This is the process I went through when I dealt with Apple and repairs on my Macbook Pro. Here’s the timeline: July 15th: Went to an Apple store and had a genius look at it. He created a ticket and suggested to ship the laptop to the repair center. July 17th: Box to send the…
So far the touch is very impressive. I’m currently writing this entry on it. The 16GB isn’t too bad. I would have to create a playlist since my library is far beyond 16GB. A couple of things I noticed right away: The keyboard on portrait view is narrower than in landscape. You will be able…
Last week I bought another Kingston 96GB SSD drive from Newegg. This was my second SSD from Kingston. I’ve had a great experience with the first one so I figured why not get another, plus the price was good… pretty much $1 per GB. Anyway, I had a nightmare getting this installed on my new…
Today Apple released their new versions of the iPod. Nothing major. All got a higher capacity version, the Shuffle got smaller, and the Nano got new colors (no more white?). Here are some pics: iTunes also got an update to version 7. It has some nice new views. Since iTunes Music Store (ITMS) started to…
My memory finally arrived yesterday. I had to swap out the slots where the original memory is installed because it didn’t start up properly. After a tense couple of minutes, my MBP booted up properly. I ran XBench before the upgrade and got a score of 79.71. After the upgrade, my score went up 85.22….
My work was kind enough to replace my aging 24” iMac (MA456LL) with a new 27” iMac (MC814LL). It’s a huge difference, not just screen size but performance as well. I’m coming from a Core 2 Duo processor to Intel’s i7 Quad Core Sandy Bridge. This has Hyper Threading so I get up to 8…