Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Sounds like you're using WEP encryption. Put the password in inverted commas and you should be able to connect. Apple does not like WEP.

Cheers man, will give it a go. My intel mac & phone all happy, but old MacBook still not happy. Will give this a go.

I need a new power cable for my 14" iBook from 2005, just the bit that plugs into the laptop, can anyone recommend somewhere to get one that isn't eleventy million pounds?

ebay??

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=power+supply+iBook&_sacat=0&_odkw=cable+for+my+14%22+iBook&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

I need a new power cable for my 14" iBook from 2005, just the bit that plugs into the laptop, can anyone recommend somewhere to get one that isn't eleventy million pounds?

I would have sent you one ... but my brother had chucked my old iBook ... along with the adaptor ... it wouldn't boot up.

I need a new power cable for my 14" iBook from 2005, just the bit that plugs into the laptop, can anyone recommend somewhere to get one that isn't eleventy million pounds?

like this? (im sure they are the same)

if so I have one you can have

ebay??

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=power+supply+iBook&_sacat=0&_odkw=cable+for+my+14%22+iBook&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

Make sure you buy a used one Not one of the new ones they Blow up in about 2 days.

So my MacBook has suddenly started being a bit slow, i ran disk utility and that sped it up a bit, i read in the manual that came with the install disk that i can reinstall snow lepard without wiping everything - 'Archive and Install' rather than 'Erase and Install', but i can't find this option?
Any experience? i don't have an external HD to back things up onto at the mo....

try applejacking and getting rid of all the stuff you don't need to free some space up. this can speed things up.
never had to reinstall a system.

don't have a back-up? £40 for an external HD.

my mbp is less than a year old and total bollocks. I'll only have Safari open, click one link and it will just sit there beachballing for 10 minutes. Fucks sake. Drives me mad.

I blame snow leopard. My Mac at work is running leopard and is happy as larry, never crashes and is very very stable - and it's 2 years old.

my mbp is less than a year old and total bollocks. I'll only have Safari open, click one link and it will just sit there beachballing for 10 minutes. Fucks sake. Drives me mad.

I blame snow leopard. My Mac at work is running leopard and is happy as larry, never crashes and is very very stable - and it's 2 years old.

how many GB do you have left in your hard drive? is your RAM is fine?

Restoring new drive from timecapsule is a total pain in the arse. It took about 45 minutes "Calculating space required to restore data" - why does it need to spend that long working out how to fit 100Gb tops onto a completely empty 1Tb drive?
10 minutes in to the actual backup, the whole thing crashes and I have to start the whole thing again...

I'm not sure, something to do with the flux capacitor needing 1.21 gigawatts needed to make the restoration.

Restoring new drive from timecapsule is a total pain in the arse. It took about 45 minutes "Calculating space required to restore data" - why does it need to spend that long working out how to fit 100Gb tops onto a completely empty 1Tb drive?
10 minutes in to the actual backup, the whole thing crashes and I have to start the whole thing again...

would you rather restore it by hand?

Anybody want to take a 17" imac G4 off my hands (one of the ones with the monitor on a stick). Unit only. The colour rendering of the monitor is off: I fixed it once by dismantling the whole unit and fiddling with the cable, but be warned it's a couple of hours careful work to do this and requires the use of thermal paste. Free!

can anyone give us some advice,

i have a G5 powermac, dual version, and now its sitting on the ''were laggign here'' or whatever that screen is you get when it starts up and it fails,

I've try booting form disks and nothign happens,

Luckly i keep 100% of my staff on an external so i've not lost anything minus a few photos and files on teh desk top, Can i use a firewire cable to get them off somehow or have i lost them completely?

also dose anyone know what i coudl do with it? is it just a case of new harddrive or am i better getting a whole new computer?

Have you tried booting up in safe mode? There are a couple of different buttons you can press when starting up. Can't remember what they are, but sure you google them. Think shift was one of them.

target mode connected to another mac will get your files off. try repairing permissions on the G5 HD while you are at it

Further to mr Smyth's post: to start up in target mode, hold down T while the computer boots up (on the g5). Connect another mac via USB or FireWire and the g5 will mount as an external hd. Copy across files and then run disk utility ans select the g5's drive and select repair permissions.

Right,

G5 back up and running with new hardrive. Still seems a bit slow compared with the laptop I'm currently typing this on.
What else should I be looking at? Its got 1 gig of RAM, which is not great, but passable. According to the build info, the RAM is all ok.
It still seems to take a long time to boot up.

1gb? it needs more than that to run well

Have you tried booting up in safe mode? There are a couple of different buttons you can press when starting up. Can't remember what they are, but sure you google them. Think shift was one of them.

I think i did try to start in safe mode and it didn't seem to want to if i remember, it just etierh carried on as normal or didn't go past safe mode, will try again though

Further to mr Smyth's post: to start up in target mode, hold down T while the computer boots up (on the g5). Connect another mac via USB or FireWire and the g5 will mount as an external hd. Copy across files and then run disk utility ans select the g5's drive and select repair permissions.

I will try this when i take home my work laptop, worth a shot definatly, hopefully this will get ti working agian and i can upgrade rather then replace.

my mbp is less than a year old and total bollocks. I'll only have Safari open, click one link and it will just sit there beachballing for 10 minutes. Fucks sake. Drives me mad.

I blame snow leopard. My Mac at work is running leopard and is happy as larry, never crashes and is very very stable - and it's 2 years old.

really? see mine is 4 months old and its like its dieing already, OK i admit i'm doing loads of big graphic stuff on it but at times just using the internet seems to puzzele it.

''ohh i can't do firfox and spotify at the same time''

its like i'm running window vista

Buying an external usb HD to run a timemachine backup (g5 imac, snow leopard)

Any advice as i'm new to all this timemachine stuff.

does time machine require an entire drive or partition etc? i.e. is it worth splitting the external drive into two partitions and using one partition for time machine and keeping one half free for other stuff (maybe backing up another machine etc.)

Whomever can solve this one will be given copious amounts of alcohol.

My headphone socket went on my work iMac shortly after the warranty run out which meant I couldn't listen to music. Imagine 8 hours of listening to work drivel.
I combated this by getting a USB Sound card thing from eBay for a couple of quid.

Intermittently I get noise interference which is deafening to the max and I have no idea where it comes from. It's only just started happening after about a year, I've just bought a new USB sound thing and it's still doing it.
I might have to leave my job if I can't sort this.
Any ideas?

get an ipod?