12-19-2006, 05:00 PM

Ok i LOVE this machine i dont think i will ever go back to PC

HOWEVER... i do have some issues concerns (albeit very minor) with it, maybe some of u can help me


1.) the microphone....


.i think it distorts my voice or something. i have heard my voice many many times, through voice mail...thru phone , on film (im a working actor/singer) , my voice has alwyas soiunded consistent..... but when i hear my voice back from the macbookpro i was VERY shocked bcause i sounded totally different...it sounds slower or something? just "different" alot different. any one else hav this same experiience?

i heard that u can get a USB microphone for 50 bucks or something...is the macbooks built in microphone not good enough or something?


2.) the flash on the photobooth!!

argh anyway to turn this off?

3.) less memory than what i paid for

pardon my computer illiteracy but why did i pay for 120gb memory and i only have 111 capacity??? did u guys lose 10 gb as well??


4.) things on the screen way too small!!!!!

LAST but not least..my computer right now is at 1440x900 (the highest resolution setting) the clarity is great, but everything on the screen is sooo small at this setting...its so straining for my eyes to read the macbook pro..

if i set it on 1280x800 , yes things do become bigger but much clarity is lost, the bigger u make things the blurrrier it gets

any way around this? its like iwhats the point of making things bigger if they look so blurry?

if i want things clear, they look too small, if i want things bigger they look too blurry..i dont remember having this problem with my pc

i dont understand how they can make items on the dock look bigger without saking clarity but making everything on the screen bigger would cause it to look more blurry?

12-19-2006, 05:06 PM

Well i know about the hard drive and thats because when you format a 120 gig hard drive you lose a few gigs of space.

12-19-2006, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by imacmatt09

Well i know about the hard drive and thats because when you format a 120 gig hard drive you lose a few gigs of space.

well i bought 120gb

the capacity bcame 111

and i havnt even used it yet and i only have 90 gb left , does the mac osx take up 20gb??

so basicaly i paid for 120 and got 90



anyway this doesnt bug me if evryone else has the same "problem"


my other 3 points bug me more

12-19-2006, 05:11 PM

ok well i did a google search on the photobooth "flash" and you cant turn it off at least from what i found. maybe in a new update you can.

12-19-2006, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by imacmatt09

ok well i did a google search on the photobooth "flash" and you cant turn it off at least from what i found. maybe in a new update you can.

hmm ok....do u know anything about the display setting options?

what kind of machine do u hav ...i have the 15 inch mbpro , 2.33ghz intel core, 2gb memory, 120gb harddrive (tehcnicaly only got 90 tho)

12-19-2006, 05:20 PM

i have a 17 inch imac and i can view eveything well. the only thing you could is turn on zoom. it is in system prefs>universal access and turn on zoom but thats all i know...

12-19-2006, 05:21 PM

MacNewbie I pretty much have the same machine and haven't had these types of problems! the memory I'm pretty sure I did but it did not phase me at all as you never get the full memory because of formating etc... Furthermore, why would you want to turn the flash off it gives you a more quality picture!... and as far as the resolution I am on the same setting and haven't had a problem with seeing anything... My icons on my desktop like the HD and iDisk are set at 44x44 for icon size and the settings for the dock are to be magnified when your cursor goes across an application...

12-19-2006, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by imacmatt09

ok well i did a google search on the photobooth "flash" and you cant turn it off at least from what i found. maybe in a new update you can.

Originally Posted by imacmatt09

i have a 17 inch imac and i can view eveything well. the only thing you could is turn on zoom. it is in system prefs>universal access and turn on zoom but thats all i know...

ok how the heck do i use the zoom feature lol...the zoom feature isnt permanent right? meaning u hav to zoom in EACH time u want to see something biggger?

12-19-2006, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by hotskate

MacNewbie I pretty much have the same machine and haven't had these types of problems! the memory I'm pretty sure I did but it did not phase me at all as you never get the full memory because of formating etc... Furthermore, why would you want to turn the flash off it gives you a more quality picture!... and as far as the resolution I am on the same setting and haven't had a problem with seeing anything... My icons on my desktop like the HD and iDisk are set at 44x44 for icon size and the settings for the dock are to be magnified when your cursor goes across an application...

becuse sometimes in certain orange warm lighting the flash makes the pic look blue which i do not want..


as far as the resolution...u say u can read it just fine...but is the text appearing on your screen pretty small???

i can separately adjust the text size on safari thru preferences...but the only thing it makes bigger is the pre-written text on website...like as im typing to u..it doesnt make that text look bigger or whenim searching for something on google...the things im typing dont change in size even by chanigng safari font settings..

