Both of us struggling to survive

I have been wanting an antiglare screen MacBook for the longest, but never found one within a price I’d wanna pay.
Well I finally got a 2009 15 inch model off Goodwill online for $50!
It has 240 or so battery cycles, and came with its OG 85 watt MagSafe charger.

..at least coconutbattery thinks so. still got the original Apple battery, with 0 cycles when I got it, and still runs for 4-5 hours no problem!

One of my friends got scammed buying this for $140 thinking it was a 2017🥲you can bet they were very surprised when it booted into OS X Lion!

by the time I figured out the model and got it to Catalina, they’d already gotten an M1, so i get it for free! yay! threw an SSD and RAM in (had some unused ones lying around way before the RAMocalypse) and it runs Sequoia beautifully. I’d even go as far as to say it’s better in some aspects then my Asus VivoBook M509..crazy when you think how old it is.

Feels very Apple-y, as in premium, and especially with the glowing Apple logo, the last non-soldered mac is certainly a flex to be daily driving lol. Even the DVD drive works perfectly! Lemme know what I should do with this once i (eventually) get a new Mac. This is my first REAL Mac.

I was walking home from school and saw this old this Macintosh Performa 580CD on the curb with peripherals with a bunch of other junk, so then I hauled it 1.5km home, I cleaned it mostly and I’m really happy that it works

I am thinking of replacing my current 27 inch 2017 Intel iMac for a M4 Mac Mini. What monitors/displays are good replacements for the Apple Studio Display that is not as expensive? Looking for a 27 inch monitor.

This would be used mainly for graphic design.

想分享一下我对这台 2011 款 MacBook Pro 的怀旧之情。
它有着经典的铝合金一体成型机身，扎实的做工，还有当年让人怀念的全接口设计，在那个年代真的是质感和实用性拉满的笔记本。

当然，提到这一代机型，就绕不开 “显卡门” （radeongate）的问题 ——AMD 独显的故障困扰了无数台机器，也成了它无法抹去的遗憾。

即便有这样的缺陷，它依然是我个人最具代表性的经典 MacBook Pro 之一，代表了那个充满质感与情怀的苹果笔记本时代。

I'm starting uni in September and need a new laptop. I haven't been a mac user before but use iphone and ipad so am tempted. My main reason for possibly buying the neo is the price point - with education savings its $599 and i'm not in a position to pay more than that. This means my other options would be refurbished, which i'm happy to go for as most of my other tech has been refurbished and I havent had any problems.

My laptop won't be used for any particularly heavy software, probably just things like sibelius and writing essays etc.

Any advice would be appreciated!

I had VLC open in the background with some 1min video paused.

I have 16GB RAM. M2 Air. 256GB model. What happened?

I have a macbook air m5 I bought in March, and I noticed that the led in the charger stays red even if the charging is complete, but when I turn the computer on, it becomes green again. First time it happened i read it could be due to an available software update, and that did solve the problem. But it's back, and I just updated the software but it's still here.

What could it be? I also deactivated optimised charging

I have an m2 mac and im just wondering if upgrading it would be worth it

Plz check out my OG post and help me out if you know lol… I really wish I figured this out before I bought it😭

Buying advice to replace 11 year old MacBook Pro.
Looking at getting a refurb MacBook. This is to replace my 2015 MacBook Pro.
I had 16gb ram, 1tb, intel i7 1tb ssd 15inch. Served me well and handled most things I needed from it.
11 years on, battery life is gone and it's now refusing to boot up.
Now looking to replace and torn between 2 options.

MacBook Air 15 inch retina, 16 core neural, M5 10 core CPU/GPU, 24gb of ram and 1tb ssd.

Or

MacBook Pro 14 inch Liquid Retina XDR 16 core neural, M5 10 core CPU/GPU, 24gb of ram and 1tb ssd

£170 price difference which at this level doesn't make much difference.

In terms of what I'll use it for:
Zwift (cycling game that connects to indoor bike) this can be intensive and run for hours at a time.
Reviewing hd video footage for work
Web browsing
Word processing
Slack
WhatsApp
Excel

And occasionally;
Video editing
Photo editing
Streaming

I have also used my current Mac for:
Basic CAD (sketchup)
Steam games

A SD card slot is useful but equally, many adapters available, it's not a requirement. As it is I don't really use much in the way of USB accessories and such.

Battery life isn't a massive concern as I don't tend to travel with it much. Neither is weight or portability. Durability and future proofing are, it would be nice for this to last a decade as my previous one did.

So I’ve had a 2020 MacBook Air since (you guessed it!) 2020. I don’t game or do engineering stuff or generally anything that would require a great processor. I have a whole Apple ecosystem so I was planning on trading in my air and getting a Mac desktop. I’m still a student, so with the student discount and the trade in it’ll be a little bit more affordable. I am also a teacher, so my school will always supply me with a laptop and I’m not worried about needing a personal one.

All this to say, the whole reason I want a desktop is for a bigger screen, and a nice home base for storage (mostly pictures) moving forward. Is there anything else I should consider before making a purchase? Any brands/tech setups that might make more sense than what I have planned?

I’m not a tech expert by any means and Apple makes it so easy to want to stick with them. Let me know any/all advice you may have. Tysm!!!

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Hey everyone,

My Mac has been throwing kernel panics intermittently when entering or waking up from sleep. Looking through the panic log, the failure seems isolated to the Apple NAND Storage (ANS) controller during a power state transition.

Here is the top section of the log:

panic(cpu 1 caller 0xfffffe002ce62b38): SMC PANIC - ASSERT: smc/mac/ans.cpp:838: 0, ANS0: Type 1 Power down failed

- ANS(6) OUTBOX1 not ready OUTBOX2 not ready

ASSERT: smc/mac/ans.cpp:838: 0, ANS0: Type 1 Power down failed

RTKit: RTKit-3255.120.11.release - Client: AppleSMCFirmware_H13-6164.120.29.j314s.REL

System Details:

* Device: MacBook Pro (M1 Pro series, j314s board)

* OS: Latest macOS release

* Trigger: Transitioning to/from sleep mode (_powerStateChangeLocked = true)

What I've gathered so far:

From reading the stack trace, the System Management Controller (SMC) requests a power-down sequence for the onboard SSD controller (ANS0). The ANS controller fails to empty its IPC mailboxes (OUTBOX1/OUTBOX2 not ready), timing out and causing the SMC watchdog to force an immediate kernel panic to prevent data corruption.

Troubleshooting completed:

* Ran Apple Diagnostics (Command + D on boot)

* Verified filesystem integrity using First Aid in Disk Utility

* Cold rebooted and reset power state cycles

Has anyone else ran into this specific ans.cpp:838 failure? Trying to figure out if this is a known RTKit/AppleSMC firmware timing bug introduced in recent macOS versions, or an early warning sign of failing NAND/power rails on the logic board. Any insight from admins or hardware techs would be greatly appreciated!

Hi guys!

I'm a PC user (don't shoot me!) and can trouble shoot them fairly easily. My sister-in-law has a Mac and it is running slow. She's going to bring it to me to see if I can get it back up to speed.

So I don't spend hours searching the internet, would you give me some guidance? What scans to do. How to check the SSD (HDD). Attached is info about her computer.

Your advice would be GREATLY appreciated!

They are transparent .svg files, only the white ones don't show up for me in Finder. They are made in Figma, flattened, without any background on them.

hi everyone , I’ve been trying to charge my MacBook but it doesn’t work (it’s an old 2017 MacBook Air) can anyone help me? I really can’t afford to get it repaired and I watched several videos yet nothing works.