from my experience, avoid sony

i still prefer sony machine in windows world
for me avoid acer & asus
the twins from taiwan

if im gonna get a windows laptop... it'd be the dell mini 10... very good candidate for hackintosh hehe

Yeah, Sony VAIOs are still good. I love the VAIO X and I checked it out the other day. Really thin and vulnerable . I noticed the CW-series are also out and the specs were really competitive. FWs aren't that bad also. I also noticed VAIO is the only computer line going all out for 64 bit Windows now.

And you're right, avoid Acer. I don't know about ASUS though.

Guys, do u use notebook cooler for mbp? Im thinking of getting one soon. Is it necessary? Cuz as i rmb the airflow is around the keyboard right? If u do, any good cooler recommend to me? Thnx!

hey guys. need help here. i cant copy certain files from one of my hard disk to another. one's using firewire, the other using usb. transfer of other files seems to b fine, just files that are larger than a few gb are unable to b transferred.

here is the screen shot. need help urgent.



the pop up window says:
sorry the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred. (Error code O)

Im guessing the drive is formatted in fat32. There's a limit of 4gb per file

which drive? file source or file destination. urm i can transfer numerous files that are more than 4gb but one single file that is more than 4gb is unable to b transferred.

what he mean is a single file weight 4gb and above
your mkv sure more that 4GB

ouh okay. so any way i can solve this?

since your file source can store the MKV file, i guess its not a FAT32 partition. but your file destination is. a full-length MKV movie sure is more than 4GB.

you can use a file splitter app. Split & Concat is pretty good, from the people who made the popular HJ Split for windows. it breaks a file into smaller chunks. but then it wont be viewable until you join them back (using the same app). here's the link for split&concat, but u can google around for alternatives
http://www.xs4all.nl/~loekjehe/Split&Concat/

the hard way is of course to transfer everything on the fat32 drive somewhere else, and format it into HFS (but a windows machine cant access) or NTFS (a mac cant access unless you install MacFUSE or ntfs-3g), then copy back ur files

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: Oct 27 2009, 09:42 AM

Is there any maintenance i can do if i feel my mac is slowing down? Like registry clean up etc?

or just get paragon ntfs. i bought it yesterday. they are having a promotion right now, 9.95usd. i think its cheap and worth it.

try snow leopard cache cleaner. i also repair permissions on disk utility every 2 months or so.

NTFS-3G also not bad. I can now read/write into NTFS partitions. But writing onto NTFS partition is a little slow to my liking. Does Paragon have this problem?

so far i have not had an issue with it. i have been using it for a while actually, just that the software wasnt legally licensed. i prefer it over ntfs 3g as i have had stability issues with ntfs 3g in terms of it failing to mount drives at times, and like u said, write speeds are the best. i think 9.95 is a pretty good deal, go check it out. might want to go with a trial and see if you are happy with it.

ive been dreaming owning a MBP since...forever!
but today..my dreams come true..
got myself 13" MBP!!!

WUHUU!!!

i shall try the splitting and joining back method. see whether it works. doing this cos im selling my external hdd, the wd mybook studio. thats why need to transfer to one of my wd passport. quite a hassle.

congratulations, and welcome to the club!

hey guys i'm just wondering if the new 13" macbook white can swap the hdd or not? because my friend said at 5400 rpm is realllly bad.

Yes, you can change the HDD by yourself. Head to http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pol...-Unibody/1239/1 or watch the video to DIY yourself.
It depends on what usage/purpose.... i'm using 5400rpm HDD, it isn't as slow as you may think of.



This post has been edited by friends: Oct 27 2009, 04:38 PM

how so? its not really bad. the latest 5400rpm drives can be as fast as a 7200rpm drive. there are a couple of benchmarks on the net, if u have the time its worth a look. also, the 5400rpm drives are generally quiet and less prone to excessive vibration.

This post has been edited by n20nine: Oct 27 2009, 05:52 PM