Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

attaboi

Got a 2017 MBP with touchbar, one of the keys is broken (of course it has). How much to have it repaired?

They break all the time, so far Apple store have replaced mine for free, I have another two that need replacing currently so will have to schedule a visit

Pretty sure you'll be covered, as all Macbooks post 2016 are...

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-notebooks

Thats amazing... 580's are 200 quid on their own (ish).

Thing is, I don’t want a free repair, long story - it’s a work machine and I inherited from the previous owner who obviously had dropped it a few times. I was rather hoping the repair cost would be so high that work would buy me a new one, guess not?

Even if you had to pay, I guess the cost would still only be a few hundreds?

Oh I see.... yeah I know a new screen is 400 quid so doubt keys would be as much as that?
Built your new machine yet?

No, not built the machine yet, probably gonna be a Xmas project now... 😎

Can anyone recommend a good preferrably free Mac cleanup tool? Realised I've never done it and my MBP is now 4 years old.

Onyx.

Perfect thanks man

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Microwave?

Ha ha. You terrible person!
People worry about thermals on those machines so if it’s under heavy load in a hot room I’d imagine that could cause some damage, especially if you turned fans down with mac fan control, although beware, the last fan rpm set in Mac fan control is stored in sms or whatever it’s called so will be evident on next boot...

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Nah...

Any recommended ad blockers for Safari now that OSX has borked uBlock?

I paid for Wipr (£2?) and it’s replaced it nicely. Does YouTube ads which are the only ads I really can’t be doing with.

pihole?

Pihole

In fact, I’ve got a spare pi if you want to banish ads and trackers from your entire network.

iMacs are 270 quid off at Argos, that and my 10% discount is tempting me... top end model for around 1700... hmmm..

Don't do it!

Why not? You couldn't even build a PC for that price...
(I prob won't).

I've had 5 ciders and just lost at pubg. I don't need a reason.