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If I connect a 4K monitor with a latest MBP, will there be a spike in CPU / GPU usage than normal ?

7 years ago... I bought this 3TB Seagate GoFlex Desk USB 2.0 external drive (wall powered), which I didn't use at all in the last 5 years, until now. Last week I pulled it out and had to transfer about 500GB of data (4K UHD movies mostly) to this, from my 13" 2017 MBP TB. Took me 3 hours...

Running iTunes 12.7.4.76 on 2017 15" MacBook Pro 14,3 macOS 10.13.4 with iPhone 8 on iOS 11.2.6 I created an iTunes library on my external hard drive (option + clicking iTunes icon in dock, create new library). I then backed up my phone but the options in iTunes were backup on iCloud or...

AS per the title, anyone got any recommendations as to decent external enclosures for a 250GB SSD that I am planning to use on my iMac as a boot drive? I was very surprised to see that the enclosure can have a significant impact on the transfer speeds as I thought it would be simply a SATA and...

Hello! I have problem with USB power on my iMac late 2015 5k. High Sierra has a new Raise Port Limit Patch for USB 3 on Skylake/100 Series builds. Problem is so big, but i have on external USB disk my High Sierra ( MacintoshHD ). After reboot my external drive is invisible. I can't update...

As the title, any recommendations? A little tight on budget and I'm not sure that most third party monitors are well adapted to Apple. I've tried an Asus 27" 4k monitor with DisplayPort to thunderbolt 2 but on that resolution the images were minuscule.

Hi, Writing to confirm a working setup: – MacBook Pro Retina Mid 2015, 15″, 2.5Ghz Intel Core i7, M370X – macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 – Sonnet Breakaway Box 550 – Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 – Apple Thunderbolt TB3 -> TB2 adapter – Apple Thunderbolt 2 cable (0.5m) – External monitor connected...

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I have a WD Elements Portable drive, which I want to use interchangeably between a MBP and a windows laptop. How should I format it? Tnx!

Hey all, I am a musician and content creator with years of video, photo and music content. Some of my Photos Libraries are as big as 450GB and I have multiple others that are around 200GB. I am looking to add a cloud based storage incase I do get a lightning strike or power surge or...

I'm thrilled at the idea of Apple's new file system. More stability? Faster? Better error protection? Yes please. As a video professional, under-the-hood improvements like these are way more interesting to me than the cosmetic and incremental updates of the last few versions of macOS. But quick...

Hi! I currently use my MacBook Pro 13 inch with touch bar for everything I do (browsing, movie watching, designing and occasionally gaming). I design in Photoshop CC (2017), and it works great when I'm not using my external monitor. Now the problem is that when I use the monitor and I have the...

Hello, I was wondering about getting an external SSD to boot macOS 10.12 from. I mean basically using my MBP as a host that shares all the hardware but the storage with the external SSD. My question is, if I get a virus on the SSD, will it affect the MPB even when booted on the soldered apple...

Hello, I am new to the forum. I own a 15" late 2016 MacBook Pro and I mainly use it for engineering stuff but have the passion of producing music. I would like to have my little music world contained into a SSD and I was wondering which one to get. I was thinking about using it to boot in macOS...

I’ve seen a lot of threads about external drives here and was wanting to jump in for a little more specific advice. I have a new 2017 iMac i7 3Tb Fusion drive and do a lot of Lightroom and Photoshop as well as occasional video editing. I’m coming from a 2012 and had the same 3TB drive and...

Over the week on this forum I noticed couple times people saying that for some there's no need to get the iMac with best GPU, that better get the lowest and in the future, if needed, get external Thunderbolt 3 GPU. I suspected there may be performance drop but first google result with bunch of...

On the new MBP Space Gray, and like to dock it under one monitor. Both are HDMI connections. One USB-C is an Apple dongle and the other is an Anker dongle. The problem is -- whenever I hook them up, only ONE monitor has the amazing resolution, and the other goes to potato quality. It doesn't...

Hi guys, I want to create this thread in order to help people like myself with their struggles to decide on an external 4k-display that's driven by a MacBook (early 2015). Since there are plenty of parameters (like HDMI vs. DisplayPort vs. USB-C, 30 Hz vs. 60 Hz, simultaneous charging of the...

Hi! I've got a problem with my external HD. I used it via an Anker USB-Hub in combination with another HD when it suddenly began to periodically unmount and mount again. After a few times of (un-)mounting I detached the HD from the hub and plugged it directly in my USB port. But it didn't show...

Any investment of $2,500-$4,500 often leaves the individual consumer contemplating the long-term relevancy of that purchase. After all, that higher purchase price for a premium product often means that product will be used for a longer period than a budget alternative. The MacBook Pro is no...