13" MacBook Pro @ 5.7GHZ?

I was using CPU-Z in windows 7 on my i7 2620M 13" MacBook Pro. I watched as the clock speed reached 5.7GHZ for 2 seconds then drop to 3.6GHZ and stay there for 45 seconds while playing Flight Simulator X. Is this REAL? I can't belive this is this turbo boost? I know that the sandy bridge multipliers can reach 57.

Please help will this screw up my Mac?

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Can I use Final Cut Studio 3 - notably FCP 7 - on the lastest MacBook Pro (non Retina) (Z0MV-27-4GB-512-HRA Apple 15" MacBook Pro/2.7GHz Quadcore Intel Core i7/8 GB) running OS 10.8? If not, is there a work-around if I have to revisit work done in FCS 3?

I have it running on the latest NON-Retina MBP. And a good friend of mine has it running on his Retina model. Works fine.
Henry English wrote:
What if I have to revisit any one of them? What if I try FCP X and find I prefer FCS 3?
If you need to revisit them...that's why you install FCS3. That's really the only reason I have that on my system, to revisit old projects, and to deal with clients who still use FCP 7.
You really should look at moving on though...not sticking with FCP7. It's 4 years old...two years since it was EOL. Adobe Premiere Pro CC is a very good FCP replacement...although I don't like their "rental" method of paying a subscription to use it. Or you can buy Adobe CS6...but that just lacks enough to make it not quite tempting for me. Premiere CC is spot on...but **** if I don't hate that subscription model. But there's also Avid Media Composer. But that doesn't do a lot of things that I used FCP and Adobe for...

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Max 16GB's of 1333MHz DDR3 SO-DIMM PC10600 204 Pin is the correct RAM for your computer.

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Everything seems fine until I reinstall the sims 3 to my new macbook pro. The video's works fine, but when i entered the create household,
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Hi,
Has anyone ever had the issue with not working RAM slot? My MacBook Pro mid 2012 (non-retina) suddenly froze and after restart was beeping three times every few seconds. I found out that the beeping signals bad RAM. Bought new chips, and the problem still exists. My mac can now run on one slot with 4GB RAM.
I did check the placement of the chips in the slots, i also checked one slot at a time, and one of them has gone broken.
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The Apple-accepted cure for a dead RAM slot is a new logic board. Unless you ahve AppleCare, that will be an expensive fix.
An Apple service option is the "depot repair." Instead of working on your computer in the Apple Store, they send it to a centralized refurbishment facility where they fix anything they find wrong (except for cosmetic damage and damage from abuse like dropping) for a flat fee of a little over US$300. That is between 30 and 40 percent of the parts and labor charges if Apple installs a new board in an Apple Store. Sometimes they will install an new battery at the depot without increasing the flat fee.
The downside is that it takes about a week; for that level of cost savings, I could do without my computer for a week.
So take it to Apple and ask about a depot repair.
A low-tech and low-cost option is to expand on what you are doing now--using one slot. Although the official RAM limit on your model is 8GB RAM (two 4GB models), your model can actually handle a total of 16GB (two 8GB modules. You can ignore the dead slot and put an 8GB module in the good slot. My 2012 MBP has 8GB RAM and is completely happy running Mavericks.
Be sure to ONLY get the RAM from an Mac-savvy vendor. For over a decade I've bought all our Mac RAM from one supplier. This is their page for an 8GB module for your MBP model:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/1600DDR3S8GB/
I would also trust Crucial on this one. For a change they recognize that your model can use more RAM than stated in Apple's outdated specs:
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Apple/macbook-pro-%2813-inc h-and-15-inch%2C-mid-2012%29

