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So it sounds like nobody has an answer. ;)

I'm planning for the next tower and I'd like to have my applications launching as quickly as possible. What is the consensus on this? It seems like some form of RAID would be ideal, but from what I recall, this is not necessarily true for app launching, yes? Also, what about SAS versus...

I installed a second SATA drive in my Mac Pro G5. I cannot get it to be recognized. In Disk Utility it does not show up. However, when I do a System Profile (About this Mac), the SATA section shows it being there, but just with minimal info compared to the other SATA drive, which has been...

I've got a few main gripes with Leopard. Can anyone help? 1. Spotlight doesn't work on text in the middle of a file name. Has it always been this way? So if I search for "ourc" on a file named "outsourcing" nothing shows up. Now maybe that's not a good example, but there are plenty of...

Yup, that's perfect. Thanks!

I have have been using iKeys for over ten years to launch applications and present folders. It seems to have broken a bit in Leopard and so far it ha snot been updated, so I need to move on. I am currently playing with Quickkeys, which is fine, but a bit overkill (much as iKeys has become...

Since installing Leopard I can no longer drag physical hard drives on our network to the Dock or the Sidebar. Is there a workaround for this? It is very frustrating having to dig into the drive form so high up in the hierarchy. Thanks!

Does anyone know how I can have a Finder window's search "remember" the default location? Example: Currently when I run a search it defaults to the "This Mac" search location. I hate this. I want it to default to "This Folder" like it did in Tiger. Or at least in Tiger it would remember that...

I have absolutely no real data to back this up, but anecdotally, the flash drives have shown me a tendency to go bad over time. Sometimes they just get broken. They are small and typically fragile, so they will just be more susceptible to damage. Beyond that, I've personally had two (of...

The mini is dead. I believe they will make that official tomorrow. The new iMacs (super thin being the theme) will arrive with a look that is similar to the current line (but a lot thinner and with new subtle changes like rounded corners, speakers on the front where they're supposed to be and...

Whatever you do, wait until next week: http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/07/31/presentation/index.php

Is there any way to override the OS so that when I make a new folder its permission settings are Read+Write for everyone? I know I can use Tinker Tool to sort of allow this, but it only works when you make a new folder from within an application. So if you make a new folder from the Finder, it...

Question: Can I reinstall just the core OS onto my drive and keep all my other files intact? Question 2: Can I install a base OS X on an external HD (firewire) and boot to that so that I can pull all my files off the troubled drive?

Sorry for the excitement, but I'm panicing. I restarted my Dual G5 2.7 this morning just to clear out an audio error. It then got to the Apple logo and spinning circle thing. And that's it. I left it for an hour or more. Things I have tried: reset P-ram booted to CD, ran disk utility...

No worries here. Leopard in terms of new features and improvements is the most ho-hum of all the OS X releases to date (for me). I'm not saying I won't change my mind once I use it, but the sneak peak stuff is completely uninteresting to me. Time Warp? No thanks. Backups for Grandma. Spaces...