So about $200 dollar seems reasonable? It's worth mentioning that it doesn't have a harddrive anymore. Regarding it being expensive to fix, I suspect it's only the magsafe dc-in board that is toasted. According to my friend it worked as usual with the exception that he couldn't charge it anymore, which meant that it eventually died from a dry battery.
Only the DC board as far as you know. It's a pretty big risk in my opinion. I'd never buy a broken laptop because you're paying for someone else's problems.
Anyone had this when installing OSx on a hackintosh?
[t]http://i.imgur.com/elGK16h.jpg[/t]
It seems to load for a bit on that screen then the little prohibited sign thing shows up and it just stays like that
bootflag -v to enable verbose mode
[QUOTE=Protocol7;42491821]bootflag -v to enable verbose mode[/QUOTE]
How do you do enter that? sorry im a complete noob when it comes to this
The launcher that shows up whenever you're booting your hackintosh installer has a few seconds before it actually boots, press any key and you should be able to type "-v" somewhere to enable verbose mode
I just got a magic mouse today. I went into the store asking for mice without dongles, and it was the only one that they had that wasn't insanely small. Why have mice been shrinking so much?
Everything's getting smaller except phones because people want bigger screens
[QUOTE=OogalaBoogal;42493950]I just got a magic mouse today. I went into the store asking for mice without dongles, and it was the only one that they had that wasn't insanely small. Why have mice been shrinking so much?[/QUOTE]
Speaking of Magic Mice, you know what would be amazing? A Magic Mouse with mechanical buttons. I love the multitouch gestures of modern trackpads, but I cannot live with a mouse that doesn't have mechanical buttons. I had major trouble with my old Mighty Mouse because it has a sort of shared button. I feel weird if I can't click the left and right buttons at the same time.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;42494298]Speaking of Magic Mice, you know what would be amazing? A Magic Mouse with mechanical buttons. I love the multitouch gestures of modern trackpads, but I cannot live with a mouse that doesn't have mechanical buttons. I had major trouble with my old Mighty Mouse because it has a sort of shared button. I feel weird if I can't click the left and right buttons at the same time.[/QUOTE]
I wish the MBP touchpad had two seperate buttons. It doesn't have to have two explicit buttons, but have two seperate buttons underneath. The two finger gesture works pretty well in OSX, but once you get into Windows trying to right click gets sketchy as hell. You can set the bottom right corner to be always right click, but its not the same.
[QUOTE=Demache;42495394]I wish the MBP touchpad had two seperate buttons. It doesn't have to have two explicit buttons, but have two seperate buttons underneath. The two finger gesture works pretty well in OSX, but once you get into Windows trying to right click gets sketchy as hell. You can set the bottom right corner to be always right click, but its not the same.[/QUOTE]
With my old MBP I had a lot of trouble right clicking in Windows. I found that if you two-finger click on the right half, it works better. I still wish someone (preferably Apple) would write proper trackpad drivers for Windows. I mean the trackpad on my Y500 works okay, if the MB's trackpad could even work at that level, that'd be fine.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;42495471]With my old MBP I had a lot of trouble right clicking in Windows. I found that if you two-finger click on the right half, it works better. I still wish someone (preferably Apple) would write proper trackpad drivers for Windows. I mean the trackpad on my Y500 works okay, if the MB's trackpad could even work at that level, that'd be fine.[/QUOTE]
I had a feeling it would be drivers. It definitely works fine in OSX, so the touchpad is more than capable.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;42495471]With my old MBP I had a lot of trouble right clicking in Windows. I found that if you two-finger click on the right half, it works better. I still wish someone (preferably Apple) would write proper trackpad drivers for Windows. I mean the trackpad on my Y500 works okay, if the MB's trackpad could even work at that level, that'd be fine.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://trackpad.powerplan7.com/[/url]
Trackpad++ is really good, apparently it makes Windows 8 fantastic.
[QUOTE=Kaabii;42475388]You honestly just sound like someone who is incapable of change if you dumped GNU/Linux, OS X, and Windows 8 because you're somehow "more productive" on Windows 7. There's nothing inherent about any of those that would hamper your productivity, just yourself, so it seems to me like you really didn't give any of them an honest chance.[/QUOTE]
I didn't dump GNU/Linux, I actually love it on my media machines and I have Mint as a dualboot on my laptop.
OS X I dumped first because I just don't really like it because some options feel illogical to me and second the Mac that I had kept crashing.
And I did give it a fair chance. I first ran it in a VM to get myself familiar with the interface over the weekends.
Then bought a 1800 euro / 2430 dollar 27" iMac 3,2Ghz brandnew and I worked on it for about 3 weeks before it developed crashes which couldn't be fixed.
Now with the Titan and the new motherboard I have a much faster (thus more productive (my computer does a lot of rendering and calculations)) system for less money.
