Jun 18, 2018 - When it does, a number of Mac models won't be able to upgrade. Last year, High Sierra (10.13) stuck with the same models as Sierra.
. Download macOS. Format USB Drive. You need Real Mac machine or Virtual machine to make EFI partition. Insert a USB drive of 8GB or more into the back of the computer.
Open Disk Utility and select your USB in the left sidebar. Click Erase and set Name: USB, Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Scheme: GUID Partition Map. Insert a USB drive of 8GB or more into the back of the computer. Open Disk Utility and select USB in the left sidebar. Click Erase and set Name: USB, Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Scheme: GUID Partition Map. If you do not see the Scheme setting, click View in the upper left corner and select View All. Click Erase.
Click Done. Open Terminal and copy and paste the entire text below, then press Enter. Sudo /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -applicationpath /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app -volume /Volumes/USB/. Enter the password, press ‘Y’, then press Enter again. USB installation for between 20-60 minutes will be ready. Until then, you should never unplug USB.
After installation, make it bootable via USB. Download. Open Clover Configurator. Mount EFI to mount the partition on USB where macOS is installed. Click open partition, download and copy and paste it.
You can change the BIOS setting to Optimized Default and change it to the following settings. If possible, update the BIOS to the latest version. Virtualization: Enabled. VT-d: Disabled.
XHCI Hand-Off: Enabled. Legacy USB Support: Auto/Enabled. IO SerialPort: Disabled. Network Stack: Disabled. XMP Profile: Auto / Profile 1/Enabled. UEFI Booting set to Enabled and set Priority over Legacy. Secure Boot: Disabled.
Fast Boot: Disabled. OS Type: Other OS. Wake on LAN: Disabled Depending on the manufacturer and the BIOS version, there may be a difference in the names, but there seems to be no major difference. Once you have set up your MacOS installation, it’s a good idea to change it to your own configuration later. The attached photos are the bios configuration of the system I am currently using.
(Gigabyte z370 Aorus Gaming 7 Bios v.F2). In BIOS setup, set to boot by USB first. Select Boot OS X to install from Install macOS High Sierra.
Format and Install. When Installer appears, press Continue. Choose your preferred language.
Select Disk Utility from the Install menu. Click the View button in the top left corner to select Show All Devices. Select the disk to install macOS and set it as below.
Name: (It can be named anything you want). Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Scheme: GUID Partition Map. Press Erase, close Disk Utility, and start the installation. When the installation is finished, it will be restarted and you will see the name of the newly installed macOS in the clover boot menu.
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Now select macOS and press enter. Then the installation continues as shown below. First booting with macOS. Once the macOS installation is complete, it automatically reboots and the clover boot screen appears again. Select the installed macOS and press Enter to display the High Sierra initial setting screen. Once you have made the various settings (do not set the Internet yet), the Sierra desktop will open. After completing the setup, replace the folder so that you can boot by yourself.
Download. Open Clover Configurator. Mount EFI to mount the partition where macOS is installed. Open Partition, download the folder and copy and paste it. Install the latest version of Clover. In the Clover, Configurator select Install/Update Clover and install the latest one. When installing the clover, click Customize and select the options as shown below.
Install for UEFI booting only, Install Clover in the ESP, Dirver64UEFIEmuVariableUefi-64, OsxAptioFix2Drv-64, Install RC scripts on Target volume Now you can boot to the hard disk where you installed macOS without booting to the USB drive. Enter the BIOS setup and change the boot order to UEFI MacOS installed disk to the priority boot. If you currently use AMD’s graphics card, you do not need to set special settings, but Nvidia needs to install a web driver, and if you have Intel built-in graphics, you need to change the device ID. For Nvidia graphics, drivers up to 6 series are natively identified without the need for driver installation.
However, since 7 series, web driver should be installed, and whenever the OS is updated, the appropriate web driver must be installed to use the graphics card with proper performance. For AMD, nothing else can be set for the current RX Vega 64 and lower HD series. It does not need drivers and performance is better than Nvidia. You only have to set it aside from sleep/wake or built-in graphics. Enable iGPU (Intel Integrated Graphics) Intel’s i3, i5, and i7 series, which we commonly say, have their own built-in graphics cards for each generation. Of course, the built-in graphics card cannot be used for games or editing, but thanks to the day-to-day development, it has evolved to be able to play low-end games and simple editing. In particular, H.264 or H.265 (HEVC), which boasts a superior compression ratio among editing codecs, is heavily influenced by the CPU.
