All Posts Tagged With: "macbook-pro"
Dissecting The Latest MacBook And MacBook Pro Laptops
Some people, in the excitement of unboxing a new tech-toy, forget to stop until they’re down to bare metal. That seems to be the continual problem over at iFixit, where they’ve been dissecting the latest MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops.
New Macbook Pro
Word on the street suggests this the new MacBook Pro, weighing in at 5.1pounds and features a backlit keyboard, multi-touch technology and 802.11n Wi-Fi.
via: Jackson at TechEBlog
Overclock Your Macbook Pro: Melts Everything It Touches
ZDNet has come up with an application that will allow you to overclock your Macbook Pro or Apple Xserve (provided they’re Intel processors and running at least OS X 10.5). Initial tests suggest the overclocking will allow the lower end Macbook Pro to perform at least as well as the topend model but no guarantee the fans can hold up to the heat generated.
ZDNet uses three Mac Pros as test machines. One comes from the first Intel/Mac Pro generation (Mac Pro 1.1) with 65-nanometer processors and 1333-MHz front side bus. The others come from the third generation with 45-nanometer processors and 1600-MHz front side bus, as sold by Apple since January 2008 (Mac Pro 3.1). The first computer is equipped with two 2.66 GHz X5355 processors, and runs stable at 3.10 GHz, see figure 2. The other two have two 2.80 GHz E5462 processors. These can be overclocked up to 3.24 GHz and remain stable
Stable maybe, but the Macbook Pro already runs hot, even with the fans jacked up to 6000rpm it’s a hot little machine. I watched an Apple tech put a Macbook Pro into some kind of loop that tested the processors, running both cores up to 100%. Took it about 15 second to start glowing. Makes me wonder how this would affect the heat output as well.
via: EnGadget
Improve Windows Vista Performance… Get A Mac
I just love stuff like this. PC World tested Windows Vista on a bunch of different laptops, including Dell, Alienware and Toshiba to benchmark their performance. In the end, one laptop emerged a clear winner. By a single point the Macbook Pro outperformed the Gateway E-265M. I’m not sure which is the bigger surprise, the fact the margin was only one point or the next best thing is a Gateway. Um yeah…
The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year–or for that matter, ever–is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware. The $2419 (plus the price of a copy of Windows Vista, of course) MacBook Pro’s PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats Gateway’s E-265M by a single point, but the MacBook’s score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn’t care less whether you run Windows.
via: Fosfor Gadgets
Get Your Bling Bling On With A Gold Plated MacBook Pro
I think I’ll pass on this one but if you want to really show off to your friends, for a mere $1200 to $1500 you can have your MacBook Pro gold plated. Go ahead, you’ll be the envy of every geek at the next convention, you know you want to.
It’ll cost you $1200-$1500, and take from two to four weeks, but that does include paint matching the keyboard (picture below) and trackpad, and re-etching the keys so the backlight shines through. If you really want to splash out, you can specify a diamond studded logo of your own choosing to replace the glowing apple
How To Run Multiple Virtual Domains On Your Macbook Pro
How to support multiple virtual domains on a Mac is a question I had after recently purchasing a Macbook Pro. Part of the motivation in that purchase being that I wanted to get all my development stuff onto a portable platform so I could “work” when I’m supposed to be on vacation or from some destination deep in jungles of a remote island in the South Pacific or the couch. What I found was a lot of information on how to get one website to work under Apache but not multiple sites without manually switching them, it was a real pain, but after a good bit of research and some trial and error, I’ve come up with a solution that works for me.
First a few assumptions will be made:
1. Your running 10.4x of Mac OS. This might work on a previous version but I can’t confirm that.
2. You already have Apache & PHP preinstalled. (My Macbook Pro came this way I just had to turn them on).
3. Your using MySQL 5 (I’m running MySQL 5.0.45 for OSX 10.4 for i686).
4. You have the Mac utility NetInfo Manager installed (If you don’t have it, you should be able to install it from your install CD’s)
First things first. The only thing you should have to install is MySQL, so after running the installation when you go to “System Preferences” you should have a MySQL icon. Clicking that brings up a MySQL Server Status screen.
- Click the button to start MySQL
- Check the box to start the MySQL Server on Startup (this is optional but you’ll have to remember to always go start it up).
That done, our objective is to create an Apache/PHP/MySQL development environment that’s completely contained on the Mac and can support multiple virtual domains.
The Macbook Pro That Google Bought
So I’ve not posted in a few days, there’s a really, really good reason for that. On Thursday of last week it was Christmas at my house because when I got home a box from Apple had arrived. I’ve been hem-hawing around (yes that’s a word) for some time about going over to the dark side and switching to a Mac, something I swore a few years ago I’d never do. Turns out, I had to spend a good bit of time pulling my foot out of my mouth because no less than a dozen people have reminded me that I said that at some point.
Anyway, it was tax free weekend so I broke down and purchased a new Macbook Pro. I spared no expense and got everything but the 4GB Ram upgrade, I can get that cheaper elsewhere. So I’ve spent the better part of the past few days, getting used to the environment (this thing actually makes me feel like a moron sometimes). After a few days, I can honestly say, I’ll be hardpressed to look at another PC if someone isn’t paying me to do so. This thing is really sweet and worked right out of the box. No installing components, hunting drivers or any of that stuff, it all just worked. As it should.
Unlike the Toyota Tundra that Google is still making payments on, this puppy is paid for, in truth from a combined savings of Google Adsense money and IntelliTXT over two months time. Sometimes the frustration of dealing with the nonsense that has become Adsense still pays off and this was one of them. So, your are forewarned, there will probably be more than a few more Apple posts (as if there wasn’t enough already).
Plus a know of a certain cow that’s just dying to get his hooves on one of these, so I feel it my duty to point out just how cool this thing really is, although I’m not sure cow hooves will work too well with the keyboard. I’m sure though, with the onslaught of folks hanging around his pasture, one should be making it way to the barn pretty soon. If not, maybe if he actually used IntelliTXT it would, I’m just saying.
It is a nice machine and so far I’m really enjoying it. Next on the list is probably going to be an iMac for the wife since she’s finding all kinds of cool things this will do that her PC won’t! Go figure. Here’s a few pics taken with the Olympus E-500 Google bought last year.
