After wasting my time to fix blackout bug of NVIDIA driver on MacBook Pro Mid 2010 model, I decided to purchase the latest 15inch (MD322J/A) with Core i7, AMD Radeon HD6770M 1GB GDDR5 and high resolution option (1680x1050).

Tech Spec of Mid 2010 with Core i7 is still fine, but it doesn't work fine on MacOSX 10.7 because of unsupported NVIDIA driver.

Now, totally fine with new MBP.
Quad core processor will speed up my work.

I had been annoyed with blackout freeze bug of MBP 15-inch Mid2010 on MacOSX 10.7 for about a month.

Apple finally released bug fix update (MacBook Pro Video Update).

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But, after patched this updates, still blackouts occurred. I quit trying to fix this, and bought late 2011 model.

I broke the hard drive and IrDA cable of my MacBook Pro model A1260 (Core2Duo 2.5GHz) by accident when I tried to replace its hard drive. And I asked Apple support center how much it would cost. They said it would be about 150,000 yen if it was broken by accident or fixing by yourself. I gave it up and was thinking selling it out in auction site.

After several months, I found the site selling small parts of MacBook Pro, "PowerbookMedic", and I orderd the cable for only about 6,000 yen including shipping fee. I could save 140,000yen.

Do not pay ridiculous fee to Apple Support if you broke your Mac by yourself.

I have been thinking of replacing my Mac nini servers and waiting for release of appropriate spec for unifying two Mac mini servers.

MC270J/A, mid 10 model of Mac mini can install 8GB RAM. And you can easily access memory slots by just sliding the back panel.

Most remarkable point for me is it combined power unit inside of the case. You will not be annoyed with disgusted cable and square.

I found my iPad by "Find My iPhone" of iOS 4.2.1. (not iPhone on the leftside image though)

I tried to register my Apple ID which I regiesterd before, but registration program rejected like already existed address. It was so inconvenient that I had to create another Apple ID only for me.com.

I installed iOS4.2 GM Seed for iPad. It required iTunes 10.1, so I had to install beta 2 from dev seed.

I was wondering if it prevented JBed devices, but there is not any trouble. iPad can have the benefit of background function from this version (iPhone has already got since 4.0 though)

Apple released Magic Trackpad which I had wanted for 10 years.

Now I use only MacBook Pro for all purpose except server, so I am very familiar with trackpad. I discarded mouse 10 years ago, and today I discard Kensington Expert Mouse.

I love this simple and seamless design with Wireless Keyboard.

I bought Adobe CS5 Web Premium and installed it on my MBP today.

Thanks for the genuine 64bit engine, Photoshop CS5 was apparently improved and runs faster than CS4. Also Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash Pro, and Media Encoder got faster on every processing.

About Dreamweaver which I expected the most new improvements, I could not feel much speed in this version. I guess this release is not major upgrade version but only bug fixed version.

I replaced hard disk drive of my MacBook Pro which I use for Traktor with 500GB HGST drive.

Every time I tear down this MBP (not unibody), lots of screws annoy me so much. I refered to iFixit, and replaced the internal hard drive with new one. It has enough space to store original audio data for mixing songs (I guess about 10,000 songs in wave format). I know there was a choice for more storage. 500GB is reasonable price at this time. And I like HGST (HITACHI brand), it's quiet and much reliable.

My MacBook Pro upgraded MacOSX to version 10.6 code named "Snow Leopard" today.

I could feel some few good updated/fixed elements and disappointments.

I posted Snow Leopard report on Techlog.