Have been using a desktop setup for quite some time, but I would like to transition to a more portable laptop setup. I see myself mostly using this laptop for personal studying and research, but with the occasional video editing as a hobby. What laptop would you recommend?
LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: South Korea - 1,000,000~1,500,000 (approximately 800-1,300 US dollars)
  
• Are you open to refurbs/used? Yes, but only if quality can be assured
  
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Would prefer if performance for video editing is prioritized
  
• How important is weight and thinness to you? Not of high concern
  
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. N/A
  
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. Video Editing- Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Davinci Resolve
  
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? N/A
  
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? Good build quality would be ideal, I imagine myself carrying this device around with me pretty frequently.
  
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. Use iPhone and iPad, but always had been hesitant to try out MacBooks. But if it's a good enough deal, I am willing to give it a go.
  

I've been renting in eastern mass for 3 years now, but this is new. I met the roommate with the posting, I saw the place. Everything matched. The rental application is an adobe PDF, which isn't too much of a red flag the owner of the property isn't a big time landlord. I would be subletting for a few months until the lease renews then added to it.
Why on god's green earth do they need my bank information and credit card information?
My gut's saying it's a small time homeowner just renting out their first home making mistakes and being unprofessional, but I can't help feeling like this is a giant red flag. I've rented a half dozen places and nobody has ever requested my credit card number and credit limit. I'm obviously not going to give it to them, once they see my income and credit report that's all they need to know I'm a reliable tenant financially.... But I am skeptical the place is legit due to that extremely weird request.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6o2wZLp5TC/?igsh=MTh5NG0zMzc1OWJt
Hello, my names Logan, I’m a videographer from Louisville Kentucky. I’ve been recording videos since I was little. When I was 13 I was handed a camcorder at a professional wrestling event. From there I continued to record and learn. I enjoyed it so much I went to a highschool in my area that had media arts. Last year I started taking everything more seriously. I became adobe certified with the highest score in the school. I also bought a canon m50 which I still use today. About 6 months ago i participated in the regional tv/video competition for skillsUSA and won 1st. Then I had the state completion where I also came first. Now I will be going to Atlanta on June 24th (my birthday!) to participate in the national completion. I’m somewhat nervous but very excited. I’ve been shooting and editing a lot of various videos (wrestling shows, music videos, etc.) in preparation. I’m posting this to hopefully shine a little light on the work I do and get some feedback to improve my skills. I’m going to list all of my current equipment below. I would love to upgrade my camera but my budget doesn’t permit as I’m going to college soon.
MacBook Pro 2019 16gm Ram 1TB storage Canon M50 Kit lens Sigma 18-35mm art Hohem isteady mt2 gimbal Camera cage Camera handle Magic arm and clamp ND filter Matte box Neewer Tripod/Monodpod (Believe this is all besides random adapters, sd cards, etc.)

Hello, my names Logan, I’m a videographer from Louisville Kentucky. I’ve been recording videos since I was little. When I was 13 I was handed a camcorder at a professional wrestling event. From there I continued to record and learn. I enjoyed it so much I went to a highschool in my area that had media arts. Last year I started taking everything more seriously. I became adobe certified with the highest score in the school. I also bought a canon m50 which I still use today. About 6 months ago i participated in the regional tv/video competition for skillsUSA and won 1st. Then I had the state completion where I also came first. Now I will be going to Atlanta on June 24th (my birthday!) to participate in the national completion. I’m somewhat nervous but very excited. I’ve been shooting and editing a lot of various videos (wrestling shows, music videos, etc.) in preparation. I’m posting this to hopefully shine a little light on the work I do and get some feedback to improve my skills. I’m going to list all of my current equipment below. I would love to upgrade my camera but my budget doesn’t permit as I’m going to college soon.
MacBook Pro 2019 16gm Ram 1TB storage Canon M50 Kit lens Sigma 18-35mm art Hohem isteady mt2 gimbal Camera cage Camera handle Magic arm and clamp ND filter Matte box Neewer Tripod/Monodpod (Believe this is all besides random adapters, sd cards, etc.)https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6o2wZLp5TC/?igsh=MTh5NG0zMzc1OWJt

I recently factory reset and updated the operating system in my MacBook Air, which I hadn't for a long time. This means I also had to re-install Adobe CC and realised Adobe Zii haven't released the patch for the latest Adobe CC 2024.
What is the cleanest, safest and ideally easy way to install the Adobe apps on Mac OS Monterey 12.6.7? It doesn't need to be the latest version. I know there are many torrent options but want to know which ones work and also which ones are clean.
Thanks.

