Unibody MacBook Pro case

Has anyone tried the unibody in the MacTruck case?

Link is here if you still want it ----> http://www.moshimonde.com/codex.htm
It's pretty tight too, but I would rather that than it slipping around. Plus, it's all soft, so there's no real downside to it being tight.

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Bent Unibody MacBook Pro

So we've got a Unibody MacBook pro that fell off a bed and the case is bent in the lower right hand corner (not the lid). The computer still functions perfectly but it can't be closed. The local apple authorized store quoted us $1000 to do the repair- which isn't a very good use of $1000. Does anyone know of anywhere that the notebook could be sent to do this repair cheaper, or if it's possible to get the part and do it myself? Any advise would be great.
Thanks!

http://www.powerbookmedic.com/MacBook--Macbook-Pro-Parts-and-Repair-p-1-c-446.ht ml?gclid=CO32uuD2mqoCFdcJ2godSGyoyg

2008 MacBook pro Case Question

Hello all,
I rececntly bought a late 2008 MacBook pro Pre Unibody model.. I love it.. it's by far the best laptop I've ever used or owned..
Anyway
I like it so much, I am looking for a case for it, I cant seem to find any on Amazon though.. I know it's a slightly older model but..
Anyone Have any Ideas about where to find one?
Thanks
Cap10323

Cap10323,
does a search for “17 inch macbook pro case” on Amazon return no products at all?

Trackpad Model # mid 2009 13" unibody Macbook Pro

What model trackpad can I use to replace the one in my mid 2009 unibody macbook pro?...and where can I get one from a preferably reliable source?
It clicks but doesn't respond unless I press hard. The Apple store offered to replace it but for a lot. I'd rather swap it out myself.

First see here for a guide on doing so: iFixit
Once you decide that's something you want to do search for the part.
I did a Google Shopping search and found one around $65, click HERE
I don't have a specific brand that I recommend, just make sure that when you purchase it that it's NEW don't buy anything used, and also make sure there is some kind of warranty: 90-days, 3-months, 1-year, you get the point. Take your time and be wise when purchasing.
Oh, and one more thing. Make sure you have the proper tools. Click HERE to purchase parts. Trust me having the correct parts will make all the difference!

Driver issue FIXED in Vista / boot camp with new, unibody macbook pro!!

Hay people, I found a fix for the freezing issues with Vista running in Boot camp with the new, unibody Macbook pros. The driver for the 9600M Gt is no good if you install it from the Apple 2.1 version driver disc (Mac osx disc)for some (most) of us.
I needed to go to Nvidia's site and download the one from DECEMBER 08. If you click the "download drivers" tab on the site, scroll past the current driver it wants you to look at (go to the near bottom of page), click the archives, and input your OS version. Also input "Gforce" and "M" series when needed. It will give you a choice of two drivers. DO NOT CHOOSE THE FEB 09 Driver. Thats the BAD driver for most of us. Choose the DECEMBER 08 driver. Download and enjoy. Be sure to roll back the VGA driver (or the current driver) first before you install this. It should work.
I've been through the ringer with this for weeks now and have even tried to take my MBP back to swap for a new one. Apple wont have any of that so I thought I was SOL. Not quite. This DOES work for me with Vista. It also works for Windows & if you have it handy.
By the way, I am posting this for people who HAVE HAD THE FREEZING problems, not for people who haven't. Apparently there are some out there who are running Vista just fine on their unibody MBS's. Most of us are not.
Cheer's-----Seattle, where the evil empire looms dark

This never worked. I sold that machine and got a new 17" unibody. IT, by the way, works just fine. I KNEW it was that **** 15'. It took 30 more seconds to boot up I found out also.

Unaccounted alert sound on 1st gen unibody Macbook Pro

Greetings all,
I am having a slight problem with my 1st gen unibody MacBook Pro. At seemingly random intervals it will play the 'Frog' sound without any user interaction.
I have checked the Console and have not seen any messages. I have also made sure that the sound is not coming from another application that might send a notification (iChat, Skype, RSS-reader, ...)
Is there a way to track what process launched the sound or has someone else experienced this issue as well and can give me some insight in how to get rid of it?
With regards

Could it be the Growl notification sound?
Email notification sound?
Check to see if you have any type of 3rd party sound apps installed.
Also check your alert settings.
System Preferences>Sound>Sound Effects.

Are non-Unibody Macbook Pros still viable for professional Photoshop/Lightroom work?

I currently own a late 2008 Macbook pro (the first unibody) model with a 2.4ghz core 2 duo processor, and I am looking for something similar to get my wife who works with as an upgrade to her crappy old laptop that crashes on her when she has more than a few DNGs open in Photoshop. I was wondering if the 2007/8 Non Unibody Higher End Macbook Pros are still viable for Photoshop/Lightroom work? I know that some of these models seem very old now, but she has a 2005 Windows Toshiba Laptop that can barely handle it's own operating system...so would a decently powered non-unibody Macbook Pro still be viable today or would she have just any many headaches when trying to multitask?
Thanks, it's my first post!

