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    MacBook Pro problem with installing from recovery.

    Hi, okay so my dad got my uncle a MacBook Pro a few years ago. Uncle got a new one from work and decided to send the old one back to us. It was laying around for a while and I decided to use it since I recently got a front-end developing job and pretty much all of our designers use Apple and...
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    New to Apple, OS install struggles

    Hi, I picked up a mid-2010 MBP from a pawn shop recently, and it's kicking my behind. I bought it with all of the previous owners data on it, but the drive was encrypted. I guess they didn't get the password from the guy who pawned it. Probably why I got it so cheap. I'm new to Mac, but pretty...
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    OS Install Won't Complete

    MacBook Pro 5.5 mid 2009 - Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz Experienced a recent hard drive (SSD) crash. Physically replaced the existing SSD with a new one after the genius bar diagnosed a bad hard drive. After I installed the new SSD, I ran all diagnostics from the Snow Leopard disc and everything...