12-19-2006, 05:41 PM

hmmm i might just have really good eyes i never even thought about this!

12-19-2006, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by MacNewbie

1.) the microphone....

Go to System Preferences-> Sound -> Input
Play with the options there to see if you can get it working more to your liking.

I turned the input volume up on mine a little bit, and with "ambient noise reduction" mine sounds reasonably good.

3.) less memory than what i paid for

pardon my computer illiteracy but why did i pay for 120gb memory and i only have 111 capacity??? did u guys lose 10 gb as well??

That's hard drive capacity, not memory.

120gb is the size of the drive before it's been formatted. Formatting takes up space. OS X, the software installed, fonts, etc. all take up space. Most people getting the MBP with 120G drive report around 95Gb available when the system arrives.

Do a search, there are ways to recover much of the used space (though you'll never be able to avoid the cost of formatting and the OS).

4.) things on the screen way too small!!!!!

...

if i want things clear, they look too small, if i want things bigger they look too blurry..i dont remember having this problem with my pc

Notebook screens have true native resolutions; everything else is interpolated. So when you run at native resolution (1440x900) you get maximum clarity. Anything else and you'll get a certain amount of grainy look because some pixels are trying to be less than one whole pixel, if that makes sense.

I've had 1280, 1440, and 1920 resolution 15.4" widescreen notebooks and for me, the 1440x900 is the best balance. The Mac OS's great readable fonts and the easy control of font size in Safari (compared to MSIE, which rarely worked properly) contributes to that bias, though.

You can change icon and font sizes pretty easily. For windows, ctrl+click and choose Show View Options. In most applications it's pretty easy to set the zoom so that the window and its contents appear the way you want. In Safari, changing text size on pages you're viewing is as simple as hitting the large A in the tool bar.

12-20-2006, 04:27 AM

Originally Posted by ToddG

Go to System Preferences-> Sound -> Input
Play with the options there to see if you can get it working more to your liking.

I turned the input volume up on mine a little bit, and with "ambient noise reduction" mine sounds reasonably good.




That's hard drive capacity, not memory.

120gb is the size of the drive before it's been formatted. Formatting takes up space. OS X, the software installed, fonts, etc. all take up space. Most people getting the MBP with 120G drive report around 95Gb available when the system arrives.

Do a search, there are ways to recover much of the used space (though you'll never be able to avoid the cost of formatting and the OS).




Notebook screens have true native resolutions; everything else is interpolated. So when you run at native resolution (1440x900) you get maximum clarity. Anything else and you'll get a certain amount of grainy look because some pixels are trying to be less than one whole pixel, if that makes sense.

I've had 1280, 1440, and 1920 resolution 15.4" widescreen notebooks and for me, the 1440x900 is the best balance. The Mac OS's great readable fonts and the easy control of font size in Safari (compared to MSIE, which rarely worked properly) contributes to that bias, though.

You can change icon and font sizes pretty easily. For windows, ctrl+click and choose Show View Options. In most applications it's pretty easy to set the zoom so that the window and its contents appear the way you want. In Safari, changing text size on pages you're viewing is as simple as hitting the large A in the tool bar.

todd thanks so much for ur very informtive reply ...

i think as far as sound goes..maybe its something with my speakers..
im getting a very muffled sound....
any thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hrGYeBidY&eurl=

if i watch this video, the news reporters voice the music is somewhat clear however when Britney Spears is talking it sounds quite muffled/weird/distorted

it does not sound like this when i play it on my PC...

12-20-2006, 04:28 AM

it seems a little muffled on mine as well! dont go crazy

12-20-2006, 04:31 AM

Originally Posted by hotskate

it seems a little muffled on mine as well! dont go crazy

hmmim just wondering why Britney Spear's voice on the video doesnt sound muffled on my PC

12-20-2006, 04:34 AM

hmmm in that case I'm concerned now lol