Questions about the Apple MacBook family of laptops.
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macbookPro Slows down to half of its processing power
I have a macbook pro 2010 made, core2duo, 4 gb ram and i m running Mountain Lion on it.
before few days I was playing 8 ball pool on browser suddenly my system was crashed and shut him self down.
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MacBook Air startup disk not found, but verified
I have a MacBook Air that has suddenly stopped booting at all. I booted into recovery mode and see the harddrive fine in Disk Utility. The partition is there as well marked: Mac OS X Base System. I ...
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Stolen Macbook Pro, want to gain remote access
Hey guys I had a Macbook pro stolen. When I talked to the police they essentially told me there was nothing to do. Since then, I have read more about tracking down stolen macs and just last night ...
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Macbook Pro Randomly Freezing
Here is the console log where I believe the freeze is occurring. This freeze happens randomly with no obvious correlation with applications, websites, etc. I recently upgraded ram from 4gb to 8gb, but ...
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Mac battery not charging - Weird behavior
I got a new battery a while back. After approximately 10 cycles, it has started exhibiting strange behavior.
After connecting the charger for a minute the charger would show an orange light and then ...
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MacBook Pro dies once or twice per day
My MacBook Pro (middle 2009) dies once or twice per day, with the screen picture stopped, and all the keys don't work, including the Caps Lock key. So I can only force-shutdown it using the power ...
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Dock Disappearing Suddenly / Activity Monitor Flashes And Then Disappears
I have an problem with my MacBook. The Dock disappears suddenly / Activity Monitor flashes and then disappears.
I have tried to setup a new user login, it does't work.
Downloads and documents are ...
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How do I recover a system lock pin code for Macbook Air?
I have a Macbbok Air that requires a system lock pin code. The problem is I haven't used it in months and I forgot everything to do with my mac, including my sign in id and system lock pin code. Is ...
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How can I bypass the network login at home?
How do I login to my MacBook that has been linked to the network with username and password if I'm at home?
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Electric surge on Magsafe connector
Noticed something very strange today while putting my MBP on charge. Attaching image.
Bought the 13" retina MBP last month. I have no idea what it is but I suspect electric surge from incorrect ...
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Install Debian 7 on MacBook Pro 13"
I want to install Debian 7 (using the netinstaller version) on my MacBook Pro 13" from 2011 with a 2.7GHz Core i7 processor. The installation completed successfully, but at the reboot no OS can be ...
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How can I disable only the left speaker on a Macbook Air?
My left speaker is busted and distorts like crazy. I have gone into System Preferences -> Sound and balanced the sound to the far right. That works, but then when I plug in a USB audio interface or ...
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MacBook Pro goes to sleep when phone is on it
I have a MacBook Pro 13" with Mountain Lion and sometimes when I place my phone on the computer (usually on the left of the trackpad) the computer goes to sleep with no reason. Although this does not ...
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Macbook Aluminium Late 2008 wont turn on
A couple of weeks ago I got out my old macbook aluminium and went to turn it on and nothing happened. So I plugged it in and the red charging light was on so I just left it to charge in case for some ...
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Increase external tv resolution connected to Macbook
I have a MacBook Pro that is connected via VGA to a external TV that is an LG (model 32lh2000) which has 1360x768px resolution.
The problem with that is in the TV the resolution isn't high enough. ...
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Windows 7 32 Bit (on MacBook) Suddenly lost 1.5 G of RAM usable out of 4
I have a MacBook Pro running Windows 7 32 Bit (under BootCamp). It is a 4G machine, and has happily been running for 2 years with 3.5 or so usable RAM. I started noticing the fan and hard drive ...
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Macbook pro ATI GPU is fried. What are my options
I have an early 2011 15" Macbook (2.4 GHz i7)
The laptop boots fine, but
after 10 to 20 minutes of regular use the screen either goes blank, breaks off into multiple lines, goes dark or just ...
