General Discussion I: Ushering in the iRise - Page 2

Hmmm I'm hoping that some of you have Macs on you, and also that you rip your CDs, if you're one of the two, what kind of drive do you guys have? I unfortunately have the Mac Mini Server 2011 version and so I don't have a damn CD Drive on it, so ripping CDs is impossible. I did however buy a Bluray drive to rip Blurays, but I found out that it's not that great at ripping CDs, if misses a few blocks of info on the last tracks on any CD, and although those last few blocks are silence, they still seem vital to me. I don't know why.

So, does anyone have an External CD/DVD drive that's awesome for ripping CDs? What about that Macbook Air Superdrive? If anyone has it can you tell me the drive's name on the "About this Mac" info page so I can see if it's in the Accuraterip's database? D:

I'm bored with my money.

quote Aura

Had a few problems with my laptop over the last few weeks, and in the last couple of days or so, they've gotten much worse. I pulled my laptop apart, and checked the power connection, and it looked as though the component for the power adapter input wasn't connected to what I imagine was a conductor pad.

It was a temporary fix, which seems to be working for now, but I still think it's only a matter of time before my laptop dies completely.

Thinking about getting something like this over the next few weeks or so, when I can afford it. Any input on the specs for this?

What all do you plan on doing with your laptop? Gaming, general office stuff, video editing, etc?

Also, ZL, don't use a Mac Mini myself but do have a friend who uses his Mini as a media server and I know that he will rip CD's right to it. Will get in touch with him tomorrow and ask him what drive he uses.

quote Enhance

What all do you plan on doing with your laptop? Gaming, general office stuff, video editing, etc?

Video editing and eventually general office work, I rarely ever use my laptop for gaming, and when I do, it's for old games that I run on DOSBox, which doesn't require much to run at all.


Nagare, my girlfriend bought herself an Acer laptop a few months or so ago, and even with it's seemingly high quality specs (something like a 2.2GHZ i5 processor, 8GB Ram 1GB dedicated graphics card and more), it's been really unreliable. I've never had any problem with my current Toshiba (until now that is), which is running a 2.7GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB Ram, and a 1GB GeForce Nvidia graphics card (don't recall the exact model).

Before that it was a HP, which was ok, but it probably would have been a lot better if I hadn't been running Vista on it. Mainly because of the good experiences I've had with Toshiba is why I want to get another one, I'm sure if I had a bad experience with the next one I wouldn't be so quick to jump at another Toshiba.

Aura, in that case I'm all for it. If you would want to wait, I'd recommend getting an "ultra book", but they don't really offer anything extra except size benefits which may or may not be important to you.

Oh yeah, you can also wait for Ivy Bridge based laptops to start coming out which might be around the summer time. All depends on how soon you need or want the new laptop.

Happy birthday Enhance.

Thanks Quetzalcoatl and Pokenerd15!

How's everyone's week going?

Haven't had to worry about any exams or quizzes this week fortunately but next week I have 2 exams and 2 more the following week. Anyone else coming up on midterms?