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Filed under: Apple Corporate , Hardware , Portables , Macbook Pro Last week we reported on a thread at Apple’s Discussion Boards about an issue affecting some 15″ MacBook Pros. Specifically, their hard drives seem to be spinning down and even parking themselves at inappropriate times, like in the middle of a task. It’s understandably frustrating, as that would slow things down considerably and offer unwanted “quality time” with the Marble of Doom . According to CNET , Apple is aware of the issue and working on a fix right now. There’s no word on when it will become available, so affected owners should just hold tight for a few more days
Filed under: How-tos , Troubleshooting , Leopard My MacBook Pro and I had a bit of a rendezvous this past weekend. She’s a 15 inch Core Duo with 2gb ram. Although she’ll occasionally get as hot as a toaster oven (leaving red marks on my lap at times) and mooed like a cow when we first met, she’s been a consistent workhorse for me. But her hard drive needed a transplant.
Filed under: Hardware , Macbook Pro There’s a thread at Apple’s Discussion Boards about an issue that’s bothering a number of users. Specifically, the current model 17″ MacBook Pros seem to be experiencing hard drive lag. Several users report hearing the hard drive park itself, but at inappropriate times, causing the Marble of Doom to appear and bringing all tasks to a halt. This comes a short time after other users have reported a strange beep .
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20 Jul 2009Filed under: Apple Corporate , Apple Financial , Steve Jobs It’s been a nice year for Apple so far. Stock prices have been steadily rising since January , outpacing a middling technology market. Apple is poised to reach a stock price it hasn’t seen since August, 2008. And this particular quarter has seen a lot of Apple news and activity: the new iPhone 3GS was released this quarter with an associated 1 million device sales in the first weekend alone , the MacBook line received a refresh and a price cut , and Apple reported that application downloads on iTunes reached the 1.5 billion mark
Filed under: Accessories , Cult of Mac , Macbook Pro , MacBook , Graphic Design If you’d like to see your design on a laptop and earn a little extra money to boot, head over to Infectious and check out their Cut to the Core design contest . They are accepting entries for a new run of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptop skins from now until August 4.
Filed under: Hardware , Macbook Pro There’s a thread on Apple’s Discussion Boards this week regarding trouble with the latest MacBook Pros with 7200RPM drives. Specifically, the machines are clicking (most users report the click as coming from the drive’s location) followed by a beep that’s, as far as anyone can tell, not coming from the speaker, as demonstrated above. It’s quiet in the video, so crank up the volume and listen closely. Finally, its occurrence is unpredictable. No clear answer has been reached yet, but Other World Computing (OWC) shared some relevant information with MacNN : “The issue may be with Seagate’s Momentus 7200.4 G-Force hard drives …
Filed under: Software Update , Apple , Macbook Pro While most of the focus of WWDC fell on the iPhone 3GS, the MacBook Pro line got some love from Apple last week as well, with several upgraded features on the 15″ model and a re-branding of the 13″ model from MacBook to MacBook Pro. The Achilles’ heel of the new upgrades, as reported last week, was that the MacBook Pro’s SATA interface was limited to 1.5 Gbps in the latest models, down from 3.0 Gbps in previous models. Although this wasn’t likely to be an issue unless you replaced the hard drive with a high-speed SSD, it still seemed like somewhat of a boneheaded move to downgrade the SATA interface without sufficient cause. Today Apple has released MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7, which makes the issue moot.
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15 Jun 2009Filed under: Hardware , Hacks , Macbook Pro , MacBook , MacBook Air , Snow Leopard Mac Life and Gizmodo are both reporting that Snow Leopard will add multi-touch gestures to all older MacBooks and MacBook Pros. This has gotten a lot of people’s hopes up that three- and four-finger multi-touch gestures will be back-ported to all Apple portables that previously did not have them
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