NoteBook

keys and put them back in after trying to find the reason for the fault. Is this on a notebook or a desktop keyboard? ...

y be true, but today I found the webpage on apple's site to check up on the repair status of your machine and I found out the official count of how many times my notebook got booked in for repair. My notebook has been booked in 6 times and 4 out of 6 had repair work done on it. ...

I've had a pretty bad time with the technical support provided to me in the apple store when my notebook broke down. And I want to find out what other people think of their service. ...

Well, video takes a lot more process then most things. Whether that is normal or not depends on what kind of computer/notebook you have. Also, what kind of file are you playing? for example: AVI, MPG, MP4....

If you max the RAM out and work with Universal Binaries as software, the MBP should actually be quite a bit faster. Then again, newer software tends to still use more RAM per se, so even the maximum 3 GB might be strangling your work with the scans. Notebook harddrives _are_ slower than their desktop counterparts. The rpm-number is only half the story. But you can of course...

I've found that when I leave my notebooks monitor open and let it go to sleep by simply not touching anything, I can't pull my notebook out of sleep mode unless I close the monitor and open it again. Moving the mouse or hitting an endless amount of keys on the keyboard won't get it to wake up. ...

I found that the iSight in my notebook is really fuzzy in lower light conditions. Can you post a picture taken by your iSight? ...

My MPB has a trackpad and that is what I am using

After rereading your intial post, it says that you initially were using an external trackball. Are you still using that mouse? Since your on a trip, I'm going to gather that you have a notebook. What if you use the notebooks mouse, does that freeze?

I'm not exactly sure I completly understand. So just after I turn the notebook on, I push and hold the option button, and boot off of the external drive. Does it then use the external drive for virtual memory? ...