When I bought this I was told to expect about 8-9 hours battery life, obviously assuming display is dimmed, keyboard is dimmed, bluetooth is off, yada, yada, yada. I never got this. I originally maybe got 6 hours and now I don't even get 4. Am I expecting too much, even though I was told I was going to get 8-9?
One of the only things that bothers me about Mac OSX's GUI is that when I like the "+" button to maximize a window, it doesn't maximize the window to the full screen width and height. I know it sounds bad to say that I would like it to work like Windows, but my question is: Is there any way to change this behavior?
Here's my setup basically: PC: Tower w/ DVI ports USB Keyboard USB Mouse Apple Cinema Display (hah) MacBook Pro: 15-inch unibody with mini-DVI Prior to building my PC, I had the MacBook Pro on a stand and it would use my Cinema Display in a dual-monitor configuration. Now, the PC uses the Cinema display -- it's a pain to constantly unconnect and reconnect everything, so my MacBook Pro no longer uses a dual monitor setup at home. I figured the easy solution is a KVM switch. Does anyone have some decent...
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A few weeks ago, I was using my Magic Mouse at home and noticed that it could no longer detect scrolling. (See previously: http://gdgt.com/question/help-my-magic-mouse-no-lo... Now, it turns out that my computer doesn't detect scrolling from any Magic Mouse.
I just reconnected my work Magic Mouse to my computer (been using another mouse for awhile now) and am having the same issue. What gives? Why doesn't the Magic Mouse properly work with my computer?
Between a desktop connected via wired ethernet to Airport Extreme 5th Gen (Gigabit ethernet) connected via a powered USB 2.0 hub to an external USB hard drive which spins at 5400RPM, what would be speed bottleneck? USB 2.0 or HDD RPM or Gigabit Ethernet or USB Hub I ask because I have an option of switching to a 7200RPM drive and not sure if its worth it. This setup is ONLY for Time Machine backups. A couple of laptops will be connecting over WiFi N for TM backups but my primary desktop which I'm most...
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Since upgrading to Lion I noticed a severe degradation of my battery life (down to about 1:45) of my unibody MacBook Pro. The fan was running non-stop even with no apps running other than the ones that load on startup. Did a little sleuthing and found that the process SystemUIServer – which handles apps in the menu bar as well as the Dashboard -- was gobbling up 25% of the CPU. Even killing all the running apps didn't change the CPU usage, so finally I killed/restarted the process itself. Now,...
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I have dual monitors on my Macbook Pro. Sometimes when I open up the laptop the secondary monitor(the macbook's) will never fully load. The screen remains a light gray color, I'd estimated #CCC. I can drag applications from one screen to the other. I've tried changing the background image but it still remains the same gray color.
I am about to place an order for a 15" MacBook Pro, but I need a larger drive than it comes with. I'm looking for a good 1TB drive. I believe the MacBook supports SATA 6gbps, so I'd like the drive to support that as well. Also, I heard some rumblings about issues with the motion sensor, any truth to that?
There is a crazy, ridiculous sale on 8GB of RAM this weekend on Amazon, so I thought about picking it up! Unfortunately, my 15" MacBook Pro only officially supports 4GB of RAM. I thought I heard that you can unofficially install 8GB of RAM inside of these models. Is this true? If so, any secrets I should know, or do I just pop the DIMMs inside and boot it up?
So I bought the first-gen Unibody MacBook Pros back in 2008. It's a 15" 2.53Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4gbs of Ram. I've been thinking of getting a new MacBook Pro, also 15", with a nice Core i7 CPU. I'm unsure of when Apple will give it a nice update, so I'd like to hear your thoughts on whether I should hold on or just go for it?
So now that i have a lot of spaces and they're so easy to go through vs spaces, i didn't really use, I have Mail in a pane and all mail stuff happens in that pain, but it's incredibly annoying when you open a "New Message" and it appears over what you're trying to comment about, I've framed the Mail perfectly in the window so 3/4's of the screen is Mail Client and 1/4 is for "New Message". I just wish the "new message" window would pop up in the same place or just open in the OS X Mail frame...
I want to record some gameplay video from either my iPad 2 or iPhone 4. Is there an easy way (preferably non-jailbreak) for me to display video content from my device onto my computer and record it using something like ScreenFlow or iShowU?
I am trying to Screen Share my MBP Lion to an iPad. On the iPad I am using VNC Viewer or Mocha VNC Lite, but I get nothing other than the grey screen. If I press the Enter key on the virtual keyboard, the MBP beeps. Is there any solution? I really like remote controlling my MBP from downstairs.
Anyone have an ideas what is going on here? I took it in to the Apple store and they said it "was probably a software problem" and reinstalled the operating system - but that hasn't fixed the problem. What happens is this: my mac starts to become very hot, I can hear the fan whirring at top speed, and then the screen just goes black. I then have to restart the machine and get an error message that the laptop had a "kernel panic". This used to happen about once a day, but now happens so...
It first started a couple weeks ago, I was using a mobile hotspot on a train at the time and attributed the issue to that. Earlier this weekend while using viscosity from my home wireless network the connection dropped and reconnected several times over a short time period, 15 to 30 minutes. I am running the latest version, 1.3.3. My mac programs are up to date. I don't seem to be doing anything out of the ordinary, mainly just browsing webpages hosted on the VPN. I am using Comcast, I've had...
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When I press the button to turn on the battery indicator light on the side of my MacBook Pro the lights do not turn on. Any ideas why this would be happening?
So I can keep my system backups as tight as possible with only system files and apps. But I'm not sure if it will slow down or give me some headaches in the future.
Carved from a single block of aluminium, the MacBook Pro is a true engineering achievement. Its unibody enclosure is the product of precise machining. From the thumbscoop to the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t sleep indicator light, no detail is unaccounted for. The end result is a notebook that’s not only breakthrough, but thin, light, polished and refined. The unibody also makes MacBook Pro more durable than ever. So you can throw it in your briefcase or messenger bag and pull it out at an airport, at school, at the office or on location without a second thought.
