After playing around with a 2 GB ram / 128 GB HDD new 11.6" MBA, I am wondering if purchasing a 250 GB SSD HDD by Intel and installing on my current 13" Mac Book Pro would be a wise move. I could not believe how the 11.6" MBA seemed 10 times faster than my 13" MacBook.
Anyone have any advice regarding moving from 250 GB 2.5" HDD to a 250GB SSD HDD?
I have PowerMac G4 with an 80Gb hard drive that's full. I got a 250Gb HD with Acard ATA-133 Controller. New HD initialized fine and I used Disk Utility to copy Old HD to New HD. Mac will not boot from new HD - do not see new HD in startup HD choices when I boot from old HD. When I boot from old HD, the new HD shows up on desktop just fine. Tried to boot from OSX CD to install OSX on new Hard Drive and install routine did not find the new HD. What am I missing or what did I need to do for this new HD to take over as primary??
View 6 Replies View RelatedAnyone using a 250GB G-Drive Mini with their MBA? The drive requires too much power to be used on my 12" Powerbook via USB. I have to use firewire. Obviously this would present a problem with the MBA. (Oddly, my Xbox 360 has no problem mounting the drive via USB).
View 5 Replies View Relatedi have a WD 250gb HD that i used to use for my TM backups...a few months ago i switched and am now using a new HD for my TM backups. Today i went and tried to delete the old TM backup folders from my WD HD and dragged the folder to the trash (the whole folder..backups.backupdb) now im not sure if its all in the trash, cause it still appears on my WD HD as well...when i try to empty the trash, there are over 30.000 files to delete and is says some are locked
View 7 Replies View RelatedI bought i Seagate Free Agent go for Mac 250 GB with firewire 800. ModelNr is: ST902503FJA105-RK
My Macbook Pro 13" recognize the harddrive fine over the FW 800 port, but after a few seconds it unmounts automaticly with an error message There is no difference if i use the docking station or the other firewire cable.
USB connection works fine. Any ideas how i get fw 800 to work?
so i'm going to be a freshman in college and have decided to buy a 13" Macbook Pro laptop. I'd be getting the cheapest one ($1199) and using it for the internet, writing papers, storing music and photos, and whatever else I may become interested in while i'm in college. My question is, when ordering, for $40 I can bump the hard drive up from 250GB to 320GB...is it worth it for what i'd be using the computer for?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI just recently picked up a MacBook Pro, the $1199 model with a 250GB hard drive from Best Buy (Only reason - 24 months no interest with their store credit card). I would like to upgrade the hard drive, but need to know exactly what size screwdrivers to use. I was able to take out the 10 screws and unplug the SATA connector from the hard drive, but there are star screws that are on the actual hard drive I need to remove and put on the new one...Since I didn't have a star screwdriver, I had to put it back together. ONE screw will not go in all the way on the side, and its annoying me. Because of this, I'm scared to take it apart again without the proper tools and stripping a screw or hole. if
View 3 Replies View RelatedI ran a few standard QuickBench tests on my week old SSD. It is quite a bit faster than the G. Skill Titan drive I was considering (the end of this post has results of the G. Skill on the same tests). The numbers are nice to look at, but it just feels extremely fast. Also note that the drive linked above seems to only have the OS loaded. My drive has about 100 GB of data (everything from my old computer) in addition to the OS X installation. Here's a video of the drive loading 35 apps at once It'd be great if someone with an intel x-25m could post QuickBench results. The computer is a 2.4 GHz unibody MacBook with 4 GB of ram.
View 17 Replies View RelatedI may need to take my new 27" iMac in for a replacement and only have with me a 250gb usb hard drive. I have used 182gb's of space on my iMac as of right now. Should I be OK for this one back up? While on the subject, what size external back drive should I be looking at?
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe USB port of the MacBook Air has very low power and it is not being able to power my LaCie 250GB drive without having the hard drive connected to its independent power source. i am having to plug in not only my computer to external power, but i also have to connect the drive to an independet power source. can someone recommend a drive that works on with the MacBook Air that can work without independent power?
View 6 Replies View RelatedThe press release info implies that the 750GB version uses 333GB/platter technology, but they don't come right out and say it. They seem to be referring mainly to the 1TB version.
