r/mac is a subreddit with 3.1M members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses mac, looking for, annoying, looking, and looking for a, and they frequently recommend/review mac, mac apps, and browser.
The community for everything related to Apple's Mac computers!
Popular Themes in r/mac
#1
Solution Requests
: "Is there an adapter I can buy to connect my Macbook Air to an older 27' iMac monitor?"
13 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "2019 MacBook Air stuck on Apple logo (no progress bar), fans running at maximum speed. Out of ideas!"
10 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Loss of Nearly 500 GB of Files After Enabling and Disabling iCloud Drive"
4 posts
#4
News
: "Apple Planning to Update MacBook Neo in Three Ways"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/mac
#1
Mac
33 posts
#2
Looking For
27 posts
#3
Annoying
25 posts
#4
Looking
25 posts
#5
Looking For A
25 posts
#6
Macbook
17 posts
#7
Worst
10 posts
#8
Struggling
8 posts
#9
Hate
8 posts
#10
Monitor
5 posts
Products Discussed in r/mac
Flair Used in r/mac
#1
Question
: "Neo or old Air?"
92 posts
#2
My Mac
: "Something I dreamed of owning as a kid."
58 posts
#3
Discussion
: "The MacBook Air M1 has 4x the SSD endurance of the MacBook Neo. Both have the same 256GB capacity, but the M1's SSD is rated for 1600 TB of writes, while the Neo's is rated for only 400 TB"
15 posts
#4
Old Macs
: "Guys you don’t understand I was really excited for snow leopard"
11 posts
#5
Image
: "System data: 381 GB. What is it? Can I delete it? is it some files that's not required"
8 posts
#6
News/Article
: "Tim Cook is out and John Ternus is Apple new CEO"
7 posts
#7
Meme
: "huge if true"
4 posts
Member Growth in r/mac
Yearly
+121k members(4.1%)
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Last updated: September 9, 2026