Laptops :: Time To Change - PC To Mac?
Jan 5, 2010
I'm tired of PCs -- the sluggish out-of-the-box performance that grows worse by the day, the instability, the inability of the system to handle simple programs without freezing; in short, the whole Microsoft dog-and-pony-show fiasco. However, fed up as I am, PCs are my comfort zone. I've resisted looking at Macs because of cost, the potential learning curve associated with a whole new system, and the uncertainty that Mac is really any better. I've used PCs for 10 years. I do not have any interest in how or why computers work -- I just want them to work with minimal effort, just like a car: turn the ignition key, shift into drive, step on the gas, go, step on the brake, stop, do basic maintenance, etc. Should I change and why or why not? What do I need to know when looking for a Mac? Will my current programs, video files, photos, MP3s, documents, etc run on a Mac, or is it a total ground-up change?
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Jan 8, 2009
I currently have a macbook that uses a 320GB Ext HD for Time Machine, a Windows laptop used by the wife and a Windows desktop used for only downloading our pictures to a central location and acting as a print server. We'll be picking up a macbook in the coming weeks and I was thinking about using a 1TB Time Capsule to replace the Windows desktop. all the Windows desktop is used for is file sharing and print server! I want to use the Time Capsule for Time Machine on both laptops as well as a file server. What's the best way to partition the TC drive? I was thinking 3 volumes, one ~250GB for each laptop and a ~500GB for file sharing.
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Mar 17, 2009
apple is sending me a replacement UMBP. I'm keeping the current one until the replacement arrives and then using a time machine backup on the new one. My time machine backup will restore the new laptop with all the old laptops files, programs, preferences, emails, everything as the old laptop's drive was without having to reinstall everything? Correct?I guess I could always swap drives as well, that might be quicker.
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Feb 3, 2010
I have done alot of research. I have never owned a mac. I haven't used on since I graduated from school 5-6 years ago for graphics. I have no desire if I do get one to boot xp on it I find the mac os to look more clean(yeah if that makes since) My current laptop is a sony vaio. I mean I know its not strong enough to handle the adobe programs, I can barely run flash cs4 and photoshop cs4 at the same time. My specs on my current sony vaio which I got like 2 and a half years ago is 0.99 gigs of ram/1.60 ghz/ginuwine intel (r) cpu. I know its nothing compared to today and with more work from clients I need something that can handle running at least 5 of the adobe programs at the same time with the internet browser opened and maybe a mp3 player like jet audio playing some tunes to get some serious work done occasional video editing but nothing too crazy..
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Mar 5, 2010
Using my network mobile account, when I type in my password to login from the screensaver it takes a very long time and then goes back to the screensaver. Actually it takes a long time to accept my password always. Is it possible that it is timing out at the screensaver. If I type in the name and password for the admin account for the local login it works right away. The machine is a macbook pro 2.53 ghz mid 2009 model. it's running 10.5.8.
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May 22, 2008
I am on Tiger 10.4.11 on Mac Book Pro Intel duo. All updates except for Parallels installed. Have run permissions repairs and preferential treatment. Tried to delete preferences for system ... Every time I try to uncheck the box marked or open the Date and Time preferences, it freezes and have to force quit.
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Oct 18, 2009
I have set up my mac mini HDD to run SL and winxp on bootcamp. The time and date in SL is fine, but in xp its not. I tried to change the time but the next time I restart, the time is different again. In PC I can go into bios to change the time but how do I do this with a mac mini?
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Aug 26, 2010
Is it possible to change the default time that comes up when you're entering a New Event. I want all of my first events of the day to be scheduled for 7AM.
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Apr 17, 2009
you would be kind enough to perform the following test and tell me what result you get (it should take five minutes)?
1) login to MyInfo page: [URL]
2) select "Contact Prefs" and set "Preferred Language" to a language different from your country default language
3) Logout (very important)
4) starts iTunes, go in the iTunes Store and connect to view your account (click on your AppleID in the top right corner)
5) select "Edit Payment Information"
6) change nothing, just press Done twice to go back to the iTunes Store
7) login to MyInfo page again:[URL]
8) check if Contact Prefs->Preferred Language was set to your country default
9) come back to this thread and report the result (with your country)
In my case (from Switzerland iTunes Store) my Preferred Language is reset to German each time and it is quite annoying. I've tried to report this to the iTunes Support, but their answer was something like: "we need to test your account." And after having done that:we're happy to tell you that your preferred language is now set to English." Not very useful as you can see.
