Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I'm still trying to find reasons to get a peli case, any colour.

Nope. It's balanced with fingers crossed.

Worth noting that I used it pretty often for my M1 MacBook Pro but won't be using it with this. Too much £ to balance.

I use to be there. Then I bought a black case second hand. Yet to use it, but that's next step.

They even match.

JELLY.
Much want.
Little need.

Little need.

Me too.

Went for the M1 Max, 16" with 32Gb ram. I email, I ppt, I video call.
Disgustingly overpowered for what I need but I've been waiting for this for ages and will not be buying a new machine for 5 years minimum. This'll still be singing in 2030 at this rate :)

Is every one seriously ok with that stupid fucking notch in the screen?

I haven't 'noticed' it or cared about it once since I got the laptop (this morning).

Apparently it isn't a notch in the existing screen but some extra pixels in what used to be the bezel. A 16:9 image is clear of the notch for example.

Right now there isn't anything on the middle bit of my menu bar so having a hole there doesn't seem like a bit problem.

This is the correct answer.

TBF my 2017 lasted 4.5 years, and those things were notoriously unreliable/prone to failure.
Luckily Apple replaced near the entire thing so I have a like new machine.

Each to their own but I find it massively distracting. Found it ridiculous on phones and more annoying on a display.

Yeah, it's 16:10 plus ears, not 16:10 minus notch. And by default in full screen modes the ears aren't used and the selective backlighting makes them invisible.

A very odd thing to be huffy about.

Make a wallpaper with a black bar at the top hiding it? Theres also apps hiding it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/27/macbook-pro-hide-notch-apps/

Obligatory

Is that your work machine?

Yes and no. It's my personal machine (as in I paid for it) but I work on it as well as use it for personal things too.

Using an iPad as a second monitor with Sidecar - how do I stop the fucking thing locking the screen and fucking off mid-presentation? It's incredibly annoying and makes it useless.

Glad someone beat me to this.
The notch does overlap some area of a game I play but I gain the screen real estate around it.
When using safari etc, because I have the toolbar hidden in full screen mode the whole area just blacks out and its no different to the bezel I had on the M1 13.

First impressions of the 16 are, very big, bigger than anticipated, very bright. Had to turn brightness right down last night as it was making high contrast white text difficult to read.

Speakers are really impressive coming from M1 13.

Bottom gets uncomfortably hot when using a lot of power. Might have to get one of those cushion things with a plank on top .Not something I had anticipated and a bit of a turn off, but the extra power is well worth it.

Missus is applying for a job at Apple, how wrong of me is it to be super excited, not by the possibility of her getting the job, but rather the potential access to a massive staff discount?
(Have no idea what apple’s staff discount is? Assuming it’s more than 25%)

Used to be 27% with 17% for friends and family but not sure if still the case or whether this varies by role/location.

I’m in the states (North Carolina but flying in and out of NY) in a couple weeks and trying to work out what an 11inch iPad Pro with keyboard and pencil is gonna cost and if it’s worth getting there?

Sales tax is marginally cheaper in NY (4% vs 4.25%).

I reckon that would make a base iPad Pro £600 rather than £750 in the UK.

Of course, you should technically pay import tax upon your return to the UK...

Yeah, which I will deffo do 👀

I think once you wham on the pen and pencil case it’s worth it.

Bottom gets uncomfortably hot

This can be quite nice in winter though 🙂

Right, got a bit of a legacy Mac issue I'd appreciate some guidance on.

My Father in Law (87 - but still working as a building stone consultant) has a conundrum. He has an 2008 IMac that is still running Snow Leopard. Why? Because he LOVES AppleWorks 6. Literally all of his technical drawings / graphs (1000's) have been drawn in this program and he's still creating more. He is too old to learn a new thing now, and my understanding is that a like for like replacement doesn't really exist anyway.

The problem is, websites are increasingly not able to run on Snow Leopard - but AppleWorks doesnt work on any newer OS. So he's getting in a pickle when emails ask him to provide meter readings, or pay bills - and the webpage doesn't load. This is happening more and more frequently.

He's also very worried (and not without due cause) that if I get fiddling I could break everything.
I think I've found a work around, where by we can run a more recent OS, and use a Windows emulator to run a windows version of Appleworks - I've got this working on my misses new Macbook (quite proud of myself).

But, he still doesnt want to plunge into updating his old Imac - for fear of it catching fire, so the solution is to buy him a nice circa 2012 iMac, that can run Catalina, and then migrate things over.

So - the actual question is - how easy is it to migrate from Snow Leopard to Catalina on two separate iMacs - and would the old iMac still be useable, in case anything goes amiss. Basically - I'm only allowed to do thigs that guarantee his old computer still works as it does now - in case I mess up the new one.

Any advice appreciated.