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Hi Ottawa iPad people -- I'm a journalism student at Carleton and I want to know what you think of the new iPad. I'm going to be down at the Rideau Centre tomorrow morning with some film equipment and a couple classmates, so look out for us! If you want to give me a shout/text ahead of time, my number is 613-816-8573. Some of our video work ends up on http://centretownnewsonline.ca/ so check it out if you have the chance. Have fun with your new device.
David

Based on my experience, the weakest spot in mini performance is the 5200 RPM drive. I'd suggest swapping out the hard drive as the best thing one can do and certainly more cost effective than a new mini with the same slow drive!

I too have been using Mactubes, and it works better than the in-browser flash player, but I can't seem to get quicktime to work.

"Can not open video. Please open URL with browser."

That's the error that I get when I switch to Quicktime. Any ideas?

if anyone from here was there friday morning.. you saw the zoo.

the line was so long it wrapped around the permieter of the mall area and then out the door. people were waiting outside.

i waited for 3 hours then had to go to work. tried again this morning but store opened after i had to be at work.

hopefully i can get it soon...

Thanks dude! Appreciate it

I'd love to see an end to this question. With every new firmware release this question is posted. Can I still restore to the previous firmware since a new firmware came out today?

Well, why don't YOU try it and find out the answer to that question?

The worst that will happen is you will be denied the restore to that firmware if you don't have an SHSH on file for it already.

This isn't rocket science. The slightest bit of research would turn up this information.

Does anyone have the manual for the 11" MBA ? Great Post ! :D

Since the 11" and 13" are almost identical, I suppose that the technician guide mentioned here applies to both.

Pics would be great along with a typed description of it's appearance / functionality.

Well someone needs to pay their skilled, drunken, lazy mod team .. oh wait ..they don't get payed or even supported ..

Yes, any Apple Authorized Service Center will honor the AppleCare. I have worked for two so far, and generally I would recommend them over the Apple Stores for most situations.

I think you have to send it off to Apple for it to be fixed. I'm sure that resellers don't fix products. But I could be wrong. A reseller may replace the laptop, but I'm sure they won't fix it.

Note that he didn't say reseller. That would be a different story.

jW

Just less than 1MB for me.

I like updates for Mac OS X.

I thought that Mac OS is immune to security threats?

Yes I agree. I have a thin logitech wireless backlit keyboard and its been on for 4 months and I haven't changed the battery. It is also charged via USB so it works even when it runs out of battery.

Now that would be a good suggestion for the next version of the apple wireless keyboard (I have the 3 battery version). Sure a USB "charging" port could be added to the back (now that the new version is already 2 battery / 1.5 inches space saved).

Apple is great with reducing component size (so sure such a charger would be cool).

PS is there an easy way to check the battery level within the bluetooth wireless keyboard from OS X (or is there no checking hardware within the keyboard)?

BBB ratings are no longer very reliable. You can get rid of a bad rating by buying advertising from BBB. I never trust a BBB rating anymore.

Who said you can't jailbreak 3.2.2? I thought that could be jailbroken with limera1n or greenpois0n.

Can I run two external displays from the 21" iMac? One from mini dp with vga converter and one from thunderbolt to vga or hdmi? It looks like the graphics card only supports one external display by the specs.. so what would be the point of using the thunderbolt over the mini display port right?

I would get a 21.5" iMac to go with my two 22" ips monitors if I knew it could work...


No. There is only one TB/MDP port (they share the same connector) on the 21". Only the 27" has two.

I struggled with this for the longest time until I discovered that I was looking at the All Contacts group instead of my Exchange contacts. Click the arrow in the upper left to go back a screen until you see something similar to the attached one. In my case, I have 2 exchange accounts - Personal Gmail (where I keep all mine) and my work exchange that I use just for email searching.

Go into whatever your equivalent to the Contacts under Gmail is, and add contacts in there. I just tried to close and reopen the Contacts app and it saves your folder between sessions.

I upgraded my iMovie to version 9.0.1 through the Mac App Store. This 9.0.2 update doesn't show up in Software Update, but does show up in the App Store. Is this the way it's supposed to work?

I just assumed the Apple product updates would appear in Software Update like they always did.

