Current 13" MBP question

Just ordered a 13" MBP, did not realize that the display was not a HD display which I thought got upgraded when the 15" & 17" got redone. Can anyone give me their opinion on the quality of this display????
Thanks

I currently have my 13' MacBook Pro attached to my 24 inch ViewSonic 1080P monitor and I can tell you, that the display on the computer itself looks much better. The color reproduction on this external display is not nearly as good as the IPS screen on my Pro. I just use this one when I am doing reading and working on iPhone/iPod/iPad apps. The connection is over HDMI thru the mini DP.

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Hi, I am considering upgrade from 4mbps to 'up to 38 mbps fibre' (I am an EE customer). I've read that some people had to wait up to 2-3 weeks to get their upgrade working. My question is: am I going to be disconnected from current broadband when I order the upgrade? or will I still be able to use my internet on current speed and then they will swtich the speeds one day? Thanks in advance

Having recently switched from ADSL to fibre here what happened with my connection (though I'm on Sky):
Day 1 - ordered the fibre upgrade.
Day 2 - I was given my fibre activation date.
Day 10 - new router arrived (with Sky the router works with both ADSL and fibre so I plugged it in straight away and it worked on my ADSL connection. I don't know but I suspect EE are the same).
Day 16 - my ADSL connection went down around 16:00 and approx. 15 mins later the fibre connection kicked in.
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hi all--
currently i have a dual-band airport extreme on bridge mode connected by ethernet to my AT&T Uverse wireless router. we have several Airport Express' and an ATV2 in the house and the 2 wireless connections; the g put out by Uverse, and an n put out by the AE. I switch to either one depending on location. I have a WD 1TB drive hooked up to my 750GB iMac via FW800. for years that was fine as the iMac was the main computer and i just worried about it's backups.
now we have upgraded a 2007 MacBook to a new MBPro w/ a 500GB SSD, 12 GB RAM, and an i7 chip. needless to say, now THIS computer has become pimary, as it blazes!! but now since there's so much info on it, it really needs to be backed up as well.
i'm OK with basic/moderate connectivity, but sometimes get confused by more complex issues. so let me throw my wants at you. i'm hoping that i can buy the 3TB TC to replace the AE and WD drive, split the TC drive into 2 partitions, and keep the iMac hooked up to it via ethernet, and let the MBPro back up wirelessly to it's own partition.
i guess this might be pretty basic and obvious, but before i buy all this and sell my old equipment, i'd like to make sure it should work. i've never set up a TC before, but i hope that i can just tell it to use the prior settings for the AE to get most setup issues out of the way. and i'm not quite sure how (or when in the process) to partition the TC drive, assuming i can.
if someone can advise me whether this setup is possible, and how to (or a link on how to) partition to TC drive for the 2 computers that would be fantastic. the main reason i'm unsure about doing this is that on Apple's TC page, they really only seem to discuss all computers backing up wirelessly, which would be silly for the iMac since they're side-by-side.
any thoughts for me, my faithful bretheren?

You cannot partition the TC drive but the two computers can use TM to their own areas without any need for you to intrude.. That part Apple do a good job of. The backup sparse bundle is effectively a disk image and the computer keeps track of it by virtual of serial numbers.. you will have no issues.
And the iMac can use ethernet which will be much faster.. you should do both backups initially by ethernet.. once completed the MBP can backup via wireless.. but the speed of wireless will make a mockery of your SSD.. wow, 500GB SSD.. !!
The TC should be relatively easy to slot into place of the AE.. it is really the same thing.. but I sure would NOT sell it all off until you get everything working.. and I would still keep the firewire drive just as a further backup.. there is nothing wrong with using a different software and then leaving the FW drive in a friend or relatives house for a rainy day.

LCD TV for MBP Question - PAL/NTSC ?

I want to buy an LCD TV (not plasma) to use with my MBP. If possible from the USA as the exchange rates are so good it would be a real bargain.
My question is: are US LCD TV's compatible with European TV signals ?
The US uses NTSC and we in UK use PAL. I know the old CRT TV's are not compatible unless they are multi system.
Could someone with an LCD TV in the USA check if they can input a PAL signal as well as NTSC ?
Many thanks.....

