New Apple Lust Objects

no gum it just seems to lose traction

oh and now it scrolls down but not up

OH FUCK WE HAVE TEMPTED FATE :(

nah this has happened before, i quite like these mighty mice apart from the bloody silly scroll ball

have you tried the official 'piece of clean A4-paper' fix?

nah this has happened before.bsg, amirite

you're not wrong

I love the scrollball, when it works. Problem is after a few months it gets mucked up inside and you have to kind of clean it... somehow. But eh, that plus the stupid "touch detection" BS design means I went back to a standard Microsoft mouse.

unimpressive imac update

indeed, but given that there isn't much by way of better technology available at the price point, what do you want, a cookie?

something better than a geforce 8 card

i know we don't care much about ipods on here but... when do you reckon the ipod will get an update? buy now or hold off for a while? i'm not in any great hurry but i do want as big a HD as possible.

is there an event coming up that may signal a revision?

this is kinda standard stupid question, but i have a macbook pro intel core duo 2ghz with 1gb RAM. im always having multiple photoshop windows open and iphoto with thousands of thumbnails on it, multiple browers, aim, mail, calendar, itunes playing, etc and soemtimes slows to crawl. getting 1gb more ram should help? i dont even know wtf ram does

yes it will DEFINITELY help.

would getting 2gb more be overkill?

well you only have 2 slots and i bet both of them are full...

Buy a 4G kit: 2x2G. Highly recommended.

Jed - http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#iPod

phil only the latest macbooks will take 4gb ram - so best to make sure yours is one of those? when did you buy it?

well you only have 2 slots and i bet both of them are full...

i looked at the hardware profile thing and it says one of the dimm things is empty... so i can just stick a 1gb chip in there? (or ask someone less butterfingery to do it for me)

How old is it and what processor speed, Memory is so cheap right now I'd max it out to whatever is the max but that may just be another 1GB which is going to cost you 30 bucks or less.

Phil, buy the RAM from http://www.crucial.com/ (much cheaper than anywhere else, as far as i know) and download their System Scanner tool which makes sure you have bought the right thing for your system.

Alba, thanks - i had a look at that already but i was wondering if anyone knew a possible date?

I think the next big event on the calendar is WWDC, but that's not a consumer thing. I'd have thought an iPod Classic bump would be most likely to just slip out one day, maybe with a week's notice of some kind of announcement. 160GB felt like a huge jump to me. Having bought one of the current generation, I'd personally be keener on a spec boost rather than a HD one - it's nowhere near as snappy to use as the old models.

Not sure that the iPod classic will get a bump, there isn't really anything better than 160GB in a 1.8" hard disk at the moment. iPod touch, nano could get disk size boots at WWDC, although I think the focus is going to be on the 3G iPhone.

ok, thanks guys. i know 160GB is huge, i'm just getting greedy.

How old is it and what processor speed, Memory is so cheap right now I'd max it out to whatever is the max but that may just be another 1GB which is going to cost you 30 bucks or less.

its the first generation of the macbook pro intel things, i think? its maybe 2 years old now, 2.0 ghz intel core duo.

i looked at the apple store and 1gb RAM is $100 and 2gb RAM is $200... also i think if i buy it at the apple store, they'll install it for me there? im really not so good at DIY installation stuff. i remember breaking a PS1 trying to solder on a mod chip... then installing a ram chip in the old powerbook where you can lift open the keyboard, i broke something too.... so........

Tekserve in NYC will charge you less, you must have a friend who would do it for the sum of one pint of beer?

on crucial 1GB of RaM is $25.99, just saying.

whoa. that much cheaper? i really should find someone who can install it for me. thanks guys

phil, i'm a cack-handed buffoon but i've managed to whack memory into a couple of macs without too much lasting damage (OK: i broke the battery clip in my original-shape iMac, but that was all).

q: on an ibook g4, ram would be installed under the keyboard?

depends which one but possibly

Also, crucial quoted 1gb ram for my computer at $89, but I'm guessing there's different types of ram or something?

indeed there are, the cheapest RAM is generally that which is curently in use as economies of scale keep the price down. Once it drops out of common usage the price starts to rise.

i bumped my 1st gen macbook pro up to 2gb (which i think is as much as it can take?). i am completely useless at that kind of thing, but i managed it ok.

^yeah, me too. it is quite simple, phil... here's an apple how-to

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303721

your macbook will only take 2gb max ram, afaik. it was the march/may 07 that bumped the macbook's max capacity to 4gb ram

*march/may 07 revision

hm that doesn't seem so bad... i'll back up my hd first just in case...

When I updated my Mac Plus to 1 meg of ram, I was supposed to clip a resistor on the motherboard, but I cut the wrong one and had to bring my computer in to have it professionally fixed. That was a LONG time ago, though.

When I buy a new MBP, what is the cheapest way to max out the ram? I'm going to hate having a left over dimm to ebay

is there a cheap way? i thought all you could do is buy the two 2gb chips and put the two 1gb chips in the trash. i got mine for like $150 ($75 a piece) from the campus bookstore. i asked them if they'd buy the 1gb chips back off me and they said that memory was so cheap that they didn't even bother anymore because nobody'd buy 1gb chips when they could get a 2gb chip for $20-30 more.

I'm currently using an external USB drive for Time machine, but am torn between getting a new Airport Extreme which can use a USB drive as a network drive, or get a time capsule. Any thoughts?

could someone tell me how to change the google box on the safari toolbar to search from google.co.uk rather than google.com?

thanks

could someone tell me how to change the google box on the safari toolbar to search from google.co.uk rather than google.com?

It's hardcoded, but there's a easy workaround here: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-8384.html

Inquisitor as a good way round it too. Gives spotlight like functionality too.

thanks, i'll try that Elvis. Ed i tried Inquisitor and didn't like it at all (and it was a pain to uninstall) but thanks all the same.

Safari Stand is one of the plug-ins that lets you assign keywords (or just letters) to query user-defined search engines right from the address bar (so, say g elephants in suspenders searches Google UK for elepants in suspenders, i sister act 2 searches imdb for Sister Act 2).

Leaked photos of the 3G iPhone.

Seems fake to me, but what do I know?

looks very believable to me