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haynesycop
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
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Nice one jools, thanks.
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chrisfirst
Joined: Nov 20, 2003
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Hi guys! Well, I'm geting used to my Mac, but I stil have some unclear areas. First, of all I have a fear, I got a reconditioned Macbook or the built quality just rubbish.
1, The touchpad already showing signs of heavy use! You know when you having you laptop for a long, the part of the touchpad where you mostly tap it is getting shiny and sticky. I can assure everyone, it's perfectly clean. So, after less then 3 weeks the touchpad became very uncomfortable, because that's the part where I put my finger in instinct.
2, The mousebutton showing signs of heavy use! The left side is, where I usualy press it, has the same problem as the touchpad. It's geting very shiny and if I take a close look, it seem like the paint or coat is coming of in some part. It's like chiping off...
3, Also with the mousebutton, on the left side it has a dark grey spot inside the matterial and it's look like some dirt on it, but it's not.
4, The Page up and Page down buttons are not even. On the left side of the little gap between them they about 0.8 mm far from each other and only about 0.2 mm on the right.
So, these things are realy bugging me, especialy after my pocket is 1 grand lighter.
Also is it usual to have such a heavy "new smell" for many days after you purchased it? I know there are "new smell sprays" on the market...
Last question about this part: Isn't is supposed to came with some protective plastic on the screen when it's brand new? My one had nothing on it!
I'm not very happy about these things...
Problems inside:
5, Safari: Why does it eating half of my memory up? Like yesterday it had 491MB of memory usage when I checked it. Now it has 271MB. I'm not very happy to reset it or empty the cash every day... Is it normal? Also, sometimes it's very slow and it wont even load the sites. I don't wanna use Firefox because of this. I like only one software for one thing!
6, iTunes: Only 856 songs/6.91GB and it's already geting slow! When I scroll down with the "album view" view it's chopy. What will happen when I'll have 3 or 4 times more than this??? It's a bit annoying!
7, iPhoto: It's seems like it doesn't matter if I delete an album, it still has it, in the iPhoto folder. I'm working with photos like 4-5MB each, so I'll expect my hard disk to be full in a week or so. Also, many, many pictures appear in the folder more than once and it's not very easy to sort it out...
8, And after a bit more than 2 weeks I can feel my Macbook geting, slower and slower. Like the dashboard! I hide it and when I move the pointer down to make it appear, it's very chopy sometimes! Actualy I've noticed that many times! Acrobat Reader was fine in the first couple of days and now when I try to read the exactly the same document I was reading that time it's very chopy to scroll. Oh, I haven't installed anything stupid, nothing in the startup folder and when I had to uninstall anything I've used Appzapper!
So, to be honest I like the thing now or got used to it (dunno), but these problems make me think what is wrong with this???
Thanks guys, for any advice!!!
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Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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Can't answer your hardware questions because a) I don't have a MacBook, and b) they should probably be answered by the retailer.
5) Depends what sites you are visiting. Flash-heavy sites will obviously use a lot more memory than text ones. Just quit it and re-load if you think its getting slow.
It's always useful to have Firefox anyway, just for a few sites that work better in it. In fact, on my Mac I run both Safari and Firefox at the same time and switch between the two constantly. For some sites I prefer one or the other.
6) Well, I've got over 4500 tracks in my iTunes on a slow 1.25Ghz G4 Processor and although its not super-speedy, its ok. This link may help.
How much physical RAM do you have? Like all computers the more you have the better. Also, how many open programs do you have when you notice this choppy-ness?
A common thing that Windows-switchers do is leave dozens of applications open. Closing the last window in a Mac app doesn't necessarily close the application like it does on Windows.
In the Dock, if the application icon has a small black triangle underneath it, then that means the application is still running. Right-click on the icon and choose 'Quit' to properly close the application.
7) Sounds like you are not emptying iPhotos Trash folder after deleting pictures. Right-click on iPhotos Trash can in the list on the left-hand side and choose 'Empty Trash'. Also, deleting an Album does not automatically delete all the photos in the Album. They will still be in your Library because you can have the same photo in different Albums. So, just click on Library on the left-hand side and drag any photos you don't want to the iPhoto trash, then empty the iPhoto trash. But be warned, this will really delete the photo, so make sure you have it backed up elsewhere!
 If you have active Dashboard widgets that update information when viewed, then there might be a bit of a delay (choppyness) when opening Dashboard as the widget goes off onto the Internet to update the info. Just close down any widgets you're not using to minimise this.
