Macbook pro 1.83ghz

I was wondering from which weeks are these macbooks(1.83mghz).
how good are them?
thank you

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
we don't and can't know what week they're from (yet). if you can come up with the first 5 digits of the serial number from one you're considering, we would know. the first five digits will be W86xx, and the xx there is the week number....
many people have machines w/ single-digit week numbers that work perfectly. there is not in general a strict correlation between week number and some issue....
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Macbook Pro 1.83ghz Woes - continiously being fixed - never working :(

I have a Macbook Pro 1.83Ghz Intel Core Duo - with lots of problems.
Back in November, it had problems with the Fans making a clunking / grinding noise and - the fans were replaced as well as the LogicBoard... This worked for up until a few weeks ago and then the right fan started playing up with the same issue and MBP was getting extremely hot - fans were running at 6-7000 RPM - even though iStat Pro isn't completely accurate - it was showing the .c temperature running at 85 degrees centigrade - pretty hot!!!
So 3wks ago, the right hand fan was replaced as well as temperature sensor on the Logicboard. Once fixed this worked for 3 days and then the fans went crazy and the MBP went stupidly hot again - right fan going crazy, rattling and clunking.
Installed Leopard 10.5.2 update > asked to restart > then HD failed to boot > No OS available etc. Took to be repaired, right fan replaced again and internal HD replaced.
Got the laptop back after parts replacement and testing, worked for a few hours and then right fan started its old tricks but then the left fan started doing the same - now both fans are whirring and making grinding noises AND the HD makes clunking noises (like the heads are slipping) when the disk gets busy!!
What can I do now? I'm gonna send it direct to Apple rather than this ****** 3rd party Apple Center that continuously fails to fix this Laptop.
Hopefully Apple can sort this out for good
Chris

This is sounding more and more like a lemon. I'd call AppleCare, tell them of your experiences, and if they won't replace your machine, ask to be patched up to Customer Relations and get a case number. This being a user to user board all we can do is offer you sympathy. Now if you are at a stage where you just got back the machine and it hasn't yet failed we can offer some tips to prevent failure.
AppleCare can be reached here:
http://www.apple.com/contact/phone_contacts.html
And don't give in to any excuses. Just take it through the chain until you get the response that satisfies you.

MacBook Pro 1.83GHz or 2GHz

Just in general which one do you think is the better value and which would you prefer. The price diference as you know is around $500 plus tax. Do you think what you get with the upgraded version is worth the price (2Ghz, 1gig Ram, and 100GB Hard Drive? I plan on running normal mac programs as well as boot camp with such programs as audtion, photoshop, etc. I am planning on using about 15g for boot camp with the buffer bringing it to 20G. What does everyone think?
Cheers!
John

I just bought two 1GB Corsair "Value Select" SO-DIMMs. One was inadequate and caused repeated hardware resets. The other one appears to be OK, but I'm loathe to keep it and plan to return them and buy from a source with a better reputation, even if their prices are higher. (But $300 for a 1GB SO-DIMM from Apple? What is it, solid gold?)
By the way, I should add that Apple's hardware test, which I ran three times, showed no trouble with this RAM, but MemTestOSX (http://memtestosx.org/) quickly led to the resets whenever the marginal SO-DIMM was installed.
Search the MacBook Pro forums for Corsair and you'll find (as I should have before buying) that my experience was shared among several people.
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SLOW going on Aperture 3.1 on MacBook Pro 1.83ghz

Ok so recently upgraded to Aperture 3.1 and it is as slow as molasses. Simple editing tasks not even in fullscreen mode are painfully slow--adjusting exposures, recovery, highlights, shadows, etc. I have to shutdown all other open programs and cancel all background tasks in Aperture i.e. thumbnail processing or whatever and still it crawls. The CPU usage in Activity monitor consistently shows between 100 and 180% when actively working on single images. Has Aperture outgrown my trusty MacBook Pro or is something wrong here folks? I upgraded thinking it would be better optimized for my older system but my post production times are seriously crippled. Any suggestions for what might be going on? Thanks in advance!

Your 2006 laptop is an early Core Duo before the Core 2 Duos. At 1.83 GHz clock speed and max of 2 GB RAM Aperture performance will be poor. Sorry.
As a frame of reference Geekbench ranks your MBP at about 2300, my slightly newer C2D MBP at ~3000, and a modern i7 MBP at ~6000.:
http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/
Looks like it is time for us to upgrade. Me especially, because even though it works, my box is full of hot chocolate...
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Issues with DVD Player 4.6.1. on MacBook Pro 1.83GHz 15'inch

I'm having problems with the DVD Player 4.6.1 version. When I insert a dvd the application doesn't start, it completly ignores the dvd. The icon shows up on the desktop screen but doesn't run. I tried to change on the Preferences Pane to open the application but keeps ignoring it. DOES ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO CHANGE OR SOLVE THIS PROBLEM!!! ANY HELP WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATED!!!