Syntrak,
My 2 cents, it might be difficult for you to find a seller that ship out of the US (specially for TV). I took the liberty to reply to your post because I spent 8 ear in the US until last september.
You are right about NTSC vs. PAL, it's going to be more difficult to find in the US a TV that is PAL than here in Europe to find a TV the accept NTSC.
I just check Amazon.com and they do not show NTSC/PAL compatibility (one TV shows ATSC, to receive HD signal from the air), look here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FA0DFM/ref=dpcp_ob_title0/102-3583852-2110522
Here is more info about ATSC signal: http://www.answers.com/topic/atsc (read the wikipedia article).
Also I'm afraid that no TV sold in the US will have a SCART input, I do not really know if UK use that input plug.
You are going to have hard time to find a TV that also work in 220V (US is 110Volt), not a lot of TV (contrary to DVD player) accept 110/220Volts.
Check Circuit city (www.circuitcity.com) Best Buy (www.bestbuy.com) for information as well as Amazon.com but none will ship out of the US (as far as I know).
Good luck and you have a lot of homework to do.
Thierry

Current/Extra repo question

I have got a question about those repos (excuse my stupidity).
I always thought that current provides the stable stuff and extra is just additional, presumably newer. Now, there are two different mesa versions, the one in current being the newer one. Same holds true for xvidcore. Is there any way of telling what the difference is, except looking at the PKGBUILDs? What is the reason for them being there under the same name?
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Hey iphitus,
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As for the mirror:
testing and extra: ftp.archlinux.org
Shouldn't that be up-to-date?
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Upgrading from 15" MBP to 13" MBP (questions on Adobe CS/Microsoft)

Hi there,
I have an existing MBP 15" running Snow Leopard that I use for work. I will be purchasing a new 13" from Apple which has Lion to replace my work computer. However, I will be keeping my 15" and would like to upgrade that to Lion (will purchase the Lion software). In addition, on my 15" I have Adobe CS4 and Microsoft Office 2008. I have purchaed the upgrade to Adobe CS5.5 and the new Office 2011 (finally with Outook) which I intend to use on both computers (this is all within the license agreements - installing on 2 computers used by the same user, but not running at the same time).
I basically want the 15" and 13" to mirror each other. I know I can do this with Migration Assistant, but I have questions on the way to prep the computers first before doing so (mainly my concern is tranferring Adobe CS programs versus installing them from the CDs and trasnferring from a Snow Leopard OS to a Lion OS). If anyone has any advice on the options I've listed below, I would really appreciate it. I also plan to post to the Adobe and Microsoft forums but thought I would start here first.
Option 1: Is it better to first upgrade EVERYTHING on the 15" and then use Migration Assistant to tranfser everything including apps to the 13"? This means on the 15", first upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion, then install the upgrade to Adobe CS5.5, install Office 2011 (transfer from Entourage email to Outlook) and then transfer everything to 13" new computer.
Option 2: Should I only upgrade the 15" OS to Lion and then transfer all the apps as is (Adobe CS4/Microsoft Office 2008) to the 13"? After the tranfsfer, then on both computers, I would install from the CDs the Adobe CS5.5 upgrade and Microsoft Office 2011.
Option 3: Should I just transfer everything as is (without upgrading first) from the 15" to the the 13"? This means after the transfer, on the 15" I would install Lion, then CS5.5 upgrade, then Office 2011 from CDs. Then on the 13", I would install from the CDs Adobe CS4, then CS5.5 upgrade, then Office 2011 (I don't really need 2008 on the 13" as this will be my work computer that I need Outlook for).
I'm also wondering in general regarding Entourage to Outlook if is better to do that transfer of email on my Snow Leopard computer first or Lion or does it really matter?
Thanks so much in advance!

Csound1 wrote:
Courcoul wrote:
15" to 13"? That, technically, is a downgrade, in more ways than one.
2008 to 2011,
That, technically, is a upgrade, in more ways than one.
Mid 2009 to 2011...
Will be a good test whether I/O trumps pure processing. Now, if the OP lucks out and gets the 13" when this year's iteration comes out (Ivy Bridge), then I'll raise the white flag and accept "upgrade".

BootCamp on Late 2011 MBP Question.

I don't know where to start but here goes. I've had boot camp w/ Win7 32bit on my MBP for sometime now with the original HD. I upgraded to a SSD, and removed the optical drive and put the original HDD there. recently decided to upgrade the original HDD to 1TB and CarbonCopy Cloner does not support cloning Boot Camp partitions. So heres what I did to get BC back on my MBP. I cloned my SSD to the new HDD. Removed the SSD and reinstalled the optical drive so I can use BC to partition and install Win7 on the new 1TB HD. The reason why I did that was because my MBP does not support booting from external USB CD-ROM. Now after I got Win7 up and running I removed the optical drive, moved the 1TB HDD back over and reinstalled my SSD as the main boot disk.
Now here comes my real question. Can I wipe the OS X Partition on the 1TB disk or will it cause problems with BootCamp ?
Thanks in advance
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Late 2011 MBP
16GB Ram
Crucial 512GB SSD
WD 1TB in optical drive bay
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
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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
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          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

Refurb MBP questions

Hey all! I just got a "new" MBP and I have to say that so far, I love it! I just had a couple quick questions because I am comparing the MBP running Leopard to my old PBG4 running TIGER:
When the display sleeps, the LED near the open latch is on but very dim. When the MBP goes to sleep, then the LED pulses. I know the pulsing is normal, but is the dim LED thing ok?
Also, the problem with the first letter input being ignored, but I see Apple is working on it.
Because it's a refurb, I think I am a bit lucky: I ordered a 160gig HD and got a 200gig HD—but only 4200rpm. Has anyone had any issues with the 4200rpm drive? I was a bit disappointed in the information about the speed but have noticed no significant performance lag. I am thankful for the extra room, of course...
Has anyone else ordered a refurb and get extra "goodies" in their hardware??
Thanks for your time.

