Doubtful, especially with a notebook -- but the OSx86 Project maintains hardware compatibility lists and installation instructions if you're feeling masochistic. Note that even if you can do it on this machine, you won't have tablet functionality.
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amych - May 20, 2008 10:30:26 am PDT #6280 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Sean K - May 20, 2008 10:38:47 am PDT #6281 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Note that even if you can do it on this machine, you won't have tablet functionality.
I figured as much. I'm now instead walking him through refurbed options. That seems to be a much better way to go, especially if it's not his main work computer. He can get a light little refurbed 13" for under $1,000.
NoiseDesign - May 20, 2008 10:40:08 am PDT #6282 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
They had a refurbed 15" Macbook Pro the other night for $1299 and one for $1499 last night. You tend to have to be up to check in the middle of the night for those deals though as they sell quickly.
amych - May 20, 2008 10:40:13 am PDT #6283 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, that kind of hacking is definitely only for people who actually enjoy it -- and it's often enough headache-inducing even then.
tiggy - May 21, 2008 7:31:22 am PDT #6284 of 25501
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
anybody know of a (free!) program i can use to rip a specific portion of an .mp3?
le nubian - May 21, 2008 8:43:43 am PDT #6285 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
mac or pc?
can you tell us more what you want to do? do you want to edit a mp3 down? make a ringtone?
Jon B. - May 21, 2008 8:47:20 am PDT #6286 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
to rip a specific portion of an .mp3?
Do you mean edit an mp3?
It's command line, but ffmpeg does this without any lossiness.
tiggy - May 21, 2008 8:55:13 am PDT #6287 of 25501
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
mac or pc
pc.
can you tell us more what you want to do?
yeah. i was on the radio this morning and i have a podcast of the show, but i just want to extract the part with me. it's about a 40 minute show and the segment with me in it is about 5 and a half minutes.
Gudanov - May 21, 2008 8:57:32 am PDT #6288 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
How about audacity?
It will lose quality, but it won't make any notable difference for speech.
You'd need mp3 support added to Audacity as well
Jon B. - May 21, 2008 9:03:08 am PDT #6289 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It will lose quality, but it won't make any notable difference for speech.
That's why I suggested ffmpeg. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a simple windows binary.