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Macbook Pro 13

September 9, 2009

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The MBP 13″ unibody arrived on 7th September. First thing I did was restoring my iTunes library and uploaded my runs to Nike+ which are both very important to me. I also transferred my iPhone app purchases from iPhone to my iTunes library as a safety measure.

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Next important thing is to install Windows 7 RC using Boot Camp such that my MBP can be used in my office environment. This is probably the most popular howto for installation of Windows 7 using Boot Camp on Mac OS. However things might have changed and software got updated along the way since I’m having OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard pre-installed on my MBP and various versions of Windows 7 and updates and have evolved. To my surprise everything worked a lot smoother than I have ever expected.

There are couple of things worth mentioning here if readers are like me having the latest hardware/software.

Referring to this Simple Help

  • Step 11: once you clicked the ‘reformat’ it didn’t start automatically I had to click ‘next’
  • There were 2 reboots and it was OK to have the installation DVD stayed in the drive after the 2nd reboot setting up of Windows and desktop then began
  • Removal of the installation DVD can be done at the very end
  • After updating the Windows 7 installation I ran setup from the OS X installation disk
  • Then I got sound and video card working

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Windows 7 RC

May 8, 2009

Now I’m playing with it. If you want better download experience use IE7 or IE8 (sorry IE6 no good). If you insist on FF like me you’ll be downloading Java download manager like below first.

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then you’ll see this

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depending on, I believe, your connection/reception speed the number of connections will vary. In the office I had 1~2 at home I had up to 4. The total download took less than 3 hours at home.

Installation took around 30 minutes depending on your hardware, don’t forget to keep record of below as you may have to install it again later.

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Mini's performance

April 27, 2009

Below is WEI for the Mac Mini

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VirtualBox

September 13, 2008

VirtualBox is a free download this is perhaps the last one that I haven’t tried.

I have just tried this using an old image of ubuntu 8.04. This forum thread is a good start. The steps I have taken is not exactly as described for example.

  1. At the end of the installation ubuntu didn’t restart itself I have to reset the guest OS from VirtualBox
  2. The VBoxAdditions didn’t come out in Vista instead I have to mount a CD image on desktop then run /media/cdrom0/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run in command line.

In general my first experience of VirtualBox is very nice, e.g.

  • getting in and out of the guess OS the mouse behaves smoothly
  • network is detected automatically during installation
  • graphic works perfectly without tweaking at commend line during startup although you may still want to adjust color depth from 16 bit to 24 bit
  • if you select a screen resolution, say 1024×768, and shrink the VirtualBox window the guess OS resolution will be adjusted dynamically (font/icon size remains unchanged) and windows open within will stay inside the OS window without having the horizontal and vertical scroll bars created due to the smaller VirtualBox window. This is a really nice feature because I just don’t like navigating using scroll bars

I gave ubuntu only 512M of RAM and I see that VirtualBox overall consumes more RAM than other applications of this kind but with less CPU usage. This is a lot better than Microsoft’s VPC I tried earlier.

I’ll also try version 2.0.2 for OS X at home tonight, VMware Fusion will have to give way.

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