Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Does anyone run Time Machine on a mac with more than one hdd? Need to re-configure my backups routine now that I've swapped my disc drive for an extra hdd.

Yep. I had mine working with 2 drives in my Mini and now with one in my rMBP and the external connected to it. All working fine...

Reg hard drives, 4 years old might mean yo have one of those great 13inch MBP's where the HDD was as easy to replace as RAM? Whats your model no etc.

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Cheers, I'll sleep better tonight although I really should have figured that out.

Swapped my disc drive for an extra hdd the other day. Everything's fine until i fired up skype today, apparently I don't have a camera anymore... oops

What machine did you do this on?

I really need to swap out the spinning rust on my girlfriend's mid-2011 21" iMac but it seems like such an effort.

Swapped my disc drive for an extra hdd the other day. Everything's fine until i fired up skype > today, apparently I don't have a camera anymore... oops>

I have that problem with Skype a lot. In my case it helps if I close Chrome and reopen
Skype, then the camera is back. Or reboot.

Having a wee clear out... sorry for the spam....

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Macbook pro 13", late 2011. Made a huge difference, it's not far behind the mid level 2014 MBP I had at work

Wasn't hard at all, just need to be careful with it. Took me about 20 minutes to do I think.

Anyone got a MBP for sale? Or maybe even an air?

thinking of getting Mrs Ball a Mac Air for Xmas so she doesn't constantly leave her stuff all over my desktop - 11" 128gb SSD - she only surfs and puts her photos online etc - will 4Gb core i5 be enough, or is 8gb and 256gb and i7 a must have?

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I'm in need of any old macbook. Maybe someone has one gathering dust?

@EB id get the base 13 if you can scrape i find the 11" to be annoying to even surf on

@rogan OK noted, I will see what she says cheers!

I installed an SSD into my MBP last year - Yosemite means that there's not way of running Trim on it (something to do with Kext???) - at least not having it enabled all of the time, apparently it carks at a restart if trim is enabled.

What's my options? Any point in switching it on for a while and then back off?

Looking at new 21.5" imacs. The new ones are un-upgradeable for RAM right? That being so I'd want to start with the pre-installed upgrade to 16GB which is another £160

Really want SSD as well but the 500GB one is another £400... ouch. The £256GB one is more affordable but "feels" small. Is it a viable option given that I keep all data on extrernal HDs.

Is the hybrid drive worth considering? It's cheap for a reason right?

Yeah, cant replace the ram in a 21, which for me is a deal breaker...

less than 500gb in a desktop is crazy.

Hybrid drives are actually pretty good from what I hear, they have 128GB of SSD which OS X uses cleverly. I'd go for one over an SSD as they perform well but are a decent size too and not too costly.

i have a 128gb ssd in my work laptop, everything big is in cloud/in hard drive in drawer,

i also have a 64gb sd card with music on it thats almost always plugged in

I have one of these hybrid drives. S'great. You get both the performance boost (on anything apart from huge production workflows) and the relatively cheap storage for way less.

Hmmm. Interesting. Thanks chaps.

Having a big problem with my 2012 iMac 24". I was wondering if anyone has had the same problem, and how much it cost to fix.

Basically a couple weeks ago the screen would randomly turn grey. I would have to restart and then it was fine. Recently however the problem became more acute. With it only lasting 20mins before a grey screen. The forums said to wipe the hd and upgrade to the latest OS. I did this and now all I get is that loading timer and then an auto shut down after a few minutes.

It's out if warrantee so Apple told me that I would have to pay them just to find out what was broken. Any help is greatly appreciated!

£1,369 with hybrid drive and 16GB RAM installed
*saves pennies.

did you buy it from Apple directly? If so, tell them to fix it under the UK consumers rights act which practically gives you 6 years warranty of any issues not caused by the user.

Just got new MacBook Pro for work. They even went and upgraded me to 16GB ram so I don't complain when they don't replace it for another 6 years.

R.I.P. to my old 2007 Mac Pro. It was emotional, but it was time to die, motherfucker.

The ppc mac pro under my desk here died last week. I'd mentioned it was on the way out for a while but nobody got any data off it. RIP useful artwork files.

I'm trying to liberate a Mac Pro 4.1 from work. Bang an SSD and new GPU in and it'll still be a goer. Really tough sneaking it out under a T Shirt though.