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Just got my "new" (re: 16 week old) Macbook Pro in the mail. 13", i7, 8gb ram, 128gb ssd-- this is coming from a 2008 Macbook. Love the switch so far, so snappy and smooth! Figured out that I have the "TS128C" SSD, which is a Toshiba that apparently about 60MB/s less read/write than the Samsung- oh well! Here are my results anyway... What's the best OS X stress test program? I also wanted to post up my list of most useful apps in case anyone was curious or had any suggestions to add in there. I used the educational "discount" which basically gave me a free $100 iTunes Store Credit.
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I personally like the Speck hard cases-- but they are more of a cover/hard case than a case to slip it into when you're done. It fits really, really well on my MBP and I enjoy having the black color that I miss from my 08 MacBook. Highly recommended-- it's incredibly sturdy and fits perfectly.
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Cmdr Will Riker posted:I think I know the answer to this question (and I won't like it) but I installed Mountain Lion on my ancient 2007 MBP and about a week afterward, my battery went from 93% health to this. You could always check out coconutBattery and BatteryHealth, just to be safe.
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I have a latest generation (thin) iMac as well as an older, thick unibody iMac. I want to use the older iMac as a second monitor for the new iMac. The new iMac only has Thunderbolt whilst the older one has Mini DisplayPort. I'm a bit confused, is Thunderbolt backwards compatible with MDP? Can I just use a MDP -> MDP plug and that will go into the Thunderbolt port and work just fine?
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Danger Man posted:Quick question, what's the best PC competitor for the iMac? Weird question to ask, but here is a Verge article describing the competition. In my experience as an on-site tech with these other AIO solutions, they are all a big pain in the rear end to repair and lovely machines in general. People do seem to love them and a client recently ordered $30,000 worth of HP AIOs to set up for their entire office after having 2 of their tester machines fail within a few months. I wouldn't exactly recommend any AIO, but that's more from personal experience.
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I have an iMac9,1 (24" early 2009) that I am trying to hook up to a new Late 2012 27" iMac in Target Display Mode. What cable do I need to be using? As far as I understand, Mini DisplayPort -> Mini DisplayPort should work to get the old 2009 iMac in TDP with the new 2012 iMac. When I plug in the cables, both computers are on, I press CMD+F2 on the old iMac and nothing happens- according to most instructions, the monitor should be joined to the newer iMac with that command. Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong or how to get this drat old iMac to work as a second monitor with the newer machine?
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Yesterday I ran into a particularly strange issue on a client's 2013 MacBook Pro. The MacBook would boot successfully but straight into a black screen with the mouse cursor visible at times. I’ve seen this plenty of times on Windows machines, but never on Macs. I attempted all of the standard repairs: SMC reset, PRAM/VRAM reset, repairing the disk, volume and associated permissions. None of this resolved the issue. What did resolve the issue was TracyToronto’s post in this Apple Support Communities discussion post: basically booting into Single User Mode and then renaming the loginwindow plist to .old. After rebooting, typing the first letter of the username and pressing Enter, the logon window reloaded and finally showed up. It appears that the issue has to do with the automatic update process that failed because it never made it past the initial log on screen- after logging in, it said that an update was successful. This was very bizarre, but I hope this may help someone else in the future with a similar issue.
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