hondacity Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 why disappointed with the airport extreme? can you pair a couple of them to spread more signal within your house? can you use a repeater from another vendor? Quote Link to comment
boomouse Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 (edited) Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse Quote Link to comment
shadowspy Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 (edited) yeah the mac mini is definitely much cheaper...costs only 43k pesos but has lower specs (2 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM). hmmmm... anyone here knows a Mac equivalent for WinSCP? I tried Fugu but it doesn't fit my tasks. A better alternative is Coda but it's free for 14 days only. License costs $70 plus it still has some quirks (timestamp of files can't be immediately seen. must use Get Info first). thanks for your help. Edited March 10, 2008 by shadowspy Quote Link to comment
zuriken Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 for the record i do sell around 5-10 units of macbook and macbook pro a month..... maraming mac user na nag sabi na maraming kulang sa macbook air napakamahal pa.... kia pride? BMW? duh??? isa ka na nga sa mayabang na user... by the way even asus EEE pag nasa starbucks ako kasabay ang may mac mas marami nagtatanong sakin at lumalapit kung san ko nabili... pero sinasabi ko sa kanila ako nagbebenta for 18K. dude same processor, same chipset kahit sa OS lang nagkaiba! O.S. lang nagkaiba...tara meet tayo pakita ko sayo macbook pro ko at macbook ko pati mga binebenta ko... by the way.... ok sakin kung gagamitin mo yung mac sa photo and video editing... and by the way! you can USE MAC LEOPARD OS on a core2duo PC or laptop! way cheaper than your mac.... pero syempre di ko sinasabi sa client yun. hehehehhe. OS at itsura lang pinagkaiba nyan hindi specs.... saka ingat din kayo may mga hacker narin sa mac... magugulat nalang kayo napalitan na name nung hardrive nyo... di ko sinisiraan ang mac... ang akin lang e pag bibili ka ng mac wag magyayabang kung pang internet at pang show off mo lang... bilib ako sa mga photographer, videographer, music engineer at mga it professional na nagagamit yung mac on full potential... iba kasi ang FANBOI sa mac user alone... Uy! Gusto ko yang sinasabi mo. Leopard OS sa PC. turo mo naman pleeease. I have an old 1st gen iMac G5 and 2 PC's. What I truly hate talaga sa PC is not the hardware, dahil wala naman talaga problema. I use all of my machines for design and layout using photoshop. The Windows OS is so palpak. parang habang ginagamit mo lalong bumabagal, so you always have to reformat the hard drive lalo na pag na hijack na. Yun nga ang hinahanap ko sana may OS X na tatakbo sa PC. I'm willing to pay naman. Di ko pa kasi kaya magupgrade sa Macbook, kaya gamit na gamit pa rin si iMac at si Centrino. Dun sa mga show off na sa totoo lang e mga bobo sa computer, e bad yan. Peace! :upside: Let me add pala, Buy a macbook air if you have lots of cash to spare for a second laptop. yun lang. sa mga mac-users, makinig din kayo lagi sa podcast ni leo laporte. marami kayo matutuhan, para hindi kayo basta bili ng bili ng gadgets. baka mabili niyo e obsolete agad. dagdag na electronic waste yan. Quote Link to comment
zuriken Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Yes, by my estimation you are looking at spending about P25k to P30k more for a Macbook-based solution by just giving away some portability convenience. I would go witht he Mini and just use the money to buy the RAM and storage. Microsoft keyboards and mice are good products. I would not worry about it. I have not seen any stocks of Time Capsule in Manila yet. It also got my attention when Apple announced that it had a 'server-grade' hard disk inside but according to some groups that have looked at the hardware, 'server-grade' may be a term that is used with a bit of a stretch. I too am an Airport Extreme user, having used it to replace a dLink wireless router but I have not been having any problems with it. Perhaps it is because I just use it as an access point and not as a router. Routing tasks at home are handled by a Cisco 2622 hand-me-down unit from my business. I think that if the Airport would bog down it will do so while doing the routing and the DHCP and the NAT. Perhaps if you give more detail about what problems you have been getting… I did some backreading. and i'm impressed with sir boomouse technical know how :thumbsupsmiley: , baka matulungan mo rin ako sir. I recently purchased the new adobe creative suite cs3 web edition and plan to install it to my existing Power iMac G5. May nakainstall dito na adobe creative suite cs2. Yung dating config ng iMac g5 ko before i upgraded it with a 160 gb hard drivemay nakakabit na creative suite cs, then i installed a new creative suite2, nagkagulo ang mga programs ko. hindi ma-access ng photoshop cs2 yung font directory. so i ended up still using the old cs versions. pinagtiyagaan ko for a year na ganon, after that i upgraded the 80 gig hard drive to a 160 gig. and the guys at senco link did a fresh install of OS X tiger and adobe cs2. Gusto ko iinstall tong adobe cs3, takot ako na i might mess up the system again. thanks Quote Link to comment
boomouse Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 (edited) Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse Quote Link to comment
