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How worried should I be about a 'tippy' 2015 Macbook Pro? Corner-to-corner it's a little off Balance, maybe due to a swelling battery? I'm not sure. It's probably either replace the battery, or go to an M1 MBA, but I was hoping tp wait until the rumored 14" MBP.
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I got a used Magic Trackpad and keyboard off eBay. The latest model with the lightning charge port. Am I supposed to put it into pairing mode somehow? I'm assuming they are still paired to the sellers device.
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Shaocaholica posted:I got a used Magic Trackpad and keyboard off eBay. The latest model with the lightning charge port. Am I supposed to put it into pairing mode somehow? I'm assuming they are still paired to the sellers device. Plug it into your device (Mac of whatever sort). Will pair automagically.
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Jul 2, 2021 05:20
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Ultimate Mango posted:Plug it into your device (Mac of whatever sort). Will pair automagically. Ah thanks this worked on a Mac but what if I only had an iPad?
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Jul 2, 2021 06:26
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Shaocaholica posted:Ah thanks this worked on a Mac but what if I only had an iPad? I don't think you can use a Magic Keyboard and Trackpad on an iPad, you'd need the Magic Keyboard case for that.
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Jul 2, 2021 07:11
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Shaocaholica posted:Ah thanks this worked on a Mac but what if I only had an iPad? If you don't have that cable but you can pair them with your Mac I think you can probably do that and 'forget' the connection in Bluetooth options and then connect them using the Bluetooth menu on the iPad. I've got a Magic Mouse paired to my iPad Pro but I can't actually remember if I paired it through bluetooth or via a cable.
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Jul 2, 2021 07:57
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njsykora posted:I don't think you can use a Magic Keyboard and Trackpad on an iPad, you'd need the Magic Keyboard case for that. this took fifteen seconds https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/connect-magic-trackpad-ipad6b9203a2/ipados and I can tell you firsthand that the Magic Keyboard works with iPad
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Jul 2, 2021 08:28
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like it probably took me less time to look up the right answer than it took you to say some bullshit
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irpoweroutlet posted:If you’ve budgeted ~$1,000 for a laptop and its limitations work for you, I don’t think there’s anything better To be honest I am thinking about the 16/512 model to go to the extra mile and using xcode as well and not get sidetracked by obsolescence.
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Jul 2, 2021 08:34
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Ok Comboomer posted:like it probably took me less time to look up the right answer than it took you to say some bullshit Or I was making an off the cuff assumption based on that the iPad has its own suite of keyboard accessories and can accept being wrong, no need to be a dick about it.
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Jul 2, 2021 08:46
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People don't post support questions for you to make up answers to.
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speculative responses to good-faith technical questions regarding poo poo like purchases and repairs are counterproductive rather than helpful If I have a specific question about something like a car repair or an OS update that might break one of my projects or a gear purchase costing hundreds of dollars or whatever the last person I want guiding my decisions is an internet stranger with a burning desire to  authoritatively speaking from their rear end
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njsykora posted:Or I was making an off the cuff assumption based on that the iPad has its own suite of keyboard accessories and can accept being wrong, no need to be a dick about it. iPads work fine with standard Bluetooth keyboards and mice. The only pain-in-the-rear end thing is that you'll have to remap Caps Lock or whatever to the Globe key (in Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Hardware Keyboard) because that's where they're putting OS-wide keyboard shortcuts in iPadOS 15. 
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Jul 2, 2021 09:14
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A heads up, there is a separate iPad thread if you have follow ups
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frogbs posted:How worried should I be about a 'tippy' 2015 Macbook Pro? Corner-to-corner it's a little off Balance, maybe due to a swelling battery? I'm not sure. It's probably either replace the battery, or go to an M1 MBA, but I was hoping tp wait until the rumored 14" MBP. Take off the bottom cover with a pentalobe driver and look at the battery; if any of the cells look like they're puffed up or expanding, definitely get the battery switched out at a Fruit Stand. If you decide to wait too long with those expanding cells, there could be a rupture (battery guts leak out and destroy your machine) or a thermal event (battery catches fire, same results) At the worst, Apple will charge you $199 for the swap and you get a new keyboard, trackpad, speakers and battery, which will make it ideal if you intend to sell it later on..
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sleepwalkers posted:A heads up, there is a separate iPad thread if you have follow ups That’s why I provided a Mac answer for the question. It’s cool that they work with iPads too. I mean the lines are starting to blur pretty hard with the exception of the lame iPadOS part. Just give me one OS and adjust it to the form factor its in.
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Jul 2, 2021 22:37
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Ok Comboomer posted:There’s actually an iPhone thread for this sort of thing, but I have the Spigen Ultra Hybrid in “Crystal Clear” on my 12 Pro and I really like it. It really works nicely with the blue phone. link?
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I’m really struggling to think of what I would ever do that my next Mac should be an MPB vs just an M1 Air. I think the most resource intensive thing I do is photo editing, and then after that it really falls off to just running vscode on dinky small projects and spending a ton of time in Terminal.app, Safari, Discord and Telegram. I mean on the intel side I used to run a bunch of VMs so I bought the beefiest machine I could to pop open that Win10 VM if I needed it for some esoteric software. Since the ARM switch I since dedicated a server to virtualization so I don’t really have a need to do any of that locally anymore. And yet I still can’t bring myself to buy an Air because of the dated look. I know this is literally the stupidest reason but here we are. I just don’t like how Airs look, and when pressed I can’t really articulate why. I’m going to hold out for the expected redesign but if it doesn’t happen I’ll probably just need to Get Over It (tm).
