i cant say abt the previous ones...
mine is the new model..
surprising the salesperson was very convinced tat it wudnt transmit sound...but guess he was wrong..

anyone with i7 MBP here?
wanna check the temperature underload

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Added on April 27, 2010, 12:14 amand I will get the mstand =D

run a permission repair.

I don't usually shutdown my MBP, I let it run for few weeks before I restart it. On why too many beachballs .. check the activity monitor and see what processes consume lot of cpu time or check the hard disk activities .. On your chrome or firefox, did any of the tabs contain any Flash application? I've removed both chrome and firefox out of my MBP since sometime they consumed lot of cpu time for no reason .. only left is safari and its the default anyway.

WTA : what are the things that people normally do on Windows based PC but not on MAC?

cannot say yet. an MBP is not a hand-built machine...it rolls out of a manufacturing plant like any other products out there. electronics, cars, etc. any manufactured products will got bad batch, it's impossible to have every single unit sold to be perfect. that's y we have warranty. so juz because one i7 MBP become very hot, doesnt mean all i7 is very hot. we'll have to wait
quicksilver can do much more stuff than just launching apps. if you're gonna use quicksilver only for that, juz use spotlight~ dats y i uninstall quicksilver hehe...only used it to launch apps last time. now spotlight very useful can become calculator
- pay, install, update, scan antivirus, n ending up infected anyway
- overclocking
- play with registry files, DLL
- deal with 'troubleshooting' that makes u go in a circle
- install desktop themes and dock to look like OSX
- put apple logo sticker on their PCs
- post in forums bashing apple and mac users

actually i was about to go pick up an i7 macbook pro 17inch but after read the review just now , i wonder is it really a good choice to go for 17inch i7 macbook pro -.-

spot the non-apple notebooks. i spot 3

remember the review is only for a single unit. as i said, it's a manufacturing product. one unit cannot represent the entire production line.
juz get the i7. anything happens, got warranty. hehe

Looks ok for 4gb. What's page ins and out?

Pg out 2GB? I guess you must be doing alot of videos/pictures editing is it? Pg out the best would be 0 ideally then again as low as possible. Try reboot and monitor all your stats including pg out especially. In long run with constant pg out is not healthy as it is sort of like thrashing the disk. With high pg outs means I need to use alot of your disk to swap things out.
If you run alot of editing maybe you can compare your stats with other regular here as I only use mine for browsing, some picture editing (but nothing fancy), iTunes, games, iChat, torrent and other normal stuff.

Can try to detect any programs with memory leak?
I would recommend reboot and check the memory usage. Then use is as normal and check again.

Your wired seems high though but that's just my opinion. Those if Im not mistaken are the ones being used by the system so it will stay in memory resident and will not be swapped in/out. Mine running snow leopard with wired ~450MB. Otherwise all other stats give looks ok.
There are other means of monitor the memory in mac/*nix like vmstat etc just in case you're interested.

LOL.. i got that error too.. calibri font sth like tat.. but mine can use just tat when u open the file there will be an error message...

oh, i found the apple online store already. is it cheaper to order from there? sorry for asking newbie questions.

LOL.. i got that error too.. calibri font sth like tat.. but mine can use just tat when u open the file there will be an error message...

oh, i found the apple online store already. is it cheaper to order from there? sorry for asking newbie questions.

Yes add more ram. I bet you must be getting beachball alot. Browser will not eat alot as I have around the same tabs opening. I suspect 2GB page out is from mainly heavy photo editing

How to know memory leak, same as windows method. If a program eat 100MB when you first using it and after long usage suddenly it turn out to be eating 500MB then something amiss.

Yea...8GB is the way to go...hahaha. Mine 4GB as well but old C2D.

No need to add more i guess. More like use then wait then see...If alot and always beachball and pageouts becoming alot more then put that as first priority action.
If I'm not mistaken there are ways to make it more efficient. If I recall correctly if you use photoshop then there are option to specify scratch disk. From what I know it can increase performance but not sure if it's the case still or whether the info is right. That info maybe like more than 5 years ago...hahaha

maybe u can try this. go to system preferences, language n text, input sources. tick the chinese one u need. i dunno if it works lah, i dun have any chinese character files

juz wait for 4gb ram module to go down in price... eventually they will... good to know u can support 8gb