I recently purchased a new refurb. 2.2 GHz 15", running Tiger. I bought it off eBay for a further discounted price, yet it included the drop-in Leopard DVD. I haven't installed Leopard yet, for I'm afraid of running into issues with it. Maybe when 10.5.2 is released.
Regarding the LED on the latch, I have had the same experience. A little alarming at first, but I assume its just a MacBook Pro thing. I also upgraded from a Powerbook.
Other than that issue, I've noticed the trackpad is a little crazy when the computer is cold and sometimes it wakes from sleep a little sluggishly. This only happens when I close the screen, then open it again within a few seconds. Oh, and I have 2 dead "red" pixels. I intend to call Apple about this in the near future.
Regarding your hard drive, I'm not surprised you are having a positive experience. I have read that the new 4200RPM drives can be "just as fast" at 5400RPM drives.

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.

Upgrade from old MBP questions; SSD Startup Drive w/HDD Storage Drive?

Hi! I currently have a 2.4 GHz Core Duo 13" Macbook (old) with 160 Gb HDD and 2 GB of memory/RAM (4 years old in February). I love the OS and how everything (computer, iPhone, camera, internet, etc) all sync up together and how easy everything is to use; I don't think I could buy another computer that wasnt an Apple.
My laptop is sadly slowly showing signs of sluggishness and the battery life is not doing so well... also, I am starting to get sick of looking at such a small screen. I am considering upgrading to a new 15" Macbook Pro but am concerned as to whether or not to upgrade to a SSD (mainly for the lightning fast boot time). With an already steep price tag, I am very reluctant to shell out an extra $550 for a smaller 256 GB (albiet SSD) hard drive.
I have a few questions before I decide to upgrade and am seeking some assistance from a knowledgable community to assist in my decision making...
1) In regards to comparing the 13" Dual Core to the 15" Quad Core - is the processor making THAT big of a difference as far as how quick the OS and programs are running? I had a friend bring this up and although I stated I would like to upgrade to a larger screen, the $$ makes a lot of difference...
2) Regarding the SSD's...
     a) Are they truely worth it?
     b) Is there a "third-party" vendor where I can purchase a similar sized SSD and upgrade/install myself for less than the $550 Apple is asking for? (256 GB or larger)
     c) Does either notebook (13" or 15") have the internal capacity to house a second hard drive to hold the OS and boot programs (SSD Boot/Start-Up Disc)?My thoughts here are to have a large capacity HDD for storage (music files, documents, mail, programs/apps, etc) and much smaller SSD used simply to get a lightning fast boot-up time.
     d) Is the technology expected to take a turn in the near future (6 months to a year) to either become the standard or greatly reduce cost? Should I wait?
3) What to do with my old Macbook... is there a place to sell it to get cash to cover the cost of the new notebook? What is the most efficient way of migrating data from the old hard drive into the new?
Your thoughts/speculation/opinion are greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance for your responses to help me through this dilemma.
Thank You,
Shaun_Levins

shaun_levins wrote:
2) Regarding the SSD's...
     a) Are they truely worth it?
     b) Is there a "third-party" vendor where I can purchase a similar sized SSD and upgrade/install myself for less than the $550 Apple is asking for? (256 GB or larger)
     c) Does either notebook (13" or 15") have the internal capacity to house a second hard drive to hold the OS and boot programs (SSD Boot/Start-Up Disc)?My thoughts here are to have a large capacity HDD for storage (music files, documents, mail, programs/apps, etc) and much smaller SSD used simply to get a lightning fast boot-up time.
     d) Is the technology expected to take a turn in the near future (6 months to a year) to either become the standard or greatly reduce cost? Should I wait?
3) What to do with my old Macbook... is there a place to sell it to get cash to cover the cost of the new notebook? What is the most efficient way of migrating data from the old hard drive into the new?
Your thoughts/speculation/opinion are greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance for your responses to help me through this dilemma.
Thank You,
Shaun_Levins
2.
a) yes, I had an HDD and switched to a 3rd party SSD. So I am speaking from firsthand experience.
b) yes, check here: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/ as an example.
c) yes. you need to remove the optical drive and use something like this: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other+World+Computing/DDAMBS0GB/
d) who knows? if you need something now get it, if not wait
3. try craigslist or eBay. To get old data from old hdd to new hdd use a cloning program such as CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper! you will need an external enclosure for the new hdd..with the new hdd in the external enclosure plug it into usb port on the new mac, clone the old drive to the new one. make sure to format the new hdd a mac os extended (journaled). swap drives.

