duwan...

wanted bigger screen and expresscard, but dunno if I should opt for Core i7 on it...

nimrod, does your MBP fan speeds up when copying files or watching media files over an external HDD using USB or FireWire...?

EDIT: of course this question is also open to any current MB/MBP users with external HDDs...

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Jun 6 2010, 06:13 PM

Mine's plugged to a 24" display on clamshell mode, so it's using the dedicated one... whenever i play video or music over external HDD, fan speed goes up to 5200rpm, pretty audible at this speed.. CPU temp went up, but I guess that's normal... but fan speed...

I'd just happened to open the lid without triggering any extended display mode (didn't know I can do that - System Profiler says internal monitor not connected), fan speed went down to 3400rpm... so clamshell mode does trap heat to a certain extent...?

EDIT: Fan speed at 3600+rpm watching a 480p video on external HDD, heavy downloading, and medium browsing...

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Jun 6 2010, 06:43 PM

Room temperature high moisture with table fan... MBP is on a table behind my external display...

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Jun 6 2010, 07:14 PM

it's a good thing to know the MBP display can be turned off even with the lid open...

Just curious... how do you define unresponsive...?

I'm not sure if this happens to you guys, but mine has a half second delay in single finger tap... double finger tap to right click is ok, so does trackpad clicking...

Get both a beasty PC for your gaming needs and MBP 13" for college...

If you're doing graphical stuff which requires a large resolution, then only you get a 17" MBP... or a 15" i7 to last you longer and share your beasty PC display with your MBP... simple....

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Jun 13 2010, 01:59 PM

when is your intake...?

btw, what makes you think I'm rich...?

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Jun 13 2010, 02:51 PM

I'm not rich... I bought mine with my hard-earned money working my ass off...

I can't even afford a computer during my SPM years...

You can buy after SPM, by that time there should be a MBP refresh in Dec '10 or Jan '11.... As for the time taken to familiarise OS X... It shouldn't be difficult...

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Jun 13 2010, 07:57 PM

does the percentage keep on decreasing for every successive charge cycle...?

mine's fluctuating... got my MBP for only 2 weeks, only 8 charge cycles, and I've seen it fluctuates between 96% and 100%... Now at 96%... I haven't had the time to discharge it yet for these few days, have been plugged for over 2 days straight doing data recovery on somebody else's HDD... now I miss my Mac Pro...

good luck on that...

nowadays laptop battery charging tech has evolved to the extent that once the battery are fully charged, it will only continue to provide power to your laptop without overcharging your battery...

typical malaysian mentality lar... ask first then research...

Wow... I didn't know price drop, previously it was like RM359 or something....

Btw, is a MagSafe adaptor covered under ACPP... I've always thought MagSafes are like batteries, part of consumables, which are not covered under ACPP...

Got...

I should have gone for a bigger 17" screen i7 or at least a 15" Hi-Res i7... but what the heck, resellers say 3 - 4 weeks for CTO, and I don't have credit card to buy online, and kinda needed it urgently...

Otherwise my MBP performed admirably... Owned it for over a week, and so far the heaviest workload is heavy Photoshop editing and, 3 straight days of data recovery...

I've got this weird problem off my MBP yesterday... It sometimes happens when I unplug my mini-DP adaptor off the MBP.

Try googling, came out a rather common blue tint screen problem...



Anyone here with an external display via mini-DP adaptor experienced this before...?

still can use...

see next time if this happens again, I'm gonna try messing with Color Adjustment, read somewhere it's the culprit here...

otherwise the mbp's fine...

PS: just notice another software bug, whenever I receive SMSes via BluePhoneElite, the backlit keyboard goes off...

You don't game, you don't do graphics intensive apps...?

Even basic 13" with 4GB will do fine for Office, customise a 500GB 5400rpm... save up the rest of the money for more RAM later i.e. 6GB or 8GB if need arises... 13" is portable to carry around your school...

Else order stock 250GB 5400rpm, then perhaps later you can upgrade to 500GB 7200rpm drive... bear in mind that ACPP will not cover any parts upgraded outside of Apple... or if you break anything as a result of a self-upgrade...

If you insist on 15" 2.4GHz, better still, it gets to last you longer, better graphics in case you become a game or photogenic freak later...

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Jun 20 2010, 11:28 PM

My spec's on my siggy....

And yes ACPP is always recommended as it may come in handy - laptop components are expensive to replace out of warranty...

However ACPP is not necessary to be purchased at the same time if you're tight on budget... You have a duration of 1 year to buy ACPP from your date of purchase of your MBP, but not after.... But if you can afford to buy ACPP at the same time, go ahead... who knows, you might need ACPP phone support as original Apple limited warranty that comes with any mac only provides phone support for first 90 days...

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Jun 20 2010, 11:25 PM

one more thing... if you're not in a hurry to buy, pay a visit to any apple resellers, play with both the 13" and 15" MBP, see which one suits you most...