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My 2023 M2 Mac Studio Max 64GB/1TB, solely for music production.
One day I used an iphone charger to charge my mac. since that day, it takes hours to charge the battery. what can I do to solve that?
has anyone had this happen to them? I'd turn it on, and the display would just be completely black, you could see the backlight in the back of the screen but nothing shows
if i just leave it sit for 3 minutes, the display randomly comes on as if nothing happened and i have no problems from there
i've only seen this happen if i have it outside in a bag, and come inside and open it up. Could it be that the cold is affecting it and needs a minute to warm up?
I have no electricity at home and I need to use another laptop which is currently dead. My MacBook air has power and I don't need to use it rn so I was wondering if I could get my other laptop charged with it. It's usbc powered.
I’m fairly new to using a Mac and all of a sudden I am having problems with any and all audio coming from it. I’m using the latest Mac mini. And it seems whenever I’m watching YouTube or Safari or any app that produces noise. It creates a Skippy laggy audio. The CPU isn’t maxed out nor is the ram there’s not many windows open. I don’t know what the problem is. This just happened all of a sudden. Any ideas?
i tried everything from spamming the enter button, holding the power button, plugging it in, options ctrl n command but nothing will turn it on the pad isnt clickable and i cant go to a repair shop now, is there a way at home thag works?
My Macbook Air 2022 M2's Webcam/Inbuilt-Camera is not being detected. Photo booth is just black with a grayed-out shutter button. This was not a problem that came out of the box, my camera worked initially but a few months ago I remember that I could have (May have misremembered this)slightly remember turning some setting off and my camera would turn off. However I only slightly remember that and it could be totally false. Just please send help and send all possible solutions as I probably misremembered "turning off" the camera. If it helps my macbook is managed by Jamf MDM and i'm not admin.
When looking at system report under hardware and then under camera it reads "No video capture devices were found."!
I am on macOS Ventura 13.5...
I got this Mac book pro two years ago it keeps offloading my files to cloud causing me not to be able to edit in DaVinci. I’m clearing storage onto an external drive and this is showing up. No matter how much stuff I move I still don’t have storage.
Hello everyone, I am in difficulty my Mac is in sin a situation where I don't understand how to solve, if there is anyone who can help me I would be grateful.
Description:
the Mac turns on but it goes to white screen then black screen with flashing write bar and from there it doesn't move.. the keys don't work, the keyboard is original it gets power because the mouse led lights up but it doesn't give any sign so it becomes impossible to give it commands.
Gave this problem after booting Windows 10 from system preferences Startup Disk, on reboot the above happened, before everything was fine with its 10.7.8 and everything worked.
Now it turns on regularly no problems on power button or warning sounds, it just stays stuck on that black screen. I also changed the battery pad but no dice!
Does anyone know how to unlock the Mac from this situation?
Anyway thank you in advance!
Please excuse my writing but I don't speak English using the translator if there should be any mistakes!
Best regards,
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I'm a CS major student currently in my 3rd year (just started). It's been 5 years of my old laptop which is Dell's Inspiron. All of my coding works smoothly (kind of) on my windows except PyCharm, it laggs pretty badly and it's because of my processor and RAM (8gb). I have been wanting to buy a new Device which i can carry anywhere, and a long lasting battery. This Laptop which i currently use is very heavy and battery life just sucks. I want an experienced opinion on what should i buy now. My budget ranges from 50k to 70-80K. I'm not thinking of buying a gaming laptop because it's way too heavy with poor battery life and I'm gonna get carried away and not focus on my studies. I'm thinking to a buy MAC M2, as it's light weight and very powerful. Also I already have a windows so i can split my work now, and I have an iPhone so connectivity would be good. Although if i may think about it more, getting an intel ultra or a professional laptop won't be a bad choice either. And I'm genuinely confused
Hello everyone
I bought an MBP last year at the end of 2013, for cheap.
The battery is at 60% capacity for 1500 cycles, is this dangerous?
I would like to change the battery, any advice from a site that sells quality parts outside of Apple?
I am using 2015 MBP and running Sequoia with OCLP but Apple's native apps(Safari, Music, Settings) keep on quitting when I type something. If I restart it it becomes ok, but it comes up again and again. But it's not like I can't live with this. Should I keep using Sequoia or should I go back to Monterey? Any opinions appreciated!
hi i am looking to buy a used macbook to replace my current lenovo chromebook for college in the next couple weeks and i’ve found some options so far
2015 macbook pro 13”, i5, 8gb ram, iris6100 graphics
2016 macbook pro 13”, i7, 8gb ram, iris550 graphics
2017 macbook pro 13”, i5, 8gb ram, iris plus 650
It will be used mainly for taking notes on google docs during class and watching movies in bed, i have a windows pc for video editing and light gaming so i don’t expect this to do any heavy work.
