Upgraded my Macbook with a bigger disk: from an 80gb Toshiba MK8034GSX drive (with which it came delivered) to a (secondhand) 320gb Hitachi HTS543232L9A300 (what’s in a name…). Long live diskspace! ;)
And thanks to Carbon Copy Cloner the migration was painless.
I’m currently trying to get Linux (Debian Sid) working on my MacBook… it’s installed, but still needs lots of tweaking.
Most of the things work out of the box, except the things listed below:
Specific things that work (after tweaking):
Things that need to work still:
Sources I’m using at the moment:
I’ll write a detailed post on this later… when I’m not uberly lazy ;)
After they screwed a screw in my previous repair, it’s back again. I’ve checked it, nothing’s loose, everything seems to be in order. Let’s hope it is!
Grmble.
Yesterday I picked up my macbook, which recently returned from repair, and a screw fell out. wtf?
I checked, you can’t tighten it, seems the internal socket where the screw is supposed to be set in is broken/missing. Way to go Apple. You’re definitely scoring points on this one… negative points.
I took it back to the dealer, they’re going to send it back to Apple.
Fuck.
I put it in for repair after hairline cracks started appearing in the front bezel and on the bottom.
Apple replaced the complete shell, so now it stinks new again :p
I finally (well, no, I got the answer from my thread on mac-forums.com) found how to type spanish characters on Mac OS X (thanks to the wonderful Study Spanish site):
To get accents on the Mac, hold down the Option key, and while holding it down, type the letter e; then release those keys and type the letter that you want the accent to appear on:
á = Opt + e, then a
é = Opt + e, then e
í = Opt + e, then i
ó = Opt + e, then o
ú = Opt + e, then uFor the ñ, hold down the Option key while you type the n; release and type n again.
ñ = Opt + n, then nTo place the diaeresis over the u, hold down the Option key while pressing the u key; release and type u again.
ü = Opt + u, then uThe inverted punctuation marks are achieved as follows:
¡ = Opt + 1
¿ = Opt + shift + ?
Handy, finally I’m able to type those things instead of using the Character Palette / Keyboard Viewer!
Yesterday I went to FEM Computer Systems in Aalst, Belgium - a local computer store that sells PC’s and Apple stuff. After my wonderful time in another store, I was kinda weary, but for nothing :) The service is great, they treat people like they should be treated :)
So, after half an hour, I walked out with a paper with the following lines (of an order) on it:
Item # MACBOOK DC2/2.00/SD/QWNL APPLE 1.00 MEMORY 1024MB IMACINTEL 1.8/2.0 KINGSTON 2.00 MEMORY 512MB IMACINTEL 1.8/2.0 KINGSTON -2.00
And today, around 11:50, they called to let me know that the machine is ready! Wheeeeeeeeeee! And VERY fast!
Too bad that I’ve got to work until 19:00 today, and the shop closes at 18:00… so well, picking it up tomorrow :D
Since I sold my trusty 3-year old Acer Travelmate 803, I was going to go and look in some stores for new laptops. Hopping around in Ghent, I walked off to the Fnac, noted the offers there (nothing that really drew my attention), and then to the Switch computer store (an authorized mac reseller). Their non-mac offerings are not too great (you can better go to another store), so I waited my turn at the counter, and when it was my time I asked for some more information about Macs and Mac OS X.
The usual fliers changed hands, and then I was offered a demo of the OS. Always nice, gives you a better insight into things, so I agreed.
Mistake. I’ve never been treated this badly in any store. You shouldn’t assume your customers are gullible children you can talk to in a way you’d talk to a 3-year old. That’s just not done. And I can’t stand it either..
So I walked out that minute, they can stuff their offers where the sun doesn’t shine!
(I have to say, Mac OS X looks damn spiffy…)
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