Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Look how beautiful that thing is on the inside!

Dumb question, how do I do the # without copying and pasting evrytime?

I imagine I can assign it to a key right?

alt + 3

Cheers.

couldn't find a hardware thread but seen as we are talking about SSD's in here some of you might find it interesting.

my work got rid of 5 old laptops which had old 1st gen 128GB SSD's in them, they were micro sata connectors so I had to buy 5 sata adapters at £10 a pop but it was worth it. I put them in my windows machine in RAID 0, boot time is 10 sec and windows experience for hard drive score is 7.6! plus I have a cheap 640GB SSD ..now I just need to get myself a mac pro and try them in that

A cheap 640gb SSD - how the hell was that cheap?

£50 for the micro sata adapters as opposed to £530 for a single drive - http://www.ciao.co.uk/Samsung_512GB_SSD__7867455

lol or $19000 http://www.techpowerup.com/41779/Fusion-io-Demonstrates-$19-000-640GB-SSD-PCI-e-Device.html?cp=2

I'm having problems with my finder crashing and having to turn off my MBP from the power button when doing practically nothing, it's happened every hour or so in the last two days!

I've tried running ClamXav to check for malware and using Onyx to clean up a bit but it's still happening, any suggestions?

Tried resetting the PRAM?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Tried resetting the PRAM?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Did that, didn't change much.

Interestingly I spent some time trying to figure out what was crashing everything and it seemed to be Safari. I've deleted the aplication and everything is running fine. I will see if anything happens in the next couple of days.

failing that, take a look at the processes in Activity Monitor (Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor and see if there's a process that's hogging CPU.

failing that, boot into safe mode and see if it still happens

failing that, have you tried deleting com.apple.finder.plist from your user account?

Oops, sounds like you've already checked the first. I know older webkit browsers have a habit of being massive RAM hoggers.

(and yes, massive RAM hogger is a euph)

Thanks, for the tips. All very useful.

Has anyone replaced the O rings on a delphi water cooled dual G5 mac?

My 4-year-old MacBook's power adapted just broke. It's been temperamental for a while, but has just finally split away at the magnetic adapter. Does anyone has a spare/redundant one they want to sell? Or maybe someone knows where to get a cheap one in London tomorrow?

Mahoosive thanks to NurseHoliday for lending me a charger! Now I have another problem....

I'm having some bother with calendars...

I have a MacBook (4 years old) and an iPhone 3GS, and the calendar used to sync when I plugged them together with no problems. Then I got iOS5 and I opted to sync my iPhone calendar to iCloud. On the MacBook I had a work and personal calendar, then there was this third iCloud one. But things didn't always appear on the iPhone if I created them on the MacBook and vice versa (I realise that my MacBook OS is too old to support iCloud). To make matters more complicated I just got an iPad and have opted to sync that with iCloud. But now things don't show up on the phone if I create them on the iPad etc.

Basically, my calendars aren't working right and I need a hand! Thanks in advance for any replies.

Use a Google calendar. It will work with your iPhone and iCal (and sync through the cloud), but you'll also be able to log in and view it from any computer too.

I've got 10.7.3 so could use iCloud, but don't bother.

Is anyone using a NAS that they can recommend?

I want a network backup solution, as well as a UPnP server for music and pictures, which works when my Mac is off. So I think I want a NAS. It doesn't need to be compatible with Time Machine as I've stopped using that and started using SuperDuper.

I think I want a 2 bay NAS as I want a RAID 1 setup so if one of the drives carps it I don't lose my stuff. So the contents of the NAS would be SuperDuper backup of main machine, a sizeable amount of music in FLAC format plus pictures.

I've heard good things about Synology and am thinking about one of these

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Plus two 2tb discs. Any thoughts?

Use a Google calendar. It will work with your iPhone and iCal (and sync through the cloud), but you'll also be able to log in and view it from any computer too.

I've got 10.7.3 so could use iCloud, but don't bother.

I'd have to migrate everything. Plus I prefer iCal.

Is anyone using a NAS that they can recommend?

I want a network backup solution, as well as a UPnP server for music and pictures, which works when my Mac is off. So I think I want a NAS. It doesn't need to be compatible with Time Machine as I've stopped using that and started using SuperDuper.

I think I want a 2 bay NAS as I want a RAID 1 setup so if one of the drives carps it I don't lose my stuff. So the contents of the NAS would be SuperDuper backup of main machine, a sizeable amount of music in FLAC format plus pictures.

I've heard good things about Synology and am thinking about one of these

Synology DS212J 2 Bay NAS Enclosure: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

Plus two 2tb discs. Any thoughts?

QNAP NAS are what I use... they're pretty awesome.

I won't recommend my model, but only because it has 6 x 3TB drives in it and it's way OTT for what you want.

That said... the fundamental NAS software is identical on the lower end machines, and it can do everything you've asked of it.

The equivalent 2 disk one is this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/QNAP-TS-219P-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B005Q6A0KI

But you can basically get 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 disks slots.

I use a mac mini server with a ProAvio raid plugged into - very easy to set up as a ATP file server.

An Interesting product on kickstarter for anyone with an iPad

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/552506690/brydge-ipad-do-more?ref=category

Is anyone using a NAS that they can recommend?

I have a ReadyNAS. It's OK, but unspectacular.

The Reg has just done a review of a pile of 2-bay NASs: http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/28/ten_two_bay_nas_drives_storage/

Thanks for that, seems to confirm that the Synology is a good option (what with it being Editor's choice and all).

I don't doubt the ability of the QNAP units but I think they're officially out of my budget (and to be honest I think the Synology already does way more than I'm likely to use).

I'd have to migrate everything. Plus I prefer iCal.

Migration is a simple matter of .ics file import-export. You can still use ical with Google calendar.

iCloud is a disaster.