fucking PC laptops...macbooks, here I come

[beanzncheez]

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Damn, dude. Only a year? Sorry to hear that. That's ass. Really. Good luck with the next purchase. Obviously, if you get a Mac, you should not suffer from any hardware issues as they make their own hardware to work with their software.

[PROG]

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dual boot that lappy with Leopard osx86!

[rgarc2000]

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i am thinkning about making the swithc to mac from a pc (sony vaio). But i am a bit weary about the transition. How hard is it to do simple things...are there shortcuts on keyboard like there are on pcs? you know things we've become use to an pcs....

thanks,

[jeffrey collins]

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There's almost all the same stuff. It's just a few little things that are different that take a minute or 6 to get used to. When you wanna screen capture on your PC, it's really easy, you just hit the prtSc button. But on a Mac you've gotta do Control+Shift+4 which allows you to choose the exact part of your screen you wanna capture. If you do it with a 3 on the end, i think that just does the full screen.

[beanzncheez]

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Don't be afraid to make the switch. Macs are seriously easy to use. It was much harder to go from a Mac to PC-DOS back in the day. I was much too spoiled with my Mac vs. the goddamn IBM.

[neoee]

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We got a Mac Powerbook for my gf and she loves it compared to her old PC. I also built a new system a while ago and I had one of the hard drives dedicated to running OSX (look up Hackintosh for more info). I've played with it a bit and while I started out on a Macs (Classic), I get too annoyed by some simple things. As much as I complain about M$ products I don't ever think I could fully switch to Mac. My gf wanted to copy a dvd on her Mac and we finally had to switch over to XP (in bootcamp) to run DVDshrink to copy the damn thing. I continually run into simple problems like that on the Macs. But either way the nice thing about a Mac is that you can use to same hardware to run Windows if you really want, so you never really have to fully switch.

On a side note MS is pretty much abondoning Vista at this point. They already consider it a finished product (pretty much their shortest ever) and are moving onto the next iteration of Windows. I don't think comparing Vista to anything is really a good measure.

[Kamal]

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As much as I complain about M$ products I don't ever think I could fully switch to Mac. My gf wanted to copy a dvd on her Mac and we finally had to switch over to XP (in bootcamp) to run DVDshrink to copy the damn thing. I continually run into simple problems like that on the Macs. But either way the nice thing about a Mac is that you can use to same hardware to run Windows if you really want, so you never really have to fully switch.

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I feel that way about using Ubuntu. I love the darn thing but doing the simplest of things takes 5 steps - which is only 1 in Windows. Couple of the things are...

- Inability to copy and paste text from your active PC over RDC. And it doesnt end there, even though I got XP to boot in Ubuntu through virtualization, I STILL cant copy and paste text. So links to music, etc. will not work, you have to manually type it it.

- Getting SAMBA to work, just so I can save what I download to my Media Server (this is hands down my biggest gripe). I thought once you share a drive with Samba, its set. Apparently not, you actually end up sharing your LOCAL drive which means you have to reverse map it. I couldn't be ARSED to do all that shit. Just boot back into Windows.

[srbbnd]

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If you game don't get a Mac.

Gamers Mac.

MSI has really stepped up in the last couple of years you might check out their GX720 laptop. They even have it with wood trim...

[i!!ustrious]

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If you game don't get a Mac.

^ ain't that the truth. i had a Mac all thru the late 90s. fun, creative stuff Mac's are, but i'm all about the PC, despite how 'dirty' they can be.. imo. PC is still parlance for now, in terms of encompassing functions. i think Macs are for the future tho. i managed to cop a decent custom PC laptop and i dont think i will be switching until i need to incorporate Ableton in a live gig.

btw. what is the true story between Apple and Microsoft, back in the early os days?

[KlondikeTW]

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I have had a lot of problems with my Macbook so far. Broken HD, heat issues, noise issues and then recently the logic board went out. They wanted $1000 to fix it, but I called up and managed to get them to do it for free. Nice to see some customer support for once.

[res0nat0r]

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- Inability to copy and paste text from your active PC over RDC. And it doesnt end there, even though I got XP to boot in Ubuntu through virtualization, I STILL cant copy and paste text. So links to music, etc. will not work, you have to manually type it it.

Check the man page for the app, but you should be able to do this if it is supported. You might have to use a special key sequence, or right click somewhere on the window and choose paste, but this is possible.

