macbook pro touch up paint

I know this sounds lame but does anybody make touch up paint for macbook aluminum or pros for minor scratches? also does a 7400 rpm hard drive speed up the macbook versus a 5400?

touch-up paint doesnt exist because there is no paint on them... its just aluminum. and the difference between the 2 hdd's is exponentially better. get the 7200rpm. personally i always go with the WD Scorpio Black... good price and reliable as ****. good luck

slakr7555 said:

touch-up paint doesnt exist because there is no paint on them... its just aluminum. and the difference between the 2 hdd's is exponentially better. get the 7200rpm. personally i always go with the WD Scorpio Black... good price and reliable as ****. good luck

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thanks for your info on the lid were the display is that aluminum? and is there any way to get rid of the surface scratches? thanks

The finish is actually anodized, so without stripping it, and having it reanodized, you would prob be best to live with it or take the chance on using a silver car touch up pen, if you can match the colour well enough.
As for the HD, a faster HD will make boot time slightly faster, speed up read write time slightly, and application loading slightly faster.
Nothing really significant, compared to an SSD or a Flash drive like that in the Macbook Air though.

get the 7200rpm.... its worth it

you guy are great over the last month i have been visiting this sight i think i learned more about mac then i did the whole ten years i owned my g4 imac now i have a late 2008 macbook aluminum i just upgraded the ram to 4gb now i want to do the HD i have a 160 now but i think i want to go to a 500gb or more if i can i do not know the size limit but the macbook identifier says 5,1 i would love to go with the ssd drive but there just to expensive so i would probably go with the largest capacity 7200 rpm HD does anybody know the most i can go on this model? thanks jim

Pretty much any SATA 9.5mm high and 2.5" Wide drive will fit in a MB/MBP. I believe 750GB is the largest capacity to date.

now should i go 500 0r 750 that is the next discion does capacity help with speed?

jimshady said:

now should i go 500 0r 750 that is the next discion does capacity help with speed?

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RPM determines speed.

CrimsonRequiem said:

RPM determines speed.

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...but, the more contiguous free space you have the better the performance

touche salesman

jimshady said:

now should i go 500 0r 750 that is the next discion does capacity help with speed?

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CrimsonRequiem said:

RPM determines speed.

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Along with the areal density of the platters in the drive. This has been one of the biggest driving forces in the increased speed of standard hard drives.

Not going to be specifically technical here, but if you have one platter that only holds 50 GB of data and another that holds 250GB of data - both rotating at the same speed, in theory, the 250GB platter would be able to access 5 times more data in the same period of time vs the 50GB platter.

This is the reason some of the larger capacity 5400 drives come close to keeping up with their smaller capacity 7200 rpm drives.

ok i went with the hitatachi 7200 rpm 500gb hard drive and already put it in i used a data transfer divice you get from owc the one you can use your old hard drive as an external back up the question is when i turn it on the screen seems to stay white a little longer then i would think it normally would before the apple logo and pin wheel shows up after that it starts up nicely and runs good and fast is the white screen normal on these laptops to last a little while its probably between 30 seaconds and 1 minute what do you think is it ok? thanks jim

Start by going to disk utility and repairing disk permissions, and then reboot.

Now, how did you do the data transfer?

Did you start by do erasing the new HD, and formatting it as mac os extended (journaled) (GUID partition table)?
Did you use CCC or SuperDuper?
Did you restore from time machine?
Did you do a fresh install and then restore from time machine when prompted?
Did you finish the install and then use migration assistant to transfer the data?

these are the specs from profiler

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MB51.007D.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.32f8
Serial Number (system): W8902M091AQ
Hardware UUID: 31861EAF-49A4-5E6D-822F-C1F4312A2A9D
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

NVidia MCP79 AHCI:

Vendor: NVidia
Product: MCP79 AHCI
Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.20 Supported

Hitachi HTS725050A9A364:

Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model: Hitachi HTS725050A9A364
Revision: PC4OC70E
Serial Number: 101213PCK410VLKZGUNJ
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Rotational Rate: 7200
Medium Type: Rotational
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable: Yes
BSD Name: disk0s1
jims hd:
Capacity: 499.76 GB (499,763,888,128 bytes)
Available: 479.04 GB (479,038,988,288 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /

Me, whenever I get a new HD, even it is formatted for OS X out of the box, I still format it using disk utility.

-Boot from the install disc holding C while booting until you see the spinning gear.
-Select language and click continue.
-Select utilities>disk utility in the menu bar (this takes a few seconds to appear).
-Select the HD at the top of the list on the left.
-Click erase tab.
-Format Mac Os Extended (Journaled).
-Name Macintosh HD.
-Click erase.
-Quit disk utility menu, and continue with installation, and when prompted, restore from time machine Backup.

You can skip the restore from time machine backup, and finish the installation, and after you are up and running, reboot and see how long it takes to boot.
If all is well (which it should be), then go to Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant and restore your system from there.

ok i will try that thanks i will let you know what happens

ok I did as you said and I ended up having to manually intall each disk but it was well worth it. This thing starts up nicely and runs fast. now as a good mac addict i think i need to sell this and get the new 13" mbp with the i5 is funny the apple store caimed last fall the i3 processor was to big for the 13.3 " mbp that why i did not buy it well thanks again for your help this computer is running perfect and now i am not happy because now i want the new one. is there a 12 step program for mac addicts?

jimshady said:

... now i am not happy because now i want the new one. is there a 12 step program for mac addicts?

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none that don't take money ;D