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hello everyone, i have the macbook unibody white late 2010, and i want to keep it as original and iconic as possible. so i need everyone's opinions on the macbook look, should i buy a coloured shell for it, or keep it white? in your opinion's which do you find more "cool" and attractive ? keep in in mind that my aim is to keep it as nice and iconic as possible. any and all opinions would be more than appreciated. Thank you all

Hey LTT Team, Hey Community, My name is Fred, and I work at the DJI Europe Studio. We have a Problem and looking for a Solution. Our current Situation: 2x new iMac Pro's (the best ones we could get) 2x Dustbins (Mac Pros) 2,7 GHz 12-Core Intel Xeon E5, 64 GB 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC, AMD FirePro D700 6144 MB Software: Adobe Premiere CC, Davinci Resolve Several Pegasus 2 R6 Raids Currently everyone has their own Raid where they're working on. We wanna change that, we're looking for a Server where we can all work on at the same time. Easy and Fast. Our first attempt: We had a company that installed us a Facilis Terablock Server which was controlled by a Windows Computer and connected to our Macs via 10Gbit Ethernet (and a Thunderbolt Adapter for the Dustbins). The Read&Write Speed is pretty good, the Problem is we cant playback ProRes422 Footage in Realtime without dropping Frames. The company said this is a Problem of a Mac running Premiere beeing connected to a Windows Server. So our Question: Is there a Solution? I mean it has to be possible beeing able to edit on 4 Mac Clients on a Server with the native Footage (ProRes422/4444,H264 and so on) or am I wrong? Our conditions: -4 Mac Clients working at the same time -Using the native ProRes422/4444 Footage (sometimes h264 or cDNG) -Simple to use (like our Pegasus Raids for example) Whats for example with the "Storinator" from 45Drives which Linus installed at several Youtube Studios? The Problem is, I think they all used FinalCut on a Mac and not Adobe Premiere. Please Help.... Fred

I’ve got an old MacBook. Its number is MacBook 2,1, a core 2 duo. I’m trying to connect to my schools wifi which is a WPA2 Personal network. When I rey to connect, my laptop thinks it is a WPA2 Enterprise network, and asks for a username. Ive tried deleting the network and adding it again, letting the computer automatically detect the network type. Nothing seems to work. Is there a way to fix or workaround this so that I can connect. And im not interested in buying a new computer.

Hello all I've had my eyes on a second hand Medio-2012 Macbook Pro purchased in '13. It has the following specs: I7-3720M 8gb DDR3 ram 512gb SSD 2880x1800 Retina display The guy is offering it at 670 usd which I believe is a fair price point. However, do you guys think this thing will hold up for years to come? Objectively its specs are still pretty impressive but I am worried what to expect from such an old machine. I have no way of trying it out before buying it (as the seller lives far away). According to the seller, however, it has no hardware flaws and as such is in mint condition. I'm having a hard time finding reviews of this thing relevant to current standards in computers and so I'm hoping one of you guys could help me judge this deal.

Ok so I know that eGPU can be technically done with Mac but I'm curious to hear is anyone has done it and had good use from it. I will say that my current 13" Mid 2012 MBP is a warranty replacement and is only 3.5 years old but I would like to get more power out of it instead of having to buy a new Laptop. I'm not wanting to play games on it, I have an XBox for games, I do Graphic Design work as well as 3D modeling/Animation and game coding from time to time and would like to be able to get a bit more power from it. I am running 12gb of ram and plan on getting a SSD soon as well. I appreciate any help.

There's a huge glitch for iOS and OSX out right now! There's a certain character that if sent to you on iOS or OSX, it could crash your app permanently. However, it doesn't affect android but I'm not sure about windows. Heres a vid that explains it some more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUE9mCN7sek Just wanted to give you guys a heads up and not to interfere with this stuff.

So I'm trying to run a virtual machine of Mac OSX El Capitan on Windows 10. I have a Ryzen 7 1700, 8GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 300Mhz, and an Asus Strix RX 480 8GB. Everything seemed fine up until when I clicked to run the vm and i got an error saying "A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state. If this fault had occurred outside of a virtual machine, it would have caused the physical machine to restart. The shutdown state can be reached by incorrectly configuring the virtual machine, a bug in the guest operating system, or a problem in VMware Player. Click OK to restart the virtual machine or Cancel to power off the virtual machine." I have tried turning on and off virtualization on in my bios, as well as smt, and I cannot get it to run. I have the VM configured to use 4GB of ram, and 4 cores, and 4 cores with 8 threads. Any ideas as to why this won't boot for me?

