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From: Sak Wathanasin on 14 May 2010 05:57 Got my MBP from the client who selling off a bunch they got in ofr a training course. It's 2nd hand, of course, but apart from a thumb print on the screen, it was in vgc with original packaging, manuals, disks etc. First thing I did was to swap in the 320 GB disk from my white MB - it's not as easy to pull the disk in the MBP, but not that difficult either. Remove 10 screws, take off the bottom cover, and the disk & mem slots are exposed. Beware that the mounting lugs on the MPB require a no 9 torx, but those on the MB need a no 6 torx. Grrrh! Put everything back together, boot up and everything comes up, with most of my prefs the way I had set on the MB. I expected things like the volume & display and other h/w-specific settings to be different, but there were a couple of surprises: the software update setting reverted to its default as did the screen-saver setting. You'd have thought these would be pure software settings that come from the system that you booted. Anyway, to the niggle: when I put the MPB to sleep by closing the cover, then later on re-awakening the MPB, the screen comes up either at full brightness or at min brightness, not at the brightness that I'd set. A little experimentation showed that this was related to the "automatically adjust brightness" setting. Is this a "feature" or is my ambient light sensor bust? Oh, a pleasant surprise is that the MPB's headphone socket responds to the controls on the Apple (and 3rd party) phones. iTunes at least is able to respond to pause/play/skip forward just as with the iPhone. The volume controls on the Apple earphones might even work (don't have one to try).
From: Chris Ridd on 14 May 2010 06:23 On 2010-05-14 10:57:13 +0100, Sak Wathanasin said: > Oh, a pleasant surprise is that the MPB's headphone socket responds to > the controls on the Apple (and 3rd party) phones. iTunes at least is > able to respond to pause/play/skip forward just as with the iPhone. > The volume controls on the Apple earphones might even work (don't have > one to try). They've done that since the early 2008 models, IIRC. -- Chris
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 May 2010 06:40 On Fri, 14 May 2010 02:57:13 -0700 (PDT), Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > >Anyway, to the niggle: when I put the MPB to sleep by closing the >cover, then later on re-awakening the MPB, the screen comes up either >at full brightness or at min brightness, not at the brightness that >I'd set. A little experimentation showed that this was related to the >"automatically adjust brightness" setting. Is this a "feature" or is >my ambient light sensor bust? My MBP 13" doesn't do that wrong. You can test the light sensor by setting screen to brightish and popping your thumb over it. If that fades the screen then this niggle is more likely to be a software settings cockup, I'd say. Apropos which, I've never worked out where the screen prefs actually live - they're not in my Preferences as far as I can tell. Cheers - Jaimie -- Happiness, n.: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
From: Sak Wathanasin on 14 May 2010 07:31 On 14 May, 11:40, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 02:57:13 -0700 (PDT), Sak Wathanasin > > <s...(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > You can test the light sensor by setting screen to brightish and > popping your thumb over it. If that fades the screen then this niggle > is more likely to be a software settings cockup, I'd say. Good thinking, Batman! Well, that worked, so the sensor is working. I'm getting a 500 GB drive sometime, so maybe I'll install the OS from scratch when I put that in.
From: Jim on 14 May 2010 07:36
On 2010-05-14, Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > >> You can test the light sensor by setting screen to brightish and >> popping your thumb over it. If that fades the screen then this niggle >> is more likely to be a software settings cockup, I'd say. > > Good thinking, Batman! Well, that worked, so the sensor is working. > I'm getting a 500 GB drive sometime, so maybe I'll install the OS from > scratch when I put that in. In the interim you might try applying the 10.6.3 combo update. Probably won't work but got to be worth a try, I'd have thought. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash. |