Hardware :: Finding Quality Of Brands Of External HDD?
Jul 30, 2009Just wondering how people rate the different brands?
Are Iomega any good. I would normally go WD or Seagate (but was warned off maxtor).
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Mac Pro :: Finding Best Ram Brands?
Jun 21, 2009Just looking for some more ram for my 1st gen mac pro and stumbled across this ram Centon Seems really cheap for that amount, but hey maybe its ok.
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Nov 4, 2008Which are they?
Which ones have a Sleeve ready for the new aluminum line?
MacBook Pro :: Finding Hard Drive Brands?
Apr 14, 201017" 500GB: Hitachi 500GB Model: HTS545050B9SA02 post
How about the 500GB in the 15"? Same?
And could some one check the brand of their 320GB disk in the 15"?
OS X :: Finding High Quality 10.5.7 Wallpapers
Jun 4, 2009I have a unibody MacBook with a native resolution of 1280x800. I downloaded several wallpapers from [URL] all at 1280x800 and whenever I use them as wallpapers they appear either scaled up and pixelated or severely scaled down (at "Fit to screen" and "Center" respectively). Previously I had a 17" PowerBook at 1440x900 and didn't have that issue.
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Jan 29, 2010I am about to buy a Mac Mini and want to find out how it works with using a 1080p (Pioneer Kuro) TV as a monitor
How does it look on the TV i.e. especifically what's the quality like?
I am sure many people have done this, I am probably going to be using a digital cable (ToSlink) for the sound and a Mini DV to HDMI cable for the video
IMac :: Finding High Quality I7 Wallpapers
Aug 7, 2010Can anyone provide me with a some extremely high quality wallpapers for my 27" imac? This screen is so huge, almost anything I use is somewhat blurry.
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Aug 23, 2010Needing to calibrate my U2711 and so I need to purchase a good quality calibration system.
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Dec 26, 2010Overall picture quality is fine, however, the font and windows are blurry. Is there a fix??
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Apr 18, 2012been looking for a hard drive to store my photos and work from University, the things I never want to lose basically, so don't want to buy the wrong product and don't know good brands when it comes to Macs. Does thunderbolt make a huge difference also?
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: Mixing Different Brands Of Ram
Nov 4, 2010Right, so I got 4Gb of Crucial ram right now - MBP 5,1 It supports 6Gb, and I need it. So I want to pick up a single 4Gb stick. However, a Crucial 4Gb stick is like $113 while a G-skill variant is only $63.
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Nov 11, 2005Started archiving all my old photos and creating dvds. started off using iphoto which is great for compiling a quick slideshow to a couple of music tracks. i then imported these to idvd and created my first dvd project which i was pretty pleased with for a first attempt. The only thing i found annoying was that i could not link all the slideshows together in idvd so that they played one after another, instead you had to come back to the menu and start the next one...so i thought i would import these slideshow movies into imovie and create a complete movie with chapters, titles etc. but when i did this i noticed that the quality of the slideshow in imovie was very noticeably worse.
being new to mac i wasnt sure what was up so i thought about importing the photos directly into imovie and working with them there. but once again the quality was really poor compared to the iphoto and idvd slideshows. after this i though maybe its just a preview problem and all will be well when i burn them to dvd and watch them on tv...so i burnt a dvd with one slideshow created in iphoto and imported into idvd and also put on a movie of the same slide show that id imported into imovie and back.
anyway long story short quality still better in slide show created in iphoto.
Applications :: Won't Work With IMovie Quality / Can't Export In High Quality
Mar 8, 2009is there any way to export the movie as high as my project quality everytime i export the quality goes down.
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Nov 20, 2009Is the MBP Unibody iSight quality the same as the iMac 27" quality.
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Dec 8, 2014In FCPX 10.1.3 I was able to set in Preferences the Playback Quality to High Quality. I just purchased FCPx 10.1.4. It has NO such High Quality Option for Playback Quality.