Assuming they are using the larger platters, do they simply block off the excess capacity? Does this mean the 750GB might actually be faster on average, assuming they disable the slowest blocks?I really want to put one of these in my 17" MBPRo, but I'd hate to find out later that the 750GB version is actually using "old tech" 250Gb platters.
I had an issue with the 9600m GT Graphics card a few weeks ago where the graphics card wouldn't display anything when plugged into an external monitor. The apple store checked it out and said the logic board was faulty and that it would need to be replaced under warranty. (Late 2008 15" macbook pro).
When I received the laptop back, they not only replaced the logic board, but they also replaced the SSD with a 250gb 5400rpm hard drive. I called in and, after being upgraded to the top level supervisor, he said that all of the hard drives being replaced were sent to be refurbished or recycled and that my hard drive had a fault in it so they replaced it. He says that they restore it to the apple original condition and originally they sold it with a 250gb hard drive in it so that's what they replaced it with. Their policy is that only if they replace aftermarket ram with apple ram will they return the aftermarket parts back to you. This repair was conducted yesterday, the 15th of January by apple Tech ID #612525.
I don't expect to get my data back, but if anyone has any idea on how I can get my hard drive back, I'd be willing to reward $100. A new Intel SSD X25-M G2 would be around 250 so I wouldn't want to do that.
I've been on the phone all day with the apple support so I am very frustrated right now.
[URL: ...] I'm taking a Digital Media class on my study abroad trip this semester and one of the requirements for the class is that "Students will also need a portable external drive for storing files, a 120 gigabyte drive will be perfect." I'm not computer savvy whatsoever but would this be ideal for my class? We will be working on video projects and such. Also, I have a MacBook would it still work/be ideal with a MacBook?
View 15 Replies View RelatedWD 6.3cm (2.5) 500GB SATA WD5000BEVT 5400 8mb [WD5000BEVT]
I believe that is the one without WD's free fall sensor (or whatever it is called)?
I can get a very good deal on it (41€). I plan on copying my stock 250GB Toshiba drive 1:1 to it with Carbon Copy Cloner.
Would this drive be good?
I have split my hard drive in two by having a friend help me reboot my macbook pro. I had him make a drive that was 70gb for "System Files" and a 180gb "Files Drive". I have only 27gb left on the systems file drive for applications. Is this going to be enough, I feel that i need to re-format my hard drive and start from scratch again.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a PowerBook G4 running OS X. I'm trying to transfer a very large chunk of data (roughly 40 gigs or so) from my Mac to my PC (I need to sell my Mac, so I'm trying to empty it). Fortunately, most of the files can be read by both platforms, so I don't need to convert any data, just move it. Any suggestions on how this could be done? I've thought of burning everything on to DVDs and moving them that way, but I'm wondering if there's another way.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI just bought a new gaming rig to replace my Macbook as my primary computer. It will be running Windows 7 and I was wondering if anybody has any experience or even a tutorial for moving my iTunes library on my Mac over to the PC. All the tutorials I found only work for moving from PC to Mac or for much older versions of iTunes (9 being the current one)
View 2 Replies View Relatedmoving entire Picasa library from PC to Mac? With ALBUMS and FACE TAGS? I tried backup to ext. hdd but that didn't work. Picasa on Mac restores folders with Windows paths -> useless. Then I tried moving only folders and rescan them again, but I lost all album and faces -> useless. Finally I tried coping folders and Picasa data from user/appdata/local folder to Mac Picasa library folder.
View 2 Replies View Relatedme and my lass are having difficulties moving folders from her old G4 to a new IMAC. photos saved in i photo we can simply put onto the camera sd card and then transfer but as I broke the cd burner on the G4 which I am constantly being reminded of at the moment How do you move folders from one mac to another as they contain pohotos our lass has had for a few years now.
I have no knowledge of computers as it took me two days to find the button to open the CD draw on my own new computer so any answers would need to be simplistic. I think you can just put them on a memory stick or load them onto the SD card of the camera. But how?
And considering I broke the burner on the other MAC our lass isnt that keen on me touching these folders as she doesnt want to lose the phtos.
I've ordered my first Mac: MBA.
I am currently using a Windows 7 machine with the latest iTunes build.
My iTunes library is located and synced to the cloud with Dropbox. I also sync my iPhone with this iTunes library, this will be essential with both computers.
