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Hardware The New MacBook/MacBook Pro/Air Users Thread v4, Share your joy and your pain here

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post Jan 31 2010, 11:31 PM

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oooo ok. good idea, but i dun need another computer hehe. thanks anyway. juz glad to know my 1tb drive can be used as TM for 2 macs tongue.gif no need to wireless everything
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post Feb 1 2010, 09:59 AM

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QUOTE(cRazYee @ Feb 1 2010, 03:04 AM)
yes, you use another computer to do it

time capsule consider as another device, not computer

with computer, we can do literally everything, but time capsule is a specific device for specific task

overpriced or not, it's just the price never drop since the product launch.
I did my research last time, to get a similar Dual band router then serve same purpose from other brand, like netgear, linksys, Dlink
it costs even more (at the time this new tech introduce), just after sometimes, they started to slashing the price to sell it, and apple don't
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ahhh so true. TC price was reasonable when it first launched.

QUOTE(viper-xs @ Feb 1 2010, 04:29 AM)
Possibly blocked? I have MSN,aMSN and Adium (long story on how I ended up with this 3) and all are working fine without any tweak. I supposed the only possible reason is blocked. Doubt they are changing some protocol etc since I just got connected to it anyway. Plus normally I think if changes in protocol only those like aMSN and Adium might be affected


Added on February 1, 2010, 4:31 amQuick question. The expected MBP refresh coming soon will affect MBP 13" as well? Reason since I wanted to get a MB 13" as a gift but seeing the price difference not that much plus lighter etc compared to MBP 13" I might go with that one. If this refresh going to affect MBP 13" might as well I just wait for couple more months.
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as they said, no one can confirm. MBP 13" really needs an upgrade to justify the price difference from the macbook. new MBP 13 sometime before april is likely lah, but no guarantees ;p
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post Feb 3 2010, 11:24 PM

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i agree with kwekeugene

the extra rm500 better spend on protection stuff. e.g. sleeve, casing, bag, or applecare protection plan (need to top up la hehe)
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post Feb 5 2010, 10:51 AM

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QUOTE(drake88 @ Feb 5 2010, 10:16 AM)
i would like to ask .. is it possible for those normal sata laptop hard disk is compatible with Macbook HDD?

meaning to say i take out my old laptop hdd install to Macbook
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yeap smile.gif well it's compatible with macbook la... how one hdd compatible with another hdd.. hehe
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post Feb 7 2010, 01:07 AM

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wow i think it's a good buy, if it's in good condition of course

can get ACPP to extend the warranty another 2 years
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post Feb 7 2010, 11:39 PM

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IINM POP mail cannot sync? it just fetches u whatever is on the server

i remember last time when gmail doesnt have IMAP. i checked my email on my phone, n i had some new messages. i read them all. then at home when i login to the gmail.com website, the emails are still marked as unread

well that's why i switched to IMAP lah. i might be wrong here

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post Feb 10 2010, 02:30 PM

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really hope it would be i7

i juz found out a Dell 15" i7 only costs 4k+. it'd be quite hard to push ppl to buy a 15" C2D laptop later ;p
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post Feb 25 2010, 01:10 AM

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QUOTE(cRazYee @ Feb 24 2010, 07:26 PM)
malaysian consumers are always blind with the hardware spec, which is kind of sad

A mac is more than a computer, is a piece of products
when speaking of product, there are something more in engineering and design than hardware spec

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i dont think it's only 'malaysian consumers' tongue.gif

btw i have a pretty different opinion though... i dun think macs are 'designed from the ground up to suit OSX'. it's still a computer with pretty much the same components. the only thing 'designed for OSX' is probably juz multitouch, and the lack of 'on bluetooth' and 'on wifi' buttons..which is good! tongue.gif

it's nice to see apple trying to improve the design of computers as a whole, w/o relation to OSX. until now we still need to hands to pry open a typical windows laptop...with macbooks we only need one finger. great display, huge trackpad, n good looks. makes me wonder why other companies dont put much effort on this stuff. they're the ones competing in the windows world, but it's like there's no competition at all when we look at their hardware designs
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post Feb 25 2010, 12:03 PM

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QUOTE(viper-xs @ Feb 25 2010, 05:48 AM)
My own personal laptop I bought it in 1996 (NEC) after that sometime in 2001 I bought a normal PC. Then a few Sun servers arrived into my life and nothing else. Then last year I bought a Mac smile.gif I changed  smile.gif

I don't look for spec. If I need to, well I have my Sun which certainly can do intensive computing power that I need. The only Windows that I have now is on office laptop

I do tend to see alot of people aligned that way. They tend to compare CPU power etc. That's life anyway. If it doesn't go that way then Apple will be the only computer maker in the world. lol
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the thing is, what's the use of more CPU power if the system is going to be slowed down by antivirus or malware anyway? tongue.gif

QUOTE(neekun @ Feb 25 2010, 07:49 AM)
The price should be RM229 for all shops. If they charge higher than that please make a complain to Apple Malaysia.

