The Mac thread

[selfish]

Just discovered that in Messages, people who reply to them don't have their message sent to your phone - it goes to the computer, whether it's turned on or not. What a terrible design!

[Talez]

Sweet Zombie Jesus.

[westical]

No Mac mini update, I continue to be cutting edge.

[General Chaos]

So my mid 2010 MBP has decided it fucking hates Lion and Panics immediately.

Fixed permissions saved data and it shat itself again. Even booting from an image disc causes panic.

Snowy is happy as day on it. Googling says that it is a feature of a large chunk of 2010's. Still Applecared til mid next year so I guess I will rage at apple via Nextbyte.

Oh yeah what pimp new devices were announced? Retina Airs?

[Talez]

So my mid 2010 MBP has decided it fucking hates Lion and Panics immediately.

Fixed permissions saved data and it shat itself again. Even booting from an image disc causes panic.

Snowy is happy as day on it. Googling says that it is a feature of a large chunk of 2010's. Still Applecared til mid next year so I guess I will rage at apple via Nextbyte.

Oh yeah what pimp new devices were announced? Retina Airs?

Retina MacBook Pro. 2880x1800 15.4" screen.

2010 MacBook Pros have been kernel panicing with 10.7. I've got the same one and it's the nVidia driver tripping it up. It's been mostly fixed on 10.7.4 but to turn off the panics permanently you can use gfxCardStatus to force the OS to only use the Intel GPU.

[General Chaos]

Yeah I saw that but decided to roll back to snowy for now. Don't use it these days anyhow, should prob just sell it and be done with it.

Off to look at the new products but laptops are dead to me. An air would be as much of a laptop I could deal with.

[unfnknblvbl]

LOL Retina. Didn't mech call me crazy not that long ago for wanting higher pixel density displays on PCs?

[selfish]

No he would never do that, he is always right.

[mech]

Eh? Show me the proof, sounds like you making shit up.

[Talez]

It was lestat not mech. I think you're thinking of this piece of damage control from this thread:

I hate the chicken-wire screen on the ipad with a burning passion, but I can see why they're not yet iphone 4/Desire HD density.

That's the first thing that jumped out at me when using an ipad, the horrible dot pitch. Ideally 1080p res would be nice, but even something in between would be good enough. 2048x1536 is overkill and a resolution most people don't even come close to running on their computers with much larger screens.

[mech]

Lulz.

I'm always for higher resolutions.

I'm sure I'll get an appropriate apology from selfish and unfunk.

Nah, this is just me being a prick and being 'right' again. What a cunt.

[Talez]

I'm waiting to see the thing in person down at Valley Fair before I order it. Hopefully they'll have the demo unit in a few days. I really want to see what it looks like running 1680x1050 and 1920x1200 virtual resolutions before I order. I really don't want a 1440x900 desktop again.

[Cardsy]

This thread reminds me of one of the greatest Lestat ranch quotes of all time from the iPad unveiling thread.

Tablets, meh it's newton all over again.

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[Talez]

[PhoneMonkey]

Any guesses on how many haters in that old iPad thread now own an iPad?

[General Chaos]

Orignal ipad sucked... /Pre emptive strike! (just in case)

[Lepo5]

Mine's original and I'm yet to discover how to make it suck.

ooh and I bought a Mac Mini last week for GarageBand and video editing and I'm loving it!

[pilonv1]

@ that Pat meltdown. What an awesome thread.

Any guesses on how many haters in that old iPad thread now own an iPad?

I'm probably one of them

I have one, love it, use it every day. Doesn't stop me from wishing it was a little better sometimes though.

[Seraph]

My boss's daughter spilled drink on her macbook, and it's cactus. He doesn't want to try and fix it, and he's already bought her a new one. What he -would- like to do, is remove the HDD, and if it's working, get what's on it, off it, and onto the next one. I've told him that I assume it's possible as long as the HDD didn't get damaged in the drink-spill incident.

However, I don't have any Mac products and I would assume I'll need a Mac of some sort to plug the HDD into? I know almost nothing about Macs, so I was hoping someone here could give me some feedbkack. What do you suggest? It it were a PC, I'd be grabbing a standard sata external hdd caddy/enclosure, and I imagine there's something similar for the Mac, but other alternatives may be better.

Suggestions?

[mech]

It is a PC, grab a standard SATA external HDD enclosure. Assuming it's a normal macbook with a normal HDD in it and not flash storage.

I think with OS X you can even boot off the external drive easily, unlike Windows.

[selfish]

Yep, if you install drivers to read HFS+, you can read/write to it as normal on windows too. Pretty sure that with the flash drives you can, if you have the right adapters, use them just as normal drives.

I've used the boot-from-external-drive thing a bunch of times, saved me when fucking around with all kinds of shit. Even used an old iPod to boot from, over firewire…not hugely fast, but it did the trick!

[Rorschach]

Anyone else upgrade to Mountain Lion? I made the jump, install was smooth as silk. So far everything works the way it's supposed to, yet to have a look at all the features. Bargain for $20.

[Cardsy]

I think I'll wait for a few point releases before jumping in.

[mech]

Yeah I grabbed it, running it now without any dramas. The only thing it broke was Parallels which was quickly updated.

[Twit]

I'm doing it over this weekend. I've at least remembered not to just run it this time and instead first make a bootable USB drive so I can chuck it on several machines...