Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Left idling overnight. Not really any improvement. Gonna leave everything on for a week and see if garbage collection happens.

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I think one of my hard drives is failing. Took about a minute to mount and trying to look through the files on finder takes about 20s to load per folder. Never had a hard drive fail on me before so wondering what I should do? Going to try and do a backup now the probably try restoring it.

External hard drive? Back up and bin it. They are so cheap these days and I wouldn't trust it again even after a restore and it might work for a little while, you never know when it will eventually die.

I warmed a friend about her hard drive dying, she wouldn't listen, a couple of weeks later, she sent me a test on Sunday morning telling me she'd lost a lot of her files. I LOL.

Yep... CCC is telling me that there are read errors :-( Just checked and haven't backed it up in a year.....
I am so so so stupid
Trying to get back the important bits but the drive ejects itself after about 10mins. Should just about recover from this but it's a real reminder for me to get my shit safe

3 copies of everything or they don't exist!!!

THREE COPIES!!!!!!!

Time for me to decide if I want to get up early Friday to try get my hands on the iPhone X! Got a new job and kinda need to celebrate.... Hummmm...

Haha I have 3 copies they just aren't upto date

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Get it, consider it, sell with profit if you change your mind

To be fair, they look really good. But not as good as an extra 1K in my pocket.

How much do you think they'll fetch on ebay on saturday? 1500?

I'd suggest cloning it in the first instance (I normally use dd on a linux livecd but you should be able to do it in Mac OS https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-create-disk-image-on-mac-os-x-with-dd-command/ )

After that mount the image and work on that rather than trying to use the failing drive.

So Ive held off for ages, are the new macbook pro's actually good for real life photo and video editing. Im looking at the top spec one or should I stick with my 2011 until the logic board fails eventually?!

Left CCC overnight to try copy the drive and it did it’s job. End up losing 26 files however i’ve Checked and they aren’t important so bullet dodged

I'm sure they are, though others will tell you not. Consider the lack of ports though. This post is quite an eye opener: https://www.subtraction.com/2017/08/16/upgrading-to-an-older-macbook-pro/

It's like I wrote that article, I feel exactly the same. Anyone want to trade-up so I can trade-down (13" MBP with all upgrades, ~9 months old)?

I was in the Grand Central Station Apple Store for a third time in a year, watching a progress bar slowly creep across my computer's black screen as my Genius multi-tasked helping another customer with her iPad. My computer was getting its third diagnostic test in 45 minutes. The problem was not that its logic board was failing, that its battery was dying, or that its camera didn't respond. There were no mysteriously faulty innerworkings. It was the spacebar. It was broken. And not even physically broken — it still moved and acted normally. But every time I pressed it once, it spaced twice.
“Maybe it's a piece of dust,” the Genius had offered. The previous times I'd been to the Apple Store for the same computer with the same problem — a misbehaving keyboard — Geniuses had said to me these exact same nonchalant words, and I had been stunned into silence, the first time because it seemed so improbable to blame such a core problem on such a small thing, and the second time because I couldn't believe the first time I was hearing this line that it was not a fluke. But this time, the third time, I was ready. “Hold on,” I said. “If a single piece of dust lays the whole computer out, don't you think that's kind of a problem?”
In every other computer I've owned before I bought the latest MacBook Pro last fall, fixing this would have begun by removing the key and peering around in its well to see if it was simply dirty. Not this keyboard. In fact, all of Apple's keyboards are now composed of a single, irreparable piece of technology. There is no fixing it; there is only replacing half the computer.

https://theoutline.com/post/2402/the-new-macbook-keyboard-is-ruining-my-life

Missus wants a new mac laptop for work. I['m out of touch with macs. She's a lawyer so mainly lot's of docs ideally side by side, but nothing ot processor intensive, but she does want it to last a good few years as her current MBP has lasted about ten years.

MB or MBP?

My top end 13 inch 2016 is mint, sure it could do with some different ports but to be honest I never need them, eGPU and 5K LG screen use USB-C/Thunderbolt.

I'm getting bit bored of folks banging on about how great the older MacBooks were, before this big refresh only the VERY top model had a GPU, are you kidding me?! Mid range 15inch MBP - No GPU. Now all the larger MBP's have one.

Kaby lake had brought speed improvements too, my 2017 geek benches higher in single core than the 2016 15 inch, let alone any older gens.

It feels to me people are just parroting the same old lines, and people believe them, even if they have are using the latest themselves, because everyone keeps saying the same thing it's got to be right, right? (no offence Jono, maybe they are not suited to your workflow).

I have a 2013 15inch and Apple Cinema Display too and compared to my newer set up they look and function like crap, I have to plug in 3 cables to use the screen! Are you fucking kidding me?! 3 cables!

(no excuse for losing magnasafe though).

Bah. Compared to the latest keyboards the older gen are sloppy rattle pieces of crap! I bet you jokers are still using those trans plastic external keyboards with half your lunch at the bottom, bunch of dinosaurs.

Good points. But, if you cant upgrade your peripherals at the same time it might not be as good?

The base MBP 13 is decent but the SSD is too small, although if she is a lawyer she prob isn't scrapping about for coppers so just grab the top 13inch and be done.

A UX lass at my work uses a MacBook just fine, so to be honest either would do...

You'd be in the same boat as you would with an older model, just with adapters, which once bought are forgotten about.

Ha, this is the conclusio0n we've sort of reached. both will work fine.

Top end is probs out of reach as work is paying and although a lawyer 2k seems a lot to someone who's a technophobe

*puts hand up*

Tell a lie, I bought a new Apple USB keyboard last year... In Spain... So I can't find most of the keys I want... Fail...