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Dale_jeffs
Joined: Nov 23, 2005
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From: Northamptonshire
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i need to make a music CD on my mac. i used to use nero on my PC but never done it on a mac before... what do i use?
thanks, Dale 
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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toast...
it's like nero as such..
toast 8.0.1 is the newest..
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fatreg
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If I've 2 or more tabs open in safari now, it freezes all the time....
any ideas on how to reinstall safari as such?
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chrisfirst
Joined: Nov 20, 2003
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From: London
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See? How comes Safari is freezing anyway? Isn't it supposed to be the best browser in the world? I don't know guys, but no matter how much I want the oposite, I just can't say I'm in love... 
I will ask Apple about the hardware issues, but is there anyone with the same problem?
5, If Safari has any problems with flash heavy websites what is it exactly made for as nowadays most of the sites has them? Actualy, the funny thing is I don't really visit much fancy sites. Most of my browsing is sites like BBC, Esato, Engadget and such. So, I stil can't understand why Safari has to use almost 500MB!? Just checked it now! 307MB!!! Only cleared the cache and history about 2 hours ago...
Might try Firefox, but I feel cheated. Under XP I've never used anything else, just Internet Explorer and it was perfect. Why can't I use the Mac OS's browser with no problem at all?
6, Fortunately, I'm 100% sure I don't have to re-locate my iTunes library, because nothing wrong with it. I have followed every rules when I've imported my music. What I do every time: Put the music's folder on the desktop. Open iTunes. Drag the folder into iTunes. Wait, about 2 minutes till it'll finish importing. Find the songs one, by one. Make them in to one album, with correcting id3's. Select all, then drag the previously made album art in to them. The size of the album art is never bigger then 90KB. Then, I correct the id3's. Thats all.
I have 1GB memory and I bet it has to be more than enough for the things I do. Mostly browsing...
I always close my programs, even quit them on the dashboard. What I always, have open: Widgets ( talk about them later ), Mail, Safari, iTunes and MSN sometimes. If I use any other programs I use only that one at the time and I quit after I don't need them anymore.
I always delete the iPhotos trash! What I've done before I imported all of my not important pictures ( photo of a dead cat on the side of the road, with a sign next to the poor thing "Free Cat!" kind of pics ) in to it, by mistake, then I have deleted the folders and the trash. Then I've even deleted the original folder from Finder by mistake ( was making fun with drag and drop ).But why the iTunes library has them stil? It just eating the Hard Disk up! Actualy, why is the Original and Modified folders? Isn't it just rewrite the modified picture and save it that way? Just can't understand! Oh and I never have a same photo in a different folder. Most of my folders like Dubai, Scotland, Budapest, Mum's Bday and like these.
Widgets: I have, Flight Info, Calendar, Weather, Calculator, a Translator, a Currency Converter, a Conversion Tool for lenght and such and an iTunes thingy. Thats all! So, only one of them make any contact with the outside world without my knowledge which is the Weather one.
That's it realy...
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chrisfirst
Joined: Nov 20, 2003
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From: London
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Update: Safari has 528MB!!! That's more than half of my memory! What the f*ck is this??? Scrolling is chopy and all... I'm having seriously enough!!! 2 weeks old computer with nothing open!
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Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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If iPhoto didn't keep both the original and modified photos, how could you undo changes you made at any point in the past.
Safari on my 1GB Mac is currently using 161mb of Real memory and 331mb of Virtual memory. That's with quite a few different tabs open.
It's impossible to say what's happening with your Mac, but I can tell you I don't have any of the problems you describe.
@fatreg: It's more likely to be a Safari SIMBL plugin, Internet plugin or Safari preferences issue than a Safari application issue.
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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OK doke..
how do i sort/look at the ere SIMBL whatever things in safari?
also...
I need an app for recording sound that is playing on my mac.
tried wiretap pro and it's cack.
any other options?
cheers
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Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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SIMBL things are stored in ~/Library/InputManagers/
For recording audio, I've used Audio Hijack 2.2.5 or the Pro version. |
fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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spot on jools!
audiohack kicks the arse of wiretap!
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fatreg
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3 more apple q's from me...
1) I need a new router soon.. Will the airport express basestation be ok? i use ADSL?
2) If the above is ok, can windoze will connect to it?
3) Can my Imac 20" Intel core duo get upgraded to have the airport extreme card? ie wifi N...
cheers 
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Luke-the-magic-man
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the 2nd 2 are yes answers, not sure about the 1st tho
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Superluminova
Joined: Feb 24, 2002
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Hello folks,
I need some help, how do I go about formatting some of my itunes music back into mp3's?
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