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Weird backlighting pattern on MacBook Pro screen.

very — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:00:56 +0000

I wonder why the MacBook Pro screen shows a weird backlighting pattern.

After a while the backlighting becomes normal.

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

It’s Alive!

very — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:09:46 +0000

I had been keeping a MacBook Pro with a faulty Logic Board for a while now. I kept it because it had a perfectly working LCD screen. A few days ago my colleague told me that he was getting rid off a MacBook Pro which had a broken screen, dead battery and some other problems. I told him that I would like to harvest the working parts. So I spent a few hours combining parts from the two MacBook Pros.

What I need to get for this MacBook Pro are new battery, 4 GB of RAM and new hard drive; the currently installed 80 GB hard drive is not enough. Perhaps I should install an SSD. I’ll figure it out tomorrow. For now I installed OS X Lion on this MacBook Pro. I was having a little trouble installing OS X. I am saving that for another post.

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

MacBook Pro Late 2011

very — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:04:54 +0000

Apple quietly updates its MacBook Pro line-up with the newly released Sandy Bridge based Intel CPU.

13-inch MacBook Pro

Comparisons for the two processors.

15-inch MacBook Pro and 17-inch MacBook Pro

Comparisons for the three processors.

Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM Processor (6M Cache, 2.20 GHz) – 15-inch MacBook Pro only
Intel® Core™ i7-2760QM Processor (6M Cache, 2.40 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-2860QM Processor (8M Cache, 2.50 GHz)

Graphics adapter:

AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 512MB GDDR5 – 15-inch MacBook Pro only
AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 1GB GDDR5

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The next Intel platform Ivy Bridge is slated to hit the street in early 2012.

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

Repairing a MacBook Pro.

very — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:51:34 +0000

My original MacBook Pro Core Duo I bought back in January 2006 had a crack on the screen bezel.

I found a soon to be discarded MacBook Pro Core Duo with Screen assembly in a really good condition.

30 minutes later I have a seemingly new MacBook Pro.

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

Exclusive: MacBook Pro with Eight Cores.

very — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:05:33 +0000

An exclusive picture of MacBook Pro with Eight Cores. The current MacBook Pro which was released in March 2011 comes with Core i7, which is a Quad-core CPU.

Click on the picture below for the whole picture.

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

Windows 7 Experience Index on 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro Core i7.

very — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:26:32 +0000

I finished installing Windows 7 on 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro Core i7 through Boot Camp early this morning. Why you asked? Because there’s a specific audio software that would run on Windows. I tried using virtualization within Mac OS X but it performed so poorly. I did upgrade the RAM to 8GB.

Anyway, here’s the Experience Index:

Posted from Stanton, California, United States.

Apple introduces New MacBook Pro Line with Thunderbolt I/O Port.

very — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:57:15 +0000

As anticipated, Apple introduces new MacBook Pro line with Tunderbolt I/O port. The 13-inch model sports dual-core Intel Core 15 or i7 processors and Intel HD Graphics 3000. The 15-inch and 17-inch models sport quad-core Intel Core 17 processor and AMD Radeon HD 6750M Graphics Processor.

Both 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro come equipped with SDXC Card slot, while the 17-inch model retains the ExpressCard/34 slot.

MacBook Pro line still retains the Optical Drive.

Posted from Cupertino, California, United States.

Does New MacBook Pro Offer Optional Second Hard Drive In Lieu Of Optical Drive?

very — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:03:43 +0000

According to an imaginary source who claimed to be an Apple Executive that is definitely not Phil Schiller, Apple has been exploring the idea of including the option for second hard drive for MacBook Pro instead of the optical drive. In addition to that with slight redesign to the motherboard, MacBook Pro could house total of three hard drives. While details are unclear, Apple might offer MacBook Air style flash-based storage in addition to the 2.5-inch SATA hard drive and the Optical drive.

According to the same source, MacBook Pro refresh is “coming sooner than you think” while providing no details on the time-frame.

Posted from Cupertino, California, United States.

ADATA S599 Sandforce 128 GB SSD is on sale for $199 at Amazon.

very — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:17:16 +0000

ADATA S599 Sandforce 128 GB SSD is on sale for $199 at Amazon. I paid $249 for the ADATA S599 Sandforce 128 GB SSD back in late October and installed it on my 15-inch MacBook Pro Core i7. It has been a great experience so far. The 128GB of storage space is relatively small, but I’ve learned to organize files better. Having an external FireWire 800 drive is really handy.

Forty-five days into using the an SSD on my MacBoo Pro, I highly recommend it to anyone.

ADATA S599 SandForce SSD and MacBook Pro.

37prime — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:49:12 +0000

The ADATA S599 SandForce SSD has finally arrived. I’m really thankful to Amazon.com customer service for rushing the second unit my way after the first one got lost in transit. I ended up with another unit which was purchased from Newegg.com.

Hard-drive installation on Unibody MacBook Pro is much easier compared to the previous MacBook Pro models. Eight screws on the bottom plate, two screws on the hard drive bracket and four screws on the hard drive itself. It took about 10 minutes for me to complete the swap, not counting the picture taking time.

Installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on the SSD-equipped MacBook Pro went smoothly.

I am pretty impressed with the speed improvement. Mac OS X took about 14 seconds to boot. Most applications including Photoshop CS5, Word 2011 and iTunes 10 launch within one second.

I will post more about ADATA S599 SandForce SSD within a week or so.

I also will review G-Skill Phoenix Pro SandForce SSD.

Posted from Brea, California, United States.