The Macbook Pro 2017 15" screen is showing pink colors on the side edges. Nothing that will get in the way, the dock icons are ok, and on the external 1440p monitor it works perfectly. I checked and the replacement cost is high in my region and it is not even worth it, is this related to the time of use of the retina display?

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A spider made its way into the vent between my keyboard and screen… Does anyone know if this mark left on my screen is secretions or what? I ran a game and had the fans kicking for quite an hour or so and I didn’t see anything crawl out.

I’ve only had my MacBook for two days and I’m just worried that something will happen down the line if it keeps coming out to leave messes on my screen or if its corpse/webs are stuck in there.

I do have an M2 MacBook Air and thinking of getting an iMac M3. Can I use the iMac as external monitor for my MacBook Air? Via thunderbolt?

I am a curious guy, pretty smart but not genius. Definitely not genius IMO. But I have incredible imagination. Since my childhood I have thought and invented most things we have nowadays way before released, predicted all financial markets etc… Still know I have a HUGE amounts of ideas and I can predict the future very far away. It is just knowledge coupled with logic and imagination. In the right environment I may be one of the best person in the world in this regard.

Sounds conceited and bullshit I agree, but it’s the truth that has been proved right again and again and I am sure, will be again for most of my life.

This makes a lot of things boring actually as I saw it already very long ago. But thank to the internet and tech  I have an infinite source of informations and possibilities of creation.

Alright so know I said I was no genius but have a huge ability to imagine things and predict. I have sometimes, pretty rare lightning effects in my brain. You probably know we only use a tiny fraction of our brain capabilities most of the time, well in those moments I definitely use way more than normal. I have moment when I receive multiples ideas that branch in others ideas etc… a huge tree. Not only I receive tons of ideas but they are very good and pertinent ones. I write faster, think faster, react faster. It’s like my brain overclock for a short moment. Time slow, it’s like there is nothing around me, the focus is so intense and I have a huge urge to write/act. I got more of those moments when I was younger but it is always impressing. I have no idea when it comes but when it comes I do crazy things, I would never have thought possible and I don’t realise in the moments. Happened for ideas, for work, for sport, for exams etc… Beat records in speed, result, precision etc… Looks like a superpower I can’t control 😂 Also weird things happen around me like a curse, so I would have definitely be called a Witch in the middle ages lmao. I am not superficial but people around me become after crossing me. All of this sounds bullshit and I am not asking anyone to agree with me. 

Anyways all of this too say I love and need to write my ideas and visions for the future. That’s was a small intro, let’s talk the matter.

I got once again one of those intense focus and ideas flow moment recently. I wrote it all down in my Apple Notes. Wrote it very fast and said I would make it clean later because the flow of ideas was very intense and fast. I got ideas for macOS. If implanted it would be:

• Biggest MacOS update ever 
• Safest OS in the world
• Most private OS in the world
• Safest users on the whole web (so not just on-devices)
• Industry pioneer

OMG that sounds again bullshit… Yet it’s still true and it sound like apple words, they love to use superlative in WWDC. And if I sent this to Tim, I am pretty sure he would call engineers right away to work on my ideas. 

Where am I going with all of that ? Well the note was in my Apple Notes app, iCloud synced. Decided to open it today to sort it, make a clean note and … it’s gone. All of it is gone. I searched on iPhone, on mac and no it’s really gone forever.

This was my best note ever and I have a tons of notes but this one is gone. I have no idea how it happened, I have no explanations whatsoever, probably a bug. I would never have deleted it and never an accident like that happened to me. Supernatural event, time traveler ?😂

Could I rewrite it ? Yes and no. It is absolutely impossible for me to trigger this brain flow, I wouldn’t even believe this is possible if I did not experience it. This is rare, sudden and so fast that even fast typing is hard to follow the ideas. I can remember a small portion of it and not the whole thing which is a shame.

I think the note has high value but I have no idea how to get it back if it’s even possible.

So the question is. Can you think of any advanced way to recover a note entirely deleted from Apple notes ? 

Both currently the same price and new in store. Same memory at 16gb but the pro has 1tb while the air has 512gb of storage.

I would like to use these machines for video editing and photography along with other lighter tasks. Will be taking with me on the go too but the weight doesn’t bother me.

Really I just want to get the most out of what I’m paying for and since they are the same price new at $1,350 usd, which should I go for? Also never owned Mac before so I don’t know much between M1 and M3 chips.