Therefore, if the built-in graphics are enabled, it can greatly reduce the CPU load and improve the rendering speed. It seems as important as it seems to be essential for users who are using Nvidia cards as main.
First, you need to enable the integrated graphics card. It is recommended to set it at the time of installation as already explained in the BIOS setup above.
Integrated Graphics: Enabled. Graphics: IGD/Integrated/iGPU/CPU Graphics (If there is only built-in graphics, this is how to set it. If you want to use external graphics as main, set PEG / PCIe Slot 1). DVMT Pre-Allocated: 64M or 128M If you copy and move the attached after installing macOS, the core files are already installed. After that, you only need to change the settings related to graphics in the Config.plist file. Since EFI attached to this article has a config file for the current system, you should replace it with the proper config file for your build.
You can use to see if your internal graphics are working well. Now I complete the Hackintosh Guide for the i7-8700k Coffee Lake System. macOS를 다운로드한다. USB 드라이브를 포맷한다. EFI파티션을 만들기위해선 리얼맥이나, virtual machine이 필요하다. 8기가 이상의 USB드라이브를 컴퓨터의 본체 뒤부분에 끼운다.
디스크 유틸리티를 열고 왼쪽 사이드바에서 USB를 선택한다. 지우기(Erase)를 클릭한 뒤 Name: USB, Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Scheme: GUID Partition Map으로 설정한다.
Scheme 설정이 보이지 않는다면, 왼쪽 상단의 View를 클릭하여 모두보기를 선택한다. 지우기 (Erase) 클릭. 완료(Done) 클릭. 터미널(Terminal)을 열고 아래의 문구 전체를 복사하여 붙여넣기한뒤 엔터를 누른다. Sudo /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -applicationpath /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app -volume /Volumes/USB/.
패스워드를 넣고, ‘Y’를 누른후 다시 엔터를 누른다. 20-60분사이에 인스톨 USB가 준비가 될것이다.
그전까진 절대 USB를 뽑으면 안된다. 설치가 끝난후 USB로 부팅이 가능하도록 만든다. Download. Clover Configurator를 연다. Mount EFI를 눌러 macOS가 설치된 USB의 Partition을 마운트한다. Open Partiton을 누른뒤 를 다운받아 복사한뒤 붙여넣어준다. 바이오스 설정은 기본적으로 Optimazed Default로 바꾼후 아래와 같은 설정으로 바꿔주면 된다.
바이오스는 가능하다면 최신 버젼으로 업데이트 해두면 좋다. Virtualization: Enabled. VT-d: Disabled. XHCI Hand-Off: Enabled. Legacy USB Support: Auto/Enabled.
IO SerialPort: Disabled. Network Stack: Disabled. XMP Profile: Auto / Profile 1/Enabled. UEFI Booting set to Enabled and set Priority over Legacy. Secure Boot: Disabled. Fast Boot: Disabled.
OS Type: Other OS. Wake on LAN: Disabled 제조사에 따라 그리고 바이오스 버전에 따라 명칭의 차이가 있을 수 있지만 크게 다른 부분을 없을 것 같다. 일단 macOS를 설치 할수 있게만 설정해두고 차후 본인에게 맞는 설정으로 바꾸는 것이 좋다.
첨부된 사진은 현재 내가 쓰고 있는 시스템의 바이오스 설정이다. (Gigabyte z370 Aorus Gaming 7 Bios v.F2). 바이오스 설정에서 미리 USB로 부팅이 될수 있게 설정을 한다. OS가 설치된 USB으로 선택부팅을 하고나면 클로버에 진입하게된다. Boot OS X install from Install macOS High Sierra 선택한다. 엔터를 누르면 설치화면으로 넘어가게 된다. 아래와 같이 사과 화면에서 로딩이 시작되고 인내심을 가지고 기다려야한다.
