Sometimes, my MacBook triggers the key "" automatically. I just leave my MacBook for a while, I see thousands of \\\\\\\\\\ at the textfield which is on focus. When I press the "" key, it stops. I think my keyboard got some problems....do you think I can pick up the "" key myself for checking? Mine is a MacBook Unibody.
View 14 RepliesI'm pretty big on silent pc's (need dead silent, love my curr ssd), wondering what apps gets the fan going?
Apps I need dead silence:
pdfs'
word '11
webbrowsing
calendar
all the above multitasked, does the fan come on?
I will be in a dark room and the light iwll only come on once I adjust them. I have the setting checked in my system preferences.
View 3 Replies View RelatedJust got my new MacBook Pro. I have a problem with the keyboard. I can manually get it to light up with F5/F6. but it wont light on its own when its dark. the display dims in darkness so the sensor is working.
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View 8 Replies View RelatedIs there something that indicates activity/inactivity, and actually "triggers" a Mac to go to sleep?
For example, if I am:
[1] copying files between my MB and MBP or iMac over my airport network
[2] downloading a movie off iTunes, or
[3] ripping a backup copy of a DVD I own using Handbrake to view in iTunes
These are all tasks that may take a while -- as in, I que them up, then go do something else while the Macs work. Do I need to adjust my energy saver preferences to "never so that the Macs don't go to sleep while working? Or is there something that tells the Macs they are in the middle of a file transfer, iTunes download, or DVD rip, so that they don't fall asleep mid-stream?
Importing CD - Titles:
Trying to get CD-informations I receive the error message "user not registered for online use".
How can I fix that ?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 8.1.1
what is the shortcut? i think i have everything disabled but the keyboard layouts keep switching to American all the time.
i dont want to delete it because i have it for shortcuts for certain software..
On my Aluminum 2.4 GHz MacBook, the backlit keyboard does not adjust the brightness of the light automatically.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
I have just purchased a Mac mini and as this is being used down stairs thought I would purchase a Wireless keyboard and Mouse.The Apple Keyboard I have no problems with I can turn it off and turn it back on and all is back up and working. But the Apple Mighty mouse is a different story.If I go in and pair the mouse to the machine all works well but if I turn the mouse off(to save the batteries) and come back later and turn it back on the mouse does not reconnected automatically like the keyboard does and is not in the bluetooth mouse list.I have to re-pair them.
This seems daft as it means I have to reconnected a usb mouse every time to setup the wireless mouse.Any one have any tips.The Mac mini is left on 24*7 as it is running folding at home.
spinning ball with movement and clicking cursor. spins forever. temporary fix running disc utilities, clean my mac and roboot. Same error found in safari preferences but recurs frequently and requires repeating fix for brief correction.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 2.66 Ghz processor
I used to just closed my Mac instead of pressing the shutdown button; I tried this time but I cannot shut it down anymore, also my keyboard cannot control the volume or turn on the keyboard-light. Also I remember there is like a back-up shortcut (or something like that don't know what is it exactly named) consisting of three keyboard button.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo my friend was using his MacBook and went to do something else. He came back and the screen was black, he hit space and nothing, tried the trackpad and nothing. He restarted by holding the Power button, and it go to the log-in screen, but he can't type anything, or use the trackpad. He has tired restarting several times and no luck. He also tried an external Keyboard/Mouse and that didn't work.
He did plug in a Flash drive and the light turned on, so the USB ports are at least getting power, but nothing is working.
I'm thinking of buying a MacBook but I have one reservation. I'm moving from a Powerbook 12"...
What's the consensus on the MacBook keyboard in terms of ease & comfort of use? I write for a living so a good keyboard is pretty essential. I've always been mostly satisfied with my powerbook keyboard, it's pretty comfortable although I occasionally mash a neighbouring button with my big clumsy fingers. The MacBook keyboard looks a little... weird. How is it?
