This is a long story on why I have done this. I wanted to repaste the i5 on this machine but in March I cracked it open and realized that I don't have a proper screw set. Since this is my third time gotten into this machine which was Friday May 2nd and tried to do the right thing but no. I ended up breaking the left speaker socket on the logic board. Then I had to unscrew the MagSafe and the thing that suppose to hold the mic in place so I did that. I had gotten into the CPU and repasted it with some Arctic Sliver 5 but ended up stripping the screws on there.
Then like I was trying to put the left speaker back on the logic board by using a glue stick and a blow dryer to stick it back in. Then I screwed in the rest and I have my MacBook back in working shape. But then I heard something in the machine and it's one of those screws for the fan so I figured out that I would stick it in. But no, the MacBook continues to strip itself even more and when I put it back. The machine refuses to charge the battery and realizing if it's charging it. Surprisingly some of screws that are supposed to hold the logic board together came of, same with the MagSafe and the fan.
At least at this time, I have learn my lesson to never mess with a laptop unless you read guides to do the right thing. BTW, many of you folks that are reading this blog may know Ryan Gehret as formally know as "Dell0304", I'm sending this machine to him since he told me that he could solve the screws and then send it back to me whatever he's done with it. He didn't charge me anything but paid the shipping to him but my parents paid for it.
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Well I have been planning and discussing about my build in FB Groups but I had made a lot of decisions on what parts that I should get and how it can be compatible with it. Wednesday I had uploaded a video of me picking out my PC parts and how it can be but after that I had made a few changes. I had talked to some of the tech guys in a Facebook group on which is on perfection while fixing technology, I had did some mistakes from the past but what you just got to do is to learn to do it better and then you’re cool and possibly golden. Couple weeks after had gotten my Late 2011 MacBook Pro that I had lost one of the cover screws while trying to repaste it. Since those screws are so small that I lost it on carpet so I had ordered a set of screws to replace that screw. Also I had realized that I don't have the proper screwdriver or compressed air to do it so screw that. Now notice that not everyone is perfect and I had some of the people that I know that did things wrong. Many of you that are reading this blog may know Tyler5310, he had delid his Intel Core i7-3770k and he had broken it, there’s also another guy that I know did the same thing with his Intel Core i5. Ryan (Dell0304) did some mistakes too that I had noticed that recently he had stripped screws on his Retina MacBook Pro on which he shouldn't have done. I know what I he had done before that though, he forgot to buy a hard drive while he was building a mITX build for a client. Even he accidentally stabbed the socket on his motherboard that he had used for his main build while parting it out for saving for his rMBP. Also I know that he had worked on carpet before and he didn't have any problems at all, this is before he had gotten wooden flooring. XP, you will be missed!!! You were one of my best operating systems that I had used as my main but not only that, the graphics got me interested on this when I took my first look at it ever. I had used it in VMs and as a main from late 2003 to mid 2009, then I upgraded to Vista but I would have made that big jump to 7. This OS has reached (EOL) end of life or end of service today as of Tuesday, April 8, 2014 and due to the lack of updates on all editions of XP will be viruses, malware, and even spyware on which this OS will be vulnerable to. This OS got me into technology more than Windows 98 would have. 12 years after, every single support such as service packs, updates, and deadlines are ever thrown in this once popular OS just receive a fatal blow. 2001-2014 #RIPXP So yesterday I had experienced something with one of Lightning cables for my iPhone 5. I saw a hole on the cable while going to charge up my phone during school. At least it still works and sync/charges up my iPhone very well. The thing is with Apple cables, they can be broken easily if you don't take care of them properly. My friend Ethan from some tech groups on Facebook said that I should go and get a Cable Yo-Yo, I will get that when I get a boom stand for my Blue Snowball microphone due to since it is a add-on item on Amazon. I'm thinking of doing the same thing with my MacBook Pro because I heard those MagSafe chargers can break easily and I don't want to spend over $90 on a new one. With my iPad would be okay since I don't travel out of the house with that thing. On the picture below, last night from when I posted this blog. I had taped up my Lightning cable with duct tape on which some people would be wondering. I know this is ghetto but since I had bought my 2011 MBP, I don't have to worry myself since I have two working Lightning cables. I don't have the money to get a new one since I had already said that in the last sentence, I'm saving that remaining money now. I always have to bring my portable charger with me all the time since it isn't have a Lightning cable equipped even a 30-pin. It has a microUSB and Regular USB so it could be easier to have a Android phone.
As far I could say to avoid any more problems like this then I should invest on something that I could do my cable management on the go better. I have been forced to delete bunch of stuff for a few times now just for some updates for my iDevices.
