amor4ce: The prices at the Orchard seem to be highly escalated.

Must be due to a lack of competition.

bayfam: @Olisa74 ....thanks,yes a Nigerian infact staying around lsland, hv been there d civic center,d lady scared me with price i thought...she said 48k....n blunt about it just work out...thanks i will try other places.....pls is dat reason a guy sold origina used,cut n tapped power pack for me at 8k,i hv no choice but to buy...d systems everytin is expensive..sha! Thanks again

48k for a new battery is absolutely ridiculous. Apple, though, need to calm down on the price of Apple accessories. I paid £101 for a new MBP battery late last year.

bayfam: Hello Moderator and NL's... Pls i need a battery for my Apple iBook G4 laptop,d battery is flat....once d light goes off it's off too......d laptop is not new though but still working except d mouse is bad,am using external mouse...pls o battery? Where?

Do you live in Nigeria?
If so try:
The Orchard, Shop 3, Civic Centre Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, VI, Lagos, 07028064109
or try www.ishopa.com

You might need to arrange to have one imported as I doubt anyone would stock an ibook G4 battery.

SoftVersion: I‘m thinking of buying Apple Macbook Pro 13inches 2.8GHZ. It cost a fortune but I‘m ready for it. I hope I won‘t have to change the laptop in the next few year... I‘ll be using it for professional use, though I‘m a student and into programming and stuffs like that, how‘s d battery life?

You should be able to get up to 7 hours battery life( According to Apple). My wife uses a 6 year old 13" Macbook and can still get up to 4 hours of battery life and has had no problems so far.
It does cost a small fortune, but it is money well spent.

Idango:

You dont know what happen when you die, you just assume that you cease to exist. And you are taking such a heavy risk with your life making assumption?
First you assume there is no God,
then you assume the earth and human just came on their own and begin to evolve and
then you assume that when you die, you just close your eyes and everything ceases.
You are deluded.
Just retrace your step now and come to God before it is too late.

This argument is best known as Pascal's Wager.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that there are thousands of gods that humans have imagined. A person who believes in Allah can make this statement, and so can a person who believes in God, and so can a person who believes in Vishnu. This multitude of fictional beings shows the silliness of the argument. There is no way to know which god to choose, because there is no evidence whatsoever indicating that any of them exist.

The fact is that religion is delusion. All human gods are imaginary. By believing in an imaginary god, a believer has not "lost nothing." Believers commit themselves to a lifetime of delusion, instead of commiting their lives to reality.

Non-believers, in contrast, live moral and loving lives without having to resort to delusion. Non-believers are normal human beings who embrace reality rather than delusion. As a result, they live much healthier lives.

The fact that there are so many gods proves that all of these gods are imaginary. If there actually were an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving "god" in any form, he would be obvious to everyone and we would all align on him. His existence would be undeniable and impossible to hide.

Can this fraudster please tell me what today's lottery winning numbers will be? I am ready to donate 90% of the winnings to his church. People gullible enough to believe him are simply ediots.

benodic: @ Pastor Kun






there is no contradiction. what i said was created in the image and likeness of God is the real you, SOUL. Soul like God too is formless. in other for soul to be able to experience life in the lower universes of God, bodies including the physical body were created for it to wear like a cloth. these bodies enabled it to be able to live and move around in the lower worlds which forms the schools of life. Soul wearing the inner bodies and the physical body is what is referred to as Man. not the other way round. so when soul is done with schooling it simply drops all those bodies and goes back to its formless state or can decide to remain in the lower universes to help and teach other souls who are still undergoing schooling. that is the way it is.
thanks

Hello Ben,
I still see a bit of a contradiction in your statement. You say that God is unknowable and unfathomable, and yet we KNOW that SOUL was created in the likeness of God. You then go on to say that Soul like God is formless. That implies that we do KNOW an aspect of God. You then end by saying "that is the way it is". I find that quite intriguing, as scientifically, there is no evidence for the existence of Soul.I would love to know where such absolute and astute knowledge comes from. Thanks.

