Macbook Pro Retina - Dual boot vs warranty question

If I buy a brand new Macbook Pro Retina, and half its irreplacable pcie SSD and dual boot Mac OS X and Archlinux via bootcamp following the Archwiki, will I lose or limit my warranty towards Apple?

Vegita, not necessarily... You can easily revert a Mac to its factory defaults with little to no work, so I'd say go ahead and play.

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I brought a macbook pro retina, what type of warranty is better

i brought a macbook pro retina, what type of warranty is better

There is the standard one year warranty, then you can purchase the additional warranty called AppleCare. Apple - Support - AppleCare.

Macbook pro (retina) wont boot - can't get to recovery

I'm having a bizarre problem with my Macbook pro retina 15".
I was using bootcamp/booted into windows and playing Star wars the old republic when the machine suddenly froze, then the display started going into lots of squares of multiple colours.
When I try to boot in to OSX it freezes after the apple logo and the small cirle stops. If I try get to the recovery by pressing cmd + r the same thing happens. I've also tried using the internet recovery option, the same thing happens after it connects to my wifi etc.
If I press alt during bootup to get to the different drives to boot from, the icons (i.e. OSX or bootcamp) are displayed but are slightly brown and look a bit distorted. If I select bootcamp and try to boot into windows the squares/distorted screen issue starts again.
I have also tried booting from a mountain lion install usb i made - same probelm as above: freezes after apple logo.
I've also tried resetting the PRAM/NVRAM or whatever its called.
Does anyone have any ideas I can try as I can't call Apple care til Monday now?
Thanks

Nope. Your only option is to take it to an Apple Genius Bar as your system is FUBAR. More then likely a hardware problem from over heating.

Can my Macbook Pro support dual boot and Secret World

Hi
My MacBook Pro has the following specs
Processor 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)
I was wondering if it can first of all, support dual boot, because I would like to play a Windows based MMORPG. And I was wondering if there are risks involved? I'm also worried because I like Mac's secure delete trash function and won't having a Windows platform affect that?
Furthermore, can it support playing Secret World with such specs?
Secret World is an MMORPG I'm not sure what the minimum requirements are.. It doesn't say, but anyone has a guess?
-EDIT
OS:      Windows XP (SP 1)/Vista (SP 1)/Windows 7 (SP 1)
PROCESSOR:      2.6 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent AMD CPU
MEMORY: At least 2GB RAM for Windows XP / 3GB RAM for Windows Vista and Windows 7 *
VIDEO CARD:     nVidia 8800 series 512 VRAM or better/Radeon HD3850 512MB or better
DIRECTX: DirectX 9.0c Compatible

If you have an MBP with a Core 2 Duo processor and a clock speed of 2.16 or 2.33 GHz, your max is 3 GB. If you have a 2.2, 2.4, 2.5 or 2.6 GHz clock speed your max is 4 GB.
Check Apple menu > About this Mac for processor type and speed.
I can tell you what you should see - C2D at 2.16 or 2.33 GHz. Those machines have a 3 GB max stated by Apple, but will actually use ~3.2 GB if you have 2 x 2 GB installed, and you get the (marginal) benefit of having a matched pair. In that case, it's also 'normal' for About this Mac to show 4 GB even though the memory controller can only access a little over 3 GB.

Macbook pro retina dual monitors

Hello.
I would like to know, if it is possible to connect 2 ex monitors to Mac book pro retina, one with a hdmi cable direct to the hdmi port, and they other one whit the adaptor thunderbolt mini display to VGA, and the connect my second monitor to that??
Help please.. Nikolaj

Something like this at US$300:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/HB865ZM/A/belkin-thunderbolt-express-dock?fnod e=58
Highlights
One cable output provides instant access to eight ports
Ability to daisy-chain up to five additional Thunderbolt devices
Includes Cable-management channel
One Gigabit Ethernet port
One FireWire 800 port
One Thunderbolt port
One 3.5 mm headphone output Jack
One 3.5 mm audio Input Jack
Three USB 3.0 ports*
[Click on this pictures to see it larger]

