Recent content by ayg

No @Deleted member 1272431, had not put in any more time recently on this Mac. Had installed windows 10 as an experiment and fun but that's for sure an insult for a Mac machine :D Looking to get a external HDD/SSD to prepare a fresh bootable usb( previous was a 8gb pendrive which could not have...

Thanks, @macmanaman for taking the time to read my question and reply back. The case for drive in a windows-friendly format is ruled out as I have formatted it with mac supported format only. With more analysis, I found that the issue could be due to the fact that I am using a 8GB pendrive as...

Thanks Deleted member 1272431 for taking time to read my question and reply back. The case with using terminal is ruled out as now old OS is also wiped out and I can not boot into any OS. I have another system with windows 10 where I tried to get Mac terminal set up but could not get it. Is...

System Specs: Macbook pro mid-2012, with core i5 second gen, 500GB HDD, 4GB RAM; was pre-installed with OS X 10.7.5 Issue: Since most apps were not working and system was not allowing any upgrade from app store, so I had cleaned the hdd and its all blank now. Looking for a fresh install of OS...

Thanks Thanks SchizTech for your response. Overall, what do you suggest to keep this mac or should I trade-off for some money on some website dealing with used electronics, ie if it's still worth keeping it/upgrade RAM and SSD. It's 8 years old, used sparingly; how much more can it go if h/w is...

I have a macbook pro mid 2012 model, it's with 2nd gen core i5 and has 4GB DDR3 RAM and 500GB HDD. OS X 10.7.5 is practically of no use now as most apps do not work/install. Please suggest the OS which will best work with current hardware without any significant degradation in performance?

I have Lenovo Ideapad z470 which is non-responsive on pressing the power button. I had once repaired its motherboard which again went to the same state within a week. It's out of warranty. Lenovo denied getting it fixed(even with payment since as per them this model was never launched in India...