Mac 討論區 the 2nd - iMac Updates (Up to 3.06GHz)

[alexc]

作者: Metal Gear NT

Google後的結果
不過係shareware
http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/photosync.php

唔該曬

[Metal Gear NT]

http://shiira.jp/en

Shiira 2.0推出!!
Made in Japan o既Shiira係以Safari為目標製作o既Mac browser
今次2.0功能、介面上有不少改進
試過一晚
除o左import bookmark有少少亂
2.0好多新功能都唔錯(Page Dock, Full-screen viewing等等)
比起Firefox真係快好多(Mac版Firefox真係幾頹，而且個介面一o的都唔Mac，所以比較少Mac人用)
想試試Safari以外又唔想用Firefox o既可以試試Shiira

[BeBop]

Is it better than Safari?

[Metal Gear NT]

作者: BeBop

Is it better than Safari?

Shiira仲係有好多bugs
不過執下之後應該會唔錯
我會推介佢多過Firefox

Safari就穩定、介面夠Mac
功能都好耐冇update過所以好難比
或者Leopard推出後Safari會有大改動(起碼依家Safari仲未可以隨意移動tab)

[BeBop]

What Widgets are you using?

[kamkam]

作者: 大雄

我想問問市面上有邊隻USB WIRELESS LAN ADAPTOR SUPPORT MAC?

同埋BUFFALO 既USB EXTERNAL HDD MAC 機用到嘛?

THX~

dlink and belkin

hdd format係fat32就得
BUFFALO好似係NTFS 用lacie就一定得

[江]

OSX有冇清垃圾/harddisk重組的funtion?
用左幾個月部機好似慢左少少...我hard disk空位又冇點少到

[Metal Gear NT]

作者: 江

OSX有冇清垃圾/harddisk重組的funtion?
用左幾個月部機好似慢左少少...我hard disk空位又冇點少到

Mac OS X有個Disk Utility
verify/repair disk permission
真係有需要的話佢會建議你入隻OS X install disc去repair disk

其實OS X個設計唔需要好似以前Windows咁得閒重組下個HDD令佢行快o的
最有可能都係o的cache令部機慢o左

http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html
我平時用開OnyX
唔止清下多o的位出o黎
仲可以改下個OS function(例如screen capture改做jpeg, Safari history日數更改)

[江]

大感謝

[Metal Gear NT]

Battery Update for MacBook and MacBook Pro
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook...batteryupdate/

MB/MBP用家可以經System Update或者上面條link去download

[tallken]

8-core Mac Pro versus 4-core Mac Pro

http://www.barefeats.com/octopro1.html

[BeBop]

a Greener Apple


http://www.apple.com/hotnews/agreenerapple/

Steve Jobs

Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products. Upon investigating Apple’s current practices and progress towards these goals, I was surprised to learn that in many cases Apple is ahead of, or will soon be ahead of, most of its competitors in these areas. Whatever other improvements we need to make, it is certainly clear that we have failed to communicate the things that we are doing well.

It is generally not Apple’s policy to trumpet our plans for the future; we tend to talk about the things we have just accomplished. Unfortunately this policy has left our customers, shareholders, employees and the industry in the dark about Apple’s desires and plans to become greener. Our stakeholders deserve and expect more from us, and they’re right to do so. They want us to be a leader in this area, just as we are in the other areas of our business. So today we’re changing our policy.

Now I’d like to tell you what we are doing to remove toxic chemicals from our new products, and to more aggressively recycle our old products.

Removing Toxic Chemicals

Lead
Many of the dangerous chemicals we all want to eliminate from electronic products are found in very small amounts, but there’s one toxic substance that some companies still ship by the pound, and that’s the lead contained in their cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays. A typical CRT contains approximately 3 pounds (1.36 kg) of lead. In mid-2006, Apple became the first company in the computer industry to completely eliminate CRTs. The effect has been stunning — our first CRT-based iMac contained 484 grams of lead; our current third-generation LCD-based iMac contains less than 1 gram of lead.

Apple completely eliminated the use of CRTs in mid-2006.

A note of comparison — Dell, Gateway, Hewlett Packard and Lenovo still ship CRT displays today.

Cadmium
Hexavalent Chromium
Decabromodiphenyl Ether
The European Union is generally ahead of the U.S. in restricting toxic substances in electronic products. Their latest restrictions, known as RoHS, went into effect in July 2006. All Apple products worldwide comply with RoHS. Our manufacturing policies had already restricted or banned most of the chemicals covered by RoHS, and Apple began introducing fully RoHS-compliant products a year before the European deadline.