Now, when I get my MBA, I plan to first do a complete reinstallation, removing unrequired software and drivers as well as eradicate unused languages.
I then plan to setup iTunes.
I want to install a 7200.11 1TB drive and move my OS,bootcamp partition etc.. to the new 1TB drive. Is there a way to do this on the macs without having to reinstall everything?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a 2nd gen MB and recently got a 5th gen MB (white) with NVidia adapter. I moved my HDD from 2nd gen to 5th hoping all would be fine. Although system seems to work fine, I have problems on boot (command line text appears). I made HDD verification with DU, all seems to be fine. There are many problems with Disk Permissions and they can not be somehow repaired.
What would you suggest to move my HDD in the best way? Shall I try to solve boot problem? Or shall I just format the HDD on 5th and restore the system with Time Machine or sth?
I have a macbook pro which was purchased in america, however I am moving overseas and was wondering if it was possible to change the region of my computer.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently purchased a new Macbook Pro, which should be arriving in the mail shortly. I currently have a Macbook running Tiger which I bought in June 2006. I was wondering how it would be possible for me to easily move all of my data (iTunes library, applications, etc.) and settings to my new Macbook Pro.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have a new hardrive and I'm using the time machine with it. I have a couple old hardrives with old but important stuff on it. I want to consolidate ALL my files, etc into one (new) hardrive. How do I select all the files in my old hardrive and transfer them to my mac, and then eventually to my new hardrive?
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy grand father is the king of all pack rats as he still keeps all his taxes and personal files on a powermac 600/66.
He wants to move the files off that computer and onto one of his newer macs so that the older powermac can finally be laid to rest.
The power Mac has a floppy drive which I am hopping I can use in tandem with a USB floppy drive for one of his newer macs so that no data is lost.
It seems like a viable plan I just want to know what issues I might run into as he is convinced the only way to transfer the documents will be via printer to scanner.
Currently I use a 12" PowerBook G4, and am planning to upgrade to a black MacBook with 2 gigs of ram and 160 Gig HD. (Or, maybe the white with 2 gigs of ram and 120 gig HD. Still deciding)
Anyway, I want to know first of all what people think of this upgrade timing.
Second of all I want to know what I need to do in order to comfortably tansfer my software settings.
For example, it would be great if I didn't have to reconfigure Terminal.app to the font style and transparency and whatnot that I like. Not to mention big things like Firefox bookmarks (or maybe I'll be switching to Safari!), my Mail.app settings, and other things.
There's a lot of stuff I'm sure. Is there one particular folder I could just backup that has all of these things in it... That would be nice.
I have been using a Mac PPC G5 since 2004 or so. I am running Leopard 10.xx on this PPC. Due to requirements in software (seems more new software is for Intel version only) I have decided to break down and get a new Intel Mac Pro (dual 2.8, etc).
I have 2 G-Tech external firewire drives, and 1 internal SATA, and 1 external SATA to Firewire drive. All these drives are formatted as Extended, non-journaling (only 1 partition on each). Will the new mac read these drives without issue? I plan to place the external SATA/Firewire (It is in an ICY Dock) in to one of the spare bays in the new system. This drives carry the bulk of my data.
I have many applications, iPhoto 6, iMovie 6, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, and a few others. I plan to re-install all these apps on the new machine. I might try to copy my pref files for final cut and soundtrack to the new system.
I would also like to copy all the data under my user name on the "Macintosh HD" to the same username on the new mac. I plan to have the same user names on the new system.
I am trying to cover all the pitfalls in moving from my old system to the new one. I have seen postings recommending not using the setup assistant or the migration assistant to accomplish these tasks, and I do not mind reloading the apps, too much, particularly if it is safer!
When i try and move music from a folder in my documents to the desktop it always asks me for my admin password.
How do is stop it from asking everytime because its really annoying.
Firstly, I'm a hardcore Mac fan and think that Time Machine was great idea. I know it does complete backup, including software and applications. My question is what is preventing the user from installing a time machine restore of another mac on a new one thus giving the new mac the same expensive software for free?
Example: I got a refurbished 2009 i7 iMac and would like to have Photoshop on my iMac too, it currently resides on my MBP. Could I simply do a time machine back up from my MBP to my iMac and get the application pro bono? Just used Migration Assistant and it worked flawlessly! Much better than using time machine.
