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No, menu bar items are also solid (yes I sacrificed the menu for fewer tweaks just to get by...)
HIToolBox controls a lot. AppKit can override from the app. Choose your weapon.
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No, menu bar items are also solid (yes I sacrificed the menu for fewer tweaks just to get by...)
HIToolBox controls a lot. AppKit can override from the app. Choose your weapon.
So you want a new iPhone, no problem, $1450 for a top tier iPhone, as an avid Mac user, I had an SI with a Massive 80 MB hard drive & 4 MB RAM, it pains me to watch a Trillion dollar Company forget what there focus was, computers. You'd think with that kind of revenue Apple would be releasing top tier computers, that's just not the case. I'm inclined to agree with Starplayr as much as it pains me to do so. Apple's focus is on phones, watches & emojis. Computers & OS's, not so much. I will always have a Mac, just not a new one. Not venting just stating the obvious.
From MacRumors:
iPhone XS Max is Apple's Most Expensive iPhone Model to Date at $1,449 for 512GB
To start, the iPhone XS is priced the same as last year's iPhone X, now with the added 512GB tier:
- iPhone XS 64GB - $999.00
- iPhone XS 256GB - $1,149.00
- iPhone XS 512GB - $1,349.00
- iPhone XS Max 64GB - $1,099.00
- iPhone XS Max 256GB - $1,249.00
- iPhone XS Max 512GB - $1,449.00
Agreed. This year even the iPhone took a back seat to the watch. Clearly, small, disposable high profit margin devices is what the focus is. Just take a look at how Mojave was barely mentioned on 9/12 (when all the rest was in GM the same day) . Over the past two years, their head of SE can be remembered for clowning around with animojis and touting a FaceTime feature that's already been postponed. Sad.
Yeah, even with the GM build release candidate 18A389, Nvidia has been quiet. My guess is they have an agreement with Apple not to release their web drivers OR it is just their standard operation not to until it is available through Software Update (the HS one, not the Mojave one). I tried poking around their site for any hidden links but it's nearly impossible to predict their naming scheme and their FTP page only has Linux stuff publicly available.
I feel really lucky having Metal working early. I also finally got APFS working on a Mini SSD PCIe. Cloning it now to my OWC SSD RAID PCIe 5.0GT/s. Hoping that clone will work and can get updates. I think we all installed Mojave beta's 100 times now each. We've provided Apple quiet a bit of beta testing.
IMHO, Intel shares the lion share of the blame by totally failing at 10 nm fabrication. Were Steve still alive, I suspect he would have put the screws to Intel and forced them to allow Apple to have TSMC fabricate the new processor designs.
I read the latest Soft RAID 6.0? is supposed to support booting AFPS. But right now my Soft RAID works as a reader in Snow Leopard, so I don't think it is version 6.0.
Guess my workaround will be this:
Use my Mini SSD as an installer with AFPS and put all my software on it. Put my Home dir. on another SSD. Then either clone the original to HFS+ or run off the Mini SSD. Either way, I can make this work.
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Emojis. Funny. I actually have a game in the iPhone App Store called UF Emoji. Will be renaming it to UFO Emoji whenever I get around to releasing it. Plan to do development work in Mojave after I stop messing with it.
64GB for a grand is shameful. it should be for the base 256GB, for the mid 512GB and for the high 1TB. Or at least this: 128/256/512
Apple used to always give low RAM and disk space in its computers and we all upgraded them ourselves. They are way beyond putting in older or slower tech now. A trillion dollar company should put in the latest tech included RAM and Flash storage space. Not everyone wants to use iCloud for their storage. I just cancelled my iCloud and will be storing backups locally and may cough cough use OneDrive.
I have 5 iPhones in my family. Two are free. Two are $25 a month. one is $40 a month. Plan to either buyout the 25 a month this Spring or get used ones and pay for them out right. I have 1 iPhone X and actually one of my kids has it and not me. He is a beta tester and he actually does a good job.
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I am super Happy with Mojave running fully operational on my Mac Pro 3,1 2008, I will be sending DosDude1 $20 after my next pay check this October. He's done a great job not only providing updates and his OS downloader, he's done an excellent job handling himself on here and answering questions even if the question has been asked many times before. I think we should all give him a hand and send him some of our beer money. I'd send some today, but I stocked up on supplies waiting for Tropical Storm Florence to arrive. (in Charlotte and don't know if its gonna hit us or if she'll miss us yet.)
Current setup:
Main install on Micro SSD as AFPS. Home directory on OWC 1TB PCIe SSD since it can't boot AFPS reliably because it uses Soft RAID internally with two 512GB PCIe chips. The OWC runs at 600MB/s.
