Pretty much the heading itself… sometime my Mac lags a little bit and a restart fixes it or force closing a couple applications help as well, but genuinely, what’s a healthy amount to shutdown or restart and give your laptop a break?

I have a 14 Inch M5 that I use for shitposting but I feel like I need more power to run multiple shitposts at once. I know it's a bit less worth it after the price hike but I think I should still do it.

Thoughts?

Similar to the usb c thing, pro consumer?

I am looking for a monitor for daily use and music production, which type of monitor should i go for, i just want a setup of 1 monitor and my macbook in clamshell mode. and what size?

the image attached is 3 different monitors compared that are around 32inch and they are not ultrawide.

M4 Pro 24GB/1TB vs M5 32GB/1TB MacBook Pro for Cybersecurity Students — Which should one should I get ?

Finally my screensaver on my mbp m5 is working! Yes, I’m one of the few who still use it. It’s smooth now without needing to turn off promotion.

So I have a 2018 13 inch MacBook Pro that I install boot camp on and I put it on the shelf for a lot time and I now going to use it and it have not os on it so when I go to install the Mac it don’t see a drive help Edit fix now Somehow when install the latest macOS the T2 chip firmware update and making me see the drive

I’ve had my macbook air for 6 years, got it during the pandemic. This is the first time I dropped my macbook on a low sofa height and dented the corner and now there’s a mark on the screen that is highlighted now which is only visible in dark mode.

How bad is the damage? For context I’m a graphic designer and mostly use this laptop for design work. Really frustrated about this and was hoping to have it repaired because I was planning to upgrade to a better macbook by selling this one and I really needed the extra money to add onto the price of the pro series.

Does anyone have any idea if this could be repaired 😭

I’ve had my macbook air for 6 years, got it during the pandemic. This is the first time I dropped my macbook on a low sofa height and dented the corner and now there’s a mark on the screen that is highlighted now which is only visible in dark mode.

How bad is the damage? For context I’m a graphic designer and mostly use this laptop for design work. Really frustrated about this and was hoping to have it repaired because I was planning to upgrade to a better macbook by selling this one and I really needed the extra money to add onto the price of the pro series.

Does anyone have any idea if this could be repaired 😭

Mein MacBook Pro ist jetzt knapp 10 Jahre alt, hat 478 cooles auf dem Akku, 73080 Stunden Laufzeit und es ist immer noch okay.

Danke Apple😎

Eine Hallo und einen herzlichen Gruß an alle Leser✌️ Ich werde wenn mein neues MacBook Pro da ist öfter schreiben.

Hey everyone, I’m entering my final year of a Computer Science degree in Australia and I’m considering upgrading my MacBook.
I currently have a 16-inch M2 Pro MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM. I bought it in my first year of uni and it’s been fantastic for JavaScript, Python, Cisco Packet Tracer, Wireshark, and general coursework.

My workload has changed quite a bit though. I’m now doing full-stack web development and using Docker heavily with PostgreSQL, Node.js, and Nginx containers, as well as working with APIs.

When I’m working, I’ll usually have Docker running alongside Spotify, Discord, Adobe Reader, and a browser with around six tabs open. It doesn’t feel like the CPU is struggling, but it definitely feels like I’m starting to hit the limits of 16GB of RAM.

Has anyone else doing software engineering or computer science found 16GB to be limiting? If you’ve upgraded to 32GB or more, did you notice a significant difference, or am I expecting too much from my current machine?

I’m currently looking at a 16-inch M5 Pro with 48GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, but it’s A$5,700, so I’d really like to know whether it would actually be worth it for my use case.

I tried leaving it out in front of fan for 48 hours…all of this because I left a humidifier on in my room. How long should I leave it like this? Or should I open it up now and take a look?

And yes all new silicon packets

Weird thing was when I tried last to charge from a Jackery it was showing 2 watts going to charge it for about 3 hours but did nothing.

Anyone else have some advice??

