The beauty of an SSD in a laptop, besides making it blindingly fast, is the
increase in battery life you get due to the decrease in power consumption.
If it's a beater, I understand, but if you're going to keep it for a while and
it gets used regularly an SSD is a good investment.
Dan
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Dan,
Would that hold true for a laptop running Windows Vista? Win 7?
Max Dillon,
Charleston SC
On Sep 2, 2014 8:01 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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The beauty of an SSD in a laptop, besides making it blindingly fast, is
the increase in battery life you get due to the
i would not get anything other than an SSD drive on any machine that i was
looking to upgrade if the OS will be on that upgraded drive
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The beauty of an SSD in a laptop, besides making it blindingly fast, is
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Dan,
Would that hold true for a laptop running Windows Vista? Win 7?
Max Dillon,
Charleston SC
On Sep 2, 2014 8:01 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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The beauty of an SSD in a laptop, besides
as I have a pair of 500GB drives for data.
-Curt
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Dan,
Would
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Thanks Gary and Curt, now I need to find a source for a drive that will fit
Send me a 1TB please
--R
On 9/2/14 11:27 AM, Gary Hurst via Mercedes wrote:
i would not get anything other than an SSD drive on any machine that i was
looking to upgrade if the OS will be on that upgraded drive
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Dan,
Would that hold true for a laptop running Windows Vista? Win 7?
Max Dillon,
Charleston SC
On Sep 2, 2014 8:01 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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The beauty of an SSD in a laptop, besides making it blindingly
So after an hour at the apple store and various incantations and
application of Black Arts, the genii determined that the hard drive was
going bad (wait, wait, I am detecting an incipient failure in the AE-435
unit...) and the software update probably stressed it enough to pretty
much make it
Looks like a Tosh or Seagate hybrid might be the way to go
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Solid-Hybrid-2-5-Inch-ST1000LM014/dp/B00B99JUBQ/ref=pd_cp_pc_0
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149489
--R
On 9/1/14 4:23 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote:
So after an hour at
I would avoid a hybrid drive, as they have had issues.
Go with an SSD if you can deal with the lesser amount of space. It will make
the machine scream.
Dan
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On Sep 1, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Looks like a Tosh or Seagate
I wondered about that, Rick Hawkins the macman suggests a basic 1TB
Tosh, $60 from Amazon. I'll just go with that, cheap enough.
--R
On 9/1/14 6:28 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
I would avoid a hybrid drive, as they have had issues.
Go with an SSD if you can deal with the lesser
First question: What version of OSX does it have on it?
MacDan
On Aug 23, 2014, at 12:30 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
My wife had this MBP sitting around she hadn't used for like 10 months (don't
ask). Tonight I fired it up and was using it, it kept annoying
I read in more detail and saw that you think you have OSX 10.8.
If that is is the case, then you should have a recovery volume on the machine.
reboot or start up while holding the Command + R keys down. Don't let up on
it until you see some nard drive icons show up on the screen. These are
You can boot to single-user mode with Cmd-Opt-S (?), from there you
can poke around disabling things, perhaps.
Boot from a CD with C and something in the drive. That's
the start-over option. If you have an OS install CD/DVD.
Recovery disks are fairly machine-specific. I doubt an
iMac disc is
I tried almost everything and couldn't get past spinning wheels. Right
now it appears to be doing an Internet Recovery cmd-alt-R on startup
which worked to get some response, I had to plug it into the router as
it was having problems connecting over wireless. It looks like it might
be
The status bar on the internet recovery is moving slowly, with an
apparent timer that is bouncing around between 8something and now 4:58,
which I guess is hours to download 4TB or something of OS N.N
--R
On 8/23/14 9:49 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote:
I tried almost everything and
Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote:
The status bar on the internet recovery is moving slowly, with an
apparent timer that is bouncing around between 8something and now 4:58,
which I guess is hours to download 4TB or something of OS N.N
So there is something out there worse than Windows.
Mitch.
It's not the actual OS as much as all the junk attached to it.
And no, it's NOT worse than Windows. Not enough OS left it if crashes
to DO an internet restore, since it is still, so far as I can tell,
running CPM-86 down in some dark basement through a thousand layers of
interface
The recovery utility is apparently in firmware somewhere somehow and you
can wake it up with finger incantations that require something like the
gang sign flashing thing.
The problem appears to be an upgrade from OSX 10.8.4 to 10.8.5 which
apparently crashed many many machines. I think this
If she has iCloud and the Find my Mac feature turned on, don't sell it until
you can remove the feature. Otherwise her iCloud account will be forever linked
to the machine.
Check Apple's support site about how to clean it off.
Dan
On Aug 23, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I think I am going to keep it but I will take a look at that too.
I am at a screen now Mac OS X Utilities that has a choice to Reinstall
Mac OS X (new copy of Lion) which is not doing anything at the moment so
i guess I will leave it for awhile and see if it does something. It has
a Disk
After doing an Internet Recovery and that not working, then rebooting
several times to try to get to the install where it would actually see
my hard drive, I was able to do that after doing Disk Verify and Restore
a couple of times on the main HD and the recovery? drive. Tried to
install the
Unfortunately, some security upgrades can cause serious issued on
older (more than two years older than the OS) machines.
Crappy support from Apple -- they really only want you to use a device
for a year or two and buy another one, in spite of the fact that
usually their hardware is very
Now the machine has locked up with 1.90/5.32GB downloaded, looks like it
gorked when the screen sleep or whatever kicked in.
--R
On 8/23/14 4:58 PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
Unfortunately, some security upgrades can cause serious issued on
older (more than two years older than the OS)
Try again and make sure it's plugged in and set to never sleep.
I have never been able to understand why both PC and Apple computers
can go to sleep when a program is active in the foreground
Peter
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I have tried rebooting, no go. Now trying to boot into the Recovery and
Disk Utility just gives me GSOD.
This thing is buggered good. wow.
--R
On 8/23/14 5:45 PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
Try again and make sure it's plugged in and set to never sleep.
I have never been able to understand
This is why I keep a bootable disk around -- you can make a full copy
of the OS onto a DVD or external drive using Disk Utility or Carbon
Copy Cloner, and that way you can always at least boot the stinking
thing and get on line.
Do you have another Mac around and a Firewire cable? You
I managed, again, to boot into recovery mode then was able to reboot
from the recovery HD image, and it worked. I shut off the sleep and now
it is downloading 10.9 Mavericks about 2/3 there. I am hoping this
cures it. I hate their stupid names.
It is funny, when it finally came alive
When you're making that big of a jump between revs it's almost always best to
do the delta updates rather then the combo or full updates. The combo
updates are what they would be downloading to your machine from the App Store.
You have to go to the OSX support Web site for each rev and
My wife had this MBP sitting around she hadn't used for like 10 months
(don't ask). Tonight I fired it up and was using it, it kept annoying
me to do a software update, 10.8 something I think. So I did that, was
like 2GB of something. Restarted and it just freezes, gray screen,
spinning
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