Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

OH HAI.

Yeah sure, no probs! I'm a tiny bit out of touch with the Hack world but sure it'll come back in a flash. PM me any q's...

I had issues with the Mac mini and had to send it back! Half regret doing so, especially as the new Pros are stupid over specced beasts (over specced for me)...

I did look at them in great detail but it is still cheaper to buy all the parts from scan and DIY. For what I want, the 3XS is about £2.5k with the chipset that wouldn’t be my first choice... to completely DIY, it’d be dead on the £2k mark.

Oh? What issues? If you want discount again, please ask!

I know, I was just reminded of the daily annoyance we experience... 🤗 I hope Affinity won’t have any of these!

Long story short but it was to do with TB3 initiation, it struggled with my 5K and eGPU... but may well have to hit ya up when the new MacBook Pros drop, thanks!

Let me know what you need build wise...

Do you know if the RAM can be replaced or not? 16GB seems a bit not enough... all else looks pretty good actually.

Oh that’s no go for me then...

Will do! Currently looking at the Alienware as we have some at work and they are actually alright and good price... like the outlet one is actually quite good!

Whats no go for you? I should have added it was in Bootcamp only not macOS, that was fine.
What ya after/what's your use case?

The Mac mini didn’t agree with an eGPU is no go...

I am gradually doing more 3D stuff and I managed to make do with my Mac laptop in the last few months but as per one of my posts earlier today, I have been offered an opportunity to possibly develop in game design / VR etc, so...

All but one I need to develop can be done on a Mac and it’s better on a Mac but VR is only available on PC platform...

Don't discount the Scan warranty and the insane quality of their builds. I'd happily pay £300 for the experience I have had with them recently, although perhaps not £500.

Yep you can. I've got a previous gen Aurora R7. 8700k and a 1080Ti.
It's just a normal PC inside

Tempted! Very tempted!

I see... well... the issue I had was caused by my monitor rather than the eGPU. If you use a normal (non TB3) monitor you'll be just fine.

Sale? Where? Also, I am confused about how to purchase them? They are available on the App Store on the Mac and also from their website... ?

They were available for 20% off when Publisher was released, and I've seen them on similar discounts around times like Black Friday. Discounts were both on the MacOS App store and their own website at the same time.

Generally I prefer to get apps from the MacOS app store, all things being equal, for easier updating/moving to new computers/etc. The prices are usually the same. I think Serif make more money when you buy direct.

I use Unity, what do you want to know?

PM'd you.

Can anybody offer any advice pls. My father in laws Macbook crashed or he locked it out by getting the password wrong too many times. It asked for some key to unlock and fortunately the person I bought it from at work remembered it so it's booting into recovery mode.

I'm reasonably good on Windows recovery and messed around with Ubuntu / linux etc but have no idea where to start on the Mac.
I can get in to disk repair and see disks etc.
No backups etc but if I re-install over the internet connection is there an option to keep data and re-install the OS?

Thanks

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Looking for one of the following for under £400. Let me know if you're selling:

• Mac Pro 4.1
  
• Mac Pro 5.1
  
• Fast Mac Mini (at least i5, 16gb ram)
  

I'd take the disk out and transfer the files he wants to keep. Not sure that the recovery os thing will go to the OS on the HD or the one that came with the machine.

Have the OS on usb if you need them.

Reinstall os won’t touch your files but I’m not sure it’ll fix your problems. What Mac is it? Target disc mode may be your best bet, or removing hard drive.

I’ll be getting a MacBook Pro in a few weeks and I’m thinking about my home set-up. As it’s charged through a USB-C I was just wondering whether there was a hub sort of thing where I could plug just one cable to the laptop and charge the laptop and run two monitors off it?

I had to economise with the hard drive — is it possible to run actually things off an external hard drive? Say I had a large data on a hard drive could I use it without actually moving it onto the internal hard-drive?

The answer to both of these questions is yes

Brilliant!

Do you have recommendations for the hub-sort-of-thing?

And in terms of an external hard drive does it have to a specific time or will any cheap £30 do the job?