My macbook pro retinal wont boot up

hi
i wanted to install windows 8 to my macbook using boot camp.
after partition and burn the ios image to my usb drive. just before installing my windows 8. i click on cancel during installation of windows deal to in sufficient time as i have to go to work.
after i clicked on cancel button. mac should reboot. but now it is showing me a grey screen and after sometimes it says "insert a boot media and hit any keyto boot up."
so i insert my windows 8 usb drive again and hit any key. the keyboard is not responding and windows is not rebooting.
any solution to this? i do not wan to visit apple service center as that is too troublesome.
i searched online, they said press and hold on "option key" allow me to boot bak to mac.
i will try tat when i am bak home.
any alternative solution?
will my data lose? i does not have a lion installation disk

anyone noes?

HT5019 Macbook Pro Retina dual screen?

I'm currently looking at external monitor solutions for my MBPr. When i'm at my desk, a single 15" screen just isn't enough real estate.
Does anyone know if you can use dual external monitors on the MBPr? I don't want them both to be mirrors, I'd like to have the extended desktop. Is this possible, and if so, what is required? Both monitors would be HDMI

Vegita, not necessarily... You can easily revert a Mac to its factory defaults with little to no work, so I'd say go ahead and play.

Macbook pro retina wont boot

A week old laptop refuses to boot have tried everything availiable online still no luck!
Are apple skiming on quality?

Many thanks, will try and get it replaced if lucky as get back to London on the 13th of January as presently in Kenya. Was happy with my original bought last year which has worked flwlessly so picked another for my daughter, however having it die in less than ten days is a pain as gave it to her as a Christmas present.
What is the procedure when you book a genius appointment?
Are they supposed to get it working while you wait?
If they cant manage this do they replace the same machine?
Any advice is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

4GB memory on new MacBook Pro Retina 13 with 2.4GHz dual core i5 processor &128GB flash storage

Hello,
I'm completely new to the mac world but I'm fed up with pc's and all the insanity with processor problems, viruses, etc. I'm seriously looking at replacing my HP laptop with the new MacBook Pro Retina 13 with 2.4GHz dual core i5 processor, 4GB memory (RAM) & 128GB flash storage, OS X Mavericks (not sure which version). My concern is whether this will be reliably & consistantly fast & smooth both in desktop apps & internet use. I don't need it to do somersaults or anything too advanced. I would mostly be using Pages & spreadsheet apps & internet. It would double as my daughter's computer for cyber school so it's crucial that it runs quickly & efficiently. If she can't complete everything on time or log in to her online sessions because of a computer issue we'll be up a creek without a paddle since this particular cyber school's tech department is still working off of pc's running Windows XP. My father, thus far a pc user, thought I should consider moving up to 8GB memory but I was hoping that with flash storage being faster, I would be able to avoid the extra $100 for the upgrade to 8GB. My biggest fear is finding myself as frustrated & angry as I am now with all of my pc's, ready to take a sledge hammer to them because they take forever to boot, launch apps, internet or do just about anything (that is if they're even fuctioning at all- not joking). Does anyone have any advice or input? Thanks!!
P.s. On Apple's site I found a refurbished late 2013 model of the MacBook Pro Retina 13 with all of the same specs as listed above (4GB, not 8GB), running OS X (doesn't say which one) but for a bit less than a brand new one. Is this the same model as what they're currently selling new in their store or did they just upgrade everything to match what is being offered in the current "new" model? I realize this may be a dumb question but I can't seem to find anything online indicated that Apple has released a model newer than what was released late last year (October 2013, I believe), except that the model released then came with SSD storage instead of flash.

