When you start up a Mac, it goes “bong,” and that’s the way the world should be. Unless, that is, you bought a Mac in 2016 or later, when Apple removed the Mac startup chime. These days, a Mac starts ...

Apple did away with plenty of popular features in its new MacBook Pro lineup, including SD card support and MagSafe adapters. But a classic, underappreciated attribute, the famous Mac startup chime, ...

Numerous issues with stalls and complete failures during startup are covered in our tutorial "Startup fails (particularly after a system or security update); solving." That article, however, deals ...

For the past week whenever I wake my Mac Pro (early 2008 2.8Ghz octo) it makes this high pitched "chime" sound. The chime lasts for about 0.5s and sounds about the same pitch as a airplane chime (the ...

I boot off the bay one ssd with 1.5 tb system and applications, the remain 0.5 TB is for the bootcamp. The 12 tb softraid is used for photos, media etc (I’m a photographer) The optical bay mounted ...