Getting prepated to order macbook

There's a company in the midlands (if I recall correctly) that shipped both my sister's and friend's Macbook and printers and they arrived within 4 or 5 days.
 
The new aluminium keyboards are terrible, feel naff and chew through batteries. The Mighty Mouse is probably the worst mouse I've ever used.

The wired ones are great. Fastest keyboard I have ever been able to type on!
 
The wireless keyboards are exactly the same except for size and batteries, which in my experience last ages.
 
everyone calls the mighty mouse as being a disaster, and i'ts far from perfect.

as long as when the trackball starts to clog up you rub it gently on a piece of paper until all the gunk falls out and it keeps plodding on.

i now quite like it

it's like maintaining an old badly designed car just keep on top of it lol
 
That works for while then you have to take the mouse to pieces to remove congealed dirt. Actually quite easy to do, here's a video.

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-clean-an-apple-mighty-mouse-scroll-ball-217746/

I don't really understand why Apple introduced a mouse ball on top of their mouse, in the one place it is likely to pick up the most dirt, a couple of years after mouse balls disappeared from the bottom of mice. It would be cool to have some optical sensor on top of the mouse that allows sideways scrolling without filling with dirt.
 
Well I got my new macbook today. I've been on it for a few hours now and I think it's nearly all set up! It really couldn't have been easier, the hardest thing was setting my monitors resolution to be happy with it. The laptop seems to have everything on it's screen and then if I want to use something on my 22 inch monitor I just drag it across!

The only thing that I can't figure out it...

I have a number of Video files and I want to set it so that .avi's are always opened with VLC, however whenever I set it to always use this program it doesn't seem to remember it for all avi's except for the video I tried to set it on. Can someone point me in the right direction for this?
 
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Brilliant thank you.

Well I managed to replicate my macbook onto my monitor which I think will be better than using 2 windows. Next question... is there anyway to be able to close my macbook lid and not have it lock down? I'm just thinking in terms of watching movies at night and no need to have it open too.
 
Apparently closing the lid and forcing it to stay on is bad idea due to overheating.

Can to ctrl shift and eject to switch off display though.
 
Apparently closing the lid and forcing it to stay on is bad idea due to overheating.

Thats just a complete myth. I've ran my macbook in clamshell for at least 5-6 hours a day for the past 18 months and NEVER had a heat related problem.
 
Hmm one more thing.

When I select restart it powers down then I just seem to get the white screen and the fan tends to go on.

I then have to press the power button and it goes off and then I press the power button again the computer turn on as from the beginning and proceeds to load as normal. Am I missing a trick here?
 
Hmm one more thing.

When I select restart it powers down then I just seem to get the white screen and the fan tends to go on.

I then have to press the power button and it goes off and then I press the power button again the computer turn on as from the beginning and proceeds to load as normal. Am I missing a trick here?

Removed external HDD and it seems to restart then - I think it must have been getting confused with boot disks possibly.

All I can say is this macbook is great. It's just so simple.

I need to figure out a way to get my external hard drive to detect. At the moment if I turn on from scratch it won't detect it. I need to plug it in again or turn it off and on again for it to show up. Anyone got any advice on setting externals up - is this something I have to live with?
 
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Go into disk utility (search from spotlight in top right corner). You will see your disks, select it from the list and you should have an option to mount.
 
Go into disk utility (search from spotlight in top right corner). You will see your disks, select it from the list and you should have an option to mount.

Should this stop me having to do this everytime I turn the mac off and on?
 
I doubt it. Why your disk isn't being mounted at start up I'm not sure. It might be worth checking for a new revision of firmware from the disk manufacturers website.

With this kind of thing you should get a quick answer by doing an internet search for your brand and model of disk for problems booting mac os.
 
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