I think the best upgrade you can do for your computer is to replace its conventional disk drive with a Solid-State Drive (SSD). Particularly so on a notebook or or netbook, since conventional disks on them tend to spin slower. I started looking at SSDs last year. The price then was still prohibitively expensive. But at the end of last year, I managed to snag a pretty good deal on an excellent performing consumer grade SSD. It’s the OCZ Vertex…
I’ve got a new MacBook Pro. Again. Oh well, a “new” old MacBook Pro. There was a hardware problem with my previous MacBook Pro… again. It’s the trackpad… again. It sounds like Apple’s products aren’t built for quality. I’ve even had previous problems with the trackpads. My white MacBook arrived brand new with a warped trackpad. It was brand new then, which means I’ve not used it, so the damage had nothing to do with how I use my notebooks…
Apple’s just-released Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Update 1.0 finally brings inertia scrolling to recent models of MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks. Inertia scrolling, if you don’t know about it, is the feature where a scrolling action on the mouse (or the trackpad in this case) can continue even after your fingers have left the surface. It’s sort of like trying to spin a wheel… the wheel continues turning even if you stop exerting force.
There are 10 screws on the underside of the MacBook Pro. These screws hold the bottom cover that upon removal, reveals the battery and hard disk. For some time now, there is this little screw in the corner that has been causing me some discomfort. It pokes out slightly, and because the edge of the screw head is quite sharp, it scratches my skin when I slide my hand/finger over it. It’s not bad enough to cause injury, of course,…
10 hours of battery life is practically good for the entire work day! Apple has just announced updates to the entire family of MacBook Pro notebooks, and the latest 13″ models claim to run for 10 hours on battery. The next best thing is the price. At the Apple Singapore store, the price has dropped across the board, by between S$100 to S$500. We’re luckier than US customers, because in the US store, at least one model has become US$100…
Now that everyone (almost) at the office are totting around identical MacBook Pros, I felt the urgent necessity to personalize mine. Otherwise, I imagine, when at some time that we leave our MacBook Pros in close proximity to one another, it’ll be all too easy for us to grab the wrong MacBook Pro. What if we grab one MacBook Pro, pack it into our bag, go home or somewhere else, then only realize that we’ve gotten the wrong one? I…
When I got my brand new Apple 13″ MacBook Pro notebook, it wasn’t too long before I discovered that it “hung”. Nothing I did would revive it, so I resorted to a hard reset. It happened more than once. It happened in office, and it happened at home too. At the end of my second day with the new notebook, I was starting to get very annoyed with the several incidences of “hanging”. Something was seriously wrong. This is not…
I just got my hands on an all new Apple 13″ MacBook Pro. It’s the latest generation “Revision G” MacBook Pro with the aluminum unibody design that was announced at WWDC in 2009. I know, that’s like 6 months ago, and it is far along enough in the product cycle that some product updates should be expected soon. But anyhow, I’m still happy and excited enough to be unpacking this box.
