How to Sell Your MacBook Pro

How to Sell Your MacBook Pro

Do you own an older MacBook Pro? Perhaps your MacBook Pro is not functioning correctly, or you want to upgrade to a new Mac. You like that feeling of owning a new Mac that is an improvement over your older model. You desire a selling process that is simple and effective, but you also want to ensure that any of your data does not end up with someone else. You also wish to receive the best price possible for your MacBook Pro. You could sell your Mac on an auction or retail site, but you are unsure that you can obtain the optimum price for your Mac. How do you proceed?

There are specific steps that you should perform to prepare your MacBook Pro. The first essential step is to create a backup of all the files on your Mac. If you do not know how to do this, the Apple website provides you details about making a backup of your files. Backing up your files is a critical step because you do not want to lose your files when you erase the hard drive.

The second step is to sign out of iTunes. This is an important step and it works for all MacOS software.

The third step to take is to sign out of iCloud. As you proceed through this step, the system asks you to save a copy of your iCloud data on this computer. You can do this because you are erasing your hard drive eventually. Your iCloud data stays in the iCloud.

The fourth step involves signing out of iMessage. The fifth and sixth steps require resetting NVRAM and erasing the hard drive, and reinstalling macOS.

You can also sell your iPhone for cash, sell your old iPhone, and sell your other Mac computers. You need to choose a site that is simple yet gives you the best price for your Mac! The best sites ask a few simple questions relating to the features and condition of your Mac device and provide you a quick quote.

Apple Recalls older 15inch MacBook Pros

Apple Recalls older 15inch MacBook Pros

Apple announced on June 20th that they are now doing a voluntary recall of older generation 15inch MacBook Pros. These MacBooks were sold between September 2015 and  November 2017.  These Macs may contain a battery unit that may overheat and pose a fire risk.  The units at risk can be identified by their serial number.   Apple won’t release the exact number of laptops that were affected and bought.  But they claim that only a small number were purchased during that time frame. It is a serious issue and should not be ignored so if you or a friend has an older laptop definitely look into the recall in more detail.

If your MacBook Pro fits these credentials you can check your serial number and see if you are eligible for a replacement battery.  Just visit apple.com/support/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall .

Apple is asking that if your laptop is one of the affected units to stop using the MacBook until you get it fixed. Even though Apple is providing free replacements of the battery free of charge, to get it fixed you will need to send it to one of Apple’s repair centers. This will mean you won’t have a laptop for 1 to 2 weeks since that is the amount of time Apple claims it will take to fix.  Also, Apple will not extend the warranty of your laptop either.

This is a serious issue though so you shouldn’t allow the fact that you might not have a laptop for a few weeks prevent you from looking into if your laptop contains one of these affected batteries.

This recall does not affect any other MacBook Pro units or Mac notebooks.

 

App Store offers 10% more

App Store offers 10% more

If you are an Apple user, adding money to your iTunes and App Store accounts may end up benefiting you in the long run. On Sunday, March 10th, Apple launched a promotion allowing customers to obtain a 10% bonus when adding to their Apple Funds. This bonus will be valid until March 14th, 2019 and is being offered to customers adding between $1 and $200 to their accounts.

The promotion can be found on the iPhone by visiting the app store and clicking on the account icon in the top right corner. After clicking on the“AddFunds to Apple ID” tab located right above the“SignOut” tab, customers will be brought to a list of possible dollar amounts to add to their accounts ranging anywhere from $10 to $100 including the option to choose an unlisted amount by clicking on the tab labeled“Other”.All preset amounts include information regarding how much of a bonus would be received if the amount was added to their accounts(by adding $10 a $1 bonus is added, by adding $25 a $2.50 bonus is added etc.) and the same information is added to the“Other”option once it is picked and a dollar amount is added. The process works similarly on a MacBook with the main differences being that customers seeking out the promotion need to click on their icon at the bottom left corner of the app store and click on the link entitled“ViewInformation” in the upper right hand corner of the screen in order to add additional funds to their Apple accounts and get the bonus. 

This promotion is beneficial to Apple customers who find themselves generally spending a decent amount of their money on apps and music through both the App store and iTunes store considering it allows customers to buy more with less of an impact to their own personal funds. 