Thank you everybody for all the replies!
First off, I think we'll wait what the 11th of june will bring us, hopefully a new mac mini. As Michael Wasley stated, the glossy imac screen isn't going to work for him. So that brings us to a Mac Mini or Macbook Pro. I'm using the macbook pro myself for the last couple of years and i'm a great fan of it's capabilities.. but my brother prefers a fixed 'computer' and not a laptop..
At this point i think he's going to buy (the new?) mac mini (and use his own screen), upgrade the RAM to somewhere between 12-16 GB, possible get a SSD drive and for sure get the biggest i7 processor available.
Hopefully that will get things running.
Kind regards,
Mark

Will Late 2008 Unibody Macbook Pros support 8gb RAM

I was just wondering if now with the ram increase, the late 2008 Unibody Macbook Pros will be able to support 8 gb of RAM now that new model supports it?
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What's your favorite MacBook Pro case?

What’s your favorite 15” MacBook Pro case? I am looking for something small that will safely hold the 15” Macbook Pro and some accessory’s such as a mouse and AC adapter.

Bag n’ Tag It
by: Digital Dude
In today’s world of everything slim and integrated, more techno fanatics and Spartan travelers are embracing the minimalist approach. To that end, I was looking for an alternative to my bulky computer briefcase for travel. So, I ordered the “Buzz” by Tom Bihn.
Initially, I was a bit skeptical since the price of the Buzz is rather high for a nylon bag in today’s crowded market. Fortunately, the folks at Tom Bihn have an excellent guarantee with great customer service. If you receive the bag, and it’s not what you expected, simply return it without having to request an authorization. Try that with any other bag manufacturer!
Exterior:
My first impression after opening the box was that the Buzz is in fact, a very well made nylon sling-bag with attractive accents. The initial fit on the back and shoulder was comfortable, and the crossover strap is wide and it fits guys and gals without interference. It’s also nicely padded and has a large durable quick disconnect fastener below your left rib area. There is a smaller adjustable waist strap for a more secure and balanced fit. I found it wasn’t necessary for casual carry although quite useful when riding a bike or running to catch that flight.
Interior:
The Buzz has two main compartments with waterproof zippers that don’t snag and they seal very well.
The main compartment houses a unique padded panel with a fitted corner, similar to a fitted bed sheet that stretches over one corner of the MacBook Pro. The space between the computer holder and the zippered panel provides room for a book, magazines, documents, or even a small travel neck pillow.
The second zippered compartment is on the very back and is slightly smaller or stepped down from the main compartment. It includes the usual key strap and some angled stitched pockets for pens, business cards and one larger pocket that can hold a Passport or airline tickets, etc.
The third compartment is on the exterior right side and is made of elastic material and is designed to hold a bottle, small umbrella or equivalent. It also has two pull straps to further secure its contents.
Finally, there is a super convenient compartment in the center of the crossover strap with a Velcro closure. This is my favorite feature, since it holds your cell, iPod or more notably, the new iPhone securely across your chest.
Field Tests:
I harnessed the Buzz, adjusted the straps and wore it for a week in and around town. The Buzz and its sling design holds' the 15-inch MacBook Pro, cables, charger, etc. in a vertical orientation on the back. This permits full range of motion for both arms, unlike most soft-sided computer briefcases.
At times, I wanted to shift the load, so I simply reached around with my left hand and lifted up slightly on the bottom as I grabbed the ferry-loop (top strap) with my right hand. In this manner, you can easily adjust the tension on the crossover strap.
The Buzz shoulder bag is advertised as offering “moderate” protection, although it’s quite adequate for most common travel activities. However, I wanted to see if I could fit my MacBook Pro while stuffed in the Tucano “Second Skin” sleeve. To my delight, it fit nearly perfect as though it was made for “The Buzz”. This combination effectively increases the travel protection by at least 2:1.
Wish List:
Accessory provisions or lack thereof, is a shortfall with many bag manufactures. User’s end up stuffing their charger, cables and adapters into secondary bags which all end up at the bottom, resulting in disorganized clutter. I visualize a removable fitted panel with separate compartments or straps that hold a basic array of typical computing items. In fact, I ended up using one of my luggage toiletry panels to help organize my computer gear in the Buzz. It holds everything vertically and eliminated the pile at the bottom.
After field-testing, I decided this bag was definitely a keeper’. However, I would prefer a tighter fit of the MacBook Pro or a matching sleeve. I would also favor a more contoured and softer crossover strap with an exterior I.D. card and pen/pencil slot. Since I’m dreaming here, how about a less abrasive backside for improved comfort.
Conclusion:
The Buzz sling bag is a well-made, lightweight, ergonomic alternative to a backpack or the horizontal briefcase design. It holds most everything one might need for mobile computing while providing an excellent provision for Apple’s new iPhone.
Regards,
~DD
References:
http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/PROD/TBP/TB0151
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=114 576C9&nplm=TJ953VC/A
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How much does it cost to replace the macbook pro case?, how much does it cost to replace the macbook pro case?