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Connect three HDMI TV to MacBookPro
I have a presentation I don't have my HP notebook with my so I'm stuck with MacBookPro 5.5
It has one Firewire port. I need to connect 3 TVs to and I would need to play a different video on each. ...
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Setting Multimeda keys and volume knob on Dell Mutlimedia Keyboard using KeyRemap4MacBook?
I have plugged in a dell multimedia keyboard with my macbook and I am using the software KeyRemap4MacBook to change some keys on the external keyboard.
However I cannot setup the multimedia keys like ...
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Why does my MacBookPro log me off when waking from sleep/hibernation?
I have a MacBookPro (current generation -1). Every time my machine falls asleep, I am logged out. Sometimes I get a BSOD when waking up.
Here's all the additional info I have:
When I last ...
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Using Word on a Macbook . . . document keeps spontaneously opening and covering the doc I want to see
Using Word on a Macbook . . .
Often when I am working between multiple documents, I will click the icon for the one I want (in the dock) and it will open, but another already-opened document will ...
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Incorrect username appearing in Terminal?
The other night, I was looking around on my MacBook's files and I came across a program that was like screen sharing or remote control. I guess it came by default on the computer or something, because ...
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Can I upgrade my 2011 MacBook Pro with 16GB?
I have an "Early 2011" 15 inch Macbook Pro that came with 4GB of RAM and I upgraded to 8GB a week after buying.
I bought these RAM Modules:
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How to make the pointer glide on Mac OS X?
I just moved from Dos To Mac. On my old laptop I could configure the touchpad to "glide" with the synaptic driver. That is the pointer would continue to move a bit after I lift my moving finger off ...
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mp3 url's won't play
I'm on a macbook and when useing firefox, MP3's called up from a public url don't load or play anymore. They used to. I'm just looking at a blank screen with the copied url on the tab. But they play ...
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Can I boot from a windows installation on a USB memory stick on a Macbook?
Someone already asked this question but accepted an answer to use bootcamp instead: Can I run Windows 7 from a USB stick on a MacBook Pro?
I am still interested in the original question... can I ...
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Splitting audio output to dynamics and headset
I'm using Macbook Pro(MD101) with OS X 10.8.3. How can I create two virtual audio devices one to work with Macbook's loud speakers and second with 3.5 jack? I heard that this is possible with ...
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Best way to speed up my old Macbook Pro?
I'm looking for quite a technical answer here, despite the amateur sounding question.
I've got a 2006 era 17" Macbook Pro (primarily running Windows) which is limited in a number of key ways. For ...
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Unwanted sound produced by coreaudiod
I am at my macbook pro and sometimes happens that I hear unwanted sound. Something like birds tweeting and animals, like if I'm hearing a farm.
I tried to discover what was the issue, and I ...
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Can I achieve a higher resolution with an external monitor for my mac?
I have an old ATI Radeon X1600 128 MB graphic card with my late 2006 MacBookPro model. The system preference display only a 1440 x 900 resolution and all documentations I found say the same.
My ...
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apple MacBook Pro resets unexpectedly
My Mac Book Pro resets unexpectedly while working . I thought my hard disk is damaged, so i bought a new SSD Disk and reinstalled OS X Mountain lion, but still no chance.
this is one of the system ...
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Why does my Macbook Retina + Dual Link not allow my monitor to go over 60hz?
I got an Asus VG248 (refresh rate 144hz) monitor . I also have a dual link adapter.
On my Retina Macbook 15", I cannot set my monitor refresh rate to higher than 60 hz. Why is this? I have ...
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Matshita CW-8221 pulled from MacBook with USB adapter
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I want to put together a little home media box on the cheap with a Raspberry Pi and some used parts I had. I have an original MacBook that bit the dust and but had a working optical drive. ...