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Ultimate Mango posted:That’s why I provided a Mac answer for the question. It’s cool that they work with iPads too. Windows thread is thataway 
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I too want a bad tablet and bad laptop all in one!
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Martytoof posted:I’m really struggling to think of what I would ever do that my next Mac should be an MPB vs just an M1 Air. I think the most resource intensive thing I do is photo editing, and then after that it really falls off to just running vscode on dinky small projects and spending a ton of time in Terminal.app, Safari, Discord and Telegram. you probably want the 'dated' look before they start slimming down the case and put in a tiny battery eg. cutting the 20+ hour battery life air to 10 hours
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Jul 3, 2021 23:10
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Have they ever reduced the battery life so drastically between generations before?
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hatty posted:Have they ever reduced the battery life so drastically between generations before? No
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hatty posted:Have they ever reduced the battery life so drastically between generations before? say what?
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coke posted:you probably want the 'dated' look before they start slimming down the case and put in a tiny battery eg. cutting the 20+ hour battery life air to 10 hours In all honesty I’d love a new MBA to replace my long suffering 2015 MBP, but I am holding out hope for a refresh using the new iMac color options…
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I’m having trouble imagining a redesign to fit with the new iMac aesthetic that doesn’t make the new MBA or MBP just look like a bigger iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard except with a simpler hinge. And honestly? I’d be all about that.
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Martytoof posted:I’m having trouble imagining a redesign to fit with the new iMac aesthetic that doesn’t make the new MBA or MBP just look like a bigger iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard except with a simpler hinge.
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IMO they don't really need to redesign the MBP or MBA except to update with the new color scheme options and get rid of the touch bar. The back will be matte and front more vibrant to match the iMac.
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imo i expect them to relaunch the air using the design language of the ahead-of-its-time macbook
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mediaphage posted:imo i expect them to relaunch the air using the design language of the ahead-of-its-time macbook isn’t that what the current Air is?
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Ok Comboomer posted:isn’t that what the current Air is? i guess you’re right; i didn’t realize it was so wedge shaped still. i think maybe because it was just thinner overall i didn’t notice since i didn’t have one. still it seems like a good opportunity to do to the air line what they did to the ipads. nice and flat and uniformly thick. it would still be distinguished from the pros by being thinner / coloured / whatever
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Yeah the Air could use some tweaks. It's design hasn't changed much but the MBP has gotten thinner over the generations to the point that it's now thinner than the MBA at it's thickest point and has a smaller footprint.
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bloodysabbath posted:In all honesty I’d love a new MBA to replace my long suffering 2015 MBP, but I am holding out hope for a refresh using the new iMac color options… Rumors they’ll do that end of this year (debating between that and the 14 whenever it’s released).
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Mu Zeta posted:IMO they don't really need to redesign the MBP or MBA except to update with the new color scheme options and get rid of the touch bar. The back will be matte and front more vibrant to match the iMac.
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TACD posted:Please bring back the matte anti-glare screen for my next laptop 
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How long does it take for apple to send iPad Pros to stores? I ordered June 10th and I've been waiting for over three weeks now. I wouldn't have even ordered to the store if I had to wait but when I put it in my cart with the keyboard it said I could pick up the next day... I didn't know they'd let me pick up *just* the keyboard so now I've been idling with this $300 keyboard I can't even use for almost a month.
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anothergod posted:How long does it take for apple to send iPad Pros to stores? I ordered June 10th and I've been waiting for over three weeks now. I wouldn't have even ordered to the store if I had to wait but when I put it in my cart with the keyboard it said I could pick up the next day... I didn't know they'd let me pick up *just* the keyboard so now I've been idling with this $300 keyboard I can't even use for almost a month. I’d call or chat and see what’s going on. I’m not aware of an iPad shortage, so something probably just went wrong.
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mediaphage posted:imo i expect them to relaunch the air using the design language of the ahead-of-its-time macbook I would probably buy this honestly. I really liked the one USB-C Macbook it was just too expensive at launch for what I needed a laptop for at the time. At this point my personal laptops are basically glorified netbooks that I take on the road for the sole purpose of browsing the internet on a device my company is not tracking. It is pretty uncommon for me to plug anything into it at this point in 2021. In 2014 or whenever it was new... Yeah that wouldn't have worked out.
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The one thing I legitimately still miss on a laptop is SD card slots. I do enough photo work that it’s noticeable. I have the dongles, I’d rather it be built in. But I’m not getting that on a modern mac so I’ve made my peace with it.
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64bit_Dophins posted:I would probably buy this honestly. Yeah I tried the MacBook and even the higher end CPUs were pretty sluggish in basic web browser use, and I didn't fancy being stuck for a few years with a machine that was already slow. I still had a need then to use a Windows VM a few times a month and it was completely unsuited for that.
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