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I wanted to start fresh when I went from an M1 MBA to this M4 MBP, so I connected them with a thunderbolt cable and was able to dragon drop files and folders between them. Like drag from the MBA's screen across through the edge and appear on the MBP's screen to drop wherever the files were headed. It was ridiculously fast file transferring, too. I guess I could have also browsed one Mac from the other within a finder window but wouldn't be as fancy. duodenum fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Apr 10, 2025 |
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Skeezy posted:Dragon Drop 
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Yeah there’s some really neat file transfer UI stuff in macOS. I bought an M4 Max Studio to replace my M1 Max Studio and now use the old Studio as a file/other server Remoted into the old Mac with the default screen sharing app, which is just, like, VNC, but you can also just drag files into the screen sharing app and drop them into the remote Mac and it transfers them painlessly, I think even to the folder you have pulled up on the remote Mac’s Finder window. It’s pretty cool
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Last Chance posted:Yeah there’s some really neat file transfer UI stuff in macOS. I bought an M4 Max Studio to replace my M1 Max Studio and now use the old Studio as a file/other server smart, always keep your porn off of your main work machine
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trilobite terror posted:smart, always keep your porn off of your main work machine 
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Related, can you choose what apps to bring over? I’m going from an intel MBP to the M4 Air and I want to migrate some stuff but not everything. I looked into it and I believe the answer is no. It's either all the applications or none. You also have the option to select user home folders, "other files" and system/network settings. But as duodenum mentioned, I found with the Macs connected via Thunderbolt you can just mount the old Mac via Target Disk Mode. I'll probably go that route rather than using Migration Assistant (or at least only use MA for my home folder).
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apple does it best but outside of occasionally doing it on new ios devices i don't trust anybodys migration tools to do a better job than starting fresh (if that isn't too much work in the moment)
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Yeah, I think thats what I'm going to do. All of my data is in the cloud, so it will really just be a matter of installing some apps
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Is Apples online order tracker generally accurate? Or does it pick a further out date to be safe? My M4MBA is supposed to arrive at my local Apple store on Apr 17th, but its already shipping to store. Should I expect it early, or is the date quoted pretty accurate generally? To answer this question, I ordered the MBA on 4/4, it was supposed to deliver on 4/17 and then moved to 4/15, but actually delivered today, 4/11. So 7 days. YMMV
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I don't really know where to put this, anyone used a Magic Trackpad with the Bootcamp drivers? I have a 1st gen Magic Trackpad laying around, I really like using trackpads and I want to use on my work computer. It paired fine but scrolling and I think maybe double click doesn't work? I know scrolling doesn't. I don't want to ask IT to install the Bootcamp drivers if it is going to be poo poo, but I'm pretty certain they will install them if I ask. Just don't want to waste the ask on something pointless. As long as I can two finger scroll, double click and adjust the cursor speed I don't really care if pinch to zoom and other gestures work. I guess the same question on the Magic Keyboard? If volume controls and mute work, I might take it to work too.
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Three Olives posted:I don't really know where to put this, anyone used a Magic Trackpad with the Bootcamp drivers? well, i used it on my macbook (to be clear i do mean the standalone) with windows years ago. i will say it sucked compared to mac perf but i get the appeal of wanting to use what you got around
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mediaphage posted:well, i used it on my macbook (to be clear i do mean the standalone) with windows years ago. i will say it sucked compared to mac perf but i get the appeal of wanting to use what you got around I understand that there are now some decent Windows trackpads, "decent" apparently means comparable to a Magic Trackpad and there is no way my employer is going to approve an expensive touchpad because it is my preference. They will probably install drivers for my old one though.
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Three Olives posted:I understand that there are now some decent Windows trackpads, "decent" apparently means comparable to a Magic Trackpad and there is no way my employer is going to approve an expensive touchpad because it is my preference. They will probably install drivers for my old one though. just out of curiosity in the current setup is there any difference in performance between bluetooth and just shoving a lightning cord in there i mean there shouldn’t be but who knows how windows reads old tech
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Trying to fix a friend’s NuggetBook (2017 12 inch Retina Core M3) Recovery mode attempts to internet install Catalina, but Apple took their Catalina servers offline Internet Recovery wants to install Monterey, but doesn’t see the main partition, only a 2GB recovery partition USB recovery, same thing Disk Utilities can’t find a main partition Any ideas?
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Steve Yun posted:Trying to fix a friend’s NuggetBook (2017 12 inch Retina Core M3) Grab a Ventura bootable usb media and boot from there, attempt to clear/restore any local disk. If you cannot wipe the disk there is a good chance the onboard flash is dead.
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Yeah, the best hope for that machine is that it's a corrupted partition table. If a complete wipe / partition / install doesn't fix it, it'll probably need its flash chips (or whole motherboard) replaced, but that probably wouldn't be worthwhile unless the NuggetBook's owner is truly dedicated to the 12" MacBook form factor.
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I ran into a kind of similar issue with my M1 Mini, I was about to completely give up and buy a new one before making a last ditch effort and booted it in target disk mode, it then let me completely nuke the drive with an external disk utility, something it wouldn't let me do in recovery mode and it was able to successfully recover. I can't remember exactly what was going on but corrupted partition table sounds about right, I seem to remember the internal disk utility not being able to completely wipe the partition table but disk utility in target mode was.
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Three Olives posted:I ran into a kind of similar issue with my M1 Mini, I was about to completely give up and buy a new one before making a last ditch effort and booted it in target disk mode, it then let me completely nuke the drive with an external disk utility, something it wouldn't let me do in recovery mode and it was able to successfully recover. M1 mini can only run like—what? Two displays? Surprised you find that tolerable
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trilobite terror posted:M1 mini can only run like—what? Two displays? Surprised you find that tolerable  DisplayLink, but I would be lying if I said I hadn't thought about upgrading for built-in support for the third display.
