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Old 10-03-2015, 06:49 PM
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We get it. You don't like Apple.
I actually like their hardware. Great design and build quality. But there are quite a few things I don't like, I do admit that. But then I could say the same about Google and Microsoft too.

However what I posted isn't to turn people against Apple, but to try and explain some of these terms and how worthless they are.
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The point is that regardless of how it is labelled, the screen will undeniably have a greater resolution on the yet-to-be-released Airs compared to the current version. I can notice the difference in screen resolution between my iPad Air and my MacBook Air, the former being much clearer.

If I had the choice at the time of buying the laptop, I would have considered the sharper screen depending on cost of course, but I am saying that screen resolution is now a new consideration for those looking to purchase a MacBook Air.
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Budget wise I can stretch to a MacBook Air with the 8GB RAM. They've updated the graphics card and processor as of yesterday. Dixsons at Gatwick (I travel a lot) does this for £799. The MacBook retina will be £1050 plus. Also the connectivity is absolutely rubbish - no traditional USB ports!
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Dunno how genuine that is, but I can well believe the bit about Jobs would've sacked them on the spot.

There was a story (again, dunno how true) that floated around the industry that Jobs would regularly ask Apple employees to justify their position when he saw them around 1 Infinite Loop - if he didn't like the answer he sacked them there and then.
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The lack of ports is incredible.
Even if you do 100% of your storage in the cloud surely you'd want at least one USB. Just in case.
I bet if they canvassed every Mac user and asked them if they would prefer their new laptop to come with a USB port or not, everyone would say "with". I mean why not?
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Apple have always taken a bold approach to the removal of technologies that they see as going out-of-date. Floppy drives, serial ports for kb/mice, CD drives... whether the user base liked it or not.

What I'd question is whether that judgement is still as sharp without Jobs. They're a very different company now. Everything is image over substance.

A friend of mine took his 3-year-old MBP to the genius bar thing in Kingston a couple of weeks back coz it was overheating. I knew exactly why, but humoured him and went along. Mac "genius" ran his AHT thing, waffled about having lots of programmes open, suggested perhaps upgrades or even a new one...

We got back to his flat and I looked at the MBP - sure enough, fan outlets caked with dust, as I've seen so many times before with older Macs (and PCs, for that matter). Gave it a quick blast with spray-duster and all is fine

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Took the plunge on the new macbook air 13" - ordered from apple with an education discount for £789. Lovely bit of kit.
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Took the plunge on the new macbook air 13" - ordered from apple with an education discount for £789. Lovely bit of kit.
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There seems to be no set amount, depends on the item you're buying. You won't get more than £150 on anything.
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I seem to have lost the "back" and "forward" buttons on Safari. Any ideas?
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I seem to have lost the "back" and "forward" buttons on Safari. Any ideas?
Use Chrome!


But seriously Chrome is better however if you wish to persist with Safari under 'View" you will find 'customise toolbar' where you can default to the normal toolbar etc or add and subtract to make it how you want.
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Cheers. Obviously I should have worked that out.

I'm sure Chrome is better, but I'm instinctively anti-google. Irrational I know, but I hate their dominance and the fact that their brand seems to have become a verb for some. I'd use it on a pc ahead of Explorer, mind.

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Cheers. Obviously I should have worked that out.

I'm sure Chrome is better, but I'm instinctively anti-google. Irrational I know, but I hate their dominance and the fact that their brand seems to have become a verb for some. I'd use it on a pc ahead of Explorer, mind.

Firefox is ok, but generally Safari does what it needs to.
No probs and I hear you! And I was mostly joking, as a designer - Chrome just does more and also has a great inspector so I'm biased from that side.
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I can no longer open iTunes on my imac. When I click on the iTunes icon in the dock nothing happens. If I go to finder → applications and click on iTunes then nothing happens. If I try and launch it via spotlight again nothing happens.

A quick search on Google suggested downloading iTunes again but this hasn't resolved the problem.

I also found a suggestion that I can right click iTunes in finder, select "show package contents" → MacOS → iTunes this will open a terminal window and open iTunes. This one works but is a pain. How can I get back to simply having an icon in the dock which I click on to open iTunes?

It is a 21.5-inch, Mid 2010 running OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 and I have downloaded the most recent version of iTunes 12.1.2.27.
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Perhaps an obvious one but Have you restarted?
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Perhaps an obvious one but Have you restarted?

Yes, tried that before re-installing itunes, haven't tried since though so will give it a try.
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Nope, another restart hasn't helped.
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Cheers. Obviously I should have worked that out.

I'm sure Chrome is better, but I'm instinctively anti-google. Irrational I know, but I hate their dominance and the fact that their brand seems to have become a verb for some. I'd use it on a pc ahead of Explorer, mind.

Firefox is ok, but generally Safari does what it needs to.
I really think you are missing the irony in this post. I really hope you didn't post this on an iPad...
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