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no luck Shit. I was sure it was that. Ugh. Damned Macs and their oddities. Without having it in my hands to run through everything it's stupid hard to diagnose. I'd say at this point bring it to an Apple Store and have them check it out if there's one near you.

I actually haven't played around with it yet. I've heard tons of people complain but then I talk to my nerdy friends and they're all about it so IDK. LOTS of people thing the new tiled interface is the way their desktops will be and they're seriously misinformed. The tiled look is for touchscreens and tablet devices. There's an option to go back to the familiar Windows 7 interface for using it in a desktop environment.

Open iTunes. File -> Add Folder to Library. Go find the big folder with all the songs in it and select it. Give iTunes some time to process everything and convert what it needs to. Take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning.

Pics or it didn't happen

What format are the songs in? Per Wikipedia, the latest version of iTunes officially supports MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC (.m4a) and Apple Lossless, though it looks like several of these formats need to be converted before they can be used. If you're trying to use .flac files or other formats, you'll need to convert them. Also, is iTunes giving you any errors or is it just not playing the files?

What format are they in? I'm assuming you pulled it from iTunes off the Dell? Will they not play on the Mac because it doesn't recognize the file type or because it can't find the file?

Reload the OS sucka! Back up data, put in the OSX disk, wipe the drive clean, and re install from scratch. It definitely sounds like the software isn't talking to the hardware properly.

Bring it to the Genius Bar and let the Geniuses look at it. If you're managing to get 1.5 hours of battery life something is wrong other than a program running and using CPU time. Possibly a hardware issue. If you want to try and solve it yourself, I'd definitely just wipe the thing and re-install the OS fresh. Issues like this are stupid tricky to troubleshoot on Macs because they lock you out of so much.

To my understanding the Warhorse does this funky thing where, in order to deliver it's 10kW payload, it does 5k on one voice coil on the "push" and 5k on the other voice coil on the "pull" of the sine wave. However, I feel like you could use the DD-1 on each channel separately and make sure neither is distorted? Would this not work in order to test the full sine wave?

Best parody of News Networks I've ever seen. Better than Colbert or John Stewart or anything else I've seen. They've got over 100 videos of fake news stories that are just parodies of nonsense that probably never happened. And they're hysterical. This one's my favorite so far:

I'm glad you're using RAID right =) Drives me crazy when I see people using say 2 500GB drives in Raid-0 for their whole machine and have no backup or anything. I always give them this face

That's the tricky part. Ideally, you'd back up data (not windows or program files, just data) from the TB HDD onto an external, wipe it, install Windows onto the SSD, install programs onto the SSD, and then put your data back onto the HDD. I just formatted my big drive and made it the D: drive and labeled it "Data Drive" in the properties menu. Just made folders on it called Music, Pictures, Videos, Doncuments, etc. It takes some time to do since it's really starting from scratch again but if you use your machine a lot it can be worth it. I'll be honest, I'll never buy/build another machine again without an SSD after having used one in my desktop.

SSD's are awesome if you've got the money for a big enough one. Anything 120GB+ for an SSD gives you enough space for Windows, programs, and 4-10 games depending on size. I've got Battlefield 3 on my SSD and maps load withing 5 seconds. Most of the time people get a 40-80GB drive and just use it for booting Windows and installing a few programs because they're really expensive when you get into higher capacities, but if the games aren't loaded on the drive then you get no performance increase other than faster boot up time. Intel 120GB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167050 Crucial 128GB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148448 Mushkin 120GB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226236

Aww it was so cute! Should have taken a pic of it next to the new one! You would have gotten something like this: Ignore the blurry quality. My phone has the shittiest camera. That's a 4350 next to a 6970. Glad to hear the machine is cranking away!

Disturbed has always been my #1 but I just burned an All That Remains CD for my car the other day and it's fucking awesome.

The only free (and still legal) way to do this is with Ubuntu on a flash drive or through Boot Camp/Virtual Box. Using Windows and/or using Parallels/VMWare Fusion will cost you money. I sent you a quick PM. I still maintain that a 25GB partition with Windows 7 using Boot Camp is best (and easiest) for someone who's not super tech savvy.

Mac OSX has an odd implementation of Java. Unfortunately, due to Minecraft being coded in Java, these oddities in implementation cause that jittery and lag-spike-ridden gameplay you're dealing with. Adding RAM won't help it. Actually, no hardware upgrades will do anything. Using something other than Mac OSX is really the only option in terms of playing it the way you want. Your best bet is to either partition the hard drive and install Windows/Linux in a Boot Camp configuration or go download Ubuntu onto a flash drive and boot your computer through that when you want to play. Boot Camp setup: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/boot_camp_install-setup.pdf Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download I'd personally go the Boot Camp with Windows 7 route because it's gonna be easier to do if you're not too tech savvy. The Boot Camp route will chew up about 20-30GB of your hard drive for Windows though and will require a Windows disk. The flash drive route won't take up any hard drive space but it will require a flash drive at least 2GB and a little more software knowledge.

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This actually makes sense to me. If a song has hardcore clipping bass at like 35 hz and you run a high-pass filter and take out everything under 80hz and make your own clean bassline, that sounds like it should eliminate clipping. It might not be 100% gone but it'd be worlds better than the original version.

Seasonic is the OEM for XFX's high-endpower supplies. Literally, that XFX unit is just a reboxed, rebranded version of the Seasonic unit for $40 more. XFX 1000 watt Seasonic 1050 watt ONLY difference is that the XFX unit is rated at 80+ Platinum and the Seasonic unit is rated at 80+ Gold (though the Seasonic unit is rated for 50 additional watts). Your machine is pulling less than 400 watts a full load. For the money, the Seasonic unit would be my pick. Plus, if you REALLY want quiet, you can save nearly another $100 and go fanless. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151099

Just curious if anyone's tried this out or uses it at all. The Mumble server is much better than Vent because of the low ping. If anyone on the West Coast gets a chance to try this, please post back here and let me know if it works well and what it says the ping is.

Vent server may be tricky because it only holds 8. The Mumble server is soft-capped at 50 but if you guys get this thing rolling into something larger and my network will support it, I can raise that cap as high as it'll let me. really...i remember using vent with like 25. The way Ventrilo does licensing is stupid. You can make your own, free server but it'll only support up to 8 peeps. If you want more than that, you have to rent a server on a monthly/annual basis from somebody like TypeFrag.com. What I've got running is just a free server on my own hardware that I don't have to pay per month for, and I've opened it up to you guys. If you haven't used Mumble yet, give it a shot. It's got much better voice quality than Vent with lower ping and less bandwidth usage. Oh, and it's free. I would have hosted the server on my gaming rig but I don't have it on 24/7 (eats electricity and blue LEDs while I'm sleeping = no). Loaded this in a silent machine and I can leave it up all the time with no worries.