ArosaScotty Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 does anyone know if there will be a 64 gb touch comin soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 (edited) Well I've got it installed on the mini.Not massively impressed. There are a few changes which are really subtle and really nice - change the font size on the desktop icons to see one of them...Disappointed that you can't get 512 x 512 icons on the desktop (the mini is my living room tv).I can't tell if I'm running in 64 or 32 bit - just don't know how to check... My eyetv still works and I think that only has 32 bit drivers, though...Quicktime is nice. It has options for recording video (off a webcam) which will come in massively useful in my teaching.And it looks like my old macbook will be stuck in 32bit (as some suggested above) which I eventually get the bits delivered to upgrade it: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-336194.htmlAnd my fancy stack drawer icon hack works off the network drivers that sit in my dock but not those on the local machine. Very strange...And iStat menus don't work, but I knew that before I upgraded. Edited August 29, 2009 by dxg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_a Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 got the facebook 3.0 app, is much better can now like status's aswellwould have been ordering my macbook hopefully next week if i hadnt jus got a letter saying that my insurance has been canceled 3 days ago without me knowing because they couldnt get proof of my NCB an wreckon they sent letters wich i havent recieved,so gotta buy it again so costing me another £130 with the £50 cancelation fee they took Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 You can see my knackered drawer hack in the bottom right of the mini's dock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 got the facebook 3.0 app, is much better can now like status's aswellwould have been ordering my macbook hopefully next week if i hadnt jus got a letter saying that my insurance has been canceled 3 days ago without me knowing because they couldnt get proof of my NCB an wreckon they sent letters wich i havent recieved,so gotta buy it again so costing me another £130 with the £50 cancelation fee they took If this is home insurance, PM me and I'll save you some money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 All my bits have arrived from Dabs.com - VERY impressed.Here we go then.New RAM's going in, New HDD is going in and then so is the Snow Leopard DVD.Here's to hoping it works as easily as that.Then it's a case of copying all my files from the old HDD.If I've got it wrong, someone send me a PM so my iPhone notifies me before I break something! Haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Good luck - I'll see you on the other side. Are you installing to a blank drive with a dvd labelled "upgrade?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Right, new hardware is in and so is SL DVD, the mac is on the White screen, whirring a lot and the circle is spinning showing that it is thinking about something... But that's all I've got? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Ah, I was being impatient... But it seems unable to see the new hard drive to install to? That's not good? I can't choose a disk!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Ah, I was being impatient... But it seems unable to see the new hard drive to install to? That's not good? I can't choose a disk!?Have you formatted the drive as a mac drive? It's probably NTFS right now, which OS X won't like. Use disk utility, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_a Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 (edited) If this is home insurance, PM me and I'll save you some money.cheers for the offer, but unluckily its car insurance,goodbye all my overtime i was doing for macbook Edited August 29, 2009 by Rick_a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 I'm here! I'm on Snow Leopard! I have double hard drive space and double RAM also.So far so good, money well spent.Will give my view on SL when I have chance to thoroughly explore, however right now I am migrating data (my music!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 I've been reading through this page and trying its stuff out:http://www.9to5mac.com/snow-leopard-64-bit...it-firmware-efiIt seems that my macbook has a 32bit EFI so will be stuck to that, despite reporting and using its full 4gb - strange. My mini has a 64bit EFI but is running in 32bit for some reason - this might explain why the TV still works. Will have to investigate. What machine are you on and what mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 I am on a late 2008 aluminium Macbook, 2.0ghz model. I am currently in 32 bit mode but I'm going to restart to a) check out the speed of shut down on SL restart in 64bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 The 'hold 6 and 4 keys' trick doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_a Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 does anyone know any more neat voice commands?i know of the play songs by.. an call... but is there any others?works rather well an you dont have to spend ages pre-recording them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 does anyone know any more neat voice commands?i know of the play songs by.. an call... but is there any others?works rather well an you dont have to spend ages pre-recording them I asked my iPhone to 'Play Transplants' and it called my Dad... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 (edited) Well, my first bit of tinkering is complete to substantially improve the appearance of application windows in the hold to expose mode:http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16798577Still working on my stack folder drawers - it seems to be rendering the preview embedded in the icon as the icon. Can't work out why. Edited August 30, 2009 by dxg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northwick Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 There's no excuse to not have an external disk to use with Time Machine! If you were to use Time Machine you could do a clean install of Snow Leopard and import everything from your TM backup in the OSX installer Time machine backups aren't bootable though. Carbon Copy Cloner running on a remote mac is the way forward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 Still working on my stack folder drawers - it seems to be rendering the preview embedded in the icon as the icon. Can't work out why.^^^ got it to work! woot! In a typical "mess around with it until it works" manner... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 I've set up my o2 email address to use specifically for eBay/Paypal but I can't seem to get it working in the Mail application? I've entered all details as o2 say I should - does anyone have any ideas why it might not be working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjblyth Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 Got my o2 email sorted.Now, just a quickie - my new hard drive is 'whirring' a little louder than my last one did. In fact I didn't hear the previous one, but this one's noticable and vibrating the Mac ever so slightly... Is this normal by going from 5400rpm to 7200rpm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxg Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 Got my o2 email sorted.Now, just a quickie - my new hard drive is 'whirring' a little louder than my last one did. In fact I didn't hear the previous one, but this one's noticable and vibrating the Mac ever so slightly... Is this normal by going from 5400rpm to 7200rpm?Yes. It will also get hotter and the battery life will be shorter. There are always compromises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted September 1, 2009 Report Share Posted September 1, 2009 all sounds a bit cr@p, you actually have to pay for upgrades that would be free on windows, not like it is a new OS just slightly tweaked for future applications, and gone is the claims of everythign being so easy to use - sounded like a hassle to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfbr Posted September 1, 2009 Report Share Posted September 1, 2009 all sounds a bit cr@p, you actually have to pay for upgrades that would be free on windows, not like it is a new OS just slightly tweaked for future applications, and gone is the claims of everythign being so easy to use - sounded like a hassle to me. It's only free on windows as compensation for having to put up with the backlog of issues you get everytime you upgrade the fecker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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