveable G5. :-(
― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost oh never mind, you got a card, PROBLEM SOLVED)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
10 PRINT "SALESDUDER IS A SCSI DONGLE "20 GOTO 10
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Haha wtfever I just feel like s crewing them cos I hate their OSX.
I had something else to say but I forgot so instead I'll say that I passed BASIC class by having some dorky boy do all my work. TRACER HAND LOOKIN AT YOU.
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
i have a m1 macbook air for work, it's fine but i can make it sluggish. i'm also pushing it beyond its design specs by using displaylink to drive two 27" monitors with it so that may explain part of it.
― 龜, Monday, 18 March 2024 13:46 (one week ago) link
boooooo displaylink
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 18 March 2024 13:52 (one week ago) link
well until i can convince work to upgrade me to a 15" m3 macbook air with native support for two monitors...
lee btw i wouldn't recommend using carplay wirelessly unless you're taking short trips. that is a recipe for overheating the phone as it'll have all its radios turned on, especially if you're charging it at the same time as wireless carplay will chew through the battery. my 12 mini used to go dim (i.e. the screen backlight would turn off) once a month from overheating (apple-designed failsafe). have also gotten the 'charging will resume when temperatures stabilize' message a bunch of times.
the iphone minis are great but thermal management is not their strong point!
― 龜, Monday, 18 March 2024 13:59 (one week ago) link
that has never happened to my 13 mini fwiw
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 18 March 2024 15:03 (one week ago) link