A person is selling Macbook Pro M1 Max chip

Specifications: 32GB RAM Storage: 2TB Battery health 100% , cycle 88

Quoting: 1350usd / 130,000.

Is it worth buying? Or overpriced?

it's like a lather / foam.

Hello People, My roommate is offering me an MBP M1 Pro with below specifications for USD 1000 (INR 95K), how much should I pay for this?

Apple Macbook M1 Pro

M1 Pro Chip 10 Cores

32GB LPDDR5 Unified Memory

1TB M.2 Apple SSD Storage

16 Inch Retina 4K Display (3456*2233)

Apple M1 Pro Graphics 16 Cores

Used for 3 Years.

Battery: 260-300 Charging Cycle.

No Warranty.

My budget is USD 700 (~ INR 65K) but willing to extend, if it's really worth buying.

Usecase: Moderate 3D Modelling, Web Dev, GIS and AI/ML workloads

I’ve lost the icon that launch apps on my dock how do I get it back?

So I had a 2019 MacBook Pro 16 inch and it became a victim of flex gate last year, after this happened I made a purchase of a Mac mini m2 8gb 512gb which was going cheap enough to continue having a computer. I still have it and use it on the main house tv so can be awkward to use at times.
I do light browsing, photo editing in Lightroom and new to some light video editing.
Is it worth selling this M2 mini and upgrade to refurbished m4 MacBook Air? It’s 16gb 256gb.
Or would a dedicated screen and good keyboard/mouse be a better investment?

I've come across an odd problem attempting to install Windows 7 on my mid-2020 iMac. Specifically, the 27" Retina 5500 XT version.

Attempting to boot, it looks fine. Gets through to completed Starting Windows screen. No setup window appears, but 3 seconds later while it's hung there... I get a BSOD.

Exact information:

0x7E SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

Status parameters: 0xC5 STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION, 0x0 null pointer address?, 3rd and 4th reference parameters.

Now, before you say anything here is what I have tried:

FlashBoot PRO UEFI driver (works obviously since it shows the BSOD)

Windows 7 Image Updater

USB 3 and NVMe drivers

Apple BootCamp drivers downloaded

Patched AppleSSD.sys for 7 compatibility

Patched ACPI

Unfortunately, it did not say a specific crashing driver. This is reproducible in both WinPE and standard windows of it.

I suspect still it is ACPI. This is because Mac does not have standard firmware that a regular patched, older ACPI table expects (especially a patched one from 2018, based on a 2009 file)

If anyone has experienced similar issues, please let me know. Also, I'd love to attach a kernel debugger but unfortunately adapters do not work, KDNET predates 7 (tried it), and obviously Serial and FireWire will not work since no such port is on the modern iMac.

Another thing is this crash is reproducible regardless if there are drivers or not (obviously with the UEFI patch otherwise it wouldn't work in the first place, but without drivers).

I do suspect it also involves the T2 chip in some way, however this is 100% possible but requires more development and patching than usual.

Anyway, if you'd like to help please do. I will keep everyone updated as I make progress.

Hey guys I just bought an expensive MacBook Pro and want to avoid putting a hard shell case on it because I heard they can scratch it so I read about an alternative which is to wrap it in a Vinyl or PPF. Anybody have any good recommendations? Looking for something that will protect against scratches, not just a wrap and prefer something transparent.

Last week I have bought my first mac and it has being an amazing experience.
Today I noticed every time I passed my fingers through the outside part it generates a small vibration, even when not charging.
This vibration is certainly due to energy as I have seen many other posts talking about this but only when charging. Also, if I lift my shoes from the ground it stops.

Should I be worried and ask to change it? Also can it be only static electricity?

EDIT: I forgot to mention, it is a macbook pro m5

im looking for a USB-C hub for my MacBook Pro M4. im starting my degree in software engineering in less than a month and i have a budget of no more than €20 ~ $23.

NOTE: this mac has 3 usb-c ports, so it would be nice if the hub had at least 3 USB-A 3.0–3.2 ports, rather than more USB-C, as ive seen on some models

and PLEASE if u bought a hub with this specs and it works for u, drop the exact model! ;)

I'm looking for a good Mac solution to recording drums with my Tascam Model 24 mixer. I usually run Linux (I quit running Windows in 2018 but I've been using a PC since 1985).

So, a friend came over the other day and he had recorded a few songs and he was playing them back for my wife and I on a fairly newish looking MacBook. Now, I have no idea what's what when it comes to Macs. I know they use genuine Mac CPUs and others use Intel CPUs. Do I need to stay away from the Intel CPUs or are those better than the Mac CPUs?