A much to late comment....
First thing I did when I bought my MacBook Pro was purchase an iSkin and covered my keyboard with it. If it get's grubby it's easily cleaned.
And never use something wet on any keyboard...tower or MacBook (the latter being much more expensive to deal with). On a Mac book, if water, anything wet, gets in the keyboard it can fry other components....much better having Apple Repair fix it right.
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Macbook Pro 1.83ghz Core Duo - Boot Disks

Hello. I have misplaced my startup disk. Any chance I could paypal someone some money in order to get a burned copy mailed to me? The apple store doesn't have any.
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Call Apple tech support. They can send you a set for a reasonable fee.

Macbook pro & vodafone 3G PCMCIA card-how can I use this?

Hi
I have recently bought a macbook pro and love it but I need a way of using my company vodafone 3G PCMCIA card on the move. Do you know of a compatible USB card holder I can slide the vodafone 3G card into or a 3G mobile solution that fits the funny express card slot (that is available in the UK for me to use). How are all of you making out who used a vodafone 3G card with a G4 15" powerbook like I did now you own a macbook pro?
Happy to buy an adapter or even look into a new 3G internet provider but it must be available in the UK and work with my macbook pro?
All ideas appreciated.
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I don't know if there is a PCMCIA adaptor for use with the MacBook Pro (or any portable.) However, here's some things to check into:
http://www.elandigitalsystems.com/usb/u111.php
http://www.arstech.com/item--usb2pcmcia.html
http://www.expansys.com/
http://sewelldirect.com/usb-to-pcmcia-wireless-adapter.asp
You also might check these sites for possible alternative solutions:
www.macwireless.com
www.evdoinfo.com

Macbook Pro 1.83

I want to get a new hard drive for my old Macbook Pro 1.83Ghz.
What do I look for when looking for a new hard drive?
ATA or SATA?
What is the maximum size that I can put in the the older 1.83Ghz model, and the maximum RPM? Any suggestions on a good hard drive? Can I take it to the apple store and have them install it? Or a local tech store?
Also I just installed Leopard and I heard that there are problems with the older macs and leopard. And that apple released a video drie update this month, I can't seem to find it though.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
You need to get a SATA, or Serial ATA hard drive. The PATA, or Parallel ATA is for the older PowerBooks and iBooks.
There is a huge variety of drives that will work. Two good places to look are Other World Computing and Newegg. Two good brands are Western Digital and Seagate, which now offers a 5 year warranty now. I think you can go for 7200 RPM for faster performance, or 5400 RPM for greater capacity. I don't thing there is a limit on how many GB's, but you can get more GB's with 5400 RPM drives. I think up to 320 GB but I'm not sure.
Are you still under warranty? If so, be sure that installing a new drive won't void anything. I don't know if the Apple Store would install it or not, but an Apple authorized repair facility should be able to. Or you may be able to, especially if you are out of warranty. I think that ifixit has instructions:
http://www.ifixit.com/
The only problems that I have heard of with Leopard are on the Power PC platforms like the G4 machines, where not all of the Leopard features will work. And Leopard is not supported on a G3 although people are looking at ways to make it work. It should be fine on any Intel machine.
Hopefully there will be a lively discussion on hard drives to help you to decide.
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MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz

Hello,
I have MacBook Pro 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo. Does it contains.. 64 bit processor or 32-bit? i have 1.5 GB of Ram. I worried that i will be able to utilize 64-bit features on new MAC OS X Leopard.

Mac OS X will behave no differently on a 32-bit system than on a 64-bit system. Yes the 64-bit systems will benefit more from the changes within Mac OS X due to their higher potential performance although functionally it'll be no different.

MacBook Pro Order

Hey guys!
Kinda my first post here (go easy on me!)
I ordered my MacBook Pro first thing Wednesday 26th April morning... and it said same day it shipped, which is good!
On the order status page it now says
"Shipped on Apr 26, 2006 via Flextronics c/o Express Cargo"
"Estimated delivered May 5, 2006"
Apparently now according to the sales rep I'm just waitin for my Apple Care plan to come from Holland? :S And I should call them next wednesday if I dont have it.
The guy said to me that it was in Northamptonshire, and waitin for the AppleCare package or something
(Even though the status of that on the Apple Order Status is "Complete")
Who knows the workings of the minds of the Apple delivery system!
I just wondered what everyone elses experiences were with this stuff...
Thanks in advance - I can't wait to get my little beauty!
Hoping I dont have the problems some people have posted. :S
MacBook Pro 1.83GHz, 2Gig Ram Mac OS X (10.4.6)

ya most of the time they are righ refurb products sometime take about one to two days after that ship date for some reason but every time i order from apple it is early.
enjoy your macbook pro they are awesome if i had the money i would have bought one instead of my macbook but i love it.

