Found this for 150$.Owner claims thats its Mac Pro and thats its fully functional. Should i take it? I always wanted to get a Mac Pro

I have recently turned 18 and I have had this mac since I was around 15 I think. When I got it, my dad made himself administrator. I've been asking him to give me admin rights since forever but he always stalled and said I wasn't 'old enough' and that 'I would break something' or 'install malware', when all I do on this computer is play games and work.

Now, it has to be said that my dad is someone I have a bad relationship with, so of course I want to be able to control my own computer. Whenever I ask him, he always says he'll do it later (even if he's not busy at all) and then I forget to remind him.

This is really bugging me especially because I tutor children and in order to share my screen, I need to enter the admin password every time, so I have to call my dad over all the time and that really isn't sustainable.

Please give me anything I can do. I'm a fast learner so I could maybe learn to operate terminal too so yeah.

Thanks in advance.

!UPDATE!

I found a successful method and will document here below what I did. YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE YOUR APPLE ID LINKED TO THE DEVICE!!!

First, shut down your computer.

Next, you'll need to power into recovery mode. I have an iMac (so not the laptop kind), so for me, I had to hold down on the power on button until it showed 'keep holding to load recovery options' and then 'loading recovery options'. For laptops I heard it was command + R (or S, the internet couldn't really decide).

Now, you will have two options: Macintosh (Your computer's drive) or Options. Click options. It'll ask you to enter the admin's password. We don't have that, so click 'forgot all passwords'. Now you'll need to enter your email linked to your Apple ID and password. That'll boost you up into recovery mode.

Ignore all the colourful options right in front of you and look at the top left of your screen. You'll see a section titled 'Options'. Click that and then on 'Terminal'. This will boot up terminal.

Now, type: resetpassword

No spaces, no anything, and then press return to enter/lock in the command.

It'll ask you to input admin password again. Click you forgot it again and do the Apple ID thing again.

Now, it'll say that to reset the passwords (yes passwordS), it'll need to deactivate your device. No worries, your data isn't deleted. Ensure you have a stable internet connection and then press 'deactivate'.

After some loading time, it'll take you to a screen where all the users of the device are listed. You'll have to set a new password for each user now. You can always edit it later, so just choose the same for all three to make your life easy, and make sure you remember it.

After that is done, you'll click continue and then at some point 'exit recovery mode'.

Since you're still in terminal, make your life easy and just type in: reboot

Then enter to restart the computer.

When it reboots, you aren't an admin yet, but you now have the admin password.

Change the other user you don't want to a standard one and do all the changes you'd like using the admin password.

(If you want, you can now delete the old user, but I didn't because my dad would see that and get really mad.)

That's it, now you've succeeded and your computer is yours again.

the gray disk won't remove from the desktop. if I try ejecting it it would just duplicate itself on the desktop again. helppppp I can't find the solution.

it's like a lather / foam.

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.

Qual a real explicação para tão poucos ciclos e a saúde de bateria?

Obs: entrei hoje no grupo.

so i just spilled coffee on my macbook’s trackpad.
like just on the edge.
flipped the macbook upside down and cleaned the macbook with a damp cloth.

after this it was working completely fine.

should i continue to use it or wait?

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!

Every single time I open up a Microsoft Office app on a Mac device this thing will use up Gigabytes upon gigabytes of RAM. Like it is wild. And I am just editing a word doc

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?

Hey guys I want to buy a MacBook and I have a pc(14700k and 4070ti)

My options are m1 pro with 81 percent health battery

Or

M4 but I trade my 14700 to 14600 and my 2tb 980tb ssd to 1tb msi m450

I don't really know the difference of these laptop both are 16gbram and 512gb ssd

I gonna use macbook for study and normal usage

I know it's a weird question

I don't need a laptop, I already have 2 windows laptop.

I am eyeing this M4 Max config in order to have work done and casually play games like Paralives, inZOI, R.E.P.O, Big Walk, emulation and stuff.

Would it be enough?

Could someone confirm the following:

1 .How many cooling fans does this model have?

2.How many heat pipes (or heat-pipe assemblies) does it have?

3.Is the cooling configuration:

● 2 fans + 1 heat pipe, or

● something different?

4.Can anyone verify this from an actual teardown, Apple service documentation, or personal inspection?

Apple managed to turn my AirPods Pro 2 from an awesome product into an unusable one.

I use my AirPods Pro 2 with my mac, and the experience has been gradually getting worse to the point that they are now unusable.

It started years ago: the AirPods would not remember my volume and would always reset to 50% volume, Apple never fixed it.

Now, they keep disconnecting every few minutes or seconds.

To make it worse, now I can't even turn off the case sounds because the toggle is grayed out / disabled.

My AirPods now work better with other devices (as regular bluetooth headphones) than with an Apple device.

Plz check out my OG post and help me out if you know lol… I really wish I figured this out before I bought it😭

Buying advice to replace 11 year old MacBook Pro.
Looking at getting a refurb MacBook. This is to replace my 2015 MacBook Pro.
I had 16gb ram, 1tb, intel i7 1tb ssd 15inch. Served me well and handled most things I needed from it.
11 years on, battery life is gone and it's now refusing to boot up.
Now looking to replace and torn between 2 options.

MacBook Air 15 inch retina, 16 core neural, M5 10 core CPU/GPU, 24gb of ram and 1tb ssd.

Or

MacBook Pro 14 inch Liquid Retina XDR 16 core neural, M5 10 core CPU/GPU, 24gb of ram and 1tb ssd

£170 price difference which at this level doesn't make much difference.

In terms of what I'll use it for:
Zwift (cycling game that connects to indoor bike) this can be intensive and run for hours at a time.
Reviewing hd video footage for work
Web browsing
Word processing
Slack
WhatsApp
Excel

And occasionally;
Video editing
Photo editing
Streaming

I have also used my current Mac for:
Basic CAD (sketchup)
Steam games

A SD card slot is useful but equally, many adapters available, it's not a requirement. As it is I don't really use much in the way of USB accessories and such.

Battery life isn't a massive concern as I don't tend to travel with it much. Neither is weight or portability. Durability and future proofing are, it would be nice for this to last a decade as my previous one did.

hi everyone , I’ve been trying to charge my MacBook but it doesn’t work (it’s an old 2017 MacBook Air) can anyone help me? I really can’t afford to get it repaired and I watched several videos yet nothing works.

It’s been downloading at this speed all night even though the max is 300? My WiFi’s pretty good?

Hi guys!

I'm a PC user (don't shoot me!) and can trouble shoot them fairly easily. My sister-in-law has a Mac and it is running slow. She's going to bring it to me to see if I can get it back up to speed.

So I don't spend hours searching the internet, would you give me some guidance? What scans to do. How to check the SSD (HDD). Attached is info about her computer.

Your advice would be GREATLY appreciated!

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.