Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Local hard drive › iCloud Folders + USB hard drive via time machine + Backblaze.

At least three versions of my data at various intervals of replication, (BackBlaze runs nightly, Time Machine weekly via me remembering to plug in the drive). Plus all my design work is on Abstract and code is on GitHub.

And my wife and I both have accounts with syncing on each others MBPs so that they can be spun up if one machine goes down.

I sound paranoid, right?

Not at all. I'd replace the time machine hdd with an airport extreme, they're about £100 second hand and works really well. I've picked up 3 in the last couple of months so our house now has wifi everywhere and all machines have their own wireless backup.

Next stage is an externall hdd to my mac mini as a secondary time machine backup + photo archive, that will also be backed up to backblaze

Is there anywhere where you can get this new iPhone SE at reduced price or should I just get it from apple? Do you get the education discount on phones or is that just laptops? And is the 128GB worth the premium over 64GB?

I've been tasked with buying one even though my Apple knowledge is minimal.

Probably been discussed already but i got the magic keyboard for my 11” iPad Pro the other day and it’s been great. Really nice typing experience and the mouse is genuinely useful and well integrated (obviously office apps aside for now).

Only gripe is not being able to permanently disable the backlight. It keeps re-enabling if i take the iPad off of the case then back on later. Surely something they’ll refine in a future update.

Otherwise; super happy with it.

Actually, @Velocio, just noticed that submitting a post on the keyboard doesn’t seem to like cmd+enter, and opens up a new tab instead, with this url: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/create/

Any idea if that can be fixed?

Be curious about this too as my dad's iPhone (6 I think) is fucking up.

My 2p is if you need more than 64GB then 128GB won't be enough (ie old people) so it's 64GB vs 256GB.

tab and enter works. :)

But i don't want to learn a new combination. Everything on mac is cmd+enter, submit post, send email etc etc.

It's a reflex at this point.

Hi, my wife is thinking of selling her MacBook Pro A1708. What would be a reasonable amount to expect for it?
8GB
128GB SSD
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Forgot to add that it's in immaculate condition with box and all the bits.
The battery cycle count is 121

But i don't want to learn a new combination. Everything on mac is cmd+enter, submit post, send email etc etc.

..actually send email is Command+Shift+D for whatever fucking reason

For Mail, yeah, but I use outlook as it's just better and it works with my work mail too.

Agree though - why the fuck is it cmd+shift+D??

Just bit the bullet and bought the 128gb. Got it from John Lewis as it looks like you get a 2 year guarantee on it compared to 1 year at Apple. Dunno if that was the right approach.

Loved my old SE, wish the new one was the same size.

I don't fuckin' know, man.. you can change it to cmd+enter in preferences though.

just noticed that submitting a post on the keyboard doesn’t seem to like cmd+enter, and opens up a new tab instead

..the real fucking mindtwister is though - why does submitting the post with cmd+enter work on the mac but not on the iPad?
Imagine having to work with the two devices alongside each other, the horror!

..the real fucking mindtwister is though - why does submitting the post with cmd+enter work on the mac but not on the iPad?

Don't understand why this is a mind twister? two different devices running two different OSs, one that's always existed with a keyboard and one that's still untangling integrating an always-on (instead of contextually appearing) keyboard (and a pointer) into it at a system level.

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Don't understand why this is a mind twister?

Because using the same shortcut as on the other device would be suggesting itself / choosing a different is unneccessarily complicating things?

It's not that another has been chosen, it's that there isn't one to correspond to cmd+enter at all. That cmd+enter opens a new tab at /create to me suggests that it's doing its best guess at the 'cmd+click' functionality of opening a new window as user intention, replicating an established desktop behaviour and which doesn't seem wholly unreasonable. The amount of iPad apps that support any keyboard shortcuts is shockingly low (looking at you Google (of which, almost everything they spew out for iOS is incredibly platform hostile)), and the number of shortcuts inside non-first-party apps that actually do support them is also minimal. Even simple tabbing is largely broken. Safari is better than most, but who knows if it'll ever get to desktop OS shortcut parity.

What shortcut do you use on an iPad to send a mail?

The post you quoted was regarding posting on the forum, not sending email. I use the gmail client on my iPad which is fundamentally broken, so I answer that question with 'my finger'.

My real gripe (niche) about cross platform incompatibilities is that when I virtual desktop into my iMac from my iPad, despite working well in macOS system windows etc, I don't get any native scrolling in the Adobe Creative Suite because Adobe like to make things up as they go along instead of using Apple interface guidelines.

The post you quoted was regarding posting on the forum, not sending email.

I'm resting my case.

I have an old iMac (2012 - 27inch) that is annoyingly slow.

Specs are -
2.9 Ghz Qaud core intel core i5
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660m 512 MB

Now, I know it’s old, but I’ve just done a fresh install of Catalina and have minimal apps installed and I’m still finding it sluggish doing mundane tasks like changing settings and browsing.

Would maxing out the RAM be a worthwhile investment and have a dramatic impact in usability?

Also, is crucial still a good place to buy RAM? Anywhere else I should look at?