2010

Hey everyone, I recently started refurbing on my old 2010 MBP and have run in to some problems. First problem that I am having is the battery was bulging and pressing the trackpad up so that it would no longer click, but I have resolved that by simply removing the battery for now, and I intend...

Hi all! I have an iMac Mid 2010 that I bought around 2012. It was running very well until last year, I guess. I only did a RAM upgrade on this machine (it has 14GB of RAM). I wasn't using this computer for a while (8 months or so) and now I got a job that I need to do on this machine. It was...

Hi, a friend of mine tried to upgrade his dual CPU 2010 cMP and it turns out like it failed. The guy won't start the the 2 CPUs attached. He took it to my place and I first tough it could be some bended pins on the CPU socket but CPU B looks nice and that's exactly when we attach the second...

Hello, I currently have an 27" Mid-2010 iMac i5 2.8 with a 1TB HDD installed. The problem is, it has Snow Leopard installed and it doesn't have a recovery drive for me like OS X nowadays does to easily erase your HDD and reinstall Mac OS X. But with Snow Leopard, you were unable to do that...

I have a 2010 MacBook Pro laptop that in the last year or so was crashing up to 2 or 3 times daily (sometimes more depending on how many times I tried to use it) and typically this would happen when I was in one of the following apps: -Apple email (it would happen the most in this app) -Safari...

Hello, I recently upgrade a MP 5,1 (mid 2010) with this specs: 0. 3,46 6 core Intel Xeon 1. 32 GB RAM 2. Pcie CARD with 2 SSD (on for system) 3. Radeon RX580 Shappire Nitro+ 8GB 4. AOC 4K monitor U3277WB (connected by DP 1.2 cable) All is working fine except playing 4k 60fps. In youtube I...

I bought a 2010 mid year Mac pro 5.1 one eBay 2 days later the discription changed to 2012 Can i still go 12 core with this ..is he trying to scam me or do you think he is out of 10 and giving me a 12 instead. I cant afford a new Mac So i rather upgrade bit at a time. So is the 12 just as...

Mac Pro 5,1 I installed Mojave on my Mac Pro, it runs fine for a few hours and sometimes longer then bam! It just becomes unresponsive, everything takes ages to do anything. eg: You a right click then 15+ seconds later the menu shows, move a window same things, has anyone else had this issue...

I thought I'd include this quote because it describes my situation perfectly. I have had a single processor 2009 cMP for over a year now, and saw a great deal on a dual tray 2009 and picked it up as well. Other than cosmetics and the tray, what would be the best way to determine which...

Hi all, My Macbook Pro 17 specs as purchased when new in December 2010: Apple Model No: A1297 Model ID: MacBookPro 6,1 Apple MacBook Pro Mid-2010 Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Hard Drive: APPLE SSD TS256B Optical Drive...

Long story short; I have a slow, overheating and SUPER NOISY 2010 iMac that I really wan't to replace with a brand new (non-noisy) iMac. Only problem is that my current iMac also doubles as an external monitor for my boyfriends Windows PC (for gaming). I know that the "new" iMacs (2010+)...

Hi folks, My girlfriend is working on selling her 2010 MBP. She had an issue where it would randomly restart, so we figured we'd try to format it and then go from there. I followed Apple's instructions here. In that process, the disk was unmounted, and, with it being an older MBP, there's not...

Hi, I've searched and found answers to similar queries to mine, but 'similar' hasn't helped me so apologies for any repetition. I've bought an Nvidia GTX 108ti for use in a Mid 2010 5,1 Mac Pro. The card has/requires 1x 8-pin and 1x 6-pin. The only cables I have immediately present and which...

I was wondering if somebody who has experience upgrading old Mac Pros could tell me if I put in a GTX 1080 or 1080 Ti (flashed) if I will be able to use the display port audio output. As it is, I am not able to select my monitor for audio output, connected via mini display port to HDMI. From...

I am familiar at a baseline level with the benefits of using mSATA SSD in a Mac Pro in PCIe to speed system, especially when setup as a RAID 0. I currently have 2 x Anandtech PCIe 4-lane 4-Port mSATA SSD RAID Cards installed. So I have a total of 8 mSATA SSDs across two different PCIe lanes...

This may have been addressed somewhere, but I’ve been looking for hours... I have a Mac Pro 2010 5,1 with a AMD Radeon HD 7970. I have 3 x 27” Apple LED Cinema Displays with Mini Displayport. I have two connected right now to the the two mini displayports on the graphics card. I understand that...

Greetings: I purchased a used Mac Mini off eBay in 2014, but didn't fully appreciate the fact that the previous owner still had an iCloud account attached to it. All of a sudden the Mac Mini has been locked out with a message to call a Chicago area phone number. I called that number but the...

Hey everyone, so I purchased a 2009 4,1 Mac Pro (Dual x5550) on Craigslist a couple weeks ago for $150. Honestly insane deal for how good of condition it's in. I painlessly flashed it to a 5,1, installed High Sierra, upgraded to 32gb of RAM, and installed a GTX 1070. I've had absolutely no...

I have a windows laptop I use for most on the go work, but it recently kicked the bucket, and I've been looking at MacBooks. A friend offered me their 2010 Air for $100, with 2GB of RAM. I just need to be able to use Google Docs, YouTube, and Reddit, since I use my Mac Pro for most other tasks...

Hi All, I am using Mac Pro 2010, 3.46Ghz X 2 CPU, 48GB RAM, Samsung 951 PCIe SSD, AMD 7950 Mac Edition Now. I want to upgrade my GPU for Video Editing, Which one is better for this old machine ? RX 580 , VEGA 56 , GTX 1070 , GTX 1080 which one better performance in pricing ? thanks all.