Logic Mind: buzugee, what was man created from?

We have been taught in school that nothing can be created or destroyed. So man is not created.

buzugee: which came first, the hen or the egg ?

The egg obviously came first.

Thanks Ben for the response.
I also read your response to Cmanforall. I found the the part of all Souls returning back to God very interesting.
Please I have another question if you don't mind.
Since we all eventually return to God, where did God himself come from?
Thanks.

Maleeq:
Though not as long as I have used windows or linux, I have used a Mac. I love it...but my position is that it is over hyped...my "silly" responses followed your previous "not so brilliant reasons" to choose a Mac...I mean, stating VLC as a point? Bet you sef suppose laugh at yasef. Plus I've seen you post more researched reasons than personalized experience. You've done more quoting than anyone olisa.

Omo, 1tr dollars? I gats apply to apple o. At all at all, na im bad pass!

Let me takle this in true "Maleeq" style.

1. Though not as long as I have used windows or linux, I have used a Mac. I love it...but my position is that it is over hyped - You love Macs, but I guess you just love Windows and Linux more

2 My "silly" responses followed your previous "not so brilliant reasons" to choose a Mac - None of your responses where "silly". In fact they where rather intelligent and well thought out, just not based on personal experience.

3 I mean, stating VLC as a point? Bet you sef suppose laugh at yasef - WMV and several other formats previously need third party applications to work on Macs. VLC changed all of that. PC users equally had such problems with certain video and audio containers. It is a valid point, so no, I no fit laugh mysef.

4 Plus I've seen you post more researched reasons than personalized experience. - Absolutely nothing wrong with researching. I have never vilified Windows. I just feel your attacks on Macs are just not based on personal experience.

5 You've done more quoting than anyone olisa. - I quoted 50 reasons by Chis Pirrilo so I guess you got me there.

6 Omo, 1tr dollars? I gats apply to apple o. At all at all, na im bad pass! - This statement kinda sums up a main difference PC users and Macs users. For Mac users its never about money. Most Apple employees work for Apple not for money, but because they love the product. Its kinda spiritual. Surreal. I guess thats why some say Macs are a cult, a religion. Maybe therein lies Apples success. Anyway it is something a PC user just won't understand.

If God exists, I think he definitely would have made himself more obvious in our everyday lives. In the Bible, everywhere God does something to reveal himself.
According to the Bible God incarnated himself. He created an entire human body named Jesus.
That is not a "clue" -- that is a huge, obvious piece of evidence. It is very hard to "hide" a 170-pound human being who is running around performing miracles on every street corner.
Then you collect the stories of those miracles and publish them in a book. Where is the hiding in that?
It seems strange to me that these days God has chosen to remain hidden and has not made himself obvious in our everyday lives.

Hello Ben,
I have read some of your interesting posts about dreams.Scientists have been struggling to grapple with dreams, they however believe it has something to do with our evolutionary process. My question is why do we actually dream in the first place?

If you look in the Bible, there are an amazing number of people that God wants his followers to murder. For example, in Exodus 35:2 God lays down this commandment:

For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.

Think about that how many people work on the Sabbath -- all the employees in convenience stores, power plants, airlines, hospitals, emergency services and on and on and on. Don't rabbis, priests and preachers work on the Sabbath? God wants all of them dead.

Then look at Deut 21:18-21. It says:

If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place. They shall say to the elders of his town, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel will hear, and be afraid.

That is a whole lot of teenagers that we need to kill.

Then there is Leviticus 20:13:

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.

All homosexuals need to be killed. What about this:

If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

That's a lot of people who need to be killed.

Does that mean that God is an advocate of murder?

