Some Pixar DVD's have calibration chapters in the extras section. I'm pretty sure Cars and Incredibles did. Not sure of the others. Not as fancy as the test bars and stuff. But helpful. It's more so you can see all the shadows and light in the Pixar movie, but I found it a nice starting point.

And---the wireless internet connectivity went out again on the Windows box. I was in the middle of shit so I didn't have time to fiddle and just plugged in the cable. I will experiment later. But the MacBook is perfectly behaved and on the web just fine.

Should I change the SSID of one of the networks to see if they're connecting to different ones or something?

I'm blank. I can't really see what could be different in a strictly DHCP setup. The client table looks so...innocent.

Okay--this is something I hope is a hugely basic question. I plug in the charger for my Touchpad, which I'm assuming has drained its battery. Normally there's a light next to where the charger cable plugs in that indicates everything's hunky dory. I've checked every connection along the way, nada. I was surfing the web just fine on it three days ago, and I haven't dropped it or poured coffee on it since then....anything obvious I can look at?

Have you tried to reset it?

Also, [link]

Thanks. I'll try those when I get home.

Okay, the fuck. I'm the most helpless newb in the history of every OS. I started the setup of my new MacBook, but the copy of the users and settings from my existing Mac was gonna take 15 hours, so I aborted it.

Now I'm staring at a login screen which demands a password (it is showing my name, and the same picture associated with my user ID on the old machine), but doesn't take the password of my old MacBook. I'm pretty freaking sure I didn't actually get to the point of typing in a password on that computer during its setup anyway.

So what's the deal? How can it not be blank or the one on the original machine? I can't log into my new, unused computer. This is beyond dumb.

If you aborted copying the user you probably have an incomplete home folder and library settings. While the transfer often claims 15 hours at the start it usually takes much less than that. If it were me I'd wipe the drive and do a reinstall of the OS just to make sure I didn't have a corrupted account lingering on the machine.

Also with OS X one of my habits before I transfer an account is to make an admin account first. This way there is also a local account will fill access to do things like blow away bad user folders.

I'm command r-ed and looking at my options. Is reinstall the OS the minimum fix? What does "erase all data" in the disk utility cover? Would that delete accounts?

Does this shit ship with a virgin disk image? I'm looking at disk 1 and it lists OS X Base System--can I restore that disk image to "Macintosh HD" and re-start from coming out of the box?

Yes. It ships with a virgin disk image. You can format the main partition and do a totally clean install from the base system partition.