There are no bulk order if a Kickstarter project is still in its funding phase. you can only bulk once it has been in the market. Kickstarter is created to kick-start an idea of a project and to fund the project.

Also, there are no 128GB MicroSD card in the market yet.

got back home from work. Here is the sleeve I use for my 13" 2012 MBA: http://www.shuky.com/









Got myself the tan yellow version.

RM300+ now with the rising Australian Dollar to MYR conversion now. I got this 2 years back when it was still 2.6RM to 1AUD.

You can choose to restore what you want if you use Migration Assistant.

Uncheck what you don't need, make sure your restore file size is small enough to fit in the SSD, and go ahead with the restore. Once your system is up and running on your new Mac, enter Time Machine, and drag-to-copy-out the videos/photos/music from the backup dates.

8GB RAM if you're using Bootcamp is plenty enough. Virtualization via VMWare/Parallels? Well, we've been through that debate/mess/arguments a few pages before, and I don't want to go there again.

Word processing and productivity suite wouldn't tax the system much. Even via virtualization.

I avoid Windows altogether. There's a Microsoft Office for Mac now.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Jul 10 2012, 04:40 PM

Apple's new Airport Express with ATV form factor is NOW AVAILABLE at Machines! I got mine at Machines KLCC. RM299.



The unboxing:



This post has been edited by stringfellow: Jul 10 2012, 05:57 PM

For those complaining about scroll lags and general UI lags on the MBP RD, the new Golden Master release of Mountain Lion just released yesterday to developers, have fixed that.



GM release is as close as the official release of Mountain Lion itself. Expect awesomeness for your new Retina Display MacBook Pro.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Jul 10 2012, 08:28 PM

You obviously don't travel much. If you do, you will come to a situation where hotels/locations have wall sockets that is too close to each other that using the Airport Express plugged into that socket blocks the other socket ports. OR in the case of the American wall ports, because of the thinness of the two prongs connected to the Airport Express, and the weight of the Airport Express itself, it will make the Airport Express droop out of the socket unless you prop its bottom with something.

The old AP may be perfect for certain situation, but it isn't for some other situation as well. The nature of Malaysian wall sockets where the ports are placed well far apart, you don't face the "ports blocked by the big body of the old AP" scenario. OR the drooping. Or if you've been to some European locations, the position of the wall sockets are not ideal to just use the prongs to hold up the weight of the AP by those prongs itself.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Jul 11 2012, 01:28 PM

A 13" Retina would kill either the 13" MBP, the 13" MBA or both. Doesn't make sense for Apple to cannibalize its own product lineup when it was just introduced. Even if they do end up releasing the 13" Retina, it'll be right after when the current 2012 model has run its course: its usual 12 month cycle.

It's not a far-fetched assumption to see Apple updating its entire lineup to Retina in the future, when the pricing and Retina display yield has improved.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Jul 11 2012, 03:13 PM

Do You Have A New MacBook Pro Retina? Do You Use Twitter? Then Use This!

I wonder if Mountain Lion has dropped on its release date and Macs that comes preinstalled with Mountain Lion can opt to do a clean wipe/install using Command-R and install Lion instead.

Case in point: The Snow Leopard to Lion fiasco where SL users refuses to migrate to Lion after finding out how Lion hogs system resources and made their SL machines which was running fine before, runs slower on Lion. Would the same thing happens Lion-->Mountain Lion this time?

At the very least, purchasers of Macs within this transition time has the luxury of that option of having both Lion and Mountain Lion via the Command-R/Internet Recovery option, as I recall, a clean wipe will install whatever OS that the machine was installed with, NOT the OS it was wiped from. In this case, the option of remaining with Lion, and staying off Mountain Lion until problems are solved, should there be problems arising.

I just hope there aren't any programs you need to run that aren't compatible with Mountain Lion, and you're stuck with Mountain Lion with no option to roll back to Lion because your machine comes preinstalled with Mountain Lion. Which in turn, puts enormous pressure to Apple to make this OS transition as painless as possible. This coming weeks should be interesting.

