What have you done with an early Intel recently?

[MBAir2010]

I concur. There's no end of traders on eBay who sell replacement units inexpensively. When the optical drive on my 2006 MBP failed, I bought a new one from Taiwan for next to nothing and it arrived in 7 days.

Thanks for the tip.....I Only purchase form a tech shop in California for early Intel Macs.
their prices are fair with great inventory and working replacement parts.

some well a few (too many) eBa'rs are devious trying to off load a bad product.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Thanks for the tip.....I Only purchase form a tech shop in California for early Intel Macs.
their prices are fair with great inventory and working replacement parts.

If you've got a local source then that's great.

some well a few (too many) eBa'rs are devious trying to off load a bad product.

It's a shame that you've had these negative experiences. When I've run into problems with the traders, I've usually been able to resolve things amicably and when that wasn't possible, I involved eBay's customer services dept and they've largely been very supportive.

What have I done with an early Intel Mac today? Used one to help me recuperate... Under doctor's orders, I've been indoors all day unwinding and what better way to relax than with a good film?

VLC appears to be functioning properly again on my 2011 MBP under High Sierra (for now!) so I put on a Blu-ray that I treated myself to recently.

On a side note, if you've not seen Forbidden Planet and you're into serious Sci-Fi or on a broader level, enjoy mature and thoughtful cinema then you couldn't go wrong with spending 98 minutes watching this seminal 1950s gem that inspired countless figures across the film and TV world.

The extras are superb too!

 

[InsightsIE]

Hey, I took my early 2008 MBP Out of the laptop sleeve and when I tried using it I noticed the lowest row of keys ZXCV row and lower etc some of the keys don't work anymore. Has a capacitor broke and leaked underneath? What do you think may have caused that. I'm not in a position to currently open it up and investigate but has anything similar happened to anyone else? The Battery didn't balloon. It's non functioning so I should probably throw it away as it's likely just hazardous waste, but could it be anything else?

 

[TheShortTimer]

Hey, I took my early 2008 MBP Out of the laptop sleeve and when I tried using it I noticed the lowest row of keys ZXCV row and lower etc some of the keys don't work anymore. Has a capacitor broke and leaked underneath? What do you think may have caused that. I'm not in a position to currently open it up and investigate but has anything similar happened to anyone else? The Battery didn't balloon. It's non functioning so I should probably throw it away as it's likely just hazardous waste, but could it be anything else?

It might just need a replacement keyboard. What happens when you connect a USB keyboard? Does it recognise all of the keys?

 

[B S Magnet]

that means these CD/DVD drives are not repairable?

They can be opened to permit visual inspection of components within like worm gears, spindles, and tracks, as well as the lens itself. It affords an opportunity to lubricate moving parts (I’ve been using Paslode lubricating oil, designed for high-moving components, like power drills).

When cleaning out a laptop I pick up from second-hand sources, if there’s an optical drive, I’ll open its cover and inspect within, cleaning out any dust and debris which may have collected within, then lubricating the key points.

It’s possible the motor drive mechanism could be bent on yours and doesn’t react when one attempts to insert media. Although not impossible, it’s less likely the disc-insertion motor burnt out.

[EDIT: copy editing really basic proofing mistakes, because either my eyes are giving out or else my stamina is.]

 

[eyoungren]

File shares re-established, CCC backups re-targeted, Dropbox folder re-linked. Now…just waiting for Dropbox to finish indexing 21,000+ files.

 

[MBAir2010]

Right now I'm watching "Return Of the Sith..or Revenge" and the film is excellent from start as like 2005
this week i started with the first and second SW™ and was wondering what us next besides the New Hope?
i think either Rouge One or Han Solo?

thanks in advance!

 

[B S Magnet]

Right now I'm watching "Return Of the Sith..or Revenge" and the film is excellent from start as like 2005
this week i started with the first and second SW™ and was wondering what us next besides the New Hope?
i think either Rouge One or Han Solo?

thanks in advance!

Rogue One is brilliant, positively so — plot, casting, pacing, continuity (unusually good continuity, especially in some of the X-wing cockpit shots).

For the 2010s crop of films, Rogue One and Episode VIII: The Last Jedi have special places in my heart.

 

[MBAir2010]

Rogue One is brilliant, positively so — plot, casting, pacing, continuity (unusually good continuity, especially in some of the X-wing cockpit shots).

For the 2010s crop of films, Rogue One and Episode VIII: The Last Jedi have special places in my heart.

that Rogue One follows the Revenge of the Sith?

 

[TheShortTimer]

Right now I'm watching "Return Of the Sith..or Revenge" and the film is excellent from start as like 2005
this week i started with the first and second SW™ and was wondering what us next besides the New Hope?
i think either Rouge One or Han Solo?

thanks in advance!

Original Trilogy:

• A New Hope
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Return of the Jedi

Prequel Trilogy:

• The Phantom Menace
• Attack of the Clones
• Revenge of the Sith

The sequels to Revenge of the Sith are...

• The Force Awakens
• The Last Jedi
• The Rise of Skywalker

Stand-alone films include:

• Solo - which takes place years before the events of A New Hope.
• Rogue One - set during the timeline of A New Hope.

 

[MBAir2010]

Solo, then Rogue 1?

i just would like to know which off spin SW ends with the storm troopers going after Leia who confronts R2W2?

 

[TheShortTimer]

@MBAir2010 Rogue One is the film you're thinking of.

 

[B S Magnet]

that Rogue One follows the Revenge of the Sith?

If you’re serious about doing everything in correct, chronological order, well… let’s visit my Star Wars Canon directory

This looks so much better in Snow Leopard or, I suppose, Mountain Lion. But the hues to note — red, orange, yellow, and blue — denote the four “ages” adopted, per the Wikipedia page on the whole Star Wars timeline. [In my directory, green and purple signal to me the video format in which I have it archived, so those can be ignored here.] BBY/ABY is short for “Before Battle of Yavin” and “After Battle of Yavin” from Episode IV.

