Updating itunes on a 2008 macBook Pro?
if i have an older laptop will itunes not update after a certian amount of time?
tzielinski75,
it depends upon which version of OS X is installed on your 2008 MacBook Pro. If you have at least Mac OS X 10.6.8 installed and 400 MB of available disk space, then you can install the latest version of iTunes.
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im trying to update itunes version on my macbook pro to use with new mini ipad - Ive downloaded verion 11 but how do I update?? Thank-you
What is the Operating System on your MBP...
Click on the Apple icon.. Top left in Finder...
> About this Mac > Version...what does it say?
iTunes Support here > http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ -
Just updated from a late 2008 Macbook Pro and I am getting a blink on my external screen
I just upgraded from a late 2008 Macbook Pro with a AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MB graphics card and I am now getting a blink (black screen) every few seconds.
Anyone know a fix.
ThanksYou could always give it a shot - the only problem that you might run into is that the the early 2011 might not boot when the hard drive is swapped from the 2008 hard drive. Some versions of OS X are simply not compatible between different models.
But it's worth a try...
Clinton -
Updated my iTunes to the recent one and now it will not open on my MacBook Pro, got a new iPhone so tried to connect it and said i needed the new iTunes (which i did) and now i can't start my phone as i can't open iTunes which means i can't access anything on my phone!!?? HELP???????
You supply little pertinent about the MBP and the iPhone.
First... on the MBP... Click on the Apple icon.. Top left in Finder...
> About this Mac > Version...what does it say?
Which iPhone and what is its' iOS Version. -
I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro last updated to the Mavericks OS. The screen died and I took it into an Apple store and was told replacing the screen and the hardware to repair everything would cost almost as much as buying a new laptop or a cheaper model. I was told that I can use a drive sled to access data I need on my hard drive. How do I remove my hard drive and use a drive sled to get to the information I need? What makes matters more complicated is I need to update my iPhone and my iTunes/App store purchases. How can I accomplish this?
My wife has a late 2008 Macbook Pro as well, which I am assuming I need to run my hard drive. Is there a way to just access just my hard drive without interfering with hers?
I know this is lengthy. Thanks to whoever looks at this and offers advice/instruction.the device you need is an External enclosure for a 2.5" (laptop form factor) SATA drive.
A USB-interface enclosure will be slow, but is adequate for this task and for re-purposing as a backup drive later. A firewire-interface drive would be faster, but is harder to find, more expensive, and faster than needed for this purpose.
The drive will mount as an "extra" drive on your wife's Macbook, and you can drag and drop whatever you wish. You could create a separate Account for yourself on her computer, and use Migration Assistant or just copy your stuff over to the new account. Then it would not interfere with her files. -
My books are no longer in the iTunes library on my MacBook Pro. They are not in my iBooks, either. I had over 200 books in my iTunes library, all synced to my iPad 2. I deleted them from the iPad as I read them, knowing I still had them in iTunes. Then I updated to iOS 7. I still have the books I haven't deleted from my iPad, but all the other ones are nowhere to be found. No books in iTunes, no books in iBooks. Where are they? Also, going forward, if I want to add more books to my iPad, especially PDFs that are not available for purchase from the iBooks store, how do I do that? Help!
let's try working through this document. (you can skip the reinstall itunes step.)
No music shows up in iTunes after upgrading -
How to update graphics card drivers for late 2008 macbook pro with Nvidia 9600m GT?
Can anybody help me update the drivers for my 9600m GT graphics card for my Late 2008 Macbook pro? I am running OS X Lion 10.7.5 with a Windows 7 partition. I have tried finding support on Nvidia's website, but at least for the 9600m GT, it isn't supported for my operating system. Would I have to update it from my Windows side? And if so, would the update apply to my OS X side as well? I have a little computer knowledge, but nothing indepth.
Welcome to Apple Support Communities
In OS X, Apple provides the GPU drivers and you cannot update them from NVIDIA. They are updated with each OS X update, so you are running the most recent drivers for your OS X version. OS X Mountain Lion and Mavericks have got more recent GPU drivers, but it's not worth upgrading unless you need newer drivers for an app (I highly doubt this).
