regarding solid state harddrives

2010-09-11 Thread Matthew Johnson
anyone not quite willing to pull up the cash for the solid state harddrive, but who wants a bit of a bang in performance in macbook and macbook pro, check out the Seagate Momentus XT series, which fuse a 7200 rpm 2.5 sata drive with 4 gb of ssd for the most use applications, makes for quite the

re: duo core or i5 in mbp

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew Johnson
hi, I'll be using this for lectures, some language stuff, and also possibly for recording music with logic or garage band down the line. My concern is future proofing. Unfortunately, you can't get the 7200 rpm harddrives in the 13 inch mbp's or I'd just go duo with a better harddrive. Gotta

duo core or i5 in an mbp?

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew Johnson
hay all, Well I've a question for you all, I'm soon to be picking up a macbook pro and there are two options, the duo 2.4/2.66 or the i5, with significant price differences between them. I do not want to buy into duo core, especially since its already like 3 years old and is set to be replace

a few new mac questions

2010-09-03 Thread Matthew Johnson
hay all: ok, allow me to demonstrate my being a newby once again with a few questions, going to the mac store tomorrow! 1: I have like 200 contacts, all in thunderbird, how on earth do I get those over the mac? I'll google for this if need be but if any of you have a quick way to do it let m

taking the plunge with an mbp but have questions

2010-09-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
hay all, Well I'm really doing it finally. Took long enough but this little netbook has crapped out on me and I'm going to an apple store this weekend. I do however have a few questions: 1: I have a focus 40 blue, does this work, including the bluetooth part of it? can I enter text using it

Scripts for logic v3.1 link

2010-05-04 Thread Matthew Johnson
Hay all: Some of you may be aware that I have recently revealed that there are logic scripts for the Mac, to make it much more accessible. These scripts were written by someone at the RNIB, before the project was abandonned, they are hereby being made publically availible, with all accompanyi

found VO scripts for logic

2010-05-02 Thread Matthew Johnson
hay all, Well about a year ago the RNIb comissioned a few programmers to write VO scripts for logic. They then lost interest in the project, and the programmer continued to get them to work. He's now basically giving them out to whoever is interested and I'd be more than willing to pass them

IPod Nano sync problem

2010-04-28 Thread Matthew Johnson
hay all, well I have tried absolutely everything to solve this and its still not fixing so hoping you all might be able to shead some light on it. I am using a fifth gen IPod Nano under windows 7. Every time I sync the device, even if it is only an update of say, a 20 mb podcast, the sync wil