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Two hard disks in the Apple MacBook Pro up to 2TB of internal storage

November 16th, 2010

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Storage galore: Apple notebooks with two internal hard drives.

Compared with stationary computers, notebooks have the disadvantage that due to the small notebook hard drive only limited space is available. A laptop battery hard drive stores, not least due to the much smaller size, less data than a larger hard drive for stationary systems and is also slower. While hard drives for desktop PCs with pre capacities to 2,000 GB are available, could notebook hard drives store until recently, only a maximum of 500 GB of data. But the small drives are catching up slowly: In recent months, the hard disk manufacturers now have models with 750 GB and even 1,000 GB capacity brought to market.

Although a lot of notebook hard drives with 750 or 1,000 GB capacity on the market now arrived and are available, can the Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops battery continue to configure only up to 500 GB. This gap would like Oldenburg’s Apple Specialist, offering close macXperts all Apple notebooks with hard drives up to 1 TB (1,000 GB) capacity. The devices can be configured according to individual needs – on offer are also special Solid State Drives from Intel. be used of course also the new disk with 4KB sectors allow for extremely fast data access.

For the large memory hungry: Apple notebooks with two hard drives

If an internal hard drive with 1000 GB capacity is insufficient, the Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro can also be equipped with optional two hard drives. In this case, the internal DVD burner, the SuperDrive replaced by a mounting frame OptiBay of MCE, the one more SATA port is for a second internal hard drive available. Since the internal optical drive is not often used too often on the road, should represent instead the use of an external optical drive for most users there is no major problem. Currently, hard disk capacity up to 1.000 GB available, so that the total capacity increase of the internal hard drives in Apple laptop battery up to a whopping 2,000 GB. The second hard drive can be configured as usual in the disk utility from Apple and can be used both as a single drive as well as part of a RAID array. The remaining SuperDrive is returned to the buyer as an external Slimline Drive with USB 2.0 port.

Existing Apple notebook operate with two hard drives

The OptiBay mounting frame provides the company MCAA especially in the American market for years, so it is available not only for the new Apple notebooks with unibody enclosure, but also for older MacBook Pro 15 inch battery and even PowerBook G4 battery. The mounting frame of the Oldenburg Mac mail order, in combination with SATA hard drives of 500 GB or 1,000 GB of capacity – with Solid State Drive offers are to follow soon. macXperts notes, however, that the installation should be done by an Apple technician and provides an appropriate conversion service, also called the nearest Apple Service Provider, in which the installation is possible on site.

Simple solution for Apple users with lots of storage needs

With the mounting frame OptiBay the company MCAA Oldenburg’s Apple specialist at macxperts.de/2hd offers an interesting solution to extend the internal memory of an Apple laptop battery or significantly increase the speed dss notebooks by a solid state drive. Complete with prices starting from 200 euros worth in many cases, upgrading older laptops from Apple.

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Apple Has Improved MBP Battery Life in last update

July 9th, 2010

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UPDATE: We’ve tried to understand the new Apple MacBook Pro battery life ratings compared to older models. It is difficult to quantify generational differences because Apple is being tested with a benchmark battery more difficult, while improving the efficiency of new machines via Penryn chips and LED backlighting. Is it a wash, then? Not really. We have just received the comparative figures from previous generations of computers and current Apple. They read as follows: MacBook and MacBook Pro have life 30-45 minutes longer than the previous generation using the same Wireless Web test. With LED backlighting, the numbers jump to one hour.

Note that the laptop LCD screen is not standard 17-inch LED-backlit, so it is not expressed in these forecasts. Finally, Apple is the most difficult test before being, as we saw in the air, the battery or put me in these machines will probably be even less. (The battery claims of previous generations were much higher because the old test was basically typing in a text editor with Wi-Fi off, which obviously inflated previous estimate of battery life beyond reason.)

Previously (and damped)

I just talked to Apple and find out why the numbers are lower new test, when in reality and real life all these models are higher. It has to do with their testing methodology. Instead of making the laptop battery life as the longest of three tests (a test DVD playback, a test of standard Wi-Fi usage and web browsing, and a trial is the absolute power saving mode does just text editing), Apple just reported half test, which approximates average usage much better than the other two. Previously, they had a number for the unlikely scenario that you want to be editing a text document while not connected to the Internet. If you ran the same tests on the three models, the newer laptops that actually rate higher than before, says Apple. Jason Chen -

Before this (and repaid):

The battery life of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro 17″ battery has dropped dramatically in the new revision. After having been the interpreter of the battery of 5.75 hours, the 2.6GHz MacBook Pro 17″ dropped to 4.5 hours. There are several explanations, but none of them can explain the change because the numbers do not add up:

The first is Apple’s new life “wireless productivity battery. According to Apple, this measure of autonomy in the use of Wi-Fi standard Web browser pages, in collaboration with the mail and other Internet-related applications. It seems that if Apple is now much more cautious and rigorous in their testing of MacBook Pro 13 Battery performance. But what can explain the decrease does not seem as simple as that.

The MacBook Pro 15 battery life , for example, remains unchanged throughout the CPU speed even with the control method of the new battery. Apple sources indicate that the use of LED screen backlighting saves about 30 minutes of battery life. But is that enough to offset the decline against the battery life of the MacBook Pro 17 “

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