MacBook Air :: New Docking Drive Bay Option In A System
Nov 27, 2009if they made a version of this for the MBA with a DVD drive (and cheaper), MBA life would be that much sweeter
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Does Macbook Air Have A Docking Station
Apr 5, 2012Does the Macbook air have a docking station so I can use my old wired monitor and wireless keyboard from my old windows xp machine?
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MacBook Air
Are There Any Good Docking Stations For A Macbook Pro 13''
Jul 2, 2012I'd like one that I can plug external speakers into as well as the printer and other devices so I don't have to unplug them from the actual Macbook each time I take it with me.I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro 13"
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
MacBook Pro :: No Sound And No Internal Speaker Option In The System Preferences?
Jun 5, 2012i have no sound on my macbook pro and no internal speaker option in the system preferences.
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
MacBook Pro :: Why No Official Apple Docking Station
Oct 23, 2010Its time for me to upgrade my macbook pro(2007 model). I really want to get another mac, as they are pretty, sturdy, run windows if needed and have good battery. Problem is theres no bloomin dock! At work I have a dell latitude that I can carry around, and just sits into a dock to connect to my peripherals when I am at my desk. Most folks say its just a few wires, and only takes 30 seconds, but not really. I would have:
3 External Disks.
Speakers.
Ergonomic keyboard(not mac wireless).
Ergonomic mouse(not mighty mouse).
USB interfacing guitar pedal.
Card reader.
Monitor.
That's a short list and could be longer if I add ipods etc. My point is, or rather, my question is why don't apple do docking stations? They used to do them? Loads of other companies do them.
MacBook Pro :: USB Hub With Ethernet And Audio Like Docking Station
Apr 16, 2012I have a few MBPs, the 15 inch model. At my desk, there is a tangle of cords: Two scanners, keyboard, mouse, audio to speakers, and wired Ethernet. Today this is connected via a USB hub, plus audio and Ethernet. To make things worse, the Apple USB to Ethernet dongle doesn't like to work through my cheapo USB hub, nor do the scanners (HP flatbed and Fujitsu autofeed), so I can't use it to reduce the number of cables. By the way, that USB hub is able to handle scanners and keyboard just fine when on a Windows laptop. Ideally, I would like the reduce the number of cables needed at the desk to three: power (magsafe), video (thunderbolt), and all the rest via a single USB cable. Switching to the Apple Thunderbolt display is a non-option for various reasons.
So what I'm looking for is a USB hub with built-in Ethernet and built-in audio, and which works with a Mac. It has to have at least 4 ports (a few more spares would be better) and has to have USB 2.0 speed to make Ethernet sensible. On the web, there are lots of stories of USB hubs that DON'T work MBPs (the one on my desk is an example). To make matters even more interesting, I haven't found a USB hub with built-in Ethernet *and* audio yet, so I might have to use an inexpensive USB audio dongle. So are there any examples of USB hubs with > 4 ports, Ethernet and audio that someone has seen actually work with Macs? If those don't exist, are there any examples without audio?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1), iTunes 10.5 (as of today)
MacBook Pro :: After Installing New Snow Leopard OS Did Not Have Bluetooth Option Under My System Preferences
Aug 29, 2009I recently discovered after installing the new Snow Leopard OS that I did not have a bluetooth option under my system preferences. I own a mid 2008 Macbook Pro (pre-unibody, more info below) and I know that I've used it before. I recently took my computer in to be repaired by Apple because the keyboard and trackpad were inconsistently responsive, and to fix it they simply replaced the entire top panel (with the keyboard and trackpad). I have also checked under the system profiler and it says that there is no information available for my bluetooth...what exactly does this mean? Did they forget to reinstall it? or what?
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Apr 8, 2012i have just a plain macbook not pro or air just a Macbook and its white. Well i need to turn my fire wall off for some thing for like 2 secounds then back on but i go into system preferances and there is no option for security and privacy which is were the turn On/Off firewall is its just not there for some reason please help me...Im on Mac OS X (10.7.3) system help
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Thats all
MacBook Pro :: External Hard Drive Is An Option?
