The Apple thread

[Deckard]

Thanks for that - Looks a good bit of kit - I might hold out for the NVME one that MacWorld just reviewed as its not on amazon yet although to be honest that might be overkill for me.

Anyone got any thoughts on this then -

I am going from a 2012 MacPro I have had forever obviously running High Sierra to a new M2 Mini Pro (arrived today) - I have never really had to change macs so think it might be best to do as fresh install as there will be a lot of old rubbish on there and I saw this as a guide -

https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blo ... tallation/

Any thoughts ? Obv I have my Carbon Copy Clone of my SSD boot drive from the MP if thats any help.

[VNVObit]

Thanks for that - Looks a good bit of kit - I might hold out for the NVME one that MacWorld just reviewed as its not on amazon yet although to be honest that might be overkill for me.

Anyone got any thoughts on this then -

I am going from a 2012 MacPro I have had forever obviously running High Sierra to a new M2 Mini Pro (arrived today) - I have never really had to change macs so think it might be best to do as fresh install as there will be a lot of old rubbish on there and I saw this as a guide -

https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blo ... tallation/

Any thoughts ? Obv I have my Carbon Copy Clone of my SSD boot drive from the MP if thats any help.

Enjoy

still running a trashcan here and will probably wait another year or so before considering moving away from it though it's no longer my main work machine (have a Chuwi mini PC for that due to limitations in the Mac version of excel which is my main work application) but use it for media management (music, comics, plex, etc.), etc. May wait for M4 or later mini before I do move as not seeing much reason to move just yet (given the use I put it to)

[Deckard]

Christ this thing flies (M2 Pro Mini) - like turbo charged - took like 8 mins to copy over my photos to an external Cruical SSD of 250gig which would have taken my MacPro hours....and the migrate from my MP to the mini via a back up external drive said 22 hours ! So did it via a direct cable in like 45 mins !

The migrate worked perfectly by the way and that was from High Sierra to Sonoma which must be a fairly extreme operating system migrate.

Just messing around getting it how I like it with all the extra options like widgets etc and took me a while to realise that the way to change the tiny fons everywhere (as now on a 4k HDR 31" monitor was not to alter the settings separately but change in display as Apple didn't make it clear in Settings that that didnt change the rez....which was what I and loads of others thought too....

Absolutely silent too so far and I might be tempted by a 1tb 3.2 Gen 2 1TB USB C stick for 80 quid which would sort out having a spare scratch drive

https://www.kingston.com/unitedkingdom/ ... ctor=usb-c

Everything else (the 2tb of flac files, 3 tb samples and 2tb HDR 4k video) is sitting on my WD Elements USB 3 hard drive so thats good too.

All in all a fantastic machine and for 875 an absolute bargain- right lets get the M1 MacBook Pro on ebay today as ebay just sent me a 80% discount today.

[Deckard]

Trying to resist a modded iPod classic with Bt from the guy who is buying and collecting my 2012 macPro

https://dcg-ipod.affinityco.net/collect ... d-classics

I didnt even realise this was a thing...

[WiteWulf]

Oh yeah, iPod modding is a big thing these days

Total fashion item, imho. There are far more modern, more capable music players out there. But you know that

[Deckard]

Oh yeah, iPod modding is a big thing these days

Total fashion item, imho. There are far more modern, more capable music players out there. But you know that

Yeah I have got rid of a few (looking at you Astell baby !)

[VNVObit]

First review of the vision pro I've seen

[Deckard]

First review of the vision pro I've seen

First ? There has been hundreds - Marquess was the best.....



I am def interested but maybe the 3rd gen for around 500 ?

[VNVObit]

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First ? There has been hundreds - Marquess was the best.....

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I am def interested but maybe the 3rd gen for around 500 ?

Don’t have the time to watch hundreds so can’t comment on best or not

3rd generation if they get to lighten the load and improve battery life for that £500 mark (though probably it’ll be vision air rather than pro)

[Misfit]

An iPhone is still £1k - it'll get smaller, lighter, better battery and cheaper. But it's never going to be £500

[VNVObit]

An iPhone is still £1k - it'll get smaller, lighter, better battery and cheaper. But it's never going to be £500

Only the latest versions. earlier ones and SE are much less than that, not necessarily £500 but not too far above

[Deckard]

Well moving from my 12 year old MacPro to a almost brand new M2 Mac Mini Pro pretty much went like a dream - even my six year old Nexus 2 Audio plug-in still works fine which is on a USB stick licenser and refi support could not have been better and I cannot believe how quick SSD is now.

I got myself a very cheap (RGB dont know why but its cool) microphone as I was missing Siri dictate which is how I dictated this and it's working perfectly well. I am just installing the switch emulator to see how good this thing runs.

I will put up a picture in a few days when it's all super tidy !

All in all a blinding bit of kit and I am very chuffed - will last me to when everything is replaced with Vision Pro 5 !

[skab]

brand new M2 Mac Mini Pro

Nice!

But... out of curiosity... do you really like that keyboard? For me that generation is easily the worst external keyboard Apple ever made (the flimsy butterfly thing might be another candidate)... but then I'm a Model F fanatic, so my preferences might be different...

[Deckard]

Oh no just a temp wired one I found whilst I moved computers - I use the BT Logitech one behind.

[(o)(o)]

Well moving from my 12 year old MacPro to a almost brand new M2 Mac Mini Pro pretty much went like a dream - even my six year old Nexus 2 Audio plug-in still works fine which is on a USB stick licenser and refi support could not have been better and I cannot believe how quick SSD is now.

I got myself a very cheap (RGB dont know why but its cool) microphone <trim>

Very tidy!!

If you have a microphone, you should have a podcast

Trashcan here. Amazed Apple are still putting out updates including firmware for this 11 year old. Monterey with latest security patches etc all running well. Still can use as a DAW with multiple monitors and low latency, only runs out of steam an excess of heavy plug ins which I try to avoid anyway.. generally copes well.

Still rate that WD D50 dock @VNVObit opened up my machine a fair bit.. I see Amazon occasionally shift them around the £150 mark with the 1TB NVMe.

That is dates in the box?