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  • Welcome to the forums! We had a long discussion here on AI some time ago, and as far as I remember, SLI on the MacPro is not working reliably. Also remember that the MacPro is a full XEON workstation and has an Intel server mainboard in it. It's not…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by utmusicnut Hello, My cousin just got a new mac and I jumped at the chance at introducing her to all things Mac. Problems quickly arose when I tried to connect both her and my MacBook Pros to the wireless network. I'…
  • My brother runs XP 64bit edition (on a regular PC, though) and he ran into many, many driver related issues. For lots of peripherals, drivers are STILL not available. And also a lot of "normal" software simply des not work in the 64bit edition. …
  • You CAN remove the battery when it is fully charged, BUT I would strongly advise against it. Apple's battery chargers are much more "intelligent" than probably Acer's chargers (or my Toshiba one, by the way). Those always charge the battery up to 10…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by LGnome When I click on the the left side of the track-pad button on my MacBook Pro, the clicking mechanism feels like clicks in two steps instead of one solid click. The right side is fine. The staggered clicking seems…
  • Use CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper to clone your system drive before every upgrade! Easy solution, backup included. I do this every time and never had problems returning to the previous system... (and because my e-mail is stored on a IMAP server…
  • See http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=75653 Second-last entry. Maybe that helps.
  • Please, people, it's "Mac", not "MAC", for the ten thousand and 9th time!!! Mac is the abbreviation of Macintosh. MAC means: http://www.auditmypc.com/acronym/MAC.asp
  • You are not inserting doulbe-sided aka. not-HD diskettes (800 KB / 720 KB with one hole)? Only HD (1.4 MB) ones (with two holes) work in those drives.
  • This is perfectly normal. Every Alu PowerBooks and every MacBook Pro has this slight misalignment. Sometimes it's right, sometimes left. If the display would close the way you would like it, then you'd have marks from the keyboard all over the scree…
  • The procedure Sopranino described is a "calibration cycle". This should be done about once a month. My good experience is to leave the charger plugged in all times and shut down (or sleep) the MacBook over night. When you're using the MacBook on th…
  • I have the first revision of the MacBook and use it every day with an external 20" display at 1600*1200 pixels resolution. No problem at all for the tasks you've listed.
  • Yes, you can. You just have to buy a little adapter cable from mini-DVI to DVI. Connect the mini-DVI end to the MacBook and the DVI end to your external display. Start up the MacBook and go to System Preferences --> Displays --> Tab "Arrangeme…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by 4metta Thanks for the reply. Anybody have a macbook with smc fancontrol that can tell me if both work on theirs? The MacBook has only ONE fan, whereas the MacBook Pro has TWO of them. That's why. So there is noth…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by new imac Anyone? You have noticed that for example the cheaper Dell display has a resolution of 1680*1050 pixels whereas the more expensive one is 1900*1200, and that it is much more expensive because of that? Same…
  • Version ten comes after version nine, so it will be 10.4.10 and eventually 10.4.11. Why don't you people get that? No magic numbering system, no hexadecimal system, just pure logic. End of story.
  • You need a powered USB hub, one that comes with a little power brick.
  • Quote: Originally Posted by MacHope theWorld Ok, you caught me, there's some speculating So, now that the Macbook is up to 2.16ghz and has an 8x superdrive starting at $1300, the Macbook Pro is starting to lose the "pro" in its name. Will the…
  • More simple: Windows virii do only infect the Windows OS and Mac virii would (if there were any) only infect OS X.
    in Virus Comment by gwoodpecker May 2007
  • What amount of updates did you have to install? When I installed Vista on a MacBook a few weeks ago, I didn't have one single problem with either the installation or the updates (of which less than 10 had to be installed). Of course back then the up…