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    Wrong Serial Numbers! Macbook Pro 2010?

    Hi everyone, I run a small IT repair firm and I’m working on a customers Macbook Pro 2010 (2.4Ghz Intel Core i5, Intel HD Graphics 288) running 10.13 which has a problem - seemingly it's had a bad SMC upgrade. (They bought it several years back from eBay) Right now the machine won’t boot unless...
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    MacBook Pro 2017 crash on sleep mode

    Few weeks ago my MacBook Pro 2017 has started to crash each time it should have enter sleep mode: after 1 minute of inactivity, the screen turns off and few seconds later the computer starts up with this message on black screen: "Your computer restarted because of a problem". When I login, I...
  3. Dawnabee

    Decrypting File Vault & Firmware password

    Just wondering if anyone experienced this. I tried to turn off the file vault on my macbook pro 2012. Usually it will ask a password to turn it off. I was playing around with terminal and when i tried to turn off the file vault started decrypting. My question is when it’s done decrypting will i...
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    Possible to receive Apple Pay payments with Macbook Pro?

    I have a '19 MBP with fingerprint sensor. I don't have an iPhone (I do have an older iPad without fingerprint sensor). On my Macbook, in sys prefs, under Wallet & Apple Pay, I do have credit cards showing, but when I open the Messages app I don't see Apple Pay after clicking the Apple App icon...
  5. davemcollins

    Does a dead display use processing power?

    Hello All, I've spent weeks scouring the internet but I can't find the answer to this question: Does the dead display of an iMac or MacBook use any CPU/GPU power? For example, I have a Mid 2012 13" MacBook Pro with a dead display that I've been using as a desktop (with an external display)...