we got a RM70 discount n we just lose the box. okay whattt

can upgrade...but how would an OS upgrade make a touchpad more comfortable?

yeap hehe...actually any laptop can be stolen like that. im just surprised they didnt lock the macbookpros like what we have here

but it'll be very funny if one of the robbers come to the store the next day n ask to buy 23 MBP chargers... hahaha

u sure its valid? scared later apple realized yours is 'generated' ACPP then cancel yours ;p i found pretty good deals for ACPP myself but i dont think can trust them if u found a reliable seller can PM me pls?

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: Sep 4 2009, 11:59 PM

space is really ur choice. obviously it depends on how much stuff do you want to keep on ur notebook HDD. for some people 160gb is more than enough, and some people are struggling with 500gb. so you decide

as for RAM, i think 2gb is enough but better go for 4gb (2x2gb) for future-proofing. anyway its cheaper to upgrade the RAM urself, but then you'll have a pair of 1gb rams doing nothing ;p

upgrading hdd for current macbooks (and pros) doesnt void the warranty. if the so-called technician said it does, he's wrong.

just rely on Software Update. it'll show you what updates u need

i think your lag is caused by ur hard disk. any hard disk tends to slow down when almost full. RAM doesnt affect much on the 'boink boink' on the dock (unless u're talking abt launching an application the 2nd time, bcuz it's cached to RAM). the boink boink is normally the HDD looking for data of the app. i'd also recommend a 500gb WD scorpio blue or hitachi 5k500

of course, if u have the money, nothing wrong to upgrade ur RAM. but the performance increase for 8gb from 4gb is too little for what u're paying (more than double).

i thought if it ends on 31st july 2010, it started on 1st august 2009?

i dont think price will go up...normally just better specs but price stay the same.

anyway, Intel had stopped Nvidia on working with chips that are compatible to intel chips (reports only mentioned the nforce, but i guess it includes the 9400m as well). supposedly intel was outraged when apple replaced the GMAs with the 9400M. i just hope the next 'refresh' wont see the return of the dreadful GMA chips

that's the previous gen MBP

Envy 13 price from gizmodo: $1,800 (As configured with a 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor SL9600, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 Graphics, 3GB of RAM, 4-cell battery)

the nice one is actually the envy 15 beats edition. http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/beats/envy_15.html

thx i just noticed that. so what's the chipset for the core i5/i7 models?

if intel were to replace the 9400M, lets hope its a better chipset. if it isnt, well, im expecting a price cut ;p

i agree that the macbook is priced too near to the 13" mbp. with the 13" mbp at that price range, i think apply shud've priced the macbook lower so those PC types cant talk abt apple tax hehe.

but no battery indicator? wuts up with that?

its static. im pretty sure its a common issue.

anything can crash in this imperfect world

a rechargeable battery got a certain number of cycles before it starts to perform badly.

i.e. if you have a new battery with just 1 cycle, maybe it can last for 5 hours. but after a while, maybe around 300 cycles (300 times the battery went from full charge to empty charge), maybe the battery can last for 2 hours like that.

not accurate, but juz an example so what you'd want is to reduce the number of cycles possible. but try to go thru at least 1 cycle every 2 weeks. this is called calibrating, to make sure ur battery wont 'forgot' its own power

if u want 15", that's already the best choice. 9400M can handle l4d no problem, but maybe not the highest spec.

if u can bear with 13", more choices for you . the new macbook seems like a good offer to me. plus, if u go for a 13", u can buy a lot of accessories with the price difference.

if im gonna get a windows laptop... it'd be the dell mini 10... very good candidate for hackintosh hehe

Im guessing the drive is formatted in fat32. There's a limit of 4gb per file

since your file source can store the MKV file, i guess its not a FAT32 partition. but your file destination is. a full-length MKV movie sure is more than 4GB.

you can use a file splitter app. Split & Concat is pretty good, from the people who made the popular HJ Split for windows. it breaks a file into smaller chunks. but then it wont be viewable until you join them back (using the same app). here's the link for split&concat, but u can google around for alternatives
http://www.xs4all.nl/~loekjehe/Split&Concat/

the hard way is of course to transfer everything on the fat32 drive somewhere else, and format it into HFS (but a windows machine cant access) or NTFS (a mac cant access unless you install MacFUSE or ntfs-3g), then copy back ur files

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: Oct 27 2009, 09:42 AM

welcome 2 the club! hehehe


yes you can swap them. but before u do that, hit ur friend on the head for saying 5400rpm is "realllly bad". obviously a speed of 5400 rpm is lower than 7200 rpm, but what matters is the read/write speed of the HDD. did you know a 500gb WD Scorpio blue (5400rpm) is faster than the 320gb Scorpio Black (7200rpm)? the capacity of the hard disk, or rather, the free space it has, is an important factor to the read/write speed. at best, the difference between an equally-sized 5400 and 7200rpm drive is not much, but the 7200rpm will give u vibration and noise issues.

if u want substantial improvement in read/write speed, go for SSD. i think rm700+ will get you 64gb.

i think most, if not all stock HDD in macbooks are the hitachi 5k series.

so it seems that we've pretty much established that the scorpio blue 500gb and the hitachi 5k500 is the best notebook hdd upgrade?