Hi all, I have just purchased this early 2013 retina mbp and when I try to turn it on it does nothing but spin up the fans. It has no SSD in it however I would expect it to still boot to a screen with the flashing folder icon. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Does anyone know any fixes? I’ve tried all the PRAM and SMC resets which were no help and I’ve tried it with the battery disconnect but the fans just spin up all the way. I’ve also used an external drive with El Capitan installed on it but still nothing would come on the screen. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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As you can see when I first open up activity monitor, it shows a large spike in battery usage and then levels off. I'm not doing anything different before I open activity monitor, I'm just taking lecture notes in Chrome. I was wondering if anyone knows why this could be happening? I want to make sure I don't someone have a mining virus that is able to hide itself when I check activity monitor.

What is the fair value for this Mac? Is 2800CAD (~2000 USD) a good price if it has a 6 months AppleCare and Magic mouse? Any ideas?

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Hey all,

I bought a Refurbished 14-inch MacBook Pro Apple M3 Pro Chip with 11‑Core CPU and 14‑Core GPU - Space Black. But I feel like the performance is not what it should be.

It may be a placebo effect from being "refurbished" but I feel the PC is a bit slow when using it with simple tasks.

I mainly use it for work, I'm in sales and work with a few extensions such as Salesforce, Apollo, Vidyard, Grammarly and my AI Notetaker. And I only use mainly, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Google Workspce (gmail, slides, docs, sheets). I'm the type of guy who doens't like to have tons of tabs open so I mostly have around 5.

However, computer seems to be REALLY slow in general, writing an email or opening a "big" threaded email, lead generation in LinkedIn Sales Nav with Apollo extension.

Is this normal? Or perhaps refurbished PCs have less computing power? How can I test my computer to really see if it's working properly.

EDIT: Here's a video of me using it with LinkedIn Sales Navigator + Apollo. Not sure if you can tell that I clicked the dropdown and it took a second to come down and a second to get the darker color of the mouse being over the option.

EDIT 2: I also noticed that when double clicking chrome to maximize the window, it has a 1 sec delay.

https://reddit.com/link/1fal5db/video/67ow7eq088nd1/player

Thanks!

Just got a new 16in M3 MacBook Pro.

Usually when I get a laptop I run macsfancontrol to make sure the fans work.

Unfortunately I downloaded this app but when I set the value to maximum I don’t hear the fans, and the RPM doesn’t go up.

I can’t tell whether this is an issue with the macsfancontrol software or a hardware issue with my fans.

Any advice? Any other ways to test fan operation status other than the macsfancontrol app?

Hello everyone! I'm looking into upgrading to a MacBook Pro with +16gb ram. I'm coming from a base MacBook Air M1 purchased in December last year, but since I use the machine for mobile development with Flutter, I want to move up to a machine with more capacity and power.

The thing is, I have been looking at Best Buy for prices and from time to time good deals appear, but I want to know, which season is better to find good prices for MBP's? Whether it's Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, a specific month... etc. So, which season is best to pull the trigger and buy at the best price?

I purchased a MBP M2 MAX 16inch last summer, trying to sell it, I don't really use it, its been used lightly, on and off throughout the year, but nothing intensive, but I'm also not trying to sell it to BestBuy or Apple for only $1k. I'm trying to get recommendations on the best way/place to sell it. Any advice is appreciated. Here are the specs:

Hi Guys,

I have recently transitioned from being a pcmasterrace kind of person, to a new Macbook cult member. I needed a machine that was powerful enough to dock and handle heavy design and coding, as well as something I could easily travel with that had a great battery, power, and doesn't run scalding hot. I am getting rid of my Lenovo p1 Gen 4 (I hated it) and my 4090, i9 powered massive pc tower I built last year. It was my dream to build a super powerful gaming PC and after I finally did, I never played a single game on it. Go figure. I built it for Baldurs Gate 3, but then life happened and I never even installed the game. Hopefully one day in the future, I will get back to my gaming roots.

Since I don't even play games anymore, it was time to just make the switch. I took advantage of the $500 off from Bestbuy last week and then got another $500 off for signing up for their program ($49) and then also got 5% cash back for using my best buy card.

All I can say is, "my god", is it so nice to have all my devices on the same ecosystem. It is heaven. This thing is silent, docket to my ultrawides, and beautiful.

Aside from relearning how to use a computer, what I am struggling with in setting this up is learning about audio and what the best course of action is.

