Different motherboard with different hardware IDs, different disk drive with different hardware IDs... actually, it would be running on an entirely different machine, with no physical parts retained from the original machine other than the display.
Same machine, Just sourced from a different drive. If the cooy protection scheme is that paranoid, you don't need that software anyway; because it is likely to just up and get a hair up its ass and stop working at a critical moment, anyway.
No, it isn't. It isn't even close. You have new copies of the license files with different inode numbers. And yes, copy protection schemes do break when that happens. Nothing short of a dd-style backup will restore some software to operation.
1. Have you ever tried it? Because I have never heard of a TM restore doing that.
Of course, those two approaches are only practical for mission-critical systems, because the first involves spending twice as much money on hardware and the second involves being permanently tethered to an external RAID array. And realistically, getting your software up and running without data isn't of much value, so in effect, both approaches mean being permanently tethered to an external RAID array.
Well, if you are a Pro Audio guy, doing multitrack recording "on location", which is really the only time you would need to be THAT "fail safe", either you are well-heeled enough to have a redundant system, or are probably already using an external drive for your "tracking". And in either case, (and even if you are storing your recording files on the internal drive), you are set up on a table or stand somewhere, tethered to an audio interface or mixing console, which is in turn "tethered" to all the audio sources, so an additional external drive hooked up with a tiny USB or TB cable is NOTHING in the scheme of things. And if you are in a studio, you have the luxury of being able to call a temporary halt to the festivities; so the "down time" isn't as critical.
You know, I thought that... my colleague was a boorish slob and when he was on his 4th replacement cable I thought "man, what a careless jerk." But, I had the same model (15" MacBook Pro, 2006) and after less than 1 year of very careful use - with his cautionary example that care was required, mine fell apart too.
But, it's all good, I never needed a 2nd replacement because my graphics chip overheated itself into uselessness within less than 2 years.
They did, however, replace the inflating batteries under warranty.
I don't know how people are doing this with MagSafe cables other than twisty, turny, yanky. I have Apple charging cables for iOS devices going back to about 2011, and iPod charging cables going back to about 2005, as well as a 2013 MagSafe (first gen) cable, and not one of them is even having a hint of failure.
My experience has been 50/50 - 50% of our Apple products crap out due to build defects (or, in the case of iPad minis, weak materials) well before expected, the other 50% have severely underpowered computer capability rendering them mostly useless- for example, the previous generation to the 1st intel mac mini - yeah, it still works, just not with anything you'd consider modern software.
Oh please. USB was available on Wintel machines before Apple put it on their computers. All Apple did was replace its proprietary ADB with it. USB-C has been on non-Apple machines since early 2015, several months before the MacMook was released.
The CONNECTOR was there on Wintel mobos, thanks to Intel's Salesforce; but, until the iMac came along, there was virtually NOTHING to connect to it, nor was there decent OS Support outside of MacOS (Classic) (The original iMac released with MacOS 8.1, and it had support for USB, FFS!).
Heck, Linux didn't even support USB in a non-experimental fashion until something like the 2.4.0 Kernel, in 2001 !!!
And Apple did more than replace ADB with it. They also replaced their RS-422/232 and SCSI ports with it as well. IOW, they went "USB or Bust!", and the rest is history...
And I know you don't like Apple; but there's no call for the racial slur! (;-) )
Apple makes inferior hardware and software. You'd be better off buying a Dell and installing Linux. There's no need to ever run any OS except Linux. The only reason Linux doesn't rule the desktop is because people aren't smart enough to be able to use it.
Phil Schiller has already said they don't design for price, rather its for the experience...
Ah, so I'm supposed to enjoy the "experience" of buying a couple hundred dollars worth of adapters to carry around in my pocket, in order for my shiny new iDevice to be able to actually interface with the rest of the fucking planet.
Apple absolutely designs based on creating additional revenue streams, as well as the goal of locking you in to their proprietary iWorld. Their latest devices being rather devoid of anything but proprietary connections says a lot here.
