Are you using a MacBook Pro with Windows Vista to write computer programs? I've heard the trackpad is atrocious in Windows. Is this true? What has your overall experience been? How are the drivers for Vista64? I'm interested in running Vista on the bare metal, but if you have experience with VMWare or Parallels I'd like to hear that...
I'm a long time casual emacs user that just switched to it as my main editor for coding. I gave up on Aquamacs and other OS X ports each for different reasons and I've settled on running Ubuntu in VBox and everything is nearly perfect. The last thing that I can't seem to figure out is semi-Icicles specific but I'm hoping someone can he...
I'm using PackageMaker (ver 3.0.3 on Leopard 10.5.8) to install an application and want to check the Model Identifier & CPU prior to installation. The application does not work with certain models of MacBookPros. I've tried to use a pre-install shell script where I grab the system_profiler output and grep it for specific Model Identifier...
I've been programming using OpenCV on the iSight feed and after building and running from Xcode 10 or so times somewhat quickly the MacBook Pro starts to not recognize the iSight (as in completely, Photo Booth doesn't work, nor video chat within iChat, and it's not in System Profiler). The only way to recover is to do an SMC reset, norma...
How do you send alt-insert (resharper 'generate' keyboard shortcut) over an RDC connection from a macbook pro keyboard? I'm using CoRD as my RDC client if that matters. I've seen fn+m and fn+enter online as suggestions for the insert key, but neither seems to work for me. ...
Hi Anyone have experience running Visual Studio 2010 on a MacBook or MacBook Pro? (via VMWare fusion) Any feedback / advice based on your experience re what level of MacBook Pro (i.e. CPU type, CPU speed) you would target to get reasonable/good performance from VS2010 on it? (I'm just concerned about getting a base level MacBook Pro ...
It seems like the perfect opportunity for the trackpad or the magic mouse to work with the iphone simulator but it doesnt?! Does anyone know how to get it working to allow me to touch and pinch? ...
The new MacBookPros come with two graphic adapters, the Intel HD Graphics, and the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M. OS X switches back and forth between them, depending on the workload, detection of an external monitor, or activation of Rosetta. I want to get my feet wet with CUDA programming, and unfortunately the CUDA SDK doesn't seem to take...
Hi, I'm about to buy a new laptop (Asus G62) to replace my old ubuntu desktop. I will use it mostly for django development (and some legacy win32 stuff in a virtualbox). However, since I will need to do some iPhone development in the near future, I'm starting to think that it might be a wiser to buy a MacBook Pro, instead of the Asus a...
I need a portable Mac for iPhone / iPad development. I bought and am using a 15" MBP matte display right now. It cost $2400 and is hard on my eyes because the resolution is 1680 x 1050. I'm thinking of returning it and getting a different laptop, but which one? My usage pattern is that I see myself shuttling this computer to and from wor...
Although I have a feeling that this isn't technically possible, it's worth asking anyways. Is it possible to turn on the Macbook Pro's keyboard backlights for individual keys? I am working on a piece of grid-based software which allows the user to navigate around by pressing any key on the keyboard to position the cursor at that point ...
I want to develop Android apps on the Mac, but the information on http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html is confusing. Apart from the android-sdk_r06-mac_86.zip , does the Mac need JDK or Eclipse ? The JDK installation page gives a link to Apple site for downloading "Java Developer Preview 10M3222+9M3222", which is a pre-release ve...
Hi All, I am working on GPS utility for my project. Test code which I tried out was well know app "WhereAmI" When I am using my Mac Book pro, it returns me some value, but same is not working on another Mac mini. Mac mini has upgraded 4.0 OS SDK environment and Mac book pro had it already with it when I brought that. Is it some thing ...
Hi guys, i'd like to grab a frame from my MacBook Pro iSight in C++ and do some elaborations on it. I already know how to do that in ObjC with QTKit, but is there any way to do the same thing in C++? NOTE: I tried to install OpenCV with macports, but the framework doesn't seem to support iSight cameras. Thanks ...
My application links against these Frameworks: Cocoa.Framework AppKit.Framework CoreData.Framework Foundation.Framework Note that OpenGL.Framework is NOT linked. However, after setting DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1, I note that: ... dyld: loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL dyld: loaded: /Syste...