Your Mac!

Doug · 11 Jun 2006 at 22:50

PowerMac G5 1.6GHz, 1Gb Ram, 64Mb 9600Pro, 250Gb, Wireless Kb, Razer Diamondback, Dell 2005FPW and a 250Gb Lacie NAS.

punky_munky · 12 Jun 2006 at 01:51

Moredhel said:
I've got Dashboard / Spotlight / all that other nonsense disabled, so no screenies of it are available.

Why no Spotlight? I can understand no Dashboard, it's pretty much just fluff, with the occasional use but Spotlight is constantly useful for launching apps, playing music, finding documents (not just by filename) and probably more than I can think off. It's probably the best thing about Tiger.

Spyhop · 12 Jun 2006 at 02:03

Just kidding. It's a great looking machine. :cool:

gpuerrilla · 12 Jun 2006 at 07:03

^^ Brilliant.

Mat · 12 Jun 2006 at 10:18

Matt said:
Widgets

All those widgets will be using oh so much memory

My desktop is just medium grey as a neutral background for image manipulation. No widgets and no desktop icons except the HD (they take up memory too sat on the desktop). My screen saver is a folder full of Sports by Brooks girlies

Matt · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:00

Mat said:
All those widgets will be using oh so much memory

Yeah, i've cut about half of them out now

Moredhel · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:09

punky_munky said:
Why no Spotlight? I can understand no Dashboard, it's pretty much just fluff, with the occasional use but Spotlight is constantly useful for launching apps, playing music, finding documents (not just by filename) and probably more than I can think off. It's probably the best thing about Tiger.

I find it slow and a hard drive hog. I keep all my documents and media meticulously organised because I couldn't endure it any other way, so everything is but a click away. All the applications I use are on my dock, anything else is a Unix app that runs from the shell.

punky_munky · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:31

Moredhel said:
I find it slow and a hard drive hog. I keep all my documents and media meticulously organised because I couldn't endure it any other way, so everything is but a click away. All the applications I use are on my dock, anything else is a Unix app that runs from the shell.

What machine are you running tiger on? Powerbook G4? I find Spotlight slow on my Mac Mini G4 but blindingly fast on the macbook. My files are pretty much dumped in the documents folder bar music which iTunes deals with and web stuff which needs a tidy file structure.

Burbleflop · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:35

Matt said:
snip

Excuse the noobish question, but I'm totally new to OS X. How do you get it to display the free HD space under the HD icons?

punky_munky · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:38

Burbleflop said:
Excuse the noobish question, but I'm totally new to OS X. How do you get it to display the free HD space under the HD icons?

CTRL Click, view options, show item info.

Matt · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:39

Burbleflop said:
Excuse the noobish question, but I'm totally new to OS X. How do you get it to display the free HD space under the HD icons?

When you have finder open, go: View > Show View Options > Show Item Info

Burbleflop · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:44

Thanks

Founder_film · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:55

Hamish said:

I like that very much goes well with the style of the room too, shame you could not mount the monitor and speakers on the wall.

TCEuk · 13 Jun 2006 at 12:16

Founder_film said:
I like that very much goes well with the style of the room too, shame you could not mount the monitor and speakers on the wall.

Wall mounting only looks good when you put the wires in the wall rather than hanging down below it, which takes a lot of effort :rolleyes:

Founder_film · 13 Jun 2006 at 14:07

TCEuk said:
Wall mounting only looks good when you put the wires in the wall rather than hanging down below it, which takes a lot of effort

Very true, did not think of that.

Jimathy · 13 Jun 2006 at 14:37

No pictures, my MBP is in its box waiting for collection for its third and final trip back to Apple.

Logicboard failed after 7 days, went away for a fortnight, had it back 7 days and the left I/O port failed. Went back a second time for 7 days, last week it started the CPU whine, stamped my feet a little bit and they agreed to replace it. Bought it at the begining of April so its spent nearly half its sorry little life being thrown around in the back of couriers vans and being ripped apart.

I'm on my second iMac in as many weeks too. First one arrived opened and used with a dead pixel (pretty sure I paid for a new one). Thats waiting with the MBP to go backfor a refund as I bought a replacement iMac from different store.

How much fun?

Will_3rd · 13 Jun 2006 at 19:24

iBook (1.42Ghz)

20" Cinema Display (connected to my PC)

17" iMac G5

sorry for bad quality pictures all these Macs don't leave much money for a good camera...lol

Big-Mac-Please · 13 Jun 2006 at 21:29

Sorry to go OT but do you think the 20" display is really worth £500?

The pics are great and I'm glad somone has done this

I will post some pics of my mac mini in a mo

Big-Mac-Please · 13 Jun 2006 at 21:51

Hello

Well heres a quick screen shot of my mini on a LG 32LX2R.

The mini looks fantastic using DVI the picture is sooo crystal clear!! I think its such a good product and now theres the faster Intel versions I might have to upgrade!

Power to the Mac side

EDIT: Well that knocked that on the head! Sorry I have now edited the screen shot, I didn't think

I hope its ok now

georges · 13 Jun 2006 at 21:57

Big-Mac-Please said:
Hello

I want to add more pictures but how do you make them appear small and then large on click?

imageshack and use the thumbnail code.

EDIT: DAmnit beserker.. I just was about to comment them

someone's illicit