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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: macbookpro</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/macbookpro.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-11-06T14:44:22+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Multitouch on Unibody MacBooks</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/6/multitouch/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-11-06T14:44:22+00:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T14:44:22+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/6/multitouch/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://lericson.blogg.se/code/2009/november/multitouch-on-unibody-macbooks.html"&gt;Multitouch on Unibody MacBooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
FingerMgt is a lovely little app that illustrates quite how sensitive the touchpad on modern MacBooks is —it can track up to 11 touch points and measure pressure as well as location.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apple"&gt;apple&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macbook"&gt;macbook&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macbookpro"&gt;macbookpro&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/multitouch"&gt;multitouch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="apple"/><category term="macbook"/><category term="macbookpro"/><category term="multitouch"/></entry><entry><title>The State of Solid State Hard Drives</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/14/coding/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-10-14T13:03:07+00:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T13:03:07+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/14/coding/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html"&gt;The State of Solid State Hard Drives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
From Jeff Atwood’s report it sounds like the price/performance ratio for SSD hard drives has got to a point where switching is the most cost effective way of improving a personal machine’s performance. Anyone know what’s involved in putting one of these things in a MacBook Pro?


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/harddrives"&gt;harddrives&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jeff-atwood"&gt;jeff-atwood&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macbookpro"&gt;macbookpro&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance"&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ssd"&gt;ssd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="harddrives"/><category term="jeff-atwood"/><category term="macbookpro"/><category term="performance"/><category term="ssd"/></entry><entry><title>Battery Statistics</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/27/battery/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-07-27T11:05:26+00:00</published><updated>2008-07-27T11:05:26+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/27/battery/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://vafer.org/blog/20080727104255"&gt;Battery Statistics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Run “ioreg -w0 -l | grep Capacity” on a MacBook or MacBook Pro to find out the DesignCapacity (original) and MaxCapacity (current) of your laptop’s battery.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/battery"&gt;battery&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/capacity"&gt;capacity&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/corstencurdt"&gt;corstencurdt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macbook"&gt;macbook&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macbookpro"&gt;macbookpro&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/power"&gt;power&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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