이 화면이 보이지 않거나 화면이 멈춘다거나 오래기다려도 진행이 되지 않고 있다면 Bios 설정을 다시 한번 살펴봐야한다. 포맷 그리고 인스톨. Installer가 뜨면 Continue를 누른다. 원하는 언어를 선택. 인스톨 메뉴에서 Disk Utility 선택. 왼쪽상단의 View 버튼을 눌러 Show All Devices를 선택. macOS를 설치할 디스크를 선택후 아래와 같이 설정한다.
Name: (It can be named anything you want). Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Scheme: GUID Partition Map. Erase를 누르고, Disk Utility를 닫고, 설치를 시작한다.
설치가 끝나면 재시작이 될것이고 클로버 부팅 메뉴에 새롭게 설치된 macOS의 이름이 보일것이다. 이번엔 macOS를 선택한 뒤 엔터를 누른다. 이후 아래와 같이 설치가 계속된다.
macOS 첫번째 부팅. macOS 설치가 완료되고나면 자동으로 재부팅이되고 다시 클로버 부팅화면이 나타난다. 설치된 macOS를 선택하고 엔터를 누르면 하이시에라 초기 설정화면이 나타난다. 여러가지 설정을 거치고 나면(인터넷 설정은 일단 하지 않도록 한다.) 하이시에라 바탕화면이 뜰 것이다. 설정을 마친 후 스스로 부팅이 가능하도록 폴더를 교체해준다. Download.
Clover Configurator를 연다. Mount EFI를 눌러 macOS가 설치된 Partition을 마운트한다. Open Partiton을 누른뒤 를 다운받아 복사한뒤 붙여넣어준다.
클로버를 최신 버전으로 설치해준다. Install/Update Clover를 클릭한 뒤 최신 클로버를 설치해준다. 클로버설치시 Customize를 누른뒤 선택사항은 아래와 같이 선택해 준다.
Install for UEFI booting only, Install Clover in the ESP, Dirver64UEFIEmuVariableUefi-64, OsxAptioFix2Drv-64, Install RC scripts on target volume 이제 USB 드라이브로 부팅하지 않고 macOS를 설치한 하드디스크로 부팅이 가능해졌다. 바이오스설정으로 들어가 부팅순서를 UEFImacOS설치된 디스크를 최우선 부팅으로 변경하면 된다.
현재 Amd의 그래픽카드를 쓰는 경우 첨부된 쓰면 특별한 설정은 따로 필요없지만, Nvidia는 그래픽 드라이버를 설치해야하고, 인텔 내장 그래픽의 경우 Device ID를 바꿔야하는 작업을 해주어야 한다. Nvidia 그래픽의 경우 6시리즈 까지는 드라이버설치가 따로 필요없이 네이티브로 확인된다. 하지만 이후 7시리즈부터는 웹드라이버를 설치하여야하고, OS가 업데이트 될때마다 그에 맞는 웹드라이버를 설치해주어야 제대로된 성능의 그래픽 카드를 사용할 수 있다.
AMD의 경우 현재 RX Vega 64와 그이하 HD 시리즈에서 따로 설정할만한 것은 없다. 드라이버도 깔지 않아도 되며 성능도 Nvidia보다 나은 편이다. 단지 Sleep/Wake나 내장 그래픽과 병행하는 설정은 따로 해주어야한다.
iGPU(인텔 내장 그래픽) 활성화하기 우리가 흔히 말하는 인텔의 i3, i5, i7 시리즈는 세대별로 고유의 내장 그래픽카드를 가지고 있다. 물론 내장 그래픽카드는 게임이나 편집용으로 쓰기에는 무리가 있지만, 그래도 나날이 발전하는 덕에 저사양의 게임이나 간단한 편집등은 충분히 가능하도록 발전하였다. 특히, 편집용 코덱 중 월등한 압축률을 자랑하는 H.264 나 H.265 (HEVC)은 CPU의 영향을 많이 받는다. 그렇기 때문에 내장 그래픽이 활성화 되어있다면 CPU에 걸리는 부하를 많이 덜어주고 랜더링 속도도 무척 향상시킬수가 있다. 특별히 Nvidia 카드를 메인으로 쓰고 있는 유저들에게는 필수라고 생각이 들만큼 중요한 것 같다. 일단, 내장그래픽 카드를 활성화시키는 작업을 bios에서 해주어야한다. 위의 bios설정에서 이미 설명되어있는 것처럼 설치시 미리 설정해두면 좋다.
