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Quote: Originally Posted by Tailpipe I think Apple has made a mistake by not making the SSD drive upgradeable on the MacBook Air. I wonder if it will rectify this by eliminating blade modules when the Air is revised and return to a convention…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Nice bump. The blade storage approach is a great idea but unfortunately Apple has only been putting one slot into each of its machines. The problem there is that tech is rapidly changing with higher den…
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(bump) Quote: Originally Posted by Tailpipe What interest in this discussion tells me is that there is significant consumer demand for a MacBook Air that has sufficient power and memory to be a primary machine. People want lighter and thinner …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jsk173 Barring any last-minute changes, I'll probably be going with the MBP 17-inch with the standard 2.2 GHz processor, the stock 4 GB RAM, the antiglare screen (+ $50), and a 256 GB SSD (+ $500). Is it safe to say…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jsk173 Barring any last-minute changes, I'll probably be going with the MBP 17-inch with the standard 2.2 GHz processor, the stock 4 GB RAM, the antiglare screen (+ $50), and a 256 GB SSD (+ $500). Is it safe to say…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 1. Most rational people don't even want an optical in their portables. I'm torn with this. If I had my druthers (chr*st, I sound like my grandfather now), I would be with everyone else, dumping the optica…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Placebo looks like my dad fails at signing for FedEx packages, FUCK Condolences, man. I left work early today just to sit here waiting for FedEx. My 23" ACD sat on my porch all day last saturday (unharmed, thankfully…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker The first thing to learn about reading monitor specs is never to trust the vendor. The second thing to learn about reading monitor specs is never ever to trust the vendor. I just upgraded from a pinstripe 20…
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Quote: Originally Posted by CheapFrag mine shipped with x1900xt as well as bluetooth airport Ditto. And I ordered mine less than a week ago.
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Quote: Originally Posted by mjteix Clovertown: quad-core version of woodcrest (in fact 2 woodcrest chips on the same die), should be introduced late Q4, rumored to be at 2.66GHz, around 110W, 1066 or 1333 FSB. Like Kentsfield to Conroe, Cloverto…
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Dear God, let's just hope that infernal chirping that plagued the first batches of G5s is gone with the Mac Pros.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Placebo I think the X1900 XT pushes it back more than any other option. I hope we don't end up with the Geforce 6800 debacle of yesteryear where people got their Power Macs in the middle of October because of it. Dum…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Placebo I got it with the X1900 XT, which probably has to do with my ship date of September 16th. Eh well, it'll be great when I get it. Share your ship date. Will be ordering my 'soon', so I don't have a ship…
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Quote: Originally posted by epimetheus All, Wife is *really* getting on me to pick up another Mac because she needs her own. I planned on upgrading this year anyway and giving her my dual G5, but I really don't wanna buy a Quad now knowing the…
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Just a quick followup -- I used Ambrosia's Wiretap Pro and it worked great for grabbing audio from the DVD-A. Hopefully the upcoming 3.0 version of Mac The Ripper will make DVD-A extraction a little easier...
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Quote: Originally posted by epimetheus Hi all, Did a search on the forum and couldn't find anything on this subject... Is there a way to rip the audio tracks from a DVD-A? I recently purchased a DVD-A (Porcupine Tree's "Deadwing") because i…
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Quote: Originally posted by dmgeist To watch these vids on a dvd player your going to have to encode them to mpeg2 format. Try ffmpeg or mpeg2works on Versiontracker. Thanks, I had tried ffmpeg already with no luck. I'll give mpeg2works a sho…
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Quote: Originally posted by Luca I found some more information in an old thread here: http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...threadid=23894 You can see I was also participating quite a bit . Basically, these are the advantages: 1. Alumin…
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Quote: Originally posted by Messiahtosh The aluminum is darker in color, and sturdier. Where the Ti was two-toned with the silver and white, the Aluminum is all one color. To me, the main difference is the screen hinge. The Ti had a hinge tha…
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Quote: Originally posted by locopano I had a 17" 1.33GHZ (sold for 17" 1.5ghz), i find that its more comfortable to work on this machine than it is on a 15". It just feels more sturdy when sitting on your legs/laps..... because its longer. You ca…