I know, I know it's a Mac why bother.... but I need some help to answer this... Let's assume: 1. I already own a new 15" MacBook Pro TB3 and in the future will continue to do so... (I'm a developer it's a must for the type of dev I do...) 2. I don't have the physical space for another computer system but could maybe fit the size of an eGPU or a very Small Form Factor PC... 3. I'm not a hardcore gamer (obviously) and am unlikely to become a Twitch gaming super star.. Using an LG 34UM88-P TB2 IPS Display... Which I confess I bought because I liked the size for code and it had Thunderbolt 2. My questions are thus: - is an eGPU (which i buy once) and a decent ( 1070ti ) or comparable graphics card even sort of a reasonable buy? I mean i could install boot camp and buy a copy of windows (which I need to do anyway). - If it is then WHEN? Is a good time to do it? [ Now, Spring, Next MBP release ]. ( given Intel's CPU nonsense, and crazy graphics card prices and general eGPU support). When I'm at home I dock my laptop into my LG TB Display anyway, and will continue to do so (a la the Old Mac Thunderbolt display way). - or - is Mac gaming just plain stupid and for I'd be better off with a Zotac or Corasir One or something small like that... I'm sick of living vicariously through twitch streams. But honestly I don't have time to game much and it's hard to rationalize the expense of an Windows only system that I may seldom use... Thanks guys!

I’ve just got a new hard drive but my mac won’t accept it as boot unless it’s formatted in a mac readable format - it’s simply not readable by the volatile system (which is what’s run if no OS is found). I’ve ordered a usb to sata cable to format the drive from another mac, but can i format the drive (as OS X extended journaled) in windows? tl:dr --> How do i format a clean ssd as OS X extended journaled, as opposed to exFAT etc., from a pc? Thanks -Harry

Hey Pals, I am about to replace my 9 year old PC with a new gaming build. I am a kinda retired gamer but would like to play now and then a game. I would play WoW but also some new titles. I do some design work and light video cutting work. Currently, I do that on my 2015 MacBook Pro. I really like to work on my mac but it also getting a bit slow for some tasks. So here my question: I am looking for a "good" PC configuration/build which also allows me to install a different OS besides Windows. I want to play some 3d shooter and MMORPG title and like to do some graphics work. For the budget, I plan something around 1000€ (approx 1200 USD). I just need the computer. Got monitor and peripheries. P.S. sorry for some grammar issues. Best from Berlin, Germany Viktor

I have a Dell Precision T3500 running Ubuntu Server 16.04 and a MacBook running macOS Sierra. The server is a basic file server, sharing files over SMB. My plan was to have the server only accessible if you are directly connected to it with an Ethernet cable. I am running into an issue, though. If I connect an Ethernet cable from the server to my MacBook, I can interact with the server just fine, but then my WiFi connection drops on my MacBook (for the record, my server is not connected to my network, or the internet). I want to be able to surf the web while transferring files to the server at the same time. Is this possible? I could connect my server to my router, but I don't want to have it accessible to everyone on my network; just whoever has a physical connection via ethernet. Any help is appreciated. I tried this already with no success.

I've used windows computers all of my life but, my family uses macs and my sister got an ipad pro and gave my mom her laptop and my mom gave me her laptop. I wouldn't have taken it but I did need a laptop so I decided to try it. I know the basics and I woulds say i'm somewhere between intermediate and advanced but, I want to learn more but i cant find any good videos or articles, they are all basic usage or basic shortcuts. Does anyone have any tips or know of any good videos?

I am in need of help, i need to make a bootable drive using a usb on a mac for my pc. About half way through using boot camp it will say there isn't enough space on the usb, when it is a 32gb and then when i check it says i have way more space than i need. Any help?

