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Hi all, I'm having quite a time here. Could really do with some guidance. I'm in the middle of a nightmarish migration from an Intel imac with a failed 1TB fusion drive running Catalina to a new M1 24" imac with a 512GB SDD running Monterey. I thought I was all secure with two Time Machine...

I am planning to buy the ipad 9th gen (64GB + Wifi only), and was wondering what are the major issues in the OS. This will be my first apple product, so I am a bit nervous since I come from the Android/Windows platform. So please tell me whether it is good enough to be a daily driver for me...

(macbook pro 15 inch, late 2008 2.4 GHz) I reapplied the thermal paste for my macbook pro- have (had?) zero experience with messing around w/ the board so may not have been the best idea. I somehow managed not to brick it and it now runs 20 c cooler- but the back light for the keyboard does not...

Soooo, today I figured I wanted to replace the original, crisp thermal paste on my Early 2015 MacBook Pro 13" Retina. I opened the back case and just started working on it. Except one thing... I forgot to disconnect the battery, but disconnected the keyboard cable (I think LOL). Anyway, applying...

my seagate expansion external hard drive is formally kaputt. It doesn't show up on my desktop or in disk utility. I am not sure what has happened. I can't do any first aid on it because it is not there. I have switched usb ports and tried on another laptop. Squat. Can anyone help with what...

My family is moving into a new house in Sept, and we’re wanting to try our hands at some home automation. We’re an Apple house, and don’t own any Smart Home devices or assistant/hubs, so we thought we’d go the home kit route. We’re actually starting from ground zero for our setup, as my current...

hi brand new here, been reading through for a while now but cant seem to find the answers im looking for. I have a mid 2009 mbp 15" looking to change the faulty" it makes a grinding noise" HDD with something a bit quicker preferably on the cheaper side. Thanks Will I need an enclosure/adapter or...

Jumped ship from android devices last year and got the 6s. I’ll be receiving the 8 tomorrow and have some questions for the elite. I recently learned about the whole battery cycle thing and I want to make sure I get the best out of this new device so here are a few questions... 1. Will we have...

hi everybody, seems my gpu died (hd 4780 1gig) yesterday so im looking for a cheap way to replace it. my question. is it possible to flash a gpu for macpro usage on a PC running win7? googled this for an hour, no success... im using my mac for Audio only so i guess gpu power isnt that...

Ive been a pc guy all my life. When its come to gaming and most of all music production. Until i got my hands on a mac. Macmini 2012 to be exact. Unfortunately that was a borrowed item off a family member and im now in the market for one of my own. Any apple product. Became a big...

Hello, I have what I think are 2 simple (noob level) questions. The First Question lets see if I am understanding this correctly. 1) I declare / create 1 Class and 1 Struct 2) Within the Class I Instantiate the Struct 3) Later, all references to the Class are removed 4) Swift removes the...

Hello Mac people! This is my first post ever on this site and I wanted to get some opinions on a iMac I was looking on buying. Sorry if this is not the right place to post this I can try to move the thread or something. So let me get down to business these are the things things I want my iMac to...

I'm looking at transitioning from a windows to a mac and have been doing a lot of research on which model would suit me best. I'm mainly investing in a mac for the video/photo editing programs and as a student I also have a limited budget. I want something that can easily run programs such as...

Hello, I am just starting to learn Swift and XCode, and I had a quick question. I'm just learning about linking items in the Interface Builder (From a storyboard or XIB) to code by Ctrl+Click & dragging from the item in IB into the code, where XCode then places some code beginning with...

I made my first typeface in Adobe Illustrator! Here's what some of the 70+ characters I made look like: These characters are all vector-based images that were left over from a logo design I did (I got carried away!) and I wanted to put the typeface in my portfolio. However, while I have...