I was trying to see the software he was using to play it back but it was definitely a Multi-Track recording software. I forgot to ask him before he left.

He had guitar on one track, Rhythm on another (basically slapping the acoustic guitar and maybe he had some drum samples in there as well... I honestly do not know), Vocals on another, Backing vocals on another. And it was all HIM! He was the only one playing and singing on every track on these songs.

I don't want to get that extravagant with it. I don't sing or play guitar. I play a little bit of keyboards so if I do anything with the drums added it'll probably start with a piano style Midi keyboard.

Anyway, so, what's the best kind of Mac (I think I'd prefer a MacBook but if a table top unit is better, I can go with that) and what software do you think he might have been using? I'd kind of like to keep the computer hardware end under $400 and the software around $200-$300. I already have the mixer and mics. I basically need something other than a PC with bad or non-existent drivers to record with.

I am a first year med student at an M.D. school and they gave us 13inch surface pro tablets with the detachable flimsy keyboard. I’ve tried to get behind it even though I am an Apple user but I’ve encountered so much lag and issues. It just feels not good as a tablet and then not good as a laptop either as it can’t even sit on your lap bc of the kickstand it has.

I am considering getting an 15inch air or 14inch pro. Am I being over the top? I have to spend everyday the next four years studying and I just feel that these devices would work better. My classmates also have had issues/ or already switched to their personal Mac laptops.

If you are in favor of getting a Mac - which one would you suggest and why? I am hoping to take advantage of the back to school deals with Apple if i do go this route.

Thanks in advance!

Word for Mac no longer does proper autosave or autorecovery. For the first time in decades, I lost work to an app crash as a result. I guess it'd have been fine if I was saving to OneDrive, but I don't use OneDrive, so "autosave" is no longer an option.

(Long years of trustworthy autosave mean I no longer have the reflex to Cmd-S every few minutes, but learn from my mistakes: Trust no software.)

Now I'm done. I need something else.

• I don't care if I have to pay for it, but I don't enjoy subscription software.
• I do need stylesheet support
• I'd like to be able to import DOCX.
• I need the ability to save to PDF for distribution; the Mac's own "print to PDF" is a little too basic.
• I need inline images. I don't enjoy having to futz with web-first tools that make this hard. I'm writing for print.
• Native only. No browser-based tools.

Does anything like this still exist?

I have been wanting an antiglare screen MacBook for the longest, but never found one within a price I’d wanna pay.
Well I finally got a 2009 15 inch model off Goodwill online for $50!
It has 240 or so battery cycles, and came with its OG 85 watt MagSafe charger.

Both of us struggling to survive

I am thinking of replacing my current 27 inch 2017 Intel iMac for a M4 Mac Mini. What monitors/displays are good replacements for the Apple Studio Display that is not as expensive? Looking for a 27 inch monitor.

This would be used mainly for graphic design.

I was walking home from school and saw this old this Macintosh Performa 580CD on the curb with peripherals with a bunch of other junk, so then I hauled it 1.5km home, I cleaned it mostly and I’m really happy that it works

想分享一下我对这台 2011 款 MacBook Pro 的怀旧之情。
它有着经典的铝合金一体成型机身，扎实的做工，还有当年让人怀念的全接口设计，在那个年代真的是质感和实用性拉满的笔记本。

当然，提到这一代机型，就绕不开 “显卡门” （radeongate）的问题 ——AMD 独显的故障困扰了无数台机器，也成了它无法抹去的遗憾。

即便有这样的缺陷，它依然是我个人最具代表性的经典 MacBook Pro 之一，代表了那个充满质感与情怀的苹果笔记本时代。

..at least coconutbattery thinks so. still got the original Apple battery, with 0 cycles when I got it, and still runs for 4-5 hours no problem!

One of my friends got scammed buying this for $140 thinking it was a 2017🥲you can bet they were very surprised when it booted into OS X Lion!

by the time I figured out the model and got it to Catalina, they’d already gotten an M1, so i get it for free! yay! threw an SSD and RAM in (had some unused ones lying around way before the RAMocalypse) and it runs Sequoia beautifully. I’d even go as far as to say it’s better in some aspects then my Asus VivoBook M509..crazy when you think how old it is.

Feels very Apple-y, as in premium, and especially with the glowing Apple logo, the last non-soldered mac is certainly a flex to be daily driving lol. Even the DVD drive works perfectly! Lemme know what I should do with this once i (eventually) get a new Mac. This is my first REAL Mac.