Soldato
weird that your 2011 13 MBP struggles with one 1080p film yet my 2010 can handle 2 1080p mkvs as well as a 1080p trailer from apple trailers and a few other programs running in the background (aperture and toast)
weird that your 2011 13 MBP struggles with one 1080p film yet my 2010 can handle 2 1080p mkvs as well as a 1080p trailer from apple trailers and a few other programs running in the background (aperture and toast)
If you read the rest of the thread, the MBP was faulty and Apple switched it out for a working new one.
I note you were having hardware problems and these have been resolved with a replacement, but pardon me for interjecting with a few app suggestions:Well I just started a 1080i video converting in Turbo.264 which took the CPU to around 85% (the rest is taken care of by the gfx card), then launched not one but TWO high bitrate (13+ Mbps) 1080p rips. One was an MKV launched in VLC, the other a Subler remuxed m4v. [EDIT: Just realised one is 720p with a high bitrate, but the point stands]
The laptop is running smooth as ice - including seek, pause, play, sound, video output, expose etc. Well aside from the fans being over 6,000rpm at the moment but considering the workload I can forgive that!
Yet yesterday I couldn't even play a single stream. Intermittent probably means a dodgy RAM stick or bad HDD sectors, maybe?... Either way it seems the machine IS capable, just stalling at times. At least I can rest a little knowing it's not a crap computer (no offence but my experience had suggested it was, thus far).
c) Leave Firefox behind, the OS X port is absolutely dire. I suggest Chrome (which I now couldn't live without), but before that I used Safari religiously, despite its various quibbles, simply because it is infinitely faster and nicer to use than Firefox;
d) Check out Microsoft Office for Mac 2011; it's absolutely excellent, and a massive improvement on the previous version, 2004. Most notably, they have brought Outlook back to OS X with this version and it is superb. You'll be tossing Thunderbird out the window in no time.
Happy macintoshing
If you seriously think that this is normal then please step away from the keyboard.
Get it replaced and be happy.
Obvious troll is obvious. Oh and wrong...
Any form of MPlayer for PC? I've found something on Google but not sure if it's the same.
apple ripping people of since 1976
95% O.S
5% Hardware
on a serious note you must have been having some serious hardware problems
runs
This experience kinda proves the other major selling point for macs, which is the customer service.
Apple are really second to none for their aftersales care. For myself and my friends and family that use macs they consistently go above and beyond what I'd expect for hardware support. When you take something that has developed a minor fault back to the shop and they offer you a full cash refund, despite it being nearly a year since you bought it, it kinda instills brand loyalty. Not to mention the times they fixed things for free that are well outside of their Applecare.
Looking at this and other forums I have to say that for an expensive brand these products seem to suffer from a great deal of "minor problems". This really shouldn't be if they are as good as their hype?