Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

i buy the parts off amazon. the screen was £25 all in with tools to get the screen off as well. you'll need a pentalobe screwdriver and some tiny phillips screwdriver bits as well and a small flathead screwdriver.

Cool, cheers. Looks like this is the best bet on Amazon

Replacement Black LCD Screen and Digitizer For Apple iPhone 4 - Tools Included: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

Emailed the place with oem parts so will wait for a reply

It won't be OEM. I got mine off ebay as a kit and it was fine.

Trying to unlock my iPhone 4 because my contract is up and I want to change providers.

I keep getting Error 3194 when I try restore it. So annoying. My iTunes is updated and my iPhone is running the latest operating system.

Everything I've read online is about jailbroken phones or involves deleting host files or some shit.

I just want to restore my phone!

my 8gigz haz arrived. do i just sellotape it to the screen or what?

*looks up install guides

Dooks the iMac your looking at is either this one

http://www.offtek.co.uk/ram-memory-2/apple/apple-desktop-memory/imac-2.4ghz-intel-core-2-duo---(20-inch)-(667mhz)/mid145496

Or this one

http://www.offtek.co.uk/ram-memory-2/apple/apple-desktop-memory/imac-2.4ghz-intel-core-2-duo---(20-inch)-(800mhz)-(mb323ll-a)/mid145497

You should be able to find out what ram you have in there when you start it up and check out the system info..

you are correct sir.

*sends back wrong memory i'd stupidly ordered from the bookmarked page i'd saved at work before cross checking against your post. whydididothat?

fffffff.....

dropped phone in toilet.

Trying to unlock my iPhone 4 because my contract is up and I want to change providers.

I keep getting Error 3194 when I try restore it. So annoying. My iTunes is updated and my iPhone is running the latest operating system.

Everything I've read online is about jailbroken phones or involves deleting host files or some shit.

I just want to restore my phone!

plug it in with itunes open then restart it and hold the home button (i think that's how you do it, i posted the exact technique somewhere in the last couple of pages) it's the last ditch restore method and is slightly different to the standard restore through itunes i believe.

am also waiting for my gf's old iphone 4 to be unlocked as well to replace my broken iphone 3gs and they're taking forever. may end up just buying an iphone 5 instead at this rate.

Okay Apple tech-heads, can I have some advice and help please?

I've just bought an i-Pod Nano (7th Genreation) to replace my deceased 3rd Genration.

The main purpose of this is to use as my car stereo and I have a 30 pin cradle fitted which the old nano used to fit into. Despite me asking whether this would definitely be suitable for in car use using my existing set-up, it is very clear upon opening the box that it has a totally different connection.

So, I've done some googling and there are (expensive) adaptors available but they look like the new lightning connection is in the middle of the adaptor whereas it's to the right hand side of the nano - this means that with the adaptor installed, the nano is unlikely to fit into my cradle.

Does anyone know if there's adaptors that are available with the connector in the correct place or if there's any other way around this?

Thank you!

this might work, the nano wouldn't sit in the cradle though.

http://www.espow.com/product_info.php?products_id=61464&currency=GBP&gsc=googleshopping&gclid=COj1jebXpLYCFabLtAodqy0ArQ

Thanks HatBeard - it looks like the way to go. I'm sure I can still fit the nano in the cradle with that on.

Cheers!

Or return it and get a second hand slightly older on that'll fit?

OpenOffice>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

anyone have a copy of Office for Mac?

OpenOffice>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

anyone have a copy of Office for Mac?

I can get legit copies through work for a tenner if you want one?

The battery on my 15" MBP (pre-unibody, bought Jan 07) has completely died. It expanded and looks like its about to pop. I took it to the Apple store, and they said that this was a "safety feature" to let you know when it's time to replace the battery. Total BS I'm sure, it had only done about 120 cycles.

Anyway, they wouldn't give me a new one and want £101 for a replacement. Anyone have any that they'd like to shift or have any experience of the third party ones? It's this one by the way.. http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MA348G/A/rechargeable-battery-15-inch-macbook-pro

Safety feature? Sounds like bs to me. Those models had a run of bad batteries that were prone to explode so worth a google and see if your battery is affected. That was years ago though so doubt it's still on though.

Either way, I'd go to another apple store, maybe you'll meet a kinder, and geniuser 'genius' this time

Ah very bad luck. I had one of those MBPs but it started swelling just as the recall was announced so I got a new one for free. There's a part number on the underside you can check, I think.

Could be that the spod in the shop didn't know about the recall, given that it was a while ago. But worth finding out if it's still running, I got a whole new logic board for a 4 year old iMac once.

^^^, ^^, ^ cheers guys. I'll give it a shot and let you know how I get on..

The headphone jack on my iPod classic has given up the ghost - does anyone have any suggestions for places I could get it repaired?

Dan - get something like this on ebay - I've got the tools to open it up - iPod classics are damn easy to fix.

oh hi!

Awesome. Let's fix it!

So - my old laptop's hard drive packed in, so I bought an absolutely ridiculous macbook pro.

Now, despite having a butt-tonne of RAM, something is constantly eating 2GB all the time, from start up to shut down. It's not any of the active apps, but something running in the background. It's listed as Kernel_task, which is a root task, so it can't be stopped. Sometimes OSX starts a huge kernel_task for thermal throttling, but my laptop isn't hot enough for that to kick in...

I've got iStat menus installed, and I get the feel that it's that which is using all this RAM, as I've removed all the login items, including everything in LaunchAgent and LaunchDemon Library folders. I tried to boot up in Safe mode, but iStat still launched up and was registering 14.5GB of RAM use from something or other.

Anyone got any smart ideas about how to fucking disable iStat Menus, or how to work out exactly what or why I'm using all this fucking RAM all the time?

Are you using Lion Maechamorgan?

Whatever the latest operating system is called. Mountain Lion?

What's the website everyone always talks about for comparing the price of a used mac?

http://www.mac2sell.net/