MacBook Pro 13 Teardown
MacBook Pro 13. It is fascinating how beautifully Apple equipment is built isn’t it? Even taking them apart shows their great design.
Tagged: Macbook Pro
AirDrop is a Lion/AirPort feature
You can’t use AirDrop over ethernet, so if you try to connect to a wired machine, it won’t work. Kellow goes into more detail below.
I might have found the reason behind the aforementioned behavior:
The AirDrop feature is apparently a Lion/AirPort-feature, and not a Lion/network-feature, meaning, if the iMac is connected to the network through a cable (RJ45), the above described behavior is the result.
The third issue mentioned, is apparently just how AirDrop works. AirDrop needs to be “activated” by Finder, which opens a ad hoc network though the AirPort. This does limit the use cases a lot.
Now, if only Apple would consider implementing AirDrop in iOS, the use cases would make a lot more sense…
Lion forgets its boot drive
I had a friend who has a new MacBook Pro and called me this morning panicked. His MBP started up and said “Could not find a bootable drive” or something like that. I had him restart and hold down the option button and then select his boot drive. Then he went to the System Preferences > Startup Disk and selected his drive. He shut down the computer. Then started it up and it started normally. He had upgraded from the most updated Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
I am going to help him burn a USB drive and do a clean install. It was a negative experience and one that I don’t recall any other version of Mac OS doing. The Mac OS has some great features, but when there is a bug, there is a show stopping bug. Apple doesn’t go halfway with features or with issues.
Using a Mac on the Corporate Windows-only Network – A Guide for Macbook Users
Using a Mac on the Corporate Windows-only Network – A Guide for Macbook Users. These are tips that I have used myself to set up Mac’s in Windows standard infrastructures. I think the key point that many might have problems with is that IT may restrict printers and other things to only computers that have joined the domain. So if you can’t get these suggestions to work, go to the accounts window and ask your IT person to join it to the domain.
Why Wine and Macbooks Don’t Mix…and How to Handle the Aftermath | Nettuts+
Why Wine and Macbooks Don’t Mix…and How to Handle the Aftermath | Nettuts+. He was very fortunate. Many times liquids and laptops don’t end so well. I always put drinks far away from laptops. I have seen too many damaged.
MacBook Battery Won’t Charge…Get “Not Charging”
MacBook Battery Won\’t Charge…Get \. I have seen this myself on my laptop. I know that my battery is nearing its end, but for some posters it seems to be a new battery that can cause this. This is what I would do.
- Make sure you have all the updates to your system. I believe there was a firmware update for the MacBook Pro for this.
- Do the SMC reset, the PRAM reset, and fix the disk permissions.
- Take out the battery and leave it out for a half hour. Put it back in and start-up the laptop and do a fsck -fy in single user mode.
- Trash any battery/power related preferences in the user preference library.
Let me know if this works for you. It worked for me.
What I would want if I was buying a macbook today (via Lux ex Obscuritas)
This is pretty close to what I would want in my next Mac as well. I wonder if Apple will ever make an Air Pro? The highest end components in the small form factor.
Macbook pro and SSD (via Booncunian)
For those who don’t mind a little work, installing your own RAM or Hard Drive on a Mac is a pretty easy way to improve performance. This gentleman shares with you something that you might benefit from as well.
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via Booncunian