zuriken Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 First, your font access problem sounds like it is a 'permissions-related' issue. How many user accounts in the computer? Usually, this problem happens if one app is installed under one account and another app in a different account. Please details what you mean when you say fonts cannot be accessed. You mean the fonts do not appear in the menu even when you know they are there? You may have duplicate fonts. Check also if there are fonts in the application folder. You should only have fonts in the library although apps from Adobe could and would access fonts it can see in the application folder too--an Adobe trait from the 1980s. Your fonts should only be in /user/library/fonts. Check also that in the hard disk migration process that you do not have more than one library folder and/or more than one fonts folder. Do a Spotlight search of the adobe fonts you are having problems with and check if there is more than one instance in your HD. As for your CS3, is it the universal binary version that is PPC and Intel? ------------------------- On another note, I saw the Macbook Air in the Greenbelt Applecenter. The price is almost P95,000.00. It is really magnificanet to look at in its thinness and yet feels solid to carry around. The price tag is just a shade under what I just paid for an MBP though so I had to pause and think about it--and scrambled to get out the place. Baka bigla akong manggigil… Definitely, this is one laptop designed for a particular kind of user. It is one hell of a look-at-me device and an effective way of demonstrating ascendancy over others. Hindi na utility and functionality pinaguusapan dito. Image, street cred, and reputation are the factors that are in play when considering the purchase of this computer. thanks for the advice sir, will do and post my feedback, the adobe cs3 i got is the universal version. there is only one user account in my computer. i was thinking of uninstalling the whole creative suite cs2, kaya lang mawawala yung adobe in-design, which i'm always using, ( di ako marunong mag-illustrator , he he he). tama ka rin sa comments mo sa macbook air, for that price tag it is definitely for a particular user. for me, looking for more functionality i would go for the new iMac or a Macbook. mukahang mas marami akong magagawa dun. maybe get mine at best buy much cheaper, pasabay na lang sa uuwi dito sa pinas'.thanks again :thumbsupsmiley: Quote Link to comment
boomouse Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 (edited) Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse Quote Link to comment
lemon Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I have not seen any stocks of Time Capsule in Manila yet. It also got my attention when Apple announced that it had a 'server-grade' hard disk inside but according to some groups that have looked at the hardware, 'server-grade' may be a term that is used with a bit of a stretch. I too am an Airport Extreme user, having used it to replace a dLink wireless router but I have not been having any problems with it. Perhaps it is because I just use it as an access point and not as a router. Routing tasks at home are handled by a Cisco 2622 hand-me-down unit from my business. I think that if the Airport would bog down it will do so while doing the routing and the DHCP and the NAT. Perhaps if you give more detail about what problems you have been getting…not in manila yet probably but it's now available in cebu, davao and cagayan de oro. my airport extreme doesn't bog down just that it's signal is really line-of-sight, i can't get it thru 2 walls which an ordinary dlink access point easily penetrated. i use it just the same, not thru those walls though as i had hoped. as for timecapsule, it's the "server-grade" harddisk that interests me also but i was hoping it will have an improvement on signal strength from the airport extreme and allow me to avoid heeding a friend's advice to just tear down those bloody walls. Quote Link to comment
boomouse Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 (edited) Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse Quote Link to comment
abiakak Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 options you can do: 1. try to change the channel. eg. channel 6.2. do not use 802.11 N or Pre N. Stick with 802.11 B or G. Pre N and N, USUALLY, interferes with some or most wireless devices like phones (not mobile phones) and the likes.3. as boomouse said, use 2.4GHz (used by A, B, G) and NOT 5GHz (mostly used by Pre N and N).4. and don't use mix technology. stick with just one. eg. if your wireless card supports 802.11G, your airport should stick with stick with G. that would give you better throughput, too.5. check the Transmit Power of your airport (if it is available as an option). set it to 100% in case it's set to a lower power. normally, the wireless transmitter operates at 100% power. in some circumstances, however, there might be a need to isolate specific frequencies to a smaller area. by reducing the power of the radio, you can prevent transmissions from reaching beyond your corporate/home office or designated wireless area. Quote Link to comment
boomouse Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 (edited) Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse Quote Link to comment
lemon Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 thanks, guys. will try these suggestions. some i have done already but i will revisit them again. i will let you know if the walls are still there when i'm done. and do let me know how the timecapsule compares once you get your hands on it. cheers! Quote Link to comment
serpentor_ph Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 (edited) My mac is starting to get dirty, especially on the arm rest area. any suggestions on how to clean this up ? Edited March 12, 2008 by serpentor_ph Quote Link to comment
djrs Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 My mac is starting to get dirty, especially on the arm rest area. any suggestions on how to clean this up ? magic eraser.. Quote Link to comment
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