Integrated Graphics: Enabled. Graphics: IGD/Integrated/iGPU/CPU Graphics (내장 그래픽만 있을 경우 설정방법이다. 만약 외장 그래픽을 메인으로 쓸경우는 PEG/ PCIe Slot 1을 설정해주면 된다.). DVMT Pre-Allocated: 64M or 128M macOS를 설치후에 첨부된 를 복사해서 옮겨두었다면 이미 코어 파일들은 설치가 된 것이다.
이후 Config.plist파일에서 그래픽 관련하여 설정만 변경해주면 된다. 이글에 첨부된 에는 현재 시스템에 맞는 config파일이 설정되어있으므로 본인의 빌드에 맞는 config파일로 대체한 뒤 사용하여야한다. 이렇게 설정이 잘되면 기본적으로 내장 그래픽이 잘 활성화 되었는지 확인이 필요하다. 를 사용하면 본인의 내장그래픽이 잘 작동하고 있는 것인지 확인할수 있다. 이상으로 i7-8700k 커피레이크 시스템의 해킨토시 가이드를 마친다. Hello, I tried this guide after not being able to successfully run the Installer with the iMac Pro 1,1 one, and unfortunately I keep getting the same error: “Still waiting for root device”.
I reloaded optimized defaults in BIOS, then changed every setting as described in the guide. I tried switching USB port, using another USB drive, but no avail. I’m running F6 BIOS by the way, dunno if I should try to downgrade to F2 BIOS I see in the screenshot.
Hopefully doing so won’t cause problems with Windows and overclocking. My build is almost exactly equal to yours: Read more ».
My home computer is a 2008 imac that I purchased new in that year. The cheapest model at that time. I recently opened it up for the first time ever and was surprised to find almost no dust. The whole design is shockingly elegant and functional, from the layout of the cooling fans to the design of the internal speakers.
It just all made sense. I swapped out the original hard disk for a SSD and it's faster than ever. And silent:) Not bad for a 9 year old low end computer. When I do upgrade, I will be getting another imac. If not new, then used. You know, in the past I build my own pc's but replacing stuff on the Imac, with the exception of ram, is really for the daring.
Talking about the second hand prices of pc's is a bit vague. A pc can be anything from low cost, low quality upto high-end and very expensive pc's, depending on the case and the components.
A nice high-end pc with the fastest motherboard, cpu, gpu, memory and disks (wether ssd or m2) will also cost you a fortune and will be quite expensive to buy even after a couple of years. (unknown member) There don't even seem to be any authentically 12+12+12 panels Of course there are.
SpectraView from NEC is either 10, 12 or 14 bit internal LUTs. “It turns out that every element of the combination of application software, operating system, video card, video connection and display must support 10 bit color in order to achieve true 10 bit color output“. But that’s only ONE part of the entire display path! The OS, the application and the video card needs to support a high bit path OR something goes from high bit to 8-bits and back; not ideal. This has NOTHING to do with images!
The bit depth of a document and the bit depth of the display PATH only share the term “bit depth“. They are totally separate. DO NOT again confuse the bit depth of image data and the bit depth of a display or the entire display path which provides a preview that should be banding free! (unknown member) -No RAM upgrade for MBPs -No USB 3 -No SD Card slot -These are all 'Cumbersome' according to Apple.Well as a mac user let me tell you what is 'cumbersome', Cumbersome is every single update i've done since Mavericks, cumbersome is to have final cut and aperture not working, cumbersome is to have installed double the RAM and get the freezing screen with the stupid rainbow dot.Like Mariano pacifico says: Unfortunately creativity gone together with Steve Jobs. Apple lives in a shadow of what ones used to be.
