CAN I UPGRADE
THE FUSION DRIVE IN
A NEW iMAC 27–INCH?
You’d need to get this done
by an Authorized Apple
Service provider and ensure
that it doesn’t invalidate
your warranty or AppleCare.
Disassembling the current
iMac model to replace its
storage is not easy, and it
could damage the display
and logic board, which are
costly to replace.CAN I STILL USE MY
MAC WITH A DEAD
ETHERNET PORT?
Yes: Apple’s laptops haven’t
had Ethernet ports since- Some things get tricky,
as that port’s MAC address is
used to identify it with the
App Store and other
services, which may consider
it’s a new Mac. It’s normally
costly to repair, requiring
a new logic board.
The advice to leave Macs on as much as
possible is mainly aimed at desktop systems,
particularly those still spinning conventional
hard disks, which wear out more rapidly the
more they are started up and shut down.
Portable models are more commonly put
to sleep at the end of the day, to allow rapid
waking when they’re next needed. If your
MacBook Pro has an internal SSD, that is
probably the wisest way to use it.
That said, if you only use your MacBook
Pro infrequently, or not at all over weekends,
say, it’s often best then to shut it down
altogether rather than leaving it asleep
for prolonged periods.The reason that you’re seeing these backup
warnings when your Mac’s left overnight is
that the external drive is going to sleep. In
some external drives, this is difficult to turn
off. Sometimes it can be controlled in the
Energy Saver pane by unchecking the item to
“Put hard disks to sleep when possible”, but
other drives seem to ignore that setting and
go to sleep when they see fit.
Ideally, when your Mac wakes from sleep or
starts up, any attached external drive is best
running and awake. That ensures the disk is
recognized and mounted, so that when Time
Machine wants to make a backup, the drive is
ready and waiting.> Backup drive ejects itself overnight
When I leave my MacBook Pro on overnight, I’m warned its external Time Machine backup
wasn’t ejected properly. Should I leave my Mac on overnight? How can I solve this issue?Even if you disable putting hard disks to sleep in Energy Saver, some drives still sleep and cause this notification.76 FEB 2020 maclife.com