Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

CD drive has broken on my 2014 macbook, I think due to being carried around too much. anyone have experience of somewhere reliable who can fix things like this? Was bought second hand so I don;t have a warranty.

Why would a lightning cable 'blow'? The end where it joins the lightning connector itself is frayed as though it exploded and the cabling around it (closer to the plug end) is brown as though smoke/heat damaged.

It was plugged in to one of those flat Apple adapters. Genuine cable. This has potentially happened once before as well though on an Amazon basics 2 meter cable so assumed it was just weak and fell apart. There was none of the 'blown' cable coating or smoke/heat damage on the Amazon cable but the connector bit had separated from the main cable after being used in the same socket.

It was plugged into a surge protected 4 way which was in turn plugged into a wall.

I guess it could short circuit if there was a little bit of metal in the port. Maybe just a failure inside the cable causing arcing, if they're engineered for very low amps it could burn out. Does it still work?

MacbookPro 2010 I suspect the wifi aeriel is giving up the ghost.

Anyone know anywhere reliable that will replace this for me? I've found a video online but we all know that I'm not going to replace it myself.

Don't want to try plugging it in to be honest. Will check inside the phone to see if there's anything floating around in there.

I've chucked the 4 way. Also moving house (coincidental rather than extreme reaction).

DaVinci resolve is mint!

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Just come here to plug my iPad mini 2 sale.

Good day.

Edit: I downloaded the most recent driver and seems to be better. Ignore.

I am on OS X Sierra (10.12) and using a Canon iX5000 printer, it only supports up to OS X Yosemite (10.10) and with whatever it seemed to auto-install (I think, I can't remember) I am missing functionality from the print dialogue including borderless printing. What should I do?

I’m getting zero screen activity on startup with my 2010 21.5” iMac.

If it’s toast I’ll be after a used 13” MacBook Pro. It’s for Creative Suite use and a bit of office stuff, no gaming.

Is there a standout 13” year or model? Pitfalls to avoid? I’ve actually never owned a laptop before.

I’m hoping £600 will buy something around 4 years old.

I've just gone down a similar route. Look for a 2013 (late 2013, preferably) - 2015 machine; basically the same shells with marginal gains in processor and SSD read/write speeds. I went for a top-of-the-line late 2013 15" (i7 2.6ghz with 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD, dual graphics) for £800, which I think is a good price for the spec and a very clean machine with ~250 charge cycles.

Arrived yesterday, typing this on it. All seems well but I'm going to take the back off tomorrow and check for liquid ingress (there are indicators inside the case).

2014 models (I think) had some issues with the screen delaminating. 2015 gets you the force trackpad and maybe some other stuff I'm not aware of.

I almost went for a late 2013 13" i7 with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD - sold for a shade under £600, so there are bargains to be had compared to new prices.

Usual stuff applies: watch some sales to get a view of prices; converse with seller in advance if possible; check feedback; get screenshots of spec, battery condition and diagnostics saying that everything's a-okay (as much as it can ever be when buying remotely).

Buying from Hoxton Macs or another refurbisher is an option - but you will pay quite a premium for the peace of mind. Good luck!

Brilliant help. Thanks.

For grabs of diagnostics ... which diagnostics/utilities specifically?

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/ht202731

Get them to run that and take a pic to show that the hardware is all as it should be.

Late 2009 iMac for sale: 27" i7 2.8ghz, 12gb RAM, 1TB HDD - £500

Bought new by me in 2010 - never missed a beat. Top spec at the time - cost around £2k. Upgraded the RAM and I understand it will take 32GB, not just the 16 advertised by Apple. Also easy to add SSD if you so wish, so plenty of scope to improve further. Still a very fast machine! Used predominantly for photo and video editing. Apple Magic Mouse not pictured but it will come with one.

Pretty much mint condition as it's sat on a desk it's whole life. The fans have pulled a bit of dust into the screen assembly which shows as small smears near the top of the screen - purely cosmetic. Watched a YouTube vid on how to clean this yourself. Bit involved but user serviceable with a bit of time and courage.

In Cambridge. Could pack and post at insured cost if absolutely necessary or can probably meet somewhere.

apple diagnostics

Holy shit... did not know. Thanks again.

this is a bargain.

On a separate note; is it a good time to buy iphone X?

No idea - I've got a Google Pixel!

It's always a good time to buy Apple stuff.

On a serious note, probably not th best time to buy an iPhone X as it's mid cycle, so wait till Sept / Oct for eiter a reduced price X or the next one?

I just got an iPhone X as Three gave it to me for free. It only worked out being £120 more over 24 months on contract than buying it outright and going sim-only. I don't mind the premium given I didn't want to spend £1000 on a phone up front. I wouldn't be surprised if there is no update to the iPhone X this year. The only thing they can do is make the notch smaller... there's absolutely nothing wrong with this phone. It's ridiculously good.

Edit: I know there's never anything wrong with iPhone's when a new one comes out, but I genuinely don't know what they can do to it. Maybe discontinue the 8's? Make all of them look like the X ? Different sizes etc. Either way, I don't regret getting mine now.

Hmmm, having now inspected this used MacBook in a sunny room, I see that the screen is displaying what I think might be the retina coating issue I've read about. Anyone seen this on their machine? Apart from on the bezel it's not at all visible when the screen's on but I'm concerned it might worsen. eBay seller is amenable to a discussion later. Trying to work out what my position should be.

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Hammer frozen sausages into his Thunderbolt ports...

Also love my X

The gestures are way more natural

Yes but have you experienced this, though. The screen issue, not an assault with frozen sausages.

I haven't, never heard of it...

Ive read about in on macrumors, do a search there perhaps?

Anyone got some old, unwanted RAM sticks lying around which they want to sell for cheap? Looking for 2 x 4GB 1066 DDR3 for the iMac I'm selling upthread.