Playing Roblox, even in games with simple graphics, the whole computer can freeze, sometimes unfreeze, but eventually flash red and permanently freeze roblox, making me close it. This also causes graphical errors on the rest of my computer, making random colors and text warp severely, but it goes away if I interact with the applications it happens on. I have a 2019 iMac, 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 processor, Radeon Pro Vega 20 4 GB graphics.

Also, isn't it weird that trackpad settings and mouse settings are the same? Why don't they separate the two? They serve the same thing but in very different ways. For example, I always have to toggle natural scrolling depending on if I am using the trackpad or a mouse.

Hey everyone,

I am a dj among many other things and i recently updated to an ssd. My HDD used to show me the Previous 7 days previous 30 days option in finder which was very helpful in identifying which folders I had just dropped music to so that i can focus on those and drop that new music into my dj software. I don't know why I am not longer seeing that option and the folders no longer go up to the top of the list when I modify (add songs) to the folder. Anyone know how to turn that back on?

I have already tried the view>show view options>group by kind>sort by date modified and vice versa and nothing.

Say I have dropped some files into a folder in my ssd, nothing changes, it doesn't get separated into last 7 days, last 30 days, but if i go into the folder, it shows the files were added or modified "today". I go back and look at the folder and its showing nothing has been added since a previous date. So confusedddd

M3 macbook pro. the pop up keeps appearing constantly after I updated to 14.6.1. I have nothing to update, is this a bug?

So, I'm coming back to the apple eco system (probably) because I'm eyeing a MacBook, but I have an old apple id linked to my old iphone 6, the issue is that I jail broke that device long ago, and might have used my I'd in a hackintosh VM(can't remember that's how old this is) so should I make a new id just in case to not get banned suddenly? Or is it okay since it wasn't banned for years (maybe since 2019) also I don't have another phone number to link and my apple id is linked to family sharing with another device (still in use)

Hey guys!

I Just bought a Magic Mouse to use on my M1 MacBook Pro 2 months back. I would like to know what's the battery life on it. I seem to charge it every 2-3 days. Is this normal? Also, is there a way to check the number of hours the mouse of used, like how we can check on iPhone or Mac?(The number of hours on battery)

Thank you

Hello! I have Macbook pro m2 with 8/512 specs.

Is there any way to connect 2 external monitors with that? But still able to use the mac’s display as well?

Please help. Thanks in advance!

Title is pretty much all there is. Currently rocking a 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4. Really not a fan of the idea of an Intel processor in a Mac, it feels like they've lost a part of what makes them special. Plus I think the battery and performance boosts are insanely overhyped by the tech bloggers and press. Any thoughts? Is it worth it?

Hello, I have a 2021 macbook pro M1 max 16" that suddenly stopped playing videos on any platform after being disconnected from an HDMI connection to a Samsung television. The HDMI connected got unplugged accidentally when the tv said "recognizing device".

Videos play just fine when the hdmi is reconnected but do not as soon as I take away the external display. This is a huge issue as I am a video editor and need the machine for on the go editing. Premiere Pro also freezes on open. Interestingly, on quicktime the videos open but don't play, however on VLC they play without sound (all preferences are set to macbook speakers).

I have updated software, restarted, turned off, and reconntected to TV several times.

PLEASE if anybody has any advice on this issue, let me know.

Does anyone have an up to date fix for the latency issues with MacBook keyboard? It started after installing Sonoma. As of this date I now have the most up today date version.

Here is the problem that has happend a few months ago then randomly corrected itself.

The keyboard letters take around 6-7 seconds to appear when I ve typed them across All applications. I can get them to appear quicker by tapping the mouse pad on the curser after I've typed the letter I want to appear. Very strange.

Alongside this, the mouse curser acts strange. It sometimes takes on a mind of its own and will speedily scroll through the settings menu and click different section that I have made it do. Keyboard will open make a repeated 'fault' noise as well as if I've typed something that cant happen.

MacBook pretty much useless at the moment.

I have an MB Air M3 15'' MB Air M3 and an LG 27UL850W monitor, what is the optimal resolution or scaling I should set to properly affect macOS performance?

i’m a college student studying music, so i mostly use it to write essays, but i also do some stuff on logic, sibelius (notation software), and very occasionally max msp.

i have been using a 2018 13-in macbook air since 2019 and it seems to be in not great shape. i hope it’ll get me through two more years of my undergrad but its been glitching out in scary ways so i’m not hopeful.

anyway, if i have to buy a new computer, i’d rather buy a refurbished macbook and not break the bank in the process. i’m talking under 1200 maybe. for my needs, what would be the best option at the lowest cost? and can i expect it to last me longer than 5 years?

i was checking out the newer macbook air models but i wonder if i should get an older macbook pro instead? anyway if anyone has any tips on what to look out for when buying a new computer these days i’d appreciate it.

thanks!

