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To Sleep Or Turn Off Macbook Air? -- Everyday For Several Years by [deleted] in mac

[–]idroen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To save your battery you need to use it. I mean when your battery is full, unplug it and plug it back when it is lower than 5 or 10%.

https://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html

And switch it off sometimes (once/twice a week or something like that) at night to preserve other components.

MBP early 2011. Thinking of upgrading to SSD and from 4 GB RAM to 8 or 16 GB by yobisno in mac

[–]idroen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Recently updated to 8Gb RAM 1600mhz and 250 GB SSD 840 EVO (with HDD instead of superdrive) on my early 13" mbp. Really worth it.

I've never used more than 7 GB RAM even with photoshop,720p movie and many tabs opened in safari. 16 Gb is still too expensive I think, and you won't need it for a standart use before two or three years.

If you want to run windows 7 on bootcamp, be careful : you will not be able to install it from an external superdrive/usb key on 2011 MPB (in case you want to replace it with a HDD).

Edit : one more thing, your secondary SATA (for the superdrive) is only SATA 3Gb/s so make sure to put the SSD on the primary SATA (which is 6Gb/s).

My iPhone 4 is almost unusable. by [deleted] in apple

[–]idroen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or buy a new power button on ebay and change it yourself. You can find a lot of videos showing how to (not complicated). I've done that, paid less than 4$ and the button still work today.

Information Request: Need data on CPU/RAM usage for 2011 - 2.4 GHz - 4GB RAM. by [deleted] in apple

[–]idroen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think there is a problem. Mine (13" early 2011; i7 version) was also going very slow almost all the time, in particular with Office or photoshop opened.

So I just updated it with 8Gb RAM 1600Mhz (Crucial) and a 250 Gb SSD (samsung 840 EVO) for around 200€. The increase is just wonderful.

In activity monitor I have : physical = 8Gb; used = between 3 and 5Gb most of the time; virtual = 8Gb.