The keyboard will not light up if it's bright enough even if you try to adjust the brightness by pressing the keys on the keyboard.

The battery indicator will not light up unless you press the button beside it, which will briefly light up to show the battery level and then turn off. It'll also show the battery level when you unplug your power adaptor

Use Command+A to select all.

Are you using one with the SSD? Contrary to crazyee's comment, modern well designed MLC drives are much faster than mechanical hard drives. The symptoms you mentioned sounds like MLC SSD drives using the JMicron controller which fares badly in average latency and random read/write. However, I highly doubt Apple would put such drives in and they normally stick to the main vendors with samsung controllers. To get an idea of what I'm talking about check this article: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=1
If you are not using the SSD, ignore the above.
Have you tried calling apple?

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Added on September 17, 2009, 9:56 pmMy friend's macbook white got quite a bit discoloured. But then she doesn't care for it very well. If you take care of it well clean it regularly you should be able to keep it in pristine condition.

Here's the differences as far as I can remember. The Pro has:
-Multi-touch trackpad
-Longer battery life
-Backlit keyboard
-Better display
-Aluminium unibody
-Firewire 800 (macbook has firewire 400)
-DDR3 1066MHz RAM (macbook has DDR2 800MHz i think)
-SD Card reader but combined the Headphone out and Mic/Line In into one port (can switch between either or use a 4 pin jack to use both).

This post has been edited by MetalZone: Sep 17 2009, 09:58 PM

As far as I know the SSD's Apple uses are based on Samsung chips and controllers and no they don't make crap. Decent MLC SSD's have been around for a year already and are constantly improving.
Samsung's current MLC SSD's are really not bad at all and holds it's own against the Intel X-25M especially in price vs performance. Btw, OCZ's latest MLC SSD's (Vertex, Agility) are using the Samsung controllers. So tell me what's not high performance about it? On the other hand, OCZ doesn't actually manufacture the SSD's but instead tests/researches and specifies what they need to the manufacturer; so they are considered a small fry in Apple's eyes.

Wow so cheap already? From whom? Man it's getting tempting.

Yes enough. Even if you use photoshop still okay. But when you start to multitask with memory heavy programs, having more RAM makes a lot of difference.

Like I usually run a Windows XP virtual machine in Parallels, with iTunes, Adium, Safari, iCal, Excel or Aperture, things really start to crawl when I had 2GB. Upgrading to 4GB made a lot of difference for me.

I use windows primarily for one program only... MetaTrader 4. I use it for forex trading and there is no Mac version of it. Crossover won't make it run as well.

Since two of our members had their macbook pro's stolen recently, and questions arising on whether we could track out stolen macs, I thought it'd repost my answer to that thread here:

If you're looking for some sort of tracking...
the answer is Orbicule's Undercover.
Their website explains everything: http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/
give it a read.

I got this for my 13" MBP the moment i got it.
But for maximum protection, it doesn't stop there.
I enabled the firmware protection, which requires a password to enter the boot menu so you can't reformat or even boot from a different partition. I don't know what happens if you change the hard disk though but I think it won't even allow the new hard disk to be used?
I enabled the option in the security preference pane to "request password 5 mins after sleep or screen saver begins". Of course that means u should have a login password.
Since the Undercover software works by tracking the user while online, I need to enable the thief to be able to use my mac. So I enable fast user switching and created another Standard Account (NOT admin) for the thief to use which doesn't have a login password. I also locked down my personal folders/home folder and can only be accessed by me. So in the event my mac gets stolen, the thief has no choice but to use the Standard Account I created and can do pretty much any basic thing except anything that requires admin access. He can't access my folders but he can use every bit of the remaining available space for his own use.
Then hopefully, in due time, I will be able to track that bugger down. And hopefully he/she ain't a tech geek.