Jun 29, 2012I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what the approximate costs would be to upgrade the hard drive in my mid-2009 macbook pro. I have a 160 GB hard drive and it is nearly full, but I am a bit of a photo enthusiast and now must labouriously find things to delete before adding new photos. Â
I know that an external hard drive is an option, although I'm not sure how it would work for me since almost all of my memory is eaten by photos and music, and I very much like having all of this media on the machine together in my iphoto and itunes libraries. I have no sense of what this would cost. Needless to say, I would bring my machine into apple to upgrade given that I'm not knowledgeable enough to even consider opening it myself. Â
I am willing to consider a new macbook, but this seems excessive given that I am generally happy with the machine and it has only slowed slightly since purcahse, and mostly in the recent months as it has teetered dangerously close to completely full. Â
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macBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
MacBook :: Docking Station For Unibody Macbook?
Mar 7, 2009Is there any option for a unibody macbook docking station?
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Mar 15, 2012If your like me and would like to be able to stream all of your computer audio over the wonderful airplay protocol, please comment and hopefully Apple can add this feature soon.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
ICloud :: System Preferences Does Not Show Icon Option
Jun 15, 2012I can't seem to access icloud on my mac. All my software is up to date. When i access support for icloud, it tells me to click on the icloud icon in my system preferences but that's not an option.
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Jul 4, 2012I would like to do some house keeping of icons on the docking station. There are some icons that I use them less often and I would like to pick it up from the Applications Folder on the right side. I want to remove icons that used for less often and add new icons for frequent use. Can someone point me to the place where has worked instructions doing the following.
1. I notice there are two parts of icons: one on the right and others on the left. What is the defination of these icons?
2.How can I create the new icon of application and add icons to the docking station for frequent use?
3. How can I restore the icons that I removed?
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iPad 2, iOS 5.1.1
OS X :: System Pane Crashes When Choosing Desktop Screensaver Option?
Feb 4, 2009When I choose the Desktop/screensaver option in the system pane, it unexpectedly quits. I can see that my screensaver is set to "Never". It will not let me click on "Desktop". To help trouble shoot the issue, I made another login account with the default settings - and the system pane works. I am able to test the screen savers, ect.Is there a way to copy the files/setting from the new login in to the old?
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
Applications :: Docking MS Word's Formatting Palette?
Jul 19, 2007I hate this floating thing. Excel's too. Every time I resize a document window I have to move that stupid little palette around.
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Dec 30, 2009I noticed Kennsington's wireless USB docking station on sale at Frys Site earlier this morning. The description mentions the docking station is Mac compatible. I've searched these forums and the net and haven't found any threads on people using this with a Mac in the past, it seems wayyy too good to be true. I was hoping somebody a little more tech savvy than myself might be able to weigh in on this. I attached the link to the USB docking station below and I also own a mid-late 2008 MBP. [URL].
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Apr 18, 2007I am not quite sure the difference between the AUTO and ON power options. When I have it set to ON the drive will power on when the computer powers on, power off when the computer powers off and it will spin down when it has not been used for a while. Isn't the ON option not supposed to spin down when the drive has not been in use for a while?
Currently the AUTO setting does the same as the ON setting. It powers on and off with the computer and spins down when the drive has not been used in a while.
Mac Pro :: Hard Drive Spins Up Periodically - Even With Sleep Option Enabled
Dec 28, 2008I have a 2008 Mac Pro with the original OSX drive and then two other hard drives, one I use for Boot Camp/Fusion and the other for my work files. Under Energy Save in system preferences, I have it so that the drives will sleep whenever possible. The issue I'm having is one of the drives, I think the one with my work files, will wake from sleep every 15 minutes or so even if I'm not accessing any of the files. I haven't timed it exactly but it's around 15-20 minutes and happens throughout the day. What is causing the drive to wake? I disabled iStat Pro because before the drives would spin every time I checked my dashboard so that's not the problem anymore.
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Dec 12, 2014After clicking System Preference how do I get SCAN option to appear so documents can be scanned? Currently only the Print option is visible and having no problems with printing. Printer is a HP Laser Jet 300.
