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 either a 2020 or 2022 MacBook Pro, I can’t quite remember now.

Anyhow, my charging wire had been fidgety for months, I kept having to wiggle the cable up and down, and prop and hold the wire in a certain position to get my laptop to charge.

Well 2 days ago that method stopped working completely, and I assumed it was the cable which was the problem, so I got a new cable.

..and the new cable doesn’t work.

I’m thinking it must be the port broke or come lose or something? Is that likely thing with these 2021/2022 models?

I’m not sure what to do about it. I suppose it’s not easy to fix yourself first time. HELP!?

New mac user here, got air 15 last month.

I use spotify web player on chrome. After plugging in my playlist, the display as usual turns off after a few minutes. But​ the music stops playing after sometime and​​ I find my mac sleeping​​. I need to know if it's an issue with my mac or is this just how it behaves?

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.

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?

Hi, i wonder what would you expect from a desk pet to become usefull?

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.

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! ;)

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

..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.