There's no getting around it, so we'll just say right at the outset: HP's new ENVY 13 and 15 laptops might've been built on the " Voodoo ENVY legacy," but they sure look a lot like Apple's unibody MacBook Pros . Of course, there's much more than meets the eye. The ENVY 13 is a bit of a mix between a traditional 13-incher and a real thin and light, weighing in at 3.74 pounds and packing in Radeon HD 4330 discrete graphics, but still forgoing an internal disc drive. The 13.1-inch WXGA displa
Shortcut Key And Hidden Command On My MacBook Pro 17″ UnibodyI’ve been using a PC for almost 10 years and it’s my first time to owned and use a Macbook Pro. I’m still struggling on how to use it’s shortcut keys and some hidden commands within it. It is also hard to use the track pad if you’re not familiar with the command like right click, opening an image or url in a new tab, etc. Here is what I’ve learned so far. Lis of keyboard shortcuts:Command-A Select all items in the front Finder window (
Installing Vista 64bit on my original MacBook Pro took quite a bit of work and a bit of hacking. Thankfully, on my new Unibody 13inch MacBook Pro’s it is drop dead simple. Here is what I did: 1. Setup a BootCamp partition and install Windows 7 64bit. Unlike Windows Vista, there is no need to hack the ISO’s you can download from MSDN. Just burn it to a DVD with ImgBurn and you are good to go. 2. Install the BootCamp Drivers. Unlike my experience on my original MBP, there wa
Peter Oppenheimer and Tim Cook hosted Apple’s third-quarter fiscal 2009 conference call , the “best non-holiday quarter ever” for revenue, and the second-best quarter for Mac sales. For investors, if you didn’t suffer through the conference call, transcripts will appear sooner or later, but within the dry financial data there were few interesting facts for consumers. I counted three. Slapping the “Pro” moniker on the 13″ unibody MacBook was a brilliant idea. While no figures were releas
Last month I commented that Apple’s substitution of Secure Digital Card (SD) slots for ExpressCard slots in the 15″ MacBook Pro made considerably good sense. It would be nice to have both, but the ExpressCard support wasn’t being heavily used, according to Apple, while SD was growing more popular. The 13″ MacBook Pro also gets an SD slot where the preceding unibody MacBook was slotless, so it’s pure value-added there. However, as I learn more about the Secure Digital format, both what’s alre
The website LaptopMag published a test of the new MacBook Pro 15" Unibody when running Mac OS X but also Windows. Results of the battery life evaluation in this test are particularly impressive. They could surf on the web using wireless Wi-Fi connection for over 8 hours under mac OS X, a rather amazing performance level for a 15" MBP. If we were not convincing about this in-built battery technology when it was introduced with the MacBook Pro 17", current performance level indicate that
Some tips from my experience migrating from a MacBook Pro (Penryn 2.4) to the new "unibody" MBP 15-inch. When migrating your data from one Mac to another there are three methods. Migration Assistant Apple's Migration Assistant software pictured is by far the easiest method to migrate...
Last week’s 9400M upgrade of the $999 portable has been widely praised because it pairs best of class integrated graphics performance with the FireWire. Big deal? Well, Apple’s latest unibody MacBooks do not include an IEEE 1394 port, a connection standard that matters greatly to independent musicians, filmmakers...