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    Factory Reset Gone Wrong?

    I recently purchased an old Mid 2009 MacBook Pro from a friend, This is my first MacBook and Apple related device in general. He told me I would need to factory reset it so I looked up how to do so, I proceeded to erase the disk with Disk utility, but after doing that I cannot reinstall the OS X...
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    Help! Macbook Pro crashing on shutdown 2018 15

    Hi. I'm nearing the end on my sanity on this and would really like some feedback. I recently got a 2018 15 MBP, the machine had Big Sur on it and was working perfectly. I installed High Sierra as I need to run some old software. Seemed to go fine ( although a curious extra partition appeared...
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    Buying advice!

    Hello everyone im looking for a little advice. My 2014 macbook pro 13, recently got wet and longer works and im looking at investing in a new mac, i just need help finding which model and specs would best suit me. i would be using the mac for my primary movie and tv show watching ( i prefer to...
  4. randyleytan

    Issues with Microsoft Office Word's icon.

    Hey everyone, so for a while, I have been noticing this issue with Word. Normally when you save a file it would look like this (I have Office 365): But ever since I Office on my Mac the icons for Word files look like this compared to the rest of the Office programs: Does anyone else have...
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    Battery Charge Capacity

    Hi guys. My battery percentage has been dropping steadily the last couple of months, it went from 97% (12 cycles) to 90.8% (22 cycles). Is this normal? Is the battery health feature causing this? The MacBook is on around 8 hours a days, plugged in most of the time. Thanks in advance for your...
  6. TFK.

    New MacBook Pro 16”

    What we will see on the new September/October update for the 16”?.. it will be intel for sure but do you think it will come with the new rumored display MiniLED? New high GPU/RAM option? I love to know what you all think ??
  7. Vivek Kanna Jayaprakash

    MacBook Pro 13 " 2012 Internal Drive Format.

    Good morning y'all I have a MacBook Pro 13" 2012 and my cat spilled hot coffee on it ;( and it doesn't boot up.So I m planning to take it to the service centre but would like to erase the entire hard drive and factory reset the system. If I remove the internal hard drive use a connector and...
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    MBP 16 — 16gb or 32gb Help!

    Hey there! My friend is a Graphic Designer, and she's thinking of buying the MBP 16 i7. She will use to do some "heavy" Illustrator and Photoshop work, little or none after effects. Do you guys think the extra 500$ are worth to upgrade to 32gb? Thank you!
  9. Rico Muerte

    Check reapplication of themal paste?

    Tonight I pulled my "new" 2012 MBP apart & gave it a good clean. Took the logic board out, heatsink off, brushed & blew out the logic board. Cleaned the old themal paste & reapplied new paste. I used the ArctiClean 1 & 2, & Arctic Silver 5. On the GPU I put a single blob in the centre, & the...
  10. David1986H

    How long did you're MBP take from shipping from Eindhoven to your door in the UK?

    So my MBP 16" was shipped yesterday and is currently in Eindhoven, on Apples website its saying delivered on 11th June so almost another week. Did your Macbook take a week to get to you in the UK from Eindhoven?
  11. David1986H

    MacBook Pro 16" 10th gen Intel coming soon?

    I'm really tempted to order a 16" MBP but knowing that Intel has realised their 10th gen h series cpu's could the 16" get an update in the next few weeks? I'm looking at getting the 2.4ghz 8 core but would there be a performance increase over the 9th gen 2.4ghz? And has AMD got any new graphics...
  12. emraha06

    How would you explain ghosting smearing display on “premium product” mbp for years if you were an Apple manager?

    This problem continues since 2016 touch bar models and there is no improvement. Ghosting/smearing got worse in latest 16” model. Is not there anybody or Department in thousands of apple engineers that hears the complaints, notice the problem and check the 16 inch units for this issue? Is this so...