Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

is that someones a level media project?

^ I found mine the other day. A sort of weird teenage Matrix filmed in West Quay car park in Southampton.

Oi, that's denigrating teasmaids. Any invention which gives the working man more time in bed is progress and something like the Goblin D25b was as, if not more beautiful than Apple ever managed.

I love how they haven't designed somewhere for the phone to fit in so you can see the demonstrator visibly struggle to plug the phone in to charge in the video...

A iPhone dock and controlled coffee maker would fulfill so much Hipsterism I'm surprised it doesn't exist yet.

I'm claiming this

Anyone wants a mac mini? Gonna finally let mine go as it's been used as a very expensive media player...

Think it's a 2011 model, some duo core processor, 4GB ram and with a 60GB SSD etc... will have to double check the specs, but pretty sure it's not that far from what I remember...

Potentially interested depending on price / specs. PM me deets.

I will do it tomorrow night, that OK? Gonna be stuck at work till late today...

But the coffee machine would have to be automatic and hipsters HATE automatically produced coffee. Perhaps you could create some sort of automatic pourover where the machine is programmed to mimic a skilled barista but then you'd have to pre-grind the night before and your coffee would basically be stale by morning unless you integrated a grinder and gave it a pre-set grind time but then X amount of grind time does not equal X amount of weight of coffee because it depends on the beans so you'd need to incorporate a small digital scale to the design and by now the whole thing is getting really expensive and complicated and also this sentence is really long.

Sure; no rush.

My parents want to upgrade their 2007 iMac and this might be the right price for them.

Just picked up a 13 inch mbpr for offloading footage on location. Great battery life, even under duress so far. Just what I needed.

Issue: I can't seem to get the display to actually display the promised real estate of a retina display (unless I've misunderstood what it offers). The best I can get is 1680 x 1050 in 'scaled' mode.

I'm trying here: Apple > System Preferences > Displays >

I need at least 1920 x 1080 and was under the impression I would get 2560x1600. This possible? I basically need lots of panels open at one time and the 'default display resolution' looks like something from 2003.

New model? what the battery set at? performance or energy saving?

2015 model. Currently plugged in. Energy Saver settings in Power Adapter tab: Prevent computer from sleeping automatically, turn display off after 1 hr, wake for wifi network, enable power nap, do not put hard disks to sleep.

There is admittedly currently an external monitor plugged into the thunderbolt port via mini display. However the problem was there before. (On that note I'm getting real lag (to the point of crashing application [premiere pro] when I use the second monitor).

In fact the real reason I'm asking Apple Y U NO 2560x1600 is because I wanted to extend the application from the native retina display to the external display but it wouldn't let me. It would let me have the entire programme in one display and new panels could open in the other but I couldn't manually stretch to cover both.

This might help solve your problem....

http://youtu.be/S3baB-JQjnk

other than delete unwanted stuff from HDD, remove unused apps and repair disk permissions are there any other simple steps to cleaning a MBP to get it to run a little faster? any apps that actually work, paid or otherwise? cheers

Backup your stuff and format, simplest fastest way of getting your machine as close to 'as new' as you can get.

I was robbed last week, losing my 4 year old MBP 13inch, and its starting to look like the insurance claim may be successful. It will probably in the form of money to an equivalent value of the original cost, which means a new MBP 13. I don't really need the extra grunt of the pro as I no longer use the 3d drawing/rendering programs since finishing my degree. Im now looking at the 13 inch air would it handle photoshop/InDesign and Illustrator and can i run a secondary display or should i just get the Pro? Im thinking the air because its light and has epic battery.

Advice/suggestions required for uses for a very old 24" iMac (last of the white plastic generation). It has been a venerable old beast and still runs fine, with not a dead pixel in sight.

I had thoughts along the predictable media server / browser route. But am game for more adventurous suggestions, if possible.

It will, but the retina pros are not much larger than airs these days and are a lot more powerful plus have a nicer display. Airs are a little long in the tooth and have massive bezels. The price of the base pros is bloody good too.

Once the cash comes through Ill go and have a proper look, eye up what i can afford against what i really need. It might be worth it if the screens are that different, I still use photoshop on some very big files...

Im gutted that the original was pinched its got a fair chunk of unrecoverable data on there as they had one of my backup drives too. It had lasted 4 years without an issue and i was expecting at least 2 more years out of it. Especially considering my first Mac (Powerbook) did 6 years at the coal face and still operates occasionally as a media server. it really is amazing how long they last with few/no issues.

I lost 6 years of work once, all my portfolio stuff, uni stuff and everything since, laptop and backup drives both stolen. Now EVERYTHING is in Dropbox. 1tb account, iPhoto, iTunes, all work, plus other important files and backups. Bit late now but moving forward I can't recommend Dropbox enough for safe offsite storage. Base MacBook Pro and Dropbox, brand new world. Bosh!

Ive got a hard disk rotation after seeing a friend lose their thesis to dirty thieves. Thats why ive only lost a few months of stuff, I rotate whenever I visit my parents so both wont be swiped. I dont like the cloud storage because i used to move about a lot and they are useless without broadband. moving big documents into the cloud can be an arse even if you have broadband.

I prefer google drive, they dont try quite so hard to get me to buy more storage or spam my friends.

At the moment I'm finding onedrive (MS offering) to be good for this. Unlimited cloud storage if you buy office. I pay £60 for a year's subscription to Office (for 5 machines) and get unlimited storage. Works out cheaper than Dropbox with Office as well.

I forgot you have to pay a subscription to most cloud services. Another reason for my hard drives £40 or so and you have it for ages, though my first ever external still works its only 64 GB.

If you go for an Air make sure you max out the ram. The main bonus of the Air is how light it is.

• slings 15kg rucksack of camera gear over shoulder *
  

So I'm getting the dreaded vertical blue line graphics card glitch again on my late 2011 MBP... It popped up a couple of years back but went away after an OS update...

Did I read here that Apple were extending warranties on these machines because of it? It's a bit annoying...

https://www.apple.com/uk/support/macbookpro-videoissues/