So I have a Mac Mini (Late 2014), currently I have an external ssd acting as the startup disk, all of my stiff is saved onto this ssd as well. how do i move everything to the built in hard drive and reboot the os on the hard drive. basically i want to move everything from the external ssd on to the built in hard drive. thanks

Hi guys, I was wondering if I could install MacOS Sierra on a Windows 10 Desktop PC, I have W10 on an SSD (850 EVO 500 GB) and I would like to install MacOS Sierra on my 840 EVO 500 GB and to have the option to dualboot between both after the UEFI BIOS screen, I have a Macbook to legaly download all the stuff I need (which I don't know). My desktop Specs: i7 4790K @ 4.8 GHz 32 GB DDR3 Kingston HyperX Fury 1600 MHz CL10 Gigabyte Z97X-Gamging 3 Motherboard GTX 1070 G1 Gaming W10 Drive: Samsung 850 EVO SSD 500GB The main reason I would like to do this is to decode H.265 files (no playback) because I can only use the decoder of the GTX 1070 to decode them during playback, but for example if I use any software (dvd fab, premiere pro, media encoder etc) and take a H.265 file and Output it into a H.265 file the decoder will not work, it's not NVIDIA, it's Windows 10 (tried on 7 and 8 and it worked fine but I would like to have OSX for a change along Windows). If I get a H.265 file and output it into a H.264 the decoder also doesn't work but at least the CPU H.264 decoder works and takes 15 minutes, but from H.265 to H.265 (Compressing Bitrate) it takes at least about 4 hours (and it's a 4790K Overclocked to 4.8 GHz) So I would like to know if the HEVC H.265 decoder is supported on OSX El capitan or MacOS Sierra because otherwise my whole process would be useless and I'm well served installing Windows 8.1 and using it when I have to Decode and Encode H.265. Thank you in advance, I know it's not an easy thread to answer and I know the complexity of what I'm asking.

Hello! Im having problems installing OSX El Capitan. First of all, when I run Unibeast, It takes ages and I end up with two volumes, one called USB (The one I named in Unibeast) and "EFI". I've watched videos and read posts and no one seems to have the second one.Then, when I try to run it on the pc in clover, the apple logo appears and it loads half way and then it black screens. It's very frustrating because just a few months ago I got it to load the os and install everthing... (Then I screwed it up somehow.) I tried booting in verbose mode and took a pic, but still don't understant it.I have two drives a 500gb ssd and a 1tb hdd. Also, ive heard that it's a good idea to use a 2.0 port but my motherboard and case only have 3.0 ones. A few months back I installed linux to make sure the hardware is fine (and it is.) but after that I took the ssd and formated it on this pc. I was tupid knowing that when installing osx it formats it anyway but I have a feeling I may have formated it badly. Any Ideas?

I need to upgrade at least 10 different macs running all different versions of OSX ranging from 10.6, to 10.6.7 to El-Capitan. I don't want to have to individually upgrade each mac version by version. That would take SOOO much internet bandwidth and time.

Long time apple user looking to move my desktop from my aging 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 to my first custom-built system. I do a lot of web work and digital content marketing, and the only program I cant seem to find a replacement for is Coda. Anyone know of a full package application that would work as a good replacement? Thanks in advance.

Hey guys, I need help installing Windows 10 on a Macbook pro. I just bought a samsung 850 evo 500gb, and I haven't installed it yet. I am trying to figure out how to get Windows 10 on it so that I can use it on my mac because I don't like OS X. I would like to be able to do this without using Bootcamp because it will make Windows take longer to load. If it is possible I would like to only have the Windows partition, to avoid the need of an OS X partition. Does anybody know if I could just plug the windows 10 flash drive into the mac and boot it to the new SSD and just use that? Also I was looking at this guide but it still uses Bootcamp? http://fgimian.github.io/blog/2016/03/12/installing-windows-10-on-a-mac-without-bootcamp/ Thanks for any help you can provide.

I have a friend that left their macbook pro with me where after updating, the cursor is stuck on the colorful loading wheel and you cant click on anything. It is pretty much unusable, but I am not very experienced with OS X and would like some help on what to do and how i would go about fixing it.

At the production studio I recently started to work we are trying to repurpose a 2009 Mac Pro Tower to be a simple file server for us. We added a compatible Fiber Channel Card (an Apple brand one, no less) and it is recognized in the system perfectly, as are the ones in the other 2010 Mac Pro Towers we use as editing Bays. We have OS X Server El Capitan installed onto the server and all up to date. I can start XSAN on the Server but it fails to initialize with Error Code 13. I have looked and cannot find this error code in reference to Server/XSAN. After this error though, it shows that XSAN has been configured an is running fine. It then allows me to add a volume to the XSAN but at the same time it does not. It wants me to add a LUN to the list but I do not have any nor does it allow me to create one. Documentation on this is sparse in my research. I am looking to Just share the internal drive(s) on the machine over fiber as Ethernet is far too slow for our purposes. We plan on having a more robust solution in the future using these same fiber cards but for now we don't have a large NAS or something similar. Hoping some of you guys have some advice or help for me on this front. Apple stuff always seems to be so difficult when it comes to self configuration with little documentation to find. Thank you! We are losing our minds over here....

