(Part 2) Best products from r/osx

On a similar note, I recently purchased a DualShock 4 PlayStation controller just for gaming on my Mac. No driver needed; Steam and lots of other games natively support it. It pairs via Bluetooth by pressing the PS and Share buttons for a few seconds. You can also use it wired via USB. I would highly recommend it.

I posted a similar thread a few years back, and it seemed to come down to this book. I bought it, but it's pretty above my head and I haven't had the time to really try and delve in.

Have you looked into MaxMSP?

John Siracusa writes reviews of new major OS X releases for Ars Technica. These reviews are more than a dozen pages long (to the point that the most recent one is also available as a Kindle ebook), so he has to start writing them well in advance of the actual release, using the developer Golden Master seed.

howardgrigg is implying that he will now have to start all over, since he may have found bugs that are now fixed, or successfully used features that now have bugs. (In reality, he'll probably just go through and retest everything—or at least every bug—he mentioned individually.)

Get this adapter. It will handle any type of hard drive you may have. Like the other commenters have said OS X shouldn't have any trouble reading the drives, unless they're formatted with a Linux filesystem like ext2.

I've dealt with this before. You don't even need these drives to be internal in order to be accessible by another Mac. Grab two docking bays like this, throw in your drives and connect them up to another Mac and it should automatically mount the RAID once all of the RAID slices are present.

Apple RAID is a software RAID, so the hardware that connects the drives doesn't really matter... All you need is a Mac and all drives present. No other system (like Synology) will recognize the RAID.

If the RAID doesn't mount automatically, try rebooting the Mac with all drives connected. Also confirm that each RAID slice shows up in disk utility.

I'm like 99% certain all Macs can read an Apple RAID... You simply can't create a new Apple RAID on anything but a silver Mac Pro in disk utility (probably can in other ways like terminal).

Not only can it, with USB3 it's actually a totally viable option. I just got myself one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N0V4JG2

Right now I'm just using it for backup, but I'm considering making it my primary hard drive. That way, instead of carrying a laptop around with me, I can just carry this drive around in my shirt pocket and boot up on any pretty much any Mac in the world.

I bought a pair of 3TB Hitachi internal drives like this on Newegg during Black Friday sales in 2014 (or was it Cyber Monday?) ...anyway... a pair of internal drives plus a 2 drive dock similar to this that cost me maybe $20 on sale? Everything was on holiday sales, so 2 drives plus the dock for them cost me less than $150. I popped the drives into the dock, plugged it in and assigned one drive to Time Machine and the other to SuperDuper. Everything just runs itself. Zero hassle.

what model computer do you have?

some of the older macbooks had a combo 1/8"/mini-optical port. you could go from that to some sort of box (something similar to this) that converts an optical signal to discrete 5.1. and to be honest, with headphones you're not going to notice the difference between 5.1 and 7.1.

i don't know that the newer macbooks (specifically the air that i have) support the optical connection through the headphone jack.

another option might be to find an external USB audio device but without doing a lot of research, i don't know if there's one that's specifically mac compatible.

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Hmmmm in that case I'd try a miniDP to HDMI 2.0a adapter? I believe they have to be an Active adapter for this like this one here!

I think there's a specific Kingston SSD you shouldn't get, but most are generally about the same. Hang about in /r/buildapcsales if you're US, there's an SSD going cheap there most days, and people giving it a quick overview in the comments.

As for an enclosure, I have this one which works okay.

I would set the Mac mini to restart automatically on power failure (available in standard System Prefs) and plug it into one of these iDevice switches (or similar three-prong switches) that’s HomeKit compatible. (I own one myself and it’s worked great on my huge stereo system.)

Then just use HomeKit to turn off and on the Mac mini whenever it hangs. You or your wife can do it. If you have an AppleTV you can do it from anywhere.

Unplug the wireless usb dongle that came with it, hard reboot OSX then plug the usb transmitter back in, preferably on a port closest to were the mouse is. check and see if the mouse behaves better when it's very close to the usb transceiver, if it works fine close then it's most likely interference. What I did is bought a usb extension cable and put the transceiver on the end of it and taped it under my desk right above the mouse.

If it's shit all around and works on other computers fine in the same room, then that points to the usb transceiver is not fully compatible with OSX. In that case, take 5$ and go purchase a new one that's guaranteed 100% solid on OSX.

If you search the r/hackintosh sub there should be many posts discussing which ones to get and which ones to avoid.

This is the one I use and it's generally praised in the community.
https://www.amazon.com/IOGEAR-Bluetooth-Micro-Adapter-GBU521/dp/B007GFX0PY/ref=dp_ob_title_ce

Double check with customer reviews that it's the correct model number that works with OSX, companies are known to switch the product up with a different cheaper chip after word gets out that they are using decent parts in them...


make sure your batteries are charged and no major source of interference, like a microwave, cordless phone or a powerbox is close by (even a powerbox on the other side of the wall will cause interference).

If the mouse is just dying from old age then pick up a corded mouse to avoid all this shite in the future.

Not just theoretically, you can actually run off USB. Using this plus an ssd I get WAY better performance than the included 1TB Fusion Drive.

You need a USB to serial adapter, like https://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Converter-Prolific-Chipset-TU-S9/dp/B0007T27H8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1499385175 or https://www.amazon.com/Console-Essential-Accesory-Ubiquity-Switches/dp/B01AFNBC3K/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1499385175&sr=8-8&keywords=usb+to+serial+adapter . Anything with Prolific will work, or SiLabs (also seen in Cygnal stuff). Both have OSX drivers. I think the Prolific drivers may be built in these days.

Anyway - Install the drivers and then you can use screen or other tools to attach to the tty, e.g. screen /dev/tty.<something> 115200. All the USB to serial stuff will generally present as a TTY device in /dev.

Like this?

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Transfer-laptop-Ultrabook-leedemore/dp/B01EKU1XKG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1504586943&sr=8-4&keywords=usb+hub+with+power+adapter

Would this work in a 2015 15" MacBook Pro with something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-960-PRO-Internal-MZ-V6P1T0BW/dp/B01LYRCIPG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502010122&sr=8-1&keywords=1TB+960+pro

I have a similar setup at home. I used the 4-port version of this:

http://www.iogear.com/product/GCS1642/

This is the 2-port version, and MSRP is just under $500. Amazon has it for $345 http://www.amazon.com/IOGEAR-2-Port-Switch-Audio-GCS1642/dp/B004GKM9JK Add a few DVI-HDMI cables from Monoprice for a few dollars, and you are in business.

EDIT: Added Amazon link