r/macbookpro

So I have owned two macbook pros in the past and have seen them in all seasons and circumstances.

My first macbook pro got a screen guard the day I bought it (without second thought) as I bought it through my one year hard earned internship salary. I haven’t peeled it off yet, it has been 10 years and the screen still looks brand new.

My second macbook pro is my company laptop which didn’t get the screen guard (you know why). It has collected all kind of screen diseases. Scratches, dents, dead pixels, keyboard print and what not. I remember using it outside once and it collected few dust particles and I wiped it off with a microfibre cloth and it scratched the screen with very fine lines.

Now finally I bought the latest macbook pro and was doing some research on how to protect the screen but the internet seems to be divided. Few saying the screen guard will ruin the screen (as there is some kind of protective layer on the screen that gets peeled off with the screen protector) and use a microfibre cloth on the keyboard to protect the screen. The other side saying it’s okay to use a screen guard, it doesn’t ruin the screen.

What should I do? Get a screen guard? Or just a microfibre cloth will work? Please advice.

So this is not the best deal, but it is a little better. Computer is 100% battery life still in Apple care window and in pristine condition

A couple of weeks ago, I needed to replace some tech, so I got a $400 M1 MacBook Pro from a pawn shop. It was the basic specs with the Touch Bar; there were no real issues, but it was just a little slow for my liking.

Then I saw a pawn shop had a 2024 14-inch MacBook Pro for $2,000. I was curious to see the specs, and it turned out to be an M4 with a 500 GB hard drive and 24 GB of RAM. The guy said the "Find My" was stuck on there and they couldn't get it off, but iCloud was signed out and everything, so I could get it for about $1,300.

I thought about it and came back a couple of weeks later, and it was still there. I traded in the MacBook I had paid $400 for, but they only gave me $275, which was a bit of a loss. However, it meant I only had to come out of pocket $1,179. I also bought a warranty for $117, hoping and praying that I could either get the activation lock off or that it wouldn't be flagged as lost or stolen. It was a huge gamble, but I had 30 days to figure it out.

Within an hour of being home, I saw the previous owner's information was still on the computer, so I messaged the iCloud account. Turns out the guy is a real piece of work (I was reading some of the messages between him and his kids, but I am not going to get into that).

I messaged him and told him his information was still on here, and that in order for me to erase everything, I needed the PIN. It took about 30 minutes to get it because apparently he is dying or something, but anywho, I got it. I was able to wipe everything and sign in.

I even got the $117 I paid for the warranty back. So, this MacBook that they were selling for $1,999, I got for roughly $1,200. That is including the trade-in I got ripped off on, but yeah, I am happy.

Pawn shop manager cried a little bit, he whined when I asked for the 117 back “you got a 2000 computer for damn near nothing” … my rebuttal was “I paid $400 for a MacBook M1 and you only gave me $275 , and this is less than a month ago” he refused at first, I told him I was going to make a few phone calls.

I was on the line with corporate and he called me telling me to bring back so I can get the $117 back.

TL;DR an microcontroller (ESP32) emulates a keyboard and types your password followed by enter

If you're wondering how secure it is, it's as secure as I'm comfortable with, but understand that it is NOT secure if someone has physical access to your laptop and device, and relatively easy to attack unless you take precautions

1. The risks are already low, its a physical device, so unless you take it outside and lose it or someone breaks in, your password is secure, but that doesn't mean I didn't try to make it secure (see below)
2. The password is NOT stored on the device. A helper service on the Mac stores the password in your Mac's secure enclave (Apple Keychain), and only gives it to the device when it asks for it (after completing a crypto challenge with the device's public key+a nonce to prevent against replays). This means even if you lose the device alone a attacker can't do anything.
3. The only method that an attacker can get your password is having access to both your laptop and the device at the same time, in which case they can spoof the UART of the fingerprint sensor. You can prevent against this by black expoxying the insides to make this hard and buy you time to realize that your mac was stolen and lock via findmy or something else

I just thought this was cool to share, not giving any other stuff b/c I don't want to be 'advertising/promoting/self-promoting' on this sub. But it's pretty easy to make your own and I hope I inspired some of you to make one. It is open source if you can find it.

