Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

is it a hard drive, not ssd?

i installed an external SSD as the boot drive for catalina on my gfs 2013 iMac and it went from being unusable to absolutely fine for basically everything id need it for.

8GB ram is fine

Thats where ive bought all my ram from and has always been great.

our 2012 is a HDD - annoying 21" so have to take the monitor off to get to the disc - haven't braved it yet!

It’s a 1tb non ssd hard drive. Do you think that’s the issue? Not the memory?

Does anyone have a Magic mouse they want rid of? My nephew threw mine across the room in a toddler tantrum.

Not sure if you’re the jailbreaking type. But if you’re still on iPadOS 13.5, with the Unc0ver jailbreak, I think you’d be able to do the system wide DNS without using a VPN

https://unc0ver.dev/

yep! external works fine for us

external!!

@TTM & @giles337 - as @rogan said: definitely consider buying an external SSD and run you iMac from this, it will make a huge difference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdzK5lgqLjM

I use AdGuard (free)as my Adblock and apparently the premium allows a custom dns, not sure through what means though.

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I’d put money on it being your hdd, potentially getting close to failing.

Thanks all. I’ll try the HD upgrade first then.

ps any recommendations for an external thunderbolt ssd drive?

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

This.

Also, no escape key so I’ve set the caps lock as escape since I rarely use all caps and need to escape full screen vids easily.

Apple Working on iPadOS Shortcuts for Changing iPad Keyboard Brightness

just received a refurbished 4k lg uktrafine, worked fine for 5 minutes now i have a big blue vertical line...

tried a different macbook, port, cable, guess its going straight back..

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... and... 30 mins later its gone again

These kind of defects are the bestest

OH STREWTH... send it back.

Not sure you'll need Thunderbolt...

Wouldn't usb3 cut it? I've got mine and it's plenty fast, even using it as a scratch disc for photoshop

Yep, ordered a usb3 in the end. Will report back

That Caldigit TS3+ is crazy good, didn't know I needed it before I started using it (just got delivered today)

The USB hub in the Dell started glitching this week. Power cycling a display is not fun and requires too much under-desk crawling.

*edit - found the answer to my question

This is probably a logic board fail, right? It will boot up, sometimes getting to the desktop, but screen is garbled and nothing responds.

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