Maleeq,
After carefully reading each of your responses, something becomes glaringly obvious. That is you have never really used a Mac before. You have done tons of research, but have never really used a Mac at length. From calling a Mac a fanboy tool to comparing Ilife to windows Media Player simply borders on the insane. From your thinking that Spotlight is just about locating files to a total lack of understanding the delete function in Macs is unforgivable. I have been using Macs for over a decade and have never had to pay for an update, where did you get that one from? The list goes on, but you have set your defence for Windows in irrational stone. In order to objectively review a product without bias, you first have to have the product, and spend a decent amount of time with it. The proof of the pudding has always, always, been in the eating. Those of us that criticise windows do so having spent years using it. So our criticism is based on personal experience and not research. I am yet to meet anyone who has spent a few months using a Mac and still prefers Windows.
Your staunch defence of Windows is alarming, as I am sure even Bill Gates himself will admit the countless flaws in his product. You seem a little bit FANatical in your BOYish defence of windows. So please is it safe for me to label you a windows FanBoy? Maleeq, you are an intelligent fellow. I seriously suggest you invest in Mac, not so that you get converted, but so that when you are being critical, you are doing so from an end users point of view.
Oh, and I am sure you heard this morning that Apple's share price has overtaken Google as it is forecast to be the first $1tn company. Come on Maleeq, give Apple some credit

SimonAndal: ^^^
I saw something 'bout VLC. Really? That's a reason to switch to Mac? The moment I saw that I stopped reading.

Many years ago people where put off Mac's because of video and audio issues. WMV files could not be played directly on Macs without the need for third party software. The arrival of programs like VLC changed all that. Chis Pirillo is giving 50 combined reasons why he feels you should switch to OS X. He is not saying here are 50 reasons choose one.

Nice try Maleeq!

According to Chris Pirillo, a Windows enthusiast, here are 50 reasons why you should switch from Windows to Apples Mac OS X:

1. Seems that the future of Windows development is happening largely for corporate environments and customers. I don’t take issue with this other than being someone who doesn’t live or work inside a corporate environment at home.

2. Excellent power management in OS X. When I close the lid to my MacBook Pro, it falls asleep. When I open the lid to my MacBook Pro, it wakes up. Imagine that! Seems to be the case 99% of the time, and it happens quickly.

3. I’m ready to experience different frustrations. OS X isn’t perfect, certainly – but I already see its noticeably more stable than Windows Vista has been. Kernel Panics at least look prettier than BSODs. Seriously, I just find OS X’s update schedule to be more to my liking – instead of waiting for gigantic service packs, I get minor point releases along the way to major revisions to the OS. Bugs are going to happen, but knowing that showstopping / security bugs are likely to be squished quicker gives me amazing peace of mind.

4. There’s more interesting, useful, beautiful, and affordable software being developed for OS X. If you still believe that there’s no software for “the Mac,” you’re simply a fool who hasn’t done his or her research.

5. VMware Fusion makes it possible to have every operating system at my fingertips (as well as every app that runs on ‘em, FTW). Performance and stability is a reality, not a dream. More importantly, with USB 2.0 support in VMware Fusion, I have near complete compatibility with any external hardware. Parallels is also there, which should keep competition lively.

6. I believe that the future of Windows (or any OS software layer) will be experienced in a virtual machine of some sort. People have been dual booting for years – now I can triple-task cross-platform in seconds flat.

7. Not to say that Microsoft or Linux haven’t made great strides in recent years, but… at least Leopard feels like only one team was developing the UI. It’s not quite perfect, but closer to what perfect should be. I’m not a huge fan of iTunes or every other Apple utility – but at least with Leopard, they’re trying to make them look and work the same way.

8. I love the fact that most programs and their associated libraries are self-contained (apps). There’s no stress in installing / uninstalling most programs, and for true cleanup jobs there’s always AppZapper.

9. I’m not a huge fan of the Dock for task management, but Quicksilver has virtually no Windows equivalent (in terms of elegance and scriptability, although it’s still completely overwhelming to me right now). The dock isn’t a shining example of where OS X is “better,” but I do appreciate the context menu options for each of the Dock’s icons for “Open at Login” management.