Sorry for the late reply. I was sick the past few days.
It was easy. I used a credit card.
I got myself the student discount. Just send them proof of full time study for them to verify.
Installing is a breeze as well, download, install and enter your serial number. Just make sure you keep your ID in a safe place either physically or online with no clue of it's purpose. Coz this is what you need to report your stolen mac.
Occasionally check orbicule's website to see if there are updates for your undercover. They are good at keeping their software in tip top condition, releasing v3.2 for snow leopard, though the previous one still works.

I really think there is no reason not to get this for every mac. If you mac doesn't have this installed and it gets stolen, you virtually have no hope whatsoever of getting it back. But with this installed, at least, you still have some hope of retrieving it, and unleash your fury on the thief (if he didn't sell it).

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Added on October 25, 2009, 1:38 pmSorry but I beg to differ in some aspects. A lithium-ion(cobalt)/lithium-polymer battery (used in laptops) doesn't "remember" how many charge cycles it has gone through. It is simply a figure the electronics count to keep track of the battery.

Li-ion's do not have any 'memory effect' (as you mentioned) unlike Ni-MH batteries (Nickel metal hydride) which do; and isn't actually old tech compared to Li-ion-cobalt; Just different types of battery chemistries for different purposes. NiMH's prefer to have a full charge and discharge cycle, but Li-ion's aren't too happy with that. Not doing a full discharge DOES NOT "waste" that charge cycle.

Having a full charge and discharge once in a while is fine (also recalibrates the electronics monitoring the battery) but avoid doing it on purpose ALL the time (unless that's really your usage cycle then by all means use what you invested for).

A battery charging circuitry doesn't use the temperature of the battery as a charging indicator, but rather as a shutdown and disconnect mechanism, coz if you overcharge or overdischarge a lithium-ion-cobalt, you may get what you call a "thermal-runaway" potentially with flames! Instead it uses voltage as an indicator, and it varies between different battery chemistries.

To quote a fellow flashaholic... (flashlight hobbyists in other words. we live on the edge of loose li-ion cells on our devices so we know the pros/cons and dangers of these little things)
he has summed it up pretty well:
Correct me if I'm wrong though.

This post has been edited by MetalZone: Oct 25 2009, 01:55 PM

No worries, it's just a constructive discussion.
Yeah I know that u did mention that that it's not memory effect (check my post). Just wanted to clarify things further.
However, just wanna clarify something u mentioned above: "Li-Ion likes to be charged and discharged many times."
Instead, Li-ion likes to be charged but doesn't like full charge and discharge cycles (ie 100%>0%>100%>and so on).

I've not read about of the charging algorithm sony used as u mentioned, charging to 80% of the full capacity. But I can help you explain why they probably did so. Let's give an example. A lithium-ion-cobalt's typical maximum cutoff voltage is 3.2V. Let's say battery A is always recharged up to 3.2V. And battery B is always recharged up to 3.0V only. Battery B will have a longer lifespan than battery A. Because as mentioned in my previous post, i quoted that maximum charge is actually detrimental to the lifespan of the battery. The downside is that, you have less battery capacity to utilise.

Thus, to tie back to the charging parameter you mentioned, manufacturers don't make the charging circuitry to charge to the point the "temperature shoots up" as it would be severely detrimental to the lifespan of the battery; but instead cuts off charging of at a lower voltage, say at a maximum of 3.2V for lithium-ion-cobalt for example.

rx330
Sunday too free? haha. Just feel like engaging in a little bit of technical discussion.
But I think we're going off topic

But anyway, that should give u a better understanding on the perks of your notebook battery.

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Added on October 25, 2009, 6:46 pmYes.
2 ways:
1. Bootcamp (native windows boot using the full resources of the computer)
2. Virtual machine (running piggyback on top of Mac OS). Programs that can do this: VirtualBox (free), Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion.

This post has been edited by MetalZone: Oct 25 2009, 06:47 PM

a bit too late, but yeah, referring to batteries, sony manufactures a lot of batteries for laptops. the older lithium-ion-cobalts of the macbooks were also made by sony i think. not sure who's making the lithium-polymer ones now.