I have a 2015 MacBook and it’s shit the bed. I’ve been using my iPad Pro to edit photo and video but I got a new Sony camera and my iPad won’t open any video files whatsoever, too high quality. I want to get a Mac mini to use with my 2022 iPad Pro and this new Sony a7c. I need it to be able to run all the adobe programs and process the raw photo and video. not a professional, I just don’t know which Mac mini to get. Please help?
Don’t want to spend a shitload since I know these Mac minis will get cheaper with the m3/m4 chips coming out. So just need the best bang for my buck option that will actually work editing large video files on premiere for example. Thanks again.

https://cases.stretto.com/public/x247/12208/PLEADINGS/1220805132480000000094.pdf
Found the file. Click "Attachments" in Adobe Acrobat PDF Viewer to download the MP3.

I’m typing this on my phone because I’m too scared to use my laptop. I threw it into the back of my closet and covered it with clothes to try to dampen the high-pitched ringing sound it keeps emitting, but I can still faintly hear it from where I’m sitting in the living room. I tried shutting it down – it wouldn’t turn off. Doesn’t restart either. I closed the screen but that didn’t do anything. Tried to let the battery die and once it hit 0%, it stayed on as if it were fully charged. This thing can’t be turned off. I’m sure this all sounds silly and nobody is going to believe me, but there is something wrong with my laptop.
The easiest option would be to just get rid of it but I’m tight on cash and my job requires a laptop. I’m a marketing assistant at a small creative agency. It’s not the most glamorous job, I mostly fill out grids and review decks but it took me nearly a year to find this position. It’s completely remote which is a plus, the benefits are decent, and the pay is low but it’s something.
I was hired about a month ago. I hadn’t bought a laptop since 2017 and I wore out my last one so badly it basically refused to hold a charge and had to be plugged in all the time. I thought it made sense to get a new one – a new job, a fresh laptop, the beginning of a new career era. All the new Apple models are insanely overpriced, well above my price range. I could buy a new one in a few months after I save up a bit, but I needed something asap.
I browsed the internet and found a used electronics site. They refurbish phones and laptops and resell them at an affordable price – perfect. I found a 2022 Mac, placed the order, and it was delivered less than a day later. I actually think there were only three hours between purchasing the laptop and it showing up on my doorstep.
Excited to get it set up, I ripped open the box and sitting atop the neatly packaged laptop was a jet black business card with small white lettering in an odd font choice.
HANTER’s REFURBISHMENTS
Thank you for supporting small businesses. Enjoy your product.
609-3006
Ignoring the card, I threw it away and dug into the laptop. Beautifully dark brushed metal, no trace of fingerprints anywhere. It looked almost new save for a couple of scratches on the underside. I plugged it in, turned it on, made a new user profile, and clicked through the setup guide. The setup screen faded away and the preloaded wallpaper appeared. It didn’t really look like the typical Apple wallpapers that we’re all familiar with. Not Big Sur or the Sierra Nevada’s. It was a landscape photo of a farmhouse sitting in a field of tall yellowing grass, a single oak tree bending its awkward limbs over the decaying porch. There was some dark beauty to it. The sunset behind the farmhouse cast bands of golden light on the grass making it appear as if it were shimmering. Maybe it was taken on the East Coast? Some farm in New England? Didn’t really matter to me. I had a new laptop and it was working perfectly. I gave my ancient 2017 one a quick eulogy and tossed it.
– – –
- Good morning! Marie needs the TOOTHPASTE deck to go out by EOD for client review.
-- Morning! Got it, should be ready by afternoon. I’ll upload it to Monday and ping you when it’s up.
- Thanks!! :)
The first time I noticed something was the next day. I was sitting at my desk going over my bosses notes on a deck for some toothpaste commercial when I minimized my Chrome window and saw something I hadn’t noticed before. On the front porch of the farmhouse was a figure sitting in a rocking chair. I brought my face closer to the screen to try to make out any details but the farmhouse was so far in the distance, the scale of the figure was smaller than the cursor. It was so tiny I guess I just hadn’t noticed the day before. It’s not like anyone really stares at their computer wallpaper. The figure had a pale white face and was draped in some sort of black cloak but again it was so tiny I was basically making guesses. I shrugged it off and went back to Outlook to keep working – I had a deadline to meet.
My bedroom darkened as evening fell, the only source of light being the blue glow of my laptop. I uploaded the deck and sent a note back to Marie to let her know I was finished. I’d gotten so caught up in the day that I had forgotten about the figure in the rocking chair. I went back to the wallpaper and studied the landscape again before deciding to just change it to another preloaded one. Something less spooky. I chose a sunrise off a blue coastline.
I love watching Netflix in bed as I fall asleep, so that night I got comfortable and logged in on my laptop to put some Arrested Development on. I must’ve been exhausted because I fell asleep almost immediately. I always just end up sleeping with my laptop either next to me on my comforter or on my nightstand and let the episodes keep going until Netflix realizes I’m no longer watching. I guess that must've happened, but at around 3:00a I bolted awake to a screeching ringing tone coming from my laptop. It was ear piercingly loud, almost at an unbelievable volume for a laptop. Gone was Arrested Development, the laptop screen was static white like an old VHS tv, illuminating my otherwise pitch black bedroom in a cloudy light. I scrambled to turn the volume down, afraid my neighbors would come banging on my front door, but the sound stopped as quickly as it had begun. The screen went dark, the room went dark, the night got quiet.
