Apparently it's more hassle with Apple Silicon Macs than prior - check this post and link.is it viable to boot directly to a larger, fast external SSD - instead of Apple's onboard SSD?
Richard.
Apparently it's more hassle with Apple Silicon Macs than prior - check this post and link.is it viable to boot directly to a larger, fast external SSD - instead of Apple's onboard SSD?
I have not heard delayed audio on any videos for years, best I can tell they calculate the BT latency and delay the video stream by the corresponding amount?Airpods work on Bluetooth, some years ago I had a bluetooth speaker that was like a second late from a video which was annoying. It was not in sync. Is this fixed in new bluetooth speakers or Airpods since airpods are bluetooth?
This is one of several reasons I'm looking to figure out a different Photo sync/backup solution using my NAS instead of iCloud
As usual, Apple stingily places a high price on any storage above 256 GB. 500GB would have been a more reasonable base.
Apple today announced fully redesigned Mac mini models featuring the M4 and M4 Pro chips, a considerably smaller casing, two front-facing USB-C ports, Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, and more.
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The product refresh marks the first time the Mac mini has been redesigned in over a decade. The enclosure now measures just five by five inches and contains a new thermal architecture where air is guided up through the device's foot to different levels of the system.
The new Mac mini can be configured with either the M4 or M4 Pro chip, with the latter allowing for a 14-core CPU, a 20-core GPU, and up to 64GB of memory. The Mac mini with the M4 chip features a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and now starts with 16GB of unified memory as standard. The M4 Pro features 273GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Apple says that the M4 Mac mini is up to 1.8x faster in CPU performance and 2.2x faster in GPU performance than the M1 model from 2020. With up to 20 cores, the M4 Pro's GPU is said to be up to twice as powerful as the GPU in the standard M4. Both chips bring hardware-accelerated ray tracing to the Mac mini for the first time, alongside a considerably more powerful Neural Engine.
The M4 Pro model offers two USB-C ports on the front and three Thunderbolt 5 ports on the back. This is the first time a Mac has featured Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, which delivers up to 120 Gb/s data transfer speeds—more than doubling the throughput of Thunderbolt 4. The M4 model continues to have Thunderbolt 4 ports.
The new machine is also Apple's first carbon-neutral Mac. The M4 and M4 Pro Mac mini is available to pre-order today with a starting price of $599, with launch set to take place on November 8.
Article Link: Apple Announces Redesigned Mac Mini With M4 and M4 Pro Chips, Two Front USB-C Ports, and More
I guess a light bulb finally wen off in the engineering department 🤣WHY'S IT GOT A HEADPHONE JACK ON THE FRONT!
Apple LOVES their silicon!No 32GB RAM option on the Pro, 24GB as standard, or £400 more for the next upgrade. Typical apple ********...
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"I feel yore pain!"I still balk at paying £200 for 256GB of extra storage... I find that criminal and I'd like to have words with the specific person at Apple who signs off on that level of gouging.. but I do want one.
512 gig should be bare minimum, I really think for the price they should be at 1TB. Apple is a premium product, you pay a premium price tag for machines that are non upgradeable landfill machines, would be nice to just give a generous amount of storage as a base to keep them usable longer.As usual, Apple stingily places a high price on any storage above 256 GB. 500GB would have been a more reasonable base.
it effectively just syncs whatever I've taken on my phone to the PC and iPad. Essentially behaving like the old (much missed) Photo Stream.
It should as I could do that with every Mini although the ports were in the rear.noob question, Are the two USB C ports in the front powered to charge keyboard, trackpad, iPhone etc?
noob question, Are the two USB C ports in the front powered to charge keyboard, trackpad, iPhone etc?
For headphone occasional use I would assume.WHY'S IT GOT A HEADPHONE JACK ON THE FRONT!
I run PS/LR and FCP. It's also my main machine working from home. I also run ThinkorSwim, browers, Excel, BBedit, MailMate, VLC, etc. during the day.what do you do with your machine though? a lot of my storage hog is adobe and all its related system files
I guess that's one thing I'll give the Australian government, much as the GST (Goods and Services Tax) was seen in a negative light by a lot of people when it was introduced 24 years ago - it standardised a great many taxes across the country.Correct. Taxes vary wildly per location.
Ok, for those going PRO, please could you rationalise your RAM decisions?
My Late 2015 5K iMac has 16GB (on a i5 3.3 and 1TB SSD). It's served me very well, but it's starting to show it's age and no longer supported for the latest OS.
I buy with a balance of £ v longevity, so I'll certainly be going Pro, but I'm struggling to think I'll ever need 48GB over the next 5-10years, yet at the same time I worry 24GB might not be enough.
Usage is HEAVY multiple tab web applications, heavy excel and powerpoint, and productivity such as Slack etc. No media/video editing, but my photos library is near 500GB and I use that heavily.
32GB is where in my head would like to be, but of course Apple won't have that, so if I want min 32GB I'd need to shell out another £400 to get the 48GB, which is quite a chunk of cash.
Decisions decisions...
Especially more so with a 17% discount I get from my education discount.The base model is so popular, I'm wondering if it will sell out and be on backorder soon.
He says, credit card in hand...
Yeah, Mac storage has been stuck forever in this weird pocket of the space-time continuum where time stands still while all other things Apple progress at dizzying speeds.I still balk at paying £200 for 256GB of extra storage... I find that criminal and I'd like to have words with the specific person at Apple who signs off on that level of gouging.. but I do want one.
The iMac is so large then so many people are Anjali baby my stuff and people still find fault it’s just not worth the hassleApple Trade-in always feels like an insult, but I get it.
Provides people who don't want to deal with Marketplace, swappa, or Craigslist an opportunity to get a little money, and gives Apple an opportunity for even more profit on a device they already sold us.
I’m not buying one so I don’t actually care, and frankly, even if I was, I don’t turn my computer off enough for it to ever be a problem in general use cases. It’s still a stupid place to put it.
I believe the 512 is faster than the 256 and those 256's fill up faster than you think - with what, I have no idea? But I recently bought an M2PRO and half my 512 is full. I run most everything off an external drive.
I don’t know why I’m but it’s good to see Apple pushing Mac mini in corporate environments as a thin client. I’m betting this would blow away a Dell box.