10. Spotlight is to Windows Desktop Search as a BMW Z4 is to a Ford Pinto (in terms of performance, usability, and UI). No contest. I’m sure some would argue the opposite, but… they’re also probably the extreme developer “but it works if you just learn how to use it right” types. Feh.

11. The Apple community has been infiltrated by enough people who aren’t smug. You’re not better than me just because you run another OS or support another vendor, nor are you any less of a geek. Not every Windows user is a neanderthal, although some of their dated arguments would make them out to be. I think that most consumers are caught up in the idea that you NEED Windows for everything at home. You don’t.

12. My iPhone is not going away anytime soon. Would I switch for better compatibility with a communications device? Not necessarily, but if the future of OS X is in the present of the iPhone… they’re going to gain consumer market share at blinding speed. Remember, I wanted to hate this device – after years of being a dyed-in-the-wool Windows Mobile advocate.

13. The spyware / malware / virus threat is diminished by an extreme degree. Not to say that one should avoid running protective layers of software or hardware, but… I’m just not as nervous when I try a new app on OS X.

14. Many of my friends are considering making the switch as well. This dovetails nicely with my first point. I can tell you that just by showing off the fun features of CamTwist and Colloquy with my live stream, a few of those community members have already purchased MacBooks – or are strongly considering doing so in the not-too-distant future. Interestingly enough, those are two FREE apps that work amazingly better than most overpriced Windows shareware titles.

15. Microsoft Windows completely abandoned its power users, period. Where are the Windows Vista “Ultimate” add-ons? Where are the new Power Toys? Why doesn’t Windows Media Player have podcast support yet (despite me telling them to integrate RSS back when WMP9 was in beta, years before podcasting was a buzzword)? I’m not saying that Windows is dead – not by any stretch of the imagination.

16. Boot Camp, if all else fails.

17. A single SKU of Leopard is both 32-bit and 64-bit compatible. This, alone, is a fantastic reason to embrace the platform. It’s seamless. Why should a consumer have to come to a decision on which code to run – or understand the differences between them in the first place? Remember, I’m to be considered a “home” user.

18. Time Machine. Wow. Can it really be this simple? “Simply select your AirPort Disk as the backup disk for each computer and the whole family can enjoy the benefits of Time Machine.” Do you understand what that means? And no, Windows Volume Shadow Copy is not the SAME thing.

19. Leopard’s Finder will allegedly search networked computers seamlessly, as well as allow you to access those results remotely (through a paid .Mac account, which would totally be worth purchasing at that point).

20. Java app performance is decent on OS X, and the same code looks infinitely better when it’s not running on Windows. In fact, most third-party apps are very well designed so as to integrate seamlessly with the entire OS. That’s beyond refreshing.

21. You never need to defrag a Mac’s hard disk.

22. Adium is there – an Instant Messaging client that allows you to use AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk, and other accounts through a single client. It’d be my replacement for Miranda IM. Skype also works on the Mac. I expect to see even more universal IM apps reveal themselves over the coming months.

23. Bonjour is proving to be quite useful on my home network. Computers with Bonjour-enabled services are automatically discovered with virtually no fuss – even my networked Windows machines have been playing along.

24. Joining wireless networks in OS X is easier and more refined, easily accessible. The tools for networking don’t seem overly complex, either.

25. Setting up services such as Windows File Sharing, FTP, and even Web sharing can be done on OS X with just a few clicks. If you’re telling me that I could set up FTP just as easily in Windows, then… it obviously can’t be done as easily.

26. Almost all of the audio and video formats out there can be played on the Mac with Video LAN Player (VLC). One less barrier to entry.

27. Great Web browsers that work in Windows also work on the Mac (Firefox, Opera, SeaMonkey, Flock). The only exception here is Internet Explorer, or any third-party overlay to IE (such as Maxthon, which has been taking a slight turn for the worse with 2.0). Of course, there’s always the “invisible” virtual machine possibility (read: VMware Fusion’s Unity mode). Moreover, Safari / WebKit is gaining speed on all platforms.