Unit 02, Plaza Level, Block A, Wisma Tenggara
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thx, i never knew we can complain about this

QUOTE(Masamune @ Feb 25 2010, 09:07 AM)
Guys...i have a problem when i play games using bootcamp..
Only recently this problem turn up..Is that halfway playing my screen turns black..
From what i've googled i think its my GPU overheating..and compared to last time i notice that the temp of my mac while playing game has dramatically increase..
I only play warcraft 3 and it was never this hot..Its so hot until putting ur hand on it becomes unbearable..
is there something wrong with my mac? The heat sink maybe?

I'm running 10.6.2 and windows 7
Macbook Alu 2.4GHz..
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warcraft3 shouldnt heat up ur system much. you can try open the back panel and clean ur fans and heatsink, maybe they're just clogged with dust
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post Feb 26 2010, 08:32 PM

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QUOTE(Masamune @ Feb 26 2010, 09:48 AM)
Hey thanks!
There really was dust caught up..i removed in and now my mac is quiet and smooth and so not HOT! @@ xD
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good! biggrin.gif

QUOTE(digilife @ Feb 26 2010, 08:28 PM)
hi i hav a noob question

how much is a installation dvd for snow leopard? and where is the cheapest place to buy it?

can a macbook white 2.4GHz wif 2GB ram support SL as currently this MBW was installed wif Win7 by my bro doh.gif

thx
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the snow leopard DVD costs RM109, every shop will sell the same price. if u wanna find cheaper, try ur luck at garage sales section

all intel Mac can support SL dun worry smile.gif
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post Feb 27 2010, 05:05 PM

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QUOTE(cRazYee @ Feb 27 2010, 10:32 AM)
100%
Rm109 is retail price


Added on February 27, 2010, 10:33 am

are you sure you not buying family pack?
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LOL the overcharge thing u quoted was about magic mouse dude... the one asking about SL is another guy tongue.gif

plus SL family pack is rm80 extra not rm50

anyway yeah SL is cheaper than windows 7 smile.gif plus, SL dun have basic version la, home la ultimate la... rm109 is for the best version already smile.gif
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post Feb 27 2010, 06:04 PM

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QUOTE(digilife @ Feb 27 2010, 05:29 PM)
abt SL if i wan the family pack its rm109 + rm80?

wats the difference between the family and non family pack?

i tot SL can be installed into numerous mac machines without activation like Windows

my mac book now is installed wif Win7 , so any pointers if i wanna install SL back into my mac?

juz by pressing the C button as the dvd boots up???
pls advice
thanks
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family pack is Rm189. the difference is family pack contains 5 licenses (or is it 3? someone help clarify on this), meaning u can legally install on 5 macs. and yes, u can use a single DVD to install on multiple macs without activation, it's just that it's against the EULA.

do u mean ur macbook now only has windows7 with no mac partition? if u still have a mac partition, then just boot into OSX, insert the SL dvd n juz follow the instructions, very easy

if no mac partition, boot up, quickly insert DVD and press C before the chime. when the dvd loads, at the top go to Utilities > Disk Utility. create a partition for OSX. im not sure if this works though, nvr did it myself. if u dont mind getting rid of the windows partition, juz format the disk (obviously u shud copy ur files somewhere else 1st) n install SL
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QUOTE(digilife @ Feb 27 2010, 08:08 PM)
i will definately follow your guide when i install SL.
now my mac only hav one partition, ie Win7 and i gonna wipe clean the HDD to do a clean SL install
thanks bro
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and btw, currently my mac's Win7 dont detect any bluetooth support, if i install back SL, will bluetooth be able to use again as i guess my 2.4GHz mac comes wif bluetooth module rite?
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oic. if u gonna wipe then no problem. juz go into disk utility as i mentioned, select ur drive on the left (the drive, not the volume), go to the Erase tab, n erase smile.gif then proceed with the SL installation. youtube has a view videos u can watch to have some idea

all macs have bluetooth module. it doesnt work in win7 probably because of no driver support. it should work fine in OSX. did it work before u install win7?
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post Feb 28 2010, 03:45 PM

