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Hi, I'm a Computer Science student, my painful journey begins when a friend told me that he had an old iMac (iMac 21.5, Mid 2010 [11,2]) that wasn't turning on and because I study this he thought I can fix it. I have to clarify that this is my first time really fixing a Mac, I used one for around a month at work, but I then changed it for a Windows one because I'm more conformable with it, so I know the bare minimum about macOs. When I just plug it in my house the PC just turned on but it was showing just a blank screen, my friend told me that he took it to a repair shop and they told him that it was a hard drive issue and that it would cost a lot. I started trying to open recovery (Command+R) but it just wouldn't open, like it was corrupted, so I opened it and take the hard drive out for testing. The guy was correct, the drive was dead, so I installed it an SSD, took a USB with High Sierra installer (last supported OS for this mac) and install it. I taught it was an easy job, spoiler, this was almost a month ago, I'm still dealing with this F iMac. When I started the OS everything looked ok, but when I test everything the PC was getting REALLY slow, it was unusable. So I checked the temps and they seem a bit high, so I thought it was a thermal issue, because this mac has more that 10 years and has never been cleaned. So I opened it again, cleaned everything, changed the thermal paste, remove the dirt of the fans, and everything. After all of this the Mac was as slow as it was before. It had no sense, the temps were ok, no CPU usage, RAM ok, an upgrade from the HDD to SSD, no dirt, fresh OS, but it was still unusable slow. After all that, I thought macOs was the problem, so I took an Ubuntu USB and installed Ubuntu. The installer was all ok, but when it booted to Ubuntu the screen was completely black, the backlight of the display was also off, it was super strange. Tried turning it on and off but nothing worked. When booting it makes the "mac sound", white screen, then completely black until you shut it down. I tough it was an Ubuntu problem, so I tried with windows 10, but exactly the same happened. After a bit of research I found that it was a problem with the dedicated AMD GPU and the drivers, so I installed macOS again (because I erased it thinking Ubuntu or Windows would work perfect), then opened the bootcamp app -> Action -> Download Drivers. I thought it was it, but no, this iMac wanted to continue ruining my life. When I selected where the drivers to download, click OK, but then an error popped up, "Can't download the software because of a network problem". The Mac is connected to ethernet and also to wifi. My internet connection is great, it also worked great on the Mac for browsing (when you could, because it keep freezing) and things downloaded fast. I couldn't find any answers on internet. The only guide I found for installing Windows on older Macs was to modify the macOS bootcamp app to enable a 3rd option that helps installing windows. I created an USB with the Windows 7 iso using bootcamp but without the "Download drivers" option, because apparently Apple servers are not working or something and it can't download them, and also created the partition. So when the process finished I rebooted, hold Alt, but the USB was not showing. I tried the same process with Windows 8.1 (I know is a horrible OS, but it was supposed to be the last officially supported Windows). To my surprise, it booted the usb and I installed it correctly (almost). Obviously, it needed drivers because audio was not working etc. So I launched Brigadier (also searched on the apple website but this was easier), and found out, after having the drivers downloaded, that the latest Bootcamp drivers for windows on this mac where for Windows 7 (BootCamp-041-84868). Tried installing them anyway but all windows crashed. Now, I'm back on macOS, it's still VERY slow, idk what to do next, because for some reason Windows 7 installer doesn't want to show up, and the UEFI version of Windows 7 needs secure boot disabled and it can't be done on this iMac. At this point I just want to throw a brick to this F machine, nothing works, and EVERY TIME i taught i found the right path it just keeps failing or having some apple things that make thing even harder (Apple being Apple). Someone, please help, I don't know what to do next, I can say that I LITERALLY TRIED EVERYTHING, and don't know what to do now. I don't want to give back to my friend his PC that's more usable as a door stoper than as an actual PC. Makes me feel like an awful technician, I brought back to life laptops with Intel Core 2 Duo that are actually working great, and this PC with an i5 can't even open facebook. Thanks.

Quotes My thoughts It’s good that Apple has been held accountable hopefully this trend continues. Concerning the payouts, I wonder how much paperwork will be necessary to receive the cash. Will a receipt of having bought the phone be needed or will Apple be asked to provide their selling data. Realistically, I think it’ll be a long form and process to actually receive the cash. Sources https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/6/24028162/apple-batterygate-payments-issued-class-action-lawsuit

Hi! I'm having a problem with iphone Xs Apple ID, I tried logging in apple id but it always prompt "Verification Failed There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server" Although the password was correct, same case when I try logging in/signing out with App store, icloud, turning off find my phone, and erase iphone. I'm think hard resetting the Iphone, however when I used my pc and connect it with Itunes and try resetting it prompt this phone has limited connection/network, although all may devices is working complete fine with my network.