I sat and stared bewildered in a drowsy daze at my laptop, the quiet hum of cicadas in the night outside, when suddenly it felt as if I were being watched…. I could barely see my own hand in front of me. The night seemed darker than usual…I slowly turned over my shoulder to the open door of my bedroom and in the darkness I could just make out the faint silhouette of a hunched figure standing right outside the doorway. Staring right at me. My blood chilled, I froze. I fumbled for the lamp on my nightstand and turned it on. Warm light extinguished the blackness. Nothing in the doorway…just the long stretch of hallway to the living room. It felt kind of similar to that movie that came out last year, Skinamarink. You sit in the darkness of your bedroom long enough that suddenly you start seeing things in the inky black. I thought it was nothing, but I swear I could make out the faintest trace of a pale white face grinning at me.
The next day I’m back to work as usual, tired from the night before. I clicked out of Chrome to my desktop to open up Adobe when I noticed the farmhouse wallpaper was back… It had changed by itself. It wasn’t exactly the one from yesterday though, no, the figure wasn’t in the rocking chair anymore. Instead, the figure had moved off the porch and was now standing in the field, closer to where the photographer would be. I could really make it out now. A pale white grinning face with distended lips, rotting teeth. That wasn’t the worst part though. Where its eyes should be were instead empty pockets of nothing. Just completely grotesque, definitely not a fucking preloaded wallpaper for a laptop. I changed it back to the beach and dug around in my trash can for the refurbishment card that came with the package. I wasn’t going to wait around to see what happened. Maybe one of the tech guys there was playing a trick and had programmed some jump scares into the computer or something? Maybe that’s something they do. Similar to jailbreaking an iPhone or pretending to control someone's computer remotely. I don’t know.
I found the card and dialed the number. It rang once before a young woman with a pleasant voice picked up.
- “Hi, Hanter’s Refurbishments! How may I help you?”
-- “Um hey I recently ordered a laptop. It came the other day and setup was normal but there’s something going on with the wallpaper. I changed it but then it changed back by itself and the photo –.”
- “One moment let me place you on a brief hold. Thank you!”
I hadn’t even finished speaking when she cut me off and put me on hold. Hold music began playing, some upbeat jingle shrill enough to drive anyone insane. I sat on hold for twenty minutes, then an hour. I ended the call and tried again, went through the same motions with the same woman only to continuously be placed on hold. Maybe they were really backed up with calls and other people experiencing issues with their orders. I called again and instead of the woman answering, an automated voice greeted me and sent me to hold immediately. Fuck it. I decided to wait it out. The fucking jingle was boring a hole into my head – the most annoyingly enthusiastic hold music. I could’ve strangled someone.
Suddenly the music stopped. Finally, someone was becoming available to help me. But instead of the call being redirected to a person, the automated voice returned with a simple
“Goodbye!”
And the call dropped.
I screamed, I literally screamed out of agony, out of pure fucking frustration.
I turned back to my laptop. The wallpaper changed itself again, back to the farmhouse and the pale faced thing. It moved in the field again. It was getting closer. Gaping holes for eyes, distended lips wet with saliva. It looked like it was laughing at my misery.
I left my laptop closed on my desk that night. No Netflix tonight, I needed to sleep and didn’t want the computer near me. I scrolled on TikTok for a bit before I dozed off…
The jingle woke me.
The fucking hold music. I picked up my phone in my fatigue thinking maybe Hanter’s was calling me back. It wasn’t coming from my phone. It was coming from my closed laptop.
I looked to the doorway, thinking the figure from the night before would be back, before getting out of bed and crossing to my laptop to shut it off. I opened the laptop and a wave of nausea crashed over me. The pale faced thing was even closer. The farmhouse was barely visible now, its face nearly filling the entire screen. Still grinning, still laughing. Bits of red stuff wedged in its teeth.
No matter how many times I held the power button, nothing was happening. It wasn’t shutting down, the jingle wasn’t stopping.
I fucking cracked. At that point I didn’t give a fuck if I needed the laptop for work. I picked it up and smashed it on the floor. Threw it again and again till the screen was shattered and keys were flying off. I just needed the jingle to stop and the pale face to be gone. I threw it down one last time with a final blow, satisfied with the damage I’d caused.
I picked the laptop up thinking it would be dead, but the screen was still glowing with light. Through the splintered glass of the screen I could see the farmhouse, the field of yellowing grass, the rocking chair, the oak tree – everything was there except for the pale faced thing. As if my havoc had caused it to flee the wallpaper.
The screen flickered off. The room went black. The cicadas outside filled the silence.
The hair on the back of my neck stood up.
It felt as if I were being watched.