The promotion is available to Apple customers only in the United States, however similar promotions have been offered in various countries including Germany where Apple is offering a 15% bonus with the addition of funds to Apple accounts instead of a 10% bonus.  

 

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Apple Stands By Malala Fund

Apple Stands By Malala Fund

 

Malala Fund's Network
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/apple-supports-malala-fund-expansion-in-latin-america/

Apple launches a collaboration between its 10 Apple Developer Academies in Brazil and Malala Fund to help progress girls’ education opportunities. The Malala Fund in Latin America is working to provide safe, quality secondary education and opportunities for girls. It will also offer grants to local advocates in Brazil. The advocates at Apple will join Malala Fund’s network of Gulmakai champions and implement projects all over the country. These projects  will feature a design to empower girls, inspire teachers and policymakers to develop their skills through programs, and positively affect school enrollment efforts and advocacy for education.

Malala Fund’s Network

Malala Fund’s network will be challenging the creativity and innovative minds of Apple Developer Academy students and Brazilian alumni. It will also give them the chance to collaborate with Malala Fund to develop and design apps that enhance the education opportunities for girls. This challenge will motivate the students to find ways to better enable Malala Fund’s network of Gulmakai champions around the world.  It will also help Malala to communicate and share best practices in a secure environment.

The Apple Developer Academy’s developers in Rio met Malala Yousafzai on Friday. They spoke with her when she was there to visit the students. She was there to discuss how important the developers are to the fund’s mission to provide education opportunities to girls all over the world.

Apple became Malala Fund’s first Laurete partner in January. Apple did this by enabling the Malala Fund to increase the amount of grants awarded by its Gulmakai Network. They will also fund new programs in India and Latin America. This is with the goal in mind of enhancing the opportunities for secondary education for over 100,000 girls.

Dating back to 2013, more than 3,000 students have gone through this experience at Brazil’s Apple Developer Academy program.  Moreover, there are 500 other students that are currently enrolled in 10 sites. The sites are all across Brasilia, Campinas, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo. The scholarship winners include the seventy-five Brazilian students who were present at the Worldwide Developer Conference. For more information on Apple’s support of Malala’s fund, click here.

Apple’s most powerful portable machine MacBook Pro has just debuted

Apple’s most powerful portable machine MacBook Pro has just debuted

The new Apple MacBook Pro is an extremely purposeful and powerful tool that is creative and ultraportable with the new design, fundamental qualities, and uncompromising performance. This new product has been reduced dramatically in terms of the overall volume and enhanced significantly in terms of the Retina display and its LED spectrum as well. The new MacBook Pro optimize not only the portability but also the device performance, which marks the milestone in the evolution of MacBook.

Thinner, smaller, and lighter,  the new MacBook came out also with a new thermal architecture

The new ultraportable products are thinner, smaller and lighter compared with previous MacBook products. This powerful device also redesigns the thermal management with thinner and variably spaced fan blades propelling air quietly and efficiently through solid structures.

MacBook Pro is built on groundbreaking ideas and is waiting for yours

The new refurbished Apple MacBook Pro applies a larger force touch trackpad and thus more expansive touch area for users’ gestures. It also updates a refined keyboard design, together with improved dome switches under each key, for more accurate, efficient and optimized responsive gestures.  A new Multi-Touch bar introduces the completely new way to interact and connect with the device in a more intuitive and immediate way. The prior hidden commands are now visible and customizable which are easily operated and accessible now as well. Therefore, each control and operation of the notebook are displayed dramatically and dynamically and thus will improve greater efficiency in your work and study. Furthermore, Touch ID is firstly introduced in the MacBook Pro as well. The new MacBook Pro definitely integrates hardware and software seamlessly and specially. The speakers of the new MacBook Pro has also been redesigned that maximize the air displacement and project high-quality room-filling sound. The core of the new device is updated as a pro-level processor, together with the improved storage technologies, makes every operation and action faster and more efficient

Most colorful and brightest  Mac notebook display ever, MacBook Pro has just debuted

The enhanced Retina display and its LED spectrum projects through a metal oxide backplane that results in brighter, high-contrast and wide-color-gamut pictures.

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