Does anyone know where to buy a keyboard skin for ''us international keyboard''?? I only found US keyboard and I found nothing for ''US international''
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have set login password to nothing. i want to login automatically without seeing the login page mac book air osx10.6.8
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I don't really remember what I was doing but it just turned off then when I tried to turn it on it would make a sound like when you turn it off. I think its the hard drive stopping but its like high pitched to low. and it kept doing that then after a few times I got it to start up.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was just looking through my activity monitor, and I noticed that all my processes said (intel 64 bit) I assume this means my computer is booting into 64 bit automatically?
View 10 Replies View RelatedSo this is the message I'm getting every time I boot up my new MBP. I can't get past it unless I hold the power button to kill it then hold option when I power it back up. Once I do this I get an OSX hard disc image that I have to click on. It started doing this when I started to install Windows and had to quit before I finished. How do I get it to automatically boot to OSX?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI decided to try gfxCardStatus from a previous post to get a handle on which card is in use because I really feel like my battery usage is lacking, maybe 3 hours of continuous blogging and word processing. Nothing intensive like video. It showed the dedicated NVidia card. I switched to the Intel and no matter what I tried, I couldn't trigger the GT 330M. Video, every app, many windows. Appears to be a bug to me.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have my MacBook hooked up to a pair of external speakers (M-Audio AV40, for those interested) and I can hear a slight click when the computer hasn't played any sounds for a certain amount time (about 30s to a minute). My PowerBook G4 never did this, so it's not the speakers.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a 17" MacBook Pro that I bought recently (and even more recently restored) new from Apple. Ever since the 10.6.5 update I have noticed some problems. Almost every night, my MacBook Pro will wake up. I don't know if this is significant but I do have it connected to a cinema display, firewire hard drive, and an Apple bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
The only thing I would be suspecting is the hard drive but I don't know why since it is only used for time machine backups and those work normally. I do hear sometimes the hard drive spin up at night for a backup, but then it quickly shuts down after, which I believe is normal. Anyways, checking the console in the morning, I find this out of the usual:
11/21/10 12:43:14 AMcom.apple.launchd[1](com.apple.awacsd[435]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault
I've got a MacBook 3,1 (White, late 08 model) which is happily connecting to the wireless network but refusing to use the internet. Other computers on the network use it fine.
What's more, when I restart to my bootcamp partition, the internet works fine. It's only in Mac OS that I have a problem.
After installing OSX 10.4 on my wifes' Clamshell iBook 466 Firewire, and accepting several software upgrades to 10.4.11, I was annoyed to find that the AirPort Card would not connect automatically on start-up. This seems to be as a result of the AirPort software upgrade to version 4.2.
There seems to be no way of reverting back to the previous version, leaving us with the problem of having to connect manually. This involves several steps, starting with choosing "Other" from the AirPort drop-down menu, selecting the network from a drop-down list, then selecting the WEP option from the next drop-down, entering the Password and clicking 'OK' to complete the connection process.
Airport automatically on when logging in...
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just upgraded my late model Penryn MBP from the stock Hitachi 200GB 5400rpm drive to a Seagate 500GB 7200rpm drive. Performance wise, I'm happy. XBench is indicating a significant gain on the disk test (especially in the sequential test) and I loved being able to use Quicksilver almost as soon as I saw the menubar. However, when I turned on the machine, it did not recognize the drive automatically, and I had to hold down the Option key in order to get it to boot from the disk. I cloned my old HD using CarbonCopy Cloner. Once I did that everything was (obviously) fine. How can I get the MBP to recognize my new disk as the default boot volume?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy Macbook Air is not connecting to wifi automatically even though my network is in the preferred network list. What shall I do?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy computer used to connect to the internet straight away as it was turned on (wireless), but after a problem with downloading rental films with Itunes store, it has stopped connecting automatically. The fix for the film rentals was to delete a file called SC i think. I have had a dig around in all the network tabs
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Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I was out today and when i came back this thing called codec-m had installed on my mac as an app. Also, my homepage on safari changed from [URL] to this weird search engine that ive never heard of. I currently am doing a full system scan on avast.
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MacBook Pro
