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  1. D

    2018 Mac Mini USB Sleep settings - drives remain powered on

    Hey guys, when I eject USB drives on my MM2018 the drives spindown after eject as expected, but then they just spin up again (staying unmounted from the OS tho). Never happened on my other Macs, is it happening on yours too? Thx!
  2. rgetter

    MBA sits closed, gets warm, shows ?folder? icon (??)

    I have a really nice mid-2013 Core i7, 1.7GHz MBA running High Sierra. Right after I bought it, I installed an OWC Aura Pro X 480GB SSD and installed High Sierra. Every so often, after I leave it sitting closed for a while (sometimes a few days, this isn't my primary computer), I'll return to it...
  3. earthwriter

    Recommendation for energy saving graphics card

    We need a recommendation for preferably a Radeon Mac Graphics Card, the non Mac 7850 we have it is this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/HIS-IceQ-X-Radeon-HD-7850-2GB-DDR5-Video-Card-/192130813353 is a power hog, we have checked the wattage and it runs around 260 watts or more but VS. the stock...
  4. helimom93

    iMac makes Clicking noise in sleep mode

    My iMac desk top running IOS Mavericks keeps making clicking sound when in sleep mode. I have changed the energy settings to different combinations, but clicking sound still persisted. Doesn't make the noise when I am working on it, only in sleep mode. It also give an error message that says...