Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

For Adobe stuff, just use a pc. It looks the same and actually runs better.

Wash your mouth out BRO.
You going to be happy with a big plastic box sitting on/near/under your desk?

Side note... before I purchased my Mini I tried to spec up a similar PC, game in at a couple of hundred quid cheaper at best, and that was un a much less attractive (and bigger) case.

Ah, interesting on GPU stuff. That would probably work okay then.

I think I'm just a bit peeved because the 2019 1TB Fusion Drive only has a crappy 32gb SSD, and also I've been reading threads like this which (almost) universally recommend SSD even though it means taking down one's financial trousers.

Don’t think the smaller iMacs have upgradable ram either? You’ll want 16gb for sure. Apples SSD prices cross a line for me. I had a fusion drive and it was actually decent.

That's right, only the 27" can have ram added later. Adobe says minimum spec is 4gb, 16gb is 'recommended'. My current Mac only has 4gb and it's always got by, though that's on CS5 not the new Indesign. So I don't know on that one.

Running a 2017 27” with nvme ssd and 16GB and adobe shit is still slow af.

2019 1TB Fusion Drive only has a crappy 32gb SSD

..haha, what???

if you're serious about pro-level work with an apple computer, you don't buy an imac, because the screen is cack for colour work.
buy an IPS screen and a top-line mac mini (this setup at my old work cut many feature films)
or a mac pro if you really need certain I/O

Data recovery. Have done a boo boo and at some stage within the last week I deleted a folder on my desktop which I've been meaning to tidy up and haven't. Instead, I've been using it as a generic hold-all for about the past two years. Mostly invoices, vat returns etc which I'll have copies of. Quite a lot of links to articles which I won't, but they're probably out of date so I'm less bothered. A few plugins I'll have elsewhere. But a lot of photographs I haven't got around to sorting that I definitely won't have copies of including a load of behind the scenes images from shoots I've been organising while I build a new website.

For reasons unknown, these weren't on a cloud or backed up anywhere.

I don't have a list of what was in the folder which is what annoys me the most (on our RAIDs I have a screenshot of folder structure and files which gets updated weekly. Why I didn't do the same on my desktop fuck only knows).

I clear Trash daily. It's an SSD.

Anything to be done or go and get a drink?

Sure you're right, but this is for copy editing, not design.

for copy editing, just buy the cheapest thing possible refurbished, you don't need a lot of RAM or storage or whatever.

Update: Scanned with Stellar Data Recovery Professional but the preview was so clunky/mind-boggling I didn't fancy paying the 100 odd quid to buy it. If anyone knows anything that'll only scan and retrieve things deleted from trash within a specified period I'd be interested. Otherwise, I'll make do with a Scotch and a notepad from hereon.

I think I looked into this once and found an app called disc drill that may have been ok... a bit ambiguous but that’s all I got. Sorry BRO.

Bit of a random question. We will be in Florida on 4 th July - and are hoping to go to the Florida Mall. They have incredible sales there for Independence Day. Does anyone know if the Apple Shop will have discounts?
Thanks (hoping for a positive answer as my daughter wants Air Pods)

Have you tried googling it? There ought to be some old news from last year(s) if there have been sales, so if they did last year, they’d probably do it again.

I’ll give google a try. I’m of an age that I don’t even consider trying that ! Old age is shit!

can anyone recommend a blu-ray player (external usb) for my MacBook air?

Oh in that case, any will do...

my 2011 iMac has got the black screen of doom. fuxxored or worth throwing a few squidz at to possibly maybe fix?

Hi,
I asked up thread about replacing the harddrive in my imac with a SSD.
I got a price from a shop today to do it but they gave two options.
First is to replace the existing drive with SSD
Second is to keep the drive but remove the DVD drive and put the SSD there. (my DVD drive doesn't even work so not worried about keeping it).

Is one of these options preferable?
It's my wife's computer that she uses for work (photoshop stuff) She says it's alays slow. So if one option is more likely to speed it up, then that's preferable.

Id go for option two.

Just have the SSD for boot and applications and then have the other hard drive for storage and things like that.

When I swapped my spinning hdd for an ssd in my macbook pro, I moved the spinning hdd to where the disc drive was. I think the bus speeds are slower to the disk drive, so it makes more sense to use the spinning disk there. This is all from memory though so prob worth a google

Thanks guys.
That sounds like the way to go. I'll ask the computer guy about bus speeds.

Anybody got an unneeded 60W magsafe 2 lying about? Mine is on its last legs.

So I have an ExFat USB formatted on a Mac that I have been using all week on a PC (training and they only have PCs...), now I am trying to copy the files over onto my computer and the USB is really playing up, 1 min it opens my files OK and 1 min it says my files are damaged and then if I unplug and plug my USB again, then the files are fine, then they are not fine. I checked the file size and it looks OK to me and there is 100% still info on the files.

Bottom line is, the files are stuck on the USB...

Would I have better luck if I stick it back onto a PC?