pro3mark Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 Based on how often Apple release iPhones, the next one will be out in June, a long time to wait, but worth it rather than upgrading to the 3Gs now? Hmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigz™ Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 I am hoping to get a good resale value with a 32GB model in white.Just need to avoid turning it pink lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pro3mark Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 Yeah, i was looking at White 32GB Could sell on i suppose and buy a 4g, that way, in 18 months when the (short) contract ends, you'll be able to get the one AFTER the 4g.I like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 iPhones hold their value incredibly well although I fear they won't now that they're going to be more widely available. Which is a bummer because I buy mine from Apple outright! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 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!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 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!!!)Agree 100%. Airport and Airtunes is genius. Download 'Airfoil' to get it to work with all applications on a Mac... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam K Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 (edited) apple purchases this week...16gb iphone 3gs on orange, but jailbroken and using it on vodafone tooelgato eye tv dttuber happy with both, the picture from the eyetv is way better quality than my sky or freeview boxes. Edited November 13, 2009 by Adam K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigz™ Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 New iPhone Firmware on iTunes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 New iPhone Firmware on iTunes There's nothing coming through for my 3GS...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iTomKelly Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Nothing for my 3G either, you sure you didn't miss the last one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pro3mark Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 I know he just got the 3Gs, maybe it had old tech on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigz™ Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 My mistake, I'd hit restore by mistake.As you were lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_a Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 quick question, today my phones battery has been crap charged it overnight an hardly touched it today said usage was like under 2 hours an was at 5%,anyone got any ideas also when pressing the home button thingy wasnt coming up to unlock, just turned it off for abit see if it helps,cheersrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver! Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 That's known as theft! Post removed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithson Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 my air is fixed rang up apple and because its a common fault its covered under extended warranty they replaced the whole screen!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasper Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 I wouldn't know what a "torrent" was myself, but if I were to use them I'd probably use Transmission and register on www.mac-torrents.comhaha nice one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallika_Fan Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 Well, i've just joined the apple crowd, ordered myself an iphone yesterday, came this morning, just before lunch and i can't do anything till i go home and install itunes and activate it. ghey.nay mind. patience and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Apple had their famous 'Black Friday' sale yesterday so I took a trip into Manchester and bagged myself a copy of iWork 09 for £44. Not bad compared to the normal RRP of £69.Also picked up an 8gb iPod Touch earlier in the week but managed to get it for £119 (refurb).I was very surprised how quickly iWork installed, I can only imagine Word/Excel/Powerpoint would be a chore. iWork was on in 5 mins with just a couple of clicks!Now I realise that I don't need it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Apple had their famous 'Black Friday' sale yesterday so I took a trip into Manchester and bagged myself a copy of iWork 09 for £44. Not bad compared to the normal RRP of £69.Also picked up an 8gb iPod Touch earlier in the week but managed to get it for £119 (refurb).I was very surprised how quickly iWork installed, I can only imagine Word/Excel/Powerpoint would be a chore. iWork was on in 5 mins with just a couple of clicks!Now I realise that I don't need it 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 dxg, how's your Hackintosh running now?I bought a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P yesterday and a Lian Li A05b case to put it in, as a start to building my own Mac Pro 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 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!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 (edited) 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 minic. £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... :( Edited November 28, 2009 by dxg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 (edited) 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. Edited November 29, 2009 by dxg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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