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  • Fellow Macbook Pro users, I think this is why it gets so toasty…

    Fellow Macbook Pro users, I think this is why it gets so toasty…

    (The dust and hairs ended up on the blankets after I opened the thing up. :o)

    See? Look at those wittle fans! Aren’t they so cuuuute? They aren’t muffin fans. Oh no. These are cupcake fans. 😀 Entire enclosure is 15.4in, so these fans must be about…3in each? I could kinda understand needing to find a balance between fan size and motherboard size, but if you’re going to have fans that tiny, at least have them run a little faster than they are now. I guess Apple didn’t want people to be put off by loud cooling fans, and yet…they don’t mind when their DVD drives/HDs starts to sound like a chainsaw… (great job, Apple).

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  • Giantpaper-01

    giantpaperbot - New HD

    Sorta…

    As an early birthday present, Mr. Giantpaper got me a new hard drive for my Macbook Pro. 😮

    The MBP (called humongousbot) has been making these angry grinding noises for a long time now. After looking it up online, I have found that the hard drive needs to be replaced. I looked up some compatible laptop hard drives on Amazon and settled for this 1TB Western Digital.

    Actually switching out the hard drives was a bit of an adventure (when Mr. Giantpaper and I looked for instructions online on how remove the hard drive, we saw that the data cable ribbon thing was connected to the drive as it should…and then glued on top of the drive itself…

    But once everything was in place, formatting the drive and installing the OS was easy (since the CD/DVD drive is busted, I already had converted my 8GB flash drive into a bootable drive with Snow Leopard install files on it).

    Other than a couple network-related problems (can’t access Google’s sites or Dropbox through the desktop app or their site), everything is splendid.

  • ThinkMac

    I think it would be cool to install Mac OS X on a ThinkPad*, so you could have a mobile Hackintosh! This, combined with the prospect of Hackintoshes and Linux going mainstream (not that it’s ever been announced yet, that I know of…), will force people to disassociate the operating system from the hardware.

    *Why a ThinkPad? Macs tend to be seen as sleek, minimal gray/white computers with rounded corners (except for the Blackbooks, which are…black), while ThinkPads are normally black, boxy and rectangular (except for the Edge series, which are slim and rounded). In other words, it would be funny. >:D

    Video gamer: “This game runs on PC!”
    Linux user: “…It does not run on my PC.”
    Video gamer: “>.> It runs on Windows.”

    (Not to mention when Steam made its debut on Mac OS X, tons of people were talking about “Mac n00bs” on Steam, when in fact, a lot of the Mac users had been using Steam and playing games like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 for a while now, running it on a Windows partition installed on their Macs.)

    (Also, I think you could install some Linux distros like Ubuntu on a Mac.)