Apple's online store is currently offering a range of refurbished products from MacBooks to iPods. Starting at $849 is the 2.1GHz MacBook with 1GB of memory, a 120GB hard drive and ComboDrive. The 20-inch, 2.66GHz iMac is available for $1,299 with 2GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive. Refurbished MacBook Air models can be purchased for as little as $1,199 with a 2.6GHz processor, 2GB of memory ...

Au sens propre oui oui ! Voici une image rare, une personne dénommée Jason s’est amusée à passer son MacBook aux rayons X grâce à son frère vétérinaire qui possède une telle machine.

I am a proud owner of a 15" MacBook Pro, 2.5 GHz, 2 BG, 250 GB Hard Drive. I have only own this Mac for about 4 months. Just yesterday, while at school, my MBP went into the screen saver mode and the LED lighting dimmed. When I went to type something in Pages, my MBP won't come out of the screen saver. I typed some keys and tried to move the mouse but nothing happened. When I plugged my Logitech Cordless Mouse in, the courser moved on the screen and the MBP came out of the screen saver mode, but the keyboard and trackpad still didn't work. I restarted the computer and the keyboard and trackpad worked fine until it went back into the screen saver. Could anybody give my advice on how to fix this issue so it won't happen again.:(

Les dernières affiches faisant la promotion de Vista montrent des manettes PS2 et un MacBook.

Well here's the story:

I was on another mac forum and was about to post my screenshot in the November, 2008 sticky when I got curious and downloaded a zip file another member provided.

His file included a black menu bar where the directions follow as such:

"1.) Go to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Resources/ and make a back up of SArtFile.bin

2.)Once backed up delete the file from the resources.

3.)Move the modded SArtFile.bin into the resources folder.

4.) Go to /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ and backup Extras2.rsrc

5.) Move the Extras2.rsrc into the resources

6.) Logout and Log in"

Now I have a slight issue.... I tried the black menu bar, and it was very nice! But then I tried to revert back to the old files and I copied the first .BIN file back followed by the old .rsrc file and then logged out. I think it may have screwed something up severely.... I went to log on again and now my screen shows up blue with my mouse pointer showing up intermittently. It won't let me log on. I rebooted it and it was perfectly fine up until the point where it was trying to go into the UI. I get the spinning dashes and that's about it. I think I may have severely effed my MacBook Pro.

Oh and specs are as follows:

Core 2 duo 2.33
Leopard 10.5.5

Any help is appreciated guys. Thanks

I'm currently on my Windows partition. Thank God it works!

Hi,

Just saw this on the order status page of my mothers macbook air (translated it myself):

Not sent
Estimated shipping date: 24 Nov, 2008
Estimated delivery date: 26 Nov, 2008 - 27 Nov, 2008
Product
MACBOOK AIR 13 CTO
"Built to order"

Cancelled
Product
MACBOOK AIR 13/1.6/2GB/120GB

So - what does this mean? (A straight translation of "built to order" would be "order-built" or "configured to order" which i assume CTO stands for? anyone know?) They cancelled my original order due to all the problems with screen/hdd?

So... Yay or nay?

Cheers

via MacNN:

Apple's newer MacBook range continues to exhibit an unusual design behavior that slows the system down when the battery isn't attached, testing by Gearlog confirms. Although only publicized in a support article from August that predates the late 2008 refresh, the unibody systems deliberately throttle back the processor when relying only on AC power. The company argues that the move is necessary ...


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Apple's newer MacBook range continues to exhibit an unusual design behavior that slows the system down when the battery isn't attached, testing by Gearlog confirms. Although only publicized in a support article from August that predates the late 2008 refresh, the unibody systems deliberately throttle back the processor when relying only on AC power. The company argues that the move is necessary ...

I'm gonna get a MacBook in like two weeks or so , and I already have one mac.
How do you transfer EVERYTHING from the old mac to the new one ?
Is there an easy way ?

And no , for all the people who probably will suggest it , copy pasting everything from finder won't work.