Which raises the question, why doesn't Lenovo or Dell or maybe Asus take a stab at making the same kind of hardware?
As a Unix and Linux user, I'd argue that Dell's and Lenovo's offerings already are superior to Apple's. You have many more options which means there's a better chance you can get something that closely matches your needs.
The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is nice, but I could do without the touchscreen. If you care about GPU performance you can get something from the Alienware line. You can get a Lenovo with a Xeon processor and ECC RAM so you can safely run ZFS and the chipsets are well supported on BSD and Linux distributions. Most of these laptops can be ordered with UHD IPS displays.
And when you do that, are they really significantly less expensive than MacBook Pros?
Apple has zero penetration in biz/corporate for Macs. Apple direct and the channel literally do not care, unless you're a school (in which case, you get a ~15% discount and the same service levels from Apple).
The entire Mac market is sales to individuals and some professional services types. The SME market's attitude around IT is largely "make it cheaper", not worth Apple's time or effort. Bigger businesses want proper management tools, which Apple have discontinued or neglected.
So have a backup, holy shit. What would an audio pro do if their SSD failed? Restore from the backup you have, right?
When the failed hard drive is soldered to the fucking logic board, please elaborate as to how you're expected to use your magical Time Machine image without spending thousands on replacing the whole fucking system.
Needless to say your "sweet" solution isn't so fucking simple anymore.
Easy. Just boot from an External Drive, and either Restore the TM Backup to another External Drive, or, if you're as prepared as an Audio PROFESSIONAL should be, you simply Reboot to the PRE-LOADED External "Emergency" Drive, and there is no "Restoring" necessary.
Swapping the drive is the first option and gets you immediately back up and running, restoring a backup is the second choice option and takes longer.
Excuse me. Opening the back and swapping a bad SSD for a good one STILL doesn't get you "immediately back up and running", unless you have been vigilant enough to actually have the good SSD PRELOADED WITH EVERYTHING. And if you are THAT vigilant, chances are you are OCD enough (or wise enough!) to have a good Backup strategy anyway.
Sorry. The FASTEST ways to get back up and running are as follows:
1. A completely redundant system. Always the best, like when studios ran a "Safety Master" recording in PARALLEL. This is what Nine-Inch-Nails does live with their Mac-Based "Mainstage" system. They report never having to use it; but it's there to take over at the proverbial flip of a switch.
2. Have an EXTERNAL Drive pre-loaded and hooked-up, loaded with all your System Software and Applications from a Time Machine backup. That way, all you have to do is Reboot from External, and Voila! Back up in under a minute (faster (like 10 seconds or less) if it's an external SSD).
And if you've been following along, you may have noticed that NEITHER of those methods have ANYTHING to do with whether the internal storage is REMOVABLE.
To audio pros, the single most important feature in a pro laptop is knowing that when the logic board s**ts itself, you can take the thing in for repair, and you'll get back a machine that still has all your software on it. Without that, you get to experience the joy of spending several weeks on the phone with a hundred different software vendors trying to convince them to give you another device activation because your old machine no longer exists and you can't deactivate the existing installation.
The other design screw-ups in the new "Pro" were obnoxious, but survivable. This one, however, represents a level of epic fail that is simply beyond acceptable. When you've had a long string of GPU-related logic board failures like Apple has experienced lately, soldering the non-volatile storage to the main logic board is just too incompetent for words.
This is a show-stopper. This is not a pro machine. It is a disposable toy.
+ 5 Informative??? Are you KIDDING me?!?
If you are TRULY an "Audio Pro" (or ANY kind of person who DEPENDS on their computer and its Applications and Data) and you DON'T have a Time Machine/Other BACKUP, then you absolutely DESERVE what you get! And ALL the "Removable" Storage in the WORLD isn't going to help "fix Stupid"!
Have you ever restored a drive from a TM Backup? It's a thing of beauty. Every single thing comes back. It. Just. Works. PERFECT Fidelity!
