welcome to the club!

where can u buy version 4 for cheap price? ;p. i didnt feel any noticeable speed bump in version 5 on leopard, but not sure about snow. so i guess if u're running XP, version 4 would do fine... Windows 7 maybe version 5 got better support... if Vista, dont use vista lol (win7 runs faster than vista in parallels in my experience)

yeah i had that as well before... lost pretty important stuff bcuz of it

juz remember to open the new folder, select all, and paste into the old folder. u'll get used to it soon hehe

no need to activate. IINM the sensor is under the keyboard.

i think its activated by default. anyway, click on the apple logo on the top left corner of the screen n go to System Preferences. click on Display under Hardware. in the Display tab, check the box for Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes.

try using the notebook in a brightly lit room at night, then turn off the lights. u should notice your screen automatically turn down the brightness when the room is dark.

dont have this? anyone on SL can verify?


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oh ya sorry its to the left of isight. now we know macbook dun have this~

Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor. can check CPU n disk usage as well. if u just wanna see what program is open, juz use CMD+Tab...while still holding down Cmd, u can use the arrow keys (or cursor) to highlight the app u wanna close n press Q. for more stubborn apps that dont wanna quit, option+cmd+esc to force quit.


there's a thread about this. theoretically all DDR3 1066 Mhz RAMs should work, but there are reports of come incompatibilities for certain brands. iinm hynix, micron n samsung chips are fine

and VLC? ;p

the GPU can handle the 30". if the monitor uses DVI then u need dual-link only for the 30". u can also use HDMI instead of DVI, but u'll need to get a miniDP-to-HDMI adapter..i got one for around rm150 with shipping. if i remember right, dual-link dvi is more expensive.

setup is pretty simple. u get to set which monitor will have the menu bar n dock, n the other one is just plain space where u can drag ur apps to. one annoying thing 4 me is regarding about Spaces. both screens will be recognized as one space. so when u change spaces on ur notebook, the space on the external monitor will change as well.

u said u want 4gb wut . that seems to be the case but IINM got no 64-bit mac drivers yet?

oh ya i forgot got 64-bit vista lol. sorry2

was gonna ask the exact same question n how much did u get the OCZ SSD for?

nfts is windows technology. but at least OSX can READ ntfs.... windows cant do anything with HFS (apple tech). normally when u buy external hdd they're formatted as NTFS. USB drives (afaik) are normally formatted as FAT32. both mac n windows can play nice with FAT32.

so when buying an external hdd, d 1st thing u should do is to format to FAT32. of course u can format as HFS if u dont need it to be accessible to any windows computer. 2 of my external drives are in FAT32 cuz wanna plug into a PS3 ;p

another alternative to read ntfs volumes on OSX is MacFUSE. but if ur external doesnt have much stuff on it, i suggest u copy everything to ur internal drive, format the external drive to fat32, n copy back the files. this way u dont need to install anything.

anyway if u're not clear on how to change the format to FAT32, i'd suggest u read around n dun ever ask here...later u kena bomb.. hahah

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: Nov 29 2009, 04:02 PM

if there's no harm, i'd wait nevermind if no i7... i5 i happy already.. heehe

macbookpro refresh normally the price n go down and/or spec go up. only the latest refresh was different... from the rm7.2k model with 9600m GT... now got the 6.4k w/o 9600 n the 7.5k with 9600. but even the 6.4k model got a speedbump... from 2.4ghz to 2.53ghz.

so maybe we can expect a ~6.4k i5 without a discrete GPU. the 9600 is pretty outdated anyway. well, we can dream

cannot drag n drop from applications folder?

autoCAD in bootcamp no problem. if in VM, more RAM would be nice

ur question is already answered...three times. paragon NTFS, MacFuse, ntfs-3g. time to google. other than that, ask ur friends to format to fat32, or use bootcamp


there's always a new mbp soon hehe. but the next one is RUMOURED to get a quad-core chip, which is a pretty big deal...so if u dont need a new notebook now, waiting for the new model would be wise

OSX is able to read NTFS natively, but not write. to write, u can use either one of the apps we listed. is there anything i missed?

it works just like normal notebook with XP... for example the desktop 8600GT is faster than the mobile version

it is to install windows on mac...u still need a copy of windows

u got two choices...use bootcamp (its built in so it doesnt cost u anything...n have to partition) or virtual machine (either parallels desktop, vmware fusion or virtualbox...no need to partition). there's plenty of info about this if u care to do a search in this forum.

the rm6800+ u said is for the higher-spec 13" MBP. the lower spec would be RM6k.