Agreed that a calibration is in order, but the usage doesn't look like every use is a calibration cycle...if the iBook is put back on the charger before it shuts itself down, then…

Unfortuantely there is no way I will be going through a full calibration cycle. It dies every couple of mAh's, so going from 1800mAh to 0mAh would take forever But I can vouch fo…

Quote: Originally Posted by new_apple Unfortuantely there is no way I will be going through a full calibration cycle. It dies every couple of mAh's, so going from 1800mAh to 0mA…

Wow, 742 cycles and still over 80% capacity. My 14" 1.2ghz iBook battery only has 51 cycles in 17 months and it is at 72% according to Capacity Meter. I've recalibrated it several …

I am completely new to this, but it has come to a point where all my RAW images are at a very high number where I need to create a better system to store and back up. I have been r…

It all depends what your objectives are. RAID 0 is striping - for speed and spanning a single large volume across 2 drives. but it is riskier because of losing all your data if ei…

I would disagree with Trevor somewhat. My experience may be different, (G4) but I had much faster read and write with a 0 stripe RAID. It was not twice as fast, but much faster tha…

People are total idiots when it comes to this sort of thing. Remember the iBook kafaffle? http://www.wtsp.com/weird/weird_arti...?storyid=21724

This type of thing happens every year on the day after Thanksgiving. Laptops aren't the only things that cause people to act this way. In my area it was socks that were 50% off tha…

Throwing a laptop 20 feet in the air and a group of people jumping on top of it is normal?

Quote: Originally Posted by Dark Helmet Throwing a laptop 20 feet in the air and a group of people jumping on top of it is normal? No, its not normal. But in the US, on the…

Only in America™, seriously

Nope, similar thing happened at IKEA in the UK.

Quote: Originally Posted by gururafiki No, its not normal. But in the US, on the day after Thanksgiving, it is not shocking either. What about that iBook idiocy?

Quote: Originally Posted by Dark Helmet What about that iBook idiocy? I guess I missed that one. What was that about?

Quote: Originally Posted by gururafiki I guess I missed that one. What was that about? Some dumbass school county decided that paying more money for Windows laptops was som…

It doesn't matter what day it is, if you offer something people want (sometimes even something people don't want) cheap enough, and you don't do it in an orderly way, people will g…

Quote: Originally Posted by ::maroma:: And we're talking about WalMart here. The people who shop at WalMart aren't exactly cultured enough to refrain from acting like total idi…

Quote: Originally Posted by ::maroma:: And we're talking about WalMart here. The people who shop at WalMart aren't exactly cultured enough to refrain from acting like total idi…

Quote: Originally Posted by olePigeon Some dumbass school county decided that paying more money for Windows laptops was somehow cheaper than paying less money for iBooks... …

Quote: Originally Posted by Dark Helmet Seriously, watch the video, they all look like they are from the lower end of the Gene pool. It's ok, you can say black people.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sandkat It's ok, you can say black people.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sandkat It's ok, you can say black people. Actually I was talking about the fat white chicks with blond hair with split ends.

No way Kevin. No Way!

Quote: Originally Posted by Cubeoid I didn't know there was bananas WITH bones.