Lotso
Aug 14, 12:59 PM
I went into the Irvine Spectrum store last Thursday and they had 32gigs. Picked one up on the spot. Best Buy and Radio Shack are still waiting for theirs.
Mission Viejo had 32's and 16's. I got mine a few days ago. :D I was surprised at how many they got because At least 10 people were in line ahead of me.
Mission Viejo had 32's and 16's. I got mine a few days ago. :D I was surprised at how many they got because At least 10 people were in line ahead of me.
benhollberg
Mar 11, 02:16 PM
Any word on a buying limit? I was originally buying one for my wife and me, but my dad just called from St. George who preordered with Simply Mac. They just told him they don't expect their stock now until the end of next week, so I'll be trying to buy 3 now.
Limit is two.
Limit is two.
NessMudkip
Sep 2, 04:33 AM
Will do, thanks.
macdatadrive
Apr 30, 02:43 AM
I agree. Most likely it is the hard drive. The blinking folder with the question mark is when it cannot find a bootable version of Mac OS X to boot from. Boot from the install disc and use disk utility. As you said, a hard drive shouldn't be too dear unless you get like a say 320GB solid state drive (hehe...)
Good luck with that old Mac.
Good luck with that old Mac.
benhollberg
Mar 14, 09:41 PM
Has anybody heard about the possible early opening of Apple stores tomorrow? Rumor is that they will open at 9:00am. The store at The Gateway wont confirm this though...
I have called multiple times. Every time they say the usual 10:00 PM opening. I plan on calling again later.
I have called multiple times. Every time they say the usual 10:00 PM opening. I plan on calling again later.
madmaxmedia
Feb 15, 04:19 PM
I was thinking about this the other day- scanning work documents to archive on my computer. Plain text can be scanned in B&W, such that PDF's of your documents are very manageable in size- under 100 kb. For most business documents, I think this would be fine (or maybe 4-bit grayscale.)
It would be great if you had an OCR that automatically generated a PDF file with both the original scanned 'image', and the OCR results. This way you'd have both in a single file, and could toss the original knowing you could correct for OCR mistakes later. Of course, these documents would also be Spotlightable.
Xerox has a scanner which seems to be more focused on text documents rather than images. It has a document feeder, seems fast, and I think it's within your budget (I'm an ignorant American so I'm no sure ;))
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10355605&loc=101&hdwt=30901&sp=1
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,114941,00.asp
http://reecewilton.tripod.com/blog/2004_04_01_reecew_archive.html
It would be great if you had an OCR that automatically generated a PDF file with both the original scanned 'image', and the OCR results. This way you'd have both in a single file, and could toss the original knowing you could correct for OCR mistakes later. Of course, these documents would also be Spotlightable.
Xerox has a scanner which seems to be more focused on text documents rather than images. It has a document feeder, seems fast, and I think it's within your budget (I'm an ignorant American so I'm no sure ;))
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10355605&loc=101&hdwt=30901&sp=1
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,114941,00.asp
http://reecewilton.tripod.com/blog/2004_04_01_reecew_archive.html
VegasMac
Feb 22, 06:35 AM
Thanks guys I just purchased one can't wait to get it. Thread may end now.
celaurie
Dec 31, 02:27 AM
Sorry, but this sucks. I don't like the multi-themed colour layout nor do I like this explosion of what feels like disorganized text jumping out of the screen at me.
It also seems that commercial aspects of the site are now more important than the site itself, given the priority advertising space has.
It also seems that commercial aspects of the site are now more important than the site itself, given the priority advertising space has.
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-BigMac-
May 4, 05:51 AM
The future, with Lion being released fairly soon, looks to contain 6xxx series GFX cards so hold on with the upgrading till it arrives.
Thanks a lot for the advice :) i will wait.. just a few months now right? :P
Thanks a lot for the advice :) i will wait.. just a few months now right? :P
qbricc
Mar 10, 12:48 PM
Sorry my question was unclear. Currently I would have to have two copies of any vinyl recordings. One in 24bit/96khz and the other in a format that will play on iPads/iPhone/iPod.
