Posts by Angus McCallum

Bad luck. I have called Apple, which says that a swelling battery is not a recall issue -- i.e. they won't give me a free replacement -- but they say that yes, a swelling battery should be replaced before it damages the macbook. And...

I have a late 2007 Santa Rosa 2.0 GHz Macbook. It's still on its first and only battery and that battery is still working just fine, after 3+ years. I have noticed, though, that the battery is swelling: the outer side is definitely...

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Keep in mind that each app can use 2GB, ... ...meaning each app can use **only** 2GB? I use a processor-intensive app -- Nikon Scan, for film scanning. Would upgrading my Santa Rosa Macbook from...

SOLVED -- It was Retrospect 8. I had set up automated backup of another machine, but retrospect was unable to execute because it was not connected. Retrospect kept casting around for the other machine until eventually, it gace up....

Nothing when I shut down... All kinds of things during a session... anything below look suspicious to you...? Thanks...

I am running updated Snow Leopard on a 2GHz Santa Rosa Macbook with 4 gigs RAM. About two weeks ago, it started to take a loooong time to shut down - I just timed it at 10 minutes, 3 seconds. Startup takes just over a minute, from...

Forgive me if there is an existing thread on this topic -- I've looked without success. Are there reasons not to buy used, original-disc copies of discontinued Mac OS X software from an auction site (I'm thinking of a copy of Tiger...

Superb! Thanks....

Are Mac Pro's noticeably quieter than G5's? -G4 Boy

Maybe I could just get around all this if there were a utility that would enable me to format the NAS disks as Mac Extended HFS.