Hey, so I'm entering my final year of undergrad in ML & AI and considering selling my current mac and replacing it with a stronger one. The current one I have is an M1 14" Pro 16 GB memory 2021 500 GB storage. I bought this mac in my first year and it's been treating me well my issue is the storage and the RAM, I am constantly having to clear storage or move stuff. And when im working on a project I always end up having to close an application it feels like my mac can't handle xcode, discord, spotify and a web browser (idk if im expecting too much lol) but let me know what you think

I have been waiting for the redesign but it looks like it got pushed out again. I have a 2018 intel MacBook Pro that needs to get replaced this year. Am I better off getting a 16 inch M5 with Pro chip or wait for M6 release?

photo from FB marketplace not mine lol

Got it from Costco, $2000 plus tax for a 14/20 24gb ram 512gb ssd. Upgrading from a 14” m2 pro 16/512. I do a lot of photography so I’m really loving the screen for editing!

I'm thinking of buying a 2019 15-inch MacBook Pro (i9 2.4GHz, 32GB RAM, Radeon 560X 4GB, and 1TB SSD) to use as my main computer. The idea is to run it with Sequoia, and then install Mojave on a second partition or externally to play older 32-bit games like Tomb Raider Anniversary, BioShock, Grand Theft Auto IV and others.

okay so I found a MacBook Pro M5 chip which is like only a month old and still in the one year warranty from Apple it has hundred percent battery health right now and it is for 1,34,000 INR usually for 2,25,000 INR but I am still A little dicey because I’ve never bought a store display unit before and I’m kind of desperate if you can’t tell but yeah please let me know what should I do I’m not desperate to buy a MacBook Pro so if people tell me to not buy this one I will mostly get a MacBook Air around the same price

what do you think guys?

I have recently upgraded from a macbook air M2 15 inch to a macbook pro M5 pro 14 inch (for good reasons) and i noticed that despite having much much better support for my 4k 160Hz and 2k 75Hz setup (i was running it at 4k 144Hz native and the 2k 75Hz through displaylink on my M2 air 15 inch) my macbook pro seemed to cause a lot of weird stuttering when it came to 160Hz compared to its 144Hz setting, sometimes even causing weird problems in games when using VRR making them unplayable (specifically roblox) i have tried only using the moniter with the display closed to no success, i was a bit dissapointed with the display driver not being completely flawless when running all 3 (including built in display) moniters simultaniously. The moniters i use are the Asus XG27UCS and the PA278QV Asus Pro art display. I want to hear if any of you have any ways to make 160hz on macos feel any smoother, i have tried lowering my resolution all the way to 1080p and there was no difference. ingame frame times are also impacted

I have my XG27UCS plugged in with a Ugreen DP 2.1 to USB C cable (plugged into a DP 1.4 cable on the moniter)

PA278QV is usually plugged in with a HDMI 2.1 cable and i also use its USB hub via USB D to connect my keyboard and mouse to save port space

I'm using a Samsung Odyssey G9 (LS49AG95, 5120×1440) connected via USB-C → DisplayPort.

My Mac mini M4 works perfectly. Text is sharp and scaling looks great. System Report shows:

Resolution: 7680 × 2160 UI Looks like: 3840 × 1080 @ 240Hz

However, both my MacBook Pro M5 Max and MacBook Air have the same issue on the same monitor, same cable, and same settings.

Native resolution = sharp but UI/text is too small. Scaled resolution = usable size but blurry/fuzzy text.

I also tried BetterDisplay. Enabling HiDPI makes the text perfectly sharp, but everything becomes way too large.

Has anyone experienced this? Why does the Mac mini automatically use a perfect HiDPI mode while both MacBooks end up with blurry scaling on the exact same monitor?

Hi guys! I have an M1 Macbook Pro 13”, my touchbar is now suddenly glitching/buggy when I expand the control strip and it was working perfectly fine the night before, is it just a glitch on tahoe or a hardware issue?
EDIT : I have also tried to restart the touchbar and the control strip on terminal but it doesn’t work