My main install will be on another 2TB SSD Apple Software RAID. They are actually two 1TB Hardware RAIDs in SATA slots 1 and 2 but have them striped to double the speed. I may forgo speed and just split the drives up and should be able to run them using AFPS since the system sees the Hardware RAIDs as hard drives but run decent 256MB/s each which tops out SATA 2. Software RAID tops out at 500MB/s. That would leave my MicroSSD as Emergency Boot and I also use it for DosDude1's patcher.
Also have 1 4TB Drive for long term storage and 1 4TB drive for Time Machine.
Current setup:
Main install on Micro SSD as AFPS. Home directory on OWC 1TB PCIe SSD since it can't boot AFPS reliably because it uses Soft RAID internally with two 512GB PCIe chips. The OWC runs at 600MB/s.
My main install will be on another 2TB SSD Apple Software RAID. They are actually two 1TB Hardware RAIDs in SATA slots 1 and 2 but have them striped to double the speed. I may forgo speed and just split the drives up and should be able to run them using AFPS since the system sees the Hardware RAIDs as hard drives but run decent 256MB/s each which tops out SATA 2. Software RAID tops out at 500MB/s. That would leave my MicroSSD as Emergency Boot and I also use it for DosDude1's patcher.
Also have 1 4TB Drive for long term storage and 1 4TB drive for Time Machine.
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Very true. The whole 10nm fiasco is getting old. And now that Apple is designing 7nm chips...The thing is, a processor change for macOS isn't anything I'm looking forward to also...
I will make a donation too soon Hope everyone is safe in the storm path
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If Steve Jobs were still have alive all of us would have a working properly light and dark mode
Pretty darned crazy how we need to keep tweaking things like late 2009 macPros to get flexible, modifiable tower computers ... My wife and I own iPhone 6S+ phones and she's got a Mac laptop - neither of us owns an iWatch - but I do have shares of Apple stock ...
I have the dubious honor of being in the top 10 donors (if not #1), back in the day . I encourage others to do so too.
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Oh I can guarantee macOS would be in better shape. He was not only the owner, but user #1. He also surrounded himself with the best and brightest senior engineers. Most of them have moved on. Cupertino is slowly becoming The Chocolate Factory without Willy Wonka.I will make a donation too soon Hope everyone is safe in the storm path
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If Steve Jobs were still have alive all of us would have a working properly light and dark mode
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You have a pretty sweet setup. 3.1 GTX here also.
Is there really high value in Raiding your SSD boot disks? I opted out of that once SSDs became pretty reliable (took a few generations though) . So I safeguard my data disks as much possible confident that I can recover from any system failure. Backing up religiously adds another measure of security. Gives me a little more versatility on my boot disk, especially when running multiple OSes on separate partitions (even though I am almost completely VM for my nix and windows development)
Striping two SSDs does double the speed as long as each one has their own slot. Like two SATA slots. The drawback currently is APFS works barely works if hardly at all.
Now I have two hardware SSD RAID 0's. These pretend to be a physical spinning disk and show as rotational. Since the Mac Pro 3,1 can only do SATA 2, on each SATA slot they top out at 256MB/s. If I had a SATA3 card in and x16 Slot then they could top out at 512MB/s on their own. Now if you can get 512MB/s without a SATA3 card by stripping them on two separate SATA2 slots, but then you lose AFPS support. So what I am doing now on my two Hardware SSD RAIDs is running them on APFS and just clone one to the other and if one goes down, I can just boot the other. My home directory is now on the OWC PCIe 1TB SSD RAID (this runs at 600MB/s on at 5GT/s x2 PCIe) and it also has trouble with APFS to boot, so I am just gonna use if for my home directory. Doing this allows me to has multiple startup OS's but each one uses the same home folder. It's flexible and now I can upgrade the OS at any time without skipping a beat.
On other Macs if you do not have a lot of ports, like on a 2012 Mac mini you can stripe two SSDs internally at SATA3 and you get about 1000MB/s rate. You can also take two external SSDs on USB3.0 and you get decent speeds too.
The problem seems to be with APFS not playing nice with Apple Software RAIDs. You also cannot run Windows from them either.
Also worth noting that the Mac Pro 3,1 has two hidden internal SATA ports. You can run cables to them and add in two more SATA drives where the DVD RWs are at. You have to take the Fans out to get to them. It gets tight running the SATA cables. On my main Mac Pro I am using the power to run another Card on demand, but I will probably run my internal SATA cables through it and run some SATA Power Cables too and then I can add on two more SSDs if I want. My other Mac Pro already has the extra internal SATA cables and also the ribbon cable for DVD, so it can run either. That is mainly my Windows 10 PC now. I have a hard time dual booting Mac and PC on the Mac 3,1. The firmware is out of date and Apple does not update it. So one Mac is a Mac and one Mac is a PC.