Almost a year later, however, some electronics companies can only claim their products are RoHS compliant because of certain little-known exemptions granted by the EU. Despite the tough restrictions of RoHS, these exemptions let companies ship electronics that still contain high concentrations of two hazardous substances — hexavalent chromium, the carcinogen against which Erin Brockovich famously campaigned, and the brominated flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (DecaBDE), which is also feared to have adverse health effects. Apple phased out these and many other chemicals several years ago through design innovations and the use of higher quality metals and plastics.

Apple products met both the spirit and letter of the RoHS restrictions on cadmium, hexavalent chromium and brominated flame retardants years before RoHS went into effect.

A note of comparison — Some electronics companies, whose names you know, still rely on RoHS exemptions and use these toxic chemicals in their products today.

Arsenic
Mercury
Arsenic and mercury are industry standard materials used in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Arsenic is added during the manufacturing of the high performance glass used in LCDs to prevent the formation of defects, and the fluorescent lamps used to illuminate LCDs contain minute amounts of mercury. Apple is on track to introduce our first displays using arsenic-free glass in 2007. A small number of high performance integrated circuits (ICs) will continue to contain a minute amount of arsenic as an element of the semiconductor substrate.

To eliminate mercury in our displays, we need to transition from fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to illuminate the displays. Fortunately, all iPod displays already use LEDs for illumination, and therefore contain no mercury. We plan to introduce our first Macs with LED backlight technology in 2007. Our ability to completely eliminate fluorescent lamps in all of our displays depends on how fast the LCD industry can transition to LED backlighting for larger displays.

Apple plans to completely eliminate the use of arsenic in all of its displays by the end of 2008.

Apple plans to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of mercury by transitioning to LED backlighting for all displays when technically and economically feasible.

Polyvinyl Chloride
Brominated flame retardants
Some companies have made promises to phase out other toxic chemicals like polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a type of plastic primarily used in the construction industry but also found in computer parts and cables, and brominated flame retardants, or BFRs, which reduce the risk of fire. Apple began phasing out PVC twelve years ago and began restricting BFRs in 2001. For the past several years, we have been developing alternative materials that can replace these chemicals without compromising the safety or quality of our products. Today, we’ve successfully eliminated the largest applications of PVC and BFRs in our products, and we’re close to eliminating these chemicals altogether. For example, more than three million iPods have already shipped with a BFR-free laminate on their logic boards.

Dell and Lenovo have publicly stated that they plan to eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs in their products in 2009. Hewlett Packard has not yet publicly stated when they will eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs in their products, but has said that they will publish a plan by the end of 2007 which will state when in the future they will eliminate the use of these toxic chemicals in their products.

Apple plans to completely eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs in its products by the end of 2008.

A note of comparison — In 2007 HP stated that they will remove PVC from all their packaging. Apple did this 12 years ago. Last year, Dell began the process of phasing out large quantities of brominated flame retardants in large plastic enclosure parts. Apple’s plastic enclosure parts have been bromine-free since 2002.

In one environmental group’s recent scorecard, Dell, HP and Lenovo all scored higher than Apple because of their plans (or “plans for releasing plans” in the case of HP). In reality, Apple is ahead of all of these companies in eliminating toxic chemicals from its products.

Recycling Our Products (E-Waste)

Apple started recycling in 1994 and today we operate recycling programs in countries where more than 82% of all Macs and iPods are sold. By the end of this year, that figure will increase to 93%. How successful are these programs?

Currently, there is no industry standard way to measure the effectiveness of a company’s recycling programs. Dell has proposed a simple measure - assume a seven year product lifetime, and measure the percentage of the total weight you recycle each year compared to the total weight of what you sold seven years earlier. This makes sense to us, and has the added advantages of clarity and simplicity.

Apple recycled 13 million pounds of e-waste in 2006, which is equal to 9.5% of the weight of all products Apple sold seven years earlier. We expect this percentage to grow to 13% in 2007, and to 20% in 2008. By 2010, we forecast recycling 19 million pounds of e-waste per year — nearly 30% of the product weight we sold seven years earlier.

Weight Recycled as % of Past Sales


A note of comparison — the latest figures from HP and Dell are each around 10% per year, and neither company has yet disclosed plans to grow this percentage in the future. By 2010, Apple may be recycling significantly more than either Dell or HP as a percentage of past sales weight.

