I used to use cooling ball but i decided cooling fan serves better..
Used a cooler master infinite for long time but recently changed to the thermapak..
Really loving it.

I am using MBP 13.3inch 2.26GHz, bought last month.
I install windows but somehow the speaker voice level is very soft. When i plug in earplug or run Mac OS the voice level is ok.
Anyone with same problem?

U using Bootcamp?

Mine using Parallels, no issue with volume.

left or right side?

I am having the same problems with steven. It is really soft on both left and right speaker even though the volume is put on high level. I reckon it has something to do with the driver. I was bootcamping windows 7, but decided, ill only bootcamp when it is officially released on october with all available drivers and such.

Is there anything i can use to polish my macbookpro ? It look a bit dull with few hairline scratch.

hi all i have been reading alot bout the nvidia geforce 9400m chipset which integrates the mobo chipset and gpu
after few several research reading thru anandtech n stuff they did mention it has a discreet gpu equivalent to a 9600gt
does this apply to the 13inch macbook pro as well? or only the 15-17 inch models?

try iklear!

lemme clear it up...all macbook pros has the 9400M. as u said, it acts as a mobo chipset and could also provide respectable graphic performance. its pretty much the best integrated graphics right now. however, where u're wrong is that it does not have a discreet GPU equivalent to a 9600GT. integrated graphics is just integrated graphics. what they meant is that certain macbookpro models has the 9600GT in addition to the 9400M. Yes, they have TWO GPUs, the 9400M for better battery life and the 9600GT for more horsepower

the 13-inch and basic 15-inch macbookpro only have the 9400M. the higher ones, including the 17-inch, have 9400M + 9600GT

however, for the models that have both GPU, the GPUs doesnt work together. u can set to only run the 9400M, leaving the 9600GT "off" for longer battery life since the 9400m uses less power. however when u choose to use the 9600GT, the 9400m will then only act as the mobo chipset without doing any graphic processing. this is because the 9600GT is just pure GPU, not a chipset

the higher end macbook pro 15" has the discrete GPU which is GT something something. tat 1 is around 7.3k-7.5k.
also, switching btw the 2 gpu is not very nicely done. u need to quit everything, log off before the new gpu can start working.

Hey i want to clarify something abt the battery cycle..
How exactly do they count..
Lets say i use my battery tp 95% den i plug in AC and charge back full..
Does that count as 1 cycle..
Because if it is very sayang lor..

Anybody found a suitable wrist rest for the MBP13"?
With the MBP placed on the thermapak it's quite raised and makes using the trackpad bad for ergonomics (don't wanna get carpal tunnel syndrome). I'm using the neoprene wrist rest from my Corepad for now.

No. 100% Discharge and Recharge only count as 1 cycle.

A cycle is if your battery power goes down to less than 50% or 60% and then you charge it. To maintain ure cycles just keep ure adapter plugged in...

Remember to calliberate once a month (Charge your battery fully, then let it drain until it shuts down, it will go into sleep mode for a few hours before it totally dies)

oh okay thanks alot taht clear up my mind alot
how is the performance on the 9400? imm planning to get a mac to give it a try on a new platform i been stuck with windows all this while
but ill be also doing some light gaming and alot of hd movie viewing h264 formats of course
games taht ill be playing would be starcraft 2 and diablo 3 which is available for the mac system

http://www.macworld.com/article/136214/200...l?lsrc=rss_main

it scored around 39 fps in Quake 4. for comparison, the 9600GT scored 59 fps. in other words, the 9400M is nothing to shout about, but it is pretty decent. can actually use for gaming.

i have no idea what are the requirements for starcraft2 and diablo3 but judging from past releases, blizzard games scales down to slower quite hardware quite good.

erm one thing to keep in mind is that the 9400M doesnt support openCL / CUDA. not important today, but who knows what can the benefits be in the future

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Added on August 22, 2009, 11:54 amoh ya, if u're looking for benchmarks or reviews on the 9400m, make sure they specifically mentioned the 9400m in macbooks. there's another card out there named 9400M GS, which is a dedicated GPU, so it is obviously much faster.

also, do not think the macbook 9400M is based on the 9400GS or vice versa. they are two totally different chips. the macbook 9400M is based on the slower nvidia 9100.

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: Aug 22 2009, 11:54 AM

thanks for the explanation afterall i guess the 13inch mbp isnt made for gaming but at least we could play something on it
my main concern is still playing h264 videos but imm sure it can perform in it flawlessly
any programs or 3rd party software to monitor the temperature and etc?
ill be installing win7 into it again so do i just boot the dvd when i boot up the mbp?
is it advisable to put up a partition like what we windows users commonly do like 20gig on the c drive os and the remaining on the D ?
are there ways to do it in os x or ill have to reformat the system up?

for h.264 there won't be a problem

to monitor temperature im just using a widget called iStat nano. it also shows other details such as cpu, ram, fans, battery, processes detail n stuff but im sure there are better softwares out there. i just love the simplicity of the iStat.

for installing windows7 u can refer here: http://gizmodo.com/5132325/how-to-install-...using-boot-camp i havent done it myself though, not enough free space haha. will be doing it when i can save up for a new HDD

i believe most of us here juz use 1 partition for our mac. the point of having different partitions in windows is so that they are easier to maintain (e.g. juz defrag the C:\). in OSX u dont need to do those chores.

its a different story if u're talking about separating system/apps and files/documents on different hard disks though. but then since this is a macbook thread so out of topic already ;p

do you guy use trackpad protector for MacBook Pro?

Hey how to set always open with a certain application for this format in mac..
I know u can tick always open when u right click the file and select the program u wanna use..
But how to do it like windows where like when u set avi files to be open by VLC means all avi files also open by vlc..
Not just the particular file..