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Hi,
Ever since I installed Yosemite on my MBP (details in the screen shot below), I've been getting Sleep Wake problems. At night, I simply close the lid of the laptop, leaving all applications running, and in the morning I wake it up. This worked fine under Mavericks on this laptop, but since Yosemite, every time I open the lid, I've had problems. Initially, I'd open the lid and the machine would restore from what looked like a deep sleep (screen would get an alpha layer on it, and the little progress bar would appear, as though it's waking from the battery running out). I ran Disk Utility, which found and repaired an issue on the disk (can't remember the details, unfortunately), and ever since then, when I open the lid, I have to hit the power button to get the machine going. It restores in about 15 seconds (nice and fast), and it does re-launch all of the applications I had open, but the machine will also show a little system alert, indicating a "Sleep Wake Problem". Each time I see it, I submit the issue to Apple. Because I'm an idiot, I forgot to copy the crash log from this morning, but I'll do that tomorrow and append it to this thread. Meanwhile, if anybody is having a similar experience and can isolate the cause, I'd love to know. A few variables which might matter:
* I have a Thunderbolt external hard drive which I use for Time Machine. Each night, I eject the disk before shutting the laptop down (I bring the machine home with me each night). My laptop used to have issues ejecting external disks, which I traced (thanks to this board) to an issue with attempting to put an external drive to sleep (I think that was the issue). I haven't had any issues since that time.
* The apps I have running all the time are Mail, Safari, Coda (text editor) and VMWare 8, which is running a Windows7 VM. That's been my environment for years now, yet the sleep-wake issue only started since upgrading to Yosemite.
Any help/advice is appreciated.
Thanks!

Hi Ben,
Another sleep issue and adding to your post... My MacBook Pro (2.7ghz early 2011)
Leaving apps open and closing the "lid" and then going to bed... several times thru out the night my MacBook will start to wake up. The optical drive spins up (DVD is in the drive), the hard drive fires up, I think i can see the screen glow ("lid" is still closed). Then it sets itself back to sleep (must detect the closed lid).
Did not do this with Mavericks or other earlier OSs.
I have not begun to try to figure this out... today is the day! lol.

Which 15" MacBook Pro will be best for my planned use?

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I say DITTO to what Clinton just told you, AND what woodmeister said.
As to use of the External HD use same for all large media files, PDF , pics, movies etc.
Keep your internal SSD for programs and primary (use it every day) working files of small size.
Yes, I would replace the SSD as upgrade and RAM myself.
Ram takes 30 seconds to do, anyone can do that nearly with eyes closed. EASY
SSD, youd need to use carbon copy cloner or likewise, clone your internal HD to the SSD, check with a boot to make sure all ok........then install the SSD, very easy, like Clinton said, .....done it many times.
You asked:
Are you able to reference info on them without moving the data to the internal SSD?
Yes, you can alter, open close etc files off the external HD same as you can the internal SSD, however access speed will be slower, but plenty fast enough for anything you want to do, watch movies off same, work on/ alter/ create files on internal and then backup to external
You need an external HD at any rate for Time Machine backup, and backup in general. NEVER trust any internal HD, or a single copy of anything.
In fact you should always have at least 2 backups for data, in which case a 2nd external HD is highly recommended.

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I just purchsed a refurbished MacBook Pro thinking it would use OSX 10.6.8. This is because most of the software I have may not run on Lion. It just hit me that this computer was manufactured in June 2012 so probably will come with Lion installed. Does anyone know if it will run OS 10.6.8? It is a
15.4-inch MacBook Pro 2.7GHz Quad-core Intel i7. Not the end of the world if it comes with Lion, but a lot less expensive if I don't have to update all the software.
OR can you tell me how to find this out (who to contact.)
Thanks

Check it out here:
Are my applications compatible?
See App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps.
You will find that any older software that requires Rosetta to run with Snow Leopard will not run in Lion or Mountain Lion. If it's just a matter of minor incompatibilities, then the developers have probably already produced newer versions. Just check them out.
This I can guarantee, however, is that you cannot run Snow Leopard on that model.

