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Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by stevewillows »

zamalek wrote: post #216
rayiner wrote: post #122

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I've got a brand-new 2019 16" and am dealing with the widespread crashes on wake from sleep. Honestly, it's a harder decision to send it back than you might think, for several reasons: 1) The hardware quality of other OEMs is bad too. Lenovo has really gone downhill. I sold my maxed-out X1 Carbon 7th Gen, which in less than a year: a) came with an LTE card that never worked for more than an hour at a time; b) had the…

A guy at work installed Windows on his MacBook. He claimed it was the best Windows machine around. I'm not sure if his tune changed after Retina, because I really do have to hand it to Apple there: their high-DPI scaling is flawless.

I bootcamp'd Windows LTSC on my old late 2013 MBP. Your friend's experience is similar to mine. Everything is smooth and the magic trackpad 2 works flawlessly, which used to be an issue with Windows.

I won't switch back to Windows, but if I ever need to, I'd definitely consider using a MBP for it.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by derefr »

riobard wrote: post #331
derefr wrote: post #232

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> I tried to manually connect to `smb://nasbox.local` in Finder and it works with `nasbox.local` appearing in the sidebar. Right; that part still works, seemingly because probing for SMB shares doesn’t involve passing an SMB URI through whatever layer of the SMB stack can no longer resolve mDNS origins. It’s only connecting to the shares themselves that generates that arcane error message. > I can also click `nasbox`…

Jeez, this is so messed up… So basically I cannot have both Time Machine and SMB from the same NAS box servicing a Catalina Mac? I just tried disabling Time Machine share in Samba and Catalina Mac still complains "The operation can't be completed because the original item for "Share" can't be found." if I click the sidebar to connect to a share.

The sidebar entry is still coming from mDNS. Play with the NAS’s config until it shows up the same way Windows peers with shares do: as an all-uppercase-named machine only visible under the WINS workgroup name in Networks. (Finder will give it a sidebar entry from then on after the first time you connect to it, IIRC.)

Also, wait 15 minutes. Because mDNS.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by pw »

rayiner wrote: post #127
sixothree wrote: post #124

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XPS 15

I'm seriously considering the new XPS 15. It hits much of the same great balance as the 16" MBP, and like the Macbook Pro, it has a 16:10 display. I'm gun shy, because of potential coil whine: https://xps-15.fandom.com/wiki/Coil_Whine > As Coil Whining is a big problem on this model we will try to find out witch parts are causing this noises. First we need to disassemble this notebook and identify the noisy parts. ht…

Are you agnostic about using Windows or MacOS?

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by e40 »

throwlaplace wrote: post #249
simonklitj wrote: post #57

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I do not understand why they did this, and I say that as a Catalina user. Jeff Johnson seems to have some thoughts (and a sort-of solution) on it, though: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/software-update.html

that solution didn't work for me but this one did https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/system-preferences-soft...

This deserves a frontpage post all my itself. Thank you!

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by e40 »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #61
frankjr wrote: post #51

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The "ignored" flag caused macOS to NOT offer the update to the new major version every once in a while (a little popup in the top right corner). It also made the Software Update app report that there are no updates available. After installing this update, the Update app reports the update to Catalina even though I have ignored the update previously on this machine. This does not mean that Mojave is not getting any mo…

Is there a patch somewhere that turns the nag off permanently? I'm definitely not updating several of my machines to Catalina in the next years, and the nag is just an useless distraction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23325164

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by ebg13 »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #338
ebg13 wrote: post #128

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> XPS 15 OH YES? https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=dell+xps+15+crashing https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=dell+xps+15+coil+whin... https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=dell+xps+15+battery+s... https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=dell+xps+15+overheati...

https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=macbook+pro+crashing https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=macbook+pro+coil+whin... https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=macbook+pro+battery+s... https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=macbook+pro+overheati... https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=macbook+pro+killing+y... Not sure what this proves...

> Not sure what this proves...

That every laptop exhibits problems. That "Your X has problem? Y doesn't have problem." is wrong and silly.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by ebg13 »

duxup wrote: post #339
ebg13 wrote: post #239

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Yes, this is reality. But for some reason some people decide that they're absolutely certain about the huge scale of issues with Apple products while being absolutely certain about the lack of scale for issues everywhere else. It couldn't _possibly_ be their bubble.

Yeah it certainly applies to Apple too.

The reality of failures applies everywhere.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by ebg13 »

dzonga wrote: post #328
rayiner wrote: post #122

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I've got a brand-new 2019 16" and am dealing with the widespread crashes on wake from sleep. Honestly, it's a harder decision to send it back than you might think, for several reasons: 1) The hardware quality of other OEMs is bad too. Lenovo has really gone downhill. I sold my maxed-out X1 Carbon 7th Gen, which in less than a year: a) came with an LTE card that never worked for more than an hour at a time; b) had the…

x1 carbon, yeah good. but the T-Series are better. any thin, laptop you're gonna run into the same macbook problems, due the design constraints of letting the laptop be thin and lighweight. I have a t490, hardware solid all around. though lenovo put clippers on the bottom panel. don't know why. I know previous models t480 etc didn't have clippers.

Clippers?

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by op00to »

jannes wrote: post #47
dan1234 wrote: post #34

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Got any credible sources that back that up? My 2015 13" MBP has been charged 221 times in 4.75 years. It has been plugged in for the vast majority of the time, yet still shows 88% total capacity and will still last 8+ hours doing standard web dev stuff. My iPhone gets discharged every day, but its capacity is down to 78% after just 2.5 years.

Do you discharge your iPhone all the way to 0%? The bottom 20% are also not so great for battery wear. Ideally you would stay between 20-80% (only charging to 100% and discharging to 0% when you really need it)

What’s to say your iPhone isn’t holding 20% in reserve cutting off the phone early so the battery doesn’t get into that 0-20 bad zone.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by Karunamon »

Reason077 wrote: post #303
Karunamon wrote: post #240

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It actually gets worse in Apple's case. They were doing it secretly, which is bad enough, but they were also denying warranty repairs to throttled phones (since policy was to only conduct the repairs once an arbitrary "health" metric fell below a certain point, and the throttling kicked in first). This meant your options were to either deal with the crap performance, or void your warranty by installing a third party…

> "your options were to either deal with the crap performance, or void your warranty by installing a third party battery." Or pay Apple a not-entirely-unreasonable fee to get them to replace the battery ($49 IIRC?), a bit more than the third party price but perhaps worth it for peace of mind.

That price only went into effect after the outrage broke. Additionally, people were turned away at Apple stores since according to the diagnostics, there was nothing wrong with their battery. You couldn't just walk in and demand a battery replacement or a replacement of any other part that passes diagnostics.
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