When not attached to the charger, my macbook pro (3 yrs old) will abruptly turn off. I can use it for 5-15 minutes and then the screen just goes black. At that time I can plug it in and turn it back on without a problem. I assume the battery is going bad.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Last night I was watching some videos on my computer and noticed that the fans were spinning, because it was pretty hot. Next thing I know the laptop just shut off. I didn't think to much of it because I just assumed the battery dided and needed to be recharged.
Well now I go to restart my Laptop and it will not turn on even with the laptop plugged in. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Is my laptop dead, what happened?
I'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?
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I use my MBP 15" (the new one), as my primary machine in my office. I sit by my best usually 10-12hrs a day working on it.
I am trying to figure out what is best to do, keep the AC plugged in or have it un-plugged and only plug it in when the battery is drained (or less then 50%)? I have tried different experiments, plugged in, not-plugged and time is about the same for life of the battery. The true question is, how is is best to do it for the health of the battery.
A couple of weeks ago, my 2011 MAcbook Pro started to cut out for no reason when not plugged in, despite the battery life showing as 40-50% full. I originally thought nothing of it, as everything works fine when the machine is plugged in, but gradually this has become an issue. After researching online and trying various solutions (eg reset SMB), I checked out the battery status and it says Service battery, after just over 200 cycles. My Istat pro widget has battery health at 37%.Baring in mind I've had the machine for less than 13 months, it seems odd that the battery should depreciate so quickly. Is there anything I can do about this? I'm losing work through it cutting out so suddenly!Having checked it seems that I'm about 2 weeks outside my warranty, but if the battery is at fault I would still like to avoid having to pay for a repair/replacement if possible!
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MacBook Pro
My iMovie is cutting all the videos i load from this flip camera I have in half. I have no idea why, because I loaded some videos from a different flip camera earlier in the year, and that worked fine.
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iMovie '11
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I think the problem may be in the lack of proper centering and fitting to scale in Preview in contrast to Adobe. I read somewhere that Preview likes to scale the pdf not around the center (which would prevent any bottom margin cutoff) but around a corner (like the bottom left corner, leaving the bottom margin problem unchanged). I really would like to resolve this within Preview. I don't want to hav to download the bloated Adobe on my Mac side. Also I really like Preview except for this issue.
I stream my iTunes library wirelessly to an Airport Express in the other room. A few months ago I had problems with it cutting out all the time. The music would just stop streaming and then a few minutes later would kick back in. The green light stayed on. I chalked up the problem to an old wireless router that was really starting to act up, so I upgraded to a Time Capsule with Airport for a seamless Apple network. Now I've got my iMac hooked up to my Time Capsule and the Airport Express in my wireless network and it is starting to cut out again.
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What is weird is, if I turn airport off on my MBP, and try the same thing just on the Mac Mini, the internet can stay connected all day. Is this a flaw in OSX internet sharing? Or in one of the computer's Airport? Or possibly in my Aircard? (But why would it completely disconnect just because two computers are sharing the same connection?) By the way, I have Alltel wireless. The card is old, but if I upgrade to the Verizon card, they will limit my bandwidth.
Today my imac has decided to cut out when playing itunes. Is there any reason for this?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My iTunes used to work fine, but today it started doing this. Whenever I'll play a song (this affects probably 1/5 songs), it'll start normally. Then, when there are about 30 seconds left, it'll skip to the next song without playing the last 30 seconds.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Running iTunes 10.6.1 under OS X 10.7.3Â
Just in the last couple of days, iTunes has apparently decided that I don't need to hear the endings of some of my songs. This isn't a cross-fade issue; they just abruptly stop, often in the middle of a verse, a line, or even a word.Â
It seems mostlyto be affecting older, DRM-protected songs purchased from the iTunes Store, but it's not affecting all of them and I'm not 100 percent sure that it's only affecting them. I'd sure like to know how to get it to stop.
My videos won't play properly, they cut up and it looks like they have to upload for playing but I have them in my laptop, I don't use iCloud
Info:Mac, Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Ever since I moved my library from an old iMac to a MacBook Pro, iTunes has been cutting off some songs before completion. This is true in playback both on iTunes on the MacBook and when I listen on the iPhone.
Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), iOS 5
My iTunes sometimes cuts off songs. No, I'm not talking about crossfading, I'm talking about iTunes actually cutting off the song file. For example, I had "So Fresh So Clean" from Outkast as an MP3 for years now, and I'm one zillion percent sure that I had the complete song, nicely fading out at the end. A few days ago, I played it on my iPhone and noticed that it ended abruptly at the end. When I got home, I immediately checked that song on iTunes, where it also got cut off a few seconds before it actually ended. Playing the file in Quicklook and VLC I found out that the file has actually been physically cut off! It's a few kilobytes shorter than before. What the hell is this? This isn't the first song that this has happened to, and I also had this on my previous MacBook. I'm running the latest versions of OS X, iTunes, iOS etc.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
how to get a Cricut Mini cutting machine set up on my Mac? It's plugged in, it's on, I downloaded the program for using the machine from the net, but my Mac doesn't seem to recognize that the machine is connected. It is supposed to be compatible with PC or Mac, and I thought I could just plug it in and it would be recognized as a new thing.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My purchased download cuts out halfway through. What do I do about that?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), iTunes
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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