If Apple goes to the A chips for macOS in 2020 and does away with Intel, we'll have to kiss out old Macs goodbye one day. There will be transition if it happens, so it won't be anytime soon. Apple used to do a good job being backward compatible but if they switch architectures in favor of iOS on desktops, we may not see x64 any more.
Motorola
PowerPC
Intel
A chips next?
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Thanks for declaration! That's a possible workaround, smoother would be to receive any OTA updates - worked on HighSierra every time smooth, without rebooting into stick and rewatching. I'll take a look; fast fix to reinstall with APFS and restore from Time Machine. Have a nice weekend.
I see.
No, menu bar items are also solid (yes I sacrificed the menu for fewer tweaks just to get by...)
HIToolBox controls a lot. AppKit can override from the app. Choose your weapon.
Personally I liked the default "dark mode" (the only one fully supported by OpenGL) since beta 1, but reading continuously many comments here, in some way they have influenced me to opt for "light mode" and in my little I have tried to find another loophole, but honestly I guess your "hybrid light mode" is most awaited, and probably will overshadow Mojave 9/24 by all means.
And if later will be figure out as a plist environment variable that would be great.
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The key here is that Apple isn't designing 7 nm chips, TSMC is. This is Intel's problem in its entirety. Intel has failed to accept that they will likely never have the whip hand in fabrication again when companies like TSMC can spend 100% of their resources on improving those technologies without having to worry about the processor design side. Intel should have split itself into independent fabrication and design companies long ago.
I found one, but it would be easier if I could use a dongle. Is there one that someone got working?
Found a way to get Atheros Wifi card (AR5BXB72) running on my iMac 8,1 with Mojave. Could not accomplish this by patching with the modified installer (legacy wifi option).
So, after experimenting with DPCIManager to find out what the PCI vendor and device are, I noticed that those infos were already present in the AirPortAtheros40.kext (in its plist file). One entry there contained the sub-vendor and sub-device, though, so I added this to the string array also. Corrected the file permissions with the tool batchmod (no need to create a new code signature), and rebooted.
Wifi is up and running now on 2.4 and 5GHz bands.
This might be of interest also to @dosdude1 for inclusion to the legacy wifi patch...
All others interested in this, have a look at the screenshots if you want to do it manually. Should work on all machines with miniPCIe slots that can hold the Atheros wifi card.
So, after experimenting with DPCIManager to find out what the PCI vendor and device are, I noticed that those infos were already present in the AirPortAtheros40.kext (in its plist file). One entry there contained the sub-vendor and sub-device, though, so I added this to the string array also. Corrected the file permissions with the tool batchmod (no need to create a new code signature), and rebooted.
Wifi is up and running now on 2.4 and 5GHz bands.
This might be of interest also to @dosdude1 for inclusion to the legacy wifi patch...
All others interested in this, have a look at the screenshots if you want to do it manually. Should work on all machines with miniPCIe slots that can hold the Atheros wifi card.
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All the cheapest usb wifi dongles on the market use the Ralink/Mediatek chipset, so provided you have SIP disabled and found the right driver on the web (there are many so need to try a couple before find the right one), are working fine with latest HighSierra, so I assume they will on Mojave too.
Found one used for $11.00 on EBay and also ordered 8Gb of RAM. Will go to iFixit for instructions for opening the case. Did it once before, so I shouldn't have any problems.
The photo above is the one I purchased.
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Same here. As I mentioned (a few 100 pages ago) I also like and actually prefer Dark mode. I'm simply convinced we can collectively come up with viable workarounds ourselves. We may as well get used to supporting issues like these ourselves since Apple is officially neglecting all GL related problems. I also think dark will start "glitching" more as time and Apple updates roll by. They clearly are not regression testing these code paths and will introduce new ui features that will stress our old cards in unpredictable ways.
A "real" fix has to be possible since dark works on our old GL cards. I've pushed as far as altering how dark implements the "system" vibrancy background action (blurs etc.) , beyond what the appearance or visual effect view apis offer, so it looks possible. I've even altered the GL code it implements. But, with just assembly and reverse engineering tools on hand, it's a slow debugging and test process - waiting for GM has the advantage that the code base is at least a little more stable. The fact that Light works on metal cards when metal is switched OFF is also perplexing, but must indicate that more modern GL cards (like my GTX 680) have a GL feature set and version that is more compatible with the GL code and frameworks shipped with Mojave. Something that a GeForce 9600M GT can't handle on my old mbp 5.3. One would think that light should share the same code base as dark except for a different filter, blend mode and style, but it doesn't for some odd reason. The actual theming implementation I see is very sloppy: they even have exclusive pieces of logic just to deal with quirks on "special" Adobe and Microsoft products (by name in the code!) No wonder it's broken for us...
