Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Yes I am serious. I've only ever seen the normal ones and those really small ones for notebook mice.
It's been a while since I last bought a usb stick but not that long..

Why do they make them fat at the other end - defeats the purpose, no?

This is the closer i have had in the past 2/3 years, to a USB memory stick...well card, actually.

It's like this one

Wow, all you had to do was commit fraud. Bargain.

Except I am student.

I just ordered a macbook and the guy on the phone asked if I was a student and what I was studying, but that was it. I even lied about my course (said computer engineering) so he wouldn't talk to me like an idiot and they didn't even check that I am actually a student at my uni. Saved a couple hundred off a macbook and about £500 off a £1600 macbook pro.

I've done something stupid and bought MacBook unibody one. I wanted Pro one, but since the new one has the same mini display port instead of mini-DVI I decided against (same specs minus the card slot and I don't use SD cards anyway).
Anyway MacBook is bit messed up already, as the lid cracked in the corner when my daughter stood on it. And it's very hard to keep it clean. I wish I got the Pro version..

Just got a g5 twin processor 4gb memory but no hard drive but funky aluminium case and water cooling, have now noted that my only monitor with DVI input broke so its pretty useless till I get another one.

Does it need a special keyboard and mouse or can I get away with a pc usb one

I'm a mac newbie

Any old usb keyboard should work.

So I have now determined that my right hand fan on my macbook 1st gen is kaput, which means my left hand fan is working overtime (around 45000 RPM) and sounding like a light aircraft taking off.
I'm going to upgrade soon anyway, but the noise is doing my head in, so I have two options.

1. Take it to the apple store and get apple to replace the fan
   
2. Buy a replacement fan myself for around £40 and fit it myself using the pretty comprehensive instructions on ifixit.com
   
   

My question is, do apple have a minimum out of warranty repair fee for something like this, if so what is it?
If apple are going to charge me 50-70 quid to replace the fan, I can live with it and it will be less hassle, however if they are going to sting me for £150 I'll bloody do it myself.

Has anyone had past experience of this sort of thing and can offer any guidance?

Do it yourself.

Newer Macintosh laptop are a lots easier to fix nowadays, and I mean a LOTS, and since you work in IT (I think?), you can easily do it, it's like changing a BB on a bike actually.

taking apart an old PowerBook isn't fun.

i've pulled apart an old powerbook as much as possible i think.
It's the putting it back togeather which is the hard part.

phone MR Systems in highbury and ask them how it costs to supply and fit a fan.

do it yourself. ifixit.com is great. i used to to combine to powerbooks into 1. I had no idea how or what a computer looked like inside before I started. took me half a day but it was really satisfying.

good luck

I need a student discount, so I can afford supped up 27" iMac.

Does it work with college students? I could give my MacBook to my stepdaughter and get the iMac on her. Or you need to be an uni student?

I just ordered a macbook and the guy on the phone asked if I was a student and what I was studying, but that was it. I even lied about my course (said computer engineering) so he wouldn't talk to me like an idiot and they didn't even check that I am actually a student at my uni. Saved a couple hundred off a macbook and about £500 off a £1600 macbook pro.

I phoned up to get applecare on a macbook pro and the lady on the phone asked if I had children in full time education. I said yes and she said I qualified for the education discount. I think apple are quite relaxed about giving the discount, but the taxman would take a dim view of it if you were to then claim it as a tax deductable business expense.

Went out and bought a new apple keyboard at lunchtime (the full one with keypad, not the shitting wireless one) and I'm now trying it out at work on the windows computer. Have to admit this thing is great, it feels really good to type on.

Also I managed to get it from John Lewis for under £30. Couldn't find it this cheap anywhere else - even on ebay the prices seem to go higher than this.

Next plan buy a cheap VGA adaptor from ebay and hook up a much bigger screen, great for when I have to get work done from home.

Got my macbook yesterday. Really pleased with it, loving the gesture thing on the touch pad. Now I just need to find a proper use for it to justify buying it.

I've got Logic Studio 8, all boxed and pristine and new looking, and I don't need it. I don't feel like giving it away, but if anyone's interested, PM me and suggest a price...

iLife 11 is very underwhelming.
I deleted the new version of iphoto: no new adjustment features, didn't like the new ui. imovie is refusing to open, there is a conflict with Aperture. I never use Garageband, so can't say how that has changed.

The appification of OSX has begun. 10.7 will have an app store (to make things easy for you! Yeah right!), and I bet you that 10.8 will not let you install software easily unless it's in the app store.

No more apple shite bought in this household/business.

1. use macs for internetz, email - don't need anything more, don't need to customise anything, it works efficiently and it looks good;
   
2. use macs for serious photo editing - there's no need for girly rubbish like iPhoto etc.
   
   

That's why I don't care much for Windows bullshit which I've found unreliable for my use.
Linux was good when I was at uni and wanted to impress [strike]ladies[/strike] mates with my customised GUI and software applications.

Now I use Widows laptop only in emergencies when I need to use some obscure bit of shareware to recover something lost on a memory card, upload cracked maps to my sat-nav or convert downloaded porn divix to mp4 for my iPad...

No more apple shite bought in this household/business.

Might not be so bad.

Look at Steam.

I make my living by using open source software.
The reason to use OSX was because it gave me a native implementation of UNIX like tools.
Many developers started using it for that reason.
The platform becomes now more and more closed and controlled. Thank you, but no thank you.

Ubuntu for the next laptop.

I suppose the whole stories about the iPhone/iPad not supporting flash because Job did not want to enable people to use it for pornography set the alarm bell ringing.

Glad I got Windows on my Mac.

^ That makes no sense.

The Apple anti flash porn thing.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20002922-71.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/may/25/ipad-porn-free-steve-jobs

The Guardian's article is more about Apple's insanity for control.

Still makes no sense.

No flash just means no flash porn. A lot of streaming video now uses something else besides flash, which is why youtube and such works in Ipad.

You can look at porn on an ipad to your hearts content.

What difference does it make that you cannot buy it all through apple? Loses them potential profit?

Its all a bit weird.

No flash just means no flash porn.

And it's a good thing. Flash was invented by the devil himself.

Might not be so bad.

Look at Steam.

fail to understand this.
Steam do not use apps.

Admittedly they have now brought out DRM for TF2, but that's after however many years of free updates.