And since you can actually Restore a TM backup on an External Drive to ANOTHER External Drive, all you have to do is (ideally) carry a Spare Drive, pre-loaded with a recent TM backup of your System and Applications (because you ARE already keeping your "work files" on an External Drive, right?), so you can simply Plug-in that (Emergency) Drive, Reboot, and Go! Or, if you don't have a pre-loaded spare drive, then go to your nearest Walmart, purchase an External Drive, and Restore your TM Backup to it. Again, Reboot, and you're Good To Go!
So, next FAKE Objection?
And with the massive amount of I/O bandwidth on the new MBPs (80 Gbps!), booting/running Applications from an External (especially a TB 3 one!) should be pretty-much indistiguishable from an internal drive.
I do data recovery, I guess I can take the Apple logo off my window.
Why? Do file and directory structures not get scrogged on SSDs? And, since you can boot a Mac with a failed boot drive from an external drive, is it any easier to rebuild/recover files/directories with the SSD OUTSIDE of the (still working) Mac than with the SSD located INSIDE the (still working) Mac?
The answer is "No."
And if the SSD was removable, but the SSD was actually failed, would it be any easier to recover the data from the (failed) SSD while INSIDE of the (still-working) machine than it would be by placing the (failed) SSD into another machine?
And the answer is still "No."
So, other than acting like a petulant child, is there any reason for you to "Take the Apple logo off your window"?
So in that case where the logic board died and the drive was full, what would have happened if the drive had died instead?
Hard drives fail far more frequently than logic boards...
There really is no excuse for not keeping backups, on any system.
I've never bought a computer that I didn't upgrade. I've maxed Ram and HD on countless ones. I had an iBook G4 that I opened 3 times to upgrade stuff and it was torture to open that case. The HD though is a serious matter. I've had one computer logic board die on me with a hard drive full of stuff. A lot of it not backed up so I just pulled the HD and installed it in an external case. No problem. If you buy one of these new models you'd better be religious about backing up the system.
When I bought my last laptop a few years ago, I made sure to get one with plenty of upgrade potential -- extra drive bay, memory slot, etc. Since then, I've upgraded it exactly zero times, and still see no need to upgrade it.
I used to feel the same about buying a phone without a replaceable battery or SD card slot.... then I bought my first Nexus with neither.... I've been very happy with my choice and haven't missed the upgradability.
I'd imagine that a lot of people are like me -- they like the idea of having the option to upgrade, but don't actually *need* to upgrade so a non-upgradable laptop isn't all that unattractive.
I think that Apple's engineering staff is not sufficiently resourced to "value stream" their designs to fail just after warranty - some stuff (like the iPad 1 physical case and screen) is bulletproof, but later iPads have gotten more and more fragile, even as they advertise using stronger materials. But, they did manage to kill the iPad 1 with OS upgrades.
I also have a pre-Intel (was that G5?) MacMini that "works as well as it ever did", but again the software has left it in the dust, kids run TuxPaint on it just fine, but it can't browse the modern internet.
So, summing up my experience of the last decade or so: 3 computers have lasted forever, but become useless due to inadequate processor/RAM/etc., a notebook, and several iPad minis have died due to weak hardware design, and a couple of intel generation mac minis are still spinning strong - but they're roughly equivalent to double-priced intel NUCs...
The PowerPC minis were G4, not G5.
Try TenFourFox for a more modern Browser. It works a treat, and even has Altivec acceleration! About the only thing that it doesn't support is Flash past the last PPC version Adobe released (10.1, IIRC) (unless they've added that, too).
Maybe, find someone who has already downloaded it before in their Mac App store account. It'll still be in their Purchased list.
Then they can download the installer app.
Then use the command line utility hidden inside the app, to create a bootable installer on a USB stick.
I have the same issue. Even though I have been very happy with the Apple enviroment of OS X and their hardware. They are moving further and further away from something I want to spend my money on. Their recent MacBook Pro "upgrade" have made them useless for me and all too expensive.
