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M2 Pro Mac mini review: Best price to performance Apple Silicon yet
Not sure what you mean by "decent". I have the 512 GB model and ran a speed test on it. Write spead is 3279 MB/s and Read speed is 2891 MB/s. Much better than my Mac SE I owned 35 years ago.welshdog said:Seems like I was reading somewhere that if you want decent drive read/write performance you have to get the 1TB?
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Apple's moves point to a future with no bootable backups, says developer
To me the relevant question is what are they trying to solve/fix with these changes. Given their moves over the past few years it seems like this is part of their plans to Mac macOS/iOS/IPadOS a more secure place for users. It would be nice if they would explain it-maybe they’ll address it at WWDC next month.welshdog said:
Agreed. I have made many clones and restores over the decades, but if that is no longer necessary or is becoming insecure, then I'll move forward with what is available. I'll probably start doing more frequent time machine backups and might get a NAS or something similar to make those TM backups convenient.lkrupp said:
We get so stuck on how things have always worked and expect to continue to work the same way. Apple has decided to break with the past to move forward. We’ll see if the market votes with its pocketbook. I suspect more Macs will be sold than ever before.
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Apple's new iMac comes with color-matched accessories, braided cords
The power brick is especially odd given the M1 Mini does NOT have a power brick. Too much emphasis on "thin" I think.entropys said:I am disappointed in the power bricks:
1. It’s external.
2. proprietary
3. the cable is permanently connected to the brick. No swapping out for a longer/shorter cable, have to replace the lot if the cable breaks, or the brick come to that. Serious $.
4. If it had been thunderbolt, you could have a pretty nice hub built into the brick which the Ethernet setup suggests. I understand of course that a third tb port is not possible with an M1 chip. And with the proprietary cable/connector, third party options may not be possible. And I suppose Apple doesn’t want people using usb-c powerbricks/hubs.5. Magnet is cool and all, but mostly these iMacs will back onto a wall. Peripheral benefit at the margin for a lot of cost. It’s too bulky to be used on a future MacBook.As for the keyboards and mouses. Lightning ports for charging? Really? I mean, really?
and the pastel colours are of course why there is a prominent, white/grey bezel on the iMac. Black would look awful at that size alongside those colours. Sad though, that blue would match my iPhone mini otherwise.
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Parallels Desktop 16.5 released with native Apple Silicon support
One of the first things I did on my M1 Mini was copy SheepShaver over onto it as well as my System 9.04 "disk" I was using on my Intel iMac. It runs fine in Rosetta 2 on the M1 Mini and the people working on SheepShaver are working on a native version of it. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to run the original version of LodeRunner...elijahg said:
No, PPC is not the same instruction set as ARM, but the architectures are more similar than x86 is to ARM or ASiPhiltky said:I’m pretty sure I’m totally mixing everything, but since the PowerPC was also a RISC processor. Does it mean we could now virtualize old Mac OS 9 on ARM based Parallel?
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Apple explored iPhones and iPads that dock inside larger devices like MacBooks
That went away when they stopped including cd/dvd drives.wozwoz said:Maybe they can make a place to put your coffee cup too.