No computer is fault free but Apple MBPs have a good track record. In those cases where problems do arise, Apple has the best support in the industry.
A MBP with 4 GB RAM with the SSD storage should be adequate for your needs.
lsmoondancer01 wrote:
P.s. On Apple's site I found a refurbished late 2013 model of the MacBook Pro Retina 13 with all of the same specs as listed above (4GB, not 8GB), running OS X (doesn't say which one) but for a bit less than a brand new one. Is this the same model as what they're currently selling new in their store or did they just upgrade everything to match what is being offered in the current "new" model?
The latest MBP models came out in October 2013, so it will be the same, with the same warranty and telephone support. The difference will be that the price will be less and it will be delivered in a plain white box.
I have purchased three MBPs from the refurbished section. I have never been able to detect any cosmetic differences and will go that route again.
Ciao.

Macbook Pro Retina upgrade questions.

Hey guys,
A warm hello. This is my very first post on the community, and i feel privildged to be here. Been an iPhone user since gen 1, now want to extend my love to MacBook Pro Retina.
I am planning on getting the rMBP 15.5" 2.6Ghz, 16GB RAM, 256 Flash Storage. I am choosing the higher end setup in terms of CPU and RAM capacity, but below average in terms of storage. I already have 72TB media server hooked to my A/V Rack, that is on Windows Home Server. Most of the time i will be using the laptop at home, where i can map the network and store and access my files from the media server. But there might be times when i'll be touring, or on vacation. One of the main reasons i am getting the higher end laptop is for my new found love for Photography which requires CPU and memory intensive processing for rendering RAW images. I am not a pro, and wont be.. this is plain hobby.
Now here is my main question, will i be able to upgrade just the flash storage in the future. Not now!! Say like in a year or so? I realize there is a kit that can be used, but they dont have it for the newer models.. thats what my colleague told me.. is this true? And if so, how hard is to upgrade the storage on the newer mbp? i can setup new desktops etc.. so i somewhat good with PC hardware etc.
Also, if i install windows on the side, will running both the OS on the MBP draw double the cpu/memory resources? Its like when we install Windows in VMWare the cpu consumption doubles up along with RAM. Is this going to be the same for MBP?

will i be able to upgrade just the flash storage in the future?
No and maybe. Best to decide now. Apple's official stance is there are no user servicable parts on the new MBPs (except for the mid-2012 model).
It is possible that in the future OWC (macsales.com) and others will have SSD upgrades for your Mac but you can't count on that. Installing a 3rd-party SSD would void the warranty. If you take it to Apple for repairs with a 3rd-party SSD they will not touch it. At that point you could reïnstall the old SSD but if there is evidence you opened the Mac that might not help.
You can run Windows via a VM (as you described) or dual-boot using BootCamp (runing one at a time for higher performance).

New MacBook Pro retina 13" arrived - first impressions and questions!

