Retina MacBook Pro

Could this be considered a review? Possibly, but it’s more of observation than anything. I’ll say this first, yes I like Apple products as they seem to make the best products around. That being said, let’s dive into what the “Retina MacBook Pro” actually is. It’s been almost two weeks since it was announced at WWDC, but is it actually worth getting or buying? Unfortunately, the rMBP wasn’t available in stores the same day as Apple announced it, or even a few days after. But I did get a chance to see one in stores a week after. Does the “retina” display have what it takes to be worth the purchase? Let’s find out:

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Starting over

Well, it seems that moving to WordPress 2.9 requires a MySQL database that’s 4.1 or higher, and my host, 1and1 only supports 4.0 for their 4.x databases. So how can you go to 4.x to 5.x? Simple, backup your database, create a new one (5.x) and re-import your old data. Sounds easy right? Not at all. I backed up my data, both with PHPmyadmin, and WordPress backup, but it seems that PHPmyadmin wouldn’t take the backed up database into the new database. So now I get to start over! Awesome. I’ll see if I can’t copy and paste some of my better posts so I’m not missing that. Just a word of advice, don’t use 1and1 as your web host.

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