Recent content by mindlessLump

I have a late 2009 unibody style Macbook. Currently, I'm running Mountain Lion. I don't use it for much besides light MS Office use (2011 for Mac), iLife and surfing the web. I recently had an "invalid node structure error" so I'm thinking of upgrading to a 7200rpm HD. Either way, it has a...

Thanks for the lead on the Dell Outlet. Great prices.

Just to put my situation into perspective, I am moving to a farm in Central America, where I will have no need for my Macbook Pro, which is also too flashy for the area if i were to ever use it in public. I am looking at getting a cheap laptop for my wife and I to use. I'm looking at the current...

Thanks for the suggestion Childs. Late last night I managed to come up with a fix. 1. Boot from Snow Leopard install disk 2. Format external usb hard drive using disk utility into two partitions (GUID) 3. Install Snow Leopard on smaller partition (about 10 gigs) 4. Boot from usb hard drive...

When trying to create a bootable image on my usb drive using disk utility on the Snow Leopard install disk, I get an error reading "Unable to create "Macintosh HD.dmg." (Input/output error)" or .cdr depending on whether I select Read/Write or Master CD/DVD. I have formatted the external...

How do I go about copying the contents through disk utility? Via a disk image?

I've posted this on macrumors, but I'm not sure how technically inclined the forum is, so I thought I'd post here as well. The other day while I was out of town, the 2009 white unibody macbook my wife uses wouldn't boot. It just stays on the gray apple screen with the "loading circle". There...

ShepardsPie, I would definitely go with the Asus u47vc. I like where HP is going, and they have some good computers in theory, but from what I have seen first hand, the build quality has suffered. I'm talking about having to replace motherboards and other hardware failures. Now my dv6t has...