Sunday, March 05, 2006

Thoughts on the MacBook Pro

  • The optical drive is very fussy about the cleanliness of CDs. This is only a problem if you have such arcane habits as buying second hand CDs or you don't treat each CD you touch as if it's unique, rather than one from a run of a thousand, or ten thousand, or more. The five-year-old PowerBook (with CD/DVDROM) that this particular MBP replaces is happy to read such CDs.
  • The power supply connector's magnet is on the body of the machine, not the plug. So putting the PSU down on a pile of iron filings shouldn't be a problem, but don't do the same with the machine itself if the PSU isn't connected. And don't go using the machine's power socket to search for iron filings either.

Posted by Ben Weiner at 1:46 PM [Permanent link]

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8:20 AM | Blogger Ben Weiner said:
I have just had the first staple caught in the magnetic power adapter socket. It came out quite easily when coerced with a sharp pointy thing. Intriguingly the connector still worked despite being not all the way in to the socket.

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