The new MacBook

Apple Portables: Resetting the SMC

The battery of my MacBook Pro behaves a little strangely lately (according to iStat Pro -- look at the Health percentage).

After reading some posts (this and that) I found out that resetting the SMC may help.

I then followed the instructions found at Apple's site.

How is the battery of your MacBook Pro?

6GB of RAM on a MacBook Pro!

According to this article from TibBITS, recent Macbook and MacBook Pro models (including my MacBook Pro!) can support up to 6Gb of RAM!

Please note that this is an unsupported configuration!

Firewire devices that I use

This is the list of the Firewire devices that I regularly use:

• Lacie brick USB2/FireWire 400 hard disk (80 Gb)
• Lacie Rugged USB2/FireWire 400/800 hard disk (320 Gb)
• FireDisk 800-s Unibrain external hard disk (300Gb)
• SanDisk FireWire 400/800 CF card reader

Will the single FireWire 800 port of the new MacBook Pro will be enough for me?

What do you think? What is your opinion?

Note: I do not have a video camera but if I buy one I will possibly buy a MiniDV one.

New MacBook and MacBook Pro!

MacBook Pro
+ Impressive Graphics Card
+ Big Hard Disk
+ Improved battery life
+ newly designed trackpad

- No screen type selection (Matte or Glossy)
- Where is the FireWire 400 port?
- I prefer the old MacBook Pro keyboard

MacBook
+ LED backlit display
+ fast graphics
+ aluminum case
+ illuminated keyboard
+ Improved battery life
+ A $999 White MacBook with a slot-loading 8X SuperDrive!!

- No FireWire port

New Apple NoteBooks!

Apple to hold special NoteBook event | October 14.