MacBook Pro :: Major Differences Between Early 2008 White 13" MB And 2010 13"?
Dec 16, 2010
I was wondering if anyone could give me some technical differences between the early 2008 13" MB and a new 13" MBP. I know that they both have an Intel 2.4 GHz, but are they the same processor? I also know that the 2008 uses DDR2 RAM and the MBP is DDR3. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I am in need of a new laptop and I like the small footprint, but need something more powerful than the MBA.
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Mar 30, 2012
I tried to update my Early 2008 white MacBook from OS X 10.5.8 to OS X 10.6. It seemed to be running well. It restarted and went to the white apple screen with the spinning wheel. I let it go for about two hours and nothing happened.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1
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Jun 12, 2012
Though the Apple website says its incompatible, can it be installed in some way? If not, then will there be an update for Notification Centre and other new features for Lion?
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MacBook
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Jun 28, 2010
So last December my laptop got smashed and everything works except for the backlit screen. In fact I can still use this laptop it is just extremely hard since the screen does not light up. The person that smashed it ended up buying me a new laptop so I have this beat up (and I mean the shell is destroyed) laptop with quite a lot of functioning parts.
Now a few weeks ago my girlfriends Grandad spilled a beer on his brand new 2010 Macbook. The logic board is shot so it is almost cheaper for him to buy a brand new laptop.
Would it be possible for me to take the logic board out of my 2008 Black Macbook and put it into his 2010 White Macbook?
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Aug 16, 2008
After much research on the interweb I've finally realized I've lost the plot, so time to ask the experts....
I've just bought some Kingston KTA-MP800K2/4G RAM from here. The website says it's non-ECC yet the same product from here says it is ECC. This "yes it is/no it isn't" repeated throughout my searches. I bought my Mac with 4x1Gb of Apple's RAM which I'm guessing is ECC(?).
These are my questions:
1. Does anyone know what the correct ECC status is for this product (the Kingston website was no use at all!)
2. I'm reading that it is you shouldn't mix ECC types but what are the consequences of doing so?
3. Is there any software tool to run that can check if my installed RAM is ECC or not, or check everything is happy and compatible?
4. Am I being pointlessly paranoid!?
I do a lot of motion graphics and 3d work so it's important to me everything is tuned up and working as smoothly as possible.
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Apr 22, 2010
Is there a way to individually select which tick marks receive a major gridline? As far as I can tell, the only options are to have all tick marks with a gridline or none. For example, in the image I attached, I want the horizontal axis to cross at -0.5, and I want a gridline at 0, but I don't want gridlines from any of the other vertical ticks. Thanks for any help you can give.
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Nov 25, 2008
Is there really a "Late 2008" model? If so, what is the difference.I ask because I recently got a MacPro and according to Apple's hardware test, it is an Early 2008.
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Dec 3, 2010
My New MBP Charger Stopped Working And I Decided To Try And Use My 08' MBP Charger And It Works Perfectly With My Mid 10' MBP So I Was Wondering If It's Safe To Use It With My New MBP?
The Old Charger: [URL]
The New Charger: [URL]
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Jul 2, 2012
I have a Macbook Pro, early 2010, 13-inch, which I upgraded to 8GB RAM and a 750GB hard drive. It is currently running OSX Lion (all updates applied) but at times it will just freeze and Lion will not respond. The strange thing is that during this time the mouse still works and I can move the cursor around it is just that the OS does not respond so obviously I cannot click anything to shutdown or restart and all I can do it turn my MBP off and then on again.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Mar 14, 2012
Running a 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo and currently 2gb 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. It has 2 slots, whats the max I can put in? What type of RAM do I purchase and who has the best Price on same.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 17, 2012
My system currenlty has 2GB.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac
OS X (10.5)
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Jul 15, 2010
I was just watching some youtube videos, and suddenly the video stopped working, I then refreshed it and the sound was gone. First I thought this was only in the youtube player, but now that I've tested both windows media player (which actually, for some reason, couldn't play ANYTHING whatsoever) and the volume control. I haven't tried a restart though, even though this may fix the problem, it's doesn't permanently resolve it. Has anyone else experienced this problem? And is there a fix for it, or is it just windows ****ing with me, as always?