All of these can be found on marketplace for around 300CAD with the 2015 i5 being cheapest for 300 or less, 2017 i5 ~350 and 2016 i7 ~400
Portability is a must for me so i’ll be stuck with the intergrated graphics in the 13” models unfortunately. I’m not too worried about storage since i have icloud family sharing and im assuming i can use icloud for my laptop as well?
is the i7 worth the extra money while having a lesser graphic on paper? Im not sure how the real life performance compares between them. Can the 2015 still survive in 2024 which it almost being 10 years old? (though they are quite abit cheaper) i have also seen the 2015 macbooks being praised while 2017 ones usually not perceived well. why is that?
cheapest m1 airs in my area is at least $600-700 so i am not spending double the money, considering my program ends in 2 years and i will most likely upgrade then if i do like the mac experience, btw this will be my first mac device, i want to try out mac os without having to spend a whole bunch, not looking for anything fancy !
any insight would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Hi all, I have a new MacBook Air that I’ve loved using but recently I keep getting notifications popping up saying “approve [my name]’s iPhone?” And it saying it wants to connect to my iCloud account. Thing is my phone is already connected to my iCloud account. This notification keeps popping up every 15 mins or so no matter how many times I decline. I have downloaded some files from piracy websites recently so I want to know if this is a scam/virus happening or just something weird.
Currently running a 2.2 GHz quad core I7. MacBook Pro mid 2014 with 16 GB ram and a measly 251gb storage. For a 10 year old MBP it's till running very strong!!
But the time has come to start looking at the newer models and the M chips. I'm a musician/graphic artist and my projects can get heavy. I'm most likely to get a laptop but I'm interested in having both a portable computer and a "mother ship" so to speak.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Sorry if I left out any pertinent details!
Cheers!
Hello , i just bought a macbook pro 2011 15 inch with 2.2 i7 12GB ram and an amd gpu , from what i have read they are very unreliable and i wanted to know a way to prevent damaging the gpu , i am using oclp with monterey and i turned on the accelerations, the temps on the intel were high so i have to replace the thermal paste.
The gpu from what i see its working fine for now , should i just disable it for preserving it and use the integrated one , ? On day to day basics should feel a difference without it? And if you guys have some tips on optimizing the oclp to manage the OS better , I didn’t find anything online for those kind of questions.
Hey guys, do you know why my MacBook 💻 Pro mid-2012 Sierra doesn’t recognize floppy discs? I’ve bought a Sony pcga-ufd5, it works on windows but not on my MacBook 😭
Do I need to install a special driver? I do not found anything on Sony website!
https://www.sony.lu/fr/electronics/support/accessories-personal-computer-accessories/pcga-ufd5
Many thanks 😊 for your help!
I think 2 months ago when it happened, I was updating my iMac then the power got cut off but then returned, I tried booting my iMac again but all I got was a response from the mouse, it turns on but then turns off again then turns back on again, its still taking in power but the iMac is still blank, I tried many tutorials and tried different techniques but none of them work, now I'm desperate enough to just factory reset the thing
Hello everyone! I tried hunting this reddit to see if I could find a solution to my problem but I couldn't find anything conclusive, just speculation. My current ordeal is I have a dual monitor setup for my PC and was working on a laptop docking situation for my m3 pro macbook pro. I stupidly didn't check the display requirements before setting everything up and bought an Anker USB C hub that has 2 HDMI ports on it thinking it would work. I now see that it supports dual display via 1 HDMI 1 USB C/Thunderbolt.
This wouldn't be too big of a deal other than the fact that both of my monitors only have the option for Display Port or HDMI and are not thunderbolt compatible. I currently have my second display working off an HDMI switcher and my main has a .bat file made to switch to the HDMI input my mac uses. I use my main monitor for gaming so that DP needs to be connected to my PC, I could switch the second to DP if needed but HDMI is preferred.
I was wondering if anyone has had success with an HDMI/DP to USB C cable/adapter that has let them use dual monitor support. I really don't wanna start purchasing a bunch of things only for none of them to work. Ideally, I'd love to find a dual HDMI to USB C adapter that just works as one item but I understand that may just not be possible so at this point I don't really mind having to plug in an extra USB C cable to my macbook.
Please let me know if anyone has found a solution that's worked for them! Thank you!
Edit: I thankfully got it to work by connecting 1 monitor to the HDMI on the hub and the other to the HDMI on the mac. Ideally I'd prefer something that can connect to the side with the 2 USB C ports and MagSafe since that's the side that faces out. This now makes me wonder though, is it considering the USB C hub that doesn't support thunderbolt, a thunderbolt connection? I'm normally really good with tech but this whole ordeal has me kinda stumped.
I have 174GB of system data out of 256GB of storage total. I have some apps that require free disk space to open (Fusion360, Keyshot, Parallels Desktop for school). If I completely reset my mac then reinstall everything will this help w/ my storage issue? I'm trying to hold off on getting a new mac until Cyber Monday where I'd like to upgrade to a mac to at least 512GB of storage.
For the past week every time I shut down my iMac (2019 27inch) it restarts and shows me this, then I shut it down again and the second time it works.
anybody had this problem? Is it a virus?
Hello everyone.
I am currently using a Macbook Air.
On my message app, there is a email address that does not belong to me and it also mentioned there is 2 unread.
How do I get rid of that email address?
Hi all,
I recently purchased a 2015 MacBook Air A1466 from a friend for very cheap. There is an issue with the SSD where it takes extremely long to load things and almost impossible to work. I am going to upgrade the SSD and battery as both seem to be pretty much dead, but I need a boot-drive with MacOS Monterey.
I can't download the installer on this Mac (for reasons above) and I can't seem to find it on Windows anywhere. Is there a third party website I can use to download the installer and .pkg or do I need to tough it out with this Mac?
Thanks!