Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

yeah. gonna think it through a bit. I've got two fw800 drives at home that are backups now, they could become work-drives and then let the usb2 drives be backup. I don't mind if it backs up over night, will only do it weekly max anyway

This one gets good reviews: http://www.ebuyer.com/176298-iomega-ultramax-plus-4tb-external-hard-drive-hi-speed-usb-firewire-34537

not from me it doesn't. i sent 2 of them backand you have to phone a number in holland for customer service. never buying anything made by iomega again, one rattled on opening and the other only had one drive recognisable no matter what you did with the settings switches.

i would go for 2 separate FW800 drives from G-tech.

does usb2 vs FW800 really matter when it comes to reliability? For use I know it does, but for weekly overnight backups?

You do pay a lot for the fancy metal case with the GDrives but i have used literally hundreds of them and never had a problem with them. Worth the money. It is not the USB interface that is the problem it is the quality of the actual drive and them being able to handle writingg and reading tons of data without failing.
What i would say would be to go ahead and get a cheap drive and use them purely as an archive (i.e. backup your work once and then not touch it again) and get an expensive but fast and reliable drive to do your time machine backups and day to day work onto which you can rely on to use if anything ever does go tits up.

not from me it doesn't.

I would go with MrSmyth then. I have never owned one of the Iomega drives.

will not affect the reliability of the drive itself but will be faster and asynchronous for read/write.

Hi, my mac pro won't boot up, all it does is produce a constant red light and a flicker of fan life...

Any ideas? Ta

look for this but for your machine (this is for a G5)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2652

Cheers

I have a 5+ year old G4 Powerbook that needs looking at... It gets kernel panics when Airport is turned on but is absolutely OK when Airport is turned off... Could be a loose/dodgy/dead airport card or it could be something more serious like a flakey logic board... I have absolutely no idea...

I'd like to use this as my work-specific laptop just for inDesign stuff (at my regular gig they use CS2 and 10 year old Macs... Unbelievable, I know!) but I don't wanna spend a lot of money getting it going... Can anyone have a look at it for me? Beers/a few quid in it for someone who can handle a screwdriver... :]

has it ever been applejacked?
i know this is my standard response to mac problems but if permissions haven't been ever been repaired after updates it can cure a lot of proplems, had a few macs brought back from the dead (unhappy mac and '?' screen) this way.

I'll try that tomorrow, however... I've reset the machine to factory settings (including null-byte-ing the hard drive) in the past and that's had fuck-all effect... :[

I have aquired an apple screen, 20 inch by the look of it, can i use it as a tv?

Just read this about the new Thunderbolt displays

"As for the display itself, iFixit discovered an LG LM270WQ1 panel inside, the same as that used in Apple's Late 2009 27-inch iMac."

So either the iMac's has great screens, or the new displays are just over priced bog standard monitors.

Didn't apple use to sell quality monitors?

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/28/apple-thunderbolt-display-teardown-reveals-plethora-of-hardware-inside/

The 27" cinema display has the same panel in it as a Dell UltraSharp U2711... Thanks for the Applejack tip, Gary, powerful little program that... 99% sure it's a loose/dodgy Airport card now, just need to find someone to install me a new one now... :$

^ I installed an airport card in similar age macbook iirc, wasn't hard at all. Might be previous version though when it was almost as easy as installing RAM

Just read this about the new Thunderbolt displays

"As for the display itself, iFixit discovered an LG LM270WQ1 panel inside, the same as that used in Apple's Late 2009 27-inch iMac."

So either the iMac's has great screens, or the new displays are just over priced bog standard monitors.

Didn't apple use to sell quality monitors?

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/28/apple-thunderbolt-display-teardown-reveals-plethora-of-hardware-inside/

no. they are o.k monitors in a well made attractively styled case with a well integrated hub and good speakers. the kind of monitor that you could leave in your front room with your power mac or mac mini hidden and not feel like you were sitting in an office.

no high end monitors are glossy. FACT.

^ I installed an airport card in similar age macbook iirc, wasn't hard at all. Might be previous version though when it was almost as easy as installing RAM

I have to pull the back of the case off and move some other stuff out of the way... I don't trust myself...

^ way trickier than what i did

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Apple have already dropped FW400 and shafted many a user in doing so. I certainly would not invest in FW800. ESATA would be a better option.

but 400-800 cables come free with every drive.

Apple have already dropped FW400 and shafted many a user in doing so. I certainly would not invest in FW800. ESATA would be a better option.

and how would i hook that up to my macbook pro? usb2?

Apple used to make quality products, but that was way before OSX and way before Hipsters would sit in coffee shops with them.

what would you recommend instead? (honest question, not trying to start a mac vs pc argument)