Now all my still clips are blurred badly. Is there an option to set a High Quality Playback Option. Or can I download 10.1.3, the level where that worked ?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Final Cut Express HD :: How To Get Quality Of Movie To Match Quality Of Export
Jun 24, 2014When I export my sequence into a Quicktime movie the quality is much worse than it appears in the editor. More specifically, it looks washed out.
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Mar 26, 2012I am a technologically challenged old lady with 500 wonderful cd's that I want to transfer to an external hard drive that my SONOS system will recognize. How do I do this and how do I MAINTAIN the fantastic sound quality on the CD's?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook :: What Are The Most Reliable Brands (HD 7200rpm)
Jun 4, 2009I've almost sold my MBP and I'm gonna order MB early next week, so I'll need a good 7200rpm HD (320Gb) for my new baby.
What brands/models do you consider most reliable? On this forum I've read good impression about Seagate Momentus line, what do you think?
Mac Pro :: What Types / Brands Of Pro Soundcards Are Supported
Mar 31, 2012I'm interested in getting a Mac Pro for my recording studio. I'm trying to find out what types/brands of soundcards are supported. I currently use M-Audio, but looking on their site I see that they don't have any drivers that go above 10.5.8. It appears that I may need a new sound card if I get a Mac Pro. I need to know what my choices are BEFORE I do anything more. I currently use Logic Pro on my old G4 with Tiger & that's just not cutting it. However, I have a great soundcard so it still works OK for now.
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Apr 1, 2009I would like to get a USB wireless N dongle for my old PC, easy enough to do I was going to go with a Linksys WUSB600N but then realized I might as well get something that is Mac compatible so I can sometimes use it on my old PowerBook. After doing some research I found out that newer TrendNet dongles and some D-Link dongles are Mac compatible. I don't know about TrendNet because they always seemed a little cheap, I've used D-Link routers before and they're ok but the dongles compatibility with Macs seems to depend on the hardware revision. Are there any other brands who make Mac compatible wireless N USB dongles?
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Apr 5, 2009Just bought myself a 2.8 mac pro with a stock WD Caviar SE 3200AAJS drive and would like some opinions about which hard drives to get and how to partition them.
From what I've read on digilloyds site, I've concluded that it would be best to get a rather large harddrive with a small partition as bootdrive. The reasoning behind this is that data on drives gets read faster when that data is on the outside of the drive. So an 80gb partition on a 640gb drive would be faster than an 80gb partition on a 120gb drive, because with option 1, the partition physically remains small in regards to the whole, and therefore physically remains on the outside of the drive where seek speed is fast.
So my questions are about the technical details really:
1) Is there a measured percentage as to where drives begin to lose their fast outer rim performance? If that's say 10%, then I could calculate: I need 80gb boot partition, so the drive must be 800gb. Also, to calculate how tiny my bootpartition should be, I need to know how many gigs "breathing space" the boot partition needs. Anyone?
2) What's your drives config and partitioning? I myself was thinking:
- boot drive (how big?)
- drive with 2 partitions, one 10gb scratch partition for the current project and one projects partition for things I'm not working on.
- drive for reading samples from for drums etc.
- drive for time machining the projects drive, the samples I can always reinstall from cd, so won't need space for that..
3) What brand should I get? I was thinking Western Digital caviar black for the first three drives, and a more energy efficient caviar blue/green as timemachine drive. Do I need server drives like the R3 for any of this?
4) Where can my stock 320 drive fit in? Is it good enough for one of these jobs or is it just too old? I'm willing to replace it but I don't want to be splitting hairs. The potential replacement DOES have to add something in real world feel.
MacBook Pro :: When Connecting To An External Monitor, Will There Be A Quality Difference Between Using A DVI Adaptor Or A HDMI Adaptor
Jun 18, 2012I am looking to connect my macbook pro to an Acer G24 monitor, but am not sure what best way to do it.The resolution of the monitor is 1920x1200, and it is a 24" screen, with VGA, DVI, and HDMI ports.My macbook pro is the late 2011 entry model.
