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    Airport Express Base Station / Hard Drive problem

    ba zump Someone has had to run into this before>?
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    Airport Express Base Station / Hard Drive problem

    Hardware List USB HUB --> i-rocks IR-4300M USB Hub Mac - Retail 500GB MyBook WD 200GB Maxtor One Touch II Airport Express Base Station (n) MBP2 Problem I have my AEBSn hooked up to a USB Hub which is connected to 2 external hard drives and 1 printer. The printer works fine, the 200gb...
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    Whats on your thumb drive?

    Im all over it, thanks.
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    Post Your Mac Setup!

    The 3.5in WD MyBooks have the LED/Power on the front. Check out my pick above or google the WD MyBook Pro 500 gig.
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    Whats on your thumb drive?

    Is the attached file encrypted? AKA you need to have KeePass open to open it?
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    Whats on your thumb drive?

    1)Whats on your thumb drive? 2)Also, I have a 1GB thumb drive that fits in my wallet...and i want to put financial (quicken backups..ect) and other sensitive information on it in case my place burns down or something. Obviously...i don't want that in the open if I were to lose my wallet and...
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    Apple Needs To STOP................

    Meh, im still keeping my MBP.
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    OSX - turn off sleep mode when on power adapter / lid closed?

    Ok, so i have a mouse plugged in USB style, and i close the lid...it sleeps, i wiggle the mouse, and i think it comes back awake, but with the screen off cause the lids closed....obviously..but now when i open the lid to check to see if anything actually happened, the screen wont turn back on...
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    OSX - turn off sleep mode when on power adapter / lid closed?

    So ya, like the title says, can you make it so that when your on power adapter it doesnt go into sleep mode when you close the lid? Ive checked all over for the setting and i cant find it. Let me know if theres a way to do this at all or if there is some nifty way around this built in feature...
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    Mac Book Pro Problems, Please Help

    Updates will most likely fix the problem...but one question i have is how long has it been since she logged off / shut down? Ive noticed this in 10.4.8 even, that programs that run in rosetta clog up the computer after while. Friend of mine in the IT biz said something about the rosetta...
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    Macbook or Macbook Pro?

    yerp....whatever you share on your local network your new macbook should be able to access
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    Macbook or Macbook Pro?

    Many different ways. Probably easiest is network them and share a folder on your old laptop. Otherwise you could use a fat32 formatted external hard drive, use an HFS+ formatted external and macdrive (program, free to try, so thats what i did actually), use thumb drives, use your ipod, use...
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    Thinking about buying a macbook after 15+ years of using a PC...

    dito on the PC to Mac switch. I used to have (well still have, but selling), an X2 3800+, 2gb ram, 4x200 sata segates, 1x250 ide segate system drive, tv tuner, dell 2005fpw, x800xt, antec p180 case, nec dvdrw....it was a great computer, but its nothing compared to MBP c2d, 500gb external, and...
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    Macbook or Macbook Pro?

    I seriously recommend playing with them in person. Some people dont like the macbook's keyboard (like me)...some people love it (im sure someone will chime in and say they love it soon), but really its a personal preference you should decide.
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    Macbook or Macbook Pro?

    you can get them with the same processor / ram / hdd, so its not really slower in that respect at all. Only thing that would be 'slower' so to speak, its the GPU. And that, by a lot. But if you never game / use 3d stuff, you wont notice it. edit: another reason i like the MBP over the MB...
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