2011 mbp questions: os, accounts, etc.

hello good folks. i just bought a macbook pro for my daughter's birthday in 2 weeks, i don't want to set it up until then, and i have a couple of questions:
1. how can i tell if it has lion pre-installed? i opened the box just to make sure everything looked okay and there was no os disc like there was with my 2010 macbook pro, is that a good clue?
2. we already have 1 macbook pro, 2 iphone 4's and 1 ipod touch 4g in the house all with the same apple id and same itunes account. it works for us so i can keep track of my daughter's downloads. can i set this new mbp up with new admin account/password with parental controls, but still register it with the old apple id and authorize itunes under the same apple id as always? does that question make sense?
as always thanks for any help.

iinami wrote:
i wanted to figure it out without turning it on yet, but thanks.
Oh sorry, I must have skimmed your message too fast. If there are no restore discs in the box, it's safe to assume it has Lion because I know for a fact Apple does not make restore discs anymore.
Additional tip: If you want to have an easy means of restoring Lion, you can buy a Lion USB Thumb Drive for $70 (I know, typical Apple ripoff) at the store:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256Z/A
In any case you'll find out when your daughter's birthday comes I suppose.

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Late 2011 MBP
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gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
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           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
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          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640 1759493968      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1759903608      262280
1760165888   193357824      3 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712        1423
1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

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2011 MBP kext removal question

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Ram upgrade question on Early 2011 MBP 13

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z31fanatic wrote:
Even though the new memory is 1600mHz, your motherboard sees it as 1333mHz so it's no problem. No need to worry.
Not true. It has been determined that 1600 GHz Ram will add a modest performance increase on 2011 MBPs.
Ciao.

Considering going from late 2011 MBP to MBA. Seeking advice on performance.

I currently have a late 2011 MBP with 4GB RAM, 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 and am running into some performance issues. My main issue is that it takes time to switch between apps and sometimes to open a new tab in chrome. I have a lot of apps open for work purposes and I'm thinking the slowness could be due to not having enough RAM. When I look at Activity Monitor>System Memory, I see that I have about 1GB in Inactive, 1 GB in Active, and 2 GB in Wired. Then I'm seeing 5.62GB of swap used (that doesn't seem good).
I like how compact the MBAs are and am thinking of getting either the i5 or i7 with 8GB of RAM. I'm thinking that the increase in RAM as well as the flash storage would help with the type of slowness I'm seeing, but would hate to buy it only to have the same problems.
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I HAD the same 2011 MBP you have, and HAVE the current Macbook AIR,....theres almost no comparison between the two. You should possibly go use one for a bit at the Apple store etc, however regarding your question "will it be a difference/ big upgrade" the answer is of course yes,....definately so.

AMD Radeon HD 6750M, Early 2011 MBP, 10.9.4 Problems

Hello,
Ever since 10.9.3 update I have a serious problem with my Early 2011 MBP with AMD Radeon HD 6750M card.
First my configuration:
MBP 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 (Macbook Pro 8,2)
16 GB RAM
512 GB Sandisk SSD and 750 Stock HDD
AMD Radeon HD 6750M and Intel HD Graphics 3000
OS X 10.9.4
I'm usually using my MBP with external display with a resolution of 1920x1080. The display is connected via DVI to Mini Display Port adapter. When I connect the external display, my MBP switches to the AMD card. Here's where the problems begin. If I'm using Davinci Resolve, Capture One Pro or any other software (that I use regularly) that uses the GPU extensively, the cpu usage will rise, the computer will start to feel sluggish and my productivity almost becomes none because even the simplest tasks such as opening another tab in firefox or safari takes anywhere between 1-3 sec. When the computer starts doing that, I cannot play a simple HD video at native fps and the whole machine basically becomes too expensive paper weight. The strange thing is that even after I quit all programs, the system cpu usage continues to be high, around 50% with kernel_task being the star using all this cpu and it keeps using all of this cpu forever, at least until i shut it down or disconnect the external display and manage to make it switch to the internal Intel gpu.
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My question is:
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2. How can I downgrade to 10.9.2? I don't have time machine backup but i have bootable usb with 10.9.2. Will it help?
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Goran

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These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
☞ Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
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AMD Radeon HD 6750M in 2011 MBP-Graphics Issues-Second Life

Since there were no responses to my question, I have re-worded it. Second Life runs fine on my late 2009 iMac i7 with it's ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card. SL freezes at boot up on my new 2011 MBP with it's more powerful graphics card. Message is that "Your system contains a graphics card that is unknown at this time. This is often the case with hardware we haven't had a chance to test. Second Life will most likely run properly but you may need to adjust your graphics settings to something more appropriate..." Nope...I have to Option Command, Esc to force quit. Feedback on this minor issue appreciated.

