Have a MacBook dual core duo with an 250 GB HD and 4 GB RAM. I would like to speedup my MacBook so I'm thinking to swap the HD against an SSD having the same GB capacity. Will this work?
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iMac 27" i5 2.66 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.2), MacBook
How can I get the install/restore disk for my 2009 Mac Pro?
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Mac Pro
My Macbook Pro Early 2009 won't write to disk. It has, since I purchased the unit had challenges reading DVD's at times. It will say "Skipping Damages Section" often. It used to write. Now, when using iMovie, and then iDVD, it takes an hour and produces a blank DVD. Other than a lens cleaner, how do I test the drive before my AppleCare runs out?
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I was planning on getting the Intel X25M SSD but then thought the OCZ Vertex 128GB would be more practical. However, reading some posts here and a lot over at the OCZ forum it looks like the Vertex is problematic in the 2009 MPBs in regard to install and sleeping.
So I'm wondering if these issues are pervasive or if the people w/ these problems are random, maybe having to do w/ something specific to their machine.
I'm planning to order + install a OCZ Vertex TURBO (128 Gb) in my new MBP. Unfortunately, as these SSDs are still fairly new, I could not find any information from people who have experience working with them, let alone working with them on a MBP.
Does anyone have one of these, and have you encountered any problems? Or would you not recommend buying one of them, and go for the OCZ Vertex instead (which seems to have a larger user-base).
I recently tried to upgrade my original 160GB HDD to a 500GB Scorpio Blue. I formatted the drive to HFS+ and installed Lion on it while it was in an USB enclosure.When i restart the computer, HDD boots off of the enclosure and it is fully functional and I can view it and my original drive.However, whenever I take my new HDD out of the enclosure and install it into my mbp all it gives me is the flashing ? error and it is not visible in boot utility either. I've tried everything I can think of to get this to work. I don't believe it is the HDD seeing as it can boot off the enclosure. What exactly are my options to fixing this issue?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
I have a nvidia white macbook turning up in a few days, it's missing it's hard disk and install disks so I will need to use a retail edition of leopard.
I would like to know if there are any issues with doing so. Are the nvidia macbooks running a newer build of leopard?
Mid 2009 MBP here. Original disk was failing so I replaced it with a Seagate Momentus XT and Lion refused to install. Formatted the drive correctly and made sure it was GUID partition. Even went as far as removing a memory module because I had heard that having more than 2 Gigs could cause issues during installation. Also made sure that the drive had the latest firmware.
Flash forward and I returned the drive and got a Western Digital Scorpio Black and have the same problem: Stuck at 21 minutes.
Currently installing with a 10.7.3 USB drive. I've tried numerous times with a 10.7.0 disk as well as the original Snow Leopard restore discs that came with the machine. Is the mid 2009 just incompatible with these drives?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
would like to know. 15" model. I've also seen a thread about taking the ODD out and adding another HDD or SDD, but can't find the thread.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'm looking to the size of the Hard disk drive in my 2009 17-inch pro. But can't find if the case will take a 1T HDD or not. As the 1T drive are around 12mm and not 9.5mm of the smaller one right now.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mac Pro (Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.2), its actually OS X 10.7.3
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), System upgraded from 10.5
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