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May 24, 2012
I have an early 2010 MBP (13 inch) whose RAM I upgraded to 8GB and the hard drive I upgraded to 750GB.Ever since I installed OSX Lion it takes ages to boot up (far slower than Snow Leopard which booted up almost instantly from turn on).Furthermore, when running, it gets very hot when running Windows virtualisation software inside OSX (VMWare Fusion 4/Parallels Desktop 6/7 - same results) and the fans turn on and become noticeabley loud.The machine is still under Applecare Warranty, is there anything I can do myself to resolve this, especially the heat/noisy fans?Is it due to having to work harder to virtualise Windows inside OSX and so run both systems concurrently, thus requiring more resources?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Sep 12, 2010
i need to buy a new battery for my MacBook Pro, just wondering if anyone has any experiences of longer lasting batteries?also anyone know any trusted places to buy from that are cheaper than the 99 charge by apple?
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Aug 12, 2009
My 2008 aluminum MBP 15" is not letting the express card stay in. It won't stay and after search for answers to questions, want to open it and check out the express slot for myself. Done quite a bit of my own work before(Like replacing memory slots), but like to know what something is going to look like before going in.
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Mar 29, 2012
My superdrive does not burn DVD's regardless of media or application. It fails every time. It reads but doesn't write. Firmware is up to date. I've used Toast, iDVD and Disk Utility. No luck. My AppleCare has expired so looking for an external DVD drive. Will the MacBook Air Superdrive work on my old MacBook Pro running 10.7.3?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), iPhone 4, Adobe Suite, Epson
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Apr 17, 2012
Where is the HDMI port on Macbook Pro early 2008
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MacBook Pro
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May 13, 2012
I have a 15 inch early 2008 MBP that the screen will not turn on. When i power on, the hard drive makes a sound that its turning on, but then nothing happens, there is just a black screen. The indication light is on, but again, nothing on the screen. I have tried pulling out the battery, resetting everything i can reset, but still nothing.
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May 24, 2012
My gf is using a white macbook 13'' early 2008 with the following specs:
2.4ghz intel core 2 duo
4gb ddr2 ram (667mhz)
WD 500GB 5400rpm
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
switched on her macbook and then typed in her password (no caps and caps are not switched on either) and then hit login and then screen turn light blue for a few seconds and then i'm back at the login box again. Typed in password again, the same thing happened i tried resetting the passowrd through the installation disk of snow leopard(she only has 1 hardisk with her account, no partitions).And then it gave me a dialog box saying:Password Saved?The password you entered has been saved for the user xxxx. Resetting a user's password does not change the password for the user's login keychain so it will not be unlocked automatically.
Use Keychain Access to reset the password for the user's login keychain I have no idea what's the Keychain Access since i can't even get pass the login box. So i just click ok, restart the macbook and then entered the new password. And the same thing happened. Should i restore frm my TimeMachine or do a Repair Disk?
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Jun 25, 2012
A few months back, my old reliable MacBook Pro (early 2008) started behaving oddly. Have no idea why, but went to start it up one day, and it took forever to start up and get me to the login screen. Been like that ever since. Occassionally, when I finally get to the login screen, the keyboard will not function. After a few minutes though, it always works. This only happens about 5% of the time. Once I log in, everything about the computer from a performance perspective seems to be pretty normal In addition to the slow start up, however, system gets extremely hot at the top of the keyboard, near the monitor. Fans run fast almost all the time when the system is powered on, and often when it is 'asleep'. CPU Temp goes to about 170, and the fans are always between 2400 and 3500.
I took it to Apple a while back, and based on the incredibly slow start up time they believed it was a disk issue. I went ahead and purchased a 500GB internal drive and this past weekend used SuperDuper to copy the original boot disk. All went well and I now have a new internal disk. At the same time, I upgrade the RAM from 2GB to 4GB.
