MacBook Air to Update This Week? - Mac Rumors

Not that I'd ever buy one, but with the recent release of iPad and update of MBP, I had completely forgotten they still made MacBook Air.

I just got Clementine working on the lappy. It's playing back FLACs, sending scrobbles to last.fm and sucking a lot less than Play does (which is not exactly difficult.) Even after selecting "always open FLACs with Clementine" in the finder, double clicking is still not working right. That's a relatively minor issue, however.

Nice, I think Clementine has good potential to become the best FLAC player on OS X. Not that there's much competition unfortunately.

I've been running Windows 7 on my MacBook as my main OS for more than a week now and I have to say OS X really needs more solid software for playing music and videos. Nothing on the Mac side comes close to the greatness of foobar2000, and VLC runs much smoother on Windows for me.

apple lossless + itunes.

Off Topic but I found this article quite interesting....apparently owning a Mac can get you laid too!

a-dating-site-for-apple-fans-only: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

ok, this is annoying.. seems I have one of those mac mini dvd drives that doesn't actually work. Put a disk in and then the mac completely ignores it.. aside from constantly speeding up and down. It wont play, show up or eject. A bit of a common problem after reading around the web. The only to get the damn disk out is to restart with the mouse down. Anyone know of a way to fix this. Not exactly useful as a media machine if it can't even play a dvd.

you can replace the drives. It's a pain in the ass, but it's possible. ifixit.com has instructions, parts are available on ebay.

If you do open a Mini, use a large, sharp kitchen knife, not a putty knife, it's easier. The rest isn't hard, if you can find the correct drive to replace the one in the Mini, which is slightly irregular.

^^^ Or, if you don't want to mess with cracking open the mini, just get external usb optical drive.

Question for the Mac gurus. First, what is your best guess for a Mac Pro refresh? Second, is the 24" Apple display actually worth $799?

Question for the Mac gurus. First, what is your best guess for a Mac Pro refresh? Second, is the 24" Apple display actually worth $799?

By update do you mean when it will be updated? The latest guess/rumor is June/early summer, the last time I checked. It's been over an year since the last update.

As for Apple Display, I've no idea if it's worth the cost. It sure looks pretty, but the only places I've seen it are Apple Stores, where you really can't compare to other displays.

As for Apple Display, I've no idea if it's worth the cost. It sure looks pretty, but the only places I've seen it are Apple Stores, where you really can't compare to other displays.

I'd check out the HP 2709m. That's what I went with and am thrilled. I might have a chance to compare side-by-side with the Apple Display, but unless is flashes up subliminal porn out-of-the-box I'm not sure I could justify the cost. If I was interested in a calibrated display, I might consider it, but I'm not, so...

No need for a calibrated display. I do some scientific image capture but absolute color calibration is not necessary.

Basically I can get a nice Mac Pro and if I go with a lesser monitor I can more easily justify a dual display system and some bigger HDs, etc.

I'd check out the HP 2709m. That's what I went with and am thrilled. I might have a chance to compare side-by-side with the Apple Display, but unless is flashes up subliminal porn out-of-the-box I'm not sure I could justify the cost. If I was interested in a calibrated display, I might consider it, but I'm not, so...

It spews out magical unicorn dust.

well f me. The shuffle doesn't have a non-inline volume control? So now, I have the choice of too short of a cable with my iphone or using a shuffle clipped to my lapel that doesn't have a volume control. So far the default volume is okay (I notice there is some sort of slider in itunes) but man, I feel like a fail magnet today.

I'd check out the HP 2709m. That's what I went with and am thrilled. I might have a chance to compare side-by-side with the Apple Display, but unless is flashes up subliminal porn out-of-the-box I'm not sure I could justify the cost. If I was interested in a calibrated display, I might consider it, but I'm not, so...

Went with two HP 2509m. The 2709 would have made my speakers sit too far apart for optimal stereo imaging

Went with two HP 2509m. The 2709 would have made my speakers sit too far apart for optimal stereo imaging

cool. If they are anything like the 2709m, get ready to turn the brightness WAAYY down...

AppleInsider | Another leak from Vietnam reveals Apple's 13-inch MacBook refresh

Still pains me that they removed FireWire from MacBook.

Web pages started appearing like this on my mac and was wondering if anyone else has been getting anything similar. It's not all sites and doesn't always manifest. Happens on both Firefox and Safari for me. Not much help, I know. =/ Any ideas?

Have you tried clearing cache/cookies? Something similar to that occasionally happens to me, but clearing cache/cookies always fixes the issues (I also get this on my work Windows machine).

Will give it a try.

AppleInsider | Another leak from Vietnam reveals Apple's 13-inch MacBook refresh

Still pains me that they removed FireWire from MacBook.

Steve giveth, and Steve taketh away.

Steve giveth, and Steve taketh away.

Which is fine, as long as you don't wan't HyperCard on your iPad.

No HyperCard for the iPad | MacNews

The iPad needs its HyperCard - O'Reilly Radar

http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/revmobile-and-apples-iphone-sdk-agreement

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Looks like Tom Cruise.

Took mbp to the apple store for a dead video card. Genius was supposed to charge me for the repair, but found a program to cover it under, so it'll be fixed free.