The Monkey Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 nomnomnom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadphoneAddict Posted October 4, 2012 Report Share Posted October 4, 2012 Shelly, under Sound Effects tab within Sound on System Preferences, there should be a pull-down menu to let you choose where sound effects/system sounds will be played through (along with muting said sound altogether). Back when I was using Duet, I had it set to have the sound effects will be played through internal speakers so it wouldn't be sent to Duet. SoundSource still works on my retina with ML, albeit with a bug where my airport express shows up there listed 5 times (version 2.5). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellylh Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Yep, I just found out that Soundsource 2.5 works still (but not 2.5.1). You can can 2.5 and other older versions here: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/legacy/ I don't like having to go to System Preferences to choose sound output. That is why I wanted to use Sound Source or the new Audio Hijack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt Peanuts Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 (edited) FYI, if you option + click on the volume icon on the menu bar, you can choose your output/input devices. Edited October 9, 2012 by Salt Peanuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellylh Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Thanks! Is that new to ML or has this been around for a while? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Ml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellylh Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 Anyone using a Logitech Performance MX mouse with Mountain Lion? The mouse works like shit in ML. Other options while waiting for Logitech to update their software (besides buying another mouse)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 Maybe USBOverdrive? http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html ... or SteerMouse? http://www.plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellylh Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 I downloaded SteerMouse to try for 30 days. Don't think it is working quite as well as Logitech was in Lion but hopefully Logitech will update their software before the end of the 30 day trial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Monkey Posted October 11, 2012 Report Share Posted October 11, 2012 Anyone using a Logitech Performance MX mouse with Mountain Lion? The mouse works like shit in ML. Other options while waiting for Logitech to update their software (besides buying another mouse)? Now, see, ^THAT's a review. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadphoneAddict Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 I still use SoundSource because I can also (1) select system sounds to go through a different device than the rest of the audio, (2) change those volumes independently, or (3) silence one or the other altogether. The new option-click on volume control is still nice, but it doesn't have those features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadphoneAddict Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 BTW, I think that the ML 10.8.2 supplemental update broke my Time Machine backups, and slowed backups down to a crawl. Reinstalling OS X 10.8.2 on top of my current install, without doing the supplemental update fixed things for me. I had to keep quitting the backup when it would estimate 13 days to complete a 16GB incremental backup. Even using SuperDuper! to make a clone was not working right. It seems to be linked to a bug in Spotlight and sandboxing, where TM is asking for something it's not allowed to have. Many people have had to turn off spotlight to get their backups to start working again. but it doesn't work for everyone. The whole problem still forced me to wipe out my external drive TM backup and start over, but the fresh 700GB backup took only about 4 hours once I fixed everything. Somehow my network backup started working again, and I didn't have to wipe that one. I also ran a clone which completed in less than 3 hours (it copied 240GB per hour I think), when before it took 6 hours to copy 1GB... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted October 14, 2012 Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 (edited) Ugh. Last night I shut down my 13" MBP and headed to the radio station. More observant HCers will note I didn't post in the broadcast thread. When I got to the station, the MBP would not boot up. I hit the power button, the screen lit up, the Apple logo appeared, the spinning "gear" showed up with a linear progress bar below it and 15 seconds later the machine powered down. As it turned out, I had a guest DJ (the first one in years) on my show and he was spinning an all vinyl set. I got him set up and spent the next hour in the station's production studio using the fax line to call Apple Care tech support. The tech walked me through a number of steps and we determined that the MBP's HDD was corrupted and not repairable. I scheduled a callback for this morning and the tech helped me format the drive and re-install OSX. I could probably have done this without the help of the tech, but since I paid for AppleCare, I'm damn well gonna use it. There was one major wrinkle: with 10.7 and 10.8 there is no install media, all installs are done through the $%&# Apple App Store. I couldn't remember my password (I've changed it several times recently and I've started using 1Pasword.) The end result was that I re-installed from the image on my Time Machine drive. I would have preferred to do a fresh 10.8 install and then copied my personal data over from the TM. All of this would only be a minor headache, buuut... as I have mentioned elsewhere, I'm Djing for 5 hours on Friday at RISE, the most exclusive club in Boston. I can NOT have my laptop fail during that gig. A friend of mine with a decade of OSX experience is suggesting I buy an external FW drive (like a LaCie 2.5" "ruggedized" model) and making it bootable. I'm considering that, but there's the added issue of Traktor (the DJ software I use) needing to be re-activated every time hardware changes, and it might object to being activated on both the int'l drive and the LaCie. I need a system I can rely on with as few complications as possible. Maybe I should take a cue from my vinyl-spinning friend. Edited October 14, 2012 by Knuckledragger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted October 14, 2012 Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 Oh great googly moogly you can't prep a set with vinyl...I have no advice, only sympathy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted October 14, 2012 Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 I'm just glad that your MBP crap out on RISE night. Don't turn it off the day of the gig or even close it, so you don't have to live through the fear of re-starting when you arrive. Good luck Knucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpedo Posted October 14, 2012 Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 No time to replace the HDD with a fresh new one? Maybe it's not covered by Apple care, but your peace of mind would pay its price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutestory Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 Or maybe an SSD? I'd be shitting bricks if a performance depended upon spinning (magnetic) disks. In any case, break a leg at RISE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadphoneAddict Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 A friend of mine with a decade of OSX experience is suggesting I buy an external FW drive (like a LaCie 2.5" "ruggedized" model) and making it bootable. I'm considering that, but there's the added issue of Traktor (the DJ software I use) needing to be re-activated every time hardware changes, and it might object to being activated on both the int'l drive and the LaCie. I need a system I can rely on with as few complications as possible. Maybe I should take a cue from my vinyl-spinning friend. I don't think this will cause an activation problem if you clone the internal drive as a bootable drive, and it's used on the same Mac that it's authorized on in the event of an internal drive failure. It shouldn't care about what hard drive it's on, just what Mac it's being used with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Monkey Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Pretty sure I am now in the market for an rMBP. Not impressed with the iMac revision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Seriously, even I might be in the market for the 13" one -- 2560x1600 for US$1700? The screen alone is probably worth more than half of that, so it's like getting the computer part for US$700. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 13" rMBP makes the 13" MBA even less attractive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellylh Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 The 13" rMBP looks pretty sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 I'd bet the 13" mba gets discontinued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cankin Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Integrated graphic on 13" rMBP....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMoney Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 ^ This While the rMBP style computers are the future, the future aint ready for primetime just yet. The 15" rMBP drops frames like a demon even scrolling on everyday webpages in safari and that thing has pretty darn powerful dGPU. Using only the integrated intel 4000 GPU doesn't seem like a great idea. The next revision or two of these retina laptops should have GPUs perform considerably better than the current gen with Intel's Haswell and improvements from nvidia and amd coming down the pipe. I think I'll wait for rev. 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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