- Getting SAMBA to work, just so I can save what I download to my Media Server (this is hands down my biggest gripe). I thought once you share a drive with Samba, its set. Apparently not, you actually end up sharing your LOCAL drive which means you have to reverse map it. I couldn't be ARSED to do all that shit. Just boot back into Windows.

$ sudo apt-get install samba

$ sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf


Example section for a share named mp3:

[mp3]
 comment = My Mp3's
 read only = yes
 path = /media/mp3
 guest ok = yes

Thats it.

[Kamal]

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yea but doesn't that setup a samba share on the local folder accessible on a windows machine, I want it the other way around i.e. map a windows shared network drive onto ubuntu and just redirect the download directly from ubuntu onto my windows machine.

there's a 55 page thread on ubuntuforums.org that shows how to do it and I just couldn't be bothered in dealing with another long thread (having dealt with the one in getting samba to work)

[timay]

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I *dropped* my first IBM/Lenovo laptop. It fell out of the case and hit a cement floor hard and fried the LCD screen. The screen was replaced under warranty - which was unbelievable. The second screen burned out because the installer didn't run the wires properly and they were pinched in the hinge. Again, the screen was replaced under warranty. I had to return the laptop after 1.5 years because I changed companies, but it was going strong despite being dropped.

My second IBM/Lenovo laptop is 5+ years old. The USB went out on it a couple of years ago, which was solved with an add-in card. Otherwise it's tip-top.

My current IBM/Lenovo is just about 3 years old. I had to replace the battery last week, but otherwise it's tip-top.

The point: I've had real good luck with IBM/Lenovo laptops, for what it's worth.

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I lost the LCD screen on an old Compaq laptop that I had. You could see the image on the screen, but the backlight was inoperable. Taking it apart and getting the screen out was complicated but not impossible, however the replacement part was so expensive I felt I was better off spending the $$$ on a new laptop rather than fixing one that was several years old.

[res0nat0r]

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yea but doesn't that setup a samba share on the local folder accessible on a windows machine, I want it the other way around i.e. map a windows shared network drive onto ubuntu and just redirect the download directly from ubuntu onto my windows machine.

there's a 55 page thread on ubuntuforums.org that shows how to do it and I just couldn't be bothered in dealing with another long thread (having dealt with the one in getting samba to work)

Ah, I think you just need the smbfs package then. You can mount a remote samba share as a mountpoint on your linux box and then write to it like any other dir.

Package: smbfs
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 188
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers <pkg-samba-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: samba
Version: 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4
Replaces: smbfsx
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), netbase (>= 2.02), samba-common (= 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4)
Suggests: smbclient
Conflicts: smbfsx, suidmanager (<< 0.50)
Filename: pool/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.28a-1ubuntu4_i386.deb
Size: 93316
MD5sum: 93b64a2f5130d62013a0d5305bbbf906
SHA1: cc8d843ae22ddf3df0782ef7b780604e1a01700b
SHA256: b0ad95024e7fb33c4f3129e3f45b8c374994e21c0dc524c09ac4680a43b90755
Description: mount and umount commands for the smbfs (for kernels >= than 2.2.x)
 Smbfs is a filesystem which understands the SMB/CIFS protocol.
 This is the protocol Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT or
 LAN Manager use to talk to each other. It was inspired by
 samba, the program by Andrew Tridgell that turns any unix
 site into a file server for DOS or Windows clients.
 .
 If you want to use command-line utilities like smbclient, smbtar
 and/or smbspool you just need to install the smbclient package.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: samba-server

Sorry haven't looked at this thread in a while.

[Miroslav]

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ok...looks like it's gonna happen for real. I don't plan to foresake my vinyl, but with my job now (moving all over the country; 3x this yr alone), I just can't keep accumulating massive loads of records like I used to. So, I'm going to go partly Traktor Scratch. And, of course, you look like a noob unless you use it on a mac

I'm thinking:

Refurbished certified macbook pro, bought direct from Apple.
2.4 Ghz Intel Core Duo 2
2 GB RAM (2 DIMMs - takes up all the slots..)
200 GB Serial ATA hard drive @ 5400 rpm
15.4" matte screen

all the other standards... 8x Superdrive; NVIDIA 8600 w/ 256 MB memory; AirPort Extreme wireless 802.11n; 1 Firewire 400, 1 Firewire 800, 2 USB 2.0, 1 Expresscard/34 slot


Am I missing anything as far as Traktor, Ableton, etc. goes? Should I be thinking more RAM?