Tagged: Macbook Pro

July 5, 2011

Why Wine and Macbooks Don’t Mix…and How to Handle the Aftermath | Nettuts+

MacBook Pro late 2008 model — Image by christianrasmussen via Flickr

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.

June 25, 2011

MacBook Battery Won’t Charge…Get “Not Charging”

A Late 2006 model 17" MacBook Pro resting... — Image via Wikipedia

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.

April 20, 2011

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.

My black macbook from fall 2007 has served me very well for the 3 and a half years Ive had it. The only upgrade I did since buying it was to upgrade the RAM to 4 GB (667 MHz DDR2), which was relatively inexpensive and certainly worth it. The 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor is relatively speedy, or at least speedy enough for nearly anything Im doing with my computer. The screen is large enough for me, and I wouldnt really want a machine l … Read More

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March 30, 2011

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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I have the 2010 macbook pro i7, i love this thing and its nice and powerful. A good friend got a new macbook air and when i watched the speed of the little thing it was obvious the hard drive in any computer becomes the biggest bottle neck in the speed of the thing. So i decided to stick a SSD in my macbook pro. So 1st decision which one? You will spend days looking in to this, the big area to keep an eye on is that Lion will support TRIM so i wo … Read More

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March 29, 2011

Is single-clicking on the Mac double-clicking and opening files?

I helped a friend yesterday with this problem. She said that her MacBook Pro just started to double-click items when she single clicked on them in the finder. It did this behavior with other mice, and also with the built-in trackpad. So here is what I did to solve the issue.

Trashed specific plist’s in the /users/username/library/preferences folder.
Trashed all plist’s in the users/username/library/preferences folder.
Trashed all files in the users/username/library/caches folder.
Reset the PRAM by holding down the keys 3 times
Reset the SMC
Tried a terminal command that was something like write -g Delaysomething 1000
Reinstalled the OS system with the disk that came with the machine. Updated the software configuration.

Nothing that I did helped. She said the machine also had a kernel panic for the first time. According to the research that I did, Apple genius workers solved this issue by swapping out the machine for others. Has anyone else found a solution to this?