Posts Tagged ‘apple’

Macbook Pro External Display

March 14th, 2010

I own a macbook for 2 years now and only a few months ago I needed to connect my Macbook to an external display “only”, meaning that I want to close the laptop lid and work on a huge external display with an external keyboard and mouse to save the screen and to enjoy everything in a one big screen (I love dual-head too but I hate it when one screen is much bigger that the other).

So, for quite sometime I thought that this is not possible, but it turned out to be possible and pretty easy to do.

Now to the important part ;)

You MUST connect all of the following things first;

  • MagSafe.
  • External Display
  • USB Mouse and USB Keyboard

then close the lid, you will get the system sleeping as you usually do, then click on the mouse and the system will fire up again and shining on the external display :)

It’s a trivial trick but it took me quite sometime to discover and I tested it only on Macbook pro and snow leopard, however, it should still work on any other macbook I suppose.

MacBook Review

April 19th, 2008

it’s now four days since I got my new MacBook “white” after more than 2 months reading and searching to get convinced enough to do that move, and pew I did it :)

Let’s start with the hardware specifications, it has 13.3″ widescreen with (LED backlight technology) this extra-awesome hyper saturated colors. (I read a few articles about LED backlighting and it differs from the old CCFL screens, you can read more about that here http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/06/macbook-pro-backlight-comparison-led-vs-ccfl/ ). And it has an Intel 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo processor with 4 megabytes L3 cache, 160GB 5400RPM SATA (low-noise) disk, 2.27kg weight, 5 hours-long battery and Airport Wireless card that supports 802.11n technology with awesome reception accuracy and iSight camera.

It’s a whole new world for me, so expect the next few posts will be about it.

The most astonishing thing for now is the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 64bit, AWESOME operating system, and I can really understand now why apple always said that it’s the most advanced operating system in the world, they are right, it’s. :) it’s a very well designed for a great user experience and you’ll see many snapshots in the next few posts and well. it has more than 300 new features over the previous version “Tiger 10.4″ and the main thing you’ll notice about mac is that it’s a REAL FAST.

The great news is that most of the well known and famous applications I needed are available for mac, like microsoft office and it’s open source clone open office, adobe creative suite 3, yahoo messenger, MSN messenger and iChat works as an awesome jabber chat client.

I don’t have much time now, but the first thing I’m so happy about is that I chose The white model. That’s because the surface is very finger-print catching and can be easily scratched, but happily the white color hides most of it.

Here is a photo I took using the iSight camera with background replacement effect :)

My Captured using Integrated iSight Camera

edit: added some screenshots