Four years ago, I used to dream of owning a MacBook. And today, I finally got one.

So, I was saving money to buy a MacBook Pro M5 Pro 16-inch with 48GB of RAM ($3,599, which is around ₹3.4 lakh). But about two weeks ago, I found out that Apple had increased the prices of some of their products, and the MacBook Pro 16-inch 48GB, which was $3,599, had jumped to $4,549. That's almost a freaking $1,000 increase.

I tried contacting Apple-authorized stores like Chroma and Reliance, but they just wanted to take advantage of the situation. They kept telling me it was out of stock and asked me to come back after a week.

I was really confused and didn't know what to do because I simply couldn't justify paying an extra $1,000. That would've absolutely fried tf out of me.

So I contacted a bunch of Apple resellers, but none of them had the MacBook Pro with 48GB of RAM. Luckily, I found one store that still had the 16-inch M5 Max at the old price (around $4,500), although they weren't offering a student discount.

At that point, I figured that instead of waiting and paying $4,549 for the Pro variant, I might as well get the Max model for the old price. So yeah, I bought it on the 4th of July.

And it's absolutely INSANE. It's easily 2–3× faster than my Windows laptop, and After Effects runs incredibly smoothly without any throttling!!!

M5 chip or M4 pro chip for mostly everyday tasks but also want to get into doing video editing using AI within the softwares and online AI generators etc. Maybe record somethings of my own and edit but don’t have a camera right now.

Ask d Chat GPT and Gemini and they said the M5. Do you all agree?

Edit: Asked AI again and chat GPT said M4 as it has significantly more powerful performance.

I got my first modern MacBook Pro 16” recently! It’s the M2 Max with 30c gpu variant with 32gb ram and 1TB storage! I got it from this pawnshop in my local town for around 400$. The guy thought that this was a 2019 MacBook Pro 16” so that’s why I got it so cheap, it runs really fast and it’s a huge upgrade than my 13” 2012 MBP lol

Originally 2TB, but no more!

I was on the market for one and as soon as I saw it posted, I drove two hours right away to pick it up. The seller bought it for one of her employees but they left after a month.
There were only four cycles on the battery and came with a mouse and keyboard, and three year Apple care plus warranty. It’s practically brand new.

Made this myself so taking that out of the way first: solo dev, this is my app.

I've had a notch MacBook for a couple of years and the notch never did a single thing for me. It just sat there eating menu bar space. At some point that got annoying enough that I started building a panel that hangs off it, and it slowly became the thing I use most onbthis machine.

Music is the part in the video: album art, a scrubber, live lyrics, and it reads whatever app is playing, not just Apple Music. There's also a dashboard, clipboard history, a file shelf, window snapping by dragging a window up to the notch, and lately it even answers my AI coding prompts so I don't have to keep switching back to the terminal.

The core of it is free, permanently, no account. If you've got a notch MacBook I'd genuinely like to know whether this reads as useful or as a gimmick, because I've lost all objectivity.

I have a MacBook Pro M4 that’s remotely locked and asks for a 6-digit system PIN. The company it belonged to is out of business, so there’s no IT admin to contact. Is there any legitimate way to unlock or remove the MDM lock?
Recovery mode won’t work

After 10+ years of my GTX 1060 6GB pairing with different processors (i7 4700k -> I7 7700k-> i5 10500)

I don’t intend to ever sell that 1060, it’s pulled me through so many games and programs still up to this day! I think I might find a case and keep it up as a memory when I eventually upgrade that. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the M5 series I’m excited to test this out, so far this thing is a beauty!

This looks like a really nice pick at $79 for the USB-C Magic Keyboard. I was originally looking at the Touch ID version, but at nearly twice the price I'm starting to question whether it's really worth it. What do you guys think—is $79 a good buy, or would you still spend extra for the Touch ID version?

i tried to reset the time to 100 years later to see what would happen in ddlc and then i couldn’t anymore so i tried to restart my macbook and now its not working