While I was updating from iOS 6 that I had to delete a bunch of apps, since a few updates that I never get this problem. This time recently this is for 7.0.6, this updates requires 13MB but it needs almost 800MB just to update my iPhone. After that it will just say the same space I may have before the update. So this really doesn't make any sense on why does it need more space while you going to update. I had to delete my whole entire music library due to this recent update. After I updated I have gained around 1.2GB on which now I have about 2.2GB (I had over 800MB before). At least now I have more space for the apps I need now and having a music library these days doesn't matter since I do use Spotify and iTunes Radio these days. Apple, these updates doesn't require more space for these updates and I have my hopes for that 7.1 update that I have been waiting for. So few weeks ago I having issues with our replacement modem/router from Comcast. From WiFi to port forwarding, just what to expect about these as using them as routers. They will just fail all the time even at a certain amount of time it the WiFi will just quit and the modem part will still work. We use to reset this thing like every 2 weeks but now these days it happens like everyday now, it's really unacceptable. The Ethernet part works too as I have it connected to my main desktop all the time but another is that it also corrupts our phone line too. Before we upgraded to this service that we use to use a Motorola modem along with our own TRENDnet router and that works just fine than this piece of ARRIS crap. We rarely have issues with that system. This really reminds me back in early 2006 that we have issues with our Netgear router which was our first router, it will just quit a certain amount of time and to reset it that we have to unplug the router for 1 minute. Since this is the second router I'm complaining in this blog but as explained before that we have this one that the same exact that does the same thing, one time the guy replaced it. It was reliable after he replaced it and then it becomes having the same problems. We're going to Comcast to get that replaced along with some TV boxes since we're planning on switching to basic. All as far as I hope that the third replacement works good. Now another issues here is it doesn't let me to leave my port forwarding all the time just for one Minecraft server I'm trying to run, with Comcast it should be free to port forward and they shouldn't care either. How irony is this? How can you let your customers just access your router settings and then reset them when they reset your boxes all the time, even just allow them to port forward? We're paying $70/m for the service, not the bullcrap that the router gives. It will just disable every single setting I have modified in these routers back to default, now that ridiculous. Well I'm finding a solution to find that TRENDnet router and once I find it then I will figure out on how to make the internet work with it without the phone lines acting up. I could use the ARRIS thing just as a modem instead and disable the WiFi option. Well I hope it works that way. That's all for this blog so I hope that I can find another way to make our internet reliable. I'm buying a MacBook Pro just to see if I like OS X, just to be honest I'm a Windows person for many years and never have the opportunity to own a Mac. I would hate to hackintosh it, I want to use OS X legitimately. I've been using Mac in school all my life and I like the OS.
Still I'm building my gaming PC in June as a matter of fact. Also have I never tried out any version of Linux before but I would run it in a Virtual machine just for a try. Like with mobile I would do the same thing, now I have a iPhone now and I'm thinking of buying a S4 or Note 3 and a Lumia to see if I like these two modern mobile platforms besides iOS. I had a LG Optimus GT540 and it was a Android phone running 2.1 Eclair, the fact is that if you own a Android phone for years realizing you can't update. That phone couldn't hold so many apps due to the internal memory inside the phone. I'm not biased and I want to be multiplatforn. So one month ago, Google puts the force of changing the atmosphere on the way we communicate on our videos on this popular site called YouTube, so in order to communicate back in the day and all as you need is your YouTube account for everything other than just watching videos. This thing turns off everything for the content creators even I rarely use Google+. Okay, since I had made a lot of desk adjustments last month that I was planning to have a big change on my setup. That's the week before I was going on vacation to Jamaica so I bought it when the time I was coming back in December from there and the monitor is the same one as mention in my setup a lot, ASUS VE248H. The things I do is that sometimes I want to multitask such as writing a blog on which I'm doing now and have my Facebook on the right. I could do many things such as with this kind of screen estate such as having YouTube on the left and Facebook on the right and more and also have my Skype window up as I game with my friends or brother which is so cool. Easy as pie! When I was on vacation I was using my 14" Dell Latitude E6420 so comparing to this is that you don't need a 27" monitor setup or anything that fancy, two monitors will solve the problem here. Since I have a very dedicated GPU (EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB) solves the problem with dual DVI so my second monitor doesn't need to connect to VGA. Like before I have these monitors. I was using a 19" I-INC which was a 1400x900 and I couldn't compare this to that, the colors are a little bit identical but once getting use to it's okay, also I would compare that my 17" HP Pavilion G7 has a good 1600x900 display back in the time. Many times I would use that laptop for that second display and this is why I would want this thing to happen especially if I didn't have to room to do it. I know on the pictures is that my Snowball is in the middle of the second monitor but I was considering getting myself a boom so that I could see that monitor fine but other than that they're expensive like $100 for one from ROBE on Amazon. This was awesome worthy upgrade to my computer setup and couldn't say on how would anyone put another one on a small desk, I don't really need a new straight desk or a L-shape. This is totally amazing! My desktop screenshot at 3840x1080.
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