Not a reasonable comparison. There is no functional reason to shut down iPhones, but dual booting with Windows, I would say, is a fairly ‘normal’ thing to do on iMacs. Whatever ‘normal’ means!
The chime should be at least an option.
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2017 iMac Owners - They killed the chime???
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The chime should be at least an option.
We are on the same page then, only that you take the chime's importance even further.
As with most things Apple nowadays, they love to prematurely take away features that are useful for some if not most.
I shut my iMac down every night. I guess it's mostly habit, but my husband doesn't like things left on if they can be switched off.
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I'm still waiting for a reason to have Windows on my Mac.
I can’t give you any reason why you should have Windows on your Mac. Everyone has different requirements.
However, I’ll give you 2 (out of many) why I have Windows:
1) Sage. The industry standard package that we run our business accounts on, and
2) DCS. Flight combat sim.
The simple reason why people use Windows on their Mac is because, sadly, not all software is available on macOS.
As I said, we all have different requirements.
Like the hood ornament on a Mercedes, or the embroidered initials on a Louis Vuitton. Nobody needs them. Who cares about losing a little more customer loyalty.
Yeah, I think "a little more" just about sums it up. This thread was started in June 2017 and 11 months later it's barely into its third page. This much disappointment is going to really hurt Apple to the core.
For the sake of a good quibble, the hood ornament and the initials on a handbag are both public symbols of affluence that people can display all day long. Just how many impressionable strangers are around when we startup our Macs in the morning? Too bad there isn't a big, fat Apple icon on screen while Macs start up, or a prominent Apple logo somewhere on the computer's case.
Mac mini is gone
mac pro is gone (till now at least)
macbook air is gone
MBP 17" is gone
aperture is gone etc
but there are new emojis to come, what a joy...
and watch straps, many of them.
I think that ball was always there since Yosmite.
It bullies me:
- in my own applications written in JAVA,
- in bought 3rd party applications,
- AND in any application that is part of High Sierra.
It just seems that task switching has a bad bug in macOS.
Could it be the handling of those 4 cores?
;JOOP!
It bullies me:
- in my own applications written in JAVA,
- in bought 3rd party applications,
- AND in any application that is part of High Sierra.
It just seems that task switching has a bad bug in macOS.
Could it be the handling of those 4 cores?
;JOOP!
It may just be that others reading the thread, while disappointed, just don't have anything more to add. I've just found it, having just had to replace my iMac, and noticed an absence of chime… No, it' hasn't ruined my day, but I'm disappointed enough to Google it. And again, why couldn't they have left it in, at least as an option, as with the MBP?
They killed the chime, they killed the AirPort Time Capsule, they killed MacOS Server. All things that once made the Mac great...
Aw. I love the Mac chime. Ever since I first started using the Mac Plus in my 7th grade "Tech Ed" classes, I have loved that Macs set themselves apart by having that neat little chime. This iMac, my 2009 edition, has that chime, and I get to hear it every morning when I first power on my computer, and I love it. It's just a nice little bit of uniqueness and comfort. Why would Apple remove yet one more difference between themselves and the run-of-the-mill PC? Why would "Think Different" want to look, sound, and behave exactly like the other guys?
I used to comment, years ago, that the internet wasn't as much fun anymore because websites had started to streamline themselves to the point where they all generally looked the same. Variety is the spice of life. Apple should embrace its differences, extol its uniqueness, not cover it up.
I used to comment, years ago, that the internet wasn't as much fun anymore because websites had started to streamline themselves to the point where they all generally looked the same. Variety is the spice of life. Apple should embrace its differences, extol its uniqueness, not cover it up.
Would anyone here with a 2017 5K iMac be willing to please help out here: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-not-appearing-10-13-6.2133583/#post-26376846
this terminal command brought back the startup chime on my 2017 iMac:
sudo nvram StartupMute=%00
sudo nvram StartupMute=%00
Hi mikeboss,
That command works like a charm on my 2019 i9 iMac...the Startup Chime is back!!! Thanks for posting the information!
Do you know the command to turn it back off for those who, um, wish to remain silent? Ha!Jimmy G