Purchasing Restore discs for Macbook Pro

I recently purchased a 1.83ghz Macbook Pro from a friend. The system works great. The only problem is, he lost the orginal reinstall discs. Other than ebay, cna it be purchased from Apple without gettinh "hit in the head" price wise. I've seen some unused reinstall discs on ebay, but they were more recent macbook pros'. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Macbook Pro-1.83ghz/80GB HD/2 GB RAM/OS 10.4.10/15.4" model

Buying the Tiger pack from the Store is your best bet really ...
No, it is not. Retail Tiger is PPC only.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Contact Apple and explain the situation.

1.83GHz MacBook Pro

I am the proud owner of a 1.83GHz MacBook Pro. I bought it almost exactly 60 days ago, and despite it's heat issues it's been great. Not only did it work great, it was wonderful knowing that I had one of the best laptops on the market. And while that still may be true, my model is now a bit out of date. Not too long ago, the 1.83GHz model was removed from the line to be updated to a 2GHz CPU. Essentially, it was revised.
While talking to a friend via iChat tonight, he mentioned that when Apple does minor revisions, such as the 1.83GHz jump to 2GHz, Apple will update your system for no charge. Is this true? Would Apple do this for the 1.83GHz MBPs? If so, how should I go to get mine upgraded? Should I simply call my AppleCare, or do I need to drive a province over to the Apple Store? If anyone knows any information on this it would be very helpful...
And if they won't do this, why wouldn't they? Apple seems to update their products very often, a bit too often if you ask me. Not offering an upgrade to those customers who would like it is like a software developer moving his software from version 1.5.2 to 1.5.3 with only minor security fixes, and charging current users over again. If it's not possible that would definatly be a nice thing to have.

Well, sorry but my opinion is that your friend is mistaken. Unfortunately, you can't call up Apple whenever they revise their product line and have them replace the machine that you just bought 1 day/week/month/year ago (unless its within the 14-day return period and you bring it back for a refund and then turn around and buy a revised one), unless its defective and you have it exchanged and luckily receive a newer computer. Buying a computer is just like buying a car or any other type of appliance or any other product for that matter. Technology is constantly evolving and it would be unfair to expect Apple or any other computer manufacturer to constantly exchange old hardware for new hardware (for free) as it is released/revised. Have you ever bought something and then been able to exchange it when its upgrade came along? Besides, the speed jump is ever-so-slight and unless you're doing CPU-intensive tasks, the difference will be negligable.
Just be glad that we're at 1.83GHz clocks and not at 1.67. Remember, the 1.83GHz speed itself was a last-second gift from Apple so we should all be thankful for that!

1.83ghz Macbook pro - any issues before buying?

Hi,
I have the option to buy one of the first Macbook Pro's for a very reasonable price. it is the 1.83ghz model and is an ex display model that has been in a box for some time. The battery is dead but aside from that it looks ok. my question is what should i be looking for? I seem to remeber there being issues with early Macbooks?
thanks.

Hi,
I had the Macbook for a full day today and all seemed ok.
I left in on all day and had a good play with it but i couldn't pick any faults with it.
The dead battery is covered under Apples exchange program and a replacement is available to me should i take the Macbook.
I can get this for £500, just a small scratch on the screen right in the bottom corner but other than that it seems good.
I also installed the firmware updates but all in all i think i'll go for it, the illuminated keyboard, 15" screen and aluminum case did it for me over the Macbook.
Thanks for your help, it made it easy to know what to look for.

Any difference between the RAM for 1.83GHz and 2.0 GHz Macbook Pro?

Hi all,
I want to upgrade my 2.0GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro to 2GB of RAM. So far Crucial.com is my choice however I've noticed the difference in price (due to sale) for the 1.83GHz MBP and the 2.0GHz MBP:
http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.asp?mtbpoid=8698C1B9A5CA7304
http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.asp?mtbpoid=B8539EC6A5CA7304
Could you guys confirm there is actuall no difference between the two memory models, and it's just a marketing ploy on Crucial's part?
Thanks,
Eric

The prices indicated on both links are the same. However, the answer to your question is that all MacBooks, MacBook Pros, Intel Minis, and Intel iMacs all use the same type and spec RAM. You will find the appropriate information in the computer's User Guide. It's also described in the Apple guide on how to install the RAM.
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Can i change the macbook pro processor from 1.83ghz to 2.16ghz?

i saw some forum that the use a mac mini core solo change to core duo.that was very impressive.Hope that i also can change the macbook pro with sort kinda way......does anyone have any idea about it.because this might be a very good news for those mbp who slower than 2.0ghz
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=91459

i saw some forum that the use a mac mini core solo
change to core duo.that was very impressive.Hope that
i also can change the macbook pro with sort kinda
way......does anyone have any idea about it.because
this might be a very good news for those mbp who
slower than 2.0ghz
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9
1459
Like Nick said, it is soldered in... Good at soldering? He he...
William

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