Posted on 11/13/2019 10:23:07 AM PST by Swordmaker
I just looked at my mid-2012 macbook pro. I have an escape key on the keyboard. Upper left corner. What I would like is a number pad on the right.
You buy that Apple laptop and you can post super quick at Free Republic along with the resulting spelling erros.....
My iMac is from 2013. Maybe that is why it takes so long to update. I still think it is inexcusable.
Oh, and I am running the latest OS. It is not like I got a base iMac in 2013. I got mid-level chip and memory.
That doesn’t fix my main problem. It is that iMac updates take a half hour to perform, and I have to be home to enter my Apple ID or it takes another 20 minutes once I do.
I don’t care if a pop-up asks me for a daily update if my apple never needed to be rebooted. I would just turn on automatic update.
The problem is, it takes a half hour for every round of updates I do and they come too frequently. If I could set a duration and say “update next month” or some such thing, I would be happy. If I want to put off updates for 2 weeks, I have to click “update tomorrow” 14 days in a row.
It is idiotic. How often you see updates should be user controlled. I would like to update everything the first of every month. It is great they are up on security, but is a 2-week lag really going to cause widespread meltdowns of apple iMacs.
I don’t think so Tim.
have you seen Msoft’s no opt out auto-update?
If you want to take matters in your own hands, go Linux.
For iMac, i would suggest turning it OFF and occasionally check to make sure the water is good, and THEN allow it to upgrade...Only about 1000 reasons to do this....
When I updated to High Sierra, the whole boot-up process on my 2011 MacBook Pro changed, and the start-up page changed. There was never a progress bar with the old OS. Now there is, and when the progress bar gets to a certain point, the screen goes black for a bit, before the desktop appears. I’ve also noticed that the Bing homepage takes longer to load on it. I have an iMac that I bought the fall before I bought the laptop. It couldn’t be updated to High Sierra, so it has Mavericks on it. I had to stop using Safari on it because it wouldn’t connect to certain websites claiming it couldn’t get a secure connection. I switched to Firefox, which works great. And even the old AdBlocker on it works better than the newer version I have on my MacBook Pro.
I only have 8 GB of RAM on my MacBook Pro, and only 4 on my old iMac.
Now the 16" is out and it's very reasonably priced too. I can use the MacBook Air for travel and the MacBook Pro for home.
I have 16 Gigs of RAM on my iMac. Maybe there is a way I can disable the dang Apple ID password requirement on my iMac. Then I could just let it update overnight or during the day and when I wanted it, I would be done.
On my iMac, I get the progress bar, but instead of it going black and raising the desktop, it makes me enter my Apple ID. It is then 20 minutes from there until I get the desktop. The last thing I want when I get home from work to check the web is to wait 20 minutes to be able to use my iMac. I don’t wait 20 minutes to turn on my TV!
Now that there is downright funny. . . Hilarious even. Good one, MB.
On my MacBook Pro with 10.13.6, the sign-in page comes up almost immediately when I turn it on.
A couple of things...
If you even consider a $400 Windows laptop to be a suitable machine for you, this is not your laptop. In fact, you should probably just forget Apple exists. I have a friend who doesn’t understand why anyone would go to a butcher shop for steak when Walmart sells perfectly good meat. Same thing.
Go to Dell.com and try to configure a laptop to these specifications. You will find the prices comparable.
This is a high end laptop for high end work. If you only read email and surf the web (with a little Solitaire tossed in for fun) not only do you not need this, you are likely incapable of understanding why anyone would need this.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/05/10/15-ways-google-monitors-you
“Safari. In 2012, Google was fined $22.5 million by the Federal Trade Commission for illegally tracking users of Apple's iPhone, iPad and Macintosh computers by essentially hacking Apple's Safari browser. The big fine solved the problem, right? Not at all, because Safari, like Firefox and other browsers, uses Google’s blacklist to check the safety of websites.”
Can Google still track my searches when I am using Duck Duck Go as my search engine on my iPad?
apple is Chairman Mao communists partnered with “Thimmy the Homo” who once said “homosexuals are God’s special people”.
Now THAT is pure satanic evil!
No.
Excellent!!!
You would have thought since Apple knew they were bad immediately after they were initially released, they wouldn’t have kept producing faulty product that will require keyboard replacement for the next 10 years. I guess I went to the wrong business school.
It is the same price structure as the previous generation...
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