I used to have a 2010 MBP 17″, the best Mac I ever owned. It had a beautiful and functional sleep light, and a separate power button. Then, Apple removed both for Retina and the newer class of machines like the Air. Now, not only we no longer have the separate power button, but the […]
Super annoying. Interestingly, my 2010 MBP 17″ also had exactly the same thing with the same key.
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I have been using Apple’s Thunderbolt Gigabit Ethernet adapter for about 10 months now with my 15″ Retina (Early 2013), and I have had some interesting experiences. The Thunderbolt Gigabit adapter was buggy with Mountain Lion, but is equally buggy with Mavericks. When the adapter is used, these are typical: Machine frequently does not wake […]
I have an early 2013 Retina 15″ with a SanDisk (SD256E) SSD, also have a SanDisk Extreme, and a SSDNow V300. In all frankness, I cannot tell the difference between the three in terms of speed. They are all pretty fast. BOOTNOTE: Mavericks is booting up slower on all of my machines, all on SSDs, and I believe […]
I make quite a bit presentations with my Retina 15″, and I noticed that if I am using Keynote, or any other application that changes the graphics from the integrated to the discrete, resolution is set in that particular video solution’s set-up. As an example, I plug in an older projector at 600×800 resolution through […]
I appreciate the commentary that I received in response to my list of 10 things that I dislike about my new Retina. I’d hate to put more fuel into the fire, but I figured some of this feedback needs clarification: I spent three of the last four weeks away from home on three different continents. […]
MacBook “Pro” Retina impressions. (Probably the last Mac I will ever buy after being a loyal customer for three decades.) Dude, where is my gigabit ethernet port? Where do I insert my CD? Why do some media show up in quarter size in full screen? Oh, that’s retina. Doh! Updating a knowledge base document named “Avoiding […]
Regarding the Digital Audio In capability of the mid-2010 MacBook Pro’s, has anybody been able to make it work? While this feature was introduced with the previous generation, this is the first Mac that I bought that has this feature. When I connect my TOSLink optical cable (with the proper adaptor) between the output of […]
On my brand new 17″ Mac Book Pro with i5, my battery lasts around 4 hours to run down. This seems to be related to the graphics card, as that the discrete card seems to be kicking in too aggressively. In my case, it was the SlingPlayer that kept it on. Next thing I want […]
On Monday, I received my 17″ Mac Book Pro with a 128 GB SSD, ordered within the first hour of availability. I ran xbench and ATTO Bench to evaluate the disk speed. The SSD disk is good, but not great. It is nowhere near where intel’s SSD offerings are. Interestingly, I also noticed that i5 […]
