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Who actually is the 12" MacBook for?
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This is the leather sleeve I bought:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...leeves-for-the-macbook.2117551/#post-26040402
Full real leather and half the price of the Apple one.
Nice unboxing is that your video? Looks good for when I get the 12” MacBook, fingers crossed there will be updates soon!
I like the look of that. What's the quality of the leather like? I love leather but am a bit fussy about it. It has to be real leather and smell like real leather.
I bought this off Amazon. It's not leather but is really nice. I had the same on my MBP.
http://amzn.eu/eStMxSy
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It's good quality leather. I'm very pleased.
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Should.
I was shocked by the huge number of songs that are "missing" from my library after the Match - over 1K songs. (As I mentioned, I've been collecting digital music since the 1990s.). It's mostly not an issue because I have the original library intact on my Mini (desktop) and backed up in TimeMachine, but if I were really relying on a cloud-only library that would be very troublesome.
I was shocked by the huge number of songs that are "missing" from my library after the Match - over 1K songs. (As I mentioned, I've been collecting digital music since the 1990s.). It's mostly not an issue because I have the original library intact on my Mini (desktop) and backed up in TimeMachine, but if I were really relying on a cloud-only library that would be very troublesome.
EXACTLY why I won't do Match & Apple Music. It's all staying on my MacBook SSD as a central media hub syncing to my iPhone X and home sharing/airplaying to my Apple TV 4K
I hear you, but in this case it's more or less not an issue. I still have my whole library on my Mini - nothing got lost. And for $29 I can have access to nearly all of my library on a pile of devices (laptops, iPads, phone) that never had more than a sliver of my music. Not perfect, but a net win - at least for me. Definitely YMMV, though.
Does anyone think there is going to be an October event this year? i've been thinking and it makes sense, Apple will have a new MacBook (or MacBook Air depending on what they call it) that's suppose to be a budget laptop of around $1000, at the same time i think they will also update all the other Mac's so the event could go:
New MacBook/Air - The rumoured 13" budget laptop that will cost around $1000
iMac - updated specs, maybe some updates to the screen like in previous years
MacBook Pro - spec updates, keyboard fix
MacBook 12" - updates to specs and possibly the screen?
It's possible that we could also see the iPad Pro at this event but after yesterday's keynote (IOS 12 features for iPad) I think we could see the iPad Pro X in September along with new iPhone, Apple Watch and so on.
I really need to update my Mac as the 2011 MacBook Pro is on it's last legs i think. I can wait until October as i still have my 2012 iMac for use at home BUT i really hope Apple update the Mac's this year.
New MacBook/Air - The rumoured 13" budget laptop that will cost around $1000
iMac - updated specs, maybe some updates to the screen like in previous years
MacBook Pro - spec updates, keyboard fix
MacBook 12" - updates to specs and possibly the screen?
It's possible that we could also see the iPad Pro at this event but after yesterday's keynote (IOS 12 features for iPad) I think we could see the iPad Pro X in September along with new iPhone, Apple Watch and so on.
I really need to update my Mac as the 2011 MacBook Pro is on it's last legs i think. I can wait until October as i still have my 2012 iMac for use at home BUT i really hope Apple update the Mac's this year.
I don’t think so, it usually just gives a "late" or "early" I think. My iMac for example says "late 2012" which I think will be the last one to get this years MacOS update, I don’t think it will get next years version. My 2011 MacBook Pro won’t get this years, another reason to upgrade I guess.
Coconut Battery gives you production dates for both the Mac and the battery.
Today I phoned John Lewis to enquire about exchanging my 256GB MacBook for a 512GB. I spoke to an extremely helpful (but probably not a great salesman!) who advised me to stick with the 256GB and buy an external hard drive, which he said you can get a 1TB for under £50. That way, he said if anything should happen to your MacBook, (lost/stolen etc.) you will always have your hard drive.
Anyway, made sense to me and am sticking with the 256GB. Saves me the £350 to upgrade to the 512 and also, have ordered a WD 1TB portable hard drive off Amazon for £46. Makes sense to me….
Anyway, quick question. Do I just download all my iTunes library onto my Mac and then onto the hard drive?
Anyway, made sense to me and am sticking with the 256GB. Saves me the £350 to upgrade to the 512 and also, have ordered a WD 1TB portable hard drive off Amazon for £46. Makes sense to me….
Anyway, quick question. Do I just download all my iTunes library onto my Mac and then onto the hard drive?
Personally, I think that's a real crappy piece of advice from him. Portable spinning hard drives fail after a year or two.
That's too complicated and time consuming what he suggested. If you like to download, go for the 512GB - with Apple, you can never have too much local storage but you can very easily not have enough. My first MacBook was only 250GB and it constantly only had 8-10GB of space left.
Here's what I do...
1. Download and keep the stuff that I want onto my 512GB MacBook
2. Perform a super easy once a week TimeMachine back-up onto a LaCie portable hard drive.
If, like me, you like to download and keep everything in one place, this is the most reliable option. For me, my MacBook is my central media hub and having everything that I love in the one place is reliable and stress free - I can sync to my iPhone and either HomeShare or Airplay to my Apple TV 4K from the MacBook.
Doing a weekly/daily if so required TimeMachine backup to your portable hard drive ensures that everything is there should your MacBook break down, get stolen etc etc.
Over the past few years I have been moving more and more in the direction of external SSDs as opposed to external HDDs. Yes, the external SSDs are a lot more expensive but they are so much faster, so much smaller and easily portable, and one doesn't have quite the same worries about them failing as early or as frequently, since there are no moving parts. I use them to back up and supplement the 512 GB SSD on my MBP and MacBook and I have been more than pleased with them. Samsung and others make external SSDs all ready to go, no need to buy an enclosure. Perfect for use at home and for use on the road!
Just get a $5 adapter off Amazon. There are many available.
I have one made by Nonda, which is very tiny and works well. You can also purchase cables which have USB-C on one end and whatever type of connector your external drive has on the other end. I have a couple of external HDDs which have a particular type of connector, can't recall the name now, and they work very nicely with simply swapping out the cable as needed. Some external drive manufacturers now include both types of cable in their package, too -- USB-C and USB-A. That is very useful for those of us who still also use machines with USB-A ports. I can plug in a USB-A cable to my 2015 MBP, retrieve a file or folder, then swap cables and put the USB-C one on the drive and plug it into my 12" MacBook.
Ended up ordering this one on the recommendation from a friend.
LENTION 4-in-1 USB-C Hub with Type C Power Delivery, USB 3.0, USB 2.0 Ports for Apple MacBook 12, MacBook Pro 13 15 (2016 2017), ChromeBook Pixel, Dell XPS and More, Charging Adapter - Space Gray https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N0406E8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_i_kYcgBbXGGRX0D
Also, I’m currently downloading my iTunes library from iCloud to my MB and it seems to be getting quite hot. I take it this is normal?
LENTION 4-in-1 USB-C Hub with Type C Power Delivery, USB 3.0, USB 2.0 Ports for Apple MacBook 12, MacBook Pro 13 15 (2016 2017), ChromeBook Pixel, Dell XPS and More, Charging Adapter - Space Gray https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N0406E8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_i_kYcgBbXGGRX0D
Also, I’m currently downloading my iTunes library from iCloud to my MB and it seems to be getting quite hot. I take it this is normal?
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