Apple Laptops

There's always Virtual PC.

OH, my dearest PowerBook G4 12", Please don't turn your back on me! Not now!

http://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/abac57c5eda094/www.apple.com/powerbook/images/nav12over09162003.gif

and installing a soulseek client on os x (it's called nicotine, haha) is pretty easy when you have access to a great guide like this: The Moron's guide to SoulSeek on a Mac.

seems like I've seen more references to purchasing new apple laptops in the past month than ever before. is it just b/c I'm paying more attention since I'm now a switcher?

But anyway, as Ned might say, RAH!

I love the glowing apple behind the screen.

Nick is home playing with the laptop. I'm at work. Blah.

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.

Really, how tempting...this would include my trusty G4 Cube?

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.

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.

Been running it on several different machines and started in on installing it on machines at work.

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there's a difference between clearing everything via system prefs and doing it via the finder... I would trash anything related to networks in that folder and restart.

this is prob a stupid sugg but i remember having to put a dollar sign before some wifi passwords

what dayo said - you need to trash the files, empty the trash and restart

rather impressed apple rebuilt a friend's macbook for free, esp after the abuse she'd put it through

not entirely on topic, but...

can anyone recommend a good USB "presentation remote" that can be used easily with Mac--hopefully with both MS PowerPoint and Open Office?

? ?

would bet some monies that someone has made a wiimote interface to do that.

You could try these -

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipporemote-lite/id357348996?mt=8

http://www.senstic.com/iphone/iclickr/iclickr.aspx

why USB and not bluetooth?

i don't know if i have bluetooth on this thing or if i need to buy something to enable it. /dummy

i have a macbook pro--it's about 2 years old.

would also bet monies you also have bluetooth. in the menubar there is usually a hieroglyphic-style "B" icon for bluetooth that you can click and select to activate. P.S. wii controllers work on bluetooth.

newest macbook pro EFI update fixes my flickering screen...nearly 4 years after I bought the damn thing.

10.9.1 is out...and items in the finder still take a year to show up...should never have upgraded from 10.8

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?

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

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?

Worst possible timing. Can't you beg or borrow another laptop to make do until then?

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.

You could aways go to Tekserve. Oh wait, no you can't, not anymore.

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?

Definitely.

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac

I got a 16” pro and the sound is pretty amazing. First time I’ve ever heard honest bass on laptop speakers

agree

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?

haunted

2016 means could be flexgate related https://www.macrumors.com/guide/flexgate-macbook-pro-display-issue/

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.