When you have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
☞ Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above. Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first. Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
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Early 2011 MBP Slowing Down

Hello, I have an early 2011 MBP (15-inch), system report below:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Startup Disk: Macintosh SSD
Graphics: HD Graphics 3000 512 MB
Lately, my MBP has been slowing down a lot.
I tested out a bunch of flash sites, but it does not seem to be the problem. Like I said, I have 16gb of RAM (combined with what I have located above, i7, etc), and have had numerous flash sites up, but no slowdown. The problem is recent, in that I've noticed it in the past 6 months. Nothing changed in that period at all to cause this problem.
I've run this setup for a couple years without issue (SSD where the DVD player used to be, and the HDD where the old HDD was located), without issue.
My MBP gets so hot that I have to move it frequently for scare of erythema eb igne (stupid technical term, but I might not be joking, and would rather not joke around about something like that.but seriously it get that hot where your only option is to shut off the MBP. I know that might sound extreme. But my MBP gets that hot. Especially if you are running a program like Premiere. I understand the power and RAM that it takes to run a program like that, but it was shocking. This is a program (Premiere) I ran without problems previously..
Checking activity monitor (and iStat), RAM does not seem to be the issue. CPU seems fine 88-90% usage,
Usually have 7-8GB of RAM available, and the CPU usage under 90%.
I have no idea, but I will be taking a can of compressed air to the MBP.
I was just wondering if anyone had any other ideas or had similar situations to help me out?
Thank You,
T

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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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2011 MBP i7 running slow. Hardware limitations?

I have a early 2011 MBP 15" with 2.3 GHz Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 750 GB HD. I purposely put in as much RAM as possible as I usually run a lot of apps simulataneously.
I will usually have either a number of Microsoft Office (2011) programs open at once, Windows 7 64 bit running in Parallels 7 (also running a number of apps), or a combination of both. I have noticed that my computer seems to be running fairly slow, especially given the i7 processor and the RAM upgrade. When booting up windows in parallels, it can sometimes take upwards of 15 minutes to get the windows side of things to work. While windows is booting up, the mac side tends to be extremely slow, pinwheeling quite a bit. Additionally, Microsoft Outlook 2011 is almost unusable on the mac side of things (I realize this may be a result of the software). Even after shut down Windows, the mac side can still tend to run fairly slow.
750 GB HD with 100 GB partitions for Windows. WIndows HD is 70GB/100GB used.
Designated 4GB RAM for mac side/4GB for windows.
When viewing activity monitor, the processors are rarely above 50%, usually down around 10%, or less. RAM is almost always fully utilized (less than 20MB free).
My question is: do you think this is a software related issue, as it relates to windows/parrallels/microsoft programs? Or is this a hardware limited issue? Do I need more RAM? Could I possible benefit from an SSD/Hybrid drive? I use my computer for work and for personal use, so it is essential that I am able to use both Windows and Mac simultaneously.
Thanks for the help!

Also... be sure to balance your allocation of RAM between your Windows virtual machine and OS X. If you allocate too much to your virtual machine, OS X will take a significant performance hit... which would in-turn cause your virtual machine to slow to a crawl. Depending on what you're doing, you should probably not set your virtual machine to more than 4GB. The amount of RAM you allocate to the virtual machine is basically taken whether you need it or not. For example, if you allocate 6GB to your virtual machine, as soon as you launch the virtual machine, regardless of what applications you are running in it, only 2GB will be available to OS X. Making sure both OS X and your virtual machine have enough RAM allocated to them is important.
If you're RAM has been balanced in your settings for your virtual machine and your performance is still poor, you may need to go with more RAM. 8GB is generally more than enough for most people, but your usage / expectations are on the high side. Keeping in mind everything you have running... opening this applications, modifying this file, etc... you're also working your hard drive pretty hard. An SSD would make a significant difference in performance. Of course there is a premium associated with a high capacity SSD (which I would imagine you would want).

