dxg

I hate to say it, but I absolutely *love* this! Potentially better than the original!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C56jDoSULA

Well, for S&G's I thought I'd look at the HE store pricing in detail: Quad core 27" iMAC = £1,407.60 2.66GHz Intel Core i5 2560 x 1440 resolution 4GB memory 1TB hard drive 8x double-layer SuperDrive ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics with 512MB Cheapest Power Mac = £1,595.05 One 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processor 3GB (three 1GB) memory 640GB hard drive 18x double-layer SuperDrive NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB So, the Power Mac doesn't seem all that expensive. Much better chip and all it would need would be another 3gb of ram... *Ponders* *Counts his pennies*

Well, today I've given up on the hackintosh, and have installed vista *spit* on it. With a cheapo usb tv stick and an mce remote and receiver found in the back of a cupboard from my ill-considered earlier years and - I feel really dirty saying this - but the 10-foot interface of vista on a screaming fast machine is really rather good. Only a single tuner, though... Stuck Revit on it too and it's also silky smooth. Shame it's not a mac. Got all my apps and software recovered from the hackintosh's time machine backup onto the mini. All, apart from CS3, whose registration threw a hissy fit, off course. Customer support request lodged (because it's actually a legit copy!!!) and we'll see what they say. I've still got a student card so if it comes to it, I'll have to buy a copy of CS4 - but that's £230. Time to sit back for a few months to see what the apple tablet and the microsoft courier tablet pan out like. And then make a decision between an imac or a tablet. Feels like purgatory in the meantime, though. The mini I'm typing this on is dog slow compared to the joy that was the hackintosh... Live and learn. Aside - vista is only recognising 4gb of the 8gb on the machine. I'm wondering if that is what made the hackintosh panic everywhere - they were completely random, so I'm thinking this could be the root of it all. But not going through the hassle all over again. If only apple stuff was cheaper!!!

It does look great here, though:

Yup - I can't help but think that it's not light enough. Bearing in mind that the carbon roof, carbon dash and interior parts, the fancy spoked wheels, and the camera wing mirrors will be replaced with heavier production equivalents, I guess we'll be looking at 700 - 800kg. Lighter than a Lupo, but not really light enough for a 50hp / 36hp engine...

How did a single thread manage to get almost 18.5 *thousand* views??? Blimey!

I wonder if the bonnet opens? This: and the panel arrangement at the base of the a-pillar here: makes me think that it doesn't - ala Audi A2...

LA Autoshow surprise: New body shape - but the interior looks to be pretty much resolved... Not sure if I like it any more http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4670933 http://www.kilometermagazine.com/cgi-bin/pro/emAlbum.cgi?c=show_thumbs;p=Automobiles/Volkswagen/Concepts/Up%20Lite;i=0;pg=1

Well, priced up the bottom end iMac on the educational store - £975. You have to order a 4gb upgrade now because upgrading later requires lifting the display out of the case - there is no other way into the guts of the machine and I'm not up for that. So, that cost, plus the stories of so many people having problem with buzing from the display's power supply (I have this on my office printer and it drives you slowly insane) has caused by head to win out (for the next few weeks anyway!) Memory upgrade for the mini ordered and I'll be using that as my main machine. It will be dog slow (one third the speed) of the hackintosh, but I do need something solid that works. Upsides - I keep my budget for the tablet. If I don't like it, then I'll probably get an iMac then, by which time the buzzing design problem should be solved... Downsides - the mini is my TV!! So no PVR functionality in the living room for the time being. I'll try to rebuild the hackintosh starting from a reformatted drive as soon as I have a couple of days to devote to it. Lessons learnt here, I think.

Yup - it was all a huge experiment which went completely tits up in the space of a mouse click!! I can't even get the hacked dvd image to install now, which is just so very strange. Pretty much resigned myself to ordering an HE-priced iMac first thing tomorrow. It may even get here in time for my birthday (Wednesday) - so I guess that's another excuse. I just: - don't want to have to spend money to get something slower. But at least it will be stable and will come with the three year HE warranty. - don't want to spend money just to get out of a difficult situation. I hate doing that - would much prefer to try to work out what the root of the problem is. Plus, buying the iMac will rule out any chance of a tablet in the new year Ah well, it was all one *massive* gamble. Worked *great* for three months, though!

Apols for the thread hijack, but - thinking this thing over, I have one more option of getting the hackintosh running again (reinstall hacked OS from scratch, then update from the time machine). If that fails, then it's entry-level iMac time (2/3rds the speed of the hackintosh ) because I need a reliable solution.

