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That can’t be it. The App Store license allows you to install apps on all Macs you own or control (that would include his wife’s Mac), i.e. an unlimited number of Macs. That’s for personal use.
> The App Store license allows you to install apps on all Macs you own or control yeah I saw that in the Ars review. But I think your iTunes account can only be active on 5 machines, so you'd have to burn the dmg to a disk and install it on the supplementary machines (or remove auth) > that would include his wife’s Mac iTunes can switch accounts trivially, so that's not a problem: open his account on his wife's mac,…
edit: Hey dude who downvoted, I made a factual claim. I have no problem with downvoting wrong factual claims but if you do you should at least clarify what is wrong.
The reversing of the scrolling direction is certainly going to take a lot of getting used to. The new way feels semi-natural with the track pad, but with a mouse wheel not so much.
Thank god!
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Still only 4gb max memory on the Airs? That's the one thing holding me back (well, besides money)
I've been using a 13" MBA as my main computer for the past year, and the 4GB max is really limiting for virtualization. The laptop can choke with with all of my usual tools open (Virtualbox/Photoshop/Chrome/Terminal).
i installed the developer preview of os-x lion some weeks ago. following are my first impressions. let me know how you think... performance: at first i thought lions performance sucks, but mdworker and kextcache processes are re-initializing spotlight right after installation which slows down the system and heats up the cpu. after two hours of fan-noise and heat the system seems to be fine and is running smoothly now…
> mail: the new mail is great. finally email conversations are grouped. Is it grouped with the email you sent as well? Because shitty threaded convos (all mails you received) have been available since forever ago.
Wonderful feature.
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> mail: the new mail is great. finally email conversations are grouped. Is it grouped with the email you sent as well? Because shitty threaded convos (all mails you received) have been available since forever ago.
Yes, but by default, no. There's a button called "show related messages" which will show your replies, forwards, and whatnot in the list.
I have been a Windows user since I started using computers. I am thinking of purchasing a Macbook Air. As a young programmer (going into fifth year of college), would anyone recommend this laptop?
From my personal experience, I liked coding Python with Textmate on a MBA, but not Objective-C with Xcode. Py/Text didn't take up much space and was easy to work with. Obj-C/Xcode demand lots of real-estate space, so the tiny screen was a hinderance. So I'd advise that if you have a language that's 'tiny' and a minimalist editor, you'll probably do fine on a MBA. If the language and editor take up lots of space, I'd…
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I suspect that Apple would suggest that that was what Time Machine was for. But physical media is still nice. Supposedly you'll be able to buy a USB install for $69 next month.
clap clap clap You're right. They're destroying people's information to make a few hundred dollars. Do you distill rain water because of the fluoride as well? Things break, it's unfortunate.
How is the backwards compatibility in general? I got a Oracle 10g database running on SL that I am particularly worried about. I got it anyways - will have to do a full backup and find out I suppose. Speaking of 4GB downloads - OS X still does not have something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_Intelligent_Transfer... which can utilize priorities, throttling and do idle bandwidth downloads. That means my…
> Xcode is no longer there It was never part of the base install so that's unsurprising. > App Store doesn't seem to have a 10.7 compatible XCode update yet. > Ho hum for the most part and even nightmarish for people using Xcode. Thanks for being the coalmine canary, I'll be waiting for next week as planned.
No, but it was always included along with the install disks. No install disks this time and no X Code. It's worth mentioning.