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This Got My First Macbook Pro 2.8GHz with the 128 SSD

Chef On The Go said:
This Guy really get hot .. I have it setting on my desk by the speakers on both side and under the computer by the display these area are very hot to touch...
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I put my modern notebooks atop a wire dishrack to provide enough clearance to allow air to circulate. Make sure it's rubber coated rather than plastic so the Mac doesn't slide around too much.

Kensington makes this nice USB fan if you'd like to chill the thing further.
 
allanibanez said:
is leopard a 32bit or 64bit OS...or both? Excuse my ignorance but i genuinly haven't got a clue about operating systems :eek:
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Leopard is capable of running 32bit and 64bit programs. Rosetta is a PPC compatibility method and it is much slower than native Intel applications as you can see.

Kr3st said:
I'm also very envious of your new setup, and I plan on getting the same exact one!

I just ran Geekbench on my 2.4Ghz, 4GB ram, standard 160GB 5400rpm HD, the setup you have now crushed mine on every test except for one.

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/82383

Stream, thats the only test my current MBP beat your setup. What is stream? And why did mine do better then your current setup?
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The new models are different, but they're not necessarily much faster. You can see that at the blog posting over at the Geekbench blog.

There are some advantages to heat/graphics, but honestly these don't really beat out the February 2008 models by very much. The Macbook Pro performance numbers almost didn't change at all. The big reason mine was able to "crush" yours was because the processor cores are 400mhz faster.
 
It seems that after some additional tweaking on the OS that my speeds for encoding have improved even more. The system is now reading approximately 48fps average with it hitting 55fps quite often.

I think the bottleneck here is the DVD itself.
 
Congratulations on the computer!

Chef On The Go said:
I went into about Mac and this is what I got

APPLE SSD SM128:

Capacity: 113 GB
Model: APPLE SSD SM128
Revision: VAM0BA1Q
Serial Number: DFQ6A0A835ED531
Native Command Queuing: No
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 112.68 GB
Available: 93.35 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /

I hope this will help

any more ??? this ask I try my best

Thanks
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WTF is Apple SSD.
 
alphaod said:
Congratulations on the computer!



WTF is Apple SSD.
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That is what the system lists under:

About This Mac -> More Info -> Serial-ATA

It lists NVidia MCP79 AHCI then under it: APPLE SSD SM128.

It looks like Apple has either put together their own SSD or has rebranded it for some unknown reason.

I'm looking for some tests to see if it is SLC or MLC (considering price MLC most likely).
 
8767092 said:
That is what the system lists under:

About This Mac -> More Info -> Serial-ATA

It lists NVidia MCP79 AHCI then under it: APPLE SSD SM128.

It looks like Apple has either put together their own SSD or has rebranded it for some unknown reason.

I'm looking for some tests to see if it is SLC or MLC (considering price MLC most likely).
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I'm wanting to know the same thing, I'm looking at getting the Intel X-25M.
 
Blaine said:
Any processor throttling issues? How are the fans? Is the laptop noisy?
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The system seems to work great. I've done video encoding and other very intensive work on it without it showing any signs of stress.
 
Blaine said:
What about the fans? Is the computer normally quiet? Are the fans loud? :eek:
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I think it is one of the quietest computers I've ever heard.

I wanted to hear the fans really run hard so I disabled sleep mode, turned on VisualHub to encode a file from the hard drive, and then shut the lid. I could hear it in about 3 minutes with the fans almost to the maximum, but it was very quiet by comparison. I opened the lid to get an idea of how it would be normally and it was very quiet too.
 
8767092 said:
I think it is one of the quietest computers I've ever heard.

I wanted to hear the fans really run hard so I disabled sleep mode, turned on VisualHub to encode a file from the hard drive, and then shut the lid. I could hear it in about 3 minutes with the fans almost to the maximum, but it was very quiet by comparison. I opened the lid to get an idea of how it would be normally and it was very quiet too.
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Thanks mate! I want to get this little guy for a desktop replacement, but don't want the fans constantly whirring loud :eek:
 
8767092 said:
Hopefully someone will dismantle it and find out for us. I will end up taking it apart just a bit, but not just yet. I am still busy setting it up right now.
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Any word on the manufacturer yet? I may be wrong, but I believe it should be visible on the top of the drive if you remove the lid/cover?
 
Battery life?

What kind of battery life are you getting with your 2.8Ghz model?
 
I got my MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz today, with the 128 GB SSD. I have a perhaps stupid question: what is the sound I hear for about a second when I boot up or resume from sleep? It sounds sort of like a hard drive, but I thought there would be no moving parts and thus no sound. I guess it could be a fan, but I only hear the sound for about 1 second and it's too loud to be a fan.

By the way, my boot up occurred in about 27 seconds, but I was just using my wristwatch, so I could be off a little. Shut down takes about 2 seconds.
 
could spotlight indexation be causing the OPs heat issues?

If you are doing handbrake and opening up every single app then you can expect the computer to get hot.

Wait a few days until the novelty wears off and you start using the computer like you normally would and see if the heat is still a problem...you have 14 days to get a replacement from aapl.
 
jeff560 said:
I got my MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz today, with the 128 GB SSD. I have a perhaps stupid question: what is the sound I hear for about a second when I boot up or resume from sleep? It sounds sort of like a hard drive, but I thought there would be no moving parts and thus no sound. I guess it could be a fan, but I only hear the sound for about 1 second and it's too loud to be a fan.

By the way, my boot up occurred in about 27 seconds, but I was just using my wristwatch, so I could be off a little. Shut down takes about 2 seconds.
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The superdrive! :eek:
 
cogmission said:
Any word on the manufacturer yet? I may be wrong, but I believe it should be visible on the top of the drive if you remove the lid/cover?
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It is a Samsung 128GB SSD. I just opened up the compartment to check. Performance numbers and price heavily suggest it is an MLC drive, but that is not confirmed.

xef6 said:
What kind of battery life are you getting with your 2.8Ghz model?
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WIFI on, Bluetooth on, screen brightness on 3, and using the PC "normally" I see a bit over 5 hours.

Normally is Firefox with 20 - 40 tabs, Adium, SSH clients via Terminal, VNC client, and Thunderbird.
 
8767092 said:
It is a Samsung 128GB SSD. I just opened up the compartment to check. Performance numbers and price heavily suggest it is an MLC drive, but that is not confirmed.
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I didn't know that samsung made MLC based SSD's, I thought they only had SLC's. Then again I could be wrong.


8767092 said:
WIFI on, Bluetooth on, screen brightness on 3, and using the PC "normally" I see a bit over 5 hours.
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Thats way better then what I see with my 2.4Ghz santa rosa. I get 3 Hours tops, And thats without Bluetooth on. But I've hit 322 Cycles, and I haven't even had my laptop a year yet. Just at 11 Months.
 
SSD xbench numbers?

Anyone got any xbench numbers on the SSD? I've run the seagate 320GB 7200rpm drive in a new MBP and except for random reads, the seagate is a lot faster than the SSD in a MacBook Air. I was interested in getting an SSD, but these numbers are making me think I should stick with the seagate (done with 2.53GHz processor).

Disk Test 50.8
Sequential 107.76
Uncached Write 119.36 (4K blocks)
Uncached Write 116.81 (256K blocks)
Uncached Read 77.85 (4K blocks)
Uncached Write 136.81 (256K blocks)
Random 33.23
Uncached Write 10.50 (4K blocks)
Uncached Write 145.54 (256K blocks)
Uncached Read 91.49 (4K blocks)
Uncached Write 136.49 (256K blocks)
 
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