My late 2013 iMac still packs a punch with the Intel I7. I can have FCPX pro rendering in the background while websurfing and other stuff still runs smooth. It feels like a workstation, it has a cmd line I can use. it used to have a proper disk utility program etc etc.
Of course that is because I am running external RAIDs on the USB3 ports for the rendering, etc.
I need to accessorize a MacBook Pro with numerous dongles, and after a while, external storage because I cannot upgrade it. So it is becoming useless too fast and too expensive for my wallet.
Like I switched from Windows in 2007 to OS X, I might need to do the reverse when the next upgrade comes around and see if I work with Windows again.
It is really sad how they have dumbed every thing down.
I think you will find that the CPU in the new MacBook Pro will be significantly faster than the one in your 2013 model.
And if you are a MacBook Pro user, you already use a "Dongle" (Adapter!) to drive an external display (you don't seriously edit video in FCP on the built-in display); so what's your problem?
And you already use an external RAID to do your FCP Rendering; so what's your objection there? Either get a $2 USB-C to USB-A adapter on Amazon for your external RAID, or get a USB-C RAID and enjoy at least twice the b/w of USB 3.0, or get a TB 3 RAID and have it be almost as fast at transferring data as Internal Storage!
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Different motherboard with different hardware IDs, different disk drive with different hardware IDs... actually, it would be running on an entirely different machine, with no physical parts retained from the original machine other than the display.
Same machine, Just sourced from a different drive. If the cooy protection scheme is that paranoid, you don't need that software anyway; because it is likely to just up and get a hair up its ass and stop working at a critical moment, anyway.
No, it isn't. It isn't even close. You have new copies of the license files with different inode numbers. And yes, copy protection schemes do break when that happens. Nothing short of a dd-style backup will restore some software to operation.
1. Have you ever tried it? Because I have never heard of a TM restore doing that.
2. Then DO a dd clone! Afterall, dd exists in macOS.
Of course, those two approaches are only practical for mission-critical systems, because the first involves spending twice as much money on hardware and the second involves being permanently tethered to an external RAID array. And realistically, getting your software up and running without data isn't of much value, so in effect, both approaches mean being permanently tethered to an external RAID array.
Well, if you are a Pro Audio guy, doing multitrack recording "on location", which is really the only time you would need to be THAT "fail safe", either you are well-heeled enough to have a redundant system, or are probably already using an external drive for your "tracking". And in either case, (and even if you are storing your recording files on the internal drive), you are set up on a table or stand somewhere, tethered to an audio interface or mixing console, which is in turn "tethered" to all the audio sources, so an additional external drive hooked up with a tiny USB or TB cable is NOTHING in the scheme of things. And if you are in a studio, you have the luxury of being able to call a temporary halt to the festivities; so the "down time" isn't as critical.
Cool, and thanks - might just try that. That little box is a tank.
No problem! Yes they are.
I have a friend that swore by TenForFour on his G5 Tower. Absolutely loved it....
You know, I thought that... my colleague was a boorish slob and when he was on his 4th replacement cable I thought "man, what a careless jerk." But, I had the same model (15" MacBook Pro, 2006) and after less than 1 year of very careful use - with his cautionary example that care was required, mine fell apart too.
But, it's all good, I never needed a 2nd replacement because my graphics chip overheated itself into uselessness within less than 2 years.
They did, however, replace the inflating batteries under warranty.
I don't know how people are doing this with MagSafe cables other than twisty, turny, yanky. I have Apple charging cables for iOS devices going back to about 2011, and iPod charging cables going back to about 2005, as well as a 2013 MagSafe (first gen) cable, and not one of them is even having a hint of failure.
There's a reason you're the fake Tim Cook...
My experience has been 50/50 - 50% of our Apple products crap out due to build defects (or, in the case of iPad minis, weak materials) well before expected, the other 50% have severely underpowered computer capability rendering them mostly useless- for example, the previous generation to the 1st intel mac mini - yeah, it still works, just not with anything you'd consider modern software.
Bullshit.
