Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

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Thanks for the reply - I'll have a look...

The iMac seems to have fixed itself!? Turned it back on last night - firstly in recovery mode, but later it started up normally - first time in weeks!
I've run as many tests as I can and they are coming back OK, so might go for the SSD upgrade - I've seen the tutorials online, but are there any recommendations out there?

I got mine from Crucial. Easy to pick one that'll be compatible

Awesome - thank you!

MacBook 2006, plastics white one... anything can be done about it to make it last a little longer and go a little faster? Colleague can't afford a new one just yet...

SSD. Also, 11 Years!

That’s impressive. SSD will drastically change it.

I am not actually sure if an SSD would even be compatible with it. I know there is no point in up-ing the RAM, I have asked her to bring it in next week to have a look. I have a feeling it's full of crap on the system. Also how is it even compatible with any of the current apps like MS Office, Adobe etc... I am impressed that it is still working.

I've put SSD's in a few of those and it helps but it's not as big a boost as you get with the 2010 and newer generation. The chipset on those models is pretty limited. Still use my black one for Traktor though, handles it well enough to play out.

^ 1st thing I said, but she is thinking of buying a cheap PC laptop, when I say cheap, I mean a really basic entry level one... that's all she could afford at the moment, so I am thinking even a little speed bump that could buy her another 6 - 12 months to save up is a good job well done.

Any suggestion on cheap SSD? I had a look on Amazon and couldn't find that really cheap Chinese brand of like 250GB or thereabout for like £50... a mate bought 1 last year... that would be ideal for her considering the age of the laptop. Don't see any reason to stick a nice Sandisk or Samsung in it...

We have a lot of 4GB and 8GB RAM sets at work laying about when I swapped them for 16GB, worth putitng 2x2GB on?

My MacBook is randomly sleeping and waking. Sometimes I can't seem to wake it up, and I have to leave it for ten minutes or so. Other times it sleeps then wakes for a few seconds, not even long enough to put my password in, before the screen goes black again.
It's very annoying, anyone else having this problem?
Any suggestions?

Skimp on an SSD at your own risk...
Their reliability and speed are extremely dependent on the quality of the firmware. Does she do backups? Worst case scenario, assuming she doesn't backup, some off-brand SSD could easily just make everything vanish and not even slightly recoverable, just gone.

If she gets a samsung/sandisk etc, she can always take it out and use it in an external enclosure when the rest of the laptop inevitably fails.

But keeping a decade-old laptop going with the cheapest SSD just sounds like bad recipe.

+1.

Worst case scenario, assuming she doesn't backup, some off-brand SSD could easily just make everything vanish and not even slightly recoverable, just gone.

Applies to name brand SSDs in my experience too.

I've been struggling with an OWC SSD on a MacBook retina 2010. First one crapped out, replaced by OWC for the cost of return postage. Second one has been causing intermittent freezing and grey screen, may be the OS is corrupted but my confidence in SSD's has been shaken. That's a £400 ssd. So far no problems with Samsung units in another computer.

Try a smaller size if you can and make sure she has time machine backups (everyone should, all the time).

Cheers everyone, I will see what she says, but it seems to me she is on a very tight budget...

Credit card + iPad?

You should see her iPad... It's either the original one or iPad 2...

Ha! Nowt wrong with either of those. Still using a 2 in the kitchen...

Absolutely not, I wish I'd kept mine to be honest.

Samsung 840/850 Evo is a good reliable SSD from my own experience, on an old mac though, there is no point in putting in an SSD with huge transfer rates, as the old interface simply can't handle it.

Can anyone recommend an online backup/storage service? I currently use Dropbox, but it keeps a copy of the file on each computer. Perhaps I could use it a bit smarter - like opt out of some of the folders and only access them online? I also have a lot of images (50gb) in iPhoto that I'd like to backup and clear them off my laptop.

^ selective sync will fix it