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Old 06-17-2012, 04:53 PM
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i'm pretty sure there are Windows drivers for pretty much all Mac hardware now. so i don't think you'll have any issues.
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Old 06-18-2012, 03:20 PM
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Considering all Mac hardware is fairly standardized Intel-based platforms, I don't think the drivers are a problem.

All of the rumors and reports I've seen thus far point to new iMacs and Mac Pros (the workstations) in 2013. Haven't seen specifically when in 2013, though.

Keep in mind with Windows under Bootcamp that you're running one or the other at a time. I believe people have documented how to set it up so that you can access your Windows file system from the booted OS X system if you set things up correctly, too, in case you feel you might need that.
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Old 06-18-2012, 03:47 PM
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I totally bailed on this idea. Ha. What a difference a day makes.
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Old 06-19-2012, 09:10 AM
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My Macbook Pro wouldn't start up. It would turn on, but then the screen would go light blue, then white. I used my iPhone to see what was up, I started back up in Safe Mode. That worked. Then I read about zapping my Vram or whatever it's called, when you turn on with option+command+p+r. Now it seems fine again. I repaired all disk permissions just in case.
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Old 06-20-2012, 11:02 AM
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You have Windows installed?
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^ Hehe. It seems fine now. It was weird for a while. Since I bought it, it would sometimes take a long ass time to boot up, to the point I hard rebooted it sometimes, and others, because I had to talk to people as soon as I got in, I'd just let it keep booting up and it took a long ass time. Not sure what happened, if Macmall sold me a returned computer they "fixed" or what.
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Old 06-21-2012, 01:22 AM
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^ If you go to utilities> disk utility.app you can check the condition of your drive. When my iMac was getting wonky, it was here that I was able to find out there was problems with my drive and had to be replaced. It said in red text "imminent drive failure, backup data and replace drive" or something.
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Old 06-21-2012, 05:40 AM
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Could be your RAM too.
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Old 06-21-2012, 08:53 PM
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^ If you go to utilities> disk utility.app you can check the condition of your drive. When my iMac was getting wonky, it was here that I was able to find out there was problems with my drive and had to be replaced. It said in red text "imminent drive failure, backup data and replace drive" or something.
Yeah, that's what fixed it. I checked the disk and repaired disk permissions.

How can I find out if it's the RAM, Premium?
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Old 06-22-2012, 06:02 AM
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If it keeps happening replace the RAM. If that fixes it, it was the RAM.
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Old 06-25-2012, 02:48 PM
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i guess this means Apple will start making it's own security software, and charge a premium price of course.
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Old 06-25-2012, 08:47 PM
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didn't the macs get hacked at those annual hack challenges?
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Old 06-28-2012, 10:42 AM
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Just picked up my friends old 15.4" MBP. he hardly ever used it.
2.2ghz i7 quad core, 4Gb ram, 750gb Memory running Lion.
introduced 2/2011

Any recommendations I should do to it? I was thinking of getting more ram maxing it out to 8GB.
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Old 06-28-2012, 12:10 PM
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Definitely do the RAM upgrade. If you don't need that much HDD space, consider swapping out that 750GB HDD with an SSD?
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