I Bought a Mac - Latest Comments

Re: My Mac is frozen (Spinning pinwheel of death)

DENIS PIEL — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 05:01:20 -0000

i tried this and now i get nothing on my screen at all, no spinning wheel nothing. seems worst than before.
any suggestions would be appreciated
ok i have now managed to get it back up but still now have the spinning wheel. unfortunately pressing option+command+escape does nothing.
it spins away without showing anything to help escape the program that is spinning. any suggestions?

Re: Trackpad Scrolling on a MacBook

Helen Giddens — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 02:49:30 -0000

Thank you !!!!!

Re: OmniGraffle Pro Review

Jo — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:35:10 -0000

OmniGraffle is great, but I tend to prefer Lucidchart because it's online: https://www.lucidchart.com/...

Re: Trackpad Scrolling on a MacBook

Kim Hudson — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:23:23 -0000

OMG! Thank you!

Re: Should I go SSD?

visualade — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:03:44 -0000

Well, the question is "Should I go SSD?" If I use our own experience with SSD's as guidance, I would say yes, if you care about drive reliability, delivery speed of data and noise reduction, then go for it! My recommendation on a desktop machine is to run two drives, an SSD as a main drive, something no larger than 256GB that you can install software on. Then a regular disk drive for storage, something between 500GB and 1TB. So long as you keep that larger drive backed up on USB, you'll be fine if and when emergencies happen. That SSD is going to run solid for you and can probably withstand being dropped on a concrete floor, but please don't test that theory. My recommendation for laptop is similar but void of the 2nd drive. Besides, you don't really need a laptop with more than 256GB's of storage, do you? If you're storing that much on a laptop, then I fear the day that you lose said laptop while traveling through Argentina. Keep excess data on an external, you laptop lovers!

Anyway, if cost is a concern, just keep waiting and you'll see prices on these drives continue to plummet... which is good news for all of us!

Re: An Apple for the holidays

Uber-Geek — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 18:32:43 -0000

While you are both correct, the OS on the computer would indeed be NTFS. However, any device such as a video camera or an external drive would be partitioned with FAT 32. I believe that was where my reasoning slipped. I should have been more clear that I was alluding to peripherals.

Re: Should I go SSD?

BrandonNolet — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 16:15:17 -0000

The SSD is definitely one of the most noticeable upgrades you can do in a system. With prices on the downfall as a trend, now's a better time than ever to upgrade!

That said, I liked the article here, but I feel there's quite a bit of information missing pertaining to how the respective device's parts work and why one is better than the other.

Read/write/seek speed is the big difference between the two, but it doesn't tell the reader exactly why there's a big difference.

On another note, I found the article to be a bit repetitive as I went along. For example: " The SSD handles reads and writes much more efficiently than its mechanical counterpart. The SSD boot times will be super fast compared to its mechanical counterpart." Could have been shortened out to "The SSD handles reads and write much more efficiently than its mechanical counterpart making boot times less timely on the former."

Re: An Apple for the holidays

Eric J — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 18:48:55 -0000

With a maximum file size of 16TB or on windows 8 256 TB, fat32 was the default on windows 98, but a fresh install of XP will give you NTFS!

Re: An Apple for the holidays

Leo Newman — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 15:10:31 -0000

Fat32 does have limitations as you mentioned but anyone who is looking for the performance required by graphics or video editing will be using NTFS for their partitions which is pretty much the default for any Windows OS since Windows 2000.

Re: iPad Air

Uber-Geek — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:07:28 -0000

I understand your issue with flash not being present. The reason flash isn't added is that flash is not really coded to work on Apple products. If you take a Mac Laptop (Air or Pro) and watch a few Flash movies, the laptop will noticeably heat up. Since there is no fan or efficient method of cooling, the processor would fry. This goes back to when the iPad was introduced, Apple wanted to include Flash on the devices, but whether Adobe thought the iPad wasn't going to succeed, or there wouldn't be enough of a market share to make it worth their time, they said they wouldn't correct the problems. At which time Steve Jobs started pushing the HTML 5 standard.
As far as upgrading goes, the main difference other than weight would be the A7 processor and 64-bit architecture. I agree that the iPad Retina doesn't need to be updated, but it would be a nice improvement for someone that is running an iPad 2. There would be enough of a processor improvement to justify it. The issue with doing RAR files is that you would have to expose the file system, whack could potentially jeopardize the security of the device.

Re: Case-Mate Leaks Some iPhone 5 Love?

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Re: iPad Air

Mikeyl — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:06:33 -0000

Everythiing is improved except the features an thats important no downloading rar files to extract to the device video files still have to be converted to play on the device there is no micro sd 100 bucks for extra couple gigs is ridiculous and there is still no flash player which is a big thing for users also you still cant multi task i am using my ipad mini an all i can really do is youtube and netflix i cant download stuff i dont play any games on my tablet or phone because i find them non entertaining i only play pc and console games those are real games overall ipad air is only good for youtube an netflix to me so theres no point upgrading if there is no new features besides the specs my uncle an brother has the ipad 4 after the air came out they said so the specs are slightly better an the weight but there are no new features then theres no point upgrading

Re: Is the Desktop dead?

Milton Baxter — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:27:06 -0000

"the need for a desktop will not be going away anytime soon.". Have to agree. In our house we have three always available in our lounge (Mobile, Tablet, Laptop) and I pick up whichever matches the job at hand - but I miss not having the fourth - a fast desktop.

Re: Is the Desktop dead?

Uber-Geek — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:48:51 -0000

I have to agree with you. I have an iMac as my primary desktop. I also have a MacBook Air that I use when I am traveling, to check email and so forth, but not for any heavy lifting.

Re: Is the Desktop dead?

moijk — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 06:38:30 -0000

My primary computer is the mac pro, the macbook pro is my secondary. I'll go desktop next time too. Notebooks are nice but not as powerful.

Re: What to do when your dock stops working

gord42 — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:56:54 -0000

Nice fix, thank you!

Re: My Mac is frozen (Spinning pinwheel of death)

Brent Spore — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:52:12 -0000

It's not as much what computer you own, but what you put on it (software).

Re: More Music

chubbyjake — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:04:09 -0000

Try Clementine. i have it loading i's library from what's in my downloads formulae Sometimes it's kinda slow but it beats itunes completely

Re: Apple vs. Samsung

Kevin McIsaac — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:28:57 -0000

So you did not like apple's "I'm a Mac." ads.?

Re: Trackpad Scrolling on a MacBook

Carrie — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:55:36 -0000

You are my new hero !!!! I can now scroll successfully on my MacBook, thanks to you ... you are obviously not the only noob on this planet !

Re: Get More Life Out Of Your MacBook Battery

shara lucy — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:56:28 -0000

You can change macbook battery with new one. Replacement macbook battery is a good choise!such as: www.okbatteria.com/dell-xps...

Re: Trackpad Scrolling on a MacBook

vogelJoy — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:04:00 -0000

Man, that was a close one! Your answer was almost off my screen -- thank goodness for the spacebar ;) ha! Glad I found this article - thanks! :)

Re: iTunes 11 is here!

Uber-Geek — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:22:42 -0000

If I can ask, what didn't you like about the new version? While I understand it is a drastic departure from the older versions, I personally like the "modernization" of iTunes. Granted there is a learning curve, but I think this new version if far superior to what was in place. IMHO.

Re: iTunes 11 is here!

Guest — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:20:12 -0000

If I can ask, what didn't you like about the new version?

Re: iTunes 11 is here!

Newad WebDev — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:17:19 -0000

I downgraded to 10.7 after updating.
iTunes 11 is just terrible.