Oh please. USB was available on Wintel machines before Apple put it on their computers. All Apple did was replace its proprietary ADB with it. USB-C has been on non-Apple machines since early 2015, several months before the MacMook was released.
The CONNECTOR was there on Wintel mobos, thanks to Intel's Salesforce; but, until the iMac came along, there was virtually NOTHING to connect to it, nor was there decent OS Support outside of MacOS (Classic) (The original iMac released with MacOS 8.1, and it had support for USB, FFS!).
;-) )
Heck, Linux didn't even support USB in a non-experimental fashion until something like the 2.4.0 Kernel, in 2001 !!!
And Apple did more than replace ADB with it. They also replaced their RS-422/232 and SCSI ports with it as well. IOW, they went "USB or Bust!", and the rest is history...
And I know you don't like Apple; but there's no call for the racial slur! (
Apple makes inferior hardware and software. You'd be better off buying a Dell and installing Linux. There's no need to ever run any OS except Linux. The only reason Linux doesn't rule the desktop is because people aren't smart enough to be able to use it.
I assume you forgot the [/sarcasm] tag.
Phil Schiller has already said they don't design for price, rather its for the experience...
Ah, so I'm supposed to enjoy the "experience" of buying a couple hundred dollars worth of adapters to carry around in my pocket, in order for my shiny new iDevice to be able to actually interface with the rest of the fucking planet.
Apple absolutely designs based on creating additional revenue streams, as well as the goal of locking you in to their proprietary iWorld. Their latest devices being rather devoid of anything but proprietary connections says a lot here.
Bullshit.
Which raises the question, why doesn't Lenovo or Dell or maybe Asus take a stab at making the same kind of hardware?
As a Unix and Linux user, I'd argue that Dell's and Lenovo's offerings already are superior to Apple's. You have many more options which means there's a better chance you can get something that closely matches your needs.
The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is nice, but I could do without the touchscreen. If you care about GPU performance you can get something from the Alienware line. You can get a Lenovo with a Xeon processor and ECC RAM so you can safely run ZFS and the chipsets are well supported on BSD and Linux distributions. Most of these laptops can be ordered with UHD IPS displays.
And when you do that, are they really significantly less expensive than MacBook Pros?
To be fair, I was last burned by it in 2006 - that was enough for me to stay away, branding hasn't changed - hard to trust the new versions.
they completely rewrote it. See FileVault2. I think it appeared first in Yosemite, but it might have been earlier.
Apple has zero penetration in biz/corporate for Macs. Apple direct and the channel literally do not care, unless you're a school (in which case, you get a ~15% discount and the same service levels from Apple).
The entire Mac market is sales to individuals and some professional services types. The SME market's attitude around IT is largely "make it cheaper", not worth Apple's time or effort. Bigger businesses want proper management tools, which Apple have discontinued or neglected.
You need to update your meme generator.
Some software needs to 'report in', and if anything changes it will stop working.
So, what is the definition of "anything"? It would be running on the same machine.
So have a backup, holy shit. What would an audio pro do if their SSD failed? Restore from the backup you have, right?
When the failed hard drive is soldered to the fucking logic board, please elaborate as to how you're expected to use your magical Time Machine image without spending thousands on replacing the whole fucking system.
Needless to say your "sweet" solution isn't so fucking simple anymore.
Easy. Just boot from an External Drive, and either Restore the TM Backup to another External Drive, or, if you're as prepared as an Audio PROFESSIONAL should be, you simply Reboot to the PRE-LOADED External "Emergency" Drive, and there is no "Restoring" necessary.
You really need to read that comment again. The bit about "deactivate".
WHAT "Deactivate"???
When you Restore from a TM Backup, for all intents and purposes, IT IS THE SAME INSTALLATION.
Swapping the drive is the first option and gets you immediately back up and running, restoring a backup is the second choice option and takes longer.
