Suggested to a friend that he replace the HDD in his 13-in MacBook Pro, 2009 vintage with an SSD. He did that a week ago, boot-up time dropped from 3 minutes to 1-½.
On Wedsesday he said it must have been doing some sort of indexing as it was now booting up in 50 seconds. I asked him to bring it to the Men’s Shed the next day.
So yesterday (Thursday) I ran DiskWarrior on it. I’ve just received an email from him saying he’s getting DiskWarrior himself as it now boots in just 25 seconds.
@streakmachine My first foray into the Intel Mac world was a 2007 2 GHz Mac Mini with 2 GB of RAM & a 120 GB HD. This was replaced by a 2009 13-in MacBook Pro.
// @gtwilson
A small tub of super-thick double cream (56% butterfat) has revealled a secret to it by me stirring it vigourously with a spoon.
It collapsed down into about half its volume & went from stiff & very thick to reasonably thick yet fairly runny, much more usable.
Found an Apple News article released 9 hours ago with the headline: Laptops That Last. Opening it revealed an article originally published in June 2011. Amongst other laptops it mentioned the 2 GHz quad-core i7 MacBook Pro in 15-inch configuration.
I had one of those. It didn’t last as long as I’d hoped, failing in August 2017, 6-½ years after its release.
Very curious why they published such an old article passing it iff as new.
Wankers.
Whilst recreating a missing DiskWarrior USB recovery drive for the 2008 MacBook Pro I observed with surprise that the Mac’s system was 10.11.6 but the Recovery partition was stuck back on 10.11.2. Such things are supposed to upgrade as each point update is applied.
I needed to fix this issue & did so by downloading a fresh 10.11 installer.
Running that had two beneficial effects: it reset the Recovery partition to match the rest of the System files & increased the amount of free space on the SSD from 145 GB to 160 GB. The 6.22 GB installer by this stage had been moved to another external drive so that wasn’t a factor.
Discovery Of The Week! The Apple Dictionary app as supplied on all Macs is a full-blown Wikipedia browser.
This has been available since April 2005 when Tiger (macOS 10.4) was released.
@hazardwarning I think you’ll find @streakmachine is a pretty dab hand at turning out bread at home.
Me, I have a bread machine I’ve not used for two years. Yesterday I bought a loaf of extremely tasty oat bread, no wheat content at all.
A relatively moist bread but not heavy or dense. Requires refrigeration for best life.
// @JeremyCherfas @indigo
Delivery expected tomorrow of an interesting LED torch. Here’s what’s in the package:
ThorFire TG06S Led Flashlight; 3.7v 750mAh 14500 button top battery; Single slot battery charger; USB charge cable; Spare O-rings & a user manual.
The 14500 battery is a Lithium AA-sized battery & needs a special charger, which is included. With the 14500 fitted it puts out 500 lumens. It will also run on a conventioal 1.5 v AA cell, at 150 lumens.
