Hi, I have experienced this issue for quite some time now and I can’t seem to find a solution. Either I don’t how to ask the internet about it or I’m the only one. Whenever I try to open Pages (from app icon or by document) it isn’t working. The dot indicating an open app appears and disappeares in a few second. No error message nothing. Recently I installed ms word and the same thing is happening. MacBook Pro 2019 Ventura 13.0

I purchased M3 Air 15 inch 8/256 from CROMA for like ₹1,10,000 (whose original price is 1,34,900) on 29th October, but cancelled it as 16GB became its base variant. Idk when this base variant gonna roll out, & will I be able to get 16GB base variant too at ₹1,10,000?

I can get the base config 16/512 for that price with the student discount, should i? My use case would be to edit photo and 4k video on the go, bc im often not home where i got my big Win11 powerhouse, so it would be my SECONDARY computer. All the heavy work would be done on desktop pc. Would you pull the trigger?

Hi everyone!

I want to buy a mac.

Do you think the MacBook Air from 2017 is a good and affordable option for 2024? Will apps still run smoothly on this MacBook? What are your thoughts?

Hi everyone!

I'm in a bit of a dilemma with my current setup and workflow, and I’m hoping to get some advice from both Mac and PC enthusiasts (I understand this subreddit is a little biased, but wanted to ask anyway).

I’ve been saving up for a new system for a while now and have a unique work setup that I’m trying to optimize. Here’s a quick overview:

• Current Setup: I have a 6-7 year-old HP Omen gaming PC (32 Gigs of Ram and I think an I7 CPU?) with a 2060 Nvidia GPU and an M1 MacBook Pro (about 3-4 years old).
• My Work: I’m an online fitness and yoga teacher specifically for gamers. My work involves:
  • Teaching live classes over Zoom
  • Editing high-resolution video for YouTube (usually 4K or higher, often working with two 4K files simultaneously)
  • Creating Instagram reels for marketing
  • Writing tasks, scripting, and content planning
• However, I want to start streaming video games 2-3 times a week to add an extra layer to my marketing (I am unsure of the state of mac gaming but I would generally play some popular games that are found on mac).

I love the Mac for all my creative tasks (apart from video editing - it's the 8 GB ram M1 Model) and file transfers to my iPhone (when making reels for instance - the whole ecosystem works so well for this workflow), especially since I travel frequently and bring my MacBook with me. Ideally, I would love to do all of my creative tasks on it when I travel, including editing. Unfortunately, even my home-based current setup struggles with high-resolution video editing. My old gaming PC can’t handle 4K editing smoothly anymore (crashes totally or the GPU crashes), and again, my MacBook, with only 8GB of RAM, can't handle hardly any 4K video editing.

My Question: Would it make more sense to invest in a high-performance PC that can handle both video editing and gaming (and just not do video editing on my travels), or to get one of the new MacBooks (and sell the old M1) for my creative work and save up for a dedicated gaming PC later (and stream on my current PC)? And if Mac is the way to go, which of the new models would be best for handling intensive video editing and being hooked up to a widescreen monitor without breaking the bank?

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this!

Good day Reddit!

So I've had really bad luck with laptops. Having had several fail on me in different ways; It is fair to say I have grown frustrated of them. I am a college student and I would like to have something to get shit done and not die on me, so I wouldn't really care for the latest and cutting-edge laptop out there and certainly I wouldn't want to spend any more good money on one as well, I would like something reliable and cheap so I have been in the market for a used laptop.

I have not owned any Apple products, but I have been told Non-Retina Mid 2012 MacBook Pros are known to be reliable machines. Looks wise it has aged quite well and I wouldn't mind using it. One could make the argument that a 12-year-old machine just doesn't cut it anymore, so I thought about asking for people's opinion and so here I am.

I have grown up with an Acer laptop powered by an Intel Core i5-3230M CPU throughout my childhood, and it has been chugging along and in service despite everything it has been through. So I would have a rough idea of the level of hardware I would be dealing with.