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QUOTE(digilife @ Feb 28 2010, 02:12 PM)
it worked when it was in OSX leopard and one more thing, now in windows, the eject button too wont work, hav to eject fr "my computer" laugh.gif
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confirm driver problem then. dun worry, shud be windows-only
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QUOTE(killz23 @ Feb 28 2010, 06:33 PM)
I don' know what's wrong with my Macbook white 13.3inch polycarbonate..It's lagging  sometimes..

Perhaps its because I like to multitask?

I always have Firefox, Chrome, YM, Skype, Word and Mail open at the same time..And tens of tabs open on each browser too..

Is that why?

Should I upgrade to 4gb ram?
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probably.. here's how to find out http://ninezerothree.wordpress.com/2010/01...am-do-you-need/
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post Mar 1 2010, 02:41 PM

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QUOTE(mememe12 @ Mar 1 2010, 10:12 AM)
i heard the Mac staff said that.. if we load Windows and Mac OS at the same time.. the performance will be half only? means let say i hv 4GB Ram.. become 2GB for Mac, 2GB for Windows.. unless use the bootcamp and restart everytime i switch from Mac to Win or Win to Mac?
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not necessarily half. in parallels or vmware u can set how much RAM to allocate to the virtual machine, n whether to use only single core or two. it's up to u, but obviously u cant run both OS at full speed at the same time

QUOTE(Kai1492 @ Mar 1 2010, 11:24 AM)
hey guys...i tried using bootcamp to install windows xp...but for some reason it cant detect the disk
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im having similar problems too tongue.gif
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post Mar 2 2010, 09:35 PM

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^ my gf MBP got similar problem when trying to connect to hdtv using miniDP-to-HDMI. the screen become blue (i assume this means the miniDP recognizes something is plugged in) but after that nothing happened

my mbp can :S
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QUOTE(SheepMekk @ Mar 3 2010, 08:30 PM)
Hey guys, do you guys experience this before?

Sometimes when I boot up the laptop, I can't seem to use the 3 or 4 finger gestures, but one and two finger still works. I have to restart once or several times to make it work again. What is the problem? my mbp or the software? sad.gif
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yeah i experience that too sad.gif
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QUOTE(cRazYee @ Mar 3 2010, 08:50 PM)
shut down your computer

then press Power button + Shit + option + Cmd
once will do, then wait for 5 seconds
turn on your mac, then you will see standby light blink for couple second then your mac only start.

this thing happen when you boot from to mac from windwos
(this is what i found)
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u mean i have to bring my laptop into the toilet? blink.gif hehe jk

anyway thanks. will try this after my downloads finish. curious though, what does this do actually?

uhm i dont think it's only when boot from mac to windows... cuz i dont have windows partition..


Added on March 3, 2010, 9:46 pm
QUOTE(RyanHo @ Mar 3 2010, 09:23 PM)
may i ask a dumb ques, if anything goes wrong to my win7 and crash wif my macbook, can i still send it back to apple for warranty?
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if there's something wrong with win7, it's not apple's fault. call microsoft

btw installing windows wont spoil ur macbook until cannot use. worse case u juz have to reinstall windows, that's all. it wont even interrupt OSX

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QUOTE(jphlau @ Mar 4 2010, 02:12 PM)
Why do you have to boot up your mac? I seldom shut mine off. If I am using it, then I just let it to sleep. This is the great feature of osx where when the mac is put to sleep, it does not use a lot of juice.
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when not using i juz shut down. feels like im taking good care of it..haha

QUOTE(cRazYee @ Mar 4 2010, 07:04 PM)
i got a fren mac gone case because
(she is made in china)
she always force to restart or shut down her windows xp and literally kill the HDD
wow. force shut down meaning holding down the power button until off?

QUOTE(neekun @ Mar 4 2010, 08:04 PM)
I am using Aperture 3 for some simple photo editing, so far ok. No slow or lagging.

Yup, RAM is important. Max is out if you can afford smile.gif
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oh ya i tried out aperture 3 the other day. no lag for me too smile.gif but i still prefer lightroom~

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