My new MacBook Pro retina 13" arrived today, two weeks earlier than the promised delivery date. My version is the 2.6 GHz i5, 512 GB SSD and I maxed the RAM out to 16 GB, since there is no upgrade later. I also customized the keyboard, since I live in Japan but prefer the US keyboard.
I posted unpacking photos and initial comments to my blog: http://lerner.net/new-macbook-pro-arrived/
I want to talk about some of those points, and ask some more detailed questions here. I hope others find the questions useful.
1. The keyboard is extremely nice. I like it better than the Bluetooth keyboard I have for my iMac right now. It has a nice feel to it.
2. No dead pixels! As some of you might now from old messages, I get really paranoid about new Apple notebook computers. If I find even one dead pixel it gnaws at me and I call Apple and complain until they exchange it for a perfect screen. Well I’m happy to report that I went through thorough pixel tests in white, black, red, blue and green and all the pixels seem 100% perfect. Yay!
4. The speaker seems quite nice. I played some music, and it sounded very beautiful to me, with good volume. I know some reviews of the MacBook Pro criticize the speaker quality, but it sounds as good or better than any of the speakers I currently have. I was quite pleased with that.
5. The retina display is very beautiful of course. I don’t need to have it turned up anywhere near the maximum brightness. There is a very good illumination range.
6. Because of the SSD drive, start up is very quick. Also it makes no noise at all. And it’s very light. I’m glad I went for the 13 inch pro model. It was just a little bit more expensive, and just 200 g heavier. I can see this replacing my iMac with the external monitor I bought.
Some questions:
Q1. Do I need protection pads for the hand rest to prevent discoloration over time? My old MBP 17" would get black-blotchey after a while. Eventually I got the top case replaced under AppleCare and protected it with pads. That was the late 2006 model. Is the construction material the same? Will my nice metal body lose its metallic finish and show dark blotches over time without protection?
Q2. What are the best practices for battery use and sleep? My iMac is on all the time and only the display sleeps. I hear it's not best for the lifetime of the MacBook Pro to leave it connected all the time. Yet I need to run my daily CCC (Carbon Copy Clone) complete bootable backup, which runs at 3:30 am every day. So it seems I need to keep it plugged in all the time. Any suggestions here, regarding both battery charging and also turning it off vs putting it to sleep vs power nap vs leaving it running all the time like I do with my iMac?
Q3. Is the "put hard disk to sleep when possible" meaningful at all for SSD?
Q4. Is there a sleep indicator when the lid is closed? I didn't notice any.
Q5. I notice I can view my iMac's music and TV library and everything plays instantly. That’s just wireless right? Because I have sharing turned on on my iMac I suppose. It seems as fast as if it were on my MacBook Pro though.
Q6. A strategy question: I wonder if I should migrate from Time Machine and carry along years of garbage and wasted disk space, or just install and move things as needed. I'm tempted to do the latter and start afresh. Especially since a lot of stuff is in the cloud already: Evernote, Dropbox, etc. Initial installation of some apps, like Parallels Desktop and Office might take some time, but I bet I would save a huge amount of disk space. Yet the Migration tool which uses Time Machine is supposed to be good.
I guess that's it for now.
Thanks,
Doug

hands4 wrote:
Q6 (Migrate using Time Machine?)
If you don't want to automatically bring over everything, I would use CCC to clone the old system drive and then use that clone to drag the wanted files onto the new machine. I would treat that CCC clone as a read-only archive until you were sure there are no additional files you want to migrate.
I use a combination of CCC and Time Machine to backup my Mac. CCC provides the reliability of simplicity and quick booting should the internal drive fail. Time Machine's incremental backups have saved my bacon several times when a file "disapeared" or I saved a modificaton that I needed to reverse. However the complexity of Time Machine during full restores can be a problem. I have had Time Machine full restores fail at which time I was very happy I had a second backup to fall back on. It is prudent to maintain more than one backup.
I agree completely about using the combination of CCC and Time Machine and it sounds like you and I use it the exact same way, and for the exact same reason. I hae also had Time Machine full restores fail (particularly with Apple Mail) and was very glad to also have the CCC backup.
The only thing I'm concerned about is making sure I grab everything I need for particular applications. For example, I'm not quite sure what all needs to be copied over from CCC to the new computer for Office 2008, which I am still running. It might be easier in that case to re-install certain software.
Thanks,
Doug

Windows 7 professional 64 Bit on MacBook Pro Retina 15 with Boot Camp ?

Hallo guys, i have a big problem with installing Windows 7 professional 64 Bit on my MacBook Pro Retina 15 with Boot Camp. No matter what i try i get a black screen after partitioning or get a message like " No bootable disk" or " No System Disk availabe".
My Mac has : OS X version 10.8.2, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB memory, 2.6 GHz Intel i7 and is only a week old
My Boot Camp is version 5.0.1
My Windows InstallingDVD is one year old now, i needed it to build a PC last year, hope that doesnt make a difference, its a full version, so not just for upgrading.
From what i saw in the apple support it should work on my macbook. I hope someone can help me.
Thanks in advance.

Ok, problem solved. I looked a bit more here in the questions and there was the answer and its quite simple.
Somehow an USB-stick makes problems while Windows wants to install, i dont know why. So i just made everything over DVDs and now everything works fine.