With streaming I only need one copy and would like to keep it like that and have music on my mobile device.
I don't think this is possible unless anyone has found a way (apart from only just having CD quality format).
With streaming I only need one copy and would like to keep it like that and have music on my mobile device.
I don't think this is possible unless anyone has found a way (apart from only just having CD quality format).
ravenvii
Aug 7, 10:04 PM
I was digging on Wikipedia and other sources. I must have missed the part where Microsoft either sold or kept their stocks. I couldn't find hard evidence that they truly sold it. If they own 1/100 of a percent, then they are just keeping a light leash for some corporate reason.
Microsoft sold all of their Apple shares a long time ago.
Microsoft sold all of their Apple shares a long time ago.
iPunish901
Nov 7, 01:43 PM
Please can I have the link to this wallpaper
http://wallbase.net/wallpaper/512792
http://wallbase.net/wallpaper/512792
GGJstudios
Apr 27, 09:43 AM
I prefer artwork of higher quality than that which iTunes automatically downloads. I recommend adding artwork manually, using sites such as Album Art Exchange (http://www.albumartexchange.com/covers.php), as well as searching with Google. Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes (http://dougscripts.com/itunes/) is a great resource for managing your iTunes tags and files, and has a script to quickly identify which tracks lack artwork: Tracks Without Artwork to Playlist v3.3 (http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=trackswithoutartwork)
simsaladimbamba
Apr 29, 08:27 AM
no
No to what question? The first or the second (the second can't be done without the first)?
Can you post screenshots (http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X) and attach it here?How to attach an image to your MR post. (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=11836587#post11836587)
No to what question? The first or the second (the second can't be done without the first)?
Can you post screenshots (http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X) and attach it here?How to attach an image to your MR post. (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=11836587#post11836587)
gkarris
Oct 26, 03:17 PM
I'm in the front of the line at the Deer Park store, can I expect anyone else? :p
:p You may be the only one. I talked about it in the State St. store thread and people are like, "what Deer Park store???" :eek:
:p You may be the only one. I talked about it in the State St. store thread and people are like, "what Deer Park store???" :eek:
XIII
Sep 24, 02:30 PM
Thanks asif. From what some others have said, Infinite Loop is good, so I have that on order from the States. Once I've read it, I'll swap it with Apple Confidential with you maybe? :) Thanks for the offer.
Clix Pix
Dec 19, 12:27 PM
Ooh, I like this! I think it's neat just as it is, not animated, although it would be interesting to see what you could do with that, too.
OTB
OTB
JollyJoeJoe
Apr 23, 05:01 AM
The card only comes with fan-out cables (SFF-8087 to 4i*SATA/SAS ends; 1x per SFF-8087 port, so in the case of the ARC-1880ix12, it will come with 3x of them).
In theory, you could order the version of the Maxupgrades kit without the MiniSAS cable, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to go ahead and get it (it may be shorter, as those that come with the Areca are 0.5 meters in length). Assuming the cable with the kit is shorter, it won't be as messy as a longer cable could be in terms of routing (those that have used that particular kit haven't mentioned it was a mess that I recall).
You won't need any other cabling to connect the card to the HDD bays (it all comes in the MaxUpgrades kit).
If you want to use an internal port with an external enclosure, there's a special cable you'd need to get for this. If you want to use the external port (keep in mind, this typically shares ports with an internal connector in past models, such as the 1680 series), you'd need to buy one. Either way, these do not come with the card, and you'd only need to get them if you're planning on running an external enclosure/s.
BTW, stick to 1.0 meters or less with SATA disks (1.0 m tends to be the shortest you can get off the shelf, but other lengths are possible via a custom order - I've done this before), and do not use the PCI bracket mount adapters to take internal to external cables (results in instability due to contact resistance - been through this battle before). These adapters are meant to be used with SAS, which runs at a much higher signal voltage (20V) than internal SATA (400mV).
