The configuration of my desk is such that I don't have room to lay my MBP flat but I do have room to leave it upright. Will this be harmful or cause issues if it is left upright?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI rarely shut down my PCs, is it okay to leave the Macbook Pro on 24/7? It's a notebook and heat might be a concern especially the fact that notebooks were never meant to run 24/7. Then again, my MBP never gets very hot.
BTW, where is the intake/exhaust vents located on the MBP unibody?
which is better & less stressful on the computer? powering it up & leaving it on all day? I work on it for 1-3 hrs at a time, & then take a break & do other stuff & come back, it is more convenient to have it on all ready. Or is it better to be powered down?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhat's the consensus on the MBP and charging?
Should I let it run down before plugging it in or plug it in whenever I can? Does it make any sort of difference to the life of the new internal battery?
I was wondering if it was safe to leave my macbook on while i sleep to download big things that can take up to a few hours to download?
Should I leave it hooked to a power supply or running off it's own battery?
While i'm at it: Is it safe to leave my macbook on the power supply anytime im at home, or does that kill the battery faster?
So I just installed Leopard on my MBA. I now need to install SL on it, while leaving it in the "new state". How can I do this?
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI've heard conflicting reports that leaving the laptop plugged lowers the battery life and that it is not true since it stops charging the battery. So is it bad to leave it plugged in all the time?
View 12 Replies View RelatedJust to let everybody know, I found a pretty straightforward way to do this without having to mess with every single app's preferences. I have a 13 mbp and I replaced the HDD with an intel SSD. The original HDD went into the optibay instead of the superdrive. At first I just moved my whole home folder to the HDD, so that iTunes, iPhoto and everything else would have worked on there not filling up the SSD with unnecessary stuff. But then I felt like my HDD was spinning most of the time and I read that, as I thought, it is better to leave the ~/Library folder on the SSD to avoid this, since every running app basically reads and writes to this folder all the time. So here's what I did:
1) I moved the home folder back to the SSD, copying my ~/Library folder from the HDD in there (this is its default location so you don't have to do anything if you never changed it.
I think the title pretty much explains it all. I'm wondering if there's any harm that would come from leaving the power adapter plugged in all the time, but without the MacBook connected some of the time. I'm a college student, and with the way I have my desk set up, I can't really take the power adapter with me everywhere I go. So yeah, I was wondering if there was any harm that would come from it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am selling my Macbook Pro and need to wipe all my personal data off of it. I gave the guy buying it the option of me cleaning it out and leaving the applications and essentials on it or just putting in my install disk and wiping it all together. I was wondering if there was a simple way to ensure that my data is off of it (I've done tax returns on it, personal photos, etc...) without clearing data he is just going to have to put right back on it (Firefox, Photoshop, etc...)I thought I could create a new admin account and delete my user account but I just want to be sure that is enough and I couldn't find a solid answer searching the forums. This is the first time I've had to create a new post and haven't just found it by searching, I know how much we all hate repetitive threads.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI feel stupid for asking this but why do some applications leave a disk image on the desktop after it is installed? you can eject it and it goes away but then reappears every time you launch the program again. I noticed this happens mainly with applications you get off the web such as Google Earth. It is very annoying because I like to keep my desktop clean. So my question is how do you avoid having this disk image appear every time Google Earth launches for example. Is it normal for some programs? or did I install it wrong?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been using Mac's for several years. I just replaced my Macbook with the Air. My brother had an Air from the first go around but recently sold it. I did mention to me to always keep the little microfiber cloth on the trackpad when I close the computer as after time it will start to leave marks on the screen.
View 8 Replies View RelatedMy cursor (in all forms) on my macbook seems to be disappearing--it appears that every other column of pixels has gone clear as well as a clear border, leaving only a few black vertical stripes as the normal cursor. It's a black outline when it's the hand and it's a few colored stripes when it's the spinning wait cursor.
Interestingly, when you do the ctrl+zoom in a few degrees, the cursor reappears.
If anyone thinks it matters, I was in the middle of backing up via time machine when it disappeared...
Is it true that when we charged 100% battery and it says on AC power, does it LITERALLY do what it say? i mean the power of macbook pro is not provided by battery but by magsafe instead. is it?last thing, leaving the macbook connected to the working magsafe isn't add numbers up to cycle count right? and is it okay to charge the macbook pro all the time and only using it when we could't find AC power outle?.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have an elderly G4 that has both OS 9 and OS X.
I would now like to pass this on to a young person, but I would like to leave them only with the OS X system. The two installed systems may well cause confusuion. How do I remove the OS 9 whilst leaving the OS X intact?
would it harm my imac leaving it on for 24 hours a day dowloading stuff. with it being an all in one.
View 13 Replies View RelatedIs leaving it in ok as I erase my hard drive, and install snow leopard? How can I guarantee that my external hard drive won't be erased?
View 1 Replies View RelatedFoolishly I tripped over my audio cord and it snapped off leaving a bit at the bottom of the rear socket of my mac pro..I have heard horror stories.
View 10 Replies View RelatedAm just trying to set up mail under Leopard. Under Tiger there was an option to leave a copy of the mail on the server. Can't see this option under Leopard - is this option available and if so where do I find it.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy cursor (in all forms) on my macbook seems to be disappearing--it appears that every other column of pixels has gone clear as well as a clear border, leaving only a few black vertical stripes as the normal cursor. It's a black outline when it's the hand and it's a few colored stripes when it's the spinning wait cursor.
Interestingly, when you do the ctrl+zoom in a few degrees, the cursor reappears.
If anyone thinks it matters, I was in the middle of backing up via time machine when it disappeared...
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Why is my mouse leaving and erasing a trail on my screen, happend since I downloaded Iclowd
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
After I buy music from Amazon and the downloader has added the MP3 files to iTunes, it seems that it's also leaving redundant copies of the files in the folder: ~/Music/Amazon MP3. I just found 18 Gig of redundant MP3s in mine!
I can't think of any reason not to delete these, since they're already in iTunes, right? I also see a setting for a download directory in the Downloader's preferences. I'm planning to set it to ~/Downloads and clean it out on a regular basis along with all the other cruft I download.
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MacBook Pro (15", 2.53 GHz), Mac OS X (10.5.7), G2 iPhone 3.0
How can I remove apps from my computer leaving them in the cloud and the devices?Â
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iPad 2, iPad/iPod/iPhone
I think I found a bug in iTunes, because I can find no other explanation. Every once in a while (like once every three weeks) my iTunes window goes down. By this I mean everytime i click a different playlist, view, category, iTunes store, the window moves down a bit leaving this gap at the top. It randomly comes and goes, and its not really a big deal, but it does get really annoying. Is anyone else getting this? and no, im not just moving the window down
Heres a before and after:
What I should do? Get an external Hard Drive and transfer all the stuff that's on my macbook now to the hard drive. Just wondering because it will be at 0 soon.
View 24 Replies View RelatedThe underside of my MacBook has been recently getting ridiculously hot but seemingly only the top-left portion of it, not the battery or the optical drive. I installed the iStat Dashboard widget and it gave this:
View 16 Replies View RelatedI just switched to a Mac after filing at $21,000 lawsuit against Dell. Maybe two weeks into my purchase of and Aluminium MacBook, I spot something that looks like dust under my screen. I have tried scratching and nothing is there, as well as glass cleaner and a microfiber cloth. But it doesn't appear to be a dead pixel, as it's there when the screen/MacBook is turned off. It even looks like it's under the screen. It's in the middle horizontally, but more towards the left of the screen, yet still enough to be prominent.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI just bought my new MacBook Pro 13", the best choice I ever made. No regrets about leaving Windows!
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