Here are some quirks found in 17" macbook pro osx 10.5.2 in an upgrade
from earlier 17" powerbook. There are also some surprises on the
upside, such as amazingly faster handling of some graphics and
better software functionality, but...
1) auto brightness see-saw:
There seems a dysfunctional interaction between screen and keyboard
autobrightness which requires you to turn off screen autobright
setting. As I recall, as surroundings get darker, the screen goes to
a
blazing ultrawhite which tricks the keyboard brightness to set itself
way dark to the point you can't see. If you compensate the keyboard
brightness back up, I believe that signals the screen to get brighter
as well (or maybe I turn the screen darker, or somehow things
automatically swing from one unbearable extreme to the other). Some
of
this is inevitable, but I am saying it is out of control. BTW I hate
the harshness of white background... it seemed to be easier to warp
it
to a pre-defined more mellow color in the past.
2) sleep recovery can seem brain damaged in multiple ways:
A) If you open the cover and the cursor isn't already inside the
password box ready for you to type, you are entering the valley of
doom and should reboot. You'll probably have a crippled air****t and
can't even paste your network name (that it lost) into the "other
network" name box(although will accept typed input). All should go
back to normal after a restart.
B) The way air****t loses track of "remembered" closed network names
seems to happen intermittantly after going to sleep, which I have
posted about elsewhere.
C) The following also happened with older versions... if you put it
to
sleep under certain conditions, the darn thing will not wake up or
respond to any keyboard or powerbutton input. The "sleep" light will
go out, but screen stays dark. Possibly the computer is alive, but
the
screen refuses to increase brightness from zero. Anyway, it seems to
need pulling power and removing the battery to restart.
Not sure how to reproduce this, but try running itunes with the
screen
totally darkened. Then tweak the energy saver settings and screen
saver so it goes into various modes when you put it to sleep. Another
glitch is that I believe if the keyboard was dark at sleep time, you
cannot turn it back up to enable you to type in a password. When
working properly, all it allows is the screen brightness to be set
(upwards) to the lowest setting, so you might just barely see the
keys
in reflection.
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