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[FStoppers]

Thank you everyone for the tips. It’s exciting that the laptop is even better than I thought. I’ll test all this stuff out.

[fraserbritton]

You can setup iMessage to show and send normal texts as well. It just happens to do it via your connected iPhone in the background.

[doggomaru]

I LOVE that you gave both your positive and negative thoughts on this machine. I hate when people only say the positives because it's obvious they're leaving things out just to hype it up. I appreciate the honesty.

[waddahrasengan]

I am Mac user but I like how he addresses macOS problems that has been bugging most of the users for decades

[raynersouza]

This is exactly the kind of content I was looking for. The frustration of trying to trade 20 years of PC experience on Mac is truly mind blowing.

[oromis]

There’s definitely a setting to get SMS on the Mac. In safari, it even auto suggests the code from the text, so you just click that. The only downside is it doesn’t mark the text as read.
Also, with Universal Clipboard, you can copy text on your iPhone and paste on the Mac (and vice versa) out of the box. Universal Clipboard is one of macOS’s primary selling points for me.

[icemantcg]

Enable text message forwarding on your iPhone to see SMS messages on the Mac Messages app. Hide, resize, or move the dock. Use hot corners to organize your apps and windows. In QuickTime, You can record your screen and audio and even chose your mic. In the save window, there’s a tab with recent save locations. You can also enable the full path name in finder. If you’re going to edit 8k in 2022, you should try and use FCP which is optimized for M1 processors. At least until Premier is fully supported.

[jhonmhea]

Fairly new Mac user here but I do love the ecosystem. That said I try to keep a note of some handful of tricks. 10:25 a Finder trick I do is to Show Path Bar. This way I can click through the path to navigate. 10:55 I use a keyboard shortcut to copy pathname from where I want to save a new file (Opt+Right Click then Copy "path" as pathname OR Option+Cmd+C). When I'm in the save dialog box, I just hit Shift+Cmd+G and then paste the pathname. This trick works for me as well with 10:25.

[johnstjohn]

You can put folders you use a lot over in the directory to the left. Just drag them over and put them wherever you want in the list. They also show up in pop-up windows when you save something. So as a Mac user, no, I don't always work my way through subfolders; I use this easy, time-saving method.

[beoxsgaming]

11:04 - If you click on the "13.0" with blue up and arrows you'll get a dropdown list and on there are your last several used folders. It's not perfect, but it's nice when you're using a group of folders for a project.

[reinoudschuijers]

When saving files, the little drop down menu below the file name and tags can be expanded. It will show a few recent locations. Another way to "easily" change a Save window to the folder of your choice, is to drag and drop that specific folder from the finder onto the save window. Yes, I admit, it is odd — but it works.

And finally, you can use the Finder's "Go" menu and select "Go to folder" to paste paths. Not ideal. Sometimes useful.

[TheTCOLL]

I’m sure it’s already been mentioned but normal text messages work as well. Also when you’re transferring files instead of going to app expose go into the other one where it separates all the files of the same app. Your progress indicator will show up

[MIGerlag]

Here’s some solutions to a few of the issues you described.

File path Solution:
If you have enabled the path bar enabled in Finder & have the desired directory open in Finder you can click & drag the folder from the path bar in Finder anywhere into the “Save As” dialogue window & bam you’ll instantly be in the same directory.
In addition to that feature, from most application you can also save or move the file you’re currently working with simply by clicking (with slight hold) then dragging the file icon from the title bar of the open file straight into a Finder window where you already have the directory open. So you won’t even need to bother with the Save-As dialogue, it even moves files whilst they’re open.

Text message Solution:
On your iPhone go to Settings, Messages & then “Text Message Forwarding” then enable the MacBook for Text message forwarding.
In addition to that feature, if you use Safari & a site asks for a 2FA code from a text message it will automatically offer the code within safari when the text message arrives.

[intothelight]

My all time favourite is tapping the space bar to view inside an icon/file. Then using the arrows to move through files, photos etc. Saves heaps of time not having to click on the file type to open it but still being able to have a glimpse of the file/photo etc. I use this constantly.

[Dahrenhorst]

I started my computer life as an Apple user - in the 90s of the last century. I switched to Windows by the end of that decade. My best friend stayed with Apple, and thus I could compare working with Apple and working with Windows for more then nearly 25 years.
Apples are not bad, when you stick to what they can do, when you can accept their price policy, when you have no problem with not being able to modify or improve the computer, when you can live with a quite limited software choice, etc. I personally want to have only one machine for everything: Office work, photo and video editing, streaming, gaming, you name it, and which I can easily modify to meet my needs. With Windows this is possible, with Apple it is not. Thus I'll never switch back to Apple, although those computers are well build and look nice, and the new M-processors are truly impressive.

[olofkristiansson]

If you want to save a file to a specific location on your Mac and have that folder open in Finder, you can just drag and drop the folder from Finder to the applications Save dialog box. It’s not exactly like copying file paths, but I think it works quite well.

[rheo]

The trackpad was an unexpected surprise when I first got a Macbook Pro. With my previous windows laptaps, I'd always use a mouse. Now, (unless I'm gaming), I always opt for the trackpad. Also love the ease of swiping between screens/desktops.

[fhturner]

Probably already been said, but...remember the "Window" menu in Finder! That's how you can reveal the Copy progress window if it gets covered up. No need to initiate a 2nd copy to make it visible.

[APNetworX]

You can definitely have iMessage show normal text messages on your Mac, works for me. I think the use case where notifications might not work is if you have an app that sends you notifications to acknowledge instead of using text messages. But if you are using text messages to receive confirmation codes or one time passwords, it does work on the Mac, you can see and respond to all text messages.

[davidmota]

About the random render times on media encoder, just make sure to select Hardware encoding I notice that in your video at 12:40 it's selected just software encoding which will increse a lot render times, select "custom" on your queue file and select Hardware Encoding under the video section