Category: MacBook Pro
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macOS: my MacBook had its colours “inversed” / mangled all of a sudden
Accidentally I got one of the shortcuts wrong, and my MacBook’s colours were all mangled. This is how I got that issue fixed: System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Invert colours
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Apple MacBook Pro 2009 17″ – new battery, new screws – and the MacBook and its touchpad work properly again
https://www.cyberport.de/apple-und-zubehoer/apple-zubehoer/zubehoer-mac/akkus/lmp/pdp/1b17-00a/lmp-batterie-macbook-pro-17-alu-unibody-early-2009-mid-2010.html – comes with a one-year-guarantee https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00Y3KT0P4/ https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01HXA02FM The old battery (505 cycles, manufacturer: DP) had swelled considerably and had disrupted normal operation of the touchpad for years. Now I can work on the new battery (manufacture: LMP) for at least of couple of hours; I can unplug the MacBook at least overnight; I can…
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upgrading my MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009) from El Capitan to High Sierra fails
https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/upgrading-from-el-capitan-to-high-sierra-wont-download/ Attempting “FREE UPGRADE” on OS X El Capitain leads to: We could not complete your purchase. This version of macOS 10.13.6 cannot be installed on this computer. Attempting to Download macOS Sierra leads to: We could not complete your purchase. This version of macOS 10.12.6 cannot be installed on this computer.
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the spec for my future MacBook Pro/Retina
I would still love to have a 17″ display, but apparently they don’t want to resp. cannot offer this (for the time being). Of course I would love to have as much RAM as possible (esp. for running my Windows and the opensuse GUI virtual machines), but apparently the difference between 8 and 16 GB…
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learning from others – a temporary home-worker’s experience
I really enjoyed working with my design profession mate yesterday. He brought his MacBook with him, and I also learned from him, what the MacBook substitute for the scroll-wheel is: a two-finger wiping over the touchpad.
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my Mac now connects through my UMTS USB modem
I have been using my “XS Stick W12” from 4g-systems.com for almost a year on my EeePC running WinXP and also on my FRITZ!Box 7270. Now I can also make use of it on my Mac Book Pro. Splendid. Looks like 4g-systems.com now sell their current model (XS Stick W14) w/o branding and SIM-lock for…
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my Mac now prints on the colour laser printer attached to the FRITZ!Box router
The Samsung CLP-315 gets accessed via “HP JetDirect”. Yesterday I wasn’t able to set it up as network printer and let it find the driver on Samsung’s CD. Today I let Samsung’s printer installation routine set up a local printer (which isn’t actually installed), but at least the driver got installed somewhere on OS X,…