My MacBook Pro Retina Display has been sent for evaluation either for repair or replacement. Reason being? White spot appearing on the LCD screen. Google "Macbook Pro LCD Mura" and you'll see what it is all about. Mine appears every time there's a light grey or white background on screen, not on any busy or colorful background.

To check, choose solid color wallpapers, particularly grey and white. Look for splotches of white. It looks like water droplets and intensity of this white discoloration depends on how bad the defect is. Mine is cloudy and in a specific spot on the lower right quadrant, while the more extreme example I've seen is the MacBook Pro Retina Display demo unit available at Machines KLCC where the Mura/white spot appears as if someone burnt a laser pointer through the screen. It stays invisible over brightly colored wallpapers, but as soon as you open Safari on Apple homepage (which is always white), it's painfully obvious. The MBP Retina Display at Machine KLCC also shows clear-as-day problem of "image retention", like plasma TVs would.

My procedure with AASP here are in all manner of word, DISAPPOINTING. First went to VR Technology in Megan Avenue II at Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, and they wanted me to leave the unit there for "diagnostics and observation" for "an undeterminate amount of time" before they can decide if the unit is "repairable or replaced". Called QCD at Times Square, same scripted answer. Machines, I have a good friend initiating the evaluation, and I have his help to get it inspected tomorrow and within 24 hours, be decided if the unit is "repairable or replaced". At least I have the most minimal downtime without the MBP Retina, although if they decide to repair the screen, replacement display will only arrive from Singapore between 3-7 working days. Shitty to say the least. I thought buying into the Apple ecosystem means begin treated with more practical importance and speed than these incompetences.

The case reported in Apple Support Community forum with regards to this, had the victim's unit inspected by the Apple Genius at a physical Apple Store, deemed defective and replaced on the spot. The crappy part of all this is that we have no Apple Stores here to rely on that more expeditious method of replacement.

Be advised, folks. Check your MBP Retina Display screen.

ADDENDUM: Here's the link to that Apple Support Community forum I mentioned: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/404218...tart=0&tstart=0

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Sep 18 2012, 11:45 PM

Quoting myself in a post I made in another thread:


Sorry, until Apple has physical presence here, with only AASP providing support in third party capacity, I will never buy ACPP here. After this first hand experience, I firmly believe that we need Apple to be here physically to get the service quality as per described in that thread I linked to, thus making ACPP purchase worthwhile. AASPs here ranges from pathetic (VR Tech) or just adequate (Machines). I expected more from the often-heard-of legendary quality and service from Apple. I've now learned the painful truth.

My contention isnt whether they're "all that pro anyways", it's about their authority to tell on the spot whether the device is repairable and/or replaced one-to-one. That is the privilege of having actual physical Apple presence in your country. These shitty third-party AASPs we have here have neither the clout nor authority to decide such decision until they liaise back to the "Mothership". With the Apple Store Geniuses, on the spot decisions can be made straight for replacement if the situation warrants it. Some of us cant be parted with our Macs longer than required in fear of losing productivity. These red tapes and procedures and lack of authority only prolongs the time the Macs being serviced, be separated from its owner longer than it should.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Oct 1 2012, 04:31 AM

My points remain. The message I'm bringing across here is, there are no physical presence of Apple here. Your friend has a face to argue with, we are stuck with third party AASPs that are helpless to decide anything other than their standard scripted procedures and relying on answers from Apple presence ELSEWHERE/OUTSIDE THIS COUNTRY to decide whether your aftersale case is eligible for repair or replacement.

I'd rather have a face to argue with someone directly from Apple, than screaming my lungs out to no end to the local AASPs who has no power whatsoever to decide on your repair/replacement case, and forcing you to wait for decision from Apple SOMEWHERE ELSE OUTSIDE THIS COUNTRY.

That was my point, and that is why ACPP is worthless here. You end up having no control over whether your case is repairable/replacable or not, and worse still, you cant bring it this up to anyone from Apple since there are no Apple presence here, only crappy AASPs.

Thread approaching limit. As I will be traveling and not be able to create while I'm at work, Version X is created here: http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2536932, please continue discussion there. This thread will be closed.