Category: macbookpro

Nice Mac Tips

16 November, 2007 (10:16) | mac, macbookpro | No comments

I picked up a couple of nice tips from this Hack the Day post.  I especially like the F1-F12 tip.  I was annoyed by the fact that I used to have to press fn + F9 to invoke Expose, fn + F8 to invokes Spaces, etc. but never really looked into how to fix it.  [...]

MacBook Pro

21 October, 2007 (21:30) | mac, macbookpro | 3 comments

I purchased the 15-inch 2.4 GHz MacBoook Pro.  This utilizes Intel’s Santa Rosa platform which enables OS X to address up to 4 GBs of RAM.  Since running virtual machines requires lots of RAM, I decided to manually upgrade the RAM to the maximum.  Because of Apple’s outrageously priced 4 GB upgrade (+$700),  I [...]