Mac Forum / General / General / September 2007

Possibly missed in the midst of the iMac and software announcements
today is the news that the Mac Mini now runs the Core 2 Duo processor,
which makes it a 64 bit computer.

and except for minor troubles wrestling Airport to the ground, the only
problem I am having is that the writing on the Samsung monitor isn't as
sharp as it was on the original MBP. Is there a preference I can use to
change this, should I try reinstalling the drivers, or is there ...

I just bought an eMac running Panther.  At times the mouse  will freeze or
the screen will seem to blur as in motion.  I am unable to force quit the
application I am working on.  I can only work for about 15 minutes before I
notice this condition.  I did a restore of the system ...

In How do MacBooks scale up?
Gerry wrote:

Anyone know of any open source alternatives to Mathematica? It just
plain costs too much.
TIA

Just got my company to purchase a new iMac. It looks like the new
aluminum iMacs don't have the magnetic docking for the Apple remote. Is
there no clever remote docking?

I'm working with a CD-based Chinese-Language program (Rosetta Stone).
When I do a particular especially common exercise, I find that the CD
drive almost always spins down the CD drive several seconds before I'm
ready to get it to check my answer, for which it spins the drive up

I need to buy several desktops for my business and am thinking of
switching to Mac. First I want to replace my current 3-year-old Dell.
What I am looking for is a computer that will run fast, with minimal
fan noise, will let me run 4 monitors at once, and that will let me

As most knowledgeable BootCamp users know, it is a real PITA to back up
and restore a Vista partition on their Mac.
Even the Vista NGs abound with horror tales about standard backup
utilities not doing the job.

For some reason my Kingston DataTraveler DT1/1GB (http://
www.kingston.com/flash/datatraveler.asp) doesn't mount when I insert
it.
However, Growl recognizes it and tells me:

So-- i've only had this MacBook for 3 days now, and i've had an icon
disappear...!!!
this bug seemed to be fairly well documented in many previous
generations of Mac OS's but wasn't this OSX supposed to be rewritten

I'm running iTunes 7.3.2 (6) on OS X 10.4.10.
I recently received a newly burned audio CD (AIFF format) containing a
recording of my grandparents (i.e., it's not a commercial CD).
When popped the CD and opened iTunes, I found it strange that the disk

Greetings All,
I'm running a Macbook Pro, OS X 10.4.10. I recently downloaded Epson's
drivers for my printer (Epson CX4800) - they come as an Installer Vise
pgm. When I tried to run it the execution icon bounced a few times in

Don't know if my title was clear or not. I have an all-Mac network at
home (a B&W G3 running 10.3 with a USB laser printer hooked up and two
G4 ibooks running 10.4). They're all connected on a wireless network and
can print to the printer connected to the B&W.

I'm running 10.4.10 on an iBook G4.
I was using Onyx to handle the scheduled maintenance task when it told
me that the HD needed to be repaired. So I tried to boot from the OS X
(10.4.2) install disc so I could run Disk Utility. I get stuck in a