Open the Terminal application. And the best way to open any application is to press command-space and type the first couple of letters.Alright, haven't used a Mac since like 2003. Took me a good 15 minutes of digging through settings to figure how to get my iPhone to stop taking pics in HEIC (I refused to google) and how to work the nuances of this trackpad - though I am sure I am still missing a lot. This is fun! Now time to figure out how to mess with this cool-ass touch bar I think. Also how does one open a terminal / console again?
Congrats on the new machine! Why would you turn off HEIC though, now that you have a Mac which can natively handle it?Alright, haven't used a Mac since like 2003. Took me a good 15 minutes of digging through settings to figure how to get my iPhone to stop taking pics in HEIC (I refused to google) and how to work the nuances of this trackpad - though I am sure I am still missing a lot. This is fun! Now time to figure out how to mess with this cool-ass touch bar I think. Also how does one open a terminal / console again?
Bruh. Stick with HEIC.Alright, haven't used a Mac since like 2003. Took me a good 15 minutes of digging through settings to figure how to get my iPhone to stop taking pics in HEIC (I refused to google) and how to work the nuances of this trackpad - though I am sure I am still missing a lot. This is fun! Now time to figure out how to mess with this cool-ass touch bar I think. Also how does one open a terminal / console again?
Good advice! Hide it and put it on the left or right. Always feels like a huge waste of a wide display to have a strip of real estate wasted by the dock.Bruh. Stick with HEIC.
also. Clean up your dock, you don't need most of the apps on there😬
Open the Terminal application. And the best way to open any application is to press command-space and type the first couple of letters.
Congrats on the new machine! Why would you turn off HEIC though, now that you have a Mac which can natively handle it?
I hide it and only put apps there that I need to drag and drop shit onto (Photoshop, photos, mail, messages etc)Good advice! Hide it and put it on the left or right. Always feels like a huge waste of a wide display to have a strip of real estate wasted by the dock.
Air has a newer chip (A12 vs A10 in the regular iPad) and a nicer, laminated screen. It's definitely more future-proof with a significantly better SoC.Should I get the regular iPad if I just need a tablet for media conumption, reading and some photo editing and a bit of painting? Or is the Air a bit more future-proof?
The pro would be nice but I don't really need it's features I think.
Is buying a used iPad Pro 10.5 a bad idea? They're relatively cheap, and I've seen some people say to go for the older Pro over the newer Mini and Air models. The 120hz screen and extra gig of RAM seems like a better trade off over the slightly faster processor. It wouldn't used for anything too demanding, just drawing, web browsing, and reading manga/books come to mind. My only concern would be the battery life, I don't know how it'll hold up being over 2.5 years old already.
Latest Kuo estimate is first half of 2020.
CPU current loadNow that i got more screen real estate, i've purchased iStat menus.
What 'widgets' do y'all use?
For me it's:
CPU current load
GPU load history (current load made no sense, because the dGPU is always at 0 or 100% ...)
integrated or discrete GPU indicator
network traffic
battery charge (with remaining time if running on battery power)
Now that i got more screen real estate, i've purchased iStat menus.
What 'widgets' do y'all use?
For me it's:
CPU current load
GPU load history (current load made no sense, because the dGPU is always at 0 or 100% ...)
integrated or discrete GPU indicator
network traffic
battery charge (with remaining time if running on battery power)
I've got way too much stuff up here.
CopyLess 2
ScreenFlow
1Password
Carbon Copy Cloner
Hazel
iStats (Sensors (Which I might as well turn off now since it seems to not work with the 16" yet), Disks, Network, Memory, CPU/GPU)
gfxCardStatus (For switching between GPUs to force dGPU when needed)
QuickRes (For changing resolution on the fly to anything the display supports, which is a lot more than what System Preferences shows)
WiFi
BlueTooth
Volume
iStats Battery, Calendar (With custom setup) and Weather (Conditions, temperature, chance of rain)
Users
Spotlight
Notifications
That's why they invented ultrawides 😂
Hiding that stuff is the digital equivalent of "cleaning" your room by dumping everything in the closet :PBartender is a cool utility that helps clean up and hide menubar items.
well, to be fair, there are items that you rarely need or that you simply cannot or don't want to remove altogether.Hiding that stuff is the digital equivalent of "cleaning" your room by dumping everything in the closet :P
Bartender is a cool utility that helps clean up and hide menubar items.