Hey all, I had a hard time finding something on the interwebs that describes the indicator chimes that AirPods (Pro 2) cases make. Granted I only searched a few minutes, but thought a thread here could be a good resource. Thanks in advance!

Im looking for a machine with long battery life and good enough power to do my coding on the go as my secondary machine, i haven't used macbooks before, should i just use the cheapest m1 macbook air i can find or something else

Summary The Fedora Asahi SIG and the Asahi Linux project have announced the release of Fedora Asahi Remix 39, the new flagship Linux distribution for Apple Silicon Macs, supporting the majority of M1 and M2 Macs. Quotes My thoughts In three short years, the vast majority of Apple Silicon Macs have gone from being completely unable to run Linux to having a distribution with a polished experience that many x86 machines would love to have. It's likely to be a game-changer in the sense of raising the bar for what is expected for a high quality desktop Linux experience on every platform, and much of the work done for Fedora Asahi Remix paves the way for a much more useful desktop Linux experience on ARM with other machines in the future (such as the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s). Sources Fedora Asahi Remix announcement on Fedora Magazine Fedora Asahi Remix landing page on Asahi Linux website Fedora Project website Fedora Asahi Remix website

I have photos taken on an iphone 11 and they look good on the phone but as soon as you transfer them anywhere they look terrible. I transferred the images at original resolution photos in the heic format to google photos for sharing. After that the images look super oversaturated and they honestly look as blurry and grainy as photos from the original motorola razr but the resolution is still the same. I downloaded some of them to my computer which converted them to jpeg and made the colors much more accurate to the real setting (even moreso than the original photo when viewed over the phone), but the images are now very low quality. The resolution is still the same but it just looks terrible. Is there a special way I need to work with these photos? I am not familiar with the heic file format so I assume that google photos was handling it differently then it should be. Should I just transfer over cable (not working on a mac)? Also, is it always going to loose qualty when moving to a different format or is there something specific I need to do to prevent it from looking super compressed?

Hey, I got a SSD from a colleague that was originally in a Mac pro 2013. It is 1TB in size and I thought this might be a cheap way to get an extra SSD. Before installing I had a bios time of roughly 5 seconds max. Now after installing it I have to wait over 3 minutes. It just sits at the main board logo. I used a pcie to apple SSD converter to fit it into a pcie X1 slot. Mb: b550 Aorus AC CPU: Ryzen 9 3900X 32gb of Corsair 3600mhz Any ideas how this could be fixed apart from throwing the SSD out? I already tried fast boot but it isn't working any better.

Hi, yesterday I bought a brand new MacBook Pro from Apple. I did a clean set up from absolute zero and in Hungarian. Seemingly everything went just fine, texts shows up in Hungarian, but as I said it in the title, some notification, like the software update and the display settings, show up in Chinese (it might be another east-asian language, I'm sorry). I'll attack a picture, sorry for the bad quality. Could someone help me out with this one? I have never a mac before, I have no idea what to do. So far I have tried to restart the laptop and tried changing the system language to English and then change it back to Hungarian.

Hello everyone! I’ve recently recovered from a company an old Cinema Display 20” with a not functioning power adapter. Now, the Apple A1096 power adapter has this specs: 65W, 24.5V, 2.65A. I can’t find anywhere here in Italy or EU eBay listings a used one at a reasonable price, so I’ve been thinking to adapt a common power adapter to the Cinema Display, and I found some models with these specs: 65W, 24V, 2.7A. …worth the shot? Please help =) Thank you! -Ivan

Summary Apple has announced that they will release diagnostic software for DIY repairs to help identify issues and test parts for the public. According to their claims, the software contains the same features and capabilities AASP and Apple's independent repair program uses. Moreover, they are expanding the SRP to newer devices like the iPhone 15 series and M2 Macs as well. The program has also been released officially in 35 countries. My thoughts Nice to see that Apple is slowly releasing parts and software for independent shops and DIY users. One of the main pain points was the lack of a diagnostic tool and hopefully, this is the beginning where that starts to change. Sources Apple diagnostics software being made available for DIY repairs (9to5mac.com)

From what I remember Apple lowered their cut of revenue from 30% to 15% for smaller developers? However, I can't find the rules for when, who and what kind of purchases this applies to? My first iOS-app I've made will be a free to download with an optional in-purchase subscription for $1 USD per month, and I'm wondering what percentage of the revenue from iOS optional in-app subscriptions Apple takes from small single team developers as myself?

