Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / September 2006

Hiya all! :o)
I hear you've been talking to my dad (T i m) on here, poor you... :oP
This is my first posting to a newsgroup of any description so I thought
you looked like a friendly bunch to start off with :D

Anyone know (or know where to find) the speaker wattages for the iBook
G4, MacBook and MacBook Pro?
I'm wondering how much louder the new machines are, compared to mine.
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I've just ordered a FireWire hard drive which, on opening the box, turns out
to be USB 2.0 only. It's the seller's undisputed mistake, and they've offered
to swap, but their price for the FireWire model is *much* higher.
So... for Final Cut Pro work, is there likely to be much ...

I've wanted to digitise (and then get rid of) my old collection of
vinyl records and cassette tapes for some time but was put off the
procedure involved. I have a G5 iMac.
I've just come across an interesting USB thingy made by a Terratec that

Hi Friends,
So, the wife and I sung 'Happy Birthday' and when we were finished the
16yr old said .. "you do know my birthday was two weeks ago ... " ..
Then I handed her a Mac keyboard and mouse and said "you wanted

I took my MacBook to work today just for IT to install XP Pro under
Parallels.
Anyway I've got it home & booted into OS X & the display is all weird,
like a negative but with all wild colours!

I'm off to google as I'm sure there's a million answers to this but to
make it a million and a few more...
I'm looking for something cheap and simple but also reliable to backup
my Mac.

So we all know HIV (also known as the gay disease) is caused by fags.
What is the other deadly killer? Cancer
Cancer is basically, at a molecular level, when cell replication goes
absolutely nuts and cells proliferate at an exponential rate

I just thought I'd let you know I (think I've) gone for a new:
Mac Mini 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo for £399 from John Lewis.
I could have bought a 'refurb' Single for £309 or the dual for £419.
The reason I went for JL is because 1) it's 'new' (this is sorta a

Inspired by a response to my other poll, how about this?
If all iPods had the same capacity for the same price, which would you buy?
Full size, nano or shuffle?
I'd buy a nano. I have a full size simply because the (real) nanos don't

iphoto garage band etc etc

Friday, and there are massive updates to ilife including iphoto yet
still nothing on the "coming this week" aperture :(
DC

It is a Universal app:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/
misc/messenger60_download.xml>
It
doesn't have A/V support *yet* but they're working on it.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article362151.ece
Human rights groups have condemned the "barbaric" murder of a
14-year-old boy, who, according to witnesses, was shot on his doorstep
by Iraqi police for the apparent crime of being gay.

Made me laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8L39UwOS-Y
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