I have a Macbook m3 Max 16in that I am docking to a Caldigit T4. (I know, it's all overkill, don't jump on me)

I am trying to hook up my logitech z5500 ideally to the Caldigit Dock. The dock only has 3.5mm ports. Same as the Macbook. The Logitech z5500 has the 3 wire hookup (green, black, orange) and an optical port.

Is there any way that I can achieve actual surround sound with my speakers still? What would be the best course of action?

Here is my current setup. Only thing missing is the laptop stand that comes today.

Thank you guys!

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I found a refurbished macbook pro 13 2018 in the upgreat website Specs 512gb ssd 8gb Processor: i5 2.3 GHz

Price being 749€

Is it worth it or not? Since i live in lithuania my second option would be buying a refurbished macbook pro from amazon.de but its hard for me to find trust worthy reliable sellers or atleast i think so cause its my first time buying a macbook i would apreaciate all the help! Thanks!

This is going to be my first macbook.And I'm not getting should I purchase M3 with 16-512 or M3 pro with 16-512 as I'm going to take student discount and I added up everything there is a difference of 6-7 thousand(70-80 dollars) between both of them.Plz suggest me what should I do. My work is going to be related with coding and some editing also.Plz help as quickly as possible.

What's your recommendation for an intel macbook pro I can get with at least 16 gb ram that will run the best bang for buck.

I need it for dual booting windows/tails and basically any other non mac purpose. Preferably with the touchbar.

Hi, as far as geekbench shows, the m2 pro is worse than m3 (no pro) in single core, but further ahead in multi-core. I wonder if multi-core performance more important for webdev job? I mean, does vscode, vite, npm, browser, webpack and other dev related software optimized for multi-core and will they get performance improvement over M3? Or will M3 be better overall?

I'm tagging this as discussion because I'm not really asking for a resolution, I'm just curious if this is a known issue. I've been using an Intel mac since 2019 for my job, so the M chips are still newer to me.

Curious if anyone else has seen this issue before.

When I open the activity monitor when running a REALLY intensive 3d printing configuration activity, the memory usage for that process continues to increase well into the 200GB range until the application crashes.

My machine has 36gb of memory, and the disk usage is nowhere near enough to believe that I'm swapping 170gb of disk data...

I'm guessing this is a bug but I'm not really finding any examples of it on the internet!

Is anyone familiar with this issue? It happens reliably whenever I run the intensive operation (slicing a large model).

Folks! I have been a windows based person for many years. However, I’ve wanted to make the switch due to design reasons and also because I’ve been an iPhone user since 2011 and always upgrade every year!

I’ve been a 3D mechanical designer for many years so used to hot machines!

Soooo I need help and advice on what to buy for my first MacBook Pro. I will be operating Adobe Illustrator which needs at least 16 gig of ram. I can’t afford a new one as I am a business startup. I am thinking maybe $1,200 max for my first MacBook. I have read a lot of you despise intel driven laptops.

I joined this sub to learn more so I can make the switch so I greatly appreciate any and all suggestions which release to look for. I have seen some refurbished machines on eBay but was told to stay away from those as you have no guarantees what parts were used in the rebuild!

I look forward everyone’s guidance!

Hi there! I have a pretty new macbook pro, and its my first. When I copy/paste files on my mac I do not get any notifications on what to do if the name already exists, it just overwrites the file(s). How do I get this notification to pop up??

Upon another suggestion i tried "moving the com.apple.finder.plist located in /Users/username/Library/Preferences/ to the Desktop, log out and back," and that did not work. Any help is greatly appreciated!

I was hoping to wait it out until the new MacBooks came out but lo and behold my 2017 intel MacBook Pro gave up last week and I went out and bought the new pro. Now I see that Apple is having an event on the 9th and they’ll probably announce the dates for the new one 😭.

Trying to stay positive because I’ve heard many people say anything after the 2017 is going to be a huge upgrade but I still feel the fomo of missing the new release by a hair.

Hey guys, i’m really interested in getting a macbook, but i’ve done research on swap memory usage, and if 8GB of RAM is enough and I’m torn between the two.

i’d like to save money on it, but is programming considered heavy usage? videos i’ve seen state if u are a general user 8GB is fine, but if you are rendering all day or 4K video editing then 16GB is what you need, what about the midde?

I’d probably have at most about 15 tabs open (safari), visual studio code, joplin open, and command line at once. maybe other applications like spotify, discord, mail apps, finder as well. would 8GB be fine? or should i suck up the extra $300 AUD. If I would scraping about 8GB after those uses then i think the swap memory usage would be good enough that i don’t need to go 16gb, right?

sorry if it’s a dumb question or if its subjective, i really cannot decide after doing my research.