Random check. Guess it's all for the good since if you tried to save up RM300 maybe but you're not real student then you are misusing it and sooner or later Apple gonna impose stricter rules which I think they should although it can be troublesome for real students. Well, it's for their own good

In short:
If you need to share disk on Mac and Windows use FAT32 or NTFS. FAT32 limitation is that per file can have only 4GB. No way overcoming that. NTFS trick is that you need to have another software installed as well as explained above.
If you don't have the need to have the disk being shared on Windows then native mac all the way I guess
For more info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

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Added on April 25, 2010, 4:10 amCan. In short anyone studying or working in education sector is eligible. You would fall under K-12 category

This post has been edited by viper-xs: Apr 25 2010, 04:10 AM

Hmmm..alot of temptation reading here esp when the new one support both video/sound...tempting to get another one to put at home.

If I'm not mistaken the new power design is not square but rectangular but apart from design wise everything else remain the same? Meaning I can use the 2009 mbp power cord if its in same power range with the new mbp2010?

Yep the one with the magnet.
There are only 2 power range I think. One is 60W and 85W I think. Wonder if the size still the same and can interchangeable between the old and new one

Only on the new one Old one still just video

iStat it is Not only temp but slew of other neat stuff. Disk usage, Ram, etc...

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.

Fews answers lump together. Can buy anywhere even from forummers here in lyn. All are genuine except I've seen one whereby it looks like Apple on the outside (without apple logo of course) with aluminium look alike etc. Well from what I know all apple product are genuine (except for iphone but you can easily spotted its not genuine)

Many choose apple online store due to these reason mainly:
1) You can customer your mac. Built to order. So you can add more ram, change screen type, change hdd etc
2) If you are a student or work in those field you can get educational discount.
3) If you are comparing it with no changes and no education discount the prices are exactly the same (some retailer can sometimes throw abit of discount but expect it only to be in region of 100-200 and nothing more I think)

You can buy from those shops and the benefit from what I can see or what I know:
1) Some shop have easy payment scheme like 0% interest etc
2) You can get it on the spot most of the time if they have the stock rather than wait for few days for it
3) Some shop throw in freebies like keyboard protector (but don't expect much in this) or have a loyalty card where you can collect point and can use the point to offset your next purchase.

Currently the process is that you need to agree terms and conditions that you belong to one of those education stated.
However they will do random check on that and for example they might ask you to fax student card etc. So as long as you are one of those educational group you should be fine.

I think yes, I dont have an ipod but I think it's the same like iphone so yes you can use those. They do sell those all in one headset&mic either in Apple store or apple specialty shop around kl

Yes you can use external monitor but you need to get the cables seperately. It is not included. Depending on the mac you are planning to get but all new ones have mini display port. They have mini display port convertor to VGA or to HDMI. Choose what you have for your Samsung monitor

This post has been edited by viper-xs: Apr 30 2010, 01:07 AM

From what I know depends on Built To Order (customize) or just a normal ones. They would ship it from Singapore or China. BTO will take abit longer. Expect maybe 1 to one half week. Standard one week should be ok.

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

I think someone posted a problem with google chrome. Maybe that's one possible source of your problem.
For me I have around 20-30 tabs open with my mail, itunes, torrent, ichat, amsn and lots of others but nothing major like photo editing etc. After 1 week plus of not rebooting my pageouts total out at about 80MB.
With reboot and opening all those apps again I have around 2.9GB free RAM and 0 pageouts. Just wait for the price to go down as now itself it's quite reasonable compared to last time. Well wont all tech stuff are like that.
Sorry don't now how to solve it. Just use normal Mac Office with no fancy character stuff

It depends on what you want on your laptop. For me I bought VMware myself and Microsoft office media expression (got it free from MS). Rest all downloaded from website as in freeware. That would be for normal casual users. Alot of mac website have freeware programs that would satisfy the hunger for normal user. Plus some programs can be easily ported to mac minus the interface if you are familiar with *nix.

Think as normal casual user where you got skype, msn, ym, torrent, qq, vlc etc and you can have it all on mac for free same like windows counterpart.

If you are photo video editing enthusiast then I guess you need alot more programs for mac and thus for those you will need to buy it in CD or via e-delivery.

For mac there's no official central repository as in iPhone/iPad

Not sure if this helps but play around with the brightness perhaps as I think you may already have the setting for maximum battery life in preference. I still got those 7-8hours mark. What I normally do
1) Make sure no dvd/cd in drive
2) Not turning on bt
3) Play around with brightness
4) Calibrate approximately every month
5) Keyboard backlit for mbp turned off

Try play around with the brightness and see if it help to prolong it as it should be

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Added on April 30, 2010, 10:52 pmAll new MBP is using MiniDisplay port. If I'm not mistaken they do sell those MiniDP to VGA cable.
No idea on what to recommend apart from maybe vmware/parallel and microsoft office and normal chat programs etc plus I don't know what you are into or you might like. I have tubetv to get those youtube videos which I think is good. utorrent, vlc.

I don't play games in laptop only in my iphone. it's alot cheaper (mostly 0.99usd with good apps costing 9.99usd) and it's much more mobile
Apart from those normal programs, I have some which are useful only in my work/passionate area. Unless you work in same field like me then no use to install/configure/compile all those stuff

This post has been edited by viper-xs: Apr 30 2010, 10:52 PM

static,
try to run with rightness set to 50% and not running itunes in background and just use chrome for one day. see if it helps. plus you are using wifi or cable? if wifi how's the wifi signal? optimum or low?

Apps and contacts the easiest to sync. Not sure about photos and I had experienced in songs where it wiped my iphones clean. No song. End up just transfer it across from backup hard disk to my mac itunes.
Should be ok for photos though if you have it all still in your iphone. It will just opened up the iPhoto automatically and ask if you want to copy it to your new mac

Yep, apps will sync in your mbp but you need to authorize your mbp. Once authorize then it will detect that you have all apps that are not in your itunes and it should be copied over

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Added on May 5, 2010, 11:16 amMight be possible as in slightly better price (maybe in range of 100-200 max) or freebies. Alot of places offer greater flexibility if you want to pay by cash in sense of bargaining tool

This post has been edited by viper-xs: May 5 2010, 11:16 AM

Must be some linux newbie users....ask him to play around with bsd etc as well