The thing that always surprises me on my Windows laptop is that when the fans start spinning up, it's usually something as mundane as a Teams / Google Meet / Zoom meeting. The fan noise is not deafening but definitely noticable when compared to a Macbook Air or iPad.
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Mac Mini arrived an hour ago, that’s 2 days from China to my house in the UK. Speedy!
Hooked up to my studio display, it’s a very clean setup. No need for additional webcam, speakers or headset. Just need to spend a little time figuring which wireless gaming mouse will work as well as my wired Model D in macOS.
Hooked up to my studio display, it’s a very clean setup. No need for additional webcam, speakers or headset. Just need to spend a little time figuring which wireless gaming mouse will work as well as my wired Model D in macOS.
With Intel (and AMD?) CPUs, along with Nvidia GPUs temps can spike fairly quickly. I find that zoom and teams can tax a GPU a little more then you would think and so the fans do spin up. I'm not defending that, but I do notice if I'm involved in a long zoom meeting, the fans spin up.
Congrats on your new baby. Looks really sharp.
Ribena 😁
So glad I went with 24GB. Not even going mad right now with apps and tabs.
hehe funny you should mention disneyworld... as my spiritual homeland ;-) and yep 100% correct. It was amazing to see the transition from compacts through DSLRs at DW. As you say EVERYONE had one and usually brand new, no clue how to use it often with a really awful massive zoom kit lens and often with flash on permanently LOL
Now it's an ipad with their reservations on and photos or a phone
Not to segway the conversation. But, I have never understood those that take photos with in iPad in the field. Alas, just me...
nope me neither, awful device to take photos on but I guess they have that device with all their reservations and stuff on so that's what they have in their hand and that's what they use to take photos.
@maflynn is right though, more and more people using ipads at DW to take photos. It's weird to see them hold up a huge device with the case flapping around as they try and find the camera app to take the photo whilst the rest of the queue waits behind them.
Even worse when you're stuck in main street behind thousands of ipad photographers all holding them up to take pretty awful photos of the fireworks.... the view is either the backside of ipads or the backsides of the children sitting up on the shoulders of their parents (cos hey, not like they could just look up into the sky and see the fireworks right?)
Still.... totally 1st world problems
Anything that has video especially teams, that does a lot of processing, and of course a MBA or an iPad wont make a sound, np fan at all. Do the same on a MBP and its fans will spin up too.
I use Google Meet most frequently as that is the corporate standard where I work, then Teams for meetings with those customers that refuse to use Google Meet. Only one customer insists on Zoom and I rarely meet with them. Google Meet is the worst offender, causing fans to spin up within 30 seconds of joining on both my Intel and AMD laptops. Interestingly, that happens irrespective of whether I have my video on, I'm sharing content, or even if anyone else has joined yet. Teams tends to take a little longer before the fans spin up. Zoom is a bit of a distant memory.
There's a fair amount of CPU/GPU work that needs to be done in these platforms. For example, blurring / replacing the background in video calls. All of this is done without any lag or stutter without fans on m1 MBA and that feels luxurious.
Congrats on the purchase - looks like a nice setup! My m1 MBA with 16GB RAM has never broken a sweat, even when running a Windows 11 VM. Of course, everyone's use case is different, but I'm sure that the 24B Mac Mini with m2 will be a great machine for some time.
Interesting, I find that most of the vendors, I interact with use zoom or Teams. My company itself uses both zoom and teams. I actually prefer teams, as the integrated tools does a better job. I can be chatting with someone and quickly click on the phone icon to call them through teams. I can't tell you the last time I actually used my phone to call a coworker.
This is the exact use case I miss from Teams. My previous company used both Teams and Webex, although Teams became dominant. With the Google suite, I can chat with a co-worker but there isn't an equivalent of a phone call. I can send them a Google Meet link in chat and hope they join. Its just not the same as calling them in Teams.
Same. Love teams. Also good to be chatting with them and then quickly share my screen whilst on the call to add some additional context to the discussion.
I have to give MS props on Teams. It works so well at this point I haven't received a single phone call on my virtual cisco IP phone software thingie with a real number.
So looks like G Hub works on macOS, so looking at potentially getting the Logitech G305. I have the G603 and that works good, it's just not light enough, the shape isn't quite right and obviously it's not white.
mmmm 1000hz poll rate.
mmmm 1000hz poll rate.
I still prefer to use OneDrive to keep it all interchangeable. I still use iCloud but OneDrive gives me options.
I hear you. I use OneDrive for work. And, I have a backup copy of my data in Google Drive.
Me too. Onedrive is on everything so we as a family use that. Plus with the family plan everyone gets their own storage. With apple, everyone shares the space so you only get 1/4 the space between a family of four.
I use OneDrive over iCloud, nothing wrong with iCloud but I think I get more bang for my buck with OneDrive.
To be fair, I've not tried the windows app/plugin to access my iCloud data on windows. I think there was an issue with that last year and that largely spooked me, so I've just stuck with what works.
Okay, some of you have me thinking now…
Anyone that has OneDrive for Work and Personal, are you able to have both logged in, on the same Mac, at the same time?
Anyone that has OneDrive for Work and Personal, are you able to have both logged in, on the same Mac, at the same time?
In oneDrive settings you can add accounts, it then spins up another oneDrive instance so they can both run.
I thought this was correct but I would not comment as I don't have personal experience. Thanks for confirming.