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Hi everyone,
First time poster here.
I am currently in the market for a MBP w/ Retina, but it looks like the upgrade to Broadwell processors isn't going to happen until June/July. I don't want to be 2 full processor upgrades behind by buying a Haswell machine since the Skylake processors are probably hitting in the next several months, but really need to get the computer now since I've been without a laptop after my MacBook from 2006 finally bought the farm a couple of months ago. It's been rough not having an actual computer and having to rely on my phone and iPad alone. So, I'm wondering if the current gen of MBP's are user-upgradeable to Broadwell chips? I know that the RAM is soldered in and isn't user-upgradeable, but I'm wondering if the Haswell chips are also soldered in? If they're not, is whatever socket it plugs into the same and can the motherboard handle the Broadwells? I don't know a TON about computers so please be kind, but I'm technically-proficient enough to be able perform upgrades with step-by-step directions. Thanks in advance for your help.

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Sorry to post again, but I'm a bit worried about the 4GB limit the MB and MBP seem to have.
Most deals only include models with 2GB of RAM, even MBP. I think I can live with 2GB of RAM for a year, but would probably want to upgrade after that to 8GB when the RAM is likely a third the current price. The extra RAM is useful for VMWare Fusion, as well as graphics, video, and audio apps.
I am worried about buying a product, that for whatever reason, is limited to 4GB. Anyone know if this is a hardware issue that cannot be fixed, or software, perhaps since Leopard isn't fully 64-bit yet, that will likely be fixed in Snow Leopard?

Found these: http://blogs.computerworld.com/nvidiasays_new_macbook_pro_can_do_8gb_ofram
http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/the-4gb-ram-limit-of-the-new-macbooks-is- semi-accurate/
among others. nVidia insists the chipsets are capable of 8GB, and OS X recognizes 8GB, just doesn't use it properly. Hope they fix this and that it's not done intentionally to force an earlier computer upgrade in the future, since, predictably, 4GB will most likely be the minimum for new laptops in 2 years.

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i just got a new macbook pro 2.5ghz yesterday. i have been using a macbook late 2008 aluminum. i want to migrate about 225 GB of data from old computer to new computer. What is the fastest way of the available options? I know that wireless is out of the question. i have an ethernet cable and was thinking of using that to connect the two computers. Would it be faster to go from the the MacBook USB to the MBP firewire? Would i use a USB to firewire cable, or a firewire cable with a USB adapter? Any rough idea of how long any of these connections might take for that amount of data? The new computer has a 1 terrabyte hard drive 5400rpm. thanks

The link explains how to migrate data using Mavericks. The Macbook Pro i got is not the retina display model, it's the previous model, which i chose to get so i could get the large hard drive, needing the space. The new MBP came with Mountain Lion, doesn't have Mavericks on it yet. It has a firewire port and a thunderbolt port and two USB ports. The old computer, the MacBook, has only USB ports, no firewire. I'm moving the data from the old computer to the new computer. Since the data is going to the new Mac, i thought would be the Target Disk, right? So, i will put the old Mac "in Target Disk," is that right? That means it's going to target another disk, is that right? It's confusing temrinology, but i bet it's perfectly clear when you are doing it and following the process.
So firewire is the fastest choice and in order to use it with these two computers, i need to use a USB to Firewire cable to connect the old computer to the new computer, if i understand right.
Do you know if there's any source of information how long (roughly) it might take to migrate about 225GB usintg USB to FireWire? I want to plan for a time when i won't be able to use either computer.
thanks!

Windows 7 on a current unibody MBP

I've just installed this on a current unibody Macbook Pro, which was all mostly painless with Parallels.
The only thing I'm unsure about is the Aero transparency stuff - I don't think that's activated, or maybe not even supported by the video card in the MBP (at least not without driver updates).
Although I only installed the 32-bit version.
So I guess I'm just after a pointer about that - do I need to rumage for driver updates, or does it only work on the 64-bit version?
Also - it runs IE8 by default - should I be able to run IE7 as well? I had hoped to run IE6, but I have a feeling I read that Vista / 7 doesn't support IE6?

Thanks Stefan.
I'm a web designer, so the only reason I really want to run Windows is to test websites in IE. Having had a bit of a rummage, it now looks like Windows 7 only supports IE8, which is bit limiting.
With the Aero stuff, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at it. I've read a bit about why the new taskbar with live window previews and aero peek is better than the dock - but I think is largely a moot point, as Expose arguably does a better job anyway.
As Windows 7 is installed on the machine, is it possible to boot into it using Boot Camp, as well as run it under Parallels?
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