TMUP88: The MacBook Heat is on!
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July 25th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Listening to your show now. The other issue some people have run into (including myself) w/ the MacBook and MacBook Pro’s is that some people when shutting down their MBs are closing the LCD screen before the computer is completely shutdown. This seems to cause the laptop to go into some kind of limbo, not quite off and not asleep. This can cause the laptop to overheat when in a computer bag.
The other side of this problem is when you go to use your MB again it will not turn back (and many time the battery is drained). You need to pop the battery out to get the computer to shut down, reinsert the battery, and plug in your MB.
Hope this helps someone out.
-Steve
July 27th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
I understand from the directions how to create that clone of your hard drive. However, I do not understand what the difference is exactly between that comprehensive option and just dragging your “home” folder to an external HD to back up data. That was the question asked by the first caller and I do not know if that was discussed.
What would be the pro and cons of both options?
1) Would the home folder back up all data and if something happened to the internal HD you would get new one from factory and then just drop your home folder back in after you reinstalled the OS from the restore disks?
2)How would al clone be that much of an advantage? Maybe i do not need a back up program if I just rememeber to copy my home folder once a week or so.
3) If you make a full clone version can you access data on it as easily as you could with accessing your “home “folder from a back up drive. Now I can mount my back up copy of my home folder on my external and drag whatever file i may want to get back. Easy. If I did the full clone is it that easy to access it by mounting it or do you have to boot up in that drive?
This is home user stuff for me not businsess so I am looking for easy not perfect i guess.
Can someone educate me on these options?
Thanks ,
Wayne
July 28th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Wayne here is my opinion on your comments and questions
I understand from the directions how to create that clone of your hard drive. However, I do not understand what the difference is exactly between that comprehensive option and just dragging your “home” folder to an external HD to back up data. That was the question asked by the first caller and I do not know if that was discussed.
Yes if you had backed up your home folder then yes it’s perfectly acceptable to just drop in your home folder that you backed up into your newly formated and OS loaded drive. That works just fine.
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What would be the pro and cons of both options?
1) Would the home folder back up all data and if something happened to the internal HD you would get new one from factory and then just drop your home folder back in after you reinstalled the OS from the restore disks?
Surely it’s the easiest and cleanest option since you have the new OS on and by simply dragging your hme folder you will get back all your applications, documents, music, pictures, movies etc.
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2)How would al clone be that much of an advantage? Maybe i do not need a back up program if I just rememeber to copy my home folder once a week or so.
It’s really personal preference. Your option one is just as good if you can wait for the HD to come etc. However if you can repari the original disk by reformatting it as OS X extended journaled, then the procedure I used works well cause then you just restore and you are back where you were. I think it’s really personal preference. dropping your home folder once a week would work fine and you can do that in so much less space, using your dot mac account or even back up services like mozy.
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3) If you make a full clone version can you access data on it as easily as you could with accessing your “home “folder from a back up drive. Now I can mount my back up copy of my home folder on my external and drag whatever file i may want to get back. Easy. If I did the full clone is it that easy to access it by mounting it or do you have to boot up in that drive?
You can do it either way you can just load up the new os, then mount the back up, then you can explore it like any other drive , drag etc. The only reason I did it the way I did it was if you had a dead drive and needed to get to data while your new drive arrived etc. It’s like running a mac from an external drive.
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This is home user stuff for me not businsess so I am looking for easy not perfect i guess.
What you are suggesting is easy and will work for sure, what I did also works with the luxury that if I wanted to carry my Mac Pro’s Hard Drive with me and plug it into any other mac I could run my system (mostly ) from another intel mac.
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Can someone educate me on these options?
Hope that helped
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Thanks ,
Wayne
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Victor Cajiao
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:50 am
Hi Victor, I just wanted to say that your podcast on resetting the lidwake variable
on my Macbook has resulted (so far) in a total cure of its overheating problem. I wish I’d known of this fix earlier as I took the first Macbook back to the shop I bought it from, got another, had the same problem, did a clean install, still had the same problem and was beginning to depair until I tried your fix.
So. many thanks!
Simon
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 am
Really great to hear that Simon. Always good when we help each other out.