Great - so the hackintosh is toast - getting kernel panics all over the shop, even though it should be fine as all I've done is restore a cloned (byte-for-byte) disk image. This could end up costing me serious amounts of cash - because there's a genuine copy of CS3 and Parallels on that machine - about £400's worth. As I said above, why did I click the install 10.6.2 button - why, dear God, why? Anyway, will have to try rebuilding it when I've got some of this fabled time that other people seem to have. Right now, I'm back on the (now - in comparison to the hackintosh - dog slow) macBook because I've got work that *has* to get done for Monday. If the worst comes to the worst, then I'll upgrade the memory in the mini and use it as my main mac (although DDR3 memory seems to have gone through the roof in the last few months) and use the hackintosh as a Windows7 HTPC (the only plus side of this, is my local transmitter will get Freeview HD in March and I guess the DVB T2 / MPEG4 receivers will come out first for Windows...). I should be able to get the hackintosh rebuilt from a blank slate, as I was able to do it before. But then, I had a couple of days solid to work at it... These days I just don't have the time. And during the next month, I have a work task (a lot of Revit work) that was going to rely on the power of the hackintosh - another reason why I might have to chuck windows on it - if even just for that month to get that task done... Options - £100 memory upgrade on the mini c. £700 on an unibody macBook. Don't want to do this because my "work" macBook is still working fine. c. £900 on a iMac. Don't want to do this either because I don't want to pay for the screen, etc. that I don't need. Either way, I can see my tablet budget going out the window... :(

You never want to see this (as I did on first boot after 10.6.2): And you certainly never want to see this when trying to restore your 10.6.1 image:

I hit the same problems as post #3 on this thread: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=196816 so it looks like there's a solution out there - just a matter of getting the time to install it! Yay!!

So, in short, I would recommend you buy two identical hard drives and create a clone of your working image as soon as you get it stable. This is what has saved my bacon on this occasion!

It is *highly* ironic that you asked that just right now because, about two hours ago, I forgot I was running a hackintosh and clicked the button to update from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2. A world of hurt ensued. Pics will follow (because I'm that much of a geek)... Luckily - I had a cloned drive image so I didn't lose any paid-for-software. Unluckily - my time machine backups wouldn't restore, so I've lost all my customisation over the last couple of months. Fortunately, all my data is on a network share, but now I've to set everything up again. I can't understand why the time machine image - from only a couple fo days ago wouldn't work - that makes the whole thing pointless - it was my lifeline, so to speak. Unluckily - Superduper crashed when trying to make the cloned image bootable after copying back onto the main drive. < this was a real worry. Luckily - I reaslised there's a way of cloning disks inside Disk Utility on the Install DVD. I was almost at the point of thinking I'd have to spend £900 for a slower iMac. And I'm beginning to wonder if this is a good idea for piece of mind - but to pay way over the odds, for a slower machine sucks. Anyway, at least you've bought the right mb - that's pretty much the same as I'm running - I think all the guides are for your version. Also, there's a guide to getting 10.6.2 on insanelymac. I just have to find the time to work through it... Maybe at Christmas... I think it all went wrong because the 10.6.2 tried to run a 64bit kernel, and I could never get that to work. It's a real shame because it'd been rock solid until I clikced that button. It'd been regularly worked hard crunching through gigs of video processing with never a problem. Which is why I don't want to buy something slower to replace it. Anyway, I'm typing this on it now, so all *seems* okay. Now I've got the hassle of installing SPSS, AutoCAD and Revit into Parallels because they weren't on the clone. And that will take ages.... Not as if next week's work depends on Revit or anything!!! Fecksocks!

Numbers is pretty poor, tbh. It requires too much use of the mouse. Pages, on the other hand, is well worth getting familiar with. Once you've moved away from Word, it just feels nature. I love using it to hack out page layouts in an organic way. Somehow it just seems to encourage creativity. The same goes for Keynote. I use this day in day out in my job - it is an essential tool. And it's just so good. The way the Light Table animates when reorganising slides is just really nice. Everyone at work is gobsmacked by the fact that I routinely create movies of my presentations - with the audio and slides synced. They're all stuck with PowerPoint and don't realise that Keynote does that in literally a couple of mouse clicks!

^^muppets!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLEADQ4ppKk ^^^ t-pain and taylor swift

or it might have been me - i was out and about this week. mine is standard apart from the g60 steelies

Lady Gaga in 2005:

I trust you're going to add some ventilation to the boiler cupboard?!

It's been a while since I've come across anything worth posting, but this is:

I know it's old tech, but I scored a second hand (which turned out to be brand new!!) airport express on ebay the other day. After a lot of hassle getting the wireless connection to work, I've now got perfectly synchronized music in the kitchen and the lounge. Sod the using it as a wireless bridge, it's well worth the £50 (ebay price) for just the speaker functionality. Not "it just works" but well worth it!! (Now I need another for upstairs, and maybe another for the garage!!!)