You don't need to use the older version of Firefox. I was referring to Safari in terms of older versions that had been tried and didn't work (not tried Safari 5, but given past revisions, I'd skip even trying it when I know Firefox will work properly).
As per how to do it, a browser works in any OS supported by the card (browser connects via an IP address assigned to the RAID card). Now the firmware is actually in 4 parts (i.e. what you'd get in a firmware download off of Areca's support site). Assuming you don't need to upgrade anything else, you just use EFI to replace BOOT.bin, which is the BIOS version (leave the others alone).
There should be instructions in the manual that comes with the card fif you're a bit confused (it's in the others, so it should be there this go around as well). There's also confirmation check boxes to be marked before any flash is actually performed anyway (nice little safety feature), so you can look around without causing problems.
Thanks, you've really helped out.
One question that does come across though is once I flash the card with EFI and select the SSD as a boot drive from an existing OSX install I will want to install Mac OSX fresh on this now bootable SSD and ditch the default OSX installation on which I chose the SSD as the boot drive. Can I do this? Or must I clone the existing OSX install onto the new SSD drive first?
I was thinking after making the SSD boot drive I could simply boot off the OSX install discs and install OSX on this SSD?
It's going to be a new system with no important data, so I don't care about cloning the existing OSX install which comes on the 1TB HDD with the 8-core 2010 Mac Pro. In fact I am going to pull that drive out altogether.
Perhaps I am complicating things too much here and after flashing the card to EFI, I can just shut down, take out the original 1TB HDD with OSX. Start the PC, launch the Areca EFI RAID BIOS menu with the right key press, put the 2x SSD's in pass through mode and 4x 3TB in RAID5. Afterwards just boot off the OSX cd and it will see the 2x SSD drives and the RAID5 volume and just install OSX on one of the SSD's like I want? Will I have troubles installing Win 7 through bootcamp on the 2nd SSD drive when its running off the Areca in pass through mode ?
Also maybe you know, for installing 2x 6G SSD's in the 2nd 5'25" optical bay I obviously need either the OWC multimount adapter bracket 2.5 to 5.25 or other, but for power do I need a SATA power Y splitter or something to get power to both SSD's ? Both of these will be connected to the Areca in pass through mode, the length of the included miniSAS cable should be fine to reach to the SSD's in the optical bay right ?
Finally the one question that I can't find a definite answer to from anyone is if the X5690 Xeons will work in the 8-core Mac Pro, I know the X5680 do from others on this forum. OWC is offering the X5690 in their CPU upgrade options so I take it works. But maybe they flash/alter the EFI to support the microcode for the X5690 ?
In theory, you could order the version of the Maxupgrades kit without the MiniSAS cable, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to go ahead and get it (it may be shorter, as those that come with the Areca are 0.5 meters in length). Assuming the cable with the kit is shorter, it won't be as messy as a longer cable could be in terms of routing (those that have used that particular kit haven't mentioned it was a mess that I recall).
You won't need any other cabling to connect the card to the HDD bays (it all comes in the MaxUpgrades kit).
If you want to use an internal port with an external enclosure, there's a special cable you'd need to get for this. If you want to use the external port (keep in mind, this typically shares ports with an internal connector in past models, such as the 1680 series), you'd need to buy one. Either way, these do not come with the card, and you'd only need to get them if you're planning on running an external enclosure/s.
BTW, stick to 1.0 meters or less with SATA disks (1.0 m tends to be the shortest you can get off the shelf, but other lengths are possible via a custom order - I've done this before), and do not use the PCI bracket mount adapters to take internal to external cables (results in instability due to contact resistance - been through this battle before). These adapters are meant to be used with SAS, which runs at a much higher signal voltage (20V) than internal SATA (400mV).
