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My b I thought it was a how to have them replace the keyboard, even if you weren't aware of any issues, before you sell it. Though that might be worth the effort.
Upgrade was super easy for anyone who has worked inside a computer before and is a little careful. My "old man eyes" were the only difficulty I encountered.
Well, that, and the fact that I failed to properly seat the second DIMM, so I had to do the procedure twice.
System board out:
Apple DIMMs out, Crucial in. See that tiny gap a the base of the right hand DIMM? Yeah...
System memory installed:
The process took 15 minutes the first time and ten the second time.
After having done that process, I can see NO reason (for a technically minded person with some PC tools) to pay Apple $600 for the RAM that cost me $130. If Apple were charging $250, maybe, but $600 is just "Apple Robbery."
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Dipping your toe in to the granny smith infested waters are we?
I have had a MBP for some time now, although I usually use W10 via bootcamp on it.
I needed this machine for analyzing Apple computers I need to review. The forensic software I use wanted an i7 and 16+ GB of RAM, so the MBP with it's i5 and 8GB was not going to work...
Don't think I am ever going to get an iPhone, though...
Also, just an FYI to anyone contemplating the RAM upgrade on the Mini, I found that for the first 6 screws that need to be removed (on the antennae plate), my T7 bit was a better match than the T6 indicated in the video Warren posted. I also used the T7 bit for the actual antennae screw, but used a T6 for all further screws inside the case. It may be a matter of manufacturing tolerances in my driver bit set, but I thought I would mention it to prevent anyone from stripping a screw.
Speaking with journalists after winning his first Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Jojo Rabbit and Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi had other things on his mind. When asked what he thought writers should be demanding in the next round of discussions with producers, Waititi put Apple’s controversial laptop keyboards on blast.
“Apple needs to fix those keyboards,” he said. “They are impossible to write on — they’ve gotten worse. It makes me want to go back to PCs. Because PC keyboards, the bounce-back for your fingers is way better. Hands up who still uses a PC? You know what I’m talking about. It’s a way better keyboard. Those Apple keyboards are horrendous.”
Taika Waititi jokes about what writers should be asking for in the next round of talks with producers: “Apple needs to fix those keyboards. They are impossible to write on. They’ve gotten worse. It makes me want to go back to PCs” #Oscarspic.twitter.com/vlFTSjCfZm
— Variety (@Variety) February 10, 2020“I’ve got some shoulder problems,” Waititi continued. “I’ve got OOS [Occupational Overuse Syndrome, a term used in New Zealand for RSI] — I don’t know what you call it over here, this sort of thing here (gestures to arm), that tendon which goes down your forearm down into the thumb? You know what I’m talking about, if you guys are ever writing. And what happens is you open the laptop and you're like this (makes uncomfortable hunched-over-laptop pose) — we’ve just got to fix those keyboards. The WGA needs to step in and actually do something.”
It’s unclear whether Waititi has used Apple’s new 16-inch MacBook Pro, which replaces the unreliable and shallow “butterfly” keyboard with a new design that, by all accounts, is more comfortable to type on. But the butterfly keyboards have been shipping in laptops for nearly five years now, so hopefully Apple gets the message and kills them off once and for all in 2020.
maybe Apple is going to put out a Mac Pro with EPYC or Threadripper. Seems like they both target the same market segment, and the 64 core EPYC and Threadripper is destroying anything Intel has to offer
if you miss the classic Mac startup chime on newer macs, people figured out how to turn it back on.
this seems to have a higher success rate than whatever else people have attempted before.
If you yearn for that classic Mac sound, follow these steps to re-instate it.
Launch the Terminal app, which can be found in the Applications/Utilities folder. This will open a Terminal window and a command prompt for you to begin typing.
Input the following command and then press Return: sudo nvram StartupMute=%00
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