Dorchester — Dec 13th 2022

Following the AGM, 18 members present, Euan gave a talk on Stage Manager, the new way of organising working files, introduced with Ventura and iPad OS 16.1 requiring modern hardware. Euan reminded us of prior, still current, options, Mission Control, multiple desktops, split screen and stacks. He showed a brief section from Craig Federighi’s Apple event presentation of Stage Manager before showing greater detail of how to use it on both the Mac and iPad, the latter has to be in landscape mode. For more detail Euan advised “just search for Organise your Mac desktop with Stage Manager - Apple Support (UK)”.

Lionel described his experience of speeding up his 2017 iMac by replacing the hard drive with SSD, which he contracted to a third Party. After a short time the Mac started to play up, refusing to complete startup. Despite tests showing no problem with the SSD, suggestions that it might be another fault in the iMac provoked him into some hands on research, starting by connecting the old hard drive externally via a caddy. The Mac started and ran perfectly, albeit even slower than before being externally mounted. He then remounted the old drive back into the iMac which introduced him to that challenge of removing the adhesively fixed screen on Apple tapered case model. Again the Mac behaved perfectly.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, Lionel decided to purchase SSD from the reputable Crucial and installed that having first tested it, as the startup disc, externally in the caddy. The happy ending is that Lionel now has a fast 2017 iMac as per his original plan. Less of an upside he is left with a rather suspect SSD which he will use as external storage, a simpler demand than Mac OS.

We ended the evening with mince pies and a splendidly iced Christmas Cake complete with icing Apple logo donated by David Whitton.

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