― chandler apple, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 11:50 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link
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― chandler apple, Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 25 October 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 25 October 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 25 October 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 25 October 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Saturday, 25 October 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
Really, how tempting...this would include my trusty G4 Cube?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 25 October 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
― chandler apple, Saturday, 25 October 2003 20:19 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 25 October 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 25 October 2003 20:40 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 25 October 2003 21:09 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 25 October 2003 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
Been running it on several different machines and started in on installing it on machines at work.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 26 October 2003 02:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 26 October 2003 08:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Product of Australia / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:43 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post
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― Product of Australia / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Product of Australia / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― no tech! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Product of Australia / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Product of Australia / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link
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...)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― no tech! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 27 August 2016 03:33 (seven years ago) link
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
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 27 August 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 27 August 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
Worst possible timing. Can't you beg or borrow another laptop to make do until then?
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Saturday, 27 August 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 27 August 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
You could aways go to Tekserve. Oh wait, no you can't, not anymore.
― Put Out More Flag Posts (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
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?
― marcos, Saturday, 27 August 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
Definitely.
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac
― heaven parker (anagram), Saturday, 27 August 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
I got a 16” pro and the sound is pretty amazing. First time I’ve ever heard honest bass on laptop speakers
― calstars, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
agree
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 10 March 2023 19:42 (one year ago) link
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?
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 11:44 (four weeks ago) link
haunted
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 13:19 (four weeks ago) link
2016 means could be flexgate related https://www.macrumors.com/guide/flexgate-macbook-pro-display-issue/
― 龜, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 13:30 (four weeks ago) link
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.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 15:00 (four weeks ago) link