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I had this problem with a hard drive plugged into my Pluggable TS4 dock and one TS4 cable to my M4 Max MacBook Pro. The hard drive would randomly disconnect once in a while. I plugged the hard drive directly into my MacBook and the problem went away.

I use Wondershare PDFelement on Mac. It's fantastic as a pdf editor if you want to create fillable forms. I use Preview for filling in the forms as it's fast and efficient.

MplsP said:

pscooter63 said:

If I'm a pro, using a "pro" device, why would I want to risk my livelihood with ill-informed repair people?  Which is what this article really highlights.

And you have the option to take it to Apple. 

Go back to the car example - if FedEx gets its trucks from Ford do they and should they need to go back to a Ford dealer for every repair? Or is it conceivable (I know, this is way out there) that a non-Ford mechanic might be qualified to make a repair?

If Ford requires all maintenance from Ford, you have the choice not to buy their product. Same with Apple. What you want is to dictate to Apple how they should run their company. Apple is in business to make money, not coddle to your whims.

macxpress said:

danox said:

AutoCAD is garbage on the Mac, if you want to draw construction drawings and do 3D/BIM work use Vectorworks or Archicad, along with Bluebeam. All of their programs support Apple Silicon Mac’s now.  Revit and Navis are no-shows and probably will never make it over onto Apple OS.

strange thing cad programs are like word processing programs. Once you have experience on one, takes hardly anytime to learn another. The exception to that rule is learning Revit combined with Windows ribbons is a Bim abomination.

https://www.nemetschek.com/en/brand/vectorworks

https://www.vectorworks.net/en-US/architect

https://graphisoft.com/solutions/archicad

https://www.nemetschek.com/en/brand/bluebeam

Bluebeam is not supported on the Mac. They dropped Mac support a few years ago. We use this where I work and everyone that has a Mac and needs Bluebeam has to have Parallels to use the Windows version. 

https://support.bluebeam.com/articles/revu-for-mac-end-of-life-eol-announcement/

I use Autocad 2023 for Mac on my 2019 Intel Macbook Pro everyday and it runs fantastic. I do electrical engineering drawings for buildings though, and have no need for the 3D functions. REVIT should be used for 3D and it's nowhere to be seen on Mac. I was also saddened when they cut off Bluebeam for Mac as I use it all the time. I managed to buy Bluebeam Revu 1.9.3 for Mac before they went to windows only. The 2.1 version for Mac kept crashing so I went back to 1.9.3 which works great to this day. But for how long it works is another question. I do have Bluebeam on my 11" iPad Pro M2 but I've recently moved to using the built-in Apple Preview app for PDFs which works way better than Bluebeam if using the Apple Pencil for markups (no pencil lag at all). I will be updating my macbook pro to maxed out when the M3 processor comes out. I will likely see a huge performance gain in Autocad although to be honest, it runs very well right now.

manishboy77 said:

Due to the recent mendacities of the establishment I will never buy one of these. I have removed wifi from my home and my kids are watching DVDs. I am strongly considering going back to a flip phone as well after having an iphone since the 3g. 

No wifi? Are posting this via carrier pigeon?