'the it was all better under Steve Jobs' false memories. Remember the outrage when the first candy colored iMacs came out and it had no floppy drive and you were 'forced' to use USB? Remember The Cube, an overpriced, underperforming non-upgradable 'pro' machine that was a total flop? Sounds like.). If expandability is your bread & butter necessity buy a system that meet you needs. And if you expand the memory, make sure it is compatible with you Mac.
If it is, no freezing screens. That's your own fault and yours alone. (unknown member) HowaboutRaw, HomePod is a copy of Amazon echo or Google Home which are totally useless. PhotoRotterdam, Steve Jobs was the Golden Era of Apple, their only innovation those last years was to put USB-C and get rid of USB-3A and the card slot, cause they were “”CUMBERSOME “”.Expandability is not my bread & butter,.
Connectivity is, and i've already modified my environment to meet my standards. As for the RAM, is compatible and already registered in my system, the problem was that Sierra is ram hungry, so I have downgraded to Yosemite. It's not a strange name for anyone paying the slightest bit of attention since 10.9, 4 years ago. 10.9 was called 'Mavericks' which everyone thought sounded stupid, but it is place name, a popular beach in California. After that the naming because very very consistent.
10.10 = Yosemite, national park in California 10.11 = El Capitan, vertical rock formation in Yosemite 10.12 = Sierra, Sierra Nevada mountain range in California 10.13 = High Sierra, biome of California in Sierra Nevada Microsoft and Intel have also gone to place names: Kaby Lake, Cannon Lake, Budapest, Tahiti. The reason is that companies got sued for using trademarked names as code names, so it is much safer, legally, to use a place name, that you cannot get sued over because it's public. The cat names were probably safe, too.but I think Apple ran out of the cool tiger/lion cats and didn't want to resort to the wimpier cat names. You see, the great thing about geographical names is that you almost can't run out of them. As far as California place names being unfamiliar, the companies don't care. Who on Earth knows where 'Kaby Lake' and 'Cannon Lake' are?
Ask Intel, it follows their standard CPU code name nomenclature. Where is 'Longhorn'? Ask the Microsoft Windows team. But Apple was one of the companies that did get sued over a code name. If you ever want to learn more about that, Google 'Apple Carl Sagan BHA'. Still no 32GB option on the MBP Still using DDR3 RAM Kaby Lake processors are getting replaced in 1-2 months Still no hardware calibration for the screens Still no matte option for the screens, or touch screen option Still no convenient port configuration How they get people to pay the huge premiums for these things I don't understand anymore. It's one thing to like an OS an and a brand, which is totally fine, but how much are people willing to pay for old tech and average specs just so they can have an Apple?
For the prices they are charging, at the very least they should be offering cutting edge specs and useful RAM configurations for today's professionals. One thing you can't fault them for is their marketing - selling grossly overpriced hardware to people who don't do any research has been their specialty forever.
It works and it makes them tons of money, so really who can blame them at the end of the day. I'm hearing no complaints from the buyers. They are so popular that they have pushed Macs into growing numbers. Meanwhile Surface Pro sales have tanked 26 percent.
Sure it would be great to have 32 gigs of memory. But until the next generation of RAM is ready (with the Kaby Lake replacements) the RAM is too power-hungry for 10 hours of power in such laptops. And developers, and video editors, are reporting RAM use is so efficient in these laptops that they throw everything that have at them and RAM simply doesn't fill up. The SSDs are so fast, and the RAM compression is so good that swapping out to storage causes no slow downs at all.
So maybe you just don't understand, because the hardware is better than you think, because Apple integrates everything. You can't do that with a Windows computer.
Yeah, I'm a commercial artist and long time (20 year) Mac user, I love Mac OS, but they lost me as a laptop customer the moment I tried a Cintiq Companion (basically a Microsoft Surface with a Wacom Cintiq pen display bolted onto it). Two years on I still hate windows, but for working purposes a small, portable device with touch/stylus capability that can run full versions of graphics software has been absolutely transformative.
Plus the Cintiq has a matte screen and both SD and Micro SD slots. I understand very well. I also understand I can buy a laptop with significantly better specs, a proper matte screen, and the same or better build quality for a lot less money:) 10hr power is easily achievable with DDR4, it is not hard to get. For the outrageous prices they are charging, they should be offering cutting edge EVERYTHING, not old specs. That's really my point. If people want to pay the premium for nothing, like I said, good job Apple marketing. Apple's Mac business makes up less than 10% of it's sales, and there are more people using Windows 10 alone (Excluding all previous versions of Windows) than there are people using Macs period.
