Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Ram won't do much unless you are currently using all of your current Ram.

An Ssd runs many many times faster then a normal hard drive and will make every single task you do much quicker.

If you do want o go new, might be worth checking out the refurb store on Apple as usually you can get some good discounts on older models.

But yeah, I wouldn't get a MacBook Air

Because the current Air model is almost 2 years old and apple logics says it will be yesterday's technology before you know it. Also why spend 1200 in an air when you can spend less than 1000 in a pro plus a fiver for a couple of usb adaptors?

RAM and hard drive do different things, depends on what you want to do, having more RAM doesn't always benefit your tasks, or not to a nnoticeable level anyway... Having faster hard drive, or SSD makes saving and locating things faster hence overall faster performance.

A great, refurbished Air can be had for around 800<, and they're the nuts. Best laptop Apple has ever made. Solid, reliable, economical, well designed and connected.. Mine is still as fast as new (14), with great battery life etc.

Stick with the 8gb setup and get an external drive for offloading if you need to. Bombproof.

Put an Air and a base level MacBook Pro together and you'll be looking at laptops that appear about a decade apart...

Its well known the latest gen Air is going to be around long after the new low end pros have all shat themselves. So you're probably right. /#rossman

Safari is a RAM hog as well. If you have a lot of tabs open check the amount of memory each one is using (Activity Monitor). SSD removes an enormous bottleneck and also allows much faster RAM paging, the activity that begins when the RAM is full. So SSD first is the way to go but more RAM won't hurt your Safari activity.

Friends don't let friends use safari.

Can't find any decent search templates for Vuze, which means it's giving me piss poor results after my osx clean install, so I'm in the market for a decent torrent client, and any links to decent torrent sites.

also which vpn is currently in vogue, don't mind if it's free or paid..

all help gratefully appreciated.

Transmission. The Pirate Bay. ExpressVPN.

@cornelius_blackfoot if you want a setup that just works I can walk you through getting usenet up and running with sonarr and sabnzbd. I pay about £2o/month for usenet subscription & vpn with giganews. haven't touched a torrent in years and my setup just churns away untouched until I want to add a new series.

I don't think I could switch to any other setup now.

I've seen recommendations for Transmission will download tonight, and didn't even know the pirate bay was still a thing...
thanks

hmm, was thinking I might need to step into streaming world, GF's brother is big into Kodi, so was thinking of trying to sort that out.

I'll drop you a pm to discuss..

Agree with @HatBeard this is the best way. Although I did find giganews pricey when I used them.

This idiot somehow managed to download a bogus app called "advanced mac cleaner". Not sure how. Must have just fat fingered on something when a bit tipsy. Uninstalled it pronto and it seems to have gone except now I keep getting pop-up ads for similar bullshit trojan virus bollocks. what's the best way to get rid? Thank you.

Try some anti virus software and see what they found? I doubt it's as easy as uninstalling these things

Try https://www.malwarebytes.com/ .

Anyone got an old macbook 5.1 broken an hanging around am after a screen as mine has gone funny. Also 2gb DDR ram would be nice.

Thank you

Speed wise SSD will make things seem so much faster.

^^^ta. Anyone recommend anything tried and tested other than the above?

The 750Gb HD in my 2011 MBP shat itself this morning, just finished replacing it with a 1Tb Samsung 850 SSD... 1.5Tb of SSD loveliness in there now...

I bet the logic board fails next week...

I've got my fingers crossed... Apple only replaced the logic board, graphics card and screen two years ago...

So in effect, you Mac is only 2 years old...

I guess so... Everything working fine this morning...

Top tip: Don't try and do this when you've had a few beers... It took me 45mins to get the dead drive out of the caddy, didn't spot the tiny grub screws on the side for ages...

Take care, kids, rough night in SE London from what I'm seeing on the news... Much love from Oz...

eGPUs. iMacs with ALL THE RAM.