Just got my MBP today!

and its been great so far, i do have a gripe about how far the screen receeds although i knew this before buying.

so i have a question about safari, i was wondering if you can set it so that when you close the browser it will save what i have loaded in my tabs like opera does, other than this problem its a great browser.

also what should i be checking? like the 1/3 of bottom screen tint problems? anything else i should be checking?

is the best way to test the yellow tint problem to get the eye dropper tool in photoshop will a big white square and just more it around to see if i get pure whie everywhere or not?

actually i just thought of another question should i calibrate my battery on its first discharge?

 

No way of doing that in Safari 2 I'm afraid. You might want to try Safari 3, but that is currently beta.

If you want to check for the tint problem, why not just set your desktop background to a white colour?

 

is it noticeable enough for that?

and just thought of another question on top of all the others, i got my MBP with the upgrade to 160gb hdd and its only showing 136gb, now i know you lose space though formatting and the OS but thats a lot of space 24gb????? any random stuff that doesnt get used i can delete to free some space?

 

is safari 3 any good/stable?

 

I've been using Safari Beta 3 since I got my MBP (about two weeks). I've also used Camino and Firefox. So far I'm liking Safari the best. Haven't had any issues and it's very fast. I don't think it can do what you were looking for though (saving what you had opened).

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=343219

read this thread to check yellowish problem...and please after you check it...can you tell us your manufacture week and lcd brand...LG/Samsung

 

The iLife suite takes up a lot of hard disk space (about 10GB if I remember correctly). If you have no need for apps such as Garageband or iMovie, you can just delete them and free up a few gigs. There is also the iWorks trial software, which you can also remove to free up additional space. You can see which folders and files are taking up your HD space by checking the calculate all folder size checkbox in View options.

 

Well you lose ~10GB because of the way the the HDD is advertised and designed, so it's really about a 149GB drive to begin with. Then 10GB for the OS and all the GarageBand loops, iMovie themes, printer drivers, extra software and trialware seems a fairly reasonable estimate.

 

I think printer drivers are the biggest hog, easily 4GB or so. I just installed the Canon ones, which were pretty tiny, but some of the other brands are really big.

I've just did a quick re-install of OSX with only the stuff I thought I wanted after playing around a bit (the apps that come with it aren't that big but they add up) and cleared around 14GB from the fresh install.

Congrats Sheldon! I think you got your MBP from the same batch that came through to Sydney on Friday that I did.

 

Congrats, sheldon! Hope you like your new MBP .

Yes, calibrate the battery on the first discharge. You know the instructions, don't you?

And as others explained, the "missing 20 GB" of hard drive space is pretty normal.

And don't forget the links!

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101

 

If you don't already notice the yellow tint thing, don't go looking for it. I wish I hadn't.

 

Lol, I can't stop looking at my screen now. Can't tell if it's yellow at the bottom or if it's just me thinking it after I read that thread. I never realized how "yellow" the entire screen was by default until I ran the color calibration. Looks great now.

 

4gb for print drivers, woah. you cleared 14gb of space by reinstalling os x with only the stuff you wanted, what did you leave out?? thats a very decent amount, i dont currently have my mbp but i will check all these things later and post when i know about yellow tint with manufacture and such.

is there inbuilt colour calibration software or was that 3rd party?

 

It'll be fairly obvious when you reinstall OSX - just clear all the trial and demo installations, don't install the extra software that you won't use, and don't install the extra themes, samples, and loops if you don't use iLife, and don't select all the printer drivers.

OSX has built-in color calibration tools, but it's fairly hard to adjust. You might check out SuperCal, which uses a much more traditional method of calibration that's a bit easier on the eyes.

 

is it easy enough to just install printer drivers as you need them, like in windows, because i'll probably only ever use my mbp with 2 or 3 printers, so having 4gb of drivers for 3 printers is a bit excessive.

really liking os x so far, there are some things that were a pain in windows that do just work in os x. very snappy as well. when i hit a snag that will be the telling point though.

thanks guys

 

My eyeballs are burning! I can't tell if its yellow or not. Everything looks whitish/yellowish, How did you calibrate it? I am going to use a product I bought from apple...

 

>< How long has it been? go get a replacement.

 

You can calibrate your screen by selecting System Prefs->Displays->Color->Calibrate

Or select a color profile on the left.

 

Not to sound rude but the best way to check for yellow tint is to use your eyes. If you have to use special tools to look for a problem that you don't see from the naked eye then your Mac doesn't have any tint problems. Don't allow negative comments from others to force you to look for problems. Sometimes you will convince yourself into thinking something is wrong just because you've read about it so much. "Oh I notice it looks sorta yellow" or "Oh I think I see whitish or yellowish" when the screen is fine.
If there are any issues with your Mac you should be able to see them without using special tools to find it. Do what's logical.

 

It's all in your head.

 

lol. Well looks good to me. Plus I would have already noticed it. However I wanted to learn how to calibrate it anyhow so that I can print consistently. However for a laptop this expensive I am going to give it a very close lookover.

 

Yellow tint issues aside, it's a good idea to recalibrate the LCD though. The default one is a bit off, and actually does tend to be a bit yellower than what the colors actually are (although it's not really noticeable until you recalibrate it the way it's supposed to be and compare the two back to back).
You can get your screen and colors to look much better just by calibrating the colors.

Again, although it's a bit dated at this point, I still recommend using SuperCal over the default Color Calibrator in OSX - easier to use.

 

How do you find that?

 

http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal/