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  • Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan  Wall Street doesn't give a shit about MacPro.   I own several Mac Pros, I look forward to the product line being refreshed for the first time in 3+ years, Any Year Now.  And I know at least 1…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by GTR  Just for the record, the original business plan for Underpants Gnomes was the following: Phase 1. Collect underpants Phase 2. Buy Apple Phase 3. Profit! Heh.   That exact plan has worked …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by alienzed Nothing is stopping Apple from investing it's money in the US. How about starting by, I don't know, investing money in the US? One great way to invest money in the US is to bring that money back to the US and …
  • While this is all terribly fascinating, it would be really nice if they just, ya know, released the @#%@ thing already. While I'm engaging in wishful thinking regarding a product that Steve Jobs obviously has no interest in anymore, I would really …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by brendon.humphrey For what its worth, I needed a new machine "now" - the Mac Pro 1,1 is almost unsupportable outside of the US/UK due to the total non-availability of video cards. I looked at various Dell configurations…
  • Just a dumbass question from a creative type. I have cash set aside for new dual hexacore Mac Pro and hopefully forthcoming 27" cinema display. Is the overall consensus here that the hold up is Intel not being able to produce the CPUs in quantit…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by supernova Howdy all, For those of you who have bought the first two bundles, you already know about MacHeist. For those that don't, here's the scoop: You can buy 12 great applications at over an 80% discount. T…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by aryayush Hello! I use the Google Video application to download and play movies from video.google.com. These movies are saved onto the hard drive with the 'GVI' extension. Is there any application that can convert the…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Daffy_Duck First he makes fun of the visual changes as if he's one of those pure functional types, then his main gripe is about an unnecessary visual feature in Terminal yet he finds room to diss tabs which for most wo…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Aquatic Yeah. Office 2004 was decent, if somewhat limited. Office hasn't really improved much since 97. In fact Word 5.1 had a great interface. It just worked. This new version looks truly awful. And again, I'm a fan o…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Gamrin Something minor I hadn't noticed until just now: Plant your mouse cursor in (or at the end of) any word in Pages and hit "escape." Pages will offer dozens of words in a floating menu for completing the word y…
    in iWork 08 Comment by richardh August 2007
  • Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler Don't believe that rant about bloatware. iTunes has become more optimized with each release. His speed problems were a result of something else. Perhaps more programs running in the background, or a harddrive ge…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by TnMike I have a G4 laptop (500megahertz/ 768 megs RAM) and a G5 dual 2.7 (2.5 gigs RAM.) I have bought 3 TV shows and 1 movie through itunes and the playback on both of these computers is too sluggish and jerky to watc…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by RichardH Thanks to everyone who replied, and yeah I realize it. I don't want to do any of this, it's not for my music in iTunes, I just posted the question here since I figured someone would have an answer. What I'…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by gregmightdothat Why would you want to? You realize the results will likely sound terrible, right? Thanks to everyone who replied, and yeah I realize it. I don't want to do any of this, it's not for my music in iTune…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by layng My 15 inch MBP C2D is much cooler than my old PowerBook G4 15 inch. No heat problems at all, under any conditions. Yeah, I second that. To compare: PowerBook 1.5GHz, 128MB VRAM, low-end temp, was 128F, high…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by RobM Try a copy of DiskWarrior on that puppy this has saved my ass many times for all sorts of reasons. Maybe that the directory has headed south and needs a damn good rebuild. Couple of ways todo this - you can…
  • [QUOTE=OfficerDigby]So it said at the end of FSCK'ing that the volume appeared to be OK.? This is a good sign. Then you exit and still nothing? ??? You hold option (alt) key during booting to select which volume to boot from. Also you hold down…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by OfficerDigby single user boot apple-s.? You didn't say you tried it... Bong sound is good sign but could be logic board. Weird day, MBP was just released, Wooo Hooo!!! Great Timing! Still, if there's nothin…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Kuku The new itunes is a bit buggy, so I suggest backup somehow, like your playlist artwork, etc. I updated mine on macosx 10.4.7 from 6.0.5 (already the majority) and guess what. All my music refused to play. …