Will there be a difference in the quality of the picture on my external monitor, depending on whether I connect using a HDMI cable or a DVI cable? I will have to buy an adapter for each of these, to plug into the mini DVI port on my mac, will this alter the quality of the picture at all? If I were to buy an Apple Tv, would I be able to plug it straight into my monitor using a HDMI cable? If so, how would I manage the audio, as my monitor does not have speakers. Would using a thunderbolt cable (with HDMI adaptor) increase the quality of the picture of my monitor?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4), Apple TV, Thunderbolt, Monitor
Hardware :: External HDD - Finding Guide
Dec 16, 2010Having had a WD MyBook go bad after a couple of years, I am looking for a replacement. One priority is a longer warranty than the weak 1year offered by WD. However, since I fear that all data on this drive is lost, I also want to see if there is a better solution. Is there any advantage to FireWire over USB2.0?
One solution I am considering is an inexpensive NAS drive with two drives setup in a RAID (an example would be the Sabio Storage 2-Bay NAS Enclosure (CM200) - sold by MacMall.) Would this setup be more likely to safeguard my data?
IMac :: Finding Best External Drive?
Sep 12, 2010I've got a Refurbished 2009 27' model. Looking for a snazzy external hard drive for time machine.
Since my iMac has Firewire 800, that's the best route. It's also 2 TB's so that's the storage I'm looking for.
How does this look:
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As iMac users, our time machines are always exterior so let's post 'em here!
Any drives complement the iMac's simplistic design? Feel free to post you time machine here.
Hardware :: Finding External Webcam For Mac Pro?
Sep 15, 2010What would you guys buy as an external webcam for a Mac Pro?
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Jun 4, 2009Im looking to get an external hard drive for the use of time machine when i get my MBP (after wwdc). Ill be getting the one with the 320gb hard drive.
My question is would a 500gb external HDD be ok or would 1TB be better?
I ask this as i dont know how time machine works as to how it stores data, does it store everything you ever have on your computer, so if i filled the HDD 3 times it would be about 1TB.
OS X :: Finding Best External DVD Burner For Leopard
Jun 15, 2009I just bought a new iMac with Mac OS X 10.5 and I wanted to build my own external USB 2.0 DVD burner.
I've heard that people have had problems, but I was wondering if anyone had any success with any specific drive?
Hardware :: Finding 2TB External Hdd Options - Which Is Best
Jul 14, 2009As I only have a MacBook I am looking at Firewire 400 solutions, at least for the main drive, and have narrowed it down to these options:
1) MyBook Home II 2TB - This is the 2TB version of what I have now, so it would become my main drive. My Current one will then become the backup drive, along with the pair of 500GB drives onto which it is currently backed up. [Cost: �196.59]
2) MyBook Studio II 2TB - The same as the above option, except it contains 2x 1TB drives in a RAID 0 configuration. Although stripping offers no resiliency, it is no worse than the single drive solution. [Cost: �195.09]
3) A pair of MyBook Home II 1TB - One would just simply be the backup for the other. [Cost: �185.28]
4) MyBook Home II 1TB plus WD Elements 1TB - As a backup drive the Elements would only be connected when syncing, so I can accept it being USB only. It would be faster to sync than connecting it over the same firewire connection anyway. [Cost: �161.60]
The last option is simply being considered because it is the cheapest. It, along with option 3, is also a 'collect in store' option so I could get it today without waiting on shipping
Otherwise though there is not much price difference between the first three options, I am just not sure which is best way of going: single drive, stripped drives, or physically separate drives?
Option 3 should be more resilient as one drive failure will not affect the other half. But it means another device to plug in, both to the mains and my single firewire connection, and will take up more space.
Incidentally, although I could set the Studio to work in RAID 1 and essentially act as its own backup, I want to be able to keep the backups in a different location to the main drive so this is not an option.
Hardware :: Finding External Desktop Hdd - 1TB
Sep 16, 2009Can anyone recommend a good Mac friendly external HDD.. I am thinking around 1TB. I want to hook it up to my Mini and store my itunes library on it.. also use it as backup for photos etc..
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Feb 2, 2010The features that are really important to me are:Time machine compatibility iTunes server built-in. I would of gone for time capsule except it doesn't support itunes server - i take it that it's still the case regarding time capsule.
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