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As you're discovering, troubleshooting is a process of elimination and often requires a lot of patience. I suggest your next step should be to boot into Safe Mode: Fully shut down your MacBook Pro Re …

The "circle with a line through it" is known as the prohibitory symbol. Typically this means that your startup disk contains a version or build of macOS that your Mac can't use. In your case it seems …

Let's start with some basic troubleshooting steps and we'll see how far we get. The first thing I would do now is test your MBP in Safe Mode. Boot into Safe Mode Follow these steps to boot your M …

In addition to what jksoegaard has stated in their answer, there are a couple of things you should do that may help in the short-term until you can replace your battery. 1. Reset the SMC For starter …

Realistically possible? No. Technically possible? I'm not going to say it'd be absolutely 100% impossible, but unless you had the time, skills, equipment (and money) to burn on a side project, it rea …

Troubleshooting is often a process of elimination and does require patience, so you'll need to keep that in mind as you proceed. The first thing I would do now is test your Mac in Safe Mode. Boot i …

Your question is actually based on a wrong assumption, namely that you're interpreting the specs of the current 2019 MacBook Pros as being lower than those for the 2018 models. Using your specific ex …

Troubleshooting is a process of elimination and often requires some patience. However, as a starting point, it may be worth you resetting your NVRAM. Resetting the NVRAM Here’s how to reset the NVRA …

Considering your usage, the answer is fairly straightforward: Xcode 9.0 to 9.2 require as a minimum macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Xcode 9.3 to 9.4.1 require macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 So you're basically li …

Short Answer FDS is a fundamental part of the file system in APFS formatted drives. It is not something users need to enable/disable, and it's not something that can apply to one directory and not an …

Troubleshooting is a process of elimination and often requires patience, but since it seems you don't have a way to bring on a freeze - and because of the time in between incidents of this happening - …

This is an Adobe issue. Namely, Adobe Acrobat Pro is not multithreaded and therefore cannot take advantage of multi-core CPUs. Unfortunately, Adobe has been rather slow in implementing this across mo …

Achieving the same/better performance Since your iMac has two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports that support speeds up to 40 Gbps (via Thunderbolt) and 10 Gbps (via USB 3.1 Gen 2), the easiest solution is to …

Short Answer Your discrete GPU is almost certainly fine. The reason for the zero score is that Geekbench is unable to fully test this GPU due to reduced NVIDIA support. Because it can't run a full te …

I'd start by trying to reset both the NVRAM and SMC using the steps below. Before doing so, ensure you have no external hardware connected and that you're using the built-in keyboard. Reset the NVR …