Many people have noticed problems with the new trackpad not registering clicks. Although i had not experienced this myself, Apple decided that action was required.
Last night an update was distributed. It was quick and simple and, reportedly, fixes the problems.
Recently, i was given the task of installing OSX Leopard on an old eMac. Unfortunately, this old eMac didn’t have a DVD drive.
While searching for a solution, i found a tidbit of information about sharing a DVD drive using Target Disk Mode. The plan would be to place a second Mac in target disk mode and then place a DVD in the drive of the second Mac. This would then be accessible to the first Mac. However, upon experimentation, i found that this didn’t work.
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Newer laptop Mac’s by default use ‘Safe Sleep’. This means that when you put your Mac to sleep, it writes the contents of RAM out to the hibernation file before going to sleep. This means that if it completely runs out of power (or you remove the battery to swap it) you wont lose your work, because it will automatically have gone into hibernation.
However, this takes time, particularly if you have a large amount of RAM, and during this time the hard drive is still spinning - and writing data. If you want your Mac to go to sleep straight away and don’t care about losing the ’safe’-ness of your sleep mode, you can change your hibernation mode using this terminal command:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
Before doing this, you might want to check what your current hibernation mode is:
pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
By default it will either be 3 (Safe Sleep) or 7 (Safe Sleep if you have secure virtual memory enabled).
Now your Mac should go to sleep much quicker.
While look around the tech specs for my new MacBook Pro, i noticed this listed under the audio section.
Now i’m wondering if this is the same stereo headset that comes with the iPhone. If it is, that’s really cool.
At the Apple Event earlier, Apple released some new notebooks.
I’ve ordered mine. This will be my first Intel Mac and i’m hoping that this will satisfy my needs. I’ve gone for the top of the range except that the hard drive size is 250 gigabytes, instead of the 320. I don’t need that much space, i have external drives for that.