Hello LTT community! So for the past few years I have been using a Macbook, and really want to switch to a windows based one (possibly one of the razer blades). I am not here to get help picking a laptop, but help looking for a program that will allow me to use the gestures on the mac trackpads such as: Swiping up with 3 or 4 fingers reveals all windows Swiping left/right with 3 or 4 fingers goes between different desktops Pinch to zoom on more applications (not really too important for me) I know windows 10 has all of those features, but not with the gestures to activate them. Has anyone developed something that would give me features like those? These are the only things that made me get a MacBook in the first place, its so convenient. Thanks in advance for anyone who helps me out

Hi All, I am helping make decisions about a class at my high school in which we will be making videos and it will basically be a film making class. We have decided to use Premiere Pro for editing (we're buying all of CC for the rest of the software that we probably will need). We also will be using Pro Tools for audio editing as it is the industry standard and we want to train the students for the real world in which they would be working.* One of our main points of contention is our debate between Windows and Mac. Personally, coming from a Windows background and liking to nerd out about computers and play with technology, I prefer Windows.** One of the administrators I'm working with thinks that we should go with Mac since it is more common in the industry, and since there has to be some benefit to Mac, otherwise most people in the industry wouldn't be using Mac. My argument is that the savings that we will get from Windows machines could be put to better use being spent on things that more significantly improved the education and experience of the students. I also argue that since we will be using CC software and Pro Tools, the OS underneath won't make much difference as the majority of the student's time will be spent in the software, and not dealing with the OS. I don't foresee any significant differences between software functionality between Mac and Windows. The administrator's argument is that there has to be a reason for creative professionals to be using Mac, and that possibly there will be better compatibility with a wider range of storage options, or maybe a better user experience. Another concern for using Windows is how much we will lock them down and restrict the access and abilities of the students. Some of the members of the tech dept. are of the mindset of locking it down as much as possible, while we think that it would be better to leave them somewhat open so that the students can have a bit more freedom with how they use the computers. Most of the people in the tech dept. are more experienced with administering Windows than Mac. We will be planning to edit at a max of 4K resolution at a bitrate of 100Mbps... We will be consulting with the teacher of the class regarding their preference, as they will be the ones that will be dealing with it day in and day out. My question(s) are as follows: Is there a difference between the functionality of Premiere (and the rest of CC) and Pro Tools between Mac and Windows? Am I correct that the difference in price between a Mac and Windows system would be better put towards better cameras, lighting, or audio equipment, and that improving those would more significantly improve the education of the students? Would macOS work better with external storage systems or audio/video equipment? General system recommendations are of course welcome . Would Macs last longer than Windows machines and would service be better than a Windows system**? Would teaching students on Windows disadvantage them in the real world of the film and TV industries? Why do most of the production houses and "creative professionals" use Macs? Is it just history, prejudices, and marketing, or is there a real difference in functionality and/or user experience? Any general feedback is of course welcome. In total, we will be getting 6 video editing stations, 1 audio recording system, one audio design system, 1 teacher's computer, and maybe 1 or 2 other computers. We would like to keep them all the same computers so we don't have to deal with 10 different models. Each of the systems would have at least 2 displays (maybe going to 3 or even 4 if they have the capability to project to the rest of the class). *We also understand that Media Composer does have the majority of the market in the film and television industry but believe that it is too difficult for the students to learn. We also have been told that Premiere has begun to become more popular in the industry and that we wouldn't be hurting the students by teaching Premiere instead of Media Composer. I'm welcome to comments about this decision as well. **We will not be building our own systems. We will be buying pre-built workstations from Dell or HP, or if Mac, of course Apple. Edit 1: We will be editing completely on the network since it would be easier to deal with since if a group/student was editing on one machine and if it failed or another group was using it, they could go to another system and simply keep working without the hassle of moving video files around. Is this practical, and would this change the OS choice?

Hi LTT Community, I currently use a MacBook Pro in combination with Quicktime's built-in screen recording feature to record my music production workflow in Ableton Live 9. I route the audio from Live to Quicktime using Soundflower, but every time I record I get audio lag through my headphones while recording. Can anybody help please? Thanks

Hey guys I want to make basic tutorials for people who own a Mac computer but don't know much about technology. The problem is, I'm not exactly sure what non tech people will want to know (apart from how to turn on their computer haha) Any ideas? Thanks