Upgrading RAM on the 13" 2011 MBP

I purchased the 2011 MBP with i5 running at 2.3 with 4Gb of 1333MHz RAM.
I use Logic Pro to make music and everything runs just fine. But when I use Final Cut X, it is VERY slow and my RAM is quickly maxed out.
I want to edit 720p or if possible full 1080p HD videos. The editing will include effects, coulor correction, etc. What will make me able to do that, 8gb or 16gb of ram?
Also, on the apple website I read this about the graphcs that I have:
"Intel HD Graphics 3000
Intel HD Graphics 3000 allocates a base amount of 384 MB on a Mac with 4 GB of RAM or 288 MB on a Mac with 2 GB of RAM for video and processes at startup. For example, a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) with 4 GB of RAM installed has 3.7 GB of memory available to Mac OS X and applications (4096-384=3712). For Macs that have been upgraded to 8 GB of RAM, the Intel HD Graphics 3000 will allocate 512 MB of system memory instead of 384 MB. For example, a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) with 8 GB of RAM has 7.6 GB of available memory (8192-512=7680)"
Basicly, it stated that with 4gb, 384mb are for Video. And with 8gb, 512mb of ram are reserved for Video.
My second question is: what about if I put 16 gb of ram? How many wil be allocated for video?
Thank you VERY much!
Vlad Kimakovsky

Vlad --
I just upgraded my RAM in my MBP. I went from two Gbs to six. Made a big difference. I'm very happy. I wold say get as much as you can afford. I'm hoping that some one who actually does video editing will come along and help you more. RAM is very affordable now, so go for it!

Endless mini-freezes on Mountain Lion, 2011 MBP

My 2011 MBP decided to bring in the new year by freezing endlessly for small amounts of time - from 5 to 180 seconds at a time.
Each freeze generally only affects one application, but sometimes spreads to other running applications. The overall effect is to create a machine that lags behind what I'm doing, rendering it agonising and dangerous to use (eg, if a window has moved but the display has not updated, the click may be going somewhere else other than where your eyes tell you it is going).
I checked the forums here, and a few other people had this issue, though it seemed to relate to machines with out-of-date SSD firmware (this machines is using a traditional HDD).
One suggestion was to use Onyx, and to clear out every single cache. This seemed to work for a short while (hours?), but once spotlight had reindexed, the machine was pretty unstable again.
Another suggestion is that the graphics drivers are flaky - this seems to be a common pattern over the last few OS updates. I tried installing gfxCardStatus and set it to use "integrated only", bypassing the discrete graphics card. This seems to have stopped the hangs, certainly over the last few minutes.
Apple? Any chance of a fix? Is this something for 10.8.3?

Hi Linc,
To be honest, the results were pretty inconclusive.
I logged back in as guest, and there were no problems, at least for the 5 minutes I logged in as guest as. The problem is that Guest has 0 email accounts, with 0 unread messages, no browser history, no IM accounts, etc etc. So it wasn't much of a realistic test. There's just no load for the guest user.
I tried safe mode. It was impossible to open a safari window to post here, as it just constantly refreshed the thumbnail display, with very slow background gradient rendering and a vertical blinds effect re-painting the screen. It was impossible for me to start up the console or activity viewer, again because of the slow rendering of the launcher gui, and spotlight's non-availability.
I pasted the log from safe mode below, but it didn't really get to the point where it could exhibit any symptoms.
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28/01/2013 16:35:31.024 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:31.029 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.89 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.88 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:32.876 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:32.877 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 3.74 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.88 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:32.882 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.85 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.84 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:34.843 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:34.844 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.96 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.96 seconds)
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28/01/2013 16:35:39.285 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:39.286 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.90 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.89 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:39.294 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.91 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.90 seconds)
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28/01/2013 16:35:50.728 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.89 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.88 seconds)
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28/01/2013 16:35:52.618 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:54.675 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 3.95 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.89 seconds)
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28/01/2013 16:35:56.769 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 6.04 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.89 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:56.000 kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
28/01/2013 16:35:56.000 kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
28/01/2013 16:35:58.906 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:36:00.000 kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
28/01/2013 16:36:00.000 kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
28/01/2013 16:36:12.022 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 15.25 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 2.13 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:36:35.655 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:36:35.655 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:36:35.659 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 7.87 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 7.86 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:36:40.567 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 12.77 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 7.86 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:37:54.575 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.audio.ComponentHelper[303]) Exited: Killed: 9
28/01/2013 16:37:54.000 kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 303 [com.apple.audio.]
28/01/2013 16:38:00.533 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper[302]) Exited: Killed: 9
28/01/2013 16:38:00.000 kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 302 [com.apple.audio.]
28/01/2013 16:38:01.641 WebProcess[335]: CoreAnimation: failed to create OpenGL context
28/01/2013 16:38:01.794 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[173]: (com.apple.pbs[242]) Exited: Killed: 9
28/01/2013 16:38:01.000 kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 242 [pbs]
28/01/2013 16:38:34.936 lsboxd[235]: @AE relay 61657674:72617070
28/01/2013 16:40:17.709 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:18.166 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 8.13 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 7.68 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:40:20.877 Safari[325]: CGContextClipToRect: invalid context 0x0
28/01/2013 16:40:28.777 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:28.779 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.70 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.70 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:40:33.594 WebProcess[352]: CoreAnimation: failed to create OpenGL context
28/01/2013 16:40:41.467 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:42.316 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 2.64 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.79 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:40:46.819 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:46.819 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.91 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.91 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:40:50.260 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:50.260 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:50.261 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.05 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.05 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:40:50.262 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.06 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.05 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:41:27.117 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:41:27.118 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 5.84 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 5.84 seconds)
After rebooting as myself, I had the familiarity of a 20 minute startup time, with mail freezing as it started, and lots of whingeing.
It seems to happen a lot with mail.app - I have about 20,000 messages sat in there, but I wouldn't have expected this to cause these symptoms.
Apologies I couldn't recreate the problem in safe mode.
HTH
Dave
Message was edited by: Dave Mee (clarified description)

