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Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
One problem with the way that OSX works.... it really needs about 15-20% of your harddrive free to work properly. It's kind of like VRAM, but it also does a lot of overhead stuff there and storing temp things that the system doesn't like to leave in memory. I've not found a workaround for this other than leaving a healthy… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Don't know the exact answer to your question, but if the color gamut plots in this article are any indication, even the best MacBook/MacBook Pro screen will not be close to any desktop LCD. Also, the 17" still uses the older, conventional CCFL backlight, which in the linked article is shown to be inferior to the color… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Wow. I am loving my new G5, why didn't I do this sooner. Oh yeah, because a G5 with no ram is no fun. The 20" Cinema Display is awesome, of course I am coming from a 15" laptop. My 19" Lacie seems so small. I cannot imagine the 30" at home, you probably could run one monitor with the 23". This is plenty for me. Still… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
I was in a position one month ago where I had to buy right then. So I bought the 13 inch MacBook Pro and the 27 inch thunderbolt display. I knew the upgrades were coming soon but I couldn't wait. My big fear was that yesterdays 13 inch pro upgrade would be huge. Thankfully it wasn't, and I'm fine with what I have. The new… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Anyone who uses 2GB or less of data a month will save money with the new AT&T plans. It's clear that with iPhone 4 coming next week - AT&T is very concerned about the strain that tethering will put on their network. For those of us who already have the unlimited $30/month plan - we can keep it. If you had the 250MB/month… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Bear in mind that a laptop will do damage to your neck faster than a desktop, if you don't need a laptop get the desktop. The 23 cimema is a different experience altogether from any 17 screen after you have been staring at it for hours. Much bigger, certainly easy on the eye, and the extra desktop space makes a real… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
The neverending Mac monitor question. Alright, we all know that people prefer the matte over the glossy screens. But how much of a difference is there between the 17" MacBook Pro Matte sceen and the 23" Cinema? Also, do users with the 17" MacBook Pro find it too big? Basically I'm trying to decide on a MacBook Pro vs a… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Thanks for all the replies! Looks like it will be a whole easier than I thought. Guess I'm still thinking like a PC guy, you know things can't be that simple right? Every thing should be here next week so I'll let you all know how it goes. Had a bit of a billing issue with Apple and my credit card company last night at… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
I wouldn't get just a FireWire drive. It's never fun to try to use a drive to move big data and find out a computer doesn't have a certain connector. I have Macs and PCs, old and new, and so what works for me is both USB and FireWire connectors so that a drive is useful to any of my computers. There is FireWire 400 and… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Yes, there are some cron jobs that fire off nightly at between 2 and 4 am localtime, or abotu 10 to 15 minutes after you boot up if they haven't run yet today. They'll grind the disk pretty hard, but that's about it. They're also niced down almost as low as they can go by default, so everything else on the box should have…
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