My iPhone 6S from 2015 got seven major versions of iOS from iOS 9 to iOS 15, and still, to this day 8 years later, regularly receives security updates from Apple. The same is true for my iPad Air 2. Which Android phones have great long-term software support? I’m asking about phones that has a great track record historically, so Google’s claims about 7 years of updates in the future doesn’t count since Mr. Pichai breaks promises more rapidly than cheeseburgers are consumed at McDonald’s.

hey guys i bought this laptop couple months ago and today dec 4 the screen (bottom part where the name is written ) it started to crack like for no reason , and it still cracking I mean , laptop is good as new . was looking in the internet and couple of forums says this is very normal , I mean if its a defect hopefully they replace it , but the forums and looking at the internet it says I need to pay the for the display . anyone else having this issues ,pls share your experience

Hello all, Have not shopped for a Laptop for a long time. I have no clue anymore what chips are good and what brands are top in qualify. Last I remember the XPS13 was top notch. But anyway. I need a laptop. I was thinking of just getting a MacBook Air M1 at Costco for $799.99. (Since that's what I recommend my family when they ask lol) But don't feel like learning excel and productivity shortcuts again. Could I ask this forum for recommendations at a sub $1,000 that will compare to the Air M1? Looking for a snappy pc, mostly doing data analysis. Excel. Not looking to game on it. Also want the keyboard to be great. Same for track pad. Hopefully build quality is good too. Lots to ask. Maybe not possible on a the windows platform. Edit: what would be something comparable not necessarily at the $800 could be more. Thanks.

Hi all, I’ve done a reset on the laptop since it wasn’t booting up. After that I got the low battery screen, but with the laptop plugged in for over 4 hours I still get the low batterij screen and it doesn’t boot up. I’m using the poweradapter that came with the laptop. I’m thinking in the direction of a broken battery, but maybe someone else has an idea? The reset I did: Press and hold Shift, Control, and Option on the left side of the keyboard. At the same time, press the power button. Hold for 10 seconds. Release the keys and then turn on your Mac

Hey guys, I have an early 2020 macbook air (scissor keyboard, intel) and sometimes all of a sudden it displays colourful dots all over the screen, as if someone had dropped sprinkles on it, but whenever I move the mouse they go away. It’s also sometimes unresponsive for like a couple seconds and when it starts responding again, all programs freak out. Like iCloud says that I need to log in again, creative cloud says that it’s reconnecting, Bluetooth breaks for a bit, and in general it looks as if I had rebooted the machine. I asked around and apparently it’s a memory issue, but I ran the native diagnostics utility (pressing D while booting up) and nothing turned up. I did a backup of all my files just in case. Could it be that? Do you guys have any other ideas?

I came across this article which dives into research undertaken by Lumafield on the differences between the $129 Apple USB-C cable and the cheapest cables available on the market. It is worth aread. https://www.lumafield.com/article/usb-c-cable-charger-head-to-head-comparison-apple-thunderbolt-amazon-basics https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/x-rays-usb-c-cables/

When you get a new iPhone, you can just put it beside the old iPhone and choose the option “Transfer directly” to send over all your apps, their app data, your messages, call history, email accounts, etc. I just bought my first iPad, and instead of having to set it up as new from the ground up, can I transfer all of my iPhone data to the iPad to get some things set up automatically (like all mail accounts and system preferences would be nice, just as an example).

Can the iPad Pro 12.9” (3rd generation) from 2018 deliver 4K 60 Hz over a USB C-USB C connection to a USB C monitor (like LG 27UP850-W)?

More than a month ago, the Fairphone 5 was released. After Linus his good impression on the Fairphone 4 and his personal investment in "Framework", surely you could expect a Fairphone 5 review from him. But nope, despite all his claims that he is a big fan of sustainability, long software support and repairability, he published videos about Apples new phone, Googles new phone, A laptop on Aliexpress, game consoles with illegal game collections on Aliexpress, a Temu gaming setup, etc... If he is honestly so "invested" in a better future for consumer hardware. Why does he keep creating videos about products form companies that are mostly fishy ( Chinese webshops and their sellers ) or products from companies that already dominate the hardware space ( Apple, Google ) and not actual products that were designed to change the way consumers handle their hardware? He got the phone for free, he claims he likes products like that, but refuses to publish a video on it? The only possible explanation I have is that Framework is working on a smartphone. Or he's simply someone who just tells people what they want to hear.

