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user's latest post:
Getting ready for the i5/i7 MBP
Published (2009-12-02 13:59:00)
The current MBP lineup uses platforms with 34.5-37.5W TDPs and $248-387 price tags. These Arrandale platforms will be 38.5W TDP and $265-$372 price tags. Smells like clockrates won't be changing from the current lineup.
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Original Capacity for MBP 1,1...
Published (2009-12-02 10:31:00)
Interestingly, after a drain and recharge yesterday, and sitting all night, my battery now shows 85% health with a max charge capacity of 4669 mAh... Oh, the power of cycling the battery! I'm still going to get a new battery, but it's not as much a rush as it seemed yesterday.
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PB G4 12" - errors...
Published (2009-12-01 16:53:00)
SEAN>>> That is very likely... given the used RAM I borrowed has been lying in some box quite unprotected. Have had no errors today at all. Only noticable thing is that a few tasks is slighty slower (because of less RAM), but I am really REALLY hoping that this is it. Only been using Safari, Camino (because of some reaon Safari can't be used to insert money from visa-card to mobilphone online), Word, Excel and Adium....
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Maximum Hard Drive (capacity)...
Published (2009-12-02 09:49:00)
Originally Posted by Simon Also, note that the $89 Amazon deal for the 500GB WD Blue totally sucks. You can get the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 for $89 shipped at Newegg . Now that's a 7200 rpm drive with an excellent reputation. It has only one serious competitor (Hitachi) and that one's about $120. The 500GB WD Blue is still $70 plus $2.50 shipping (as per the link in my previous post.) So an upgrade to the Seagate 7200 is...
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MBP 15" with WD 750g HD
Published (2009-12-03 16:28:00)
I left the drive hooked up to the machines via a USB/SATA connection today and, while true I hadn't booted off of the large drive, I came upstairs every hour or so and copied large files back and forth between the WD 750g (indeed a Blue) and had no problems. The drive in the machine is a stock drive and is working just fine.
user's latest post:
Getting ready for the i5/i7 MBP
Published (2009-12-03 05:22:00)
Originally Posted by Simon And maybe the new Radeon mobile GPUs will be just in time for the new MBP. HardMac.com: New Mobile Radeon to be unveiled Early 2010 The 40 nm process should make for some power savings and hopefully better performance. ATi already makes 40 nm mobile GPUs: The Radeon 4830 and 4860 are 40nm (basically the 4700 series for the desktop in a smaller packages). The 4860 has a TDP of 44 W, which is better than...
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MBP unibody won't sleep...
Published (2009-12-05 11:40:00)
so you connect it after your mbp boots up, then the external becomes your only monitor (with the mbp LCD off)?
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26 MacBooks that go into...
Published (2009-12-01 13:44:00)
That really should not happen. The magnets should not be strong enough to cause this. In the PB 12" days when I worked at Apple, we had machines stacked like this and that never happened. Maybe they made the magnet stronger, but the switch should only work in one direction. A magnet below the switch should not affect the switch above it. I'd be interested in seeing a video of an open running machine being slowly...
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Latest active threads on Mac Notebooks::
Started 2 days ago (2009-12-05 06:22:00)
by Le Flaneur
This is still happening. And I should have added that the problem seems to be triggered only when I have an external monitor attached (an Apple Cinema Display 23"). I don't think it's a hardware problem -- I think it's a bug involving Apple Cinema Displays.
Started 1 day ago (2009-12-06 06:51:00)
by cms
You need more RAM. Leopard itself needs a gig of RAM to run properly with some wriggle room, so you need additional RAM to run your programs. You probably know this already but Flash in your browser really does gobble RAM. And image manipulation programs are very greedy too – despite what the developers say about minimum system specs.
Started 1 year, 10 months ago (2008-01-28 16:01:00)
by Simon
Originally Posted by MacPhly
I have the late 2007 Macbook which came with 2pcs x 500MB RAM. Lately, I've been given one stick of 2GB RAM taken from a similar Macbook.
Q1. Would it be inadvisable to replace one of factory-installed 512MB ram with this 2GB ram?
No. If you experience page outs with 1GB (which I'm guessing you are) you ...
Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-26 14:14:00)
by Cold Warrior
EveryMac.com Mac Comparison
They have a pretty good raw comparison layout. Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to just link to the actual comparisons, but you're getting core improvements in system bus speed, maximum RAM, faster RAM, a larger, multi-touch trackpad, and losing an expresscard slot, two FW ports (the 13" MBP has one FW 800), and two inches of screen.
Started 5 days, 3 hours ago (2009-12-02 04:03:00)
by freudling
Simon:
Great topic. I have been hoping and praying that the MBPs would come out soon with the i5/i7 chipset. I am in the market for a 17" and am holding off until these are released. But the date of release. How do you know release dates? Can I expect to get one in January? Realizing this is all speculation...
Started 1 month, 1 week ago (2009-10-30 11:16:00)
by ibook_steve
You need a video input device, such as those from elgato, like eyeTV.
Steve
Started 1 year, 10 months ago (2008-01-26 02:14:00)
by ColdFire
Originally Posted by harbinger75
ColdFire, did you get that Vaja case for your MBP? I'm curious about your impressions. I, too, have had a few of their cases for PDA's, so I'm sure the build quality is superb...but a review from a person is always welcome.
I got the case about three weeks ago and after airing it out for a few days (strong leather ...
Started 1 week, 2 days ago (2009-11-27 13:07:00)
by CharlesS
I've heard horror stories about some of the cheaper SSDs having bad controller chips that cause all sorts of problems. Intel, of course, is the best there is, although not cheap.
Started 3 days, 18 hours ago (2009-12-03 12:37:00)
by Spheric Harlot
Crap batteries are a great way to fry stuff that's hooked up to them (though, to be fair, as we've seen the same thing can happen with "reputable" manufacturers).
I wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole.
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Hot threads for last week on Mac Notebooks::
Started 2 days ago (2009-12-05 06:22:00)
by Le Flaneur
This is still happening. And I should have added that the problem seems to be triggered only when I have an external monitor attached (an Apple Cinema Display 23"). I don't think it's a hardware problem -- I think it's a bug involving Apple Cinema Displays.
Started 5 days, 3 hours ago (2009-12-02 04:03:00)
by freudling
Simon:
Great topic. I have been hoping and praying that the MBPs would come out soon with the i5/i7 chipset. I am in the market for a 17" and am holding off until these are released. But the date of release. How do you know release dates? Can I expect to get one in January? Realizing this is all speculation...
Started 6 days, 17 hours ago (2009-11-30 13:33:00)
by mduell
The AHCI standard requires large LBA support, so the limit (143TB/128TiB for 512 byte sectors?) is much larger than available drives.
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-29 18:16:00)
by mduell
Did you test it much before cloning? Sounds like the joys of Migration Assistant.
Why bother with third party software for cloning? Disk Utility can do it.
Started 1 month, 2 weeks ago (2009-10-18 13:23:00)
by Cold Warrior
How old is your battery? How many charge cycles did it have? These things only have a certain lifespan. Some are just defective, too.
Started 2 weeks, 6 days ago (2009-11-16 16:34:00)
by ghporter
If these were PC notebooks, I'd say immediately "BIOS battery." With having to zap the PRAM repeatedly on these machines, could it not be that their CMOS support batteries are bad? They all must be brand new, and that makes me suspicious of a not-so-good manufacturing error, like not properly installing the battery or having a stock of crappy batteries that nobody knew about beforehand.
Started 1 week, 2 days ago (2009-11-27 13:07:00)
by CharlesS
I've heard horror stories about some of the cheaper SSDs having bad controller chips that cause all sorts of problems. Intel, of course, is the best there is, although not cheap.
Started 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2009-11-18 15:38:00)
by P
Well, everything depends on the money, but:
CPU-wise: yes, they're worth waiting for. GPU-wise: they will probably be worse unless you spring for discrete graphics. I even suspect that that Apple might stay with Core 2 at the low end.
I guess the answer is that if you're looking at the lower end of the range, buy if you find a deal, but if you're aiming higher, wait.
Started 1 week, 4 days ago (2009-11-25 12:17:00)
by amazing
My 12" 1.33 with 1.25 GB RAM works just fine with 10.5.8, no problems. I'm thinking it has to be a RAM problem, with some older RAM not working well with 10.5--and not necessarily showing up on a hardware test. Is there any way you could switch in a different SO-DIMM?
Started 5 days, 13 hours ago (2009-12-01 17:46:00)
by mduell
2.332 Ah / 45% = 5.2Ah
Or another way: 56Wh / 10.8V = 5.2Ah
Cycles didn't kill your battery, age and storage probably did.
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