I am planning to use the laptop for fairly simple tasks, such as web browsing, word processing, watching movies and occasionally some light games, photo and video editing software and a lightweight IDE. I have been told the dedicated Nvidia GPU in the 15-inch model is a nice to have, definitely an upgrade over the Integrated Intel GPU, but I like the form factor on the 13-inch better and I could convince myself that there are less parts to go wrong with it as well.

At last, I have noticed it comes as rather sluggish on the latest MacOS Sequoia with OCLP, showing its age despite still being serviceable, one could argue that MacOS is the operating system to have on those machines for usability, but I have been considering to try out Linux on it, so I would like to hear people's experience with that as well!

I will probably make myself very unpopular. I'm looking for a MacBook that I can use both for university and...yes, for playing Sims. Maybe one or two small games from Steam at most. Can you recommend one? I would like a MacBook because I have an Apple smartphone, tablet and watch.

I’m able to get through the day with around 40 percent left on my MacBook Air m3. Will I waste battery cycles if I charge at a still relatively high percentage?

I’m about to buy mbp m3 pro for programming and everyday use, is it good?

I'm currently running an intel chip Macbook Pro from 2019 and am a college student who is about to going into medical school soon to expand my education towards my degree planning. I currently use my Macbook for school so I would have many tabs open and my battery life is pretty bad, fully charged im getting approximately 3 hours of usage. It was a huge selling point when I heard it the newer ones can have up to 24 hour battery life based off of the ads and I would be going through classes throughout the day so I would have night classes and morning classes, but have work in the afternoons. Current software that I heavily use include microsoft word and power point along with having many tabs open for researching and a few electronic books, but also use microsoft excel for work. I just want to know if this would be worth the upgrade considering I am still running an intel processor on my current Macbook, oh and I was also asking this question because I bought my first iPad this year and I use it everyday for school, it's the iPad Pro M4 chip and I'm super impressed with it. Goodnotes 6 was the best $30 I've ever spent on an app because I have an endless amount of note taking equipment now to the point where I no longer carry a physical notebook with me to classes. My apple pencil pro is also my pen, pencil, eraser, highlighter, ruler and marker. It was probably the best amount of money I've ever spent and I told myself it should last me even up to grad school if I decided to go that route, thank you guys in advance!

Planning to upgrade but still undecided. Is this a worthy upgrade?

I'm planning to use it for coding in the future and light gaming (like genshin and stuffs)

I'm looking for alternatives to office software (Word, Powerpoint, ...). There are a bunch of options like Libre office, Google, Pages ... but i don't know which one's better. Anyone got experience with them? Appreciate the help.

Guys, do you happen to use a cooled base for your Macs?

My beloved 12 year old 9 pound beast of a laptop (Samsung 700G7C) is having health issues and I'm researching options for a replacement. I'm not an apple person, but a lot of people recommend mac for my needs, and while very sceptical, I need to look into it. (Or quit trying things I don't initially enjoy for the purpose of keeping an open mind, you tell me.)

My laptop priority is a perfect 17" display that would be reliable for photo editing. It doesn't need to be very fast or powerful, as I edit very little only for my small shop and social media. I sell pretty things and my pages need to look neat and have realistic colours that set right expectations for customers - that's the reason for high quality display priority. I use Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, no crazy heavy video or graphic files.

I know macs are good for this and editing product pics on a screen most of my customers use would be beneficial. There's also not a lot of choice in laptops where I live, and with mac you know what you get if you order abroad. But I'm afraid I won't be able to transition from windows to mac. I have one tray-looking apple device with a pencil and I can't bring myself to use it. It was expensive, but it always ends up in a drawer and I'm back to an old android with teeth marks and a cracked butt (of the android phone I mean). There's nothing wrong with the apple tray, my brain just wants out.

I would appreciate any input from people who used windows prior to mac on the topic of the title question. Is it not worth it to consider a mac in this situation? Or is it just a tool everyone can get used to if they intend to?

Hey guys! If you had to choose between :

1. Grey M2 Max 16" with 32GB and 1TB SSD which was used (by me) for a about a year (97% battery life)

2. Black M3 Pro 16" 18GB and 512GB SSD brand new

For the same price - which one would you choose and why? 🙂

Follow up: If it's the M3 - how much would the M2 need to cost relative to the M3 to change your answer?