As far as "hybrid" workarounds go, an extension to your reduce transparency command line switch would be altering the general appearance preferences pane to reduce transparency (and possibly alter contrast) when transitioning to light. The transition to dark would switch it back. Preferences (in Accessibility) can already do it on the fly. This would be a nice way to bundle any transparency related fix (or any workaround for that matter)
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True. I can't believe Intel lost the race on the manufacturing process. Let's hope they have something up their sleeves. Not only do I have a soft spot for them - they DID deliver on Moore's Law for quite a while - but Apple makes it quite hard with their current emphasis on sleeker, slimmer and shinier. Ives needs to take a nap. One things for sure, Intel needs a reboot, they missed and poopoo'ed the entire RISC based architecture thing for so long that it's come back to bite in the ass...
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Sure looks like it. I bet they already have macOS running on A somewhere in an underground lab in Cupertino. I would.
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Excellent!
My hybrid reduce transparency admit is a bit uncomfortable, and probably some (very few) lines border elements instead of white (for dark mode) and black (for light mode) will be rendered as "light/dark grey", but I can assure that it doesn't alter the contrast when transitioning, apart it's quickly fixable tapping two times the Accessibility prefpane checkbox "reduce transparency" that it's impressive how it does the transition at the speed of light, I don't figure out how they do, but of course they are top developers. The little advantage in my simple "patch" is that you can revert easily to the default dark mode (working well for the OpenGL dark mode), and for those as me that use a Mojave external SSD both on a supported and unsupported mac. Yes it lacks the "beauty vibrant sidebars windows", and I look forward for your patch especially the Appkit side.
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Here is the one for increase contrast from Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.universalaccess increaseContrast -bool true
It doesn't require Finder relaunch, just open the Accessibility prefpane again and it will be applied on-the-fly.
Wait a moment: when set to false, it disables "contrast" but returns to the "reduce transparency" checked box. Weird. You know, it's not so bad contrast increased to view.
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I bought the internal card off EBay so I will try that first. Just not sure if Mojave will see it at first. If not I guess I have to run the patch again.
I do own A1342 and that wifi card on Mojave will work out-of-box, even with or without the wifi patch applied.
I am glad I did not sell off the 2008 Mac Pros. I'd love to get
On Mac Pro 3,1, I use a couple generic Broadcom compatible cards that are listed as "Third-Party Wireless Cards" (have two towers).
Both use a/b/g/n. One allows you to select 2.5 and 5Ghz another does not but has access to what appears to be 5Ghz radios which is strange!. 802.11n over 2.5Ghz actually runs really fast, so I haven't bother finding faster cards. The n radio ones are inexpensive compared to 802.11ac cards for the Mac Pro which cost up to 10 times more.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010JP3HFK/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
There is a trick to popping on the Antenna radios. If you push downward on the out side edge with your index finger then move the rest down like a lever, the cable should pop right on. It took me quite awhile to discover this and if you don't get the cable on right way, you'd be surprised how fast your fingers will get sore over these many attempts. Removing PCIe cards and hard drives can give you more room which I highly recommend doing. You can also use your iPhone's camera along with its torch light to use as a scope to get a good view of what you are doing. I have old eyes, so the iPhone saves me.
On Mac Pro 3,1, I use a couple generic Broadcom compatible cards that are listed as "Third-Party Wireless Cards" (have two towers).
Both use a/b/g/n. One allows you to select 2.5 and 5Ghz another does not but has access to what appears to be 5Ghz radios which is strange!. 802.11n over 2.5Ghz actually runs really fast, so I haven't bother finding faster cards. The n radio ones are inexpensive compared to 802.11ac cards for the Mac Pro which cost up to 10 times more.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010JP3HFK/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
There is a trick to popping on the Antenna radios. If you push downward on the out side edge with your index finger then move the rest down like a lever, the cable should pop right on. It took me quite awhile to discover this and if you don't get the cable on right way, you'd be surprised how fast your fingers will get sore over these many attempts. Removing PCIe cards and hard drives can give you more room which I highly recommend doing. You can also use your iPhone's camera along with its torch light to use as a scope to get a good view of what you are doing. I have old eyes, so the iPhone saves me.
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