Hey all,
This problem has been kicking my butt for a while. At work I need to print booklets on legal sized paper using the xerox fold and staple. I am able to print them fine and dandy off of a Macbook because the Mac menu has a little button to disable booklet creation but still allows the fold and staple function. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this to print right from a Windows. It always tries to put two pages on a sheet or shrinks all my pages to be half size and sideways. Following these steps, method one for the Mac is what works exactly fine. But there doesn't seem to be any way to do this on a Windows computer? I feel like I've tried everything and read every forum. Any suggestions are appreciated. I am trying to print out of Adobe Indesign. I have an AltaLink^® C8155 if that helps at all!

I used to be able to search my documents by clicking ctrl+f and it would automatically take me to a search bar on the top right of the document (circled in red), but yesterday, this changed, and I have no idea why. When I click ctrl+f a box now pops up. Is there a way to change this back?

I'm starting a new job next week and I need a laptop. The job mainly consists of running programs like Adobe Photoshop (though I won't need to make any edits), Excel, and most run of the mill scheduling/invoicing programs. I do not want a Mac. I've looked at three today but I'm not super educated in what makes a laptop good. I just need it to run fast, have good memory, and a good battery life.
The three I'm considering are:

1. Dell - Inspiron 16.0" 2-in-1 OLED Touch Laptop - 13th Gen Intel Evo i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce MX550 - 1TB SSD - Stylus
2. Samsung - Galaxy Book4 360 2-in-1 15.6" FHD AMOLED Touch Screen Laptop - Intel Core 7 - 16GB Memory -512GB SSD
3. Samsung - Galaxy Book4 15.6" FHD Laptop - Intel Core 7- 16GB Memory - 512GB SSD

The Dell is probably the best computer of these three? But I'm not sure I need all that it offers. I do like the number pads on the Samsung(s)... I also think the $1,100 price tag is the highest I'd like to go and if cheaper still gets me what I need-- I'd obviously prefer the lower price.
All opinions welcome! I don't want to spend $1k on something with no knowledge LOL. Thanks!

