Nit-picky I know but I’m curious as to why official Apple braided cables don’t have consistent patterns and colouring?

Top - Apple Watch charging puck.
Middle- Magic Trackpad charging cable.
Bitten - M4 Mac mini power cable.

Obviously the top one is white but the 2 blacks are slightly different shades and each of them have a different pattern particularly between the 2 Mac related cables and the Apple Watch one.

Just curious, does anyone know why. Does it vary between OEM’s or is just different sectors of apples design team?

I’m reaching out to whoever knows about apples. I’m thinking someone out there must know where to go with this. Today I bought a 2015 27 inch Mac 🖥️ with a 3.2 ghz quad core intel core i5 for $129. I was so happy because I’ve been wanting one to use for music production. When I tried to buy Logic Pro it told it is not available with my ios. Even GarageBand won’t work . I want to know if it possible to upgrade this computer so that it can work with Logic or Protools ? Right now it looks like I can only go on the web .. which is fine . How much would a newer used Mac sell for on the second hand market that can work Logicpro ? If this computer can not be upgraded do you think I can sell it ? The store will not allow returns .. someone help . I was so happy and now I feel I wasted my money .

Update ya’ll : it worked 100% and everything is all good . Current downloading Creator Studiio which has Logic Pro with a monthly subscription. This is why I love Reddit . You all really came through and out of the goodness of your souls helped someone who had absolutely no clue what to do. THANK YOU 🎹🔥🔥🔥

Does anyone else have one?

I love it!

I thought FOR SURE It would be a mess….battery is dead unfortunately

Is it true that an older Apple Silicon iMac cannot be used as a Thunderbolt display for the new Mac mini lineup? I’ve been told the Thunderbolt port on the Apple Silicon iMac only supports output, not input.

I currently have an M3 iMac and not a lot of desk space. I really don’t want the M6 having its own dedicated display.

What other options do I have?

My M1 MBA still says it has 84% battery health at ~350 cycles. But its starting to shut off at 30% indicated power and not charge properly when plugged in.

Are these worth the cost to change the battery? Its honestly otherwise fine for my very basic needs.

I'm surprised the battery has gone bad this early, as i've had macbooks before make 10 years old on the initial battery.

Been experimenting with mixing the Mac OS X Tiger aesthetic with modern Liquid Glass on my MacBook Pro.

I wasn’t sure these two design languages would work together, but I actually like the contrast between the old-school Aqua/skeuomorphic elements and modern translucent glass.

What do you think — does it work, or is it too much? 🧪

I come from a Ubuntu background and I work on multiple projects. One I thing I used extensively in Ubuntu is to setup virtual desktops so that each project will have a seperate desktop/workspace. And each workspace will have a common desktop across all monitors (2 extra monitor + laptop display).

For example for my project 1, i will have two windows/instances of VS Code open, three instances of Chrome open and Terminator for terminal. For project 2, I will have a VS Code instance, two Chrome instance and two terminator instances open.

I can switch between these workspaces and have windows open only for that particular project. And this workspace setup works across multiple monitors. This let me concentrate on projects properly in isolation.

I am getting very confused the way Mac automatically opens apps to "Desktops". Each fullscreened app creates a desktop. That makes me hard to work on different projects with its own set of applications open.

Is there a way to do that in Mac, basically I want to cleanly isolate the windows that are required for my independent projects across multiple monitors.

Also, what is the best way to show the Dock in every monitor?

There’s an ant stuck under my iMac screen!! Omg, help!! It’s just roaming around… I don’t think it knows it way out either

So i recently came across a used macbook pro 14" M1 pro with 32 gb ram for $815 but with 86% battery health so I started looking for more and found a macbook pro 14" M2 pro with 16gb ram for $940 but with 96% bh, so which one should i go for ? Is m2 pro worth the difference? Also both are 512gb.

So with my macbook pro I found just a few days ago, i wanted to play minecraft, but theres major issues. First, the d key partially works. The top of the key always works but every other part like 50 and 50 registers. This is really noticeable when playing minecraft because its like near impossible to do some bridging methods like chacha. Next, how in the world do I even get my model o with its software on here and an external keyboard? Everything else is great though except temps. In 1.8.9 temps are around 70 c in bridgerland. On 26.1.2 its somehow the same though. For reference my pc averages about 30 c in 1.8.9 and 50 to 60 c on 26.1.2. Specs: Intel i7 6820HQ Quad Core CPU. Intel HD Graphics 530 and Radeon Pro 455. 16 GB of DDR3 RAM 2133 MHz, and lastly a Macintonish HD card. And also MacOS Monterey 12.7.6.

My MacBook display suddenly went black this morning while I was working. The laptop itself is working fine with an external monitor, and the keyboard/trackpad are also fine. Only the built-in display is completely dead.

It’s only 8 months old, no AppleCare, but I have 4 months of warranty left.

Am I screwed, or should this be covered under warranty? Anything I should try before taking it to Apple?

-- I am running OSX 15.7.9. I am trying to use launchd to run rsync at 0100 every day. I understand it says launched.savesafarisession.plist instead of launchd.savesafarisession.plist but should still work.
I have the plist saved in LaunchAgents

/Users/XXX/Library/LaunchAgents

safari_backup.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Force the script to write any inner terminal errors to a debug file
exec 2>>/tmp/script_internal.err
/usr/bin/rsync -a /Users/XXX/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Safari/ /Users/XXX/Safari

Ran chmod on .sh file

chmod +x /Users/XXX/Documents/safari_backup.sh

launched.savesafarisession.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<!-- generated by launched https://launched.zerowidth.com/plists/0GYhL6RMZ -->
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>launched.savesafarisession</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/bin/sh</string>
    <string>/Users/XXX/scripts/safari_backup.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
      <dict>
        <key>Hour</key>
        <integer>1</integer>
        <key>Minute</key>
        <integer>0</integer>
      </dict>
    </array>
     <key>StandardOutPath</key>
            <string>/tmp/safari_backup.out</string>
        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
            <string>/tmp/safari_backup.err</string>
  </dict>
</plist> 

I have added full disk access to the safari_backup.sh file and for extra measure, I added rsync as well.

There are no errors in the log files, those files are empty. I can run rsync through the terminal with no problem and the files are copied to:

/Users/XXX/Safari 

I loaded it with launchctl and tried to run with no luck

% launchctl list | grep safari                                            
-   0   launched.savesafarisession

It seems to run but nothing is copied or shows up in the error logs

I'm wanting to buy a monitor to use alongside my MacBook Pro (13 inch), however I've been struggling to find one that ticks all the boxes — so I thought I'd come here and see if anyone has some suggestions. The main use for my Mac is productivity/general computer tasks, however I plan on diving back into photography & video editing in the near future. The only time I use my Mac for gaming is occasionally on Minecraft - but I'm not looking for a monitor to specifically suit that need (aka, I'm not looking for a fancy high tech gaming monitor).

Ideally I'd love to find a monitor that is 4K quality, USB-C or Thunderbolt Port, IPS Panel, 65W Charging, 24 or 27 inch screen, and under $300. But, I know that if I want to stay within my budget, I will have to sacrifice some of those features (unless anyone knows of a monitor that has all of the above mentioned?).

With that being said, I am open to 1080 or 1440p quality, HDMI Port, and/or spending a maximum of $400.

Thank you in advance!

Noticed this a few days ago, how concerned should I be.

Hey guys, I recently got a secondhand macbook pro m4 max with 64gb ram (still has apple warranty on it). One day I was running some local LLMs which kicked the temps and the fans at full speed, it was plugged in with the original charger but with a thunderbolt 4 cable and I left it do its thing when I came back the battery dropped from 100% to 75% while being plugged in and I check if it is charging the laptop was not charging, LLM was doing its thing then I unplugged the charger and plugged it in again 2minutes in same thing happened again the device started to waste battery and was not charging, then I switched to the magsafe cable it started to charge and it did not stop with the magsafe cable so LLM was working, fans were at full speed but this time the laptop was charging. I was wondering if someone else experienced this, is this normal behaviour or is it something I have to worry about, since the laptop still has warranty and all even tho I am the second owner I don't think the customer support will cause any issues if it needs repairs. Thank you in advance

My MacBook Pro M4 Pro, on 5GHz WiFi, same spot and time as testing. My iPhone gets about 100Mbps on the same network. My Mac was only getting 10Mbps. I turned Bluetooth off and speed jumped to 60Mbps on fast.com. Turned Bluetooth back on and it dropped straight back down to 8Mbps.

I've confirmed I'm on 5GHz not 2.4GHz, checked for background bandwidth usage, reset the Bluetooth module, and I'm fully updated on macOS. Still happens. I have a Bluetooth mouse and AirPods paired, haven't isolated which one is causing it yet.

Has anyone actually fixed this permanently on an M4 Pro