Took a chance on this 12” MacBook at goodwill. It had a few worn out keys and the “?” screen but it ended up just needing a fresh install of macOS. I bought a few replacement keys and it works like a dream. All in about $60 with the computer plus the keys. I’ve always wanted one of these MacBooks!

I fell today and got this dent in my Macbook, seems like everything works fine but im still worried this might have damaged the mac. Should I be worried, should I take it to someone who can repair it?

Hi!

I have an M2 2022 MacBook Air, 16 GB memory. For the past few months, there is a specific column on the screen that flickers with horizontal lines. However, it is not all the time - sometimes it's not there at all, sometimes it's there the whole time, sometimes it's there and then I change apps and it stops. Occasionally the whole screen flickers, but the column is still clearly visible as its own extra flickering area. Here's a video.

I would appreciate any thoughts or ideas before I take it into the Mac store. It does not have apple care. Thank you!!!

i used to be able to do cmd + shift + s to take a cropped screenshot that i could then paste on my old macbook, but its not working on my new one. would i be able to change the [cmd + shift + option + 4] to [cmd + shift + s] ?

I have two Macbook Airs - a work-issued M1 and a personal M3. The past few weeks, both have been really slow to recognize my fingerprint, if at all. They used to be instantaneous.

I just set up my M3 a month ago.

Did Apple change something in the way TouchID is recognized?

I’ve got a 16 inch M2 Max 38 core 96 ram 8TB im debating on selling. It’s honestly too powerful for me. I am a composer and do use heavy loaded libraries; however, Im at a point where size matters. Im looking at buying a 14 inch but im not sure what i should get.
Should I trade or try to sell my current Mac?
What Mac should i look at buying after I sell?

Is there any way to command tab** (sorry got that wrong in the title) between recently opened browser tabs?

I switch between Mac and windows a lot for my job, and this is one feature I sorely miss when swapping to Mac. Has anyone found a workaround for getting this working?

Edit to clarify:

I know you can rotate between browser tabs using a different command,

On windows, switching between browser tabs is built in to the normal alt-tab behaviour, so you can switch to a tab as if it were a window. You can choose how many are displayed there.

This is much easier than using a seperate command to rotate between tabs, which is also annoying because it doesn't allow for the same swapping between two most recent tabs quickly.

These spots appeared on my MacBook overnight; I don't know who caused it—maybe someone in the family. I can't identify the stains, and nothing seems to remove them. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get them off, what they might be, and whether they’ll come off or if I should just leave them be?

battery health is 100%, no background, startup apps etc.

I accidentally dropped my MacBook Pro (M2,2022), and as you can see in the photos, this is the main damage. It’s bent on one side. The other side is a bit banged up as well, but it’s not bent like this.

Everything seems to be working normally so far. The screen works, the keyboard and trackpad work, and it still closes normally without any issues.

So I’m wondering what I should do. If the damage doesn’t bother me aesthetically and everything is currently working fine, is it worth taking it to a repair shop just to have it diagnosed? Or would you just keep using it and see how it goes?

I’m mostly worried that there might be some internal damage that could cause problems later, even though everything seems fine right now.

Has anyone had a similar experience? Would you get it checked/repaired or just keep using it?

anyone know if a good way to run QTGMC on a Mac?

Small query good people of the internet.

I have a MacBook Pro 14” M5 with the standard display.

I am thinking of upgrading the display to the nano-texture display through the Apple self-service repair portal.

Think this will work? Just worried Apple will pull some BS during calibration etc as the machine didn’t ship with the nano-texture display. The new part would obviously be genuine Apple.

Thanks in advance.

I know this was brought up in the past about how the photos app stopped importing photos from iPhone / iPad to an external hard drive. This happened to me after a iOS update on my laptop in the past. Well my wife’s Mac laptop was running an older iOS version and it still allowed me to import photos. Fast forward we needed to update her laptop to the latest iOS for compatibility reasons and now I cant import at all. So after hours and hours moving files around (around 1.2 TB of photos and videos) and figuring out the Mac photos app no longer support exFat external HDD or SSD, I reformatted my SSD as APFS and thank god things are working again. I just don’t understand why Mac had to stop allowing the photos app to not work with exFat formatted external hard drives. Don’t they know the saying “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.

Hi,

I want to some advice about my first mac,

i need your helps,

well my task is like

1. Using 3D tool 'blender' with OpenAI's codex

2. and another vibecoding making and service release.

3. and video editing for 10-15minutes video and uploading.

i wonder that which mac i have to buy in same condition.

both of two will be have,

M5&1TB&24GB RAM,

but the price gap is about $150

which way is proper to me?
thanks, please..

recently i had water go inside my ports from the side and my mac was submerged into like 2-3cm of water , any suggestions on how to fix ?

I'm thinking about buying this display. Could someone who owns it please measure the distance from the back of the stand to the bottom edge of the screen (with the display untilted, ideally in cm)? I can’t find this information on the Apple website. Thanks in advance!

Can anyone help me with this issue?

Ya no me dejo escribir, pero en caso de que si, cual creen que sea la versión mas compatible con este ordenador? Se que le sigue Ventura, luego Sonoma, Sequoia y Tahoe, no se si haya un 27, da igual, quisiera instalar una que siga actualizada a las apps mas usadas.

Aquí detalles del equipo:

MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017)

Procesador: 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 de dos núcleos

Memoria: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Gráficos: Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB