Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I asked previously about buying a Nas drive for streaming my itunes library to my various computers and was wondering if this: QNAP TS-110 1 Bay Turbo All-in-one NAS Server with iSCSI, iPhone Streaming, iTunes Server & Media Server: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories would be a good choice. I assume I just add external HD's too it.

Well, just stumped up for the new retina macbook pro. 3-4 weeks till it gets here though... :(

Now all I need to do is format & clean the 1st gen air, and core2duo mbp and get em on the bay.

Is that mac2sell thing fairly accurate? Says the mbp should be £360, and the air should be £230 or something.

I've just bought a brand new (official) battery & charger for the pro - should that earn me brownie points on t'ebay?

any recommendations for free non-subscription radio on the ipad?

I have TuneIn radio which is pretty cool.

Yes, but not very well.

Balls.

I've got it installed on my gaming PC and it runs everything on max - wouldn't mind playing it on the mac though when I can't get to the PC.

Well, just stumped up for the new retina macbook pro. 3-4 weeks till it gets here though... :(

Now all I need to do is format & clean the 1st gen air, and core2duo mbp and get em on the bay.

Is that mac2sell thing fairly accurate? Says the mbp should be £360, and the air should be £230 or something.

I've just bought a brand new (official) battery & charger for the pro - should that earn me brownie points on t'ebay?

search on ebay for completed lisitings, that way you will get a rough idea of what they are going for

^ cheers for the advice!

Ebay's got some up for quite a bit more than I thought it was worth. Well, I've had a PM from someone on here, so if they want it for cheaper, it's all theirs.

Might put a listing up here for them both if they're not interested. Rather they go to someone here than have to mess about with ebay.

Question for all Macheads:

I'm not using pretty much everything Apple; at work I use an old MacBook Pro, I own an iPad 3, iPod Classic, Shuffle and iPhone and now I want to get myself running on OS X on a laptop for personal use. The obvious choice is to get my hands on a new MacBook Pro, but I can't justify the price - around £2,500 if (almost) fully loaded.

I know you can dual boot a windows laptop quite easily, but is it possible to run OS X off a 'standard' windows ultrabook with a single install? Would prefer to spend £1,000 on an ASUS with a 128gb SSD and run OS X if possible

Why don't you check the refurb store. Good bit of saving can be had and the i7 processors in the old one last years models are up to the job perfectly.

Mine runs FCP,Photoshop and pretty much anything else I want perfectly!

13inch refurb air, keep movies and maybe iTunes on an external, RAM from Crucial... swap out the HDD for an SSD yourself?

Pretty good deal....
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/FD314B/A

^^ do this, but buy my air.

The Refurbs from apple are a really great deal. They are always in perfect condition and most the time they are as new but when a customer returns them (even if they just change their mind) then Apple sell them off through that part of the site rather than reboxing them and selling them as new.

both of mine were referb, and are still running strong. Looked like new. Ran like new.

Mac mail question...

When i attach in emails I wanna know how much mb i have attached... doesnt seem to display the info anywhere??

Anyone know what im doing wrong?

Ta.

it says next to the file on mine?

been looking into getting some more ram for my macbook, whilst I've got some money and probably swapping out the hard drive for an ssd, any recommendations on ssd's had a look on crucial and was wondering whether there was anywhere else cheaper.

Also how simple is it to swap out the hard drive, mac pro (desktop) simple, unscrew a couple of bolts, pull out old drive, insert new drive, screw back in bolts, et voila. Or is it more difficult than that?

also transferring data from old hard drive to new drive, how would one go about that, I'd probably have to reinstall the osx wouldn't I?

apologies for so many questions, at work and don't have the time to search t'internet for answers. your help is as always appreciated..

I've just lost an SD card into my iMac CD slot.

:]

The MacBooks are quite easy to change both the HDD and the RAM on, If its a MBP unibody it seems to be equally easy just a bit more complicated ooking because you need to take the bottom off and expose the workings to the world. Make sure you grab a radiator just before to earth yourself.

http://www.macinstruct.com/node/130 tells you how to do both. Google is your friend on this one.

Backing up I'm not sure about but i think that if you do a time machine backup onto an external hard drive then you should be able to reboot from that. Im sure someone will clarify that.

i just backed up my time machine, booted off the recovery disk you can make for lion, or you can use original osx disc, and restore back up, and hey presto everything is back as it was

Chrome browser, finally released for Ipad today!

ooh that's worth checking out, currently using dolphin.

been looking into getting some more ram for my macbook, whilst I've got some money and probably swapping out the hard drive for an ssd, any recommendations on ssd's had a look on crucial and was wondering whether there was anywhere else cheaper.

Also how simple is it to swap out the hard drive, mac pro (desktop) simple, unscrew a couple of bolts, pull out old drive, insert new drive, screw back in bolts, et voila. Or is it more difficult than that?

also transferring data from old hard drive to new drive, how would one go about that, I'd probably have to reinstall the osx wouldn't I?

apologies for so many questions, at work and don't have the time to search t'internet for answers. your help is as always appreciated..

Ease of HD replacement depends to some extent on the model. However, even the trickier pre-unibody MBPs can be opened and closed in less than an hour. There are some good how to vids on youtube, which is what I used. Make sure you have good quality precision screwdrivers of the right type, an antistatic band, and of course a spudger.

Before you blow big money on an SSD, I'd recommend trying out a hybrid drive - Seagate make a good one, and I have used that for months with a noticeable speed gain. You can get a 500gb one now for about 60 notes.

To do the data transfer, put the new drive in an enclosure (cost a few quid on ebuyer), format as bootable, then use carbon copy cloner to copy your laptop hdd onto it. Check you can boot off it before you swap drives.

bloody 5,t,g & b buttons constantly stop working on my Macbook Pro.

It's just become 'vintage' and it all seems very suspicious. any tips?

old dirt in the keyboard? Crumbles, hairs and other lovely bits?

Get a can of compressed air and give it a blow*

*ba-dum-tish!

Ok, bit of a long one. Hope someone can help.

My 5 yr old Macbook Pro has a hardware problem, the graphics card which is integral to the logic board is dead. It's a common problem and there was a free repair offer on my computer if the graphics card went which was valid for 4 years! (FFFUUUUU!!!)

So......

Either I stump up £300 for a new logic board from Apple (I duzn't haz) or look third party for the same thing - not sure if this will actually be much cheaper!

The other option is that I have another Macbook Pro of a similar age which completely ground to a halt, but not a graphics card issue. If I can determine whether the fault on this second laptop was not logic board related (How would one do that?), I could switch them across (Maybe easier said than done?).

Alternatively my sister has a newer Macbook pro which has a working logic board but was in a bike crash and is otherwise a write off. Are there any compatibility issues with newer logic boards?

What should I do?