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  1. prageethk

    Resolved Apple M1 Max SoC transplant

    M1 Max chip with it's logic board broken with a burn hole got new life.
  2. worksdem

    macOStoUSB – Free app to create bootable macOS USB installers (Intel + Apple Silicon)

    Hi everyone,
I wanted to share a new app I built: macOStoUSB. It helps you create bootable macOS USB installers with a simple guided workflow, using official Apple downloads. What it does Download macOS installers (official Apple sources) Create bootable USB drives in a few steps Works on...
    • worksdem
    • Thread
    • apple silicon bootable usb clean install intel mac macos macos installer recovery troubleshooting usb installer utility
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  3. K

    macUSB v2.2 - The all-in-one USB creator for Mac. Now with Linux & Windows support!

    Hi everyone, I’m the developer of macUSB. For a long time, macOS has lacked a true, native equivalent to Rufus. Creating bootable drives for older macOS versions (Catalina and older) on Apple Silicon has been a nightmare due to signing issues that tools like Mist couldn't handle. Meanwhile...
    • Kruszoneq
    • Thread
    • apple silicon bootable usb installer macusb native app open source rufus alternative universal binary utility windows uefi
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  4. TB Tech

    Sonant - A native menu bar music controller for macOS

    Hi everyone, I'm the solo developer of Sonant, a macOS app I'd like to share with the community. I built Sonant because I wanted a simple, elegant way to control my music without constantly switching app windows. Sonant is a native menu bar controller for Apple Music and Spotify. It shows the...
    • TB Tech
    • Thread
    • apple music apple silicon audio visualizer mac app menu bar music controller spotify utility
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  5. D

    Seeking M5 Max/Ultra telemetry: does higher bandwidth improve Tokens/Joule or just raw throughput?

    I built an open-source LLM inference telemetry suite that measures Tokens Per Joule — the energy efficiency metric, not just raw speed. Current baseline is on an M1 Pro (32GB UMA): 2.42 Tokens/Joule on Qwen-3B Q4_K_M 22 t/s on Llama-3.1-8B Q8_0 at 8192 context (13.7GB workload) at 35W...
    • dilber
    • Thread
    • apple silicon benchmarking energy efficiency inference llama.cpp llm m1 pro m5 max tokens per joule unified memory
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Apple Silicon (Arm) Macs
  6. Spooner83

    I can't believe Apple did this to my trade-in amount

    I’m honestly pretty frustrated with Apple’s trade-in process right now, and I’m curious how many others have run into the same thing. I sent in my M3 MacBook Air in pristine condition—I had a screen protector on it, kept it in a case, and never dropped it. I’ve never had any issues with this...
  7. bogdanw

    macOS Building ffmpeg from source for Apple silicon

    I know I can get ffmpeg binaries from https://www.osxexperts.net & https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/ but I wanted to build static binaries myself. The instructions provided by both websites, and others, seem overly complicated. I have the Command Line Tools for Xcode installed, I built & installed...
  8. Swarde11

    All iPads I Emailed Tim Cook about my suggestion of running MacOS apps on M-Series iPads

    What do y’all think?
    • Swarde11
    • Thread
    • apple silicon ipad mac macos
    • Replies: 31
    • Forum: iPad
  9. W

    With Apple Neo Official Will iPhone Get a Desktop Mode?

    Hello everyone, I’m new here and wanted to bring up a question that’s been on my mind for a long time. Years ago, I had a Samsung Android phone that supported DeX mode, and I was genuinely surprised by how capable it was. Running a desktop‑style interface from a phone felt incredibly close to...
  10. C

    Orange ram but no swap?

    Heya, I recently picked up a new M5 MacBook Pro (24GB ram 1TB SSD) and so far I really like it. The only thing concerns me is that my memory pressure seems to be orange fairly often but Swap usage is 0 or low (never seen it above 3GB) I'm still within the return period of my Mac by a few...
  11. R

    Why is Safari such a slow browser compared to Chrome?

    I have been using Safari for like my whole life, and I have never seen it load websites so slowly as of 2026. Safari use to be the fastest browser in the world, but now it is clearly not. I have fast 200-300 Mbps WiFi, less than 20 ns latency, and a MacBook Air M2, and website still can like...
    • Red29359
    • Thread
    • apple silicon macos safari
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: macOS
  12. Caesar_091

    Unable to Create a Yosemite USB Boot Disk on Apple Silicon — Any Working Method?

    I need to create a USB bootable installer for OS X Yosemite to restore an old Intel iMac, but I’m forced to perform the operation on a recent Apple Silicon Mac. Every method I’ve tried has failed. - Install Disk Creator doesn’t work. - Terminal-based approaches don’t help. - The Yosemite...
  13. Aquamite

    Apple silicon Mac chips

    M1 chip M2 chip M3 chip M4 chip M5 chip Sources: https://hubweb.cn/apple-silicon/chip-m/
  14. jent

    Connecting three displays to (base-level) Mac mini M4

    I've read some other threads in this forum but just want to get a clear idea on how I can connect my existing and future monitors to the base-level Mac mini M4 that I have coming my way now. I get kind of tripped up on the aspect that USB-C is more of a port and not the connection type itself...
    • jent
    • Thread
    • apple silicon displays mac mini mac mini (2024) monitors
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Mac mini
  15. S

    How did they make the change between processors without a hitch?

    Here's a quote from an Apple Insider article: "They both pulled off an immensely complex move of processors — with Jobs taking Apple from PowerPC to Intel — and both did it so well that it's easy to forget what a task it was." What would this task entail? How did they do it so well?
  16. Black_Mage

    Adding storage

    So it's possible to upgrade the internal storage of a new Mac, but my response to this video is HELL NO! I bought an external 8 TB Samsung SSD, and it was a fraction of cost of buying that much internal storage at the time of purchase and way easier than trying to replace the storage. For the...
  17. I

    Boot Camp Assistant app hidden and barely launches on Apple Silicon. Any way to force it to run SOLELY for purging disk space?

    This is NOT a post about how to dual boot Windows on an Apple Silicon Mac. I realize that is not possible at this time. However, one cool thing that not everyone knows about the Boot Camp Assistant app is that when it first starts up and you click Next/Continue and advance to the next stage...
    • izzy0242mr
    • Thread
    • apple silicon boot camp assistant
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: macOS
  18. bogdanw

    Will we get decent virtualization on Apple silicon this year?

    What I consider decent virtualization on Apple silicon: 1. connecting USB devices to the macOS virtual machine (iPhone, storage) 2. connecting to the App Store Reference: Apple Developer Documentation – Virtualization https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization Known limitations of...
  19. Wilderhaus Studio

    Apple Space Mouse

    A concept of mine for a new mac accessory - Apple Space Mouse. It will use spatial gestures similar to a magic track pad. It is modeled in Plasticity.
  20. A

    calender (/usr/bin/calendar) not working in Sequoia

    The calendar cli app that I've been using since Jaguar to mimic a "what happened today in history" functionality isn't working anymore in Sequoia ? The program is seemingly still there in /usr/bin/calendar But running it has no effect whatsoever (See below). Does anyone know what's up? I was...
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