Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Price drop on my 23" Cinema Display as I'm in the process of boxing it up. Would be happy to let it go for £185 if any LFGSSers fancy it before eBay next week.

Cheers. It has a cheap mobo and an i3 4150 1150 socket... wanna chuck the top 4ghz i7 in there... think it should be ok... power supply is enough, socket fits, anything else I need to check?

Motherboard is definitely compatible (i.e. will support it at a hardware level, for PC or Mac), cooling will be sufficient for the more power hungry processor (you may well need to upgrade it)?

Can't think of anything else.

Awesome. Will I need to reinstall OS or owt?

No. What is it again, I don't know if you mentioned or I lost track? And what boot loader will you be/are you using?

You should post the answer to that here by the way:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/163086/

I imagine the TRUE Mac lovers are getting pretty bored of all this hack speak :)

I'll head over there then! And cheers!

I'd recommend separate drives over two partitions...

Is any of this a legit issue on standard bootcamp? Mine's been perfectly behaved for the last 3 years and knowing that I potentially shouldn't trust it is annoying.

I don't think so. I haven't heard of it being a problem and boot camp isn't just software, it uses the firmware in your Mac, which is why you can't use boot camp on a hackintosh, but this means that it knows to look for the boot camp stuff first. I think it keeps it on a tiny hidden partition on your hard drive, IIRC, which messing about with Windows wouldn't affect.

Jolly good. Missed the bit where, if anywhere, skinny mentioned he was on a hackintosh.

Pretty much ready to cry.

I backed up my sons iPad this morning, checked that the backup had worked. 1.2gb of cloud storage used. Installed ios9 and it went tilt. Spent all day getting it working and ended up having to do a full reinstall.

Tried to restore from backup... nothing there.

Years of memories, irreplaceable as i have split from his mum, gone.

Destroyed.

Does anyone have any ideas whether they can be retrieved from apple's servers?

Are you sure you are signed on to the correct icloud account?

Also can you remember if all the backup options (i.e. photos, contacts, etc.) where on when you backed it up? I'm not sure if they are on by default.

I'm a bit wary of solely relying on cloud storage, I always make sure to do a hard back up through iTunes of my phone every so often.

Yeah. Checked all the toggles for backing up before I did it. It's worked before just this time everything's gone. When I started restoring, I signed into my sons cloud account and it gave me the option of restoring from this morning backup. Then bricked a second time and now that backup isn't there anymore. I'm hoping Apple can pull it out the bag tomorrow when I call them.

On iCloud, you should be able to get all the photos and contacts anyway. Not sure how easy it is to get them all downloaded at once though...

What happens when you log in to icloud.com?

Update. I rang apple before work. Apparently on their end they can see a backup from the ipad with 600+ photos in the camera roll. It's a know fault with the new os and I should hang slack until they push a fix out in the next few days then restore it again and hopefully see the backup file.

Phew! That's a real relief.

They've not had great luck recently with software. Apple music and now this...

I'm debating signing up to that Apple music so the kid can listen to whatever he wants.... Well for the 3 month trial then ill reassess. Is it rubbish?

I must confess even with these issues I still prefer my mac over windows.

If you've ripped CDs at a high bitrate, it replaces them with 256kbps... Just an fyi.

What is the best (where best = easiest) way of running a solitary windows application (Shimano eTube) on my Mac?

bootcamp

After a trip to the Apple store, I'm now umming and ahhing between 15inch mbp and 27inch imac (both retina). Same price as each other (a lot more than the 13inch mbp). I think I was suckered by the ridiculous screen on the imac though.

Really depends on what you are using it for. If its just to use in the house then maybe the iMac would be better value but if you need to take it around then a macbook is going to be the best choice. You can always get a macbook and then get an external monitor to use it with (4K ones are getting cheaper and cheaper).

iMac.
I rarely take my Macbook anywhere... get a big iMac and enjoy the big screen and its power... grab a S/H air or an iPad if you really need portability.

@haveo @chrisbmx116
You have neatly encapsulated my quandry! I'm not sure how much extra power the imac really has (graphics card aside) and to get the flash storage and 16gb of ram the macbook has, you bump the price up almost another £400, essentially the cost of an external monitor.
At the moment the laptop would be docked a lot at home but possibly not in future. I don't do graphics work, just music and video stuff.