What system do you have mate out of interest? Also what software do you have on it so far?
Also have though about candybar for a while but is it worth it. How much better you manage to get your layout?
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What system do you have mate out of interest? Also what software do you have on it so far?
Also have though about candybar for a while but is it worth it. How much better you manage to get your layout?
I like Candybar for the easy of icon swapping. Some apps can be a bit tricky and it manages it nice and easily. Plus it's a handy place to keep icon collections rather than keep grubbing around in folders.
I think I picked up most of mine from the MacThemes forums or deviantART.
Hey mate,
I'm running a 17" MacBookPro 3,1. - 2.6 C2D with 4GB of RAM.
So far the only software I've got on here is the default stuff, Quicksilver, 1Password, Betterzip and Candybar.
I'm going to get the likes of iLife, iWorks and Creative Suite on here (probably tomorrow now) but the very next thing I'm going to do is copy my iTunes library off my Time Capsule and it's going to take a while.
RE: CandyBar - it's very good at what it does. To be honest I only use it at times like this (because I have a set of icons that I love and don't want to change). However, it's still very useful even if it's not very often. I'd definitely say it was worth getting though.
Panzer
Right, I'm a little bit confused about the 64bit kernel.
I've done a ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi test and it's telling me i've got the EFI64.
However, I try holding down 4+6 on start-up and system profile still says:
64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
I've tried chaning the Boot.plist to 64bit and that hasn't worked either.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Panzer
I've done a ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi test and it's telling me i've got the EFI64.
However, I try holding down 4+6 on start-up and system profile still says:
64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
I've tried chaning the Boot.plist to 64bit and that hasn't worked either.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Panzer
Which set of icons are you loving? be cool to see them?
You have the same problem every MBP 3,1 owner has (including me).
CPU = 64 bit.
Chipset = 64 bit.
EFI = 64 bit
But apple decided that the 3,1 wasn't on the supported list (starts with 4,1).
You're stuck with a 32 bit kernel unless Apple decide otherwise.
There's a strong possibility that your QT isn't accelerated either (I think the 8600M GT doesn't get the H.264 acceleration).
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Right. I'm back in business after my clean install. All pretty easy. Just tweaking the visuals a bit now... Think I'm going to go to the flat black dock as since you guys mentioned the odd looking right click menus I can't get over the clash! Damn you!
Might it be that they don't yet have a 64bit driver for some internal device used in the 3,1?
Ah maybe that's it then. I've got 64bit EFI but something else is missing to run it. No worries really - it's still running nicely.
They're nothing fancy but here's a screen-grab of CandyBar with them all.
It's a set called Alumi by Joy Vincent, it doesn't have every icon but it's got most of the ones I need.
The last two aren't part of the set, they are just randoms I found.
Panzer
Just trying to do this, and it seems I can't save changes to these files... I assume this is because they are system files, and I need to change permissions. Is that right? How should I go about doing that?