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Creating Bootable Win 7 USB with BootCamp Assistant
I have a MBP running 10.6 with a CD drive. I read a tutorial that allowed me to create a bootable Windows 7 USB stick by modifying the Info.plist file in the Boot Camp Assistant package so it shows ...
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Bootcamp both Windows 8 and Windows 7 on OS X Mountain Lion
I currently have Windows 8 installed via Bootcamp 4(?) via Mountain Lion.
I'd like to also install Windows 7.
Is there a way to do multiple bootcamp's - what is the best way to go about this?
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RDP into ubuntu VM from macbook [duplicate]
I have an ubuntu VM that I usually SSH into, I have admin privs on this box.
I need to install some things on the box and I'd like to actually RDP into the VM rather than just use the command line.
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System Preferences reset overnight
Overnight it seems that some of my system preferences were reset, nothing else. The ones I noticed the most were:
Internet passwords deleted, had to type them in again.
Time set to 9:45 AM some day ...
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“FATAL: lock file ”postmaster.pid“ already exists”
I just reinstalled postgres via brew install postgres
I ran initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8 but got this:
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "atal421".
This ...
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Macbook4,1 cannot install OSX 10.7 Lion?
I understand that my white Macbook4,1 is able to install Mac OSX 10.7 Lion, but whether I try option-boot to install via DVD, USB drive or by double clicking on the installer while in Snow Leopard, it ...
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Macbook screen switch off when moved
When moving my macbook it sometimes switch off unexpectedly (black screen) and switch on again after several seconds.
I remember solving the problem several month ago by changing a internal MacOS X ...
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Remove slight margin at bottom of screen in snow leopard
So on snowleopard, the maxed out window size almost fills the whole screen, except for a slight margin at the very bottom that is only a few pixels. Is there any way to override this or somehow make ...
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Ethernet Working but No Internet Connection
In my office, nearly everybody uses Mac and we have just only one Windows 7 system. Just this morning, all the mac systems (10.8.2) could not connect to the internet but could connect to the network.
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Does more battery and higher processor affect on battery life?
I'm planning on getting a customized macbook air 13" .. It says it should last 8 hours wireless browsing which is reallygood, but it didnt say whether on the default customization or anything .. So ...
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Frequent Mac lockups due to fsck_hfs
My Macbook Pro (10.6.8) locks up every day at noon for several minutes (and often after sleep).
I put 'Activity Monitor' up front right before noon sorted by %CPU, and saw that it ran 'fsck_hfs'. ...
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How to change subnet of Macbook
I am trying to connect a netBooter to a computer with a static IP address. The instructions in the netbooter ( http://www.synaccess-net.com/support.php ) say that I can connect the netbooter directly ...
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can I put 1600MHz memory in a late 2011 macbook pro?
I want to update my memory from 4GB 1333MHz to 8GB 1600MHz, Ive read that it is possible but nothing concrete so I ask this again and hope someone with knowledge can answer.
The thing is that the ...
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SSD Drive - external vs Internal [closed]
I have 2 computers, a faster iMac at work (i5) and an old macbook (C2DUO 2.0Ghz) at home.
The macbook at home has a SSD drive in it, I upgraded it and it's performance is really great.
Now I was ...
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How to use tap on Macbook Pro with Windows 7?
I have a new Macbook Pro with Mac OSX and Windows7. Tapping the touchpad works with Windows using VM and Bootcamp but not when I boot direct into Windows7. Anyone know how I can get the tap function ...
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What ram to put in early 2008 mackbook 2x2gb for dual channel mode or 1 x 4gb & 1x2gb for 6gb total?
I mostly just use laptop for streaming movies and Iplayer, and the usual e-mail,facebook etc.
2x2gb to replace the existing 2x1gb is around £40, my question is really if 6gb is better, (1x4gb & ...
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why a macbook pro won't use an external screen?
I connected my macbook pro through to a VGA screen. The desktop on the laptop screen changes as if the external display is used, but I see nothing on the screen. The screen is on, I haven't changed ...