I'm starting a new job next week and I need a laptop. The job mainly consists of running programs like Adobe Photoshop (though I won't need to make any edits), Excel, and most run of the mill scheduling/invoicing programs. I do not want a Mac. I've looked at three today but I'm not super educated in what makes a laptop good. I just need it to run fast, have good memory, and a good battery life.
The three I'm considering are:

1. Dell - Inspiron 16.0" 2-in-1 OLED Touch Laptop - 13th Gen Intel Evo i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce MX550 - 1TB SSD - Stylus
2. Samsung - Galaxy Book4 360 2-in-1 15.6" FHD AMOLED Touch Screen Laptop - Intel Core 7 - 16GB Memory -512GB SSD
3. Samsung - Galaxy Book4 15.6" FHD Laptop - Intel Core 7- 16GB Memory - 512GB SSD

The Dell is probably the best computer of these three? But I'm not sure I need all that it offers. I do like the number pads on the Samsung(s)... I also think the $1,100 price tag is the highest I'd like to go and if cheaper still gets me what I need-- I'd obviously prefer the lower price.
All opinions welcome! I don't want to spend $1k on something with no knowledge LOL. Thanks!

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My SVGs look better on Safari compared to Chrome (desktop, MacOS). What’s going on and how to fix?
Screenshot comparison: https://imgur.com/a/IkH6t27
Please look carefully at the screenshots. Differences are subtle but driving me crazy. SVGs are implemented using Webflow on my marketing site.
On Chrome, I’m seeing poor anti-aliasing which causes some pixelation. On Safari the SVGs look identical to what I’ve built in Adobe Illustrator.
Additional context: SVGs are scaled for responsive design in Webflow. SVGs are exported using ‘Export for Screens’ with the following settings: Styling: Inline Style, Font: Convert to Outlines, Images: Preserve, Object IDs: Layer Names, Decimal: 7, Minify: off, responsive: on.
Your advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

All my daily journals are done in a hyperlinked PDF doc (My Daily Organizer), and I need to make the following migrations, well, because things happens :)
The goal is to move the handwritings on the following pages to C.pdf: * In A.pdf, page: 8-165 * In B.pdf, page: 166-609
Any pointer helps!

What didn't work for me

I tried to use PyPDF2 to extract annotations on the page, but weren't able to fully parse its hierarchy on a given page, where supposely all vector-shaped handwriting information is stored in /Annots ...
I tried to see if I can select the vector (?) layer using PDF tools on PC, but haven't ran into one that can even select all handwriting contents on one page. (I tried PDF Annotator, and an old Adobe Acrobat.)

Why the page range and many versions of the same PDF

Until Voja provided a bug fix, I had been using A.pdf. Subsequently, I transitioned to B.pdf. However, it wasn't until early April that I realized I had selected the incorrect Monday-start version for B.pdf.

Hi All,
We are having an issue wherein if the end-user is trying to open in app a PDF file in SharePoint Online, it was showing an error that the library must be synced, hence we did. Now the library is showing in Finder.
We have tested and the PDF files opens in Adobe Acrobat if it's being opened from Finder. Unfortunately, when trying to go to SharePoint Online web and tries to "Open in App" the PDF, it opens the Adobe Acrobat but the file doesn't show. Additionally, OneDrive runs FOD, if we initially open the PDF from Finder, then it downloads the file, and will be able to open from SP Online web, but if it's a file that has not been opened from Finder, it doesn't open.
Troubleshooting Done:

1. Reinstalled OneDrive
2. Reinstalled Adobe Acrobat Pro.
3. Synced SP library to OneDrive.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

PDF readers are essential tools for many of us, whether we're students, professionals, or just enthusiasts. With the plethora of options available, it can be overwhelming to choose the right one. So, let's dive into a comparison of the top PDF readers in 2024!

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i have the latest versions of adobe zii and also the 6.1.7 version, both give me the "application is not supported error". none of the adobe zii's seem to be from 2023, or support after effects 2023. however i have to use after effects 2023 as my mac won't support any version below that.
is there a different way to get after effects 2023?