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Yep. The manual gives specific instructions on upgrading both with no mention of voiding the warranty. Also, there's no warning sticker on the RAM or HDD saying not to or to have a an authorized repair technician do it. There's no mention of replacing the battery in the manual, but the sticker/label on the battery explicitly mentions not to remove it.
wunderbar: I'll give it a proper power-cycle or two and then a week to condition it a bit and get back to you.
should be exciting.
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no wifi where I am, and since I sync my contacts/calenadar with google sync OTA, I've lost them till I get home tonight. Spotlight search is awesome, there's some nice podcast enhancements, and copy paste works. There's search in the iPod app, and if feels a little snappier. Other than that I can't test too much out till I get home and have wifi.
Edit: Also, if you unplug your headphones, at least on the 1G touch with no external speaker, the volume slider disappears completely. a little disconcerting when I first loaded up 3.0 with no headphones in and started playing a song. took me a few min of panic to figure out.
I had a feeling this would happen. I think Apple is probably still shipping the new MacBook "Pro" models with old MB displays until they run out of them. Part of my reasoning behind this is the fact that every site I've read so far has mentioned it having a Hitachi HDD, and a SATA l interface, whereas the MacBook typically had Fujitsu drives and only ever had SATA ll as far as I'm aware.
My 13" MBP has both a Fujitsu(with the annoying head-parking click every minute or so), and SATA ll. I wanted to wait longer before getting one in the hopes that the remaining MB parts would get used up, but I needed a computer asap. Damn you Apple, pawning off old parts on me. Though I'm glad to have SATA ll, I doubt I'll ever use it, and I'd much rather have a nicer display.
Here's hoping the display dies and I get a new one through AppleCare.
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I'm a big fat moron. See below.
Edit: On another note, it seems to be running substantially cooler. I'll grab some temp readings performing the same tasks on the MBP and the MB.
If Apple did that, I can guarantee they'd have some fine-print stating the brand of HDD may not be exactly as advertised and that Apple reserves the right to provide an equivalent HDD of another brand.
[strike]Edit: Here's Apple's spec sheet on my model's display:
Display
* 13.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with support for millions of colors
* Supported resolutions: 1280 by 800 (native), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 640, and 800 by 500 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio stretched; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio stretched
Here's the 13" MacBook:
Display
* 13.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with support for millions of colors
* Supported resolutions: 1280 by 800 (native), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 640, and 800 by 500 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio
Virtually identical aside from some extra aspect ratio information. So I can't claim false advertising. The only claim I know of that Apple made was that the gamut was improved, which is vague, and I only heard it said at the WWDC. It's not written anywhere. So if I can prove the gamut is no better, and quote Schiller's keynote, then I might have a case.[/strike]
Edit2: On another side-note, I'm not sure if it's due to the cramped/thin design, but the USB ports are considerably harder to insert and remove devices/cables from than my old powerbook and Mac Pro at work. I noticed this with my friend's macbook, but my MBP seems to be even worse. I hope it doesn't wear out my USB key, I use that thing constantly.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Edit3: I'm a big fat moron. I calibrated my display, and maybe it was the lighting in the room or something(as calibration doesn't fix viewing angle issues), because the viewing angle seems great now. Little-to-no desaturation/gradation when I view solid black(unless looking from way below), only slight variation on solid white. So if anyone was waylaid by my impressions of the display, ignore my previous complaining.
However, I still hate that anything wider than Apple's keyboard or iPod USB cable won't fit when the other port is in use. I have to constantly unplug my keyboard & mouse in order to use my USB key. It feels incredibly stupid having 2 ports and only being able to use one at a time.
I'd trade up if they weren't trying to charge me $499 for a 3Gs even though I already have service with them.
the deal goes until early September, so it's not like there's a huge rush.
My guess would be not until the iPod refresh in September, actually. Have not heard any plans to preload iPod touch with 3.0. Will just have to wait and see.
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Even though USB is more popular by leaps and bounds, to keep upgrading it is basically one gigantic hack on top of itself. USB is also still cpu bound meaning for USB to go faster it needs faster computers. You're probably not going to see embedded devices use USB3 anytime soon. Hell, a lot of them still use USB1.
Firewire does not have this problem, and is currently still cheaper (from what I remember) to implement since Apple does not charge a royalty. They also have an extremely large firewire-based market.
The SD slot kind of gets around both, though. It's much faster to take the SD card out of my camera and put it into a SD slot on a computer to pull the files off rather than the 'easier' method of hooking up the USB cable.
I'll be in a mac induced coma I think.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=715629
Wii Code: 2238-5196-8768-3730
Final Fantasy III Code: 2793-2219-0130
Star Fox DS Code: 404-388-375-490
PM me if you add any of these.