I wonder why the MacBook Pro screen shows a weird backlighting pattern.
After a while the backlighting becomes normal.
It’s Alive!
I had been keeping a MacBook Pro with a faulty Logic Board for a while now. I kept it because it had a perfectly working LCD screen. A few days ago my colleague told me that he was getting rid off a MacBook Pro which had a broken screen, dead battery and some other problems. I told him that I would like to harvest the working parts. So I spent a few hours combining parts from the two MacBook Pros.
What I need to get for this MacBook Pro are new battery, 4 GB of RAM and new hard drive; the currently installed 80 GB hard drive is not enough. Perhaps I should install an SSD. I’ll figure it out tomorrow. For now I installed OS X Lion on this MacBook Pro. I was having a little trouble installing OS X. I am saving that for another post.
MacBook Pro Late 2011
Apple quietly updates its MacBook Pro line-up with the newly released Sandy Bridge based Intel CPU.
Comparisons for the two processors.
- Intel® Core™ i5-2430M Processor (3M Cache, 2.40 GHz)
- Intel® Core™ i7-2640M Processor (4M Cache, 2.80 GHz)
15-inch MacBook Pro and 17-inch MacBook Pro
Comparisons for the three processors.
- Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM Processor (6M Cache, 2.20 GHz) – 15-inch MacBook Pro only
- Intel® Core™ i7-2760QM Processor (6M Cache, 2.40 GHz)
- Intel® Core™ i7-2860QM Processor (8M Cache, 2.50 GHz)
Graphics adapter:
- AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 512MB GDDR5 – 15-inch MacBook Pro only
- AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 1GB GDDR5
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The next Intel platform Ivy Bridge is slated to hit the street in early 2012.
Repairing a MacBook Pro.
My original MacBook Pro Core Duo I bought back in January 2006 had a crack on the screen bezel.
I found a soon to be discarded MacBook Pro Core Duo with Screen assembly in a really good condition.
30 minutes later I have a seemingly new MacBook Pro.
Exclusive: MacBook Pro with Eight Cores.
An exclusive picture of MacBook Pro with Eight Cores. The current MacBook Pro which was released in March 2011 comes with Core i7, which is a Quad-core CPU.
Click on the picture below for the whole picture.
Windows 7 Experience Index on 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro Core i7.
I finished installing Windows 7 on 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro Core i7 through Boot Camp early this morning. Why you asked? Because there’s a specific audio software that would run on Windows. I tried using virtualization within Mac OS X but it performed so poorly. I did upgrade the RAM to 8GB.
Anyway, here’s the Experience Index:
Does New MacBook Pro Offer Optional Second Hard Drive In Lieu Of Optical Drive?
According to an imaginary source who claimed to be an Apple Executive that is definitely not Phil Schiller, Apple has been exploring the idea of including the option for second hard drive for MacBook Pro instead of the optical drive. In addition to that with slight redesign to the motherboard, MacBook Pro could house total of three hard drives. While details are unclear, Apple might offer MacBook Air style flash-based storage in addition to the 2.5-inch SATA hard drive and the Optical drive.
According to the same source, MacBook Pro refresh is “coming sooner than you think” while providing no details on the time-frame.