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Aug 29, 2009
Can I make it shorter so I don't have to hold click in for so long? (Dock expose - shows your open windows for that app)
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Apr 7, 2010
My back up disc all of a sudden won't work with time machine. It is saying read only. I don't know how this happened and now I can't change it back.
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Jul 14, 2010
I didn't use the migration assistant, since I wanted to change some key things. What I did do, was copy some old folders from my old mac to my new mac. Oddly enough, during this change, the permissions on these files got locked. Now, since I'm logged in as admin, I can unlock these files and change the permissions, but there's a lot of items and subfolders within this one folder, that I've had to change them all one by one so far. Is there a way, either through finder, or through the terminal that I can just change every item within the one folder at the same time
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Apr 12, 2012
When I first got my macbook I changed the region the 5 times you are allowed without realising that there was a limit.I had recently got a region 1 DVD and wanted to play it so I kept changing the region to region 1 and it eventually stuck on that. This is a problem because 99% of my DVDs are actually region 2 so I can't watch any of them. I didn't know there was a limit to changing it or I wouldn't have changed and now I feel pretty desperate because it was just a mistake and now I can't watch any of my DVDs on it.
Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010)
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Jul 20, 2009
i Have a a few users that I need to keep as standard users but they travel a lot and they need to constantly change their time zone. i can only seem to do this when a admin username and password is entered. And as such if i leave the computer open mountains of junk gets installes. Is there any workaround for allowing access only to the date/time or even just the timezone pref pane?
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Mar 31, 2009
I am on Tiger 10.4.11 on Mac Book Pro Intel duo. All updates except for Parallels installed. Have run permissions repairs and preferential treatment. Tried to delete preferences for system ...
Every time I try to uncheck the box marked or open the Date and Time preferences, it freezes and have to force quit.
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Apr 1, 2012
My iTunes playlists used to give a precise total play time. Now that I downloaded the new version of iTunes, the playlist just estimates the time. So, "1 hour" could mean 1 hour and 2 or 3 or 4 minutes. That is a big problem for people who teach 60-minute fitness classes! I plan my class around that playlist, and 3 or 4 minutes is a big deal. Now I am having to add up the time of songs by hand. What a pain! Is there any way to get back the old format of time, which estimated exactly "59 minutes" or I think it was more precise, like "00:59:12." I need this format back. The estimate of "1.1 hours" is killing me.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Jun 23, 2012
How can I change time machine settings? I only want Time Machine to backup my Home Folders and the items on the desktop. Currently, it's backing up more files which overwhelm my backup drive. How do I get it to back up Home/Desktop ONLY?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 6, 2014
I've just added a WD My Book 2GB drive as a Time Machine backup drive. It's mounted on my desktop as "My Book" but I'd like to rename it as "Time Machine"
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iMac,OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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Oct 10, 2010
Has anyone figured out how to change the time machine backup interval in SNOW LEOPARD?
i don't want a third party app or anything, i just want to go in terminal or textedit and set a new interval.
for any of you who are going to tell me to modify the com.apple.backupd-auto.plist file. i cant find one, and i believe this is unique to 10.6. there is a regular backupd.plist file, a -wake.plist, and -attach.plist, but none of them list the "start interval" key that i saw.
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Nov 11, 2010
Am i the only one experiencing a delay ex. when listening to music i plug in my earphones and it takes like 5=8 seconds for my macbook air to change from the speakers to earphones. Why?
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May 16, 2009
I used Joe's Apple Script to Time Shift a lot of photos but I interrupted the process and made a mess of things. Is there any way to reverse the process and reset the original time stamp.
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Aug 29, 2009
I just got a new external hard drive (500 gigs), and already backed up my mac once. Now it does it every hour. But I want it to back up like once a day, not 24 times a day. How do I change the back up schedule?
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Jan 17, 2010
I am trying to setup a script where a screenshot is performed. However, every single time the script is run, the file name is the same, not allowing it to save. How can I change file name every time the script is run? Current Script: do shell script "screencapture -i -s -tjpeg ~/Desktop/1.jpg"
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Apr 20, 2009
running OS X 10.5.6 on a macbook. I have been backing up using time machine to my Time Capsule, but would like to start backing up to a firewire drive. When I open up the Time Machine preferences and click change disk, nothing happens.
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Aug 28, 2014
How do you change the name of the Time Machine backup drive? I'm backing up to an external hard drive with name "untitled." I'd like to change name of the drive, but if I physically change the name on the desktop, Time Machine tells me that it cannot find the backup drive.
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Dec 1, 2014
Is there a way to change the notification time of an all-day calendar event using an iCloud calendar?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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Apr 19, 2008
I just bought my first Mac a few weeks back and the switch has been going good but have had one thing that I can't seem to find any info on...
