Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Wouldn't hack a laptop, no chance, but even with a hackintosh tower I'd be looking at more monies in total

@ExTra This!

Ebay could be an option? And someone has already done the hard work for you....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mac-Pro-i7-4GHz-Hackintosh-16GB-Ram-120GB-SSD-1TB-SSHD-Gaming-Mobo-Custom-/321853983529?hash=item4aeffe0b29
This will hack very easily I think...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Small-Form-Factor-Gaming-PC-i3-4130-GTX-650Ti-8gb-RAM-SSD/151798467877?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33052%26meid%3D4c7538a3f3b645f3a3da595c3c6a7f8e%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D321853983529

MBA folks, are you MBAs hinges quite loose compare to a MBP?? Just got a brand new unit last friday, 1st thing I noted is the hinges are on the loose side... not loose enough to cause any concern I don't think, but just wonder if it's normal for this line.

I hackintoshed a Dell Mini 10v. It took a lot of buggering about but it was quite a nice and useful little thing when it worked, but

1. I reached a point where I could not upgrade the OS.
   
2. It was never perfect - sleep and wake were a problem. The odd screen res was too. Sound was flaky. Sometimes it would just kernel panic. The trackpad was shite.
   
3. One day it just made a nasty screechy noise and died.
   
   

It is just easier to buy a Mac. And things like the retina screens, excellent keyboards and trackpads and general toughness of the things make it worth the extra.

Talking of macs, I'm buying an iMac off a friend and want to give her a fair price.
What would you expect to pay for a base spec Mid 2011 iMac 21.5-inch, 2.4GHz, with 4GB RAM and the standard 500 GB hard drive?

If it helps, I sold a same year model top specs (i7, 8Gb ram etc) MBP 15in for 450, so I would pay around about 350 - 380 for this iMac.

Cool. Agreed £350 :-)

Does anyone know how to easily disable/enable Airplay ?

When my laptop connects to wifi at home, it causes the amp to auto-change to airplay. You cannot change the amp to anything else for about 5 minutes (it will auto-change again). This only recently started happening, did not happen on my previous MBP.

As you can imagine it's fucking annoying as I rarely want my amp on airplay

All I can think of now is when (not if) will I get a new iPhone, the paper than stands between my andriod phone and a giant hamer is getting thinner by the min...

On a side note, current predicted grey market price for an iPhone in HK is just under £2k... Yes, Chinese people are shit mad.

quick query, I have a lovely two cinema monitor setup going with my mac pro.
Every so often one of the monitors goes black, it happened to me last night. One monitor goes in via a full size DVI connection, the other goes in via an adaptor to mini dvi.
Both monitors work through the dvi connector, when swapped over as I always think when it happens that the black one has gone up in smoke.
Resetting the PRAM does nothing, and it only came back when I took out the usb connectors for both monitors, restarted and then plugged them back in, both monitors came back.
If anyone has had something similar happen, or has an idea about why one monitor when working normally goes dark, it would be appreciated...

Every single morning I come into the office, wake my Mac mini from sleep and one of the monitors in my (non-Apple) dual screen setup is not recognised.

Sometimes putting the machine to sleep and then waking it again resolves the issues, sometimes a full reboot is required, very occasionally I have to unplug and re-plug the cables along with a reboot. It's never the same monitor nor the same port, I've tried different cables and that didn't change anything.

Try different cables/DVI adaptors first.
Swap the power bricks over maybe? They go bad quite a lot.
How old are the monitors?

WiFi issue on Yosemite still not resolved .. 'WiFi Hardware not installed'

bummer, I rarely put my machine to sleep, so probably why it doesn't happen so often, seems to happen every four/five months, this one was surprising as it was working and then bit of a glitch and it went black...
If it happened every morning I'd think I'd go mad...

monitors are a couple of years old, though got them both second hand.
Irritating thing is that as mentioned both monitors work when plugged into the full size DVI connector, it's just the one that is plugged into the mini DVI adaptor that falls over.
But now it's come back it's a case of is the adaptor fucked, or the connector on the machine, and if it is why is the monitor now working? confused..

It's a standard Apple glitch IME, it's happened on and off on every external monitor I've had...

Ahh, are they the thunderbolt monitors? In which case - yeah, they're odd. I've got one at home and it has all sorts of temperamental things, from not switching on through to not letting the USB work.

I haven't found a shortcut but settings->sound is how you disable it on the laptop. My AV amp detects when something wants to airplay and connects accordingly, I don't think it can force it from the source.

I know nothing of hackintoshing, is it like when you wanted to install Linux on a laptop and had to wrap sound and network drivers etc to get stuff to work?

The less I use a computer outside of work, the less inclined I am to work that bit harder for a potentially better solution. Having been on android for about 15 months I am thinking of going back to iOS when my contract is done. I think maybe the only reason I went off iOS was because I had a 2 1/2 year old iphone 4

A Hackintosh is a pc running OS X. You have to pick your parts carefully, but at the end of the day since OS X went x86 they are just normal PC parts. You can build far more powerful set ups for less money. More hassle, less pretty, but more power and cheaper.
Giving one a go, will see if its worth it.

Thoughts on the new products, guys??

Apple has successfully, once again, created a half decent laptop with a touch screen called iPad Pro, yay!!! It looks really pricey though...

http://www.apple.com/uk/ipad/

thanks! It seems to have stopped flicking back and forth like an adhd prone child.
lets hope it stays like that :)

As much as I swore I wouldn't, the new iPhone 6s looks very nice.

I think they've brought the iPhone on quite considerably with the force touch.
The watch 2 software, who cares?
The Apple TV is almost beginning to look like a useful product. In a year, when the prices come down it might be worth a punt.
the iPad pro? Not sure. The form factor is the issue - do I want a big screen in a tablet? Crucially, will it weigh a lot. I find the iPad 2 to be that little bit too heavy to be handheld for too long. A larger one is going to be heavier and have a worse balance point. They know this which is why it now has a keyboard copied from a surface pro, and the stylus Steve Jobs always rejected. This paints it as a desk-bound device to me, and the Macbook does that better.