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Sticky: Just got a new Macbook Pro 17 unibody with 8GB...
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Just got a new Macbook Pro 17 unibody with 8GB (MacBookPro5,2).
About this Mac says that I have 8 GB available but in the Activity Monitor, my RAM totals 7.75 GB.
I upgraded from a 17 MacBook...
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Posted by jjs357, on Apr 9, 2010 at 02:48 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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New RAM capacities??
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With all of the pre-announcement notebook speculation, I am surprised that there is no information about maximum RAM in these new units, especially the higher end models.
I am still hoping to see...
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Posted by jjs357, on Oct 14, 2008 at 10:34 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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My mistake -- the extra GB is wasted after all
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1,953 Views / 27 Replies |
Ah...
I did not see that the "Used" number is 1 GB greater than the sum of Wired, Active and Inactive.
So the extra 1 GB is put into the Used final total but is in fact NOT being used.
I...
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Posted by jjs357, on Sep 25, 2008 at 09:00 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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FWIW:
I have a Mac Pro 17 in, Core 2 Duo...
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1,953 Views / 27 Replies |
FWIW:
I have a Mac Pro 17 in, Core 2 Duo 2.33 ghz. When I got it, the supposed max memory was 3 GB and that is how I ordered it from Apple. Memory suppliers of add-on memory for this processor...
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Posted by jjs357, on Sep 25, 2008 at 12:24 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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Safari/Tiger 10.4.11 -- RSS Favicons missing
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There used to be a favicon that Safari used for RSS URLs (feed://...) that was different than the default favicon: a blue globe. It was a grey rectangle.
Now after updating to 10.4.11 and the...
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Posted by jjs357, on Nov 19, 2007 at 11:12 AM, in macOS |
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Networking Mac and PC via serial link
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I am looking for info on using a direct serial connection (e.g. as provided by a keyspan 19HS usb serial adaptor) to establish a ppp connection through to a serial port (COM1) on the windows box. I...
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Posted by jjs357, on Oct 2, 2006 at 08:48 AM, in Networking |
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I had this grey rectantangle appear after I...
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I had this grey rectantangle appear after I migrated from my 1.5 ghz Alu Powerbook to my new Macbook Pro. I traced it to a funny interaction from Winswitch that got migrated over from the older...
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Posted by jjs357, on Apr 27, 2006 at 01:21 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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Just noticed that in my Al Powerbook (1.5Ghz/1GB)...
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Just noticed that in my Al Powerbook (1.5Ghz/1GB) running OS X 10.4.1 that the backlighting controls are no longer operative. They were operative under Panther and I did not check whether they worked...
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Posted by jjs357, on Jun 6, 2005 at 10:44 PM, in macOS |
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I noticed today that the option to remove a...
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I noticed today that the option to remove a message from the server when "moved from Inbox" no longer works for me -- I check my mail account on verizon with their web interface and after I remove a...
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Posted by jjs357, on Feb 25, 2005 at 05:25 PM, in Applications |
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Re: another vote for crashreporter
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I disabled crashreporter on Saturday and then had the same ole freeze on Sunday.
Had iTunes open streaming a radio station to my home stereo via Airport Express from my tiBook 1ghz which is part...
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Posted by jjs357, on Aug 16, 2004 at 08:41 AM, in macOS |
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Fire 1.03 is out and fixes the Yahoo...
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Fire 1.03 is out and fixes the Yahoo authentication problem I reported recently.
Nice to see a rapid solution to this problem.
Although Yahoo is on record that it will change its protocol at...
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Posted by jjs357, on Jun 25, 2004 at 10:18 PM, in Applications |
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Re: Fire update!
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Also using 0.32h. Was working well for me for months.
Today after working earlier in the day, fire now cannot make a connection to Yahoo. Says it can't initialize a connection. It does connect to...
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Posted by jjs357, on Jan 9, 2004 at 12:23 AM, in Applications |
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Yes, I did install the X11 SDK.
I did try...
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Yes, I did install the X11 SDK.
I did try the selfupdate option to fink and that did seem to fetch a bunch of sources and do a long build but I figured I would try a clean binary install and go...
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Posted by jjs357, on Nov 19, 2003 at 01:54 AM, in Applications |
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I can also report networking wierdness.
Here...
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I can also report networking wierdness.
Here is what I just sent to the macwindows.com site moderator John Rizzo:
I am having 2 problems with Windows networking.
1. For my office network,...
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Posted by jjs357, on Oct 27, 2003 at 03:34 PM, in macOS |
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But does it work on Panther?
I downloaded...
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But does it work on Panther?
I downloaded it, put it in the Preference Panes folder, and used System Preferences to set it up.
I see that the "extension" is not loaded and to click a button to...
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Posted by jjs357, on Oct 26, 2003 at 09:23 PM, in macOS |
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Problems with Windows Shared Networking and Panther
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I posted a little note on this to another topic, but perhaps since Panther is (soon to be) officially released, and the problem is an annoying regression from my experiences with Jaguar, I took the...
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Posted by jjs357, on Oct 24, 2003 at 04:07 PM, in macOS |
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I just installed Panther using the archive option...
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I just installed Panther using the archive option and I am noticing that the network icon in the finder is NOT giving me a list of network shares. I did use the Directory Access program to make sure...
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Posted by jjs357, on Oct 24, 2003 at 11:27 AM, in macOS |
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1.2.8 quitting again
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I am using weather.com for 3 cities.
Since yesterday, meteo (1.2.8) is quitting unexpectedly. I suspect something in the weather.com data is not what meteo expects.
This happens periodically.
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Posted by jjs357, on May 20, 2003 at 02:36 PM, in Applications |
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1.2.6 beta still giving menu freeze problems
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I reported earlier about menu freeze and the console message like the following:
2003-03-22 12:41:47.923 Meteorologist[1565] *** NSTimer ignoring exception 'NSCharacterConversionException' (reason...
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Posted by jjs357, on Mar 22, 2003 at 01:46 PM, in Applications |
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Another Freeze Report with console message
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I was using the 1.2.5 release quite normally until tonight when I see the icon in the menu bar but I can't pull the menu down. In the system console I see the message:
2003-03-19 21:08:52.923...
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Posted by jjs357, on Mar 19, 2003 at 10:17 PM, in Applications |
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I think I have identified a factor in my...
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I think I have identified a factor in my annoyance with the fan(s) and fan noise on my new Ti 1Ghz/1 Gig Ram/Superdrive which I have been using since Dec. 3.
I first reported in a previous post...
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Posted by jjs357, on Dec 10, 2002 at 01:48 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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Another data point on the fan issue.
My Ti...
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Another data point on the fan issue.
My Ti "superbook" (1 Ghz, 1 Gig RAM, Superdrive) arrived yesterday. It was ordered on Nov. 6 and was one of the batch of machines that shipped from Taiwan late...
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Posted by jjs357, on Dec 4, 2002 at 11:16 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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Count me as another worried and waiting Ti...
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Count me as another worried and waiting Ti Superbook buyer. Mine is on the same shipment as the one reported by others recently (stuck in Anchorage at the moment). Eventual delivery to Philadelphia...
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Posted by jjs357, on Dec 2, 2002 at 02:41 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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I am running X 10.0.3 on a Pismo with 640megs of...
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I am running X 10.0.3 on a Pismo with 640megs of RAM.
I sometime use a dual monitor set-up and discover that to initially enable
dual monitor use I needed to re-start with an external monitor...
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Posted by jjs357, on Jun 1, 2001 at 11:44 PM, in macOS |
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