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August 7th, 2008 (12:21 pm)
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Well this is odd. I may have to take back the praise I gave to the Macbook yesterday. What do you do when you put a CD in and the machine doesn't recognize that there's actually a CD in there so you can't eject it? There's no manual eject button like there is on most PCs. Is there a way to do this?

ETA: Never mind, got it! It was in the Disk Utilities folder. But for future reference, it does kind of worry me that there's no emergency eject button that I can push with a paper clip if the disc did get stuck in there.

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Posted by: Safe, effective, and fun! ([info]surrealestate)
Posted at: August 7th, 2008 04:23 pm (UTC)
 Eye-Glasses

Try rebooting while holding down the mouse button.

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Posted by: joyeous ([info]joyeous)
Posted at: August 7th, 2008 04:28 pm (UTC)

Thanks. I was gonna try that next, if that Eject button in the Disk Utilities folder hadn't just worked. :-)

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Posted by: Safe, effective, and fun! ([info]surrealestate)
Posted at: August 7th, 2008 04:37 pm (UTC)

Excellent! I'd assumed you'd already exhausted the software-only methods. :)

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Posted by: vanguardcdk ([info]vanguardcdk)
Posted at: August 7th, 2008 04:34 pm (UTC)

The lack of a manual eject button has been a complaint of mine for years.

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Posted by: one sidereal day ([info]_mattt)
Posted at: August 7th, 2008 05:29 pm (UTC)
 mac bomb

This peculiar quality of Macs, the lack of user control over hardware, has been an issue since the days of the Dickson computer lab!

I will never understand the Mac stubborness to grant the user some semblance of control over hardware. Like it's never going to make a mistake. I once went at one with a knife over this.

Macs have become much more commonplace (through engineering... and marketing), granting users improved control over software and greater stability. I am recommending one to my father who has never been comfortable with a PC. But the lack of hardware control (and the fact that Macs are so closed source) is holding me back from getting one myself.

Edited at 2008-08-07 05:30 pm (UTC)

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Posted by: Lorri ([info]spiderourhero)
Posted at: August 8th, 2008 01:31 pm (UTC)

Like the guy above said, rebooting works wonders.

And I hope you give the mac a chance before you just get permanently peeved with it. I found that I loved mine for the first two weeks, was annoyed with it for some months after that, and then loved it again. It doesn't do all the stuff my old PC used to do--like playing hours and hours of Diablo. But it does a lot of other really cool stuff (art programs and music programs and stuff) and it's amazingly reliable.

So occasional hardware confusion aside, I think you're going to have a lot of fun with it. :)

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