I have a Mac with M1 Max running macOS Sonoma. When I run AI Image Generators (like Stable Diffusion) locally on my machine using software like Joyfusion from the Mac App Store, I noticed that the GPU is always using all it's power, while the CPU and the Neural Engine always is barely in use. I'm curious, I thought the Neural Engine was for AI stuff, not the GPU?

my MacBook M1 Pro 2021 was working completely fine this morning. Then eight hours later, when I opened it back up, it was just a black screen. Now, when I turned it off and turned it on... it just boots up with the Apple logo and nothing else shows.

Please note I'm in planning stage right now. Nothing has been purchased. Or designed. Budget (including currency): n/a / $400ish Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: iMessage, Halo, gulper.com Other details: https://valid.x86.fr/jgwh1z Corsair 4000D Big question for TLDR: Take out mainboard/use 3D printed case or put in aluminum Mac mini box into PC. I'm not really sure if this would go builds help, or the Mac forum or case mods. Thinking about it... case mods. The PC is already built, the new thing is adding the Mac. When MAC address started being filmed, I started watching it. I had android phones, and I had Windows PC. I’ve been on android since the iPhone 3G. But watching Mac Address, it made me wonder if some of the Mac things could possibly maybe work for my style. Also, my mom uses an iPhone. And it’s much easier to help her out, if I use the same thing that she does. Now, here I am, I own the iPhone 14 Pro Max (why, yes, I DID buy it four months before the 15 came out,) An iPad Pro 11 inch, Apple Pencil, Apple Watch. However, each of those have been bought on some sort of sale. For example, with the phone, I mailed them a $150 refurbished pixel phone to get the $1000 dollars off. For the iPad it was purchased at the military Exchange. No tax! $200 off! The watch is an Apple Watch 8, purchased open box at Best Buy. There are some features that I want to try out, having the whole ecosystem together. For example, how well does voice to text act on a desktop Apple device? Siri? What about iMessage? All of the things I’ve seen online about running any of those inside a Windows box, involves much complexity, or, I could dual boot. But I would end up spending so much time. Or, I would end up needing to spend over $1000 on PC hardware to get the same kind of performance that this will have, and I don’t even want anything really special , added to that, you have the pain of setting up hackentosh. (A note, I tried to spell that out, using the voice to text on my iPhone, this whole thing is being typed that way, and it kept on one to say Anything besides that word.) The M2 Mac Mini can be found for around $400 or a bit less used. It's set up as a desktop. I have three monitors. That made me wonder, why not put one on top of my PC? Or INSIDE my PC? So, I’ve been looking at expanding this Apple Empire That has been growing. I have a triple monitor set up and I would like to use various smart KVM software to manage that. But the ultimate goal of all of this is to install the motherboard or the whole box of and M2 Mac mini into my Windows PC. I’m leaning towards simply putting the box into my computer and calling it there. However, I think it could be neat to do as many of these things internally and cleanly as I can. Maybe 3d print a case for the Mac mini board to go into? It’s small enough that it could be placed many spots. My day job is CAD work, and I have 3d printers. For monitor, I'm thinking that I will have a monitor that is devoted to the Mac. Another option, I’m wondering about virtual inputs... I really need to look into that. Or just remote into it. Power: this is going to be one of the fun parts. I found that it seems to be simple 12V: Fairy simple to add those Wires to the 12 V Rails on a power supply? Part of this would be upgrading my 750W to a 1000W PSU I think, to be safe. I would set The Mac to turn on it receives power. Also, I’ll try to figure out what button that ties to it, need the pinout of those. A failsafe would be simply A button at the back. Networking might be a little bit difficult? But I think what I’ll actually do is put a LAN cable coupling at one of the PCI slots. Same with other cables. KVM. Hopefully going software. I’ll most likely also have a few USB extensions specifically for pcie slots? I wonder if they have PCIUSB hubs, but the part that plugs into the computer is a dummy And only uses power from the slot. But then, it accepts USB-C and splits that out. The Mac mainboard

Summary France have told Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 in their country, and may have to recall all sold models due to it allegedly emitting too much Electromagnetic Field Radiation, whilst the World Health Organisation state on their website that there is no evidence to show low level EMF is harmful to humans. Quotes My thoughts I think it's a bit silly to say it's emitting too much EMF. The iPhone 12 was the first to have 5G so it could be a defect with the manufacturing, as 5.74 watts does seem a lot, and the FCC state 1.6 watts per kilogram is too much. Are legal limits too low or are our devices emitting too much EMF? Is the iPhone 12 emitting more than newer models of the iPhone, or maybe even other smartphones? Sources Source 1 - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66795168 Source 2 - https://www.rfi.fr/en/business-and-tech/20230912-france-orders-apple-iphone-12-sales-halted-over-radiation Source 3 - https://www.healthline.com/health/emf#EMFs-in-daily-life