Of course apple is hugely successful in the united states with it phobia of science,adherence to backward religions to challenge the poorest of third world cultures. And a generalized adoption of product,clothes,phone,& gadgets based on trends, peer adoption mimicry,psychologically targeting advertising,& celebrity worship apples users are thrilled that they just work.
I find the pure win 10 experience similar to the win 8 debacle. The classic shell program gets rid of the tiles mostly and allows an experience like win 7 or win xp but with greater expandability and stability i despise the tile based windows evolution and would moved to linux or even apple if classic shell did not exist.for a while i only used win 7 machines or downgrade rights to avoid using 10s tile based commercially ad polluted, onebox promotion, social media garbage forward style' the classic shell has been downloaded over 25 million times.
I believe it is a must have for win 8 8.1 10 machines and simply will not use those os's that have not been modified.period. Mr belchev `s free software is my savior its clean small elegant powerful and i urge anyone who is a windows user to give it a try. It is superb free,dramatically improves windows you will not be sorry. I'll have to look when I get home, but there are options baked into windows to make it mostly look like W7. Menus and settings still look slightly different and are part of the W10 theme, but it's close enough to W7 that I think anyone would feel at home unless you were extremely particular (which is fine - classic shell might be the solution for that).
I believe Control Panel has an option for classic view, which is a big deal for some. You an also use windows Powershell to remove all the garbage apps in 2 minutes (XBOX, One Note, Mail, etc. Etc.) I too hate the Windows 8-style touch interface, but they made it vastly better for non-touch W10 users. The nice thing is there is something for everyone. If you can't find something, a 2-second search bar/Cortana search gets you where you need to go. I do wish you could fully disable Cortana, I have not found a way to do that 100% yet. 'You can build a windows PC for a much lower price'.
This is what I did two years ago, spent $2,000 on a custom build. I have so many issues with my PC, I've had rasomwares, viruses, Windows forcing updates on a weekly basis if not more, crashes and various bugs.
Meanwhile, I've used Macbooks at work and when I travel for the past 4 years and I never ever had a single issue with them. The day Windows become as reliable as Apple products, I'll switch over, but for now I'm looking to replace my PC with the iMac Pro. And yet here I sit with my 4 year old pc, never having a problem. Although I don't blindly click on links I don't know, so never had ransom ware, I keep my virus checkers up to date so never had a virus, I install all those nasty updates that Microsoft 'force' on me and never had a problem. So I've never felt the need to blame the manufacturer for my own mistakes.
When it came time to upgrade a little last year I took the side panel off and plugged in a far more powerful video card that cost a few quid. Rather than being forced to sell the system off and buying whole new vastly overpriced one. My desktop is 8 years old. I run Lr on it just fine.
I too just upgraded the video card and added more RAM. SSD drives in it and it still screams. I am running Windows 10, firewall off, no antivirus. Just have Windows Defender running. I have never gotten any malware of virus. Guy, but still, I do not click on any links in email, no ads clicked on, no website browsing to places questionable.
If I want to do that c., I don't use a machine that is valuable to me that has data that is valuable to me. Get a junky laptop or PC if you want to do that stuff. It is not the Operating system that gives you viruses, it is the human being using the computer that gives you viruses. I am tired of hearing that Windows (and Mac, yes Mac's uses get viruses, I know since I am in I.T.) are unsecure. That argument is old and tired. If you manage to get a Virus or even Malware these days, you have either been grossly negligent to the point where it probably would have happened regardless of what system you had, or you aren't running the perfectly adequate and seamless built in Windows AV (Defender/MSE).
I've never had one in my life and I've been using PC's since DOS. Windows 10 even protects against ransom-ware now and it's all done automatically in the background.