Hey,
im new here so i hope i can ask my question here...
I have a macbookpro 2Ghz, 2gb, Core Duo with ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 128MB
and i just downloaded gta san andreas for osx, the game starts good but when i play its just a strange view. (see pic)
Is it due to my grafic card? cause i dont have a clue what the cause might be...:confused:

Findus
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Do you actually have to click the trackpad to get a reaction? I think that the noise of "clicking" is annoying so I was wondering if it would react if you just tabbed the top?

I don't own the new macbook so I have no idea.. Could someone shed some light on this?

Heya

Been trying to install XP (SP3 on my new Macbook via boot camp.
Install goes fine, ive been formatting the drive as FAT.
Once XP has booted i put the mac install disc in to update drivers and what not, every time i do this i get the error 2869.
I also got this error when trying to install steam.

Any help?!

Thanks

Matt

ok first of all, thanks to icchansan for all his help. he showed me the osx86 project HCL which didnt have my laptop on it. So what are my options now?

i have a sager np2096

centrino 2 2.53
4GB DDR2
nvidia 9600MGT
intel pro wirless 100
9 cell battery
blue tooth
intel robson 1GB
sigmatel sound
and a clevo mobo with an ICH9m bridge

anyone have anything to say? im really fed up with vista and i want leopard really bad yet, seeing as i work at ralphs as a bagger, i lack the financial base nessecary to purchase a MacBook Pro and i got the same notebook basically for $1600 vs. $2700. :fail
HALP! :woz:

Hey guys!

Today I have finally received my unibody MacBook Pro and I love it! Every single cm of it!

After a very quick delivery (I ordered my laptop 36 hours ago) I got this beautiful beast: 2,53 Ghz, 512MB Nvidia Videocard etc.

This machine is amazing! It is soo fast, so well-made and so beautiful that I don't know how I could live without it.
I have not a single problem with it(knocking on the wood): no lose battery cover, no weird keys, no sleep issues, no bad fan noise.
Regarding that fan noise (I was worried about it the most) I should say that you cannot hear the laptop running if there are some ambient noises in the room. If the room is dead silent (as mine), you can hear the fans blowing air very gently and very quietly. From the distance of 1/2 - 1 m you cannot hear a thing. So, the MBP's are not SILENT, but amazingly QUIET!
A couple of months ago I had ordered an iMac and had to send it back because of the noise its fans made and the vibrations it produced standing on my desk (they were perfeclty normal, because those iMacs are huge things with powerful components).
I am so glad I waited till the release of the new unibody beauty and bought it.

Guys, these MBP's are so great. I am not an Apple fan, this is my first mac and my first mac experience (besides the iMac which I had for one day).
Mac OS is also so good.... Much better than any Windows system I have been using during the last years.

Guys, I am in love. :) Now, finally I have the machine I can peacefully work on and take with me to the uni!

And the speakers of it are so good and powerful that I think I am not going to buy extra speakers anymore - the sound quality is even better than that of my old PC with Logitech speakers (not a laptop). There is a clear lack of strong bass, but the noises are so clear and so nice to be heard that I cannot believe how Apple manage to put such high quality speakers in this little aluminuim beauty!!!!

That's it. Just my 5 cents after many months of living in doubt and uncertainty about Mac's and especially the new unibody MacBook Pro... :D

I just bought a new Rev A. Macbook Air for my GF. I don't have it yet...

Currently she has a Powerbook 12" running Tiger.

She will want to do some very light file transfers. I don't see any real need to bother with migration assistant. Tranferrring her music, bookmarks, and address book are no issue for me. She barely has any apps worth transferring.

My only real concern is about mail, coming from Tiger to Leopard, and the fact that she uses a mix of email sources...MobileMe, Gmail, etc.

Setting up the accounts is not a problem, but I'm wondering about the actual message files on her Powerbook. After I set up her main user account on the MBA, can I just replace the mail folder in her home folder with the mail folder from her Powerbook? Some of the messages are IMAP, and some are POP accounts which she doesn't want to lose.

I did this very thing when I got a new desktop, but it was a Tiger - to - Tiger transfer, so I just want to check if there are any issues doing this from Tiger to Leo.