You don't need to use the older version of Firefox. I was referring to Safari in terms of older versions that had been tried and didn't work (not tried Safari 5, but given past revisions, I'd skip even trying it when I know Firefox will work properly).
As per how to do it, a browser works in any OS supported by the card (browser connects via an IP address assigned to the RAID card). Now the firmware is actually in 4 parts (i.e. what you'd get in a firmware download off of Areca's support site). Assuming you don't need to upgrade anything else, you just use EFI to replace BOOT.bin, which is the BIOS version (leave the others alone).
There should be instructions in the manual that comes with the card fif you're a bit confused (it's in the others, so it should be there this go around as well). There's also confirmation check boxes to be marked before any flash is actually performed anyway (nice little safety feature), so you can look around without causing problems.
Thanks, you've really helped out.
One question that does come across though is once I flash the card with EFI and select the SSD as a boot drive from an existing OSX install I will want to install Mac OSX fresh on this now bootable SSD and ditch the default OSX installation on which I chose the SSD as the boot drive. Can I do this? Or must I clone the existing OSX install onto the new SSD drive first?
I was thinking after making the SSD boot drive I could simply boot off the OSX install discs and install OSX on this SSD?
It's going to be a new system with no important data, so I don't care about cloning the existing OSX install which comes on the 1TB HDD with the 8-core 2010 Mac Pro. In fact I am going to pull that drive out altogether.
Perhaps I am complicating things too much here and after flashing the card to EFI, I can just shut down, take out the original 1TB HDD with OSX. Start the PC, launch the Areca EFI RAID BIOS menu with the right key press, put the 2x SSD's in pass through mode and 4x 3TB in RAID5. Afterwards just boot off the OSX cd and it will see the 2x SSD drives and the RAID5 volume and just install OSX on one of the SSD's like I want? Will I have troubles installing Win 7 through bootcamp on the 2nd SSD drive when its running off the Areca in pass through mode ?
Also maybe you know, for installing 2x 6G SSD's in the 2nd 5'25" optical bay I obviously need either the OWC multimount adapter bracket 2.5 to 5.25 or other, but for power do I need a SATA power Y splitter or something to get power to both SSD's ? Both of these will be connected to the Areca in pass through mode, the length of the included miniSAS cable should be fine to reach to the SSD's in the optical bay right ?
Finally the one question that I can't find a definite answer to from anyone is if the X5690 Xeons will work in the 8-core Mac Pro, I know the X5680 do from others on this forum. OWC is offering the X5690 in their CPU upgrade options so I take it works. But maybe they flash/alter the EFI to support the microcode for the X5690 ?
Disc Golfer
Dec 8, 12:00 PM
"All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control," he said. "We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers."
"You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God," he quipped.
Earlier that day, Wozniak said the biggest obstacle with the growing prevalence of technology is that our personal devices are unreliable.
Yup.
"You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God," he quipped.
Earlier that day, Wozniak said the biggest obstacle with the growing prevalence of technology is that our personal devices are unreliable.
Yup.
nsbio
Oct 24, 05:06 PM
Not unless January is in the Spring, .
It is California, so January IS Spring there ;)
It is California, so January IS Spring there ;)
DeSnousa
Sep 13, 12:06 AM
Can we grab a link :)
Consultant
Apr 30, 02:00 PM
Change PDF to open with Preview
Faster than Adobe Reader
Faster than Adobe Reader
notjustjay
Feb 21, 01:02 PM
Sounds like there were much bigger issues here than a simple spelling error.
Yeah, seriously. I don't think there's ANYTHING that anyone could text me, spelling error or no, that would cause me to fly into a murderous rampage.
Yeah, seriously. I don't think there's ANYTHING that anyone could text me, spelling error or no, that would cause me to fly into a murderous rampage.
Mechcozmo
Nov 4, 02:48 AM
Considering it is the Dock and not The Dock, why does the title include 'the' in the first place?
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