Official Apple Thread

[torgo]

I have to take my very dead iPod video to the apple store tomorrow to get a replacement. I'm pretty seriously thinking of getting a MacBook while I'm there.

I have a MacMini which I love, but wish everyday it was portable. I have an HP laptop running Ubuntu which is decent, but everyday I wish it was running OSX. So I'm thinking of just saying f it and resolve my mistakes here.

[B-Ri]

ok so i just got a new macbook pro, and for some god damn reason neither OSX nor bootcamped XP keep the appropriate time, is this a known issue? is the internal clock battery dead maybe? is it the fact i bootcamp that it messes with the times?

[Grave]

ok so i just got a new macbook pro, and for some god damn reason neither OSX nor bootcamped XP keep the appropriate time, is this a known issue? is the internal clock battery dead maybe? is it the fact i bootcamp that it messes with the times?

I reinstalled XP and I'm experiencing this too. Windows keeps the time, but after booting back into OS X, it loses it. I don't remember that happening the first time around. Also XP has the same problems with sleep/hibernate/display turnoff that it had before. It's a pity, because nowadays I'd probably be running it full time otherwise. I'm getting to be pretty fed up with Apple.

[B-Ri]

I reinstalled XP and I'm experiencing this too. Windows keeps the time, but after booting back into OS X, it loses it. I don't remember that happening the first time around. Also XP has the same problems with sleep/hibernate/display turnoff that it had before. It's a pity, because nowadays I'd probably be running it full time otherwise. I'm getting to be pretty fed up with Apple.

i fixed it by fixing it in xp, then booting to osx, fixing the time there, and checking the box that says itll update the time through the internet

[torgo]

Yeah but that's more of a band-aid than a fix.

A machine that can't keep the time probably has issues with its EFI or some similar low level component. If I had a brand new MacBook Pro I'd want it to be truly fixed.

[outRider]

ok so i just got a new macbook pro, and for some god damn reason neither OSX nor bootcamped XP keep the appropriate time, is this a known issue? is the internal clock battery dead maybe? is it the fact i bootcamp that it messes with the times?

Windows assumes that the BIOS clock is in local time (EST, PST, etc), every other OS that I know of assumes that the clock is in universal time (UTC) and adds or subtracts X hours based on your time zone. If you fix it in one OS, it will mess the other one up by X hours.

[Josh]

[torgo]

Anyone want a MacMini? I'm selling mine, getting a MacBook today.

[Josh]

Intel or no?

[Shin Johnpv]

Yeah, I was kinda wondering about that because I've never even seen an h.264 video, aside from the ones I encoded to put on an iPod. Where does one even come across those outside of the Apple Store?

all over the net if you're downloading HD movies. I usually see them as raw ts files or as h.264 mkv files, which I personally prefer because theyll be only a couple gigs (instead of like 16 - 20 for the ts) and they look just as good.