10.6.7, the 2011 MBP, and the death of easy cloning....

I'm a photographer and whenever I've hit the road in the past, I'd clone my MacPro boot drive to an external, then boot my MacBookPro from the external, clone the external to the internal on the MBP and I'd be off, with an exact replica of my desktop machine, with all my apps, settings, email, etc.
Just got a 2011 MBP and tried this out with 10.6.6. It would not boot the MBP. After some research, I figured out that I needed to install from the MBP OS install DVD onto the external boot drive while it is attached to the MBP, then clone it over to the internal. This worked, but sucked up some major time to do the instal.
Now 10.6.7 is out, with different flavors for different machines. Seems if I install 10.6.7 on my Desktop and then clone to an external drive, I wont be able to run the 10.6.6 installer disk the came with my MBP.
According to this article: http://www.hardmac.com/news/2011/03/23/about-the-different-versions-mac-os-x-10- 6-7 I might wind up with some weird problems if I do.
Any suggestions out of this mess until 10.6.8 comes along and (maybe) fixes this?

Instead of cloning the whole boot volume, why not just copy your documents? You wouldn't want identical systems on a Mac Pro and a portable, even if it were possible.

My 2011 MBP has begun running slow with frequent 'spinning beach ball' events. I'm running Yosemite and wondered if I should of use the original install disk for maintenance.

My 2011 MBP has begun running slow with frequent 'spinning beach ball' events. I'm running Yosemite and wondered if I should of use the original install disk for a maintenance reinstall. I presume I'd have to download Yosemite again, though I'd be happy just using Snow Leopard again too.
Thanks for the help.

When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Trouble installing 1TB HD in late 2011 MBP 17"

I have just got my hands on the last 2011 model MBP17", but it was fitted with a 500GB solid state drive, which is not really big enough
I have tried to replace it with a 1TB 5400rpm drive from mid 2009 MBP 17", but it doesn't recognise it
Will the later one only take more modern types of drive?....or what?
(the 500GB went into the 2009 MBP with no trouble or data loss)

Just to make certain that I have a clear understanding:
The HDD labled '1 TB ST....' has 10.8.5 on it and is installed in the 2009 MBP. There is 663.7 MB of data on it.
Mt. Lion technical requirements state that 8+ GB of room is required for installation. We have a discrepancy here.
The HDD labled 1 TB WD has two volumes:
Super Duper Backup which has Mt. Lion OSX and is a copt of the 2009 MBP.
Misc Copies is a Time Machine backup of the 2011 MBP which has Lion on it.
abderite wrote:
I have ordered another Mountain Lion for the 2011 machine, but you have to wait for a slot on AppStore and can't use one's previous 'purchase' on a 2nd machine.
If you have purchased an OSX that did not come as an original OSX on a MBP, you are entitled to install it on another MBP. You should not have to purchase it again. You should be able to download it from your App store account.
I will then erase the drive in the 2009 machine, re-instate the application bundle that came with the 2011 computer from MiscCopies to sell the machine on.
This would be incorrect on your part. The proper way to sell a MBP is to have the original OSX installed with no third party applications. The 2009 probably came with Leopard (10.5) which should be installed. Look at these guidelines:
http://http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/
Ciao.

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