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Feb 29, 2012I was surprised yesterday to find that holding down option key during restart did NOT bring up the Startup Manager screen.Usign Lion, wireless Appple Keyboard and external HD connected with FireWire. Is the isue the wireless keyboard? The Firewire connected drive?I was able to go to System Preferences and choose my startup volume but I much prefer the more temporary state pressing option key when rebooting to choose which volume for startup
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MacbookPro (Unibody) 2.8 Ghz 4 Gig Ram; 24, Mac OS X (10.7.1), Hubby'siMac 20" 2009 ,10.6.6. 2 Gig RAM
MacBook Pro :: Put Old Hard Drive In New System?
Dec 25, 2009I tried searching for info about this, but didn't come up with anything. My company just purchased me a new macbook pro, the 2.26 stock model. I recently bought a 500GB 7200rpm drive, so when the new machine arrived I just swapped out the stock drive with my 500GB. The 500GB has a relatively fresh install of Snow Leopard. Everything is running pretty well, although I feel like I'm seeing a little more sluggishness in some apps (Aperture, for one) than I expected. It's pretty impressive that an OSX boot disk can boot any mac, but I wonder if there's anything I ought to do�preference files I should delete, for example�to make sure that the OS and the new mac are in sync.
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Feb 29, 2012I passworded my external hard drive using disk utility. the system does not detect the drive after i did a clean install. what do i do?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: Copy System To New Hard Drive?
Oct 2, 2010I just upgraded my HD on my new MBP13.
I upgraded it from 250GB to a 500GB 7200RPM WD Scorpio Black. However the noise was definitely noticeable for me and I have changed it back to the 250 5400RPM GB Seagate Momentus. Sucks to have lost the money
Now the thing is I need 500 GB and I want it to be a internal hard disk. I was thinking about buying 500 GB 5400RPM Scorpio Blue or a Seagate 5400RPM Momentus. Not decided yet(any recommendation?).
The problem is though I want to begin using my system. I want to install programs etc. Is there an easy way to copy the whole system to the new hard drive when it arrives?
I have another (windows) pc with an external NFTS disk.
MacBook Pro :: Installing Second Drive SSD - System Hangs
Dec 6, 2010I have a 13" mid 2009 MBP and due to issues with the superdrive I decided to buy the OWC data doubler kit and install it with a 120GB SSD from them. I also upgraded to 8GB RAM at the time but I do not believe that has anything to do with this. After I did this, my original HD freaked out and wouldn't even show up in target disk mode. Eventually I made a clone of the Snow Leopard install disks onto a USB stick using a friend's laptop and installed OSX fresh onto the SSD. Luckily I had a backup of everything so I have not lost anything. Even with the fresh install, however, I am having a lot of issues with the OS. When I try to boot the machine, it often takes 3, 4 or even 5 times to boot normally. As far as I remember, booting into safe mode works right away but that is obviously not a solution. Usually it starts by hanging at a blue screen once or twice, then I can get to the login screen but it is either kind of grayed out or it just freezes and I can't even move the mouse to type in my password. When I do safe mode it boots up without this issue, but even after that I often see the computer freeze up during use, which happened the first time I wrote this post. This problem also occurs when waking up from sleep. If the laptop goes to sleep by itself or I close it, I have to power cycle it to return to use. The keyboard will light up, but the screen never comes on so there is no way for me to log in. These issues are extremely frustrating and make me feel dumb for doing this in the first place, considering that everything worked ok before(minus the superdrive). Has anyone seen these issues before? Resetting PRAM and booting into single user mode are not helpful, I have tried them many, many times and I see the same issues. I saw somewhere else that I should try to remove the fonts, startup items, and loginwindow.plist files/folders and put them on the desktop, but even after doing that the issues persist.
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Aug 21, 2010I got a 2007 white MacBook, and I only have about 4GB HD space left. And that's after I did some emergency clearing out. It's obvious I need a new one, or to clear out more. I'm thinking both.I just got the free version of CleanMyMac, is that a good program to clear my HD out with?And, if I only want a drive that's 200GB-300GB, how much will a reliable one run me? I've seen 1TB drives for ?70, but I'm not sure if they're the right size for the MB.
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