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It's not really hardware, but I'm looking for a backpack for my 15" Macbook Pro, and I found one, but it says it's made more for 17" laptops; Would that be good for my laptop or would it be too loose?
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| # ¿ Aug 15, 2011 23:41 |
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Binary Badger posted:Also if you can't afford an SSD then get a nice fast 7200 RPM hard drive with a 16 MB cache and that'll also be a nice bump from the stock 5400 RPMs Apple provides. on that note, what's the best hard drive for the MBP, given that I want something with as much (or more) storage space as the stock (750GB) one? I've been looking at this one and the only thing that seems bad is the decreased battery life, but I'm fine with that if there's no better alternatives.
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| # ¿ Oct 7, 2011 15:12 |
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Bob Morales posted:The 5400 RPM 1TB WD Blue is almost the same speed for the same price. It turns out that drive was already in my wishlist.  Thanks!
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| # ¿ Oct 7, 2011 17:43 |
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Windows on a Mac is Windows on a PC. Just be sure to grab the newer Catalyst drivers than what Boot Camp comes with and you'll be fine. Do you mean the ones from ATI's website? I always get an error from those that they don't support my card and that I should contact my laptop manufacturer (15" with the 6750, for reference).
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| # ¿ Oct 8, 2011 04:18 |
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:When's the last time you tried? AMD lifted the OEM driver restriction on their Catalyst suite not too long ago. I remember trying around April and it gave me the error you described, but I've has no problems since August. I just tried it; apparently the desktop suite doesn't have my driver, and trying to download the mobility driver application results in a similar error ("your computer does not contain a proper graphics adapter"). I tried uninstalling my current driver, but no luck so far.
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| # ¿ Oct 8, 2011 05:00 |
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flyboi posted:
Yep, I redownloaded my iTunes 10.5 after 10.7.2 came out, and right now it says "10.5 (141)".
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 14:03 |
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Does anyone know the model of the 750GB drive in the 2011 MBP (I guess both drives for the later versions but at least the 5400 rpm one)?
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| # ¿ Nov 3, 2011 17:15 |
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Lexicon posted:My girlfriend is a Mac newbie, but is considering getting either a MacBook Air 13" or a MacBook Pro 13". I'm trying to push her towards the Air, as the performance/storage tradeoffs and lack of optical disk seem well worth the benefits of increased portability and lack of magnetic drive, at least to me. Is it fair to call this the general consensus at this point? I'm pretty sure the Air has a much better screen, as the 13" MBP is limited to 1280x800 or something like that.
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| # ¿ Dec 30, 2011 22:54 |
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Tutu posted:Do all 2011 13 inch macbook airs creak and pop when you pick them up or apply pressure to the palm rest area? I took mine to the genius bar and they tightened up the screws and it didn't creak for a few days but now it does again. I'm wondering if it's worth exchanging it for another one or if there's no point because they all do this? It seems to be a reasonably common issue. Mine did that for a while after I replaced some RAM but after I tightened the screws I haven't had any issues, but other people have reported it still stays afterwards.
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2012 18:14 |
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Is there a known issue with putting your computer to sleep when it's booted in Windows 7? My 2011 MBP apparently needs a battery replacement now, but I'm unsure if it's just a bad battery or if I did something wrong (it is only a year old).
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| # ¿ Jul 1, 2012 00:14 |
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I'm thinking of doing an opti-bay replacement for my 2011 MBP. Does anyone have specific reccomendations for ~256GB SSDs? I'm thinking this one probably. Also - is it a terribly hard procedure?
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| # ¿ Dec 1, 2012 14:26 |
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Alright, so I finished installing my SSD into my optibay. When I go to partition/format it though, it's giving me an error and quitting. Apparently this is a known issue if you install an SSD in the optical drive? Can anyone offer some advice short of putting the SSD in the HDD slot? e: This is an early 2011 MBP.
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| # ¿ Dec 25, 2012 15:46 |
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Mercurius posted:I was under the impression that the HDD was better off installed in the optibay and the SSD where the HDD was. My understanding is that the system actually turns off the SATA connector where the optibay is when it goes to sleep (because it's designed to have an optical drive connected to it) and the system can sometimes kernel panic or lock up entirely on waking up if you've installed the OS to the SSD while it's in the optibay. Maybe try swapping the drives around and see if that helps? From what I've read, it's actually that Apple doesn't let the optibay SATA port go to 6 GB/s, only 3, which is a problem for the SSD. I'll try swapping them, but ideally what I was trying is to have OS X on my main hard drive still and a bootcamp partition on the other one.
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| # ¿ Dec 25, 2012 23:31 |
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iceslice posted:My setup is OSX on the SSD (and is my primary OS), with Windows on the Apple 500gb hard drive that came with the computer placed in the Opti bay. I've had it this way since the early Intel SSD days and its been great. I don't know why you'd want to keep OSX on your non-SSD as you wouldn't really see the benefits of it, unless you using a different OS installed to the SSD as your primary. Either way its quick to swap the two drives, and you can use CarbonCopy to clone the old drive onto the SSD in a few minutes. My plan is to have Windows on the SSD and OS X on the original hard drive. I'm doing it this way because I have more data than can fit on the SSD, and I don't really notice the lag on OS X (but it's terrible on Windows). I'm actually 90% done right now, I just need to somehow install Windows 7 now since apparently it's not able to do a disc install from an external DVD drive and my USB drives aren't being recognized.
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| # ¿ Dec 27, 2012 20:35 |
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