Thoughts on my 13 inch MacBook Pro
I have had my 13 inch MacBook Pro about a month now and here are some of my thoughts on it
Overall it’s great and I love it. The performance is so much better than the PowerBook and about the same as my hackintosh on the cpu front but graphics is so much faster on the MacBook Pro. (I was using a hacked version of the GMA x3100 driver that would not enable core image or quartz extreme)
Sound Issues:
The volume of the speakers does not go low enough. This issue my hackintosh had in Windows but not Mac. There is too big of a jump between the notches using the volume buttons on the keyboard. Also, in some games enabling hardware 3D sound causes it to die, often to come back temporarily when quitting the game. This would sometimes require a reboot to fix. Simply disabling hardware 3D in the sound options would fix the issue.
I admire your fight in the Macrumors forum asking about the Macbook keyboard pinouts, and I condemn the people who have barked at you to talk you out of it
Are you still working on the Macbook keyboard + USB project?
There is no such keyboard on sale so I gotta put it together myself..
I’ll work on that tomorrow.. My first attempt will include taking the USB bus on the logic board out and trying to connect that to a USB jack.. This guy has done it by the way..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FueCMR-3G8Q
Could you email me by any chance?
No, and I do not have a plastic MacBook to do it with yet.