After all that, the system is still very slow at startup and runs as hot as it did before. I will say, it does seem to be slightly faster on the startup, but not what I had become accustomed to for the first 4 years of use. I looked at the activity monitor and don't see any processes hogging resources. No anti-virus software running.Currently running Mac OSX 10.6.8 My battery is pretty muc shot, but I never really use the system unplugged.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Upgraded disk and memory
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Oct 4, 2010
I left my laptop on in my room while I went to the bathroom, and when I came out, I saw the message that told me I must restart the computer. The message froze the computer, so I shut it off by holding the power button and tried to turn it back on again, but it only boots to a black screen. I don't hear the loud hard drive noise, but I hear the fans. Without AC power but with the charged battery, the computer shuts down after a few seconds. The light on the button that opens the lid is dim-to-none when the lid is open and bright when the lid is closed.
I tried many troubleshooting methods discussed on this site, like removing and reseating the RAM and draining the battery, along with the things that the Apple website suggested, like resetting the SMC and PRAM, but nothing works.
I brought the computer into an Apple Store, and after the NVIDIA test was negative, the technician told me that the problem is most likely the logic board. I also took the computer into an Apple Authorized Service Provider, and the technician there said it could be the logic board, hard drive, or boot connector. He also said that there is a very slight chance that the graphics card could have caused the logic board to fail. He tried my computer with another battery and concluded that it's not the battery's fault.
The Apple Store is charging me about $330 for a flat-rate repair. Should I troubleshoot further using suggestions you may have or pay Apple for repairs? If I decide to have Apple repair my laptop, do I need to take it back into the store to pay the repair charges, or can I do it over the phone and mail the computer to Apple?
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Jun 21, 2009
I tried restarting my MacBook (2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, early 2008 model) today. But when it turned back on it would just shut off and automatically try restarting. It did this over and over again until I just pulled the battery so it would stop. It wouldn't even let me do a force turn off. It would just start up, shut down, start up, shut down over and over again.
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Mar 31, 2010
My trackpad/computer sometimes just freezes out of the blue.. I move my cursor around click.. and sometimes just freezes and i either have to put it to sleep by putting down the lid.. and reopen it or hold the power to reset. or just start pressing random buttons and after about a few minutes or so.. it'll start working again..
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Jul 28, 2010
open the kext (Show Package Contents), then go to Contents, then open Info.plist (I usually open it in Property List Editor that comes with Xcode Tools (comes on the OS X Install discs). If it opens in Property List Editor, then do the following:
Go to IOKitPersonalities and open it On all the sections begining with WSTrackpad*3 (like WSTrackpadISO3) scroll down until you get "TrackpadThreeFingerDrag". Copy that line (it should have a tick next to it).
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Feb 23, 2012
How do I make a recording to test if my early 2008 MBP mic is working?
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Apr 9, 2012
Does Apple provide replacement batteries for out of warranty early 2008 Macbooks? Just wondering as my old MacBook is giving a "replace soon" or similar message under the battery status also would it be worth the cost to replace it considering its age?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3), White plastic early 2008 model
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Apr 10, 2012
I was using Pages while transferring documents to my thumb drive in the background. The display and keyboard went dark. I pressed power, pressed and help power, no result. I disconnected the magsafe and battery, waited, pressed power, still no result. My MacBook was sitting on a wood tabletop and not unusually warm. At first, I thought it was the power supply module, but after googling there are reports of CPUs failing. Some were under warranty and others were not despite the age.
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Jun 1, 2012
My hard drive is crapping out on me. if I can use a 7400 rpm hard drive in my early 2008 MacBook?
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MacBook (13-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 16, 2012
For about two weeks I've noticed green vertical stripes appearing on my early 2008 MacBook Pro. As you can see the photo below, it doesn't completely obscure content on the screen. The problem is also transient. It appears, sometimes as a flash, then disappears. In the picture below, the issue continued for longer than ever before (about 1 min). Is my video card about to die? Could this be a bad connection?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Aug 24, 2014
How do i update my iphoto on my macbook which is an early 2008 model?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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