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Makes sense to me.
Those quad core MBPs sure look nice. I'm personally going to wait for the SSD versions before I update from this home-modified MBP - looks like I will have to wait for Lion and the corresponding TRIM support.
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QuoteMini 9
I have not been in a Savings and Loan nor a Bank.
Been a Credit Union member. And with that, they are not nor have been in the same town, so I've always done everything from afar.
So, seeing the Citibank subject line, I have had no experience with banks. People always talk about fees for this and that, spam/junk mail, being a number and not a name, not person association. My credit
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This is one of those threads that was truly disturbing.
I've had a personal savings account since I was 7. I've certainly had years where my debts were greater than my assets, but even in those years, I had some savings for liquidity purposes.
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rG, that's just the info I was looking for (and sorry I listed the wrong Palm phone).
$30 a month for 100MB of data is not bad at all.
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Someone made a convincing case today that during a blackout (recent blizzard) some of their lights were on but very dim, and one TV in the house worked normally but nothing else. Any idea how that could be possible? Single family home, no generators or battery backups of any sort.
Next time that happens, UNPLUG EVERYTHING. Literally every electrical item plugged in was at risk in thi
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That's ok, I won't have the extra cash for a new machine until next year anyway!
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Light Peak but no USB3
Interesting choice by Apple.
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I5 and i7 processors, including quad cores
AMD graphics on high-end models
Thunderbolt I/o
No SSD/HD hybrid storage for the OS. Looks like that's for next time.
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Why? I was recently in Washington DC for a conference, and the AT&T 3G coverage was truly abysmal... I was surrounded by scientists with iPhones.
Personally, I've found that AT&T has very reliable coverage in and around DC.
I suspect that the local cells were so overwhelmed from the traffic from your fellow conference-goers that you would not have had a
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How are you planning to use your Palm Pre phones? Mostly as cheap smartphones, or are you going to use them as mifi hubs?
Why? I was recently in Washington DC for a conference, and the AT&T 3G coverage was truly abysmal. I had an iPhone and a 3G iPad; most of the time, I could text and receive emails, but trying to do anything more complicated (like send an email with a photo attachment) w
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OMG - there is going to be an iPad 2? Really? Wow!
(sorry, I'm just finding all this hype about updated hardware just a little over the top)
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Hmmm... will CS run on 10.6?
Someone needs to confirm that...
It's fine, under Rosetta, according to this site:
I run CS thru Rosetta on 10.6. Usually OK, but sometimes it crashes while doing nothing loses prefs on restarts. I've taken to making a copy of the prefs file as a backup.
Rosetta is not installed by default, but you probably know that alre
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as far as I understand it, you pay your NETFLIX subscription directly at the netflix.com, not via the netflix app, and I think Apple cannot charge a commission in this case. They only want 30% if you were to purchase the subscription via the netflix app, which is not the case.
That changes this summer. Apple's NEW rules state that Netflix will require the option to pay via the a
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It does two things, one good, one bad.
It finds viruses from windows files - meaning it should be harder for your friend to retransmit a windows virus accidentally.
It also gives the Mac Lupus, detecting a non-existent problem and sometimes making a mess of things.
I vote to nuke and pave.
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If they raise my Netflix subscription 30% this summer, I'm going to send Jobs my ATVs. And get an Android device instead.
Sorry, but it does not cost Apple anything once I have the app loaded.
Go defend Apple elsewhere. This is a predatory pricing strategy that makes the consumer pay Apple for everything we use on these iOS devices.
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I'm happy with our ATV2. My wife added two more to the house because she really loves it.
Ever since we used the learn remote function, it's super easy to use..
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I have that machine.
I wouldn't expect a big speed bump. You probably already lived within the 1 GB limit (maybe running 10.4?), and closed apps when not in use.
The extra RAM will help keeping Safari from dragging the whole machine down, etc.
OS 10.6 is good in that it is a good backdrop for future upgrades. And let you add the Mac App store, and sync iPads and other iOS devices.
Rep
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I look for employees over the age of 30 whenever possible. Even in the Apple Store, those Gen Y attitudes are pervasive.
Keep in mind, my job has me training grad students, almost all under 30.
It's not that the younger kids are all bad; it's just they can be SO bad I would not want to come back!
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Do keep in mind the iPad will take space with backups on whatever machine you use to load with iTunes.
I think the battery and SSD would make that machine as fast as a modern MBA. I just went back to an SSD boot drive - my machine flies. I would go with a quality SSD, tho.
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I thought the 3 gs had easy-to-repair screens. You might be able to DIY
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Sweet!
The irony is that the processing power in that machine would be totally lost on me for 99.9% of what I do with my Mac...
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Because they did not post using an iOS device.
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Not like the Saturns of old where home maintenance was a priority.
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I think he's trying to say he's too damn lazy to make backups manually and thinks RAID1 will be a good solution. It's not.
This is not truly a backup situation, but more of a data processing workflow. We want to make sure we keep excellent copies of the data while we are accumulating the collection; my thought was to build the redundancy into the system from the beginning. Sorry for no
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RAID-1 is primarily for uptime. otherwise cloning the content from one drive to another is a more reliable backup.
...neither one is likely worth the money.
I'm looking for a 'plug and play' solution for an application where a process manually keeping a duplicate using two separate drives simply will not happen.
If there is a way to manually roll your own, let me know.
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The Guardian MAXimus series has hardware RAID-1 drive solutions, $399.99 for dual 2 TB. Quad interface.
The Mercury Elite-AL triple interface runs $519.99.
What does the latter offer me that justifies the extra pricetag except a different color? Otherwise, I'll go to the MAX.
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It used to be you could buy applecare at deeply discounted prices on ebay. My sister-in-law is going to buy a macbook pro 13" and the apple price for applecare is $250 and the ebay price is $200. It used to be that you could buy applecare for about 1/2 price on ebay. What happened?
Long story short, they were all scams.
I had many work great for me
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What happens when you turn EVERYTHING off - no wifi, bluetooth, itunes, etc. Make sure it's not a CPU bottleneck.
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Quantum drives were fantastic. I'm not sure I had a faulty one.
I see you have it posted twice... or three times, if you count DEC!
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