Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

eBay price seems to be well north of £600. Some over £700.

I imagine those are mint- mine has a very slight distortion in one hinge where the machine was pulled off the coffee table by the power cord. I think the thing I'm afraid of is all the hassle of selling it privately and then dealing with (potential) complaints of "it's not brand new", which of course it's not - it's four years old and has been used every single day of those four years.

the machine was pulled off the coffee table by the power cord

so now it's the power cable's fault

Yep, MagSafe and it would have been fine.

Is there’s a way to get rid of this stupid fucking thing that kept turning the volume down every day?

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(I increase it back up after that message).

Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Headphone Safety > Reduce Loud Sounds.

Or screen time, content and privacy, reduce loud sounds, turn off

Could be either of those two settings

Some good looking benchmarks for the M1

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/11/m1-macbook-air-first-benchmark/

Here we go again... The function is most likely very useful for the vast majority of users as it saves their hearing. It's annoying if you don't need it, so there's a setting so you can turn it off. For everyone else, it's a good thing.

Mad that an entry level ~10W M1 in a silent, fanless MB Air trashes a 45W Core i9 in a £3K 16” Pro with two massive loud fans.

So hyped for this duopoly-smasher.

Making me rethink my comment about getting an Intel 16... Just need a stable windows solution. Don't make me get a gaming PC.

I think you're missing the point that lowering the volume is generally a good idea, and if not, it's easy enough to just raise it again. I think Apple made the right call here. Of course it's not the right decision for everyone, but for the vast majority, I think it is.

The Win VM/Bootcamp thing is a real sticking point for me too...

Gonna give it a couple of years & respectfully observe from afar.

N E R D !

None, but the fact remains that lower volume is better for the ears, so prompting the user to lower it is a good thing.

Keep in mind that the vast majority of people use cheap headphones / earbuds that only sounds "good" at higher volumes. If you're walking around in a city with a pair of apples bundled earbuds and you try to actually hear the music, the volume has to be high.

For someone like yourself with a better insight into this, it's an unnecessary and annoying function, and that's why you can turn it off. That doesn't change the value of the function for all other users though.

there's a setting so you can turn it off.

I wanna know how cause it does this every fucking days, every time I turn it off, it still warn me and lower the volume.

To clarify; I’m Profoundly Deaf; my ears was already fucked to begin with.

Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Headphone Safety > Reduce Loud Sounds.

“Those notifications can’t be turned off”

Fucking fuck off Apple.

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I don't think there is a way :/

Does seem a rather blunt solution, especially given the other accessibility options they do have.

Yep, was about to post that pic from mine too

That sucks. Feels like a setting that you should be able to turn off for fringe cases like this

@edscoble Do you need your headphones at the highest volume to be able to hear? Could you get some kind of in-line amplifier that you can attach to the cord and get the volume up that way?

It’s more that I set it to the max and control the volume on my compilot (a Bluetooth device I wear that cannot the phone to it and send it to my hearing aids).

It doesn’t really work the other way round.

The weird thing is that it’s no louder than drivers driving with the volume on max letting us know how much they enjoyed Gangsta Paradise.

You can probs sell it to someone on here and get reasonable money, the problem with ebay is that its full of cunts wanting a refund even though they know the issue prior to buying.

Could you set the phone to 80% and then raise the BT device a bit more?

I am assuming the NIHL warning is only activated by the output level setting and isn't measuring the output voltage

I love that you're berating Apple for making daft assumptions while making daft assumptions yourself. Keeping track of actual audio levels would be absolutely trivial.

Also, tinnitus fucking sucks.