Is it possible to change the boot order on a Mac like in the BIOS on a PC? The reason I ask is that when I have my external hard drive connected the bootup time is slower.
Could this be that the Mac equivalent of the BIOS is doing a quick scan of the hard drive first, looking for an bootable operating system? Or is that extra time just OS X mounting the hard drive?
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Aug 30, 2008
I decided that I need to test my Hard Disk migration procedure today. I am going to put an Apple RAID card in and use 4 x VelociRaptors. I Have my current system booting from a RAID0 setup and as such it will be a pain (in the arse) when it comes to moving the partition to the RAID5 (not much room for disks inside etc). So I searched my cupboard for a 'spare' SATA drive, but alas all I found was an old Seagate Cheetah (15K SCSI) and some random IDE drives. Then it struck me - the Time Capsule has a 500GB SATAII disk in it.... mmmm my mind began to turn over.....and my hand reached for the screwdriver. So I googled for some pics (to help me disassemble the TC). I found this excellent set [URL]
1) remove the rubber base.
2) unscrew all the teeny screws.
3) invert the unit (so its on its top case).
4) lift the metal cover off (carefully as it has a fan mounted to it).
5) pull the foam cover from the heat sensor on the drive.
6) unplug the sensor from the clip on the base of the disk.
7) hand over the drive, invert again to make the disk 'fall' gently out of its casing.
8) un-invert and unplug the SATA data and power connectors.
9) re-assemble the unit.................
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Aug 17, 2010
I have a 2008 macbook, out of warranty. My mac is running os x 10.6.4... I recently updated the laptop through the update section, and this is around the time the errors began. My next stop is perhaps reinstalling the operating system, but have to go out and buy the disc so thought i would check all options first.
It has begun random shutdowns recently, and i have tried checking the ram, checking power supply, removing battery to see if its caused by that, but so far nothing has come up. A mate of mine said sometimes you can work out the problem by looking at the logs to see what is causing the problem... Well, long story cut short,
the log is as follows from when i turned it on this afternoon, till the random shutdown, and then powering it back up again, i put the exact shutdown time in bold.
[I]17/08/10 4:20:33 PMcom.symantec.navapdaemonsl[49](kernel) Kext com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm not found for unload request.
17/08/10 4:20:33 PMcom.symantec.navapdaemonsl[49]Failed to unload com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm - (libkern/kext) not found.
17/08/10 4:20:38 PMcom.apple.WindowServer[65]Tue Aug 17 16:20:38 Courtney--MacBook.local WindowServer[65] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
17/08/10 4:22:02 PMcom.apple.launchd[1]*** launchd[1] has started up. ***
17/08/10 4:22:07 PMcom.apple.launchd[1](com.symantec.Sched501-1.plist) Unknown key: SchedName
17/08/10 4:22:22 PMcom.symantec.navapdaemonsl[45](kernel) Kext com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm not found for unload request.
17/08/10 4:22:22 PMcom.symantec.navapdaemonsl[45]Failed to unload com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm - (libkern/kext) not found.
17/08/10 4:22:32 PMcom.apple.WindowServer[65]Tue Aug 17 16:22:32 Courtney--MacBook.local WindowServer[65] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
17/08/10 4:22:39 PMcom.apple.launchctl.Aqua[87]launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init_per_user.d/com.adobe.SwitchBoard.monitor.plist
17/08/10 4:22:39 PMcom.apple.launchd.peruser.501[85](com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
17/08/10 4:22:48 PMcom.apple.launchd.peruser.501[85](com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[106]) Exited with exit code: 1
17/08/10 4:22:53 PMcom.apple.launchd.peruser.501[85](0x100101e80.mach_init.switchboard.sh) Failed to check-in!
17/08/10 4:23:08 PMMagicMenuHotKeyDaemon[142]Started
17/08/10 4:23:08 PM[0x0-0x11011].com.stuffit.MagicMenu[130]2010-08-17 16:23:08.043 MagicMenuHotKeyDaemon[142:903] Started
17/08/10 4:23:08 PM[0x0-0x13013].com.skype.skype[132]Main starting with pid 132 parent pid 85
17/08/10 4:23:44 PMSkype[132]SkypeApplication::init called
17/08/10 6:34:07 PMSyncServer[144][110f20] |SyncServer|Warning| Refreshing watchdog because of a calendar time change alert.
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Feb 8, 2012
how you change these icons as the usual method of just copying and pasting the image in does not work. Would also like to not have to download an app to be able to do this if possible.Â
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
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