I'd give it a 9. The only knock against it being the ability to get in and mod it easily. I come from the PC world where I built my own machines and constantly tweaked and upgraded them over time. I've had my current iMac for 4 years and just ordered another of the new ones. They are incredibly powerful for an all-in-one and it just works. As it turns out I didn't really need to do much modding except for RAM, which is easy. I've had absolutely no problems with my current iMac. Wife is getting that one and my 7 yr old is getting her MacMini.

You mean do I respond to overblown media hysteria and people who don't really understand how cell phones work? No, not really.

Sorry but the antennagate is very real.
I went to my local Apple store the other day, and picked up an iPhone 4 and bridged the gap with my left hand. The bars dropped from full to 1.
Now you might say, "who holds their iPhone like that?" well, sometimes i actually do, i hold my iPhone 3G like that sometimes.

I understand that a few phones do the same thing, if i hold my iPhone 3G is an awkward position i can get it to drop bars as well. But the iPhone 4's weak spot is a very common way of holding a phone, that's where they went wrong.

It's pretty clear the iPhone 4 didn't have the media attention, and i believe Apple is keeping the iPhone 5 in secrecy so that they come out with a bang.

I'm after 1 or 2 more people to add to my army of 4 other Beta testers for a game I'm working on.
There are a few requirements-

1) A PC and/or bootcamp. The beta is tied to individual systems too, so not jumping from system to system! A good controller is recommended. I'm using an Xbox 360 wired controller to dev it, all 4 face buttons, the start button and 2 shoulder buttons are in use so you'd either need something similar or you can always use a keyboard.
2) A softspot to 2D games. This may be ported to the PSP or DS, unlikely for big screened consoles. so it's 2D. In the style of Super Metroid and co. Infact it plays more like an exploration game at the beginning so theres little combat. Very retro gameplay, RPG levelling up system. That sort of thing really.
3) Commitment. It's going to be a long project with updates coming out at irregular times. But you will be expected to play through, give comments on my forum etc.

The game itself is very much in its infancy, estimated release is late 2007 and is unpaid, but full term beta testers will get free copies of the game... if you're not sick of it by this stage :p

screenshots and other info on my site! (http://satansam.co.uk/tormishire)

I have this in both my Mac Mini and MacBook Pro - Good deal, works great.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231294

Only problem (and one i just found out) is that since i live in Alaska, newegg wants to charge me 20 dollars shipping for anything i buy. Maybe I can find that on amazon.

Undoubtedly 10, it's the best desktop on Earth today.

And despite all this BS that Winblows fanboys love to spread around here, I am yet to see a PC beating my 2008 iMac in terms of overall performance, UI responsiveness and REAL multitasking capabilities (not the crap that Windows represents).

NONE of my friends and relatives (all of them NORMAL users) has a better-performing machine - so please be careful when reading posts from hobbyists about "building your machine" and the like. No ordinary customer does that or wants to do that.

- The iMac has the BEST screen in the industry;
- The BEST OS in the industry, with the option to run inferior Windows if you want to suffer;
- The BEST AIO design, and none of the bulkiness common to the ugly Windows world;
- The BEST keyboard;
- The BEST standard, multitouch mouse (magic mouse) - just genius;
- Even for an older machine like mine, EXCELLENT overall performance;
- Multitasking responsiveness that is miles ahead of Windows machines (remembering my pathetic PC at work);
- Almost totally silent;
- The best customer service in the world.

Windows PCs nowadays are just for three types of people:

1 - Hardcore gamers who love to brag about irrelevant specs or one extra FPS;
2 - People like the above who need to change their GPU every month or like to tinker with their boxes;
3 - Masochists.

Just buy your iMac and be happy - you're not gonna regret it.

Fine, fine. *envy*

Damn, always playing catch up. When i used wireframes, everyone was using flat shading. When i reached there, everyone was using texture mapped gourauds and phongs. After that was ray-tracing and now when i have implemented it with soft shadows, everyone is using path-tracing and derivatives. And my editor uses steam power. It took years to make.

Feel like Janina. (It's a Pin-Up. Model over 18 and in Finland pigtails no toddler make)

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The iMac is getting ready to be refreshed. Should be sandy bridge processors. The mini will follow, since it uses the same parts, not long after the iMac. Your decision will depend on what your going to use it for.