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 […]
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 […]
My new 17″ Mac Book Pro showed up this morning. I had ordered the 128 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) with the laptop, and I have not yet played with it much, but it boots in just a few seconds. Check out the boot video below: The drive appears as: It has the following xbench […]
