Janson Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 my mac is being slow. gives me the stupid colourfull ball lots, even on basic stuff. dashboard apps are super slow from time to time.1yr old macbook core duo, about 2-3gb free of hdd, 1gb ram. annoys me lots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 Gonna upgrade my internal hard drive on my MBP soon to a 250gb one 'cos ive only got 30gb spare on my 160gb internal.Anyone want a 160gb LaCie external hard drive with firewire and usb2.0? I'm looking forward to opening my computer up haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 How much? Silly question, but its not Mac only or something is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 How much? Silly question, but its not Mac only or something is it? Hahaha.No, it's read by any format, although from the sounds of it Vista might need to approve some security stuff to mount any external hard drives these days Dunno really, open to offers. Was about £120 when I got it.Probs worth about £50 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 You wish nick! a 500gb can be had for £60 now http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....=14&subcat= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 (edited) You wish nick! a 500gb can be had for £60 now http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....=14&subcat=Haha looks lke it's being sold to someone at Uni then Edited November 16, 2007 by Nick Carter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janson Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 my mac is being slow. gives me the stupid colourfull ball lots, even on basic stuff. dashboard apps are super slow from time to time.1yr old macbook core duo, about 2-3gb free of hdd, 1gb ram. annoys me lots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 How long ago since you did a clean install? I cant think of anything really specific besides checking Activity Monitor and seeing if there are any runaway apps using up all your memory, or going through applications with AppZapper (http://appzapper.com/) and getting rid of everything you dont need to free up some HDD space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janson Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 still on the factory install. i think i got the computer in early september 2006 or something.i am thinking of new hdd soon with more storage as this is cramped, and maybe leopard. the slowness and ball is annoying the shit out o me. mehhhh.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 Yeah I would imagine it's annoying. The other day After Effects kept crashing which pissed me the f**k off. HDD upgrade should be easy, I think Apple pretty much ask you to do it yourself, there is a PDF on the site I think. You could try some more instant ramification too. That could be useful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*PHIL* Posted November 24, 2007 Report Share Posted November 24, 2007 ok i have a qusetion. about macs.i have a 500gb external hard drive, fat 32 formatted it is. and the max file size you can have on it is 4gb ish right?well, on a mac (specifically a mac mini) can you have files larger than 4gb?basically i have a 7gb *.dmg file on my pc and i want it mounted on the mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted November 24, 2007 Report Share Posted November 24, 2007 Yeah you can have files as big as you want on the Mac Mini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted November 24, 2007 Report Share Posted November 24, 2007 You could format the external drive in HFS-X and use a utility like http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html in windows to put the image on the external disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*PHIL* Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 (edited) can anyone tell i just got a mac and dont have a clue how to use it??right, latest problem is... not so much a mac one...im using a razer copperhead mouse, i know theres no mac drivers for it but i thought, as its usb it should basically function, which it does, but its not smooth.when you move the mouse across the screen it jumps allover and isnt accurate..any way to fix this?***also*** what is the best bit torrent program to use with a mac... osx 10.5 Edited November 27, 2007 by himynameisphil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 Google it? That's all anyone else is gonna do.Transmission - http://transmission.m0k.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 Anyone get problems with flash stuff in firefox ? It kinda kills my CPU and some stuff don't come up properly... I'd like to use Safari but I can't stand the lack of extensions and that you can't do "google/I feel lucky" searches right in the navigation bar... Any solutions or other browsers that meat my criterias (especially the auto-search one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Flash in browsers just generally kills CPU, even with my MBP I still get like 80% CPU usage, it's a right gay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Unfortunately flash on a mac runs pretty laggy in general. Not much you can do about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Oh okay, sucks because I have a crappy PC, only 512mb ram and a 2.93 Mghz intel processor so it really sucks up resources... Kinda weird though that it's so slow, work perfectly under linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RR_Trials Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Deleted aMsn to re-download it hoping some of the little gay errors i have been getting recently will go. Only now when i try to download it , its downloads and when it 'unpacks' to a 'dmg' it says image can not be mounted.What can i do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*PHIL* Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Got a brand new mac, installed leopard, every few hours it comes up with this 'you need to restart your computer message' and completely locks me out....thought macs werent suppose to do this kind of thing...i looked on the apple website and it said i need to restart and reset the PRAM or something, did that, didnt help. gonna try formatting next but anything anyone else can suggest?phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Sounds like you're getting Kernel Panics.What's the spec of your Mac, and what are you usually doing when it does it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 YEAH ! How do i Resize images ? I've not got a fooking clue how to crop and re size anything !!!Jarrod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Photoshop, Automator or Preview.Photoshop > Image > Image SizePreview > Tools > Adjust SizeAutomator you have to setup an action.Another one is easybatchphoto http://www.yellowmug.com/easybatchphoto/ if you need to do lots of pics at the same time.Errrm there's loadsa ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I LOVE YOU ! (You've actally just saved my job ! We got rid of the old It guy becouse i said i can do the website.....BUT I COULDNT SHRINK THE IMAGES !!! AGHHHHI panicked a bit....and breathe...Jarrod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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