Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

512 is plenty actually. Anyone who needs more than that usually has a mass storage solution taken care of. Ignore my previous post.

Yeah, video files are too big to go on an internal drive (last shoot I got 20 mins of footage per 256GB CFast2 card) and stills are shot straight to the internal drive but offloaded after editing so only a few jobs of 30-40Gb will be on there at any one time.

Have I misunderstood? How are you gonna upgrade the GPU/CPU further down the road?

Edit: Ignore me, read your post properly this time... 🙃

Sorry, I mean upgrading at purchase. No chance after that!

Tim Cook says new desktops are coming

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/19/apples-tim-cook-assures-employees-that-it-is-committed-to-the-mac-and-that-great-desktops-are-coming/

If you're VAT registered you'll get the VAT back anyway, instant 20℅ back in your pocket... Go big would be my advice...

Only if you're VAT registered on regular scheme. If on the flat rate scheme, purchase needs to be capital goods exceeding 2000.

Which in retrospect won't be the slightest issue for this generation MacBook pro :P

Which is why I didn't bother going into those details... 🤑

My MBP came in at £2,050 in Feb 2012... Profit...

Blimey, my Mac will be five years old in a couple of months... Wouldn't have dreamt of keeping a machine for that long a few years back, used to replace them every couple of years...

Not possible as its all soldered in place

This is what I was told when I ordering my new laptop.

My old one is 7 years old

Am hoping new MacBook Pro will last similar time especially as no moving parts these days (solid state, no DVD drive etc)

I will hold my breath!

BOOM. Totally forgot about that... practically makes it "free" for me.

He talks about how great the iMac is, ignoring the other two.

Reading between the lines, I think it's the end for the Mini and Pro.

Mine is primo 2008. Retirement is due.

Don't do that to me BRO.
Can't they just re-imagine the Mini into something great and the size of an Apple TV.
Someone made good point about the MB being a great brand exercise, they should just carry on with it for that reason alone, fuck the price, go nuts... make it Ultimate...

Peak Apple has been and gone. They just make expensive trinkets now.

So I've just taken delivery of a 13" MBP w/TouchBar. It's aces and much shinier than the previous generation. The screen is really nice - it feels larger than the previous one, even though it's not.

Were I in your shoes, I'd max out everything I could afford to. But I'd sacrifice incremental bumps in clock speed for storage. Even if you think there's not going to be much on there, there will be more.

Hi All... so I've been resurrecting an old MacBook, a 2007 Core 2 Duo machine and tried installing the OS onto a new hard drive last night. I'm totally new to Macs but fitted the new drive, partitioned it and installed OS X successfully. However on the first boot after installation a welcome message popped up asking me to choose some basic settings, location (UK), keyboard layout (UK) and whether I wanted to transfer info from another Mac. This all seemed fine but when these settings having been entered I keep receiving a message saying the machine needs to be restarted, but when I restart the same welcome screen and keyboard etc settings process repeats, only to be asked to restart again. I've tried entering differing settings but they always result in the same message requesting to restart, and the cycle repeats. Does anyone know what the problem could be? I've searched online and can't find this problem covered. The version of OS X is 10.4 I believe and I'm using the original software that came with the machine. Any thoughts would be much appreciated, cheers Kev.

Thanks, Captain Obvious... 🙄

If I were to buy something, anything, it would be a Mac Mini type thing... Plug it into my Thunderbolt and away I go... When my MBP finally dies I may just get a tablet to replace it... I do most non-music/graphics stuff on my Nexus 5x these days anyway...

You could try 10.6 if you can get the installer for it. Wikipedia says it is compatible and there's a chance it'd solve the problem.

But I've no idea what the problem might be, sorry.

Interesting article on how the Mac teams at apple have been neglected.
There isn't even a macOS team any more, just one big team that does iOS and macOS.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/how-apple-alienated-mac-loyalists

Interesting read... I can see a time when what we now call an iPhone is able to double as a Desktop, the real question is how that transition happens and what we have in the interim period. I have come to the conclusion that the new MacBooks are decent, I fear they may put the 460 card in the new iMacs and make them thinner (an iPad like shape with less chin than current... might mock that up in a sec...). They should do brand boosting machines - make the MacBook as thin and portable as possible, make the MacPro as powerful as possible, keep the rest in there usable middle ground...

LOL: http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/21/14037030/apple-made-in-america-failure

Under pressure from politicians to create manufacturing jobs at home, Apple was looking to score political points. The decision caused production headaches though.

The Mac Pro's glossy exterior and chrome beveled edges meant Apple had to make its own manufacturing tools and then train people to run those machines in an assembly plant. This slowed production and constrained Apple's ability to make enough computers to meet demand.

Three years on, the Mac Pro is ripe for an upgrade with its chips and connector ports lagging rival products. Because of the earlier challenges, some Apple engineers have raised the possibility of moving production back to Asia, where it's cheaper and manufacturers have the required skills for ambitious products, according to a person familiar with those internal discussions.

#PostTruth