However, you can update the GPU drivers in Windows, and you should do it to get the best performance. You can download them from the NVIDIA site > http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us Note that drivers are only applied in the operating system you are installing them, so they will not be installed in OS X -
2008 Macbook Pro - need to update operating system!
Hello Apple friends! I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro which is operating on OS X Version 10.5.8. I would like to update my computer to the most current possible operating system, and I need to know the steps I should take and software I'll need to get to do so!
Any help will be much appreciated.Hello,
You first need to update to Snow Leopard. You can order the disk here:
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.)
Depending on your system's configuration you can subsequently update your OS X further:
System requirements for OS X Lion and Mac OS X v10.6
System requirements for OS X Mountain Lion - Support - Apple -
My early 2008 Macbook Pro is suffering from black screen after Yosemite update
My early 2008 Macbook Pro is suffering from black screen after Yosemite update. It ran beta 5 great but failed on restart after beta 6 install. There is no cursor but I can hear the HDD spooling up. I have tried booting in safe mode, PRAM reset and SMC reset but nothing works. After the first 5 days of every now and then trying to start it, it started fine. I used the machine all day with no problems, it had rolled back the install and was back on beta 5. I decided to try the update again, the same thing happened and it has stayed black for over a week now. It wont work with a monitor either. Help!
Hello Adam,
I would try instead of installing the beta software, to install the official build of OS X Yosemite from the Mac App Store to see if that gets you passed the no video issue when updating the beta software.
How to install OS X Yosemite on your Mac
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6412
Regards,
-Norm G. -
What version of LR should I choose to run it on a 2008 macbook pro OS 10.5 (updated with 8GB RAM)
As it says in the title: I want to run LR on my 2008 macbook pro OS 10.5 (updated with 8GB RAM). Adobe support told me that it would not be a problem, yet i'm confronted with a com.apple.installer.pagecontroller error -1. I have no idea what it is or how to solve it.
Can you please help me? Thank you.You will not be able to use a LR 5 key on an older LR. While an intermediate version of OS X may be easier on your system and may allow a newer version of LR than LR3, if it is not current you still have to get that old version of LR from an alternate channel.
If you have an easy way to clone your system I would try upgrade you Yosemite and putting LR 5 on it since you have a key. If it doesn't perform to your satisfaction you can always clone back to 10.5 and seek an alternate solution.
However, was the LR 5 key owned by your previous job along with that other laptop? If so, it violates the license for you to use it. -
Updated my 2008 MacBook pro to Mavericks.Lost some programs that won't run on Mavericks. One being Tuneup for Mac. Used for housekeeping and cleaning up the machine. Can't figure out how run maintenance on drive w/o this. Seached for scheduled maintenance in help, nothing.
"Scheduled" maintenance is all done by the OS - there's nothing you should run for "housekeeping". DO yourself a favor with the new OS and read...
-> The myth of the dirty Mac
-> Mac Performance Guide
-> Tuning Mac OS X Performance
Good luck,
Clinton -
Early 2008 MacBook Pro won't boot after Lion 10.7.1 update
My 2.4 GHz 4GB RAM Early 2008 MacBook Pro wont boot after downloaded the Lion 10.7.1 upate. Upon restarting the screen went dead and now the system does not boot, as if the bootloader has been wiped out. Screen appears dead but was known to be working before hand. The hard drive spins up but doesn't sound like it is searching for data.
Can anyone help me?Okay, I tried everything I can think of last night. I removed every startup process and every tool or programm that goes deeper into the system (GlimmerBlocker, LittleSnitch, Parallels). Cleaned Up every Cache I could find and refreshed every necessary Cache or Database possible. Took me a couple of hours. But still no luck - the machine doesn't boot, just in safe mode. Right now I copy all my personal stuff to a new external harddrive because TimeMachine doesn't work, after this I will do a clean install of Lion.
It's not hardware related, it's the 10.7.1 update that doesn't work properly. By the way, the only errors remaining are:
WindowServer - kCGErrorFailure
ManagedClient - kCGErrorFailure: CGSPackageGetWorkspaceType: couldn't get workspace type
SecurityAgent - kCGErrorFailure: CGSPackageGetWorkspaceType: couldn't get workspace type
and a lot of:
com.Apple.SecurityAgent.00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000186A7: CoreAnimation: rendering error 506
that's also the last one I get before the system hangs… -
2008 Macbook Pro running real slow and freezing up
Trying to help out my girlfriend to figure out why her macbook is running so slow when its peviously been fine. Have gone through most of the easy options, having cleared a bunch of space from the HD previously which hasn't helped. Running OSX 10.6.6 Hoping that someone will see something in etrecheck that'll help me out. Any other advice would be great.
