I use gestures far more than the home button these days anyway. It's a lot easier to do a four finger swipe up to bring up the multitasking bar than double tap the button, especially if you're in landscape, and the same goes for the pinch to close gesture. The four finger side swipe to switch apps is horrible though.

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Yes, I sometimes do that by accident while playing games.

Also fruit ninja hd is well good.

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Ooh that's an idea, the gf might be going to the states in the summer. Wouldn't there be a problem with customs making her pay duty on it when she brought it back?

The only thing i have ever seen in the UK customs hall is a stack of chairs and a tumbleweed. Not once have I ever seen it manned.

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Don't worry about customs. If they do stop you which is very unlikely, just say its one you bought here. Taking it out of the box and leaving it in a case will be enough to fool them. And they're not looking for that sort of stuff anyway. They're concerned with cigarettes and drugs.

Cool, going to really push for her to go off there now.

Yeah this. Take it out of the packaging and u will be fine.

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Fixture feeling champion 2013.

I've heard the next Macbooks will have these 'Sandybridge' processors - as someone who is completely tech-illiterate, how much difference will these realistically make: for example if I bought a 15inch MBPro with the i7 will the difference between the two be so apparent when the new one's come out that it's worth waiting?

Sandybridge is so 2011. You should just wait until IvyBridge.

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For daily tasks you're not really going to notice any difference.

My 2.2Ghz Athlon X2 & 2GB 400Mhz RAM is about as perceivably fast as my late 2010 MBP 2.66GHz i7 with 4GB 1066Mhz RAM just browsing the web on it right now. That's down to improved browser rendering engines.

You'll notice with CPU intensive stuff like encoding, Flash apps, and opening and closing programs, booting up etc. But not really during actual usage of most apps. Of course it will be slightly "faster" but personally I don't observe much marked difference between machines doing normal things these days.

HD video is handled respectably by most machines with proper dedicated graphics now.

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Just some extra RAM for my Macbook. To boost it up to 2GB.

Cost 40 quid. Apple wanted 80. I love em but they're robbing bastards!

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Sounds like you got robbed at £40 as well, tbh.

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This. Once the new MacBooks are announced I'm sure they'll be a lot more like the MacBook Airs, so you should be able to configure an SSD. For booting up and launching apps it'll speed it up nicely.


I got 8Gb ram from Crucial for £35. Is your mac slightly older now? I find memory tends to start off expensive, gets cheaper, but then gets expensive again.

yeah this.

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i think it is cause its older.

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You're right. When it's old, they overprice because it's hard to get. When it's new, they overprice because of the style and the shizzle and high demand. Either way, Apple win, and the consumer loses.

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Just double checked - could have got it for 26 quid!


Oh well.

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At least your Mac sees all your RAM. Mine only sees 1 of the 2 sticks it has.

Hey dudes, quick question. The casing on my old Macbook is worn off in places and is generally wrecked. It's three years old this month but I do have Applecare. Anyone know if that would be covered?

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Probably not, it's just a warranty by another name so they replace parts that break through no fault of the user. You could try to damage it around the hinges to make it look natural so they have to replace the whole case, but is it worth the risk?

Actually, do this, document every stage including getting a mate secretly film you in the apple store. You'll be an internet legend.