Archives for February, 2008

Just a reminder that our featured presenter for the March 14th meeting will be the ever-popular Dave Marra. His presentations are always fun and jam-packed with info so plan now to attend this meeting and invite friends, co-workers, potential switchers and anyone else you think might benefit from it. Dave’s coming a long way so we want to make sure he’s got a good crowd.

If you aren’t a member of ACAMUG please feel free to come and enjoy the presentation, even if you don’t own a Mac. This is a great chance to see the latest in Apple hardware and software and get buying advice from our members. All skill levels are welcome, from Guru to “how do I turn this thing on?”

• Click here for a PDF brochure for Dave Marra’s presentation

If you’ve been waiting until it was safe to buy a new portable Mac your wait is over. Available immediately, Apple has announced updates to both their MacBook and MacBook Pro laptop notebook computers.

The MacBook Pro gets the more significant update with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and NVIDIA graphics chips, faster speeds (up to 2.6GHz), larger hard drives, 2GB memory standard and the same multi-touch trackpad that was introduced with the MacBook air last month.

The MacBooks receive a speed bump and larger hard drives but no multitouch trackpad.

Apple has just released Mac OS X 10.5.2, the latest update to “Leopard”, and it’s a huge one. Literally hundreds of fixes and improvements:

• About the Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update

It is available via Software Update n the Apple menu or, for potentially fewer problems, download and run the (300MB) combo updater from here:

• Download: Mac OS X 10.5.2 Combo Update

Before doing either it’s probably a good idea to launch the Disk Utility application from the Utilities folder of the Applications folder, highlight your hard drive in the list on the left, then run both Verify Disk and Repair Disk Permissions to ensure your startup disk has no problems.

After updating to 10.5.2 you should also download and install:

• Leopard Graphics Update 1.0

As it is “recommended for all users and improves the stability and compatibility of your Mac”. It requires 10.5.2 so it must be installed after you update.

In addition to the bug fixes some of you will be happy to hear that Apple has provided options to restore the 10.4 behavior for folders in the Dock AND now provides a checkbox to turn off the menu bar transparency also introduced in 10.5.0.

Topic

Basic Mac 101 and much, much more!

Who

Judy and others

When

Friday February 8th 2008, 7:30pm – 10pm

Where

Room M129, Building M, ACCC Mays Landing Campus

This is the opportunity to get answers to all of those “how do I ..?”, “why does it ..?” and other questions about the Mac and Mac OS X. New to the Mac? Then this is a great chance to learn about our group.

Presentation topics may change so be sure to verify on the day of the meeting. Got questions you’d like to have answered? Feel free to post them as comments before the meeting so the presenters have a chance to prepare.