How much does it cost to replace a 17" macbook Pro case? it was bought in december 2009?

No you're not the first "user" who needed a case. No one here works for Apple store, however check here:
http://www.ifixit.com/

Macbook Pro Case Very Flimsey

Recently I have noticed mysterious deformities to my macbook pro case. I have a 15" and in the 4 months that I have had it I have never dropped it but dents are started to appear in different places around the case. I always carry it in a case to protect it and I am very careful around so I have no idea what could be causing these dents and it is very frustrating. I was wondering if apple would be able to fix it or if they would be willing to exchange the computer because maybe its my particular case. Alright thanks for any help if you can provide it.

Hey LongPole,
Are you using a laptop bag? One that has it's own padded compartment? That is really what you need. I wouldn't just put it in with books. Either buy a sleeve or a bag with a compartment.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=3C1 40D5F&nclm=NotebookCases

Mountain Lion on 2008 Unibody MacBook Pro?

I am currently running OSX Lion on a late 2008 unibody macbook pro that has been upgraded to 8GB of RAM. It runs perfectly and I am a little woried that upgrading to OSX Mountain Lion might make things run slower or less smoothly.
Is anybody running Mountain Lion on a system similar to mine? Is it slower? Faster? The same?
Thanks in advance,
---Tim

Correct. You can partition the drive and create a separate volume that has about 300 GBs, then clone to this partition. Here's how it's done:
To resize the drive do the following:
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
After the main menu appears select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Select the hard drive's main entry then click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
2. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.

Unibody MacBook Pro 17, SSD and Vista x64 - Does it work?

I see many discussions about problems with various brands of SSD drives and Vista x64 under Boot Camp.
Can any of you confirm that Vista x64 will install on a unibody MacBook Pro 17" with the Apple-provided 250g SSD option?

It works well. Don't forget to turn the disk defrag off after installing and booting into Vista.

First model unibody macbook pro is dead help!

I have the first model of the unibody macbook pros. It started to get reall slow and id get that pinwheel often when using it. I transfered all of my important files to an external harddrive when i noticed it was starting to die. I then started messing around in disk utility at the startup menu and pretty much erased everything off the harddrive because now i get a flashing grey question mark folder at startup. I do have mountain lion installed on a usb drive and when i plug that in and boot up i get the disk utility, install osx, backup with time machine, and safari options. But nothing i do on disk utility will complete i keep getting errors and when i try to install mountain lion when i get to where you have to pick where you want to install it all thats there is the usb drive that mountain lion is installed on. I need help

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Your hard drive is damaged. it looks like it's not working properly, so you need to change it.
You can get another hard drive at OWC > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/ Your MacBook needs a 2'5" SATA II hard drive. You can filter the hard drives by the MacBook Pro model, so you can get the hard drives that are compatible with your MacBook. 7200 rpm hard drives will give you extra performance

New unibody macbook pro time machine backup stalling/stalls

I have been using time machine to back up my Macbook Pro 17 (First Gen), I have 2 external Western Digital Drives connected via USB in a RAID (Striped) Configuration. Everything has worked fine for months and the backups are quite snappy...
I just changed to a NEW Unibody Macbook Pro 17 and formatted the drives, set up the RAID configuration again from fresh in disk utility and reset Time Machine and said OK when it requested to use the drive for backups.
The process gets some way into backing up... sometimes 7GB, 13GB, 17GB even 70GB and then just stops. The hard drives(at least one of them anyway i cant tell exactly) spin down and the file count in Time Machine window just stops. There is no error message and the window just stays there saying its backing up but there is no external HD activity. I have to cancel the backup (which sometimes - but not always - causes everything to stall until i unplug the drives by whipping the USB cable out). Everything then works fine i dont need to restart and it just brings up an error message saying that Time Machine failed to backup...
Any ideas??
I do have antivirus software installed (VirusScan) but i have had that on my previous machine aswell so it cant be that...

I have a MacBook C2Duo (black 2008) customer who has upgraded to 10.5.7 with a new internal and external hard disk and a fresh install of the OS. After doing this, Time Machine constantly stalled at 12.55 GB when backing up to an external disk (USB2). After a lot of reading on the net, I think the problem marks the re-emergence of an old bug where the mdworker task used by Spotlight to index drives is crashing and starting to take up to 99% of the CPUs. At this point, TM simply does not have enough CPU time to work and crawls almost to a halt.
I messed around for a while with Activity Monitor watching the mdworker crash and it is very predictable. Time Machine buddy does not pick it up because of course TM is still working albeit at a snail's pace.
Since mdworker is very associated with Spotlight, I tried setting Spotlight to not index any folderssame problem.
Finally, I set the TM destination drive to be a Private drive in the Spotlight Preferences and it finished without an mdworker crash.
It might be a temporary workaround or it might be coincidence that TM worked this time, so YMMV and Apple should look at this too.

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