Windows 8 removes most things that made Windows 7 great to me and then replaces it by an 'oh wow awesome' metro overlay which is full of hidden menu's and weird interaction (like dragging apps down to close them). I don't care what you people say,
I'm just most productive on W7 since I know everything about it, all the programs I need run on it and it's evolved to the point where W7 is just a tool to me which I can use without thinking about it. That's what makes it most productive to me, that I can focus on the work itself and not have to spend a single nanosecond thinking about how to perform a function.
I never made absolute claims about quality of OS's, just how I like them personally.
Shower me boxes all you want... I could learn to steer a car with my feet but that doesn't mean that I'm not gonna prefer my hands.
My productivity is my life since I've got 2 companies of my own running and a third in startup. I don't have time, nor the inclination to learn a new OS. Windows 8, if it were to be viable to me, should've just had the standard Windows UI with the optimized Windows 8 underworkings.
Also I got my Titan in the mail. Damn what a heavy beast. Installing it when I get home.
Can't wait.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;42495471]I mean the trackpad on my Y500 works okay, if the MB's trackpad could even work at that level, that'd be fine.[/QUOTE]
Oh jesus christ I beg to differ - the thing now has a plastic tab on it because the thing can't disambiguate between cases of mousing-and-clicking and a legitimate two-button click.
[editline]12th October 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Richy19;42491710]Anyone had this when installing OSx on a hackintosh?
[t]http://i.imgur.com/elGK16h.jpg[/t]
It seems to load for a bit on that screen then the little prohibited sign thing shows up and it just stays like that[/QUOTE]\
That might just be what actually happens when OS X finds out you don't have an SMC.
What's some good free software to play mkvs? VLC is awful at it.
[QUOTE=Sharker;42502417]What's some good free software to play mkvs? VLC is awful at it.[/QUOTE]
Keep in mind, MKV is a container. VLC works perfectly fine for me with MKV's. Depends entirely on the codec.
Why hasn't Apple updated their apps to fit iOS 7? The whole iWork and iLife suites, and apps like iBooks and Find my iPhone still have iOS 6 designs and the old keyboard. Seeing that fake linen in iWork is awful, and I hope to god they roll out updates at their October event.
Seems kinda odd, maybe something to do with them working on the web apps
Went out and bought a new Macbook Pro 13" on Friday and I'm really liking it.
Obviously I plan on returning it and upgrading to the Haswell version when it comes out, but for the moment I wanted to get a feel for the software/hardware.
Anyone have any recommendations for essential applications? I've been just getting the osx counterparts of filezilla, utorrent, vmware, etc. but are there any good osx only alternatives that I am missing?
[QUOTE=Bonzai11;42510546]Went out and bought a new Macbook Pro 13" on Friday and I'm really liking it.
Obviously I plan on returning it and upgrading to the Haswell version when it comes out, but for the moment I wanted to get a feel for the software/hardware.
Anyone have any recommendations for essential applications? I've been just getting the osx counterparts of filezilla, utorrent, vmware, etc. but are there any good osx only alternatives that I am missing?[/QUOTE]
I really like [url=http://www.pixiapps.com/ecouteosx/]Ecoute[/url]
Watson and Spectacle are two of my favourites, they help speed up my workflows so much.
If you are looking for a good HTML/CSS/JS editor, try coda, it blows every alternative out of the water.
[QUOTE=OogalaBoogal;42510931]Watson and Spectacle are two of my favourites, they help speed up my workflows so much.
If you are looking for a good HTML/CSS/JS editor, try coda, it blows every alternative out of the water.[/QUOTE]
What's wrong with Sublime Text? Especially Sublime Text 3, since they added more auto-complete to HTML.
[editline]13th October 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Fat White Lump;42510865]I really like [url=http://www.pixiapps.com/ecouteosx/]Ecoute[/url][/QUOTE]
iTunes isn't bad though.
I wonder when OS X will be redesigned by Jony Ive to be more flat. While OS X is beautiful and 100% more consistent than Windows is (then again almost all OS's are), I find the bubbly bulgy icons sitting on people's Macs to be very dated and not of this modern era.
Probably 10.10 since Ive had barely made iOS7's UI on time.
I bought Numbers on August 29th. If I'd waited 3 days I would have gotten a $10 itunes credit. I never seem to fall into these time periods for free stuff eligibility.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;42511115]What's wrong with Sublime Text? Especially Sublime Text 3, since they added more auto-complete to HTML.
[editline]13th October 2013[/editline]
iTunes isn't bad though.[/QUOTE]
Coda is really a full IDE with its auto upload features, built in console, built in documentation for all major web scripting languages, and iPad live preview options, it really is one of the best options for writing for web and server management on mac.
My mac mac mini is on its way! I can't wait.
When I run something intensive on my mac mini it goes to shit, as expected, but why does it continue to run like shit after I've closed the program?
[QUOTE=LaughingStock;42524297]When I run something intensive on my mac mini it goes to shit, as expected, but why does it continue to run like shit after I've closed the program?[/QUOTE]
Memory is still dedicated to that program. Go in terminal and type "purge" (without quotes0
Or... Buy some more memory for your Mini. It's not that expensive.
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