With the most basic of precautions, the overwhelming majority of users have nothing to worry about. Darngooddesign, the iFixit teardown of the new iMac says 'Most replaceable components (like the RAM) are buried behind the logic board, meaning you'll have to take apart most of the iMac just to gain access to them.' The new iMac is upgradeable in a sort of 'academic' or 'in theory' way, but it's mostly on paper. I've upgraded the internals of Mac laptops (even the harder older ones) and I do not look forward to having to open up an iMac. The teardown seems to show that you can't upgrade anything on an iMac without going through that glass, which you better make sure is dust-free on both sides before you put it back on.
And you need to replace that special tape to hold it all together. I mean really. I'm coming from a Mac Pro tower where RAM, drives, GPU can be upgraded in 1 to 5 minutes; CPU takes a little longer.
The one thing that added the most years to my Mac Pro was a new GPU card, and I don't think you'll be able to tell me the the new iMac's GPU can ever be upgraded. You were using your mac the wrong way. Deleting files can by done very easily and not just by using the trashcan. Putting items on the desktop does not have issues with performance. You are using the wrong reasons to trash Apple.
Yes I am a current Mac user. I am not a fanboy as my new machine will most probably be a Surface Pro product.
There are many reasons to dislike Apple, like they have stopped innovating (yes the new machines may be brutally specced, but nothing really that we will not find back in other computers over the next year). But you are just using the wrong reasons;). As I said in my first post - it's more about the attitude than being lazy for one more shortcut. Windows gives you a choice: safe delete or one shot the file(s). With all the countless backup options available: cloud services, ext.
Hdd, USB drives, sd cards etc. Apple thinks you're idiots. And by blindly defending them, you're proving them right. 'We now have full screen apps'. Y-a-a-a-y, the most advanced OS ever. 'We don't have viruses' - so does Nintendo GameBoy.
And Commodore 64 - NOBODY CARES! The moment they shift their attention to macos, the myth of the secure OS is over. 'Please, Apple, make pro-macs serviceable - cry-cry-cry.' Convert to PC where you can upgrade everything; even most of the laptops. You won't need to wait for the Tzar for the next generous act of upgrade every 5 years.
The Apple ecosystem is a Zoo - 'Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.' Niko- Actually Mac OS is based on NeXTStep, the operating system for NeXT Computer, a company Steve Jobs founded in 1988 after he left Apple. NeXTStep was BSD 4.3 Unix implemented on a Mach microkernel. All programs are sort of sandboxed, this is why it is much harder to develop virusses for Mac OS then it is for Windows. It is in the architecture of Windows that makes this so hard to get rid off.
You can't even blame them as who would ever thought 30 years ago that virusses, malware and ransomware would ever existed. But go ahead with your crusade against Apple.
It is always good for a laugh. The imacs look nice and my dad has the previous gen machine which is a usually a pleasure to use with a big 5k screen. About the only thing I could do to this thing was give a boost to 24 GB of ram. Apple is definitely going for form over function. Difficultly and limited upgrade paths have always been an issue with these imac things and we won't even begin to discuss the 'recycling/trash can' macpro.
I am getting bored with Apple's 'creative pastoral' marketing scheme and just like your television,' kill your iphone.' At least Apple is going for improved graphics and color performance which actually is more in line with Job's original dream of a PC that could actually represent fonts on a screen in a realistic manner. I can appreciate how the imac screen can make it easy for visual people to quickly get into their stills and video colors. This is a classic argument - Apple vs PC. The 'problem' with PCs has always been Windows (I suppose you could run Linux) and traditionally apple has had a more stable and easier to use OS (my opinion, of course). Windows perhaps has slowly closed this gap.
Apple really made its mark in the 80s and has had legendary marketing. Back in the day Apple was the clear choice for graphics and video editing apps and did allow creatives to be more creative and not systems administrators. For example, native firewire support with the G4. Macs are generally well built and macbooks usually last a 'long' time. You will pay for this, though, and very well might be worth it. Having separate components is always nice - such as the '5K 27' Dell monitor - you can hook up multiple machines and cable types (e.g.
How about overclocking? I really haven't heard of any happy mac overclocks and these days you can get a 40 dollar hexcore to do 4 GHz. @ewelch Hear Hear.
Came from a Apple hater myself. I was such a FOOL util i used a Mac. Why did i waste so much time and money building all this state of the art parts and components, over the top PC years after years and have to deal with buggy OS?