Cheers.
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro4,1
1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
2 GB RAM
Video Information:
GeForce 8600M GT - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) - Uptime: 0 days 0:23:45
Disk Information:
FUJITSU MHY2200BH disk0 : (186.31 GB)
(null) (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 185.99 GB (3.6 GB free) (Low!)
USB Information:
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple, Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Startup Items:
FanControlDaemon: Path: /Library/StartupItems/FanControlDaemon
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[System] org.samba.winbindd.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Daemons:
[System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.versioncueCS3.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.anchorfree.ajaxserver.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
[System] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.lexmark.hbnlistener.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.lexmark.hostinfoupdater.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.lexmark.hostregister.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
Microsoft AU Daemon
AdobeResourceSynchronizer
MainMenu
Adobe Updater
Google Drive
Android File Transfer Agent
Google Chrome
Internet Plug-ins:
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.2.4.18058 3rd-Party support link
ebrary Reader: Version: 2.22 - 1/26/10 3rd-Party support link
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.3.8.1 3rd-Party support link
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 2.0 3rd-Party support link
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.2.4.18058 3rd-Party support link
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.6.6
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
Scorch: Version: 5.2.5 3rd-Party support link
DirectorShockwave: Version: 11.6.8r638 3rd-Party support link
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.2
User Internet Plug-ins:
fbplugin_1_0_3: Version: (null) 3rd-Party support link
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Adobe Version Cue CS3 3rd-Party support link
Fan Control 3rd-Party support link
Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
Flip4Mac WMV 3rd-Party support link
Growl 3rd-Party support link
Old Applications:
None
Time Machine:
Time Machine information requires OS X 10.7 "Lion" or later.
Top Processes by CPU:
2% EtreCheck
1% WindowServer
0% FanControlDaemon
0% Google Chrome
0% Google Drive
Top Processes by Memory:
92 MB Google Chrome
84 MB mds
59 MB Google Drive
43 MB EtreCheck
41 MB WindowServer
Virtual Memory Information:
768 MB Free RAM
770 MB Active RAM
260 MB Inactive RAM
249 MB Wired RAM
415 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outsMacintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 185.99 GB (3.6 GB free) (Low!)
You have to increase the Disk Storage Space available.
Click in the menu bar.
About This Mac > More Info.. > System Report
Click the “Storage” tab at top for info about storage.
Try these tips.
1. Start up in Safe Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
2. Empty Trash.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
3. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
Select "Library" from the dropdown.
Library > Mail > V2 > Mailboxes
Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
Empty Trash. Restart.
4. Repair Disk
Steps 1 through 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
5. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
Local backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878
6. Delete old iOS Devices Backup.
iTunes > Preferences > Devices
Highlight the old Backups , press “Delete Backup” and then “OK”.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
7. Re-index Macintosh HD
System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409 -
My iphone5 was accidentally disconnected while updating OS8.2 in my MacBook Pro and now it's stuck with an apple logo on its screen and won't turn on or off. What should I do?
Connect to iTunes and restore. If you have difficulty, you may have to put the device into Recovery Mode. See the instructions in this support document. If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
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I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro, I am trying to run MW3 but it will not work without crashing a few minuets into the game. The general specs on my computer are a dual processor 2.53 ghz. 4 gb ram and a NVIDIA geforce 9400 (9600 is the alternate card).
Things to note:
I have been unable to update firmware on this computer for about a year now. Im not sure why.
I am running a bootleg copy of Windows XP on this computer, I would not like to spend $149 to get Windows 7 if possible.
any thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated, thank you.Why don't you take your 'old' MBP into your local Apple Store and have them check out everything that's wrong with it - and I mean everything? Then, when you get an estimate about how much it would cost to get the machine completely repaired, ask about the Apple flat-rate repair pricing?
It's worth a shot - and with what you may save, you can put in the bank for a new MBP.
Clinton
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