Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Yeah, thats plenty of oomph for vector things. Instead of opening it up to install an ssd, just boot from an external ssd in a thunderbolt enclosure. It doesnt have usb3 but that will get you close enough, and SSDs prefer that over usb because reasons...

AirPower officially dead:

https://youtu.be/1O7OBY6LJqY

fucking first world problems

I am about to wipe my Mac and reinstall everything for a clean start. Can someone remind me if I’d need to decrypt the FileVault and then once a fresh copy of the OS has been installed, to re encrypt the FileVault? I just remember both take absolutely forever... Ta!

I did this in Feb and don't remember any special steps with the encryption. I think Filevault was automatically re-enabled in the new install, but I can't remember.

I dont understand how Apple couldn't get it right? Yet other companies have been doing it for years. Granted I don't own a phone that can charge wirelessly so they could be terrible.

They were trying to do something new; overlapping the induction coils so you could be far more haphazard about where you placed the three things, and that sounds like it was the issue that they couldn't (economically) solve. That said it is quite impressive that the most recent airpods released with packaging with a diagram on the back showing the charging mat on it

Wireless charging works really well on my Samsung phone, when using a Samsung charger and charging pad. Less good when using generic products, but still pretty useful. Placement of phone doesn't seem to make much of a difference to speed of charging, within reason.

Can't really get my head around why Apple would have found it tough to crack.

Because they were trying to do multiple device charging that you could put devices on anywhere rather than one device in a rough area or multi devices in specific places, as I understand it.

Even so, sounds a bit weird. Induction charging has been around for 20 years or more (Oral B toothbrushes for example). Getting things thin enough was the first major hurdle. I know almost nothing about the tech though so I'm probably missing something fundamental.

Aha. Just read that the issue that Apple couldn't solve is rumoured to be overheating. That makes sense I think.

Aha. Just read that the issue that Apple couldn't solve is rumoured to be overheating. That makes sense I think.

I keep my work pass inside my phone case. It regularly goes pop (literally... I get a small pin sized bubble and hole in the corner of the card) if I don't make sure it's far enough away from the middle of the phone (presumably where the iPhone charges).

Wonder whether multiple induction coils had a habit of frying chip and pin cards.

2016 macbook pro (i5, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd), bought in 2017. Battery never above 4/5 hours, use chrome, never do anything strenuous, moderate brightness. Will sometimes get hot if watching netflix or something. Is this normal? Seems inadequate to me, was expecting closer to 10 when I got it. I try and run the battery down to 15% then charge it all the way back up to maintain it.
Cheers

edit - I have fruitjuice installed and at the start used 40 mins on battery a day then plugged in when i had access to a socket. Now I just use the battery (as described above) and its only ever plugged in when it needs charging, which the apple guy in store told me was the best thing to do.

You’re using chrome right? Chrome is a resource hog and therefore a battery drain.

@chrisbmx116 I have been meaning to switch, but just so used to it and everything being saved. What browser would you recommend? Cheers

I don't like to mix my brands too much so I have always stuck to native Safari, which most people tell me is crap, but works for me 90% of the time (not the best for inspecting mobile versions of sites).

I noticed big difference in battery moving to safari, and I have no issues with it at home and don’t think it’s any slower at rendering.

I think safari has less memory leak issues, though I sometimes have to quit and re-open and reload tabs.

Chrome at work for checking analytics tagging with developer tools yeah, but there the choice is between that and internet explorer!

Does IE still exist? Amazing. Haven't met anyone using it in about 20 years.

It's Edge now, which is an okay browser, but they are on the cusp of releasing a new version based on Chromium which might actually make it into the good category

Safari and Firefox. Chrome for backup. Use UBlock Origin on all 3.

Mazel tov!

Edge is actually better than safari from what dev nerds tell me, something to do with being tied to a better release schedule or something. Hear good things about Firefox too but keychain keeps me on safari.

Safari is shit for web transitions. All the web stuff I build just runs so much better on Chrome

Not a pop at you, but this is what frustrates me about devs - their annoyance that others don’t run the latest nightly build of chrome and due to that their latest “feature” doesn’t work properly.
Not everyone is on the latest dev release of chrome, make sure your shit degrades gracefully and turn down your Nickelback playlist.
Again, not a pop and you.

lol