Text 48759, 62 rader
Skriven 2008-09-11 17:28:12 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 48740 av Jean Parrot (1:167/133.0)
Ärende: Weight or white ?
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Jean Parrot -> Charles Scaglione wrote:

Hi Jean:

 CS>> You ought to read some of the comments in that forum.  A good portion
 CS>> of the  folks who own MacBooks are college students.  In other
 CS>> words a young crowd.  Young folks can fill a 250 GB hard
 CS>> drive in less than three months of ownership.  Between
 CS>> iTunes music and movie videos it doesn't take long.

 JP>         Last evening, I redid in toto, this Thinkpad, the G41, it had
 JP>    gotten heavy and slow. Great improvement as in any redo. The Mac
 JP>    user upstairs was questioning my work. She then stated that her
 JP>    small X laptop was quite slow too. She has had no housekeeping done
 JP>    on it and it is 4+ year old. What can be done along the same line
 JP>    to this white machine ?

Sure, if you have the original installation CDs.  Just backup her documents and
email first and reinstall the OS.  There are also several free Mac OS X
utilities that do a clean up.  One of them is called "OnyX" and does a good job
of cleaning up the cache, permissions, and so forth.

 CS>> BTW, I ordered a wireless mini PCI card for my older Toshiba notebook
 CS>> - the  same one I replaced the hard drive on.  Received it from
 CS>> Amazon and put it in.  Little tricky installing it as it
 CS>> goes in the same compartment as the memory.  The antenna
 CS>> wire connectors were so small I had to use a magnifying
 CS>> glass to see how they attached. Works great. The card was
 CS>> $4.99 plus a few $$ for shipping.
 CS>> It's a genuine new Toshiba card.  When I priced it from
 CS>> Toshiba it was $90.00 plus SH. :)

 JP>         Good on you. Likewise, a few years ago, on eBay, I got a WiFi
 JP>    mini card for the G-41. Before I could fit this b-mode in, a friend
 JP>    gave me a g-mode PCMCIA. The b-mode is still dormant, along with
 JP>    the to be installed antennae. Yes, these snap-in connectors are
 JP>    small and delicate, easy to damage. Is yours a now obsolete g-mode
 JP>    for so cheap a price ? Still very useable for sure.

Yes, it's an older card but for $4.99 it does well enough for me.  I can't
notice the difference between 11 MBS and 54 MBS anyway.

 JP>         Now to clean it up, Norton goes first, then add all the normal
 JP>    apps that I use, O2K, Checkbook, ZOC and BW, a full day ahead for
 JP>    me, more or less, but I will then have a like-new machine. Luckily,
 JP>    I have a long RJ-45 cable for all the updates from MS, the 7 CDs
 JP>    have SP2 installed.

Someone in the Mac forums was looking for a copy of NU for the Mac. Symantec
stopped supporting NU for the Mac more than two years ago and the latest
version doesn't work on OS X Tiger or Leopard.  Boo on Symantec!

While at the garage today getting an oil change I watched the latest MS
commercial starring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates.  It was terrible. Not only
is Jerry overweight but Bill looked like he was frozen over.

Three cheers for Steve Jobs, he's a real Hollywood star!  :)

Have fun and regards.

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