As of a year ago maybe, the only barrier to running windows natively on apple silicon are drivers, which microsoft won't provide because of their contract with qualcomm. Is there any progress being made on community developed driver or any other options?

And no VM is not an option for me, and everyone saying "just get a pc" can leave

Ive been looking at a few MacBook models from the air (m3/2) and the pro (m3 pro) with 18 gb 512 gb 14 inch but also a second hand M1 Max (32 gb 1tb) 16 inch. I’ve been contemplating on choosing between them I like the trackpad on the pros better then on the air but I havnt really fully felt the keyboard differences of the pro and the air.

What should I go for? I’ll be using it for computer science and school work while programming on the side and web browsing.

If I were to go for the second hand M1 Max what should I be looking out for and what should I be asking the seller.

Coming from a base model MacBook Air early 2015

Thanks for reading

Hi all. Had my trust 2015 13inch MacBook Pro (8gb) since 2016 brand new. It has done me extremely well over the years. My main uses are: watching tv/movies, streaming sports, the odd excel or word document and playing old game’s occasionally (emulating Pokémon, OSRS, these kinds of things. Nothing too strenuous.

In the last couple of months though it has started running extremely hot, almost too hot to touch above the keyboard, and running quite slowly. The battery is still reasonable enough, lasting a couple hours streaming or 3-4 hours just on word/excel. I recently took the bottom off to see if there was any debris blocking the air intakes but it was remarkably clean for how old it is.

I am aware that this computer is now 8 years old, however I would like to keep it running if possible, and don’t fancy buying a new one just yet.

I run the most updated OS for this model, which is Monterey.

Any tips or tricks to help my MacBook survive and thrive? Anything would be great :)

Hi! Fam.

I've been facing this issue for a while now, my MBP M1 chip doesn't boots in a single attempt and if it does it won't take charging even when the usb is plugged in.

Sometimes it gets booted but no wifi tray or any other icons available in top right of screen. Only Siri and Search icon. One case is that it goes to system recovery, installs all of it and then still act same.

anic(cpu 5 caller 0xfffffe0028050744): "virtual bool AppleTunneledPCIE::start(IOService *):360: REQUIRE failed: _tunnelClientManager != nullptr" u/AppleTunneledPCIE.cpp:360

Debugger message: panic

Memory ID: 0x6

OS release type: User

OS version: 23G93

Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 23.6.0: Mon Jul 29 21:14:21 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.141.2~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103

I have business meeting tomorrow and it's least supportive. Updated to latest version already.

I'm currently running a Late 2015 5k 27" iMac. It's served me incredibly well and is still running strong. It's about to hit its 10 year anniversary. I'm preparing to shop for a new mac soon.

For my workload, I work heavily with Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro. A dabble in some pixelmator, but I doubt that's so demanding, spec wise.

The only issue I'm having with my choice is that neither are upgradable. I upgraded my current iMac to 32gb ram and 4tb ssd storage.

Problem is, Apple decide to charge extortionate amounts for their upgrades (8tb costs over 800 euros!). Which machine would serve my needs best here?

Also to note, I have a nice 4k BenQ monitor here that I could use if I went with the Mac Studio.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I am having trouble with my mouse whenever i have to use it where i will need to click something and it will not register so i have to click it a couple times for it to work and its making stuff really frustrating. I have already tried using a different mouse but that did not change anything. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Looking for a bit of guidance regarding MacBooks and external monitors. I currently have an M1 Pro MacBook Pro. I have 2 Samsung M8 4k 60hz monitors attached to it via USB-C cables. Additionally I have a USB-C dock attached in the remaining port, which provides ethernet and additional I/O. This setup is working great.

My work has provided a terrible Dell laptop. After seeing how unsuitable it is for my work they've agreed to supply a 15 Inch M3 MacBook Air (result!). My issue is that the Air only has two USB-C ports, and I'm using 3 for my setup. I've tried routing the two monitors through the dock, but it wasn't able to power both monitors doing this.

I've done a bit of reading and got confused, so wanted to check with the experts before spending some big cash. Am I right in thinking that now that the MacBook Air supports dual monitors when the lid is closed, it can, in theory, have two 4k 60hz monitors through a single cable? Is the setup I need a Thunderbolt 3 dock, Thunderbolt 3 cable attached to the Air, and both monitors attached to the dock? Or have I misunderstood the setup required?

I'm also seeing some (Anker) Thunderbolt Docks which say they don't support M1 MacBooks. I'm assuming this is the base M1, not the M1 Pros?