Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Yes. give or take sub versions.

shouldn't I have?

I may also install the upgrade onto some non-Apple branded computers soon..

No worries if it works. I couldn't go from 10.3 to 10.5 which is why I wondered.

Hate Apple.

you don't need to upgrade to 10.5.X first either, just get SL and upgrade

Snow leopard is intel only for power pc you need leopard. (this may be a relevant point)

possibly something to do with the introduction of intel macs. I don't want to pay loads of cash for a trusted platform module or monitor I don't want so I'm building a PC (which may or may not satisfactorily run osx) as I don't use any mac only software any more. O

yeah I said that further up ^

assuming as he wants to install SL he's got an intel though? Ben?

Snow leopard is intel only for power pc you need leopard. (this may be a relevant point)

anyone got 10.4 disks they could part with for a couple of days?

i'm up north so would need posting but i'd send some random tat back with the disks to sweeten the deal.

it's going on a g4 powermac so I guess needs to be full retail version (i have imac and macbook pro disks already but no good)

so I need to burn a disc image onto a DVD

I have DVDs, but the last one I did ended up with the disk image file on the DVD. I don't want that, I want to be able to boot from the DVD, like when you restore an image to a usb drive.

can anyone help?

Right click on the .iso and open it with Disk Utility. Select it on the left and then click the 'burn' symbol from the menu at the top.

For iPad 3G users:

I was wondering about a certain thing and couldn't find anything online, so I decided to commence my own experiment.

I've managed to use a cut down SIM from T-Mobile Web'n'Walk dongle with iPad. It works great.
I was bound by the lengthly contract with T-Mobile and didn't want to take another one with O2 or Vodaphone (and don't like "3", although some people managed to cut their PayAsYouGo 3G broadband SIMs as well).

Still think, that you get better value when going for Wi-Fi model and using MiFi with PAYG SIM card.

Yeah the SIMs are exactly the same apart from the (lack of) plastic around the chip. Cutting them down works fine.

I have the 3G iPad and find O2's £10-per-month-for-2GB and no contract pretty reasonable tbh.

Oh well done Apple! you actually release an iPod with buttons!, instead of admitting that the previous one was flawed and poorly design, you just revamp the predecessor!

I have a challenge.
I have an image of a 3d book which I need to automate inserting different covers (because they'll be hundreds of them) on the face and inserting them in InDy.
The front cover is obviously skewed so I need to find a way to 'paste into' a path.

Or, is anyone au fait with CS5 yet? I could 3D a cover this way but the 'materials' for the extrusion are jokes. If I want a Canadian leaf anytime then I'm sorted.

Scratching my head over this one.

are all covers the same size?

if so, could you do an droplet action in photoshop that skews them? then output to tiffs that you somehow automatically place in inDesign?

The could be. I action them at different outputs so could add on that does the same.

So blank template in Indy, Pshop skew action, place in template.
Will work on the skew action, cheers k.

Not sure how I'd place them all in Indy though.

For the skewed/distorted book covers, assuming the cover images are all at a constistant size to start with...

Start a new action and record the transform onto the cover. Save this action. Then use the batch process function to create the other files something like Automate/Batch/ (choose the action here) and check the save and close box.

As for automatically placing them into Indesign hmmm. I have to think. I did this not long ago. There were master objects involved and object styles. I'll try and figure it out.

With the student loan company about to grace my bank account with several thousand pounds I'v been thinking about upgrading the ram on my 24" 3.06ghz core 2 duo imac.
I'm currently running just the standard 2gb.
Crucial.com suggest (as do most sources on tinterweb) that the max I can put in is 4gb (2x 2gb) http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.aspx?model=iMac%203.06GHz%20Intel%20Core%202%20Duo%20%2824-inch%29&pl=iMac&cat=RAM
but when I go on the Apple store and go through selecting what model of imac I have there is an 8gb option. (2x4gb) http://store.apple.com/uk/memorymodel/ME_IMAC_AL_24_G3
Problem is the Apple store want almost £500 for the 8gb option whereas Crucial only want £65 for 4gb.
The crucial memory seems to be pc2-6400 ddr 2 whereas the apple stuff is pc3-8500 ddr 3, not that I have a clue what any of that means.
I found this http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT2KIT51272BB1067Q on the crucial site which seems to be the same as the Apple store are selling but for less than half the price.
Common sense suggests I could buy that and run it safely but thought I'd check if anyone here had an opinion 1st.

Btw, I use my mac for photography so I'm processing reasonably large (40 odd mb from the camera) images quite often a few at a time, with layers etc I regularly have finished images sitting around 2-300mb.
Is 8gb ram gonna be overkill for this?

You can use non-Apple stuff so long as it is the right spec. It's like HP wanting £1000 for 2gb of RAM for my laptop (business spec. so they charge whatever) which I paid £100 for.

Crucial RAM is good.

I presume all the things online that say max capacity of 2x2gb maybe predate the availability of the 2 4gb cards?

I dunno if I should just go for 4gb and save myself some cash.
It's not like my mac crashes or is all that slow as is.

Motherboards have limits to how much ram they can deal with.
Thought, my workmate just upgraded his iPodPadFuckingLaptop to 6gb even though the specs. officially say it'll only work with 4gb. It won't work with 8gb though. Basically, plug the model into google with "ram upgrade" and see what results you get. Crucial and Kingston are good 3rd party options. I'm sure there's more but I don't buy hardware often enough to keep up.

if your mac is running pc3-8500 ddr 3 then you should not put pc2-6400 ddr 2. its not the same ram. open up your imac and look at the ram to see what it is. the faster ram will run at a slower clock speed but not vice versa.
kingston says for early 2009 imac 24 you can put in 8 gigs but you should check your Mfgr's System P/N's then you will know for sure. I've used kingston value ram in all my macs. they worked well as long the clock speed and voltage was the same.

http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator_new/modelsinfo.asp?SysID=54755&mfr=Apple&model=iMac+Intel+Core+2+Duo+20&search_type=&root=uk&LinkBack=http://www.kingston.com/ukroot&Sys=54755-Apple-iMac+Intel+Core+2+Duo+20-inch/24-inch+(Early+2009)&distributor=0&submit1=Search

Surely DDR2 and DDR2 have a different number of pins? so you can't fit the wrong modules

I am with Hippy do a google, failing that crucial do a memory selector thing on their website, it is pretty much foolproof ... just drill down until you get the memory options.

There seems to be a difference in the max capacity between the early 2008 and early 2009 models.
Mine was bought Sept 2008 and seems to be an 'early 2008' model with all the optional upgrades which was making it hard to find specs that tallied with what showed on my machine.
Looks like it's 4gb max for me.
Which is probably for the best because regardless of how much I don't need the 8gig if I could have done it I probably would have.
Just saved myself £160.

yeah the 08 imacs were 4 gigs only.
but the easiest way is to check is to take out the ram and see what you got in there. it sucks having to throwout 2 gigs of ram and then replace it with 4 gigs.
the kingston value ram KVR is the cheapest you can get. its value ram so you might get a dud but i havent had any problems with all the ones ive used.

yeah the 08 imacs were 4 gigs only.
but the easiest way is to check is to take out the ram and see what you got in there. it sucks having to throwout 2 gigs of ram and then replace it with 4 gigs.
the kingston value ram KVR is the cheapest you can get. its value ram so you might get a dud but i havent had any problems with all the ones ive used.

Corsair is the Ram I always buy, I have used value, special DDR super bollox etc (which was cheaper than value (wtf?)).. and I have never had any problems, crucial, kingston etc I always have a stick die after a year. Corsair is solid.