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K12beano said:
Anyone for the beta?
If so any thoughts on potential problems?
I don't need too, but I might try it and also try iOS on a 2015 iPhone 6s+ after I've had its battery changed......
I run iOS beta and MacOS beta but be prepared to get your device borked (not guaranteed but could happen). If so any thoughts on potential problems?
I don't need too, but I might try it and also try iOS on a 2015 iPhone 6s+ after I've had its battery changed......
There is no guarantee that it will work and that all apps will work so only do it if you are prepared for this. I read people complaining because an app they need no longer works, the iOS beta is not the reason, the app is not updated to the iOS beta. Some forms will wait for the standard version to be released, some try the beta to test their apps. It can be a mixed bag.
Saying that, apart from unexpected high battery usage on the iPad, I have not had any real issues but everything is backed up.
After 6 years of thorough use, my MBP looks to have packed in. When starting up, the loading bar gets to about halfway and then it just dies. Spoke to Apple, they tried to help me repair in Utilities or whatever, but that failed. They then recommended I go and get it checked out, but said they do not do data recovery themselves, so they recommended a couple of local Apple-certified shops who might be able to do it.
Anyone know the success rate of data recovery on a buggered MacBook? It's only happened this weekend and the shops are closed, so I'll call them in the morning.
The annoying this is, I literally pay for 1TB of Dropbox, which I never use, and I've just been letting 750GBs of stuff just sitting there clogging up my HD.
The consolation is that I now need to go and get a shiny new MacBook. My old was wasn't even Retina haha. I'd prefer to pay monthly, and John Lewis is looking like the best bet so far. Does anyone know of any deals anywhere else?
Anyone know the success rate of data recovery on a buggered MacBook? It's only happened this weekend and the shops are closed, so I'll call them in the morning.
The annoying this is, I literally pay for 1TB of Dropbox, which I never use, and I've just been letting 750GBs of stuff just sitting there clogging up my HD.
The consolation is that I now need to go and get a shiny new MacBook. My old was wasn't even Retina haha. I'd prefer to pay monthly, and John Lewis is looking like the best bet so far. Does anyone know of any deals anywhere else?
North West Tom said:
After 6 years of thorough use, my MBP looks to have packed in. When starting up, the loading bar gets to about halfway and then it just dies. Spoke to Apple, they tried to help me repair in Utilities or whatever, but that failed. They then recommended I go and get it checked out, but said they do not do data recovery themselves, so they recommended a couple of local Apple-certified shops who might be able to do it.
Anyone know the success rate of data recovery on a buggered MacBook? It's only happened this weekend and the shops are closed, so I'll call them in the morning.
The annoying this is, I literally pay for 1TB of Dropbox, which I never use, and I've just been letting 750GBs of stuff just sitting there clogging up my HD.
The consolation is that I now need to go and get a shiny new MacBook. My old was wasn't even Retina haha. I'd prefer to pay monthly, and John Lewis is looking like the best bet so far. Does anyone know of any deals anywhere else?
Probably just the HDD, does yours have HDD or SSD? if HDD might as well throw a new SSD in it. Anyone know the success rate of data recovery on a buggered MacBook? It's only happened this weekend and the shops are closed, so I'll call them in the morning.
The annoying this is, I literally pay for 1TB of Dropbox, which I never use, and I've just been letting 750GBs of stuff just sitting there clogging up my HD.
The consolation is that I now need to go and get a shiny new MacBook. My old was wasn't even Retina haha. I'd prefer to pay monthly, and John Lewis is looking like the best bet so far. Does anyone know of any deals anywhere else?
AJB88 said:
Probably just the HDD, does yours have HDD or SSD? if HDD might as well throw a new SSD in it.
HDD. Took it to an Apple-certified shop and suggested that a replacement hard drive would be about £100-150, which I'd rather do to get a bit more life out of it, but after doing a full check, they found that there are a lot more issues that probably make it not worth doing, like the battery, keyboard and other stuff. Good news is that they recovered all my data!I'll weigh up the options about getting a new/used one now. Does my old MacBook have any use now? Does anyone buy old broken ones?
Cheers guys.
Quick question which hopefully is easy to sort.
Have cluttered up my desktop over the years and now have accidentally saved multiple photos to the desktop which has resulted in loads of jpg icons stacked on top of one another, is there an easy way to click on the bottom icon which is the Mac HDD because I would like to move it to one side before mass moving the pics into the relevant folder, but I can't click on it to move it because the photo icons are in the way - seem to remember being able to tab through the icons from top to bottom many years ago but have forgotten how to do it!
Cheers in advance...
Have cluttered up my desktop over the years and now have accidentally saved multiple photos to the desktop which has resulted in loads of jpg icons stacked on top of one another, is there an easy way to click on the bottom icon which is the Mac HDD because I would like to move it to one side before mass moving the pics into the relevant folder, but I can't click on it to move it because the photo icons are in the way - seem to remember being able to tab through the icons from top to bottom many years ago but have forgotten how to do it!
Cheers in advance...
First world problem but I noticed that my new Aston Martin doesn’t provide enough charge for me to run Waze on my phone. It charges the phone but a little too slowly such that, after 5 hours of driving and a day away from a charger, the battery was at 20%.
I was thinking about putting a battery pack between the cars’s USB and the charge cable so it provides some more oomph. Any battery packs that can sit in line but still pass through the electronic signals both ways so the car play functions still work?
I was thinking about putting a battery pack between the cars’s USB and the charge cable so it provides some more oomph. Any battery packs that can sit in line but still pass through the electronic signals both ways so the car play functions still work?
AstonZagato said:
First world problem but I noticed that my new Aston Martin doesn’t provide enough charge for me to run Waze on my phone. It charges the phone but a little too slowly such that, after 5 hours of driving and a day away from a charger, the battery was at 20%.
I was thinking about putting a battery pack between the cars’s USB and the charge cable so it provides some more oomph. Any battery packs that can sit in line but still pass through the electronic signals both ways so the car play functions still work?
Could you have the Mrs drive behind you in the Tesla?I was thinking about putting a battery pack between the cars’s USB and the charge cable so it provides some more oomph. Any battery packs that can sit in line but still pass through the electronic signals both ways so the car play functions still work?
Is this a USB output on the Aston? I would have thought that was a fixed voltage output - so it's odd it's not providing enough power. Is there a cigar lighter socket somewhere? Might that have enough woof?
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