Posted in avsforum. If true we will know relatively shortly.
hehe, quoting my self... Sadly the answer to the question "Does the MBP read BR?" is no. Apparantly (as Zadillo alluded to) it is a bug in Toast.
Posted in avsforum. If true we will know relatively shortly.
Yeah, but Apple probably won't update the MBP for a while now...perhaps right before Christmas if we're lucky =) Either that, or January of next year.
You know, I could have sworn I had seen that somewhere. Is Penryn pin compatible with Merom? Either way DDR3, even with the higher latency, will scale much higher and uses less power than DDR2. It may not even be worth the upgrade for laptop users. I guess we will have to see how popular Bearlake is (supposedly uses DDR3 RAM).
It's pin compatible on Socket P.You know, I could have sworn I had seen that somewhere. Is Penryn pin compatible with Merom? Either way DDR3, even with the higher latency, will scale much higher and uses less power than DDR2. It may not even be worth the upgrade for laptop users. I guess we will have to see how popular Bearlake is (supposedly uses DDR3 RAM).
Well I'd say that it should work on Socket P (Santa Rosa) based machines but anything with Socket T (LGA775) might have some voltage issues on older boards.From all information published thus far, Penryn is supposed to be pin compatible, but there is a question whether it will require a revised chipset for other reasons. Intel is not guaranteeing backwards compatibility with Penryn.
Is there a site or tutorial on how to put in your own RAM into a MBP without voiding the warranty?
Is there a site or tutorial on how to put in your own RAM into a MBP without voiding the warranty?
I like this video:
http://www.macsales.com/clicks/fclick.php?id=96
Note that the first part of the video shows memory replacing; the second is about hard drive replacing which is more involved.
The memory part is really simple and doesn't void your warranty (it's just removing the battery and unscrewing the panel on the bottom of the laptop).
Thank you very much! Didnt know it was so darn simple!
Is there a site that anyone would recommend buying the RAM from for cheap??
Well, OWC (the site where I linked that video from) has a 4GB kit for sale for like $240, which is pretty nice. I think someone posted another place selling other RAM for a similar price.
If i get the 17" 2GIG RAM,would i only have to buy another stick of 2 GIG ram? or do i have to get the whole 4 GIG kit?
Spotlight indexing?Anyone else have a similar experience or explanation?
I don't know. Someone here said it was probably indexing the hard drive for spotlight, beats me. The tslowdown lasted all the way through installs of CS3, FCP studio, and about 3 more hours of just sitting still and charging.
Other things that could get stolen: car, lunch, money, wallet, watch, pants, nuclear missle plans.
If you are that paranoid about it you should be using windows.
Also don't beleive everything you see on "Laptop Anti-Theft" websites, it's called marketing.
If you want me to comment on the rest of our debate I can, I'm just to lazy to do it now.
not that i'm trying to get in the last word, but i just see serious logical errors here.
first of all, i lived in providence for five years during a time when muggings were rampant, and lived in a pretty bad neighborhood in the boston area for a year also.
secondly, it would be truly naive to get facts regarding theft rates from companies that desperately want to sell you theft-deterrents.
thirdly, the whole reason i posted before is because your wording was vastly exaggerating a very small risk. what you've said above is only marginally less misleading.
fourth, i'm not fooling myself about anything: i've already lived with a laptop for many years, some of them in bad neighborhoods, knowing a hundred other people with laptops in the same bad neighborhoods, and none of us had any problems. look, you just don't take your laptop out with you if you're going to be walking at night in a bad neighborhood. the odds of someone mugging you in broad daylight (especially on a busy campus, for example) are just so tiny, and if someone breaks into your apartment, they're going to take whatever computer you have, laptop or not.
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I really mean no offense to this but you haven't lived in a bad neighborhood and if you did only for a year...not your whole life... providence was never on a list of America's worst cities... you may have had some punk teenagers causing some trouble but nothing on the scale of DC and Baltimore or Chicago. Either way you're still missing the point.
You don't know 100 people that live in your neighborhood with laptops...
and getting your info from any site on the web can be considered naive...
the moments that you never saw it coming and never thought it would happen.
Just because it is a small risk where you come from doesn't mean that college students and consumers in other areas of the world should take things litely.
Fingerprint authorisation is very good. Virtually everyone here will have some 'secret' information on their machines, be that bank account/paypal details, address books, your client list, book/film/artwork you've been working on, or national secrets. It's very easy to loose a lappie; whilst it'll be insured, the aggravation of knowing all your "secrets" are now available in public would be a total PITA (especially if it contains other people's information).
If you are using Vista the whole drive (including the OS) can be encrypted. Otherwise not without some third party software.But, is that hard disk encrypted? If not, fingerprint device won't do nothing, since you could just take out the hard drive and read off whatever it is on it.
On a Mac you can turn on FileVault with ease - just close the lid and it would take ages to brute force it the content, even if you take out the hard disk.
If you are using Vista the whole drive (including the OS) can be encrypted. Otherwise not without some third party software.
OS X is nice, that it comes with that encryption out of the box.
I just got a new MBP with 2.4Ghz, 256vRam and 2GB. And I ran the Geekbench and got 3205!. Now I also ran it in my old G4 1.5Ghz, 128vRam and 1GB of ram and got 805. So my new MBP is 4X faster then my old G4.
http://browse.geekbench.ca/
On a Mac you can turn on FileVault with ease - just close the lid and it would take ages to brute force it the content, even if you take out the hard disk.