Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

RPM [quote]aidan normally when thats happened to me its because parts of the program you have uninstalled are still on your computer.....which prevents you reinstalling it.
but thats on windows.

yes.

Windows 98[/quote]
you have it as well?!

I did
in 1998

le car who can fix my macbook tmrw for cheap or free?
I need to install some totally legally purchased software and it's giving me trouble (did a previous install and had a problem, so uninstalled but it wont let me re-reinstall now!)
Also have a slight problem with Linotype Font Explorer - anyone use this?

If you want to uninstall something totally, open Finder, home directory, library, application support, find the folder for the app, trash it. Do the same but for the library folder in the macintosh hd directory. The only time you ever need to do it is when the software you've installed is not very well written.

appzapper

that's a good application, i used to use the old free one on my old mac(unfortunately gotta pay for the new one), it gathers ALL the info in all folders for the application you want to remove and makes a satisfying ZAPP sound when it removes it...

I upgraded to leopard and all Samba shares are not accessable anymore ? WTF ?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1195690&tstart=0
ohhh.. and I choose an MBP over a MB any day again

yorgo if u still haven't got it sorted i might be able to help you out tomorrow night

asm Hmmm i think a RAM upgrade might be necessary for my macbook. Had it for a year now and it's been absolutely brilliant, but my current garageband compositions are stretching the RAM to the very limit... I think i might need to learn how to use some other sequencing/composing software :(.

Also does anyone know if it's possible to export songs from garageband in anything other than AIFF? The loss of quality from playing back in garageband to the export is laughable and i can't find any way whatsoever to change the export settings :(

...er sorry for the hijack

are you sure? AIFF (pros swear by it, along with SD2 and WAV) can be full on umcompressed quality it can go up to 192kHz/24bit so i guess it's your settings. you can think of upgrading to logic but it's just going to make your macbook feel even more sluggish and it's not as easy to use (by quite a fair amount) which depending what you do may not be necessary.

hey thanks all for the help but I've gone off to france for a couple of weeks... I'm sure I'll find some truly honest and law abiding friends here to solve my problems...

Macbook Air

How long until we see youtube videos of them being snapped in half? :D

Seriously though, gotta love apple marketing. Smile, be confident, tell the user he doesnt need an optical drive. Or more than 1 USB port. Or a user-replaceable battery.

I'm not apple bashing, they make nice looking stuff. I'm sure its nice to use too, but they don't half love dictating consumer demands rather than catering to them. Guess thats the advantage of having a niche to yourself though ;)

Is a thinner laptop better?

well its lighter(probably) more portable and better looking so........maybe

of course.

it looks better and anyway, apple said so.

1.36kg. By contrast, the lightest sony vaios are lighter, as well featured, have more USB ports AND have built-in DVDRW drives. It's a nice piece of design, and it's fricking thin, but its not my cup of tea - theres some things I'm not prepared to sacrifice for fashion.

isn't the lighter vaio a fair bit smaller screen?

i have to say as a long time mac user it does piss me off when people link macs to fashion... it's sort of like riding fixed and being called trendy when you're not in it for that reason.

i am actually a bit shocked to see apple going this direction. this reminds me of numerous pre-2000 PC notebooks, those damn external optical drives... well, see you in starbucks (condor pista classico?)

unless the 'thinner' bit is made 'stronger' then ... i don't know ... fucking leopard, is that thinner its certainly shitter. I'm fukd off with apples right now, keeping me in the office being a cnut.

I do like their UI with the trackpad moves: pinch, swipe, etc. That's neat. I'd still lose the fkn thing under a pile of papers chocolate wrappers so it's no good for moi.

not having an optical drive is quite a risky step.....

aidan not having an optical drive is quite a risky step.....

yes driving without eyes would be stupid, possibly sillier than without brakes.

genius

wow
oh my god oh my god. when????

le car wow
oh my god oh my god. when????

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