Does anyone know what MBP Justin has? (FAO: Justin)

Sic · 6 May 2008 at 14:11

he very kindly did a test for me the other day, and Apple want to know what processor his MBP has in it so they can decide whether to tell me to deal with it myself or actually do something about it for me. If anyone knows what MBP he has, I'd be really grateful.

Thanks.

Sic · 6 May 2008 at 14:17

aHA! you've got the same one as me! They're trying to tell me that it's supposed to do that, so I pulled the "my friend sez his doesn't do it" so I have to find out which yours is.

thank you

Sic · 6 May 2008 at 14:29

they're maintaining that yours is doing it using voodoo. I might actually cry.

Sic · 7 May 2008 at 09:22

Dangerous Dave said:
There saying that a MBP isn't suppose to charge when the processor is running at 100% ? That sounds crazy to me. What happens if you want to encode a long video the battery will go flat before it finishes.

that's what I said, except the case I used was one that actually happened to me - the battery died and machine powered off whilst I was installing Windows the other day :/

On a plus side (a really big plus side, actually), they've said that if I take the box and everything back (lucky I didn't throw it away like I was going to a couple of weeks ago), they'll exchange it for the 2.5Ghz, which I'm really happy with as by their terms, they shouldn't have to do anything as what I see is an error is actually expected behaviour.

Once again, totally chuffed with Apple - they seemed like they weren't going to pull through for a while, but that was a good one!!

Sic · 7 May 2008 at 10:25

yeah, I was wondering that. Luckily, I still have the box from my laptop before this one, and the one before. What can I say, I'm a box-keeper!

Sic · 7 May 2008 at 10:29

I tried to put mine in the loft but the guy in the flat upstairs had a massive go at me.

Sic · 7 May 2008 at 13:51

EVH said:
WOAH, that's good.

I thought this was going to turn in to a "I've emailed Steve Jobs" thread

hehe, I'm not that bad! I didn't expect them to straight out trade it for a higher spec - same one I can understand, but higher spec (and their justification for it) is a little confusing. Still, not that I'm complaining!

Sic · 8 May 2008 at 06:45

nice one doug, thanks for doing that. Hopefully after tonight I'll have a laptop that charges properly too! How exciting!

Sic · 10 May 2008 at 02:10

it stemmed from my laptop not charging when both of the cores with fully loaded. The guy at AS ran a command in the terminal that whacks a core up to 100% - obviously because MBPs now operate on dual cores, drain the battery to under 90% (so that when you plug it in it will orange-light and charge), plug into mains, open 2 terminal tabs and enter the following into each:

Code:

yes > /dev/null

open activity monitor and you'll see 2 copies of the process "yes" scaling your CPU up to ~100%. By the time those processes plateau, if your laptop is still charging then you're fine. The replacement they gave me passes the test in OSX and Windows (the Windows test is just playing HL2 for 30 minutes with all the settings maxxed!)