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) - Boot Camp/Win 7 - Num Lock Problem

Hey,
I have a client who has a MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) who is experiencing a problem when booted into Windows 7 via Boot Camp in that he cannot type certain character like # (hash character by keystroke alt + 3) without Windows 7 error bleeping at him. He needs the # character as part of his password for logging into webmail.
The Boot Camp setup has the latest Boot Camp drivers installed (this was a fresh Boot Camp setup/install today) and every other part of the hardware works I suspect that this problem is not a key mapping problem but more something to do with Windows registering Num Lock as being active.
If the problem is that Num Lock is enabled then what is the keystroke to disable Num Lock? I thought it was fn + 6 but did this change since the Unibody MacBooks?
I understand that there are ways of resurrecting number pad fuctionality as decribed in the MacWorld article (see link below) but this is a Mac OS X System Preference and as such would not operate when booted into Windows via Boot Camp.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1142609/ressurect_numberpad.html
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

You have Graphics card problem.
Take it in Hardware problem:
Genius reservation http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/
on-line https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action
check warranty https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do
see if this applies http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/13/some-15-retina-macbook-pro-users-compl ain-of-graphics-issues-after-efi-update

Impossible to boot MacBook Pro Retina ! impossible to start in single user mode, Openfirmware password set, but safari works!

I have got a Macbook pro retina.
I have done 2 partitions on the SSD drive. 1 for the OS and 1 for the user (with a kind of ln -s /Home/myself /Volume/Part2/myself
I was watching a movie (with VLC) in full screen for a while and I wanted to escape. Impossible, and impossible to reboot.
When I start, I have a directory with a question mark.
I have a Open firmware passwords set (that I remember).
I cannot reset PRAM. (I can not change the RAM amount inside the commuter as this is a retina model)
I cannot start in verbose mode.
I can choose a disk to boot. I see only the OS drive and not the user partition, and no 'recovery partition'. It seems that i need to do a fsck -yff on the user partition but how ?
I can start the OS partition, and i can choose 'guess' or 'myself'. If i choose myself, I have an error message :'there is a error, the session can not start'. If I start with the guess account, I restart, and then I can browse the internet with safari (this is how I am writing this text!)
=> How can i repair the partition ? (open a terminal, boot in single user mode ...?)
best regards.

Actually, the recovery partition was there, but was not shown as my user partition. I have seen that reseting the PRAM and changing the ram could remove the open firemware password. So i have turn the computer on until the battery was empty. Then I boot about 20 times, and unplug the power supply after few seconds at different step of the booting pricess. At last, the screen default resolution when booting changed, I undertood that i succeeded, and I was able to enter.
Then I boot in single user mode, removed the open firmware password, activated the root user, and everything was fine now !

Macbook Pro Retina + Windows 8 Questions

First: I know that Bootcamp doesnt have any Windows 8 drivers yet. I know that Windows 7 drivers will do temporarily.
In a month time, I will be getting a Macbook Pro retina. 13" base model. This would be my very first mac. I chose this mac because portability is a major factor for my everyday need. Im always on the move. I know the storage isn't enough but I will buy myself an external Hard drive. Depends on the budget. I will be using this laptop for not so heavy work. Mainly i will be studying Objective C and C++. Something for a free time self study developing. Reason why im putting windows in it, its because i need visual studio c++ for studying ( feel free to recommend any other application for c++ designed for mac). I chose windows 8 because the pro version is 60$ at my local retail.(I know how to do clean install without the requirements).
My questions to those who successfully installed Win8:
1. What are the issues you encountered and how did you solved it?
2. How's the performance? Laggy?
Thanks in advance.

The update to boot camp is now available!
Just installed Windows 8.1 Pro to my MacBook Pro, Retina, Mid 2012, OS X 10.8.5: Memory 16GB 1600MHz DDR3
After going through the usual process from boot camp, then installed windows and the support drivers... the trackpad rt click did not work. I had to then go download the boot camp again from windows 8 using the url below and ran the set up.exe from the boot camp folder you can download from below. Run it within windows 8.
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1638
Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033
This solved the Trackpad Right Clicking issue (not working) as well as tapping.
The wireless and network connectivity and keyboard brightness and speakers issues where resolved as well. The Boot camp support software enabled a boot camp control panel available in the windows 8 system tray and from there you can enable the track pad to tap and use the secondary click.

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