The Apple thread

[Wibble]

Anyone interested in buying my 15" Macbook Pro? (can include a VAT receipt)..

Dammit, I would.. Just can't afford one :\

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Dio wrote:

I have heard good things about the Samsungs, but I seem to mostly see very high prices for them.

I haven't found them any more expensive than anyone else. They're by far the top of the pile right now if you ask me.

Yeah.

I don't know what happened there. I can't replicate what I remember.

[Misfit]

Anyone interested in buying my 15" Macbook Pro? (can include a VAT receipt)..

Dammit, I would.. Just can't afford one :\

Yes, it was a really weak gadget lust moment just after we'd been paid for a job!

Of course I'm offering a significant saving on the £1300 list price.

[Wudzi]

Just bought a macbook

Got a couple of questions.

1) Is it OK to run it for long periods with the screen down running off an external display/keyboards. Someone on another forum told me that doing that was a problem with a MBP, but that doesn't sound quite right to me.

2) What's a good IM client for the Mac? Must support MSN messenger

3) If I want to run with the MB screen up for dual screen, is there a way of switching the primary display to the TFT?

4) Longshot, but is a Juniper VPN SSL client available?

cheers

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1) yeah, old MBP had a heating problem that would rarely making them spaz if left on for a long time with the top down. The MB is fine afaik

2) Adium X, supports Yahoo, MSN, AIM, Jabber and loads of others. Free. too http://www.adiumx.com/

3) System Preferences -> Displays. When the screen to configure the 2 monitors one of them will have a white menu bar along the top. Drag that to the display you want to be your primary

4) Dunno

EDIT

4) It seems like it is. Some bloke talking about it here http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Mac+OS+X/200 ... ation.html

Welcome to the smary and black polo neck wearing club

[Wudzi]

Thanks Gaz,

5) Is there an RDP client available?

6) Is there a MSSQL query analyser available?

Transition is going well so far

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Thanks Gaz,

5) Is there an RDP client available?

6) Is there a MSSQL query analyser available?

Transition is going well so far

5) Yep, you can use the MS one that's free to dowload : http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/r ... fault.mspx

6) Dunno

EDIT

Here's an old thread with mac software recommendations

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=55219

[tufty]

6) Is there a MSSQL query analyser available?

I assume you're talking about a graphical console, rather tha a query analyser (which should exist on the back end), in which case SquirrelSQL (http://squirrel-sql.sf.net) or SQL4XManagerJ (http://www.dbsuite.de/) should do the trick, as long as you can get odbc/jdbc working (hint - do NOT use MS's drivers, go to http://jtds.sf.net instead)

Simon

[Misfit]

Anyone interested in buying my 15" Macbook Pro? (can include a VAT receipt).

Very good condition.

It's the current spec as on the apple site:

* 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 1440 x 900 resolution
* 2GB memory
* 120GB hard drive1
* 8x double-layer SuperDrive
* NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 128MB SDRAM

I bought it because I needed a new laptop, and we needed a Mac to test stuff on. In reality, we need both at the same time, so I'm going to get a Mini and a PC laptop.

Would consider a fairly new Mini as part exchange.

PM me if you wihs to discuss....

Bought at start of October 2007.

£900 + postage to a Yakker (lists at £1399 and is currently on AVforums at £1000 and really should be bought by registering there). Will include a VAT invoice for those with their own business to claim the VAT back....

[GeeZa]

Finally got myself a copy of Leopard today and a shiny new 750Gb drive. I will obviously be posting screen grabs once the faultless and perfect Apple OS upgrade is complete.

[GeeZa]

Christ Almighty that was the easiest most painless OS upgrade ever. I put the CD in, chose the usual "Archive And Install", went out to our local Japanese restaurant, came back, somewhat tiddly several hours later (hmmmm Sake), and the whole thing was finished, rebooted and sitting at the new desktop. Amazing, all my apps and setting perfectly migrated. Only tense moment was the 10.5.2 upgrade which seemed to boot the machine three times. Eeek. Oh, and the 3D Space Rock box!!!!



I know I'm late, but goodness it looks and feels so much nicer than 10.4 (apart from the crappy Download folder which needs to go). It's also most definitely snappier although I'm feeling PowerPC apps are somewhat slower - I use less and less of them as time goes by anyway. Glad Stacks (surely it should have been named "Stax") has a List view, and Spaces seems nicely done. Finder improved, at least visually, but still a bit rubbish. Moved everything off my old disk to my new 750Gb drive "Fiend" and am gonna move my iTunes folder over to there, format the old disk and set it up with Time Machine to back up all my music, movies and important stuff. I'm now gonna go and read the Siracusa review. Steve does it again, what a hero.

[TT]

Wow! Even Tommi is breaking into a smile!

[GeeZa]

Leopard now on my G4 PowerBook and running like a charm. I'm on my fifth year with this beauty and there's still some life left in the old dog yet. Got my old external drive formatted and Time Machine has copied stuff across (about 200Gb) so all my important content (mostly music) is fully backed-up and ready to rock. That's me basically done I think.

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I just got me an almost new 2.16 GHz MacBook (middle model of the previous revision) for the equivalent of about £400

Just have to pay for it now

[phattslagg]

I've got an itchy trigger finger on this imac - just trying to decide if the extra money I'd pay the Apple Store would be worth the peace of mind..