Mac Forum / General / General / March 2008

I have read that other people seem to be having a similar problem, but
here's my setup.  I have a PB G4 running 10.4.? (don't remember), an
Intel MacBook running 10.4.?, and an Intel MacBook Pro running
10.5.2.  Only the Pro has very slow upload speeds.  I tested at

I've got a new MacBook Pro with the standard issue two gigs of RAM.
Increasing the amount of RAM seems easy enough, but, as a newcomer to
MACs and the MAC OS, I'm not sure what the advantages would be of going
to four gigs of RAM, as I have no knowledge of how the MAC addresses ...

In the past couple of months, it seemed to me that I was hearing the
fan on my 1 year old MacBook Pro running more and more. Now, it is
seldom quiet.
Just to make sure it was the fan I was hearing, I sat the computer on

I have a fairly recent "Santa Rosa" Mac, the one about
a year old, an Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of ram.
Suddenly did not want to come out of sleep, black screen
when I pressed the shift key, repeatedly.

Using Leopard on a Macbook: I just downloaded two folders from the web. They
reside in the Downloads folder. Both have timestamps of today. One is
highlighted in blue, the other in purple. Why are they highlighted as such?
Can I define hightlight criteria for folders when viewed in ...

Intel iMac 10.5.2.
Just trying to copy a folder n from the internal drive to a backup
drive. I own the folder. I own the backup drive. The error message
reads "The item 'n' contains one or more busy items that cannot be

This is from Business week:
Apple's design process
Posted by: Helen Walters on March 08
Interesting presentation at SXSW from Michael Lopp, senior engineering

I'm a new black macbook user and I'm trying retain video to an external
DVI_D monitor when the lid is closed (along with USB keyboard and mouse
control). How can I achieve this?
Regards,

I installed Airfoil and Airport Express as a client. All of a sudden
my printer (Brother MCN420) on the USB won't work. At first I couldn't
even find it on System Pref and when I wanted to print. Now (after
reloading the driver) I can find the printer and when I try to print, it

FINALLY, just got my shipping notice, the new
"MacSpeech Dictate" is on the way here by 2nd day air.
I ordered it from MacMall, in early February.
Total cost $218.61 but that includes $13.63 sales tax,

I'm trying to use Unison on a new MacBook and it wants my
network password.  I have no such password that I can remember ... didn't
write one down and I write down everything!   When I use net news via
Outlook Express on my Dell I don't need a password.  I've tried every

Whenever I double click on an image file icon it opens in Preview, which is
annoying, since I can't do much with the image in that program.
How can I set things up so that image files open in Photoshop?
Thanks,

Is it possible to upgrade the hard drive in an iMac?

Before I run CCC and possibly do something unreversable I have to ask :
If I run CCC from disk A to copy its disk image to disk B,
will the operation replace the entire contents of disk B with the image
of disk A  or will it just write an image file of disk A on disk B

Now that Leopard has proven to be the best OS that Apple, or any other
software company has created, and given the ever increasing market share
numbers, is this notion of trying to prove that it's the better choice
even necessary?