13" Macbook Pro Retina Haswell vs 15" Macbook Pro Retina Early 2013 Refurbished

Interested in buying my first mac this year so i'm weighing the options. Im looking to spend around $2000 for a retina macbook pro, and im trying to decide between:
13-inch: 2.6GHz
with Retina display for $1929
Specifications
2.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz
16GB 1600MHz memory (upgraded from 8GB)
512GB PCIe-based flash storage1
Intel Iris Graphics
Built-in battery (9 hours)2
And,
Refurbished 15.4-inch MacBook Pro 2.7GHz Quad-core Intel i7 with Retina Display for $2199
Originally released February 2013
15.4-inch (diagonal) Retina display; 2880-by-1800 resolution at 220 pixels per inch
16GB of 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM
512GB Flash Storage
720p FaceTime HD Camera
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
I should note that these are the educational discounted prices
I've already eliminated the new haswell 15" (base model) from my options as it seems like it wasn't that much of an upgrade to the previous gen.
Now the main thing i'm concerned about is longetivity, in that I want to be able to keep this laptop for 5+ years before changing to another. So im just wondering which would be the best for keeping up to the paces of future technology (future-proofed).
The things I would be using it for would be:
-Univeristy school work, so portability and battery life are a bonus but not a requirement for me.
-Occasional Gaming (will want to install windows 8 on it) (Not sure how well iris graphics compares to the gt 650M)
-Document Processing
-HD video and possible editing,
-Occasional Photoshop editing
All replies are appreciated, thanks!

If one of the things you're after is getting the most computer for your money, consider that the 13" is a dual core i5 processor, meaning two cores is what you start with. I'm not sure if hyper-threading is available to take it to an effective four cores. The i7 is a quad core processor but since it can do hyper-threading, you effectively have 8 cores to work with, not four. If you want to install Windows 8 as a virtual machine rather than in BootCamp, you'd need to divide up your cores between your Mac and your virtual PC, and the i5 doesn't give you as much to work with.
The 15" came with Mountain Lion and you have the option of upgrading to Mavericks for free. The 13" offers no choice; it's just Mavericks, and considering the long list of complaints on the Mavericks forum, do you really want to be stuck without a choice?
And then there's screen real-estate. The 15" obviously has more, but you can extend the resolution beyond what Apple limits you to without going all the way to native resolution on both rMBP's using an application like Eye-Friendly (e.g., on the 15" 1920x1200 is the highest Apple approved resolution, but you can go to 2048x1280 or 2560x1600; native is 2880x1800). However since the 15" is (obviously) bigger, the stuff on the screen stays more usable (i.e., visible) at the higher resolutions.
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As it is you still have considerable life left in what you have, so you need to consider whether the change in performance is worth the added net expenditure of $1,900.00.

When are the faster i7 quad core (2.7ghz) chips going to ship in the MacBook Pros, Intel announced them over a month ago. Trying to make a buying decision.

When are the faster i7 quad core (2.7ghz) chips going to ship in the MacBook Pros, Intel announced them over a month ago. Trying to make a buying decision.

We can't speculate, when it appears it will appear.
Are these mobile processors? Because that will answer your question right there.

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Hi everyone,
I'm in my final year of sound design and I will be using Logic, Max MSP, Traktor, Ableton, Maschine, softsynths, some hardware and large sfx libraries. I will be using this computer as a source of income for the next three years and I'm finding it very difficult making decisions for the upgrade with purchase. I've decided not to go with the retina display as I'm going to be buying a separate monitor/s anyway. I will be getting the 15-inch Macbook Pro.
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It depends on whether your productivity is limited by CPU bandwidth. If it is, then you should easily recoup the cost of the upgrade over the life of the machine. If not, you won't.

Macbook Pro "13 2.7Ghz 2011, VERY slow after Sleep

So, this is the case.
I recently changed from windows to Mac, and by first look, I was very impressed, BUT!!
Ever since I bought the Macbook Pro I have had a little enoyig problem.
Whenever I close the lid or it goes to sleep automatically (cause of the timer), it will be very slow, when I open it up again.
I tested this a few times, justclosing the lid, wait 30 seconds, and then open again (with no applications running exept Safari (1 tab)), and when I try to scroll on Facebook in safari it laggs like I was trying to play Crysis 2 on a N64 =)
Before I close the lid (Before Sleep) everything runs smoothly, but if the computer has gone to sleep I reach a point when I cant work with the computer cause of the enoying lag, and I have to restart the computer.
WHen I restart, everything is good again, even if all the windows comes upp.
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My specc: MacBook Pro 13" 2.7Ghz 4Gb Ram, 2011 version. Running Lion 10.7.1
Hope some of you can help.

There was no big processes running mentioned in the other post, and I didnt quite understand what you ment with the picture, but my Energy Saver (in Norwegian) looks like this. (first picture is on battery and second with power connected)

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