Excuse me. Opening the back and swapping a bad SSD for a good one STILL doesn't get you "immediately back up and running", unless you have been vigilant enough to actually have the good SSD PRELOADED WITH EVERYTHING. And if you are THAT vigilant, chances are you are OCD enough (or wise enough!) to have a good Backup strategy anyway.
Sorry. The FASTEST ways to get back up and running are as follows:
1. A completely redundant system. Always the best, like when studios ran a "Safety Master" recording in PARALLEL. This is what Nine-Inch-Nails does live with their Mac-Based "Mainstage" system. They report never having to use it; but it's there to take over at the proverbial flip of a switch.
2. Have an EXTERNAL Drive pre-loaded and hooked-up, loaded with all your System Software and Applications from a Time Machine backup. That way, all you have to do is Reboot from External, and Voila! Back up in under a minute (faster (like 10 seconds or less) if it's an external SSD).
And if you've been following along, you may have noticed that NEITHER of those methods have ANYTHING to do with whether the internal storage is REMOVABLE.
Don't buy. "Pro", my ass.
To audio pros, the single most important feature in a pro laptop is knowing that when the logic board s**ts itself, you can take the thing in for repair, and you'll get back a machine that still has all your software on it. Without that, you get to experience the joy of spending several weeks on the phone with a hundred different software vendors trying to convince them to give you another device activation because your old machine no longer exists and you can't deactivate the existing installation.
The other design screw-ups in the new "Pro" were obnoxious, but survivable. This one, however, represents a level of epic fail that is simply beyond acceptable. When you've had a long string of GPU-related logic board failures like Apple has experienced lately, soldering the non-volatile storage to the main logic board is just too incompetent for words.
This is a show-stopper. This is not a pro machine. It is a disposable toy.
+ 5 Informative??? Are you KIDDING me?!?
If you are TRULY an "Audio Pro" (or ANY kind of person who DEPENDS on their computer and its Applications and Data) and you DON'T have a Time Machine/Other BACKUP, then you absolutely DESERVE what you get! And ALL the "Removable" Storage in the WORLD isn't going to help "fix Stupid"!
Have you ever restored a drive from a TM Backup? It's a thing of beauty. Every single thing comes back. It. Just. Works. PERFECT Fidelity!
And since you can actually Restore a TM backup on an External Drive to ANOTHER External Drive, all you have to do is (ideally) carry a Spare Drive, pre-loaded with a recent TM backup of your System and Applications (because you ARE already keeping your "work files" on an External Drive, right?), so you can simply Plug-in that (Emergency) Drive, Reboot, and Go! Or, if you don't have a pre-loaded spare drive, then go to your nearest Walmart, purchase an External Drive, and Restore your TM Backup to it. Again, Reboot, and you're Good To Go!
So, next FAKE Objection?
And with the massive amount of I/O bandwidth on the new MBPs (80 Gbps!), booting/running Applications from an External (especially a TB 3 one!) should be pretty-much indistiguishable from an internal drive.
I do data recovery, I guess I can take the Apple logo off my window.
Why? Do file and directory structures not get scrogged on SSDs? And, since you can boot a Mac with a failed boot drive from an external drive, is it any easier to rebuild/recover files/directories with the SSD OUTSIDE of the (still working) Mac than with the SSD located INSIDE the (still working) Mac?
The answer is "No."
And if the SSD was removable, but the SSD was actually failed, would it be any easier to recover the data from the (failed) SSD while INSIDE of the (still-working) machine than it would be by placing the (failed) SSD into another machine?
And the answer is still "No."
So, other than acting like a petulant child, is there any reason for you to "Take the Apple logo off your window"?
Guess what? STILL "No."
So in that case where the logic board died and the drive was full, what would have happened if the drive had died instead? Hard drives fail far more frequently than logic boards... There really is no excuse for not keeping backups, on any system.
ESPECIALLY on macOS!