Okay so if y'all gonna pile on me, I'm perfectly fine with what I have. I don't usually like clutter, but I like having that info up there. Sure yeah iStats is pretty big. So much info. But I like all that info. I could move it all into a single menu because it has that option but then what's the point. I need my gfxStatus and my QuickRes icons and the WiFi and BlueTooth and Volume and Battery icons. As was said, hiding all that stuff is pretty much like throwing it all in a closet and saying the room is clean. Or pushing it all under the bed like I used to.Hiding that stuff is the digital equivalent of "cleaning" your room by dumping everything in the closet :P
Seconded. I hope you realise our comments were in jest.I wasn't meaning to tease you! If you like all that stuff in your menubar, live that life! For me, some apps I use don't have an option to hide or disable a menubar icon so I have to resort to using Bartender to get it done. And then there are some stuff I want in the menubar for rare reasons and it's easier just to one-click the Bartender icon for me to access it.
I keep network status visible for that reason too. Sometimes Verizon sucks too. Also, those two black icons would bug the hell out of me. It's been two years. I can't believe there are still apps that don't at least support dark mode in the menubar. (Even CCC supports the dark mode menubar even if the app is still light mode.) It's as bad as when apps took forever to support Retina. No dark mode menu icon would be a deal-breaker and an instant uninstall. I have a feeling it's something you require.In total fairness, this is my home desktop:
I could collapse iStat Menus down but there are certain niche cases where the per-core display comes in handy. The network thing is there as long as Optimum sucks and I can't immediately tell if it's disconnected.
I keep network status visible for that reason too. Sometimes Verizon sucks too. Also, those two black icons would bug the hell out of me. It's been two years. I can't believe there are still apps that don't at least support dark mode in the menubar. (Even CCC supports the dark mode menubar even if the app is still light mode.) It's as bad as when apps took forever to support Retina. No dark mode menu icon would be a deal-breaker and an instant uninstall. I have a feeling it's something you require.
I wish you could (natively and without weird hacks) remove that goddamn spotlight icon. Does anyone actually klick on it to use it??
Is there any other reason to prefer the new regular iPad instead of last year's model? As far I'm concerned the newer model has an additional GB of RAM apart from the miniscule screen size increase, right?
Is there any other reason to prefer the new regular iPad instead of last year's model? As far I'm concerned the newer model has an additional GB of RAM apart from the miniscule screen size increase, right?
Yeah that works fine.Hi everyone, I just bought Airpods Pro but the charging cable requires a USB C port which I don't have in my house, can I charge them using the iPhone cable instead?
Thanks, It wouldn't negatively affect it in any way?
don't see why it would, it's just different connections. I use my iPhone cable to charge them at college all the time.
Welcome to the Light side.I just got really lucky guys. I went to the local Apple Store to order a 13" Pro with 16GB which is supposed to always be custom they said, takes at least 14 days to come in. But the girl was nice enough to call another mall location a few cities over and they had one a customer ordered but returned still in the wrapping.
So I drove (well, Ubered) the 20 min over and copped it. They even gave me a $91 discount for my employer. Setting it up now. Time to get rid of my Windows laptop and Chromebook.
edit: OMG this has built in biometrics too? Ugh I should have gone Mac a long time ago
Solid workaround, but would limit me to slow charging, no? Ideally I wanted to extend my USB-C -> Lightning that's connected to a beefy faster charger but extended the USB end is a likely fallback.You mean to extend your regular lightning cable? so, like this?
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I guess it'd be easier if you just got an USB-A -> USB-A extension and used a regular lightning cable.
I have the last gen 12.9 iPad Pro with the older Pencil. It seems perfectly fine for what I use it for (light work use, lots of Numbers, some sketching, tons of streaming video, games once in a while). Is there any reason I'd want to upgrade to the new Pro? Does the next gen do anything my current iPad can't?
I doubt it. My 7 year old Mac copes with those tasks without any hitches, I'm sure all new Macs don't break a sweat either.Will there be any difference between MacBook Air and Pro (base models) performance-wise, if my usage consists of web browsing and text editing?