The alphabetical order of the directory, to preserve temporal continuity at a glance, was made possible by labelling stories outside the trilogy of trilogies with decimals and all the trilogy instalments with all-capital letters.

So it’s your call.

 

[B S Magnet]

@MBAir2010 Rogue One is the film you're thinking of.

There is a fan edit of Rogue One conjoined flawlessly with A New Hope. I have yet to procure it, but at some point, maybe on a snowy weekend, I’ll nestle in and find a copy of it then.

 

[eyoungren]

Looks like everything is good now…

 

[MBAir2010]

There is a fan edit of Rogue One conjoined flawlessly with A New Hope. I have yet to procure it, but at some point, maybe on a snowy weekend, I’ll nestle in and find a copy of it then.

I will watch Solo tonite, then Rouge 1 next
then Obi wan then Hew Hope to 2019 Star-wars, if I can stomach that movie.
during the afternoon im watching the mandolirian, which has some boba-fett involved.

the other series are too immature for me.

 

[MBAir2010]

If you’re serious about doing everything in correct, chronological order, well… let’s visit my Star Wars Canon directory

So it’s your call.

Where is the SW Christmas special and the documentary of the SW xmass special?
I have that sandwiched between New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.

 

[headlessmike]

I will watch Solo tonite, then Rouge 1 next
then Obi wan then Hew Hope to 2019 Star-wars, if I can stomach that movie.
during the afternoon im watching the mandolirian, which has some boba-fett involved.

the other series are too immature for me.

I always feel like I’m in the minority when saying this, but I didn’t really like Rouge 1 and thought Solo was pretty good.

 

[MBAir2010]

I always feel like I’m in the minority when saying this, but I didn’t really like Rouge 1 and thought Solo was pretty good.

I have seen them and do not remember too much of either,
while my fav is Revenge of the Sith, since the action was like an early Intel!

 

[ToniCH]

Who saw the first Star Wars in movie theatre in 1977? I did - twice. In Helsinki, Fi. I was not old enough to go (min age 12 in my country, I was 8) so I went with my dad. And I thought it was so great I made him go with me a second time too the next week! He was like 33 back then and liked movies so I guess it was not so bad for him either.

 

[MBAir2010]

Who saw the first Star Wars in movie theatre in 1977?

I did, drive in theatre...... 'got stung by a wasp when obi wan........

 

[DCBassman]

Who saw the first Star Wars in movie theatre in 1977?

Yup, SKC cinema, in Episkopi, Cyprus.

 

[B S Magnet]

I will watch Solo tonite, then Rouge 1 next
then Obi wan then Hew Hope to 2019 Star-wars, if I can stomach that movie.
during the afternoon im watching the mandolirian, which has some boba-fett involved.

Solo isn’t the worst SW film, but it is a bit ponderous and wandering. (It didn’t help that production shuffled through writers and directors, and casting was either really good (Lando) or really awful (Han and his quasi-mentor.) It closer to, say, a Marvel-like crash-bang-boom flic than The Empire Strikes Back.

If you’re willing to go a bit… grey-market and onto the world of torrents, there’s a “custom special edition” for Episode IX, called “The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant” which at least strives to mop up the worst of the worst with The Rise of Skywalker (which, real talk, would mean a ten-minute movie if the mopping was truly thorough).

For all the live-action series, The Acolyte excepted, it’s hard to watch only some and skip others, because there’s deliberate interplay between series which make it kind of necessary to follow what’s going on. A good example of this is an interweaving of The Mandalorian storyline with Ahsoka in a specific episode featured with the former which helps to illustrate how the latter ended up in the same place at the same moment.

the other series are too immature for me.

I have found the animated series to be not as entertaining as reviews suggested. In several senses, they feel like make-work to pad what happened in the lore between major trilogy films. Unlike, say, the anthology films, such as Rogue One, the stories portrayed in the animated series are not consequential enough to the level to drive those trilogy films stories to the next chapter. At best, there are a few, “Huh, neat” moments.

Speaking of Rogue One: the Andor series (so far, it’s half-complete, with a second, final season planned) is as uniquely amazing as Rogue One is in terms of plot, character development, and pacing. The creative team behind those really bring the overarching Star Wars canon to a new level.

 

[B S Magnet]

Who saw the first Star Wars in movie theatre in 1977?

I was four years old. It was a family outing: I went with either my grandmother and/or my dad, possibly two of my cousins, and an uncle who would have been, like, 19 at the time.

It was the second cinema-going memory I have (the first was Benji, maybe a year before). I remember mostly the experience of sitting in a darkened theatre and seeing the “rolling gold” story intro, as well as Chewbacca, Leia, and the droids. But I’m aware it carried enough of an impact that by age 5, I knew how the whole story went, who the characters were, and what happened in the end. So it clearly made an impression!

EDIT to add: This was in Texas, mid-summertime. The cold aircon of the theatre and the experience of eating buttered popcorn from a paper bag were also part of the above memory.

 

[headlessmike]

Who saw the first Star Wars in movie theatre in 1977? I did - twice. I was not old enough to go (min age 12 in my country, I was 8) so I went with my dad. And I thought it was so great I made him go with me a second time too the next week! He was like 33 back then and liked movies so I guess it was not so bad for him either.

I was born almost precisely half way in time between the theatrical release of New Hope and Phantom Menace. 👶

I have seen them and do not remember too much of either,
while my fav is Revenge of the Sith, since the action was like an early Intel!

Solo had the humor that helped make the originals as good as they are. Modern takes on older movies (from pre-2000 or so) always seem to take themselves too serious.