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  • Don't suppose anyone is in the need of a 13 inch Macbook Air case?

    You could have this is as new condition for £15 if you fancy it.

    dead link

  • Thanks for pointing that out! Edited.

  • FFS, I dropped my Magic Mouse earlier and now it's broken.

    So it seems is my MacBook. All indexing, date settings etc. have reverted to their defaults and I can't connect to the internet. Turning the machine off for a few hours hasn't helped. No fluids went near it this time so I am stumped.

    To use one of my mother's favourite expressions "Argh, there's always something!"

  • Don't suppose anyone is in the need of a 13 inch Macbook Air case?

    I have this in as new condition for £15 if you fancy it.

    Yes ^, if you stick a MacBook Air in it ;)

  • New macbook pro didn't come with iDVD. What software would you recommend for burning DVDs?

  • Doesn't finder just do it for you now? I think if you put a blank DVD in, drag whatever you want to it a 'burn' button will appear in the finder window...

    Obviously if you need to burn something like a movie then you'll need a specific piece of software.

  • Sorry I meant for family videos that kind of thing. iDVD always did this fine.

    Also I need to conver MPEG files on a mac, how do I do that?

  • For conversion, use handbrake.

    For family videos etc, iMovie has an export function to disc

  • So handbrake will allow me to import an MPEG file from a camcorder then convert to say .MOV?

  • Yup.

    Copy the .mpeg to a folder on your computer and open it up in Handbrake. You can select pretty much any file format to convert it to, including .mov.

  • ^ 16Gb of ram & the Samsung 830 256Gb drive arrived this morning. Being fitted tonight.

    how did the hd swap go? I just ordered the ifixit dual drive kit from the states £65 though! still works out with the ssd to be the same price as the mini server though and I get an ssd instead of another slow 1tb drive

  • The HDD swap for a single drive is super easy. The iFixit teardown guide can be mostly ignored as they go too far in dismantling the logic board. For dual drive, it might be a little trickier.

    Now i'm up and running with the SSD and the Ram, the thing absolutely flies!! Just waiting for a few DVDs to arrive in the post until I can fully test it's ability to process video.

  • Updated my Macbook Pro to Lion 10.7.5 yesterday and it decided after about 5 mins connected to the internet via wifi that it doesnt want to work any more. And this is only since the update.

    To get wifi to reconnect it needs restarted then does the same again.

    Anyone else had similar issues??

  • Yep. Had that happen with a laptop... needed to restart every so often. I think I ended up putting whatever the latest thing is on, and it went away.

  • Had the same thing with an iMac at work, in the end we just thought fuck it and put 10.8.2 on in instead 'cos we couldn't fix it.

  • I'm pretty good at fixing mac related issues but this has got me struggling, called applecare as I couldn't figure it out and they said "Just reinstall"

    Great I update via you guys and your program update fucks it. Im changing back to Snow leopard, had the final straw with Lion the past couple of days.

    Terrible OS.

  • Pulled my new mac mini apart yesterday and installed a 128gb vertex 4 ssd using the iFixIT dual hdd kit.

    was bloody nerve wracking taking out all the little connectors and unscrewing everything. you literally have to remove everything from inside the casing to fit the second drive.

    totally worth the effort though. with the 16gb ram upgrade the thing absolutely flies now and I have a 1tb drive to chuck all my various media onto.

    installed os x server app as well to get me up to the same point i would have been with the actual server version (saving about £20 and getting an ssd instead of a 5400rpm 1tb drive in the process).

    might have some features I use but not many now i've been through it. still was only £14.

  • Not sure on your exact machine/OS but it is sometimes necessary or a good idea to tell the OS that the drive is a SSD. The main thing is that SSDs only like to be written to a certain number of times before they fail (it is millions) and that limit would be reached quite quickly if the OS assumed it was a normal drive and used it for caching and other very "chatty" operations. If you tell it is an SSD it modifies how it uses the drive a little, thus making the best use of it and lengthening the life of it.

  • ^ just download and use this: http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322

    It enables Trim on the drive (requires a restart) and will mean that the OS will treat the drive as an SSD.

    You can do it from the Terminal as well but this is much easier :)

  • THIS + THIS = AWESOME

  • Mac Mini late 2012 2.3ghz quad i7 / OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2

    will be running through this tonight... http://blog.alutam.com/2012/04/01/optimizing-macos-x-lion-for-ssd/

  • THIS + THIS = AWESOME

    no me gusta

  • My new setup is a Core i5 quad core at 3.6Ghz, 16Gb of DDR3 at c. 1700Mhz, Mountain Lion and a Geekbench score of about 10700 :)

    Loving it.

    will be running through this tonight... http://blog.alutam.com/2012/04/01/optimizing-macos-x-lion-for-ssd/

    Bear in mind that is written with Lion in mind, not Mountain Lion.

    ML has a lot more support for SSDs due to Fusion Drive, so some of that stuff is relevant, some isn't. I've not been through it in detail.

    If you've got ML, an SSD and a HD you can make your own Fusion Drive:
    http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-lion-desktop-guides/78465-understanding-using-fusion-drive.html

    That's what I'm going to do.

  • the thing that is pissing me off at the moment is ML seems to have broken being able to run python scripts as daemons so my apps like sickbeard and couch potato can run on startup but don't stay running if left for more than a few hours.

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