28. Erasing deleted files placed in your trash (also known as a Recycle Bin in Windows) can be securely erased in OS X. No need to mess with third-party software.

29. You can still right-click in OS X – and the way Apple decided to implement it is far more convenient than you’d think. In fact, I find double-tapping the mouse pad far more intuitive than using a second mouse button. Didn’t take long to get used to it at all.

30. Wanna set up a VNC server on your Mac? No problem, its already apart of the operating system! Moreover, the feature isn’t buried three levels deep. It’s sitting right there in the Finder. Moreover, unlike Windows Remote Desktop, a Screen Sharing session doesn’t lock the remote user out of his / her session – one reason I’ve always loathed RDC.

31. Microsoft doesn’t have an iLife. Not even close. It has a set of multimedia applications, but they don’t seem to be cohesive in the slightest. Maybe things will get better as Live continues to evolve?

32. You really don’t get to play the blame game with Apple. They make the hardware AND the operating system, so… they really know what’s going on, and they really know if the problem is widespread.

33. A Mac costs about the same as a comparable Windows PC – for hardware and (for argument’s sake for those who don’t believe me) bundled software. And for those who still claim that Macs are still more expensive, they obviously have never seen or priced a gaming rig. Price / cost is relative. If you want a cheap machine, that’s your prerogative. The resell value on Macs has always been higher than that of an equivalent “Windows” machine.

34. You can record audio and video conversations from iChat 4.0 (natively). That’s pretty amazing, as it takes the idea of “video chat” and puts it into a time-shifted space. This isn’t just useful for those of us who conduct guest interviews regularly, but for home users who want to save calls for posterity.

35. Dashcode appears to take the geekery out of widget-building. Moreover, the new “Web Clippings” widget appears to work better than anything I’ve seen come from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, et al. This is putting the user first…

36. With a .Mac subscription, you can save common local settings as global ones. You only have to configure your Dock or System Preferences on one machine to have those same changes appear on all machines connected to your .Mac account. Unbelievable.

37. Unlike Windows font management, you can activate fonts as you need them within Leopard. This translates to less wasted overhead by fonts that remain largely unused in memory. I can only imagine this results in far less resource-intensive sessions. Genius.

38. Automator now supports UI Recording and Playback, which means you can create “macros” without understanding a lick of logic. The last time I saw a native macro recorder in Windows was… v3.0? You don’t have to be a geek to gain access to geeky-cool features.

39. Can’t tell you how much I love Spring Loaded folders. Love ‘em.

40. Wikipedia information, while not always accurate, certainly stands to be updated a lot more frequently than documentation that ships with (or from) the operating system designer. That Apple has taken the step to integrate access directly from within the Dictionary tool…? It’s just kinda nice to have there. They’re placing trust in the idea of community rather than trying to hide it from us.

41. Mail comes with “Data Detectors” which will highlight phone numbers, addresses, etc. You can then choose to do something with that information, like map it or store it as an appointment, contact, etc. This is a feature I had not seen outside of a pricey plugin for Microsoft Outlook. I may not use Mail.app, but at least they’re continuing to improve its functionality – ugly capsule toolbar icons notwithstanding.

42. The Preview tool ain’t no joke – with annotations, basic image editing, Core Animation zooming and scrolling, GPS Metadata support, batch operations, etc. It’s all at your fingertips.

43. Expose works. ‘Nuff said. The only thing that surpasses OS X’s open window management is Compiz Fusion. None of this Flip3D nonsense.

44. Help. No, seriously – Help is the way Help should have always been all along. I related my “Help” experience a few weeks ago, with the system not just finding what I was looking for help on, but taking me directly to the spot where I needed to be. I’m pretty sure the Help system isn’t 100% accurate, but it hasn’t disappointed me yet.

45. Guest accounts are purged after every session in Leopard. Wow. Guest privileges, on the other hand, seem to be lacking somewhat on the security front (but most of my Guests are computer clueless).

