Archive for October 24, 2008

Mac Mini to fight another day?

By Luke On Oct 24, 2008 Apple | Rumor 0 No Comments

Apple Insider claims to have information regarding the future of Apples Mac Mini computer system.

Claims point out that the Mac Mini will certainly get an update sometime in the new future. This conflicts a report posted earlier by Mac Rumors, stating that the Mac Mini had already been discontinued.

The post stated that Mac Mini could have been announced dead as soon as Apples Quarter 4 financial results which were released on Tuesday the 21st. Apple made no mention of this in their conference call and the Mac Mini still remains one of Apple’s systems. Read More

Thinking about re-installing OS X?

By Luke On Oct 24, 2008 Apple | Featured | OS | Tips 0 No Comments

Here are some tips to follow when Installing OS X for the first time, or the 50th time.

  • Tip #1: Manage your printer drivers. Plug and Play is beautiful but it comes at a price. That price is 2GBs of unnecessary system files. Deselect all the printer drives and simply make a note to install the printer manually when the installation is done. Canon, HP, Lexmark, Brother, and Epson all have printer drivers available online.
  • Tip#2: How many languages do you speak? 2,3 maybe 4? Well I doubt you know 18. 18 happens to be the number of languages installled by defualt in OS X. Why not just install the ones you need?. This can save up to 500MBs
  • Tip#3: Once you have installed OS X go play with the text to speech prefrences and then DELETE IT! Yeah its fun and all but unless you’re using it get rid of it. Delete this folder. /System/Library/Speech/Voices “Alex.SpeechVoice. Doing so gets you another 700MB!

If your looking for more tips try this post on optimizing OS X: A few tips to keep OS X on its feet.

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