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• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jul 5, 2011 at 11:48 AM

  @Jaana Thank god. Yeah the orange one is tacky and would've ruined my visualization. I popped a key off of a Dell laptop once too, I think it has to do with the angle you strike them at, but I just called them and they overnighted me a totally free full keyboard replacement the next d... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jul 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM

  @Jaana Just a note: Picturing a female with a 16GB M6500 is maybe the hottest thing I have ever heard of. Do you have the silver or the orange? My M6400 was one of my favorite laptops ever.... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 21, 2011 at 12:45 AM

  @Grant Some SSDs ( like the ones OWC offers ) try to compensate for OS X's lack of TRIM support with tricks at the controller level like including a higher capacity drive than what you buy and reserving a large portion of space for improved block management and wear leveling, but OS X's lac... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 20, 2011 at 11:56 PM

  @Grant Hey Grant, just a slight correction. While you can currently install a SSD in a mac and it will *work* well initially, because of a fundamental design flaw in OS X, SSD performance on a mac will degrade astronomically over time. In a nutshell, a simple technology called TRIM ne... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 16, 2011 at 11:47 AM

  @Jordan Actually, they don't produce their own hardware, that's just another facet of their false advertising. In reality, Intel makes their OS X processors, at the moment ATI their graphics cards ( was NVidia ), Hitachi and others their hard drives, Samsung and Sony the important par... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 13, 2011 at 7:36 PM

  @Jason Just saw this today and it reminded me of our little comparison. http://edealinfo.com/deal/HP-Pavilion-dv... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 13, 2011 at 11:25 AM

  @Grantanna, If you go into the trackpad settings of system preferences there are a few key options that you have to enable ( at least on the built-in trackpads on 2010 and 2011 macs ). Tap to click, so you don't actually have to depress the trackpad, something that can let you move mor... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 10, 2011 at 1:56 PM

  @Will! WILL AWESOME TIPS. I've never heard of CoRD but it looks like it will solve a crapload of my problems. I have to remote into about 5 separate servers. THANK YOU. Also might give the spaces thing a try. If it were instant it'd definitely help the argument. @Brian I can't t... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 9, 2011 at 11:33 AM

  @Jason 15" only -- the 15 inch version of this laptop is about $100 less with the same options, widening the pricing gap even further. 6770 minimum: The upgrade to the 6770 ( 1 GB ) is $25 on hp.com. You can also take it to 2 GB, an option not available on any MacBook at any pric... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 9, 2011 at 11:09 AM

  @Juan That MacBook Pros are overpriced is not an opinion, it's an easily provable and demonstrable fact. I just pulled up "overprice" in OS X's built-in dictionary to try to help you: "charge too high a price for". So what that means is that there is a cost i... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 9, 2011 at 2:58 AM

  @Jason, Lighten up man, no one is attacking you! JBC you guys take blogging seriously eh? I was just making fun of your response ( which I'm sorry but I found entertainingly asinine ). It doesn't mean you're not a perfectly acceptable person in other ways or need to get upset. But look... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 8, 2011 at 11:56 PM

  @Jason First of all let me just say... HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. "I can even play older games on it" - you typed that. That made me laugh for like a decade before I realized you were serious. Hooray! My $2000 laptop can play OLDER games without burning my la... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 8, 2011 at 9:31 PM

  @Aaron Yikes. @Grant Are you sure you're not on a really old version of OS X? Snow Leopard has a lot of really sweet shit in it. You and quit apps from the Command + Tab overlay, launch apps fluidly with Spotlight, get really usable inertial scrolling with any of their multitouc... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 8, 2011 at 6:27 PM

  Talking about the technology inside isn't relevant to a discussion about color quality. It sounded like you were saying "Apple monitors are great at color accuracy ", when in reality as you just saw they're not. It's not a discussion about LED versus CCFL versus SuperAMOLED or eInk or a... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 8, 2011 at 5:32 PM

  Many of the benchmarks. Sometimes OS X can't keep up with my WPM, oops.... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 8, 2011 at 5:31 PM

  @Aaron, here's some proof. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4070/dell-u3011-review-dells-new-30-inch-flagship/3 As you can see, on the various color benchmarks t... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 8, 2011 at 4:46 PM

  Actually Aaron, I think you're off base there. From what I've read in high-end monitor and panel reviews Apple's newest displays and the 27" especially are highly-criticized for poor and exaggerated colors because they're so glossy, and that Apple recommends going with the anti-glare MacBook... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM

  @Anna: As far as durability, I'm sure 30 mac enthusiasts will start spouting about how durable and amazingly sturdy the unibody construction is... But. I can personally tell you that it's 98% bullshit. I got into an impromptu tickle fight with some friends on my bed one time and one g... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 7, 2011 at 6:48 PM

  I don't think it's patents so much as stone cold greediness. Apple won't adopt BluRay because they want you to purchase their 1080p content through iTunes. Because unfortunately they don't get money for every BluRay disc you rent. No Flash in the browser on iDevices ( could've easily... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 7, 2011 at 5:56 PM

  Ben, WiDi ( Wireless display ) is freaking AWESOME. It basically lets you use an external monitor/tv/projector without any cables. You toggle a software switch just like you would your wifi if you wanted to turn it off, it picks up any enabled devices ( monitors that support it adapterlessly... read more »