Thanks.

mcdj

Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro systems saw up to a 37-percent performance drop without the battery installed.

Anyone have ideas on what's ideal to use to clean the screen?

i'm was thinking about using windex and a shammy to clean it, any suggestons?

Ok, given that a MBP would mostly stay at home, yet sometimes it would be carried around, maybe even on the plane etc., what sleeve would you recommend me to buy?

I wouldn't exactly want to go for the official Apple one because they want $34 for it.

Something like this? Or this?

I have a 2 year old daughter, my wife is a stay-at-home mom and she takes about 40 pictures of my daughter a day. In March, we will be having a son and I am sure the # of pictures will only increase.

Now here is the deal. Currently my wife uses my baby (my Aluminum iMac) to take the pictures off of the camera and put them in Aperture, edit and then send off to family. Not a big deal until last night when I got home and saw gooey nasty 2 year old toddler hand prints all over my big beautiful iMac display.

So here we are. In March I had already planned to buy my wife, as a congratulations present for having our son, a Nikon G60. Because I hate to see my iMac display devastated, I want to buy her a laptop to ensure that it wont happen again. This will also allow me wife to use the computer in more convenient rooms such as the livingroom or play room.

I am already planning on buying myself a MacBook Air. I travel quite a bit and love the fact that it weighs pretty much nothing.

I am debating on whether to get her a MacBook air as well, or one of those gorgeous new MacBook's. The MacBook will be used for email, internet and picture editing. She will be using programs such as Aperture and Photoshop, so I am thinking she wont be needing a huge workhorse. My question is, for those of you that use your Mac for similar tasks.. what setup/configuration do you see work well for you? My problem is that I don't want to purchase her one with 2GB and find that she needs 4GB. With my schedule and how much I procrastinate when I get home, she has a better chance of getting hit by lightning 40 times in a row while winning the jackpot lottery than me installing the extra ram.

So please give me your thoughts and inputs. Buying a Apple product is an investment and I'd hate to get her the wrong thing.

Also, I might get her a new iPod while I am at it. I have the previous generation of the Nano and really enjoy it. What are your thoughts on the current generation nano or the Touch? I kindof feel like if I am going to spend the money on a touch, I might as well get her an iPhone.

Thoughts/opinions/input are greatly appreciated.

I just bought the new macbook, and i have no firewire. i'm looking to record up to 4 tracks at a time... maybe 2 tracks at a time. I have a big mixing board so that i can record drums with as many channels as i need, but i'd like to be able to output drums on 2-4 channels, or be able to record drums on two channels, and a scratch track on another.

anywho... the real problem lies in the fact that i don't have a firewire connection (maybe apple will release the mythical firewire over ethernet adapter), so i'm forced to look at recording over USB.

does anyone have any experience using USB interfaces that will hold up for some semiprofessional recording?

thanks a lot.

Hey I was just wondering,
anyone know any good accessories that are like totally awesome and I have to get for my new 13" Al MacBook??

Just got it.
I also bought the Incase Case for the 13" and I love it!

