With the Mac App Store, and 1Password for licenses outside of the store, it’s not nearly as painful as it used to be. I move over pretty much all of my data, but I set up my apps from scratch. I suppose if you never add new software it might not be too bad, but there’s a lot of stuff lying about in your Library folder that you probably don’t want to tote to the new machine. It’s like moving and not throwing anything away when you pack your boxes. I always say that I don’t believe in using Migration Assistant because you bring all of the cruft and glop you have collected in your previous installation over the years. My first step was to replace El Capitan with Sierra. I’ve been procrastinating on doing a clean install of my operating system for at least six months, so I was kind of happy that they forced me to do it. Well, they had asked me if I had a backup of all my data (which I did), and warned this could happen. In fact, it was so much like a new machine, that it had a fresh install of El Capitan and no data. I think the display assembly might still be the same, and probably the SSD and memory, probably a fan or two, but every single other part of my laptop has been replaced. And then for no reason they explained on my receipt, they threw in a new logic board while they were in there. The camera is part of the clamshell of the laptop so they replaced the top and bottom on my laptop as well. I have not had any trouble with this camera but they replaced it anyway. Evidently something was wrong with my iSight camera. I guess that made sense since perhaps the trackpad was actually damaged when it was pressed on by the battery.īut whenever Apple does diagnostics on a piece of hardware, if they find something else wrong, they’re going to fix that too. The top case is everything you see when the laptop is open: the keyboard, trackpad, and the enclosure for those pieces. They did replace the battery, but they also replaced what’s called the top case. I picked it up on Wednesday, but the repairs they did really surprised me. I took it in on Monday so that I would have it back in time for the live show this weekend. Luckily, I took it into them within 14 days of the expiration of my AppleCare. Not a big shock, because I keep this MacBook Pro plugged in all the time. I took it into Apple and they said, as I suspected, that it was probably a swollen battery. Family packs are also available for up to five people in a household.I think I mentioned on the show last week that the trackpad on my 2013 MacBook Pro wouldn’t click any more. MarsEdit 5 runs $59.95 for a new license, though owners of MarsEdit 4 can upgrade for just $29.95. It remains the best-in-class Mac blogging app that it’s been for more than fifteen years. In addition, developer Daniel Jalkut has made tweaks an enhancements throughout, adding a bunch of improvements that bring the app into line with the latest versions of macOS. There’s also a revamped rich text editor that provides better performance, a schmancy new icon, and-at long last-syntax highlighting for text written in Markdown. Version 5.0 of the app debuts today, following a public beta, and brings a number of much anticipated features, including a microposting interface accessible via a global keyboard shortcut that makes it easy to quickly dash off a blog post-though I do wish it had an “Advanced” mode for specifying some additional metadata for a post. The new microposting feature lets you write blog posts as easily as social media. If you’ve been blogging on the Mac for any length of time, you’re probably familiar with Red Sweater Software’s excellent MarsEdit blogging software. MarsEdit 5 brings microposting, Markdown highlighting
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