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NoiseDesign - Oct 22, 2009 2:51:43 pm PDT #11426 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Gris - Oct 22, 2009 4:17:27 pm PDT #11427 of 25501
Hey. New board.
My old MacBook died. so I started looking at specs for new MacBooks.
I can see absolutely no reason to get the 13" MacBook Pro over the new white MacBook. It is a teensy bit lighter and smaller (and I mean a TEENSY bit) and has an SD Card reader... in exchange for a smaller hard drive and the metal enclosure that, based on my experience, is actually significantly more fragile than the plastic. Why would I pay $200 more for that?
Am I missing something?
NoiseDesign - Oct 22, 2009 4:25:49 pm PDT #11428 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
New MacBook doesn't have Firewire, so if that's important to you then it can be a deal breaker. I own 3 of the older MacBooks but I won't be buying any of the new ones because of this omission. They also dropped the individual audio in and out ports in favor of a single port that con operate as an input or an output.
DCJensen - Oct 22, 2009 6:56:43 pm PDT #11429 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
t Sends email to Gris in blatant self interest.
I do so love to tinker.
Gris - Oct 23, 2009 1:57:07 am PDT #11430 of 25501
Hey. New board.
My external hard drives are all USB/firewire and I don't have a video camera. Don't really require the firewire these days, though it does annoy me on principle.
I also don't need audio ports very often. Maybe the input if I ever decide to do any recording, but I actually have a USB converter for microphones and my electric piano does USB-midi out, so just a headphone out should be plenty.
So it looks like the MacBook is for me.
DCJ, I'll e-mail you back later. I'm going to salvage the hard drive and maybe the RAM from the MacBook so I'm not sure what remaining parts will help you. Maybe the battery. The computer smells like burning - I think I fried the motherboard pretty good with an accidental Diet Dr. Pepper soaking.
DCJensen - Oct 23, 2009 6:31:38 am PDT #11431 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I have another one coming at some point, so any part of a dead one might get me that much closer to a Frankensteinian creation.
Or is that Fronkensteenian?
bon bon - Oct 23, 2009 11:39:31 am PDT #11432 of 25501
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Apparently if you get rid of QuickTime, iTunes doesn't work. That's ridiculous. What's more ridiculous is that you have to reinstall iTunes and lose all your music, podcasts and playlists. How is that remotely acceptable?
megan walker - Oct 23, 2009 11:47:59 am PDT #11433 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It wouldn't surprise me, but I just got a new computer at work and copied over my library files before installing iTunes and had no problem.
DCJensen - Oct 23, 2009 12:16:33 pm PDT #11434 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
You can just reinstall Quicktime. Maybe that will bring back iTunes without destroying anything.
I have not run into reinstall wiping all my settings. Huh.
Gudanov - Oct 23, 2009 12:21:21 pm PDT #11435 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Can't it just rebuild the library from the files on your disk, I mean aside form podcast subscriptions? I don't know how iTunes works I'm just curious.