My Macbook Pro 5.1 wont read CD-Rom.

It plays DVDs ok , but when I insert a Konica CD Rom to load drivers for my printer, it doesnt open the disc and after a couple of attempts it ejects the disc. The disc works when inserted into a (spit!) PC. Any ideas? I currently have the CD settings to open cd in i-tunes.

True, I hadn't thought of that. I am not sure I am willing to invest that much money in to it, though. Thank you for your help.

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So from your description, the drive isn't mounting on the desktop?
Open Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities), and see if the drive appears in the left pane. If it does, but it's greyed out, highlight it and wait for a few seconds - eventually the Mount button should become live - click it and see if that clears the problem.
If not, it's possible that the drive has been damaged, usually by removing it without unmounting (ejecting) it first.
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Is the movie still buffering? you may have a slow internet connection. Music files require far less bandwidth than movies.

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As you can see in my profile section, my MBP is older by 5 years, 2GB RAM and with regards to question 1 (Q1), has no problems with having all those programs open at the same time with the possible exception of Photoshop since I use Gimp instead. With twice the RAM and much overall much better specs, Photoshop shouldn't be an issue. But you listed some other activities that might need that additional RAM. But the advise most give is to not get it from Apple but from a third party.
Q5 - I always get Apple Care. Only had to use it once but it paid for itself that one time.
Sorry, can't help you much with the questions you really want answered since I won't have a new MBP until (hopefully) next week but for Q4, I believe it depends on the peripheral. My current monitors are too old to allow them to be hooked up in a chain. Supposedly, if the monitors do have the ports, you could via the MBP Thunderbolt port. The speeds are also dependent upon the peripheral. If the external hard drive is using a USB 2 port, you are limited by that speed (480 Mb/s). If it has a Thunderbolt port, then from what I understand, we, my friend, are in for some great times because I believe your RAM will have the ability to access data as fast as it can take it at 10Gb/s (and if will need those kinds of speeds, the 8GB of RAM may be the way to go). The Thunderbolt demos on YouTube where they are accessing four video files from a Raid drive, then sending them back out via Final Cut Pro to a monitor are amazing. I'll probably never push this machine to anywhere near it's limits but I can't wait to see what others do.
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Reset SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
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If the system won't boot from the new drive the OP bought and install OS X on it it certainly won't boot from the original drives Recovery HD partition.
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My Macbook Pro suddenly won't read my hard drive.

My Macbook Pro suddenly won't read my 750GB WD Elements Hard drive.
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krowl13 wrote:
My Macbook Pro suddenly won't read my 750GB WD Elements Hard drive.
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HT1338 My macbook pro(2010) is not reading the hard drive, but the hard drive works through the USB?

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Purchase iLife 11 (includes iDVD) on disk.
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My MacBook Pro SAD experience: MUST READ if you are about to get 1.

Things to clarify at the beginning:
1. im not an english native speaker so try not be too picky for my language.
2. im not a mac hater and i've own a powerbook 17 1.5g as well as a iMac G5
Here we go:
1. I've spent £2000+ to get my top spec MacBook Pro (2.16/2G/7200rpm) so i'm kinda expecting for a super computer, am i wrong?
2. My first unit failed me on the 4th day of purchase, after I spend 2 entire days to load all the software up, immigrate all my emails and academic papers from my SONY FE11s, it failed. The system won't start up and i can't even see the Apple logo after press the power button. I bring it to Regent Street Apple Store, and the genius told me that it is because my DVD is stucked inside and the MacBook pro iS KEEP READING it instead of the Hard drive.
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3. Heat issue.
No matter what people tell you, don't believe it. go to any apple store in the afternoon or evening while their display machines have been running for several hours. touch the bottom of the screen and the body. It burns your finger. Now i'm using my macbook pro on iCurve (which hangs the mbp in the middle of the air and make a perfect cooling condition) and the room temp is around 15c. The machine is still EXTERMELY HOT even i just use it to browse web for 30 minutes. I did not dare to touch the bottom of the screen (where the MacBook Pro words are displayed), and it will be a GREAT PAIN if you insist to touch that thing for over 2 seconds and want to DEMONOSTRATE it is safe.
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Rosetta is one of the biggest fat lie that apple have made. without 2 gig ram don't dream to use over 2 ppc programmes at the same time.. just let me show you something ( yes i was watching a live tv show in safari hence the cpu and memory consumption, but that is still far more than i will expect ) 22mb LEFT with ONE PPC programme on ... I only notice this because i was trying to mount a disc image and failed with error msg "too many applications running"? is it too many for a £2000+ coreduo and 2g ram laptop? take a look at the screen shot and judge it yourself.
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Yes the macbook pro is superbly fast, espcially after i got my aperture 1.1 upgrade on it and compare with my powerbook running version 1.0. yes it opens itunes in 2 seconds and make me feel like i was merely maximize the window from hiding. BUT HEY... this computer cost me over £2000 (that's about $30000?) and it's a laptop that you can't leave it on your lap, a macintosh that is not as stable as a windows server 2003 (that's wat i got on my only pc , im a geek and i own a pile of different computers). i didn't want to mention the whine and other famous bugs because that's not an issue to a geek whos room is filled with eletronic noises and i use wired connection for maximum speed so my airport wont drop.
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over.

You misunderstand the memory management scheme and misinterpret the display you're seeing.
To start with, free memory is wasted memory. Once some disk contents have been brought in, it is wasteful to discard that data just to make the RAM that it occupied "free." Inactive memory is memory that is not currently used, can be given to an application that needs it without doing any disk I/O (or used as a destination for reading disk content) but which currently holds disk data that might be useful in the future. I.e., it's file content of some sort.
To get a better idea of how Mac OS X manages RAM and how to interpret the Activity Monitory dispaly, see this tech note: Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor.
Rosetta is indeed memory hungry, but it's an interim solution. With 2 GB of RAM installed, you can run a lot of applications with alacrity.
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These are not exactly convenient to Belize users of Apple products.
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