46. I love the Universal Access zoom feature – and have used it so many times for countless reasons. Really comes in handy when you’re trying to show something to someone from across the room. Never found anything close to its simplicity anywhere else.

47. Call me crazy, but I love the fact that in OS X, the keyboard shortcut for opening Preferences is always the same (Command + Comma). Convenient. Dependable. Quick.

48. Device compatibility doesn’t seem to be as much of an issue as it used to be with the Mac. While I couldn’t get my brand new HP LaserJet to work inside of Vista, it works flawlessly inside of OS X 10.4 (despite having to use HP’s scanning software). Still, with any USB hardware hiccups in Leopard, compatibility issues are erased with VMware Fusion until newer software is unleashed.

49. Thanks to another one of our sponsors, GoToMeeting, I’ve had the opportunity to see quite a few of my friends’ desktops. Quite a few have gone to great lengths to make their installation of Windows look and feel like Mac OS X. At that point, what’s the point of sticking with Windows? Just about the only thing Mac users might want from Windows is the Explorer (FTFF) – and even then, there’s ‘Path Finder.’

50. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Windows users need Apple’s software more than Mac users need Microsoft’s. That’s just a cold, hard fact. And given my severe disappointment with just about everything in Mac Office 2008, I’m even further driven away from Microsoft’s desktop software.

Maleeq:
Hmmmm, so market value dictates efficiency? Just wondering...

In economics, for a consumer, price is the monetary expression of the value to be enjoyed/benefits of purchasing a product, as compared with other available items. So if people are willing to pay much more for a mac, and with time, much less for a PC, it must indicate something important about the product.

racoon8995: was considering getting myself a macbook buh m not so sure again now...besides ive got a superior HP ENVY 17 3D monster! think ill stick to that

racoon8995,where you considering buying a Macbook or Macbook Pro 15? Your HP Envy is a very powerful machine so I'm sure you where comparing it to a Macbook Pro 15. We can try out a little experiment. Let us come back to this post a year from now. By that time I am sure your superior Envy would have lost at least 40 percent of its present value, while a Macbook Pro 15, of similar age to your Envy would have lost no more than 5 percent of its value!

A brief Tutorial on how to encrypt your USB Thumb Drive using OS X Lion.

Mobinga:

It's on my desktop. Played it lastnight. No bull.poo.

I even put a screenshot here https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-70724.1728.html#msg10337402

I just pooed in my pants

Mobinga:

Nobody's showing love for Mass Effect 3?



Copped it.

3 Days to go,I don't know anyone alive that has their hands on the game, talk less of playing it. I'm hoping it lives up to the hype, as Mass Effect 2 is easily one of the best games ever!!

247man:

When i got the mac, it was running snowleopard, i bought d original lion from d appstore for 30$. I made sure i backed up my snow leopard settings on an external hard drive. So after installing lion and installing all uodates, d issue started, after using lion for a week, i couldnt cope cos it freezes almost every 10mins, i restored from my snow leopard backup and it didnt freeze for days. After one week, I redownloaded d lion, reinstalled, started freezing. Very annoying scenario. I'm back to snow leopard an its working perfectly. I chrcked online and i realise its affecting lots of mid 2010 15" MBPs, i think @tumababa's link has something to do with my issue. It still under warranty if going by d 2 yrs warranty exetension. I av given it to d guy dat sold it for me anyway, he said he will ship it back to US and try to repair under warranty.

Thanks for updating us on your situation. Your situation is really a puzzling one. Thank goodness your Mbp is still under warranty. Hope Apple sort it out quickly and your Mbp is back with you soon.

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tumababa:

U might need to check this info out from apple
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4088

Tumababa, Thanks for the info!! The baffling thing about 247man's problem is it only happened after he upgraded to Lion, then disappeared when he reverted back to Snow Leopard. After installing Lion, the OS should automatically be updated to the latest version, which according to Apple, should eliminate the problem.
I still assume 247man's mbp is fine, and the problem might have been from the Lion OS. If the problem resurfaces while he is using SL, then Houston, we have a problem!