Will be there a new release of midnight color for MacBook m4 pro?

Hi,

Would anybody know if getting the current 32 core GPU M3 Max model(refurbished) would be a better option as compared to the current M4 Max 32 core GPU model? I am looking to use it to render graphics real time and stuff. Both are around the same price right now , and i can’t seem to find any information of both models compared directly. The TB5 would come in handy someday but i was wondering if the 40 core GPU on the M3 Max would still outperform the M4 Max (base spec)or not.

Thanks!

I've been planning to buy my first MacBook for weeks now. Originally, I planned to get the MacBook Air M3 16gb/512. I finally got the money but I just saw the launch of the MacBook Pro M4.

I'm mainly using my MacBook for work. I just need to open a lot of tabs and apps that's why I opted out for the Air with 16gb of RAM. However, I'm planning to learn about coding and video editing in the future so that's also a factor I want to consider.

The biggest issue is that the MacBook Pro M4 would come out in our country about two months after the official release. Is it worth it to wait for it or would the Air M3 be enough for everything that I need? I also don't mind the price increase if I get the Pro M4 since the base model already has 16gb of RAM and that's mainly what I need.

My specs are 16/256 gb and I just want to play minecraft, Roblox and a couple other games that aren’t really graphically intense. Will playing for around that long damage my MacBook in anyway? I’m aware there will most likely be throttling after around 20 minutes

I’ve had the MacBook Pro 15” 2.2GHz Quad Core i7, 16GB, 1TB. Pretty sure it’s year 2012. It’s been a trooper but it no longer works & I need to upgrade. This MacBook ran all of the adobe products when I was doing graphics design. I’m no longer doing graphics for commission, but I do like to do simple projects from time to time for myself. otherwise I’d just use it for basic browsing of the internet. I’m trying to decide which laptop to upgrade to and if I even need a MacBook Pro or if the M3 Air would be sufficient. Any advice? Basically I want what I had, plus maybe a bit of an upgrade.

My battery life for macbook M1 dropped to 98% after only 30 cycles. I charge it only till 80 and let it drop till 30. I never keep it plugged in use Al dente most of the time. I use my mac everyday for work and streaming. Is this battery drop normal cause my friend has been using one for 2 years and his is at 97. This really concerned me and had to ask

Any tips for mee?

I hope this post does not get taken down. I work at a huge apple refurbishing company for schools nationwide and it's our job to wipe the computers (some have DEP, Firmware, Activation Lock, Pincode lock). At my company sometimes we would receive macbooks that had been activation unlocked by the vendor before we would get our hands on it.

About 7-200 of these macbooks had issues with the "reset all contents and settings" erasure process where the macbooks would simply not allow you to erase the drive because it thought that it was activation locked, even though activation lock had been taken off. This could be proven by booting it into recovery mode and the recovery menu not forcing you to enter your AppleID password.

So what we would do is open terminal (in recovery menu) and enter "resetpassword" and wait for the password reset screen to show. We never actually resetted the local user password but just wait until the resetpassword configuration screen would pop up. As soon as it did we would turn the macbook off and boot into macOS and use the "reset all contents" setting to reset the laptops, doing this would allow it to skip the fake activation lock screen. Has anyone ever heard of this bug/problem?

Is a MacBook Air m2 2022 still many to purchase or should I spend the extra money and get the 2024 m3, just worried about security updates being cut off on the 2022

Hey Guys, I have a MacBook Air A1466 EMC 3178 Early 2017 model and I’m having a starting issue with my laptop. I took apart my laptop and noticed the entire battery housing is cracked. I replaced it with a new battery from IFIXIT, followed the steps exactly on IFIXIT, and now when I plug in the charger to my laptop, the head of the charger isn’t lighting up. I hold down the power button, and the laptop started up like a Boeing 737 and it turns on. Now here’s the thing, when I go and do my usual routine web searches and all, when I go to unplug the charger, the laptop just shuts down completely and won’t turn on back again. Someone here please help. I don’t know what to do now.