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Mac Studio will run something like 8 or 12 displays—plus with 512gb of shared RAM you can finally self-host a decent AI to give your digital assistant some personality reach for the stars BB, we know you got money
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Steve Yun posted:Trying to fix a friend’s NuggetBook (2017 12 inch Retina Core M3) You selected to show all devices under View, right? Can you traverse the disk's filesystem from a recovery usb's rescue terminal? If you don't need to recover anything, just wipe the disk from disk utility and repartition. Here's a utility to grab other versions of macos from apple's servers if you want to stay on catalina. https://github.com/corpnewt/gibMacOS
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Yeah tried Show All Devices Gonna try target disk mode next
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Apple finally accepted my MacBook trade in and they gave me the full amount despite the screen divot and a small dent on the battery cover so they're quite lax
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Anyone wanna testify for any particular usb-c multiport charger? I’m reading that they’re a minefield of lazy engineering and that often they will stop working if you plug in multiple devices
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Steve Yun posted:Anyone wanna testify for any particular usb-c multiport charger? I’m reading that they’re a minefield of lazy engineering and that often they will stop working if you plug in multiple devices I’ve recently purchased the anker 250w prime and it’s been working fine, the smart part it’s pretty much noise you can ignore. https://www.anker.com/products/a2345-anker-prime-charger-250w-6-ports-ganprime?variant=43931956478102
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Steve Yun posted:Anyone wanna testify for any particular usb-c multiport charger? I’m reading that they’re a minefield of lazy engineering and that often they will stop working if you plug in multiple devices I got one of these and it’s great: https://www.mophie.com/products/120w-quad-port-usb-c-usb-a-wall-adapter It will do 120W total, and two ports are compatible with delivering 100W. The form factor is pretty great, too. I take it every time I travel.
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Steve Yun posted:Anyone wanna testify for any particular usb-c multiport charger? I’m reading that they’re a minefield of lazy engineering and that often they will stop working if you plug in multiple devices Edit: just did a quick test, works as advertised! Guess I had my MBP on the second USB-C port when I was seeing it barely charging before (drops to 8.5W vs minimum 45W on the first port). https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Gallium-Nitride-Charger-Black/dp/B0BN688W42/ In any case it has worked enough for my portable/travel needs, charging my battery (which charges my phone and watch), iPad, and MBP. And Switch docked mode, theoretically should even work for Switch 2 docked on single port usage too from what I can tell. It does pause when plugging/unplugging stuff, presumably renegotiating charge rates with everything, but guessing you more meant shoddy devices like not working at all to charge multiple devices. japtor fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Apr 23, 2025 |
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I use this Anker one for travel: https://a.co/d/b8bjWHW 100W combined does the job for my M1 Pro MBP (or M2 Max work MBP) and phone (or 3-in-1 MagSafe). And since it can do up to 100W on either C port it can still fast charge the laptop as well as the 96W Apple charger if nothing else is plugged in while being significantly more compact.
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Good lord trustworthy usbc chargers are expensive
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Steve Yun posted:Good lord trustworthy usbc chargers are expensive The alternative is getting the downstream devices fried so I wouldn’t cheap out too much. There are plenty of YouTube channels specialized in USB chargers, like @AllThingsOnePlace , if you want to find a compromise between getting your house torched and  .
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Anker and mophie are pretty much the inexpensive standards. You can get something pretty solid that will handle a MacBook Pro in use + a phone or tablet, etc. for like $20-60 Depends on whether you want power, size/portability, plugs/power strip, etc. Anker stuff is much much cheaper on Amazon if you have prime than on the Anker site IIRC. There’s a big Anker sale on Amazon right now. Not sure if they’re price matching on their own site
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Yeah if you want something compact, GaN based chargers tend to be smaller for their output/features, but you pay a premium for it
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Seems to be reasonable amount of stuff around $50 for 100W, $30-40 for ~65W, including some GaN ones even. I guess pricey if you're comparing to like super cheap USB-A ones or something, but still not too bad considering the power output and the price of stuff you'd be connecting that'd need that power. Speaking of which, got any specifics on use case scenario? Like what devices and if it's fixed or for travel, or any specific qualities you're looking for.
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Anyone able to recommend a docking station for a MacBook? It would be for two monitors and ideally could work with a windows laptop as well. Looking for the best bang for the buck.
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Malt posted:Anyone able to recommend a docking station for a MacBook? Do you already have the MacBook/windows laptop? What connection protocol (Tbolt 3/4/5, usb 3/4, etc) do they have?
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trilobite terror posted:Do you already have the MacBook/windows laptop? What connection protocol (Tbolt 3/4/5, usb 3/4, etc) do they have? MacBook is TB5 and the windows laptop is TB4. Thanks!
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Malt posted:Anyone able to recommend a docking station for a MacBook? And which MB do you have/how much power do you need? I see some stuff advertise 60W but you'll want one of the higher wattage ones for like a power hungrier MBP.
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Man, coming from a 2015 i7 MacBook Pro, the M1Pro MacBook Pro is really nice Davinci Resolve video exports (multiple HD layers) that would’ve taken me 4 hours is now taking 10 minutes
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Malt posted:Anyone able to recommend a docking station for a MacBook? Check very carefully that your choice of dock DOESN'T rely exclusively on MST for the video output as all of those dual monitor docks rely on windows to work. Getting a dual display dock that reliably works on both windows and Mac is kinda hard. I have a old thunderbolt mini dock from caldigit that works on both OS but it lacks power pass thru(and it tends to have issues with its usb ports) so I wouldn’t suggest it to be honest.
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