All the e-waste we collect in North America is processed in the U.S., and nothing is shipped overseas for disposal. We carefully review “environmental fate” submissions from each vendor, so we know how raw materials are handled at the end of the recycling process. We hold our recycling vendors to the highest environmental standards in the industry. In addition to annual compliance audits, we also review the performance of their downstream vendors. They must comply with all applicable health and safety laws, and we do not allow the use of prison labor at any stage of the recycling process.

Producers must also take responsibility for the design and material choices that create the product in the first place. It is these choices that fundamentally determine the weight and recycling value of material waste at the end of a product’s life. The iMac is a world-class example of material efficiency, having shed 60% of its weight since its debut in 1998. Our designs use aircraft-grade aluminum, stainless steel and high-grade plastics that are in high demand from recyclers, who recover and resell these raw materials for use in other types of products. Few of our competitors do the same.

Let me take a moment to talk specifically about iPods, even though they are included in the above data. All of Apple’s U.S. retail stores, which now number more than 150, take back unwanted iPods for environmentally friendly disposal free of charge. As an incentive, we even offer customers a 10% discount on a new iPod when they bring their old iPod to our stores for proper disposal. This summer we’re expanding it to Apple retail stores worldwide, and we’re also extending it to include free shipping from anywhere in the U.S. No product purchases are required for any of our free take back programs. In a few months, we think we’ll have ‘best of breed’ iPod recycling programs in the U.S., and we plan to continue to expand our free iPod recycling programs globally in the future.

By 2010, Apple may be recycling significantly more than either Dell or HP as a percentage of past sales weight.

All the e-waste we collect in North America is processed in the U.S., and nothing is shipped overseas for disposal.

Apple products are designed using high quality materials that are in high demand from recyclers.

The Future

Today is the first time we have openly discussed our plans to become a greener Apple. It will not be the last. We will be providing updates of our efforts and accomplishments at least annually, most likely around this time of the year. And we plan to bring other environmental issues to the table as well, such as the energy efficiency of the products in our industry. We are also beginning to explore the overall carbon “footprint” of our products, and may have some interesting data and issues to share later this year.

I hope you are as delighted as I was when I first learned how far along Apple actually is in removing toxic chemicals from its products and recycling its older products. We apologize for leaving you in the dark for this long. Apple is already a leader in innovation and engineering, and we are applying these same talents to become an environmental leader. Based on our tangible actions and results over time, hopefully our customers, employees, shareholders and professional colleagues will all feel proud of our ongoing efforts to become a greener Apple.

Steve Jobs

QuickTime Update
&
AirPort Extreme

[Metal Gear NT]

我留意到o既係......
We plan to introduce our first Macs with LED backlight technology in 2007. Our ability to completely eliminate fluorescent lamps in all of our displays depends on how fast the LCD industry can transition to LED backlighting for larger displays.

LED backlight MacBook Pro in 2007?

[TOOT]

各位有冇咩方法管理iphoto的相呢?於iphoto上看好像很方便,但我在finder上找files時,便分別要到original和modified入面找,很麻煩呢...

[沒名字的?君]

作者: TOOT

各位有冇咩方法管理iphoto的相呢?於iphoto上看好像很方便,但我在finder上找files時,便分別要到original和modified入面找,很麻煩呢...

我多數入完相都會分開folder同album放好
不能分類就由得佢

seach 相的話, 在iphoto入面seach好比較方便

[Metal Gear NT]

作者: TOOT

各位有冇咩方法管理iphoto的相呢?於iphoto上看好像很方便,但我在finder上找files時,便分別要到original和modified入面找,很麻煩呢...

我都係由得iPhoto幫我organize相片
亦即是Apple要你用iPhoto
可不要用Finder找相...用iPhoto的Album, keyword功能吧...
雖然我認為像iTunes一樣有個"Show in Finder"的功能的話會方便很多

不過有個方法
就是在iPhoto中把相片drag到desktop
咁樣desktop上就會有一個o個張相o既copy~

[BeBop]

作者: Metal Gear NT

我留意到o既係......
We plan to introduce our first Macs with LED backlight technology in 2007. Our ability to completely eliminate fluorescent lamps in all of our displays depends on how fast the LCD industry can transition to LED backlighting for larger displays.

LED backlight MacBook Pro in 2007?

What is LED backlight?

