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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/29/2011 07:53AM by bahamut.

Well, does Airport treat the ordering of "remembered" networks as a priority list? That might help. But going back from 2.4 GHz to 5 GHz you'll never lose your connection so it will never jump back up to 5 GHz. I don't know how to fix that.

Weird, I just opened the laptop and it hit the 5ghz network. Go figure.

I'm in a bit of an urgent bind. Anyone have a copy of Macintax/Turbotax for TY2005?

Oh, gods, I throw my electronic copies out after three years. It is remotely possible that I kept the CD. I will check this weekend.

Never used this service, but see here for another possibility.

Possibly at too high a price point, but more reliable, Amazon has it.

My sis worked on Windows stuff at Intuit years ago, so she doesn't have anything like that, sorry.

ddt

I did find the "buy old remainders" solutions, but unfortunately it's all physical delivery. Intuit has downloads for windows, but only back to TY2006. Due to circumstances, I need to deal with this this weekend.

I "located" a copy for Windows, but if anyone is able to scrounge up an alternative, it would be much appreciated.

I just ordered a Core 2 Duo CPU to put in my old Core Duo Mac mini.

It's the same clock speed as the old one (1.66GHz) but should be faster since it's a Core 2.

Once that's in, I plan on installing Lion on it. From what I've read, I should be able to put the Mac mini into Target Disk Mode and install Lion onto it as an external drive on my MacBook Pro. After Lion is installed, I just need to edit one plist and it'll run fine on the old machine.

Let me know how that goes, I have a Mac Mini in the same situation that needs and update.

CPU arrived today. I got it installed and decided to upgrade the memory too as long as I had the case open. An hour ago it was a Core Duo with 1GB RAM. Now it's a Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM.

There is a significant improvement in performance. The system is very usable again.

I'll probably give the Lion install a try later this week.

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I just ordered a Core 2 Duo CPU to put in my old Core Duo Mac mini.

It's the same clock speed as the old one (1.66GHz) but should be faster since it's a Core 2.

Once that's in, I plan on installing Lion on it. From what I've read, I should be able to put the Mac mini into Target Disk Mode and install Lion onto it as an external drive on my MacBook Pro. After Lion is installed, I just need to edit one plist and it'll run fine on the old machine.

I just went to upgrade one of my Mac Minis to Lion. Ooops.... it's a core duo. Won't upgrade.
Then I recalled this thread.
Can I upgrade it with a CPU? If so ... how? where to get CPU? Etc.? Thanks in advance!

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Macmini1,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 1.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MM11.0055.B08

time passes...
I bought a T7200 off of eBay.
I'll see if I can just 'pop it in'.
(That's worked brilliantly for me in other facets of my life)

The CPU in your system right now is a 1.66GHz Core Duo T2300. Your cheapest option for a replacement would be a Core 2 Duo T5500 which is also 1.66GHz chip but its newer architecture makes it perform slightly better and, most importantly, it is 64-bit.

If you want to kick the performance up even more, you can go with a T5600 (1.83GHz) a T7200 (2GHz) a T7400 (2.17GHz) or a T7600 (2.33GHz). Those are quite a bit more expensive than the T5500, though.

It is VERY important that you pay attention to the package type. You need a "Socket M" version of the chip. The BGA479 version will not work.

While you're doing the replacement, make sure you scrape off the old thermal compound from the heatsink and start with fresh thermal compound. I would recommend using acetone (nail polish remover) to thoroughly clean the heatsink and use isopropyl alcohol to clean the surface of the new CPU before applying the new thermal paste.

After the upgrade is finished, you can install Lion... sort of. The only reason Lion wasn't supported on that system was due to the lack of 64-bit capability in the Core Duo CPU. Unfortunately, the installer doesn't base its decisions on the type of CPU in the system, it bases it on the computer model. That means that it will still refuse to install Lion.

There are two methods to make it work. The easiest method is to put the Mac mini into Firewire Target Disk Mode and plug it into another Mac that is supported by Lion. You can then install Lion on the Mini as an external drive. Once the install is finished, you need to delete the file "/System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist". After you delete that file, you can disconnect the Mac mini and power it up normally. Lion should then work perfectly.

The second method requires you to keep a working version of Snow Leopard on the system. I'll let you Google that one if you need to use it.

NOTE: Apparently the 10.7.2 update replaces the PlatformSupport.plist file. This prevents Lion from booting. When that happens, you need to put the machine back in Target Disk Mode and connect it to another Mac to delete the file again. You could also boot to a Snow Leopard install DVD and run Terminal.app from the DVD to delete the file as well.

How do I get a bunch of epub books out of one iPhone, where I was reading them in Stanza, into my new iPhone? I backed up the old one (which still has all the epub books), and synced the new one to the backup, but it didn't bring the epubs with that. And I don't think I have all the original epub files.

ddt

DPBD: Hey, any spreadsheet whizzes out there? I have some csv files that I kind of want to shoehorn into the format required by crowdmap.com -- my naive and uninformed guess is that it'd require some serious macro-fu to move column THIS to become column THAT with a different header name, and so on.

ddt

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DPBD: Hey, any spreadsheet whizzes out there? I have some csv files that I kind of want to shoehorn into the format required by crowdmap.com -- my naive and uninformed guess is that it'd require some serious macro-fu to move column THIS to become column THAT with a different header name, and so on.

ddt

Dan,

My new job is shoehorning some format (frequently .csv) into some other matrix format. Drop me a note via email with a snippet of the .csv and the crowdmap format and I'll see what I can do. firstname.lastname@gmail.com



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/24/2011 06:12PM by Alan Lehman.

This is interesting.

The 2006 Mac Mini models had Core Solo or Core Duo CPUs.

The 2007 Mac Mini models had Core 2 Duo CPUs.

Other than the CPU itself, the machines were physically identical. In theory, replacing the Core Solo or Core Duo CPU with a Core 2 Duo should make them completely identical... but it doesn't.

The 2006 model is identified as "macmini1,1" aka "Mac-F4208EC8".
The 2007 model is identified as "macmini2,1" aka "Mac-F4208EAA".

This identifier makes the two systems behave very differently.

The most obvious difference is that the latter model is fully supported by Lion, but even before Lion was released, there was an even more significant difference...

The 2006 model was limited to 2GB RAM. The 2007 model could take 4GB of RAM although only 3.18GB was usable by the OS because of chipset limitations. If you tried installing 4GB of RAM in the 2006 model, it wouldn't even boot.

Now, a community of tinkerers have been trying to figure out how to make a 2006 model think it's a 2007 model by modifying firmware updates, etc. So far they have been able to get the 2006 models to work with 4GB RAM (again, only 3GB usable). They still haven't fully solved the puzzle, though. While the updated systems support the higher RAM limit and report themselves as "macmini2,1" they still have the "Mac-F4208EC8" identifier showing up which means Lion still doesn't work without the install hacks.

They're still working on it, though. The forum thread is 7 pages long so far and is really interesting:

http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,874.0.html

I had the core solo.