I've never bought a computer that I didn't upgrade. I've maxed Ram and HD on countless ones. I had an iBook G4 that I opened 3 times to upgrade stuff and it was torture to open that case. The HD though is a serious matter. I've had one computer logic board die on me with a hard drive full of stuff. A lot of it not backed up so I just pulled the HD and installed it in an external case. No problem. If you buy one of these new models you'd better be religious about backing up the system.
And how is one to do that, when, ever since OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Apple makes it so hard to do backups? [/sarcasm]
Buy or don't buy. There is no upgrade.
When I bought my last laptop a few years ago, I made sure to get one with plenty of upgrade potential -- extra drive bay, memory slot, etc. Since then, I've upgraded it exactly zero times, and still see no need to upgrade it.
I used to feel the same about buying a phone without a replaceable battery or SD card slot.... then I bought my first Nexus with neither.... I've been very happy with my choice and haven't missed the upgradability.
I'd imagine that a lot of people are like me -- they like the idea of having the option to upgrade, but don't actually *need* to upgrade so a non-upgradable laptop isn't all that unattractive.
This, This, a thousand times, THIS!!!
I think that Apple's engineering staff is not sufficiently resourced to "value stream" their designs to fail just after warranty - some stuff (like the iPad 1 physical case and screen) is bulletproof, but later iPads have gotten more and more fragile, even as they advertise using stronger materials. But, they did manage to kill the iPad 1 with OS upgrades.
I also have a pre-Intel (was that G5?) MacMini that "works as well as it ever did", but again the software has left it in the dust, kids run TuxPaint on it just fine, but it can't browse the modern internet.
So, summing up my experience of the last decade or so: 3 computers have lasted forever, but become useless due to inadequate processor/RAM/etc., a notebook, and several iPad minis have died due to weak hardware design, and a couple of intel generation mac minis are still spinning strong - but they're roughly equivalent to double-priced intel NUCs...
The PowerPC minis were G4, not G5.
Try TenFourFox for a more modern Browser. It works a treat, and even has Altivec acceleration! About the only thing that it doesn't support is Flash past the last PPC version Adobe released (10.1, IIRC) (unless they've added that, too).
Oh, but wait! Someone updated Flash Player for PPC to version 16.1!!!
Maybe, find someone who has already downloaded it before in their Mac App store account. It'll still be in their Purchased list. Then they can download the installer app. Then use the command line utility hidden inside the app, to create a bootable installer on a USB stick.
Much easier for El Cap. It's still available! https://support.apple.com/en-u...
How can you install it? It's no longer visible on the App Store. Is there a way to order a physical disc?
Try the suggestion mentioned here: http://apple.stackexchange.com...
I have the same issue. Even though I have been very happy with the Apple enviroment of OS X and their hardware. They are moving further and further away from something I want to spend my money on. Their recent MacBook Pro "upgrade" have made them useless for me and all too expensive.
My late 2013 iMac still packs a punch with the Intel I7. I can have FCPX pro rendering in the background while websurfing and other stuff still runs smooth. It feels like a workstation, it has a cmd line I can use. it used to have a proper disk utility program etc etc.
Of course that is because I am running external RAIDs on the USB3 ports for the rendering, etc. I need to accessorize a MacBook Pro with numerous dongles, and after a while, external storage because I cannot upgrade it. So it is becoming useless too fast and too expensive for my wallet. Like I switched from Windows in 2007 to OS X, I might need to do the reverse when the next upgrade comes around and see if I work with Windows again.
It is really sad how they have dumbed every thing down.
Here's how to have the functionality of the old Disk Utility back.
I think you will find that the CPU in the new MacBook Pro will be significantly faster than the one in your 2013 model.
And if you are a MacBook Pro user, you already use a "Dongle" (Adapter!) to drive an external display (you don't seriously edit video in FCP on the built-in display); so what's your problem?
And you already use an external RAID to do your FCP Rendering; so what's your objection there? Either get a $2 USB-C to USB-A adapter on Amazon for your external RAID, or get a USB-C RAID and enjoy at least twice the b/w of USB 3.0, or get a TB 3 RAID and have it be almost as fast at transferring data as Internal Storage!