[TOOT]

作者: Metal Gear NT

我都係由得iPhoto幫我organize相片
亦即是Apple要你用iPhoto
可不要用Finder找相...用iPhoto的Album, keyword功能吧...
雖然我認為像iTunes一樣有個"Show in Finder"的功能的話會方便很多

keyword功能對我幫助不大呢,因很多很多相只用原相機file名,如:SAYNO19.jpg

作者: Metal Gear NT

不過有個方法
就是在iPhoto中把相片drag到desktop
咁樣desktop上就會有一個o個張相o既copy~

謝謝,不過我只想在photoshop上edit相,如果用這方法的話,save的時候依然要找原圖(因為我不想duplicate多一張相)

btw, spotlight找到的item,有冇方法選用指定software開?

[Metal Gear NT]

作者: TOOT

keyword功能對我幫助不大呢,因很多很多相只用原相機file名,如:SAYNO19.jpg

謝謝,不過我只想在photoshop上edit相,如果用這方法的話,save的時候依然要找原圖(因為我不想duplicate多一張相)

btw, spotlight找到的item,有冇方法選用指定software開?

其實我都係冇用過keyword功能...

你指只係想用spotlight搵到時先用某個software開？
以我所知就唔覺有

你要right click是但一個file(e.g. JPEG)
Get Info-->Open with:
選定某個software(e.g. Photoshop)
跟住tick埋"Change all"
咁以後JPEG都會用Photoshop開

[Metal Gear NT]

作者: BeBop

What is LED backlight?

應該會比較靚(實際比較係點我就唔知啦，不過最近Samsung都有推出LED display)
不過可以話o既係會慳電得多
而且製造物料上比LCD環保

[Metal Gear NT]

Mactracker - Get info on any Mac
http://www.mactracker.ca/

其實不單止Mac
而係所有歷年來Apple電子產品、OS都有資料收錄
由第一部Macintosh、Lisa到現在o既Mac Pro
由iPod、Apple TV遠至Newton甚至你未必知道佢出過o既QuickTake camera
除o左一般歷史資料、規格之外
都有佢o既實用價值
例如一check就知道我部Mac對應邊種RAM、對應電池等周邊o既編號等等
真係一個豐富資料庫
最緊要係佢係一個可下載落o黎o既software，隨時都可以check到

[YeeeSSS]

led backlight has no mercury inside, so its more environmental friendly

[Metal Gear NT]

New Ads!!
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

Choose a Vista
Genius
Party is Over

YouTube仲有一個
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9TjIlZkzVs
不過Apple仲未post出o黎

[HEYHEY]

本人只是一位學生，很少出外
我想問Mac機可以在哪裏購買，價錢又大約多少(要是不能打出外的話，不知你們會否介意給我一個私人訊息)
另我見軟件方面，專門給Mac的卻很少，不知是否足夠呢
由於我覺得設計上，Mac機可很漂亮，所以有意在有需要時懂得去選購

[Metal Gear NT]

作者: HEYHEY

本人只是一位學生，很少出外
我想問Mac機可以在哪裏購買，價錢又大約多少(要是不能打出外的話，不知你們會否介意給我一個私人訊息)
另我見軟件方面，專門給Mac的卻很少，不知是否足夠呢
由於我覺得設計上，Mac機可很漂亮，所以有意在有需要時懂得去選購

最方便係Apple Online Store，價錢都有齊(出面都差唔多係公價o架啦)
http://store.apple.com/800-908-988/W...hongkongstore/

街舖零售商呢度都差唔多有齊
http://appleclub.com.hk/buy/reseller.html
去皇室堡行一轉啦，好多間賣Mac
我係去C字頭o個間買o既

software方面不如講下你需要仲好
如果你係要打機的話就真係冇乜啦，有都會比PC版遲(係WoW呢o的先少有地同步推出)
但係如果一般文書處理，Apple出o既有，Mac版M$ Office又有，上網免費download o既OpenOffice/NeoOffice都有
如果係設計、剪片呢類就唔駛擔心，Apple其中一樣出名就係呢範
而且Mac跟機已經有唔同o既Apple software(聽歌、剪片、相片管理、DVD/音樂製作等等)

被Mac外型吸引好正常
不過都要知道自己需要、試過先再諗買唔買
我雖然都想多個Mac用家
但係若果到時買部Mac返o黎係裝Windows用
我寧願Apple做少單生意
所以最緊要都係清楚你想要乜啦