I'm pissed to see someone edit all their old comments with a completely unrelated ad. I'm sure the answer to this question was very good given how many votes it has. Now I know what NOT to buy or install.

Guys there is an actual alive moving insect inside my macbook screen HELP pleasee. What to do I'm scared rn😭. Does anyone know why has this happened and what to do next???😭😭😭😭 Honestly makes me question Apple quality 🥴

...even though it’s a big download, it doesn’t seem to use any more space once it’s installed.

These screenshots are from my M1 MacBook Pro taken right before downloading/installing 27.2 and after. macOS storage itself is actually ~1 GB less.

The interesting thing here is the ~11 GB drop in my System Data. It seems like a win, but it’s actually cosmetic. For whatever reason, macOS 27.0.1 was counting purgeable storage as System Data (disk utility said I had 11.3 GB). This is something I don’t remember seeing in Tahoe.

When I installed 27.2 GB, my purgeable storage actually went up (to 31.3 GB) but doesn’t seem to count as System Data any more.

I'm trying to find ways to save money and after this weird update from microsoft (it wouldn't let me login to use word, excel, etc. with the right credentials, then a couple days later I tried and it worked)... This made me consider why I'm paying >$100/year to a service that I don't use often enough. Am curious if other people have ditched this and if you used any other app (e.g text edit, etc.) or even google drive that was worthwhile. Also if you made the switch, were you still able to access your previous documents and edit them on drive for example? Or how did you transition any docs if you had to?

I'd like to give you the good news about the new Tablet App for Mac, a free, open-source app that gets older Wacom tablets working again on Apple Silicon Macs.

The problem this app solves

Wacom's last driver for the Wacom Intuos4 tablets (version 6.3.41, from 2020) only supports macOS 11 Big Sur and earlier. Plenty of artists and designers still have these tablets, and the hardware works perfectly well, but on a modern Mac the Wacom driver no longer runs.

The new Tablet App for Mac takes over where the old Wacom driver left off. It's laid out like the original Wacom interface and settings, so there's nothing new to learn:

• Pen pressure with a Soft to Firm tip feel, side buttons, eraser and tilt
• ExpressKeys and the Touch Ring
• Screen mapping
• Different settings for each app and pen
• A Scribble canvas to test pressure
• Lives in the top Mac menu bar and, if you choose to, can start quietly at login
• Eight GUI languages

It's free and open source (GPL-3.0), with no tracking.

It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later. It's been tested with a Wacom Intuos4 on the latest macOS 27.0.1 Golden Gate, and we welcome reports from owners of other models.

What's next

We improve the app on a daily basis. Users can choose between the current stable version and the BETA, and even downgrade to an earlier version right inside the app.

Website and download: https://digitalgroceries.github.io/tablet-app-for-mac/

In my collection of Macs I have two G3 Pismo PowerBooks, a Titanium G4 PowerBook, a 15-in G4 PowerBook, a 12-in G4 PowerBook, a 2008 15-in MacBook Pro, All of these are working machines. I also have a couple of more modern ones.

They are a 2024 15-in M3 MacBook Air with 512 GB storage and 16 GB memory plus a base model MacBook Neo.

Why is Siri AI this heavy on my system…

October 26, 2026 security release addressed 329 unique security vulnerabilities across its operating systems, resulting in a staggering 1,265 combined CVE listings due to cross-platform bugs. The latest update, macOS Golden Gate 27.2, patches a substantial portion of these flaws alongside sister updates like iOS 27.2. [1, 2, 3, 4]

With so much rain why nobody did get wet?

I checked all my money still there..

In the age of AI nothing is real.

Mission control finally works properly again in macOS 27.2! The annoying bugs and glitches seem to be gone. About time!

I’m looking to buy a laptop for around £850–£900, potentially stretching a little further. I’m deciding between a Windows laptop with an NVIDIA GPU and a MacBook Air.
My main uses will be:
AI/ML engineering and experimenting with open-source models
Python and general software development
Learning about AI infrastructure, GPU computing and potentially training or fine-tuning smaller models
Linux development, Docker and working with remote servers
I currently have an Ubuntu desktop with an RTX 2060 Super (8GB VRAM), but I’m planning to sell it, so the laptop may become my main development machine. I don’t mind using cloud GPUs for particularly demanding workloads, but I’d prefer to do most of my everyday development and smaller experiments locally.
I’m not interested in gaming on this laptop, as I’ll have a separate gaming PC later.
My questions:
How important is NVIDIA CUDA for someone learning AI/ML engineering and infrastructure?
Would losing access to a local NVIDIA GPU significantly limit the projects I could realistically work on?
Would you recommend an RTX 5050 laptop with 8GB VRAM, or a MacBook Air with 16GB or more of unified memory?
At this budget, would you prioritise GPU performance, system RAM, battery life or build quality?
If you were buying a laptop for these purposes today, what would you choose and why?
I’d appreciate advice from people who actually develop and experiment with AI models on their machines, particularly anyone who has used both NVIDIA laptops and Apple Silicon Macs.
Thanks!

Ive been having spontaneous trackpad issues with my 2023 macbook pro over the past two weeks. 80% of the time, the trackpad is fine but sometimes it'll randomly freeze up. when this happens, the cursor doesn't move and the trackpad is stiff when pressing down. I usually restart it when it happens but even that doesn't always solve the issue. it just randomly "fixes" itself. ive gone to the apple store, theyve run diagnostics but nothing has been flagged (although the trackpad was working fine when diagnostics were being run). im not sure if this is a hardware or software issue, but I just wanted to put this out there in case someone has experienced a similar issue and has been able to resolve it.

edit: I do want to mention that it has also been randomly shutting off when the battery is between 20-30% without warning. not sure if that could be related, but apple didn't give me any feedback on it since nothing came up on the diagnostic.

for when the battery goes

Now they’re trying to sell you Ozempic 😂