Thanks guys, Luc.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/beta-liberty.jpg" width="525" height="412" style="display:block;" //p div style='float:right; margin-left:-9px;'script type="text/javascript" digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/A_Call_for_Revolution_Against_Beta_Culture'; /scriptscript src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript" /script/div pI'm tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The "This will work in the next version." The "It's in our roadmap." The "Buy now and upgrade later." The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn't tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash a year later, still half-baked, to make room for the next hardware revision. I'm tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system around. We need a change./p pTake the iPhone, for example, one of the most successful products in the history of consumer electronics. We like it, I love mine, but the fact is that the first generation was rushed out, a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/no-bs-iphone-review-276116.php"lacking basic features/a that were added in later releases or a href="http://gizmodo.com/5083116/iphone-22-release-just-10-days-away"are not here yet/a. Worse: The a href="http://gizmodo.com/5047372/iphone-21-update-coming-friday-less-call-drops-crashes-faster-sync-better-battery-life"iPhone 3G was really broken/a. For real. Bad signal, dropped calls, frozen apps. This would have been unthinkable in cellphones just five years ago. They were simpler, for sure, but they were failure proof. Today's engineering and testing is a lot more sophisticated. In theory, products can't go out into distribution with such glaring problems undetected./p pAnother recent example is my iMac 24, which had the infamous a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/imac/ati-graphics-may-be-at-the-root-of-imac-freezing-issues-307409.php"video card problem/a out of the box. How can a machine with such an obvious problem—instantly detected by the user base—be sold like that? The same happened recently with a href="http://gizmodo.com/5061605/apple-confirms-failing-nvidia-graphics-cards-in-macbook-pros-offers-free-repairs-and-refunds"Nvidia video boards/a. In fact, graphic cards—being always in the cutting edge of technology—are perfect examples of beta hardware being sold as final hardware, with many released with beta-quality drivers and requiring firmware patches./p pFrom that to the now-universally-accepted Blue Screen of Death, from a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/movies/problems-with-blu+rays-bd+j-spec-causes-headaches-for-early-adopters-266923.php"buggy Blu-ray players/a to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5064742/microsoft-sued-over-xbox-360-rrod-issues"the Xbox 360's red ring of death/a and a href="http://gizmodo.com/367611/playstation-3-217-update-brings-bug-fixes-hard-drive-installation"PS3's bugs/a, even from a href="http://www.turbochef.com/residential/service/oven-firmware-updates.aspx"kitchen ovens/a to a href="http://gizmodo.com/356092/nikon-d300-firmware-update"faulty DSLR cameras/a, the list of troubled products is endless. Just this week, the eagerly anticipated BlackBerry Storm launched to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5094371/10-takes-on-the-blackberry-storm"mixed reviews/a, in part because of its crashy, apparently unfinished software./p pOn the other side, my parents have a Telefunken CRT TV and a Braun radio from the '70s which are still in working condition. They were first generation. They never failed. Compare that to my first plasma TV from Philips, which broke after less than a year of use. Mine wasn't the only one. The technology was too young to be released; it was still in beta state. Philips wanted to be the first in the world with a flat TV and beat the competition, so they released it. This probably wasn't a good move: Today, Philips' TV business is struggling, and is a href="http://gizmodo.com/377355/philips-wont-sell-tvs-in-north-america-anymore"nonexistent in the US/a. Meanwhile, my Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Apple IIe from the 1980s still work like they did from day one, perfectly./p pFor sure, today's products are far more complex than those of 20 or 30 years ago. But back then, the manufacturing was also a lot worse. It was less automated, often purely manual, and imperfect. Today, in a world where automated factories run 24/7, there's less chance of error. Yet still, there are countless problems in the final products, and those problems affect every unit in an entire model line. In the age of manufacturing perfection, there are still major recalls concerning products that a href="http://gizmodo.com/5067386/rage-wireless-guitar-leaks-acid-can-burn-your-rock-jewels"burn/a or a href="http://gizmodo.com/5052568/apple-recalls-ultracompact-usb-power-adapter-for-the-iphone-3g"break/a./p pClearly, the problem is the development process and the time to market, with product cycles shortened and corners cut to keep a continuous stream of cash flowing in. The rush to feed these cycles with increasingly more complex engineering seems to be at odds with shortened development and quality assurance processes, resulting in beta-state first-generation products. This beta culture, the same one that already plagues the web, breeds people who are willing to accept bugs in the name of cutting-edge gear./p pWho's to blame? Google and their web apps? Apple and their iPhone 3G problems? Microsoft and their countless buggy versions of operating systems and the Xbox 360's RROD? Philips? Sony? Samsung? LG? We all are. The manufacturers, who are driven by a thirst to expand and satisfy their shareholders at all costs. The consumers, who are so thirsty to drink in the shiniest, newest technology that they are willing to sacrifice stability. And the press too, who pours more gasoline onto the consumerism bonfire by writing glowing reviews and often minimizing things that are simply not acceptable./p pPersonally, I'm tired of all this. 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