Mac is simplicity and functional. The overall OS never changed from the last decade.
It just works. The money u invest on a Mac, u put it to work.not wasting any resources on spamwares, spywares, antivirus, weekly updates, driver conflicts, driver updates. First of all - to be clear: I AM Mac user for last 2 years and I am very happy with it. Hackintosh (if it is properly built by a person who knows what to do) could be same fast and reliable like Mac Pro, but for a 25% of its price. Saving 75% of Mac price with losing the Mac cool design factor is something I was not ready to untill now.but it seems I will have to handle it.
IMac is giving me aesthetic pleasure even switched off, because it a nice piece of technics itself. Apple just doesn't seem to care much about what we - media creators - needs, want and even say. That's why Mac doesn't deserve my money and for the amount I will save with Hack I can buy another profi lense. My MPB suffers from the antireflective coating come loose, for the second time. Apple blames the users, but the reality is that its just poor manufacturing and cutting costs. Why else its only Apple that suffers this problem and not other manufacturers. I like the Mac OS, I hate the fact that Apple asks a premium for everything and is not really innovating anymore.
They also like to blame their users for instead of its own poor manufacturing skills. My next computer (after 16 years of being an Apple user), may most likely not be an Mac anymore. Exactly my experience as well (running a macbook pro retina 2014).
When I bought the macbook, windows 8.1 was still sluggish, strange to use and consumed significant cpu and memory. Moreover, the windows laptop offerings with top-10 benchmark cpu, 16 gb memory, SSD and 2,5k resolution (or more) display, minimum sRGB coverage and decent delta gamma were very very limited.
Most importantly, windows did not support resolutions above HD. The current hardware in laptops (Surface pro 4 and 5, DELL XPS15 and others) with windows 10 are such an improvement. Moreover, looking at the prices of the new iMacs, you can buy/build a high-end PC with a nice wide gamut RGB display etc. I personally think this problem is present with more products, the usability of the Ipad as an on-the-go work solution is limited, especially compared to very good windows tablets. The limited (usb-) interface capabilities are frustrating as hell.
Apple really needs to step up their game. There are however two conditions to keep windows running smoothly, that take less effort in OSx. Moreover, I would not like to claim windows is faster on a macbook, it just works surprisingly well and performance is very good. Especially the addition of multiple desktops and multitasking is super nice. The first condition is that you need to put in some effort to keep windows 'clean' in order to keep it running lenient and as fast as at installation. Secondly, you need a clean install and probably best to do this every 1-2 year.
An updated or factory installed version (experience from a pc and laptop) with non-customised settings has all kinds of unnecessary pre-installed software and 'user-friendly support' aka memory blackholes. In this sense, the performance, multi-task and usability advantages of OSx over Windows are becoming less and less. Only the security, fluidity and interoperability of OSx, also with iOS devices, remains superb.
Oh please, Apple's going to make less money on dongles than they will on anything else they could possibly sell. Such accusations come from people who are not familiar with Apple's history of pushing the envelope. For example, forcing peripheral makers to go USB, while PC manufacturers would have been happy to let USB languish for a decade more than they already did. When did floppies no longer come as an option on PCs? Michael Dell was bragging about going with WIFI in all their laptops - a year after Apple did it. Apple doesn't always lead with new technologies, but they are not afraid to force changes that will benefit everyone.
And the sooner the better. Currently, PC users are big beneficiaries of Apple because Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C are not being adopted en masse by PC makers following Apple's lead. @ewelch I don't have a problem with USB C and other updates that truly 'push the envelope'. There is no alternative to the SD card though. Not even on the horizon.
Not talked about. As such removing the built-in card reader is not pushing anything, it's just plain inconvenience to the users. Just like removing MagSafe. If they.had. to make the laptop slimmer (and many would question this need) they could have introduced even slimmer MagSafe 3, it's not like Apple users aren't used to moves like this. Willfully removing one of the highlights of their laptops however boggles mind.
Usability sacrificed in the pursuit of losing a quarter of a milimeter of thickness and not even trying to rectify the situation is a wrong move in my opinion.