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If I close the lid of my Macbook Pro whilst it is booted up and then lift the lid again I have to press the power button to get it back to life and a message comes up saying I didn't shut down the computer properly and I have to reboot. Sometimes this also happens if the Macbook Pro goes to...

My MacBook is 6 years old. It's on its second power supply. The power supply suffered the usual broken wire and failed. I was reluctant to pay £65 to Apple for a new power supply, so I got out my knife, took the connector apart, and found that that broken wire was about 1 inch back from the...

I have gotten sick of my Zalman "Cool Innovations"--the fans have become the noisiest appliance in the home! I have looked about but reviews tend to be contradictory. Here is an example: Targus Chill Plate One guy says the fans do not actually cool it and the unibody can slip! The...

I have a Macbook running 10.6.8 with this DVD drive, HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N. I can not put anything in it and i know there is nothing in there. How do I get it to open up? Unlike the Tower or other drives, there is no visible pin hole.

Hi I need to connect Dell U2711 to my mac book pro (with only a Mini Display Port), max. resolution. I was reading some people said that this cable (Mini Display port male - Display Port Male) is going to work. So I bought it but it didn't. I can't understand. I have an nvidia Geforce 9400M...

I'm looking to buy a used MacBook pro from eBay, probably a 2007 model. I've been stung in the past as I have a Mac Mini at the moment but bought the power opposed to the intel which obviously means I can't upgrade to the latest software! Only realised this once I bought it. Wondering if...

I own an old 2004 Apple Cinema Display 20" (Aluminium) M9177LL/A and just bought a 2012 Macbook Air. When I'm at home, I'd like to connect the Cinema Display to my closed Macbook Air, but don't know what adapter to buy. The old Apple Cinema Display has an unusual connector. Any idea what I...

Hello i am working on a Macbook A1181 13" White Laptop. I tried two of the exact same drives and still i cant get a 1 tb Western Digital 9.5mm drives brand new drives to install the original OS X Disks. Held down C and tried to install OS X on it and no drive showed up then ran Disk Utility...

I have a 2009 MacBookPro and I can't figure out from looking in the "About this Mac" on whether my Graphics card could support a monitor that offers 1920x1200 resolution. Any suggestions on what I need to look at? Or where? T NVIDIA GeForce9400M GPU PCI and VRAM is 256MB 1920 x 1080 at 60 is...

I have a mid-2011 13" MacBook Air that I always thought was a dual-core machine (it's a 1.7 GHZ Core i5). In fact, Apple's "Tech Specs" page lists it as a dual-core CPU with 3 MB shared L3 cache. But Activity Monitor seems to think it's a quad-core part. The "CPU" tab shows four cores, as...

I have a MacBook Pro (MacBookPro6,1) that came with a 500GB Seagate 7200rpm disk (ST9500420ASG) Having already maxed out the RAM to 8GB now I want to: 1. optimize drives for performance 2. add more capacity 3. a backup plan I decided to ditch the optical drive and bought the OWC Data...

Can anyone recommend a good 3rd party 500Gb SSD for a 15" Macbook Pro. The Apple ones seem a tad pricey. cheers 15" 2.52 GHz Intel Core i5 10.7.3 4GB

Hi, I'm not exactly tech savvy, so hopefully someone can help me figure out what I should do to fix it, and if there's a way to fix it myself(?)... I bought a used 13" macbook pro (early 2011), and have had it for about 4 months (the previous owner installed a 500GB SATA, and 8GB ram)...

Hi everyone, I'm having issues with my Macbook Pro's (late 2006 model, I think) screen buzzing. It only buzzes when on low brightness settings, and when on the highest setting it doesn't buzz anymore. When it warms up (enclosure base temperature is greater than 30 C), even on the lowest...

Apologies if this has been covered before but I dont spend much time here .... How can independent third party electronics companies sell "Brand New Macbook Pro 17" (October 2011 Current Release) macs for £500 less than apple can sell them ? Has anyone any ideas ? I'm looking to...

Hi everyone: So earlier today I was taking a screen shot with (command+shift+4) and right when I took it, the spinning wheel came up on the screen. It was there for a long time, so I decided to turn off my macbook by holding down the power button. When I turned it on, it stayed at the grey...

A friend has a MacBook Pro (Mid 2009, A1286, 3.06 C2D) that is in need of a new logic board. It will intermittently freeze, not boot up, not recognize RAM, and once did the 3-beep ram failure signal (Obviously, have tried swapping the RAM, even got a new battery). I found a replacement identical...

My hard drive (the stock 5400rpm 320GB) in the 15" MacBook Pro isn't able to handle the intense demands I put on it with music production. At first, I was considering buying a 256GB SSD, but I don't have the funds for it. I figure the next best option is getting a hybrid HD/SSD. I found one...

So, I've got a black Intel-based 13-inch MacBook, model A1181, and it appears to have a stuck disc in the optical drive. The problem is, the original hard drive in the system died and I can't install Mac OS X on the new hard drive because of the stuck optical disc. When I try to the install...

another option for my girlfriend is to get a intel based mac so she can play Sims 3 on it here is the specs follower by my questions just as before: ok questions how well will the run Lion? how easy is Lion to use for a mac newbie? how well will it run sims 3? will it run Linux Mint 9...