247man:

has anyone experienced this scenario?;
the mbp mid 2010 works fine on snow leopard. i bought d lion OS and installed. After the installation, the screen just goes blank randomly. at times at lo-gin stage, while browsing, waking up from sleep, anytime, d screen will just go blank as if its in sleep mode. the only way out is to reboot.

Right now, i av restored from time machine and back to SL. working fine now. Does anyone av a suggestion apart from changing the logic board?

Hello 247man, I can assure you that your problem has nothing to do with your logic board. As you have reverted back to Snow Leopard with no issues, the problem has to do with the copy of Lion you installed. Did you download it from the Apple Store website? If not, there are a few dodgy ones floating around. I suggest you try re downloading a fresh copy if you can, as your copy might be corrupted.
If you can make do with SL for the time being though, a new OS, Mountain Lion, is due out in the summer. You can get that instead.
Bottom Line : Your mid 2010 mbp is a very new and sturdy machine, if it has no issues with SL, it should handle Lion, or Mountain Lion just fine, except of course, there is a problem with your software.

Hello Faithin9ja,
they say when you switch to a Mac you never look back!! No one is ever too old to make the switch. The one button mouse can be reconfigured to act just like a normal PC mouse if you so prefer. Software compatibility issues with the Mac is becoming a thing of the past, as most vendors are also releasing Mac versions of their various software.
It is strange that your friend could not back up his android phone to a Mac, as an advantage Mac's have over PC's is their plug and play ability, unlike PC's that constantly need drivers.
In my estimation, a Mac is a brilliant investment as they also hardly lose their value, unlike their PC counterparts. I have seen six year old Macbooks still selling for upwards of £500 on ebay!!
So my advise is go ahead, take the plunge, you will not regret it. Good luck!

ritchboy:

Not really feeling the new characters on SCV so far, ain't really got the luxury to spend hours mastering moves/combos in training these days.

Anyway, thank God for Mitsurugi and Setsuka

Reviews are not favourable at all. Seems like I will save myself £40 and give SCV a miss!

Hello Chillbabe, did you manage to resolve your issue? It does sound like it might be an issue with your Hard Drive. Replacing it is fairly inexpensive and straight forward, but it means you will lose all your data if you didn't back up before your issue started. If your MacBook Pro came with installation discs, then you could boot from the disc and try to repair the hard drive. Any which way I hope you sort it out. Please post back and let us know how it goes.

Hello teemaverikk, unfortunately I am not based in Nigeria, so my knowledge on the second hand market for Apple products in Nigeria is somewhat limited. What I do know is that MacBooks tend to hold their value for many years, so you would be hard pushed to get a fairly used Macbook for 90k. Moreover apple seem to have discontinued the Macbook range in favour of the entry level Macbook Pro, which in the UK goes for £999. Still give it a shot as you never know.
You can try iShopA. According to their website they are based in Abuja, Ikeja and Port Harcourt.
Alternatively you can try The Orchard, Shop 3, Civic Centre Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, VI, Lagos, 07028064109.
Please post back and let us know how it goes so we can all learn from your experience.

Chillbabe, did your Macbook Pro come with any installation discs?

chillbabe:

someone please help me resolve this problem with my macbook pro.I just turned it on only to be faced with the problem of it not coming up all i see is the apple logo and the sign of the rotating wheel-like stuff as if its searching for sumtin, would appreciate your help people.Thanks

Hello Chillbabe. There seems to be a problem with your hard drive. You can try to repair the hard drive, but the methods differ depending on the Operating System you are using. Are you using OSX Snow Leopard or OSX Liion?

Sorry about the negative comments, I got carried away. I retract my comments. I personally feel that the Need For Speed series is pretty much for the casual gamer just looking for some fun. Serious driving enthusiasts have just got to stick with the Forza MotorSport series, Gran Turismo series, F1 2011 and Dirt 3, in my opinion.

This Post, and the subsequent replies, shows clearly that Nigerians just aren't into racing games. Epic Fail!