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  1. grahamperrin

    Resolved Applications for Mac OS X, without Apple's operating system

    Seeing today's brief video about work in progress on CrossOver Android, then finding last year's blog post, makes me wonder … … whether some future product, from any group of developers, will allow easy use of some apps for Mac OS X – without Apple's operating system. Some, not all – for...
  2. D

    Has 10.11.5 solved the 10.11.4 freeze?

    In this thread, we discussed how 10.11.4 brought a bug that made our Macs freeze. For some people, 10.11.5 has solved this issue; for some, it has not. If you had this problem, please vote to see what the general consensus is.
  3. Qot

    Qbserve – Automatic Private Time Tracker

    Hi MacRumors readers! We always wanted a powerful productivity tracker for OS X that doesn't send our data anywhere. So here's our app, Qbserve. It gives you instant answers about the way you spend your time by intelligently observing active apps. Qbserve provides everything you need for...
  4. C

    iMac 2012 Booting to OS X Utilities & Macintosh HD missing

    I am having a rather big problem. I have a iMac 2012 with a fusion hard drive. When I boot up the iMac it plays the chime but then loads straight to OS X Utilities. I am then given the 4 options pictured. I have tried everything. This problem occured when recently (since Monday after I...
  5. F

    Macbook was slow, replaced HDD with new SDD but still same speed

    Hi, i just replaced my Macbook Pro with a new SSD and installed OS X, which took about 1,5 hours. Very slow process but i came trough. Even tho the SSD is clearly faster in theory, it still has very slow load times just as before. I've tried with 2 different SSD's but with no help. Is there any...
  6. M

    Screen glitch

    Yesterday I updated El Capitan to .5 and this is happening at least two times a day. Any thought of what can it be? Thank you MacBook Pro late 2013
  7. Technologx

    Is there a 100% free non cracked Mac app that I could use for iTunes to find song names?

    I want a app that can scan the songs in my iTunes and find the names and artists for the songs that are untitled.
  8. Slarney

    Normal Operating Temperature?

    Does anybody know what the average internal temperature for a 2009 iMac which runs on OS X Yosemite?
  9. F

    BootCamp 6 Required

    Anyone still has the BootCamp 6 drivers? I have tried the following link: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/10/60/031-30899/6u2bha6n3pckjca1j44jw9m28yq72nh6li/AppleBcUpdate.exe ; unfortunately it says "404". So, I wonder if anyone here still has a backup of it?
  10. Avenged110

    Permanently load kext?

    I'm not particularly knowledgeable with the command line or privy to kext functionality in macOS. I'm currently using Turbo Boost Switcher (a GUI for loading an extension that toggles turbo boost) and since FileVault is enabled, it prompts me for my admin password every time my MacBook sleeps...
  11. SpiffyFilms

    GPU Handling in OS X

    Hello! Before I ask my question here is the stats of my mac pro: 2009 Mac Pro (4,1 -- firmware upgraded to 5,1) 8GB DDR3 ECC RAM Intel XEON W3530 2.8GHz 4 Cores 8 Threads OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 My question is that I have two GPUs in the system. One is the stock apple-branded GT120 and the...
  12. RevanUK

    Transfer music from iPhone to new Mac's iTunes

    I just got a new Mac. I opened iTunes, connected my iPhone and thought it would sync the music from my iPhone to the iTunes library, but alas it did not. I've looked up how to do it and tried a programme called iTransfer, but nothing worked. It's weird because in the past, any new music on my...
  13. Mejenborg

    Unable to boot to OS X from Windows 10

    Hi Having a kinda strange problem. I have a Mac Pro 4,1 (upgraded to 5,1) and two drives - one drive with OS X El Capitan installed, and one with Windows 10 installed. I used Boot Camp Assistant to install windows 10 which created 2 partitions an EFI and a Bootcamp. When installing Windows I...
  14. V

    Talked to Apple today, I may need some help still.

    So today I had an Online Chat with apple support and Was asking A few questions here is How it went: Monday, May 02, 2016 12:29 PM Duration: 15 minutes 30 seconds Apple Hi, my name is Nathan. It'll be just a moment while I review the comments you provided. Apple: Hello Andre! How are you doing...
  15. T

    I can't boot into windows after having resized my mac partition

    any help would be greatly appreciated diskutil list sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0 MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
  16. J

    Update to OS X El Capitan Mid-2010

    I really want to update to El Capitan because of all the good reviews it's gotten, but I am not sure if it is worth it, right now I'm running Mavericks and it's pretty good, but El Capitan really seems to have good performance. I have a MacBook Mid-2010 with 4GB RAM. 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo...
  17. M

    iOS General questions regarding Swift

    I came from C# development and even though I've been spending the past few months looking into iOS development and know enough to keep me busy for a while, all I've ever seen is people putting code directly into the ViewController leading to a fat controller. My coding experience has led me to...
  18. M

    OS X Installation Failed: "got error in writing to minstallconfig.xml"

    So I will try to be thorough but short here: I have a mid 2007, 20" iMac (7,1) that I bought recently and I decided to upgrade it as much as possible. I did a very large amount of research and decided to go with OWC for a SSD (240 Gb) and 6 Gb of RAM (maximum for this computer according to OWC)...
  19. M

    Desktop loaded in memory? Clean APP

    I just heard that one should keep the desktop uncluttered because Mac OS will take anything on it and put it in RAM. A lot of stuff on the desktop can therefore slow the system by consuming RAM unnecessarily. This was interesting news for me as I am not the tidiest person in the world and have a...
  20. Kashyap Pavra

    Macbook Air booting with question mark and folder

    Hello people I am in a big trouble my mac is booting with a question mark and a folder. The story starts when I installed Linux in my mac with 20GB linux partition and 100 GB mac os x El capitan partition. Then I felt Linux is boring so I decided to delete it.So I just deleted the partition...