As I previously reported early MacBook Pro’s shipped beginning with serial numbers beginning with W860. We’ve also determined that Apple changed the logic board to “Revision D” beginning with MacBooks starting with a W8612 serial number. The following is an approximate time line of MacBook Pro serial numbers: – W8607 – Manufactured: Feb 12-18 – […]
Month: April 2006
DO NOT install the Mac OS 10.4.6 update or the 1.0.0 Firmware update (For the MacBook Pro) on your machine until the dust settles a bit. I got swept up in all the excitement yesterday about Apple’s release of Boot Camp, an official dual boot environment for Intel Macs. To use Boot Camp you must […]
The Apple Core: Apple vs. Me
Would you ever want to be on the business end of legal action from a company with US$9 billion in cash? What about being targeted for deletion by one of most powerful multi-national corporations in the world? What if a company with US$14 billion in revenue and 14,000 employees wanted a piece of your ass? […]
Vista on a MacBook Pro
Marc Orchant has posted a picture on his ZDNet Office Evolution blog of a MacBook getting ready to install Windows Vista. we decided to see if we could boot the latest Vista installer on a Bootcamp-equipped Macbook Pro. As you can see, it appears to start up with no issues. We did not actually install […]
Apple has released a public beta of a product they’re calling Boot Camp that will let you dual boot an Intel-based Mac into Windows XP. According to the public beta Web site “Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy (of Windows)… […]