Apple Mac Book Pro! Finally

Hey all,

I was able to get one locally and I'm canceling my order.

After dissasembling it twice I have OSX on my 200gb 72k hard drive and a cut up finger. This is love! haha.... Running very smooth. What a BRIGHT screen. 2.4ghz 15" mode. I have the marware protection pack on and like the palm rest protector it came with. With it on I have to close the lid a lil more to get it to latch on. i wonder if that would ever become accidentally unlatched.

Installing VLC right now and will have to get aquainted with it later as I have to work. Liking the keyboard alot as I type.

Anyone know if I can activate X style mouse on this? Hrm... the screen brightness just went dim and a lil brighter, I am guessing the ambient light sensor? Hrm this is happening as I move I think...anyway to disable this?

Now to get vmware on.

Cheers.

 

Guess I can switch the dimming feature off...its plugged in though. Does it alot.. And not like the light is changing, about every 15 seconds.... Where is the sensor? maybe im covering it up somehow...

Turned it off. If anyone has any suggestions on improving its performance let me know. So far it's useless to me.

 

dont have mine yet but i think the light sensor is under the speaker grill on the left side.

your comments are concerning me seeing im getting mine tomorrow, mind speaking further about what you didnt like?

 

Oh I meant the light sensor is useless to me. Not the laptop. What do you want to know? Right now I am trying to partition the freespace on my HD and disk util won't let me do it. Maybe fdisk...

 

Right now connecting to my windows pc share is SUPER slow, I can't even watch a movie through samba.

 

Had to re-install since boot camp requires single partition.

 

sounds like a pretty ****ty experience so far for you,hope i have a better one. have any positives? or any more negatives? hows OS X treating ya?

 

lol. It's BSD after all and I am a little out of my element. Nah the experience is fine. Having to take it a part a second time was because I missed 2 clips on the front. They needed extra pressure and I have been very careful with handling it.

So far I am really liking the keboard. From using one at the store I thought this was going to be an issue. It's as if MY MBP is 10x better than the one in the store...maybe its a consipiracy vs the display models. The screen (glossy) is also amazing.

I bought this laptop for the hardware knowing I may scrap OSX completely. My goal first is osx/xp via bootcamp and fusion. OSX to me is something different really. There's no special reason I am using it other than to toy with it. Maybe use it to create/test some cross platform software. Linux is the same or better, except you have to be more technical. Where's apple has taken unix and simplified it for the masses.

With the hardware I am very happy so far. Although looking at the keyboard ribbon stuck to the motherboard (snaps in) and then some tape to keep it in place...makes me wonder... do you need the tape? Shouldn't really. Maybe it's just there to make it easy to get the plug out.

I am getting used to the touchpad fine. Already set up tap on click and what not.

OSX, should you have to re-install..Takes forever. It starts with verifying DVD...which takes a long time. Why the hell verify it? just start installing and hope you dont run into an error (ie scratched disc).

So far so good. I like the *nix environments...now to setup a root password.

I think the dimming is because on my desk I have to lean a tad to the left with this... and my left hand sometimes changes the amount of light the sensor is seeing...what a bad place to put a light sensor.

 

Boot camp has been a breeze to install and use. The driver cd it created installed everything fine. I am typing this from windows.

 

neat! ... i knw ur really comfy with windows... but i suggest u check out the "innards" of os x ..... there's tons of great features and software to be added... i'm sure with time ...u'll be spending less and less time browsing windows through bootcamp ....

glad to knw that the bootcamp installation process was a breeze ...

hope ur enjoying ur mbp experience...

 

Yea I'm going to keep my mind open and learn OSX. This laptop gets pretty hot. Near the rear towards the center. If you have a long pair of shorts np.