The M1 Mac mini is now on the refurb store.
*** The official late 2020 Mac mini thread (it has the M1 chip and everything!) ***
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In the time you’ve posted that, they’ve all gone
Not surprised - Worth checking daily though as they'll be back.In the time you’ve posted that, they’ve all gone
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It will work either way but Mac OS support for 'retina' high res 4k/5k screens is fantastic and upscales better than windows IMO.
But either way you will be fine, its a great machine, enjoy!
macOS support for DPI scaling is fantastic - miles ahead of Windows. However 32" 4K is still low resolution in my opinion, but I'm very picky about resolution (e.g. I think 27" 4K is also low, 27" 5K is good). Personally I'm waiting for a reasonably priced 32" 6K/8K screen (currently they're above £5000, I'm waiting for them to drop below £2000).
Thanks - I read what you said about the Macbook Pro, but I really don't want to take my work out of my office (I'm self-employed so don't have to do anything I don't want), so while a laptop would in theory be much more flexible, it would never go anywhere other than my desk.
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Slightly concerning news coming out that Apple is having to remove Rosetta2 from macs in some regions. Without Rosetta2 the ARM based macs are dead in the water currently. If this happened in 2 years it would be fine. This early though... Hopefully this is something they will sort out as I assume its a legal issue in some places.
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After watching countless reviews, I've decided to wait and see what a second generation offers. So many of the youtubers I followed have returned them or sold them after some use and testing. My main use would be lightroom/PS and the reviews weren't that impressive.
I do like this add on though..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQtORKwzS1A&t=244s
I do like this add on though..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQtORKwzS1A&t=244s
For what reasons?
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Mostly that lack of optimisation on adobe products isn't there yet and no where near as smooth as they wanted or thought they were getting for the spec. It will come but I'd rather wait at this point.
Makes sense. Only Lightroom has a stable M1 version, the rest are either in beta or still need Rosetta. Just needs a few more months.
I've had a Mac Mini for a couple of days now and most of my time has been spent coming to terms with MacOS. The machine itself is nicely sized, nicely built and utterly quiet. I'd love to say it feels incredibly fast, but it doesn't feel any snappier than the last three Windows machines I've had and that includes booting up and launching apps (one of those windows machines was nearly six years old). I guess anything with an SSD can complete day-to-day tasks without breaking a sweat. I must confess I'm a tiny bit disappointed - I know the M1 chip is blazing fast in the benchmarks and many real world applications, but I was expecting that to translate into almost instant reactions to launching apps, booting and shutting down.
Unrelated to the hardware, I like MacOS though I am still learning many of the basic operations. I mentioned in another thread that the OS is making fonts on my 1440P UW look unacceptably blurred and since this is a £900 Alienware I'm using, I'm not especially keen on ditching it and paying a few hundred for a decent 4k IPS. I'd really like to keep the machine, but the fonts thing is a really big problem and I don't know if I'm eager enough to have a Mac that I'll spend a chunk of extra money on top of the £899 purchase price for the 16gb model just to make it look good enough for me to use it 8 hours a day for my work.
Unrelated to the hardware, I like MacOS though I am still learning many of the basic operations. I mentioned in another thread that the OS is making fonts on my 1440P UW look unacceptably blurred and since this is a £900 Alienware I'm using, I'm not especially keen on ditching it and paying a few hundred for a decent 4k IPS. I'd really like to keep the machine, but the fonts thing is a really big problem and I don't know if I'm eager enough to have a Mac that I'll spend a chunk of extra money on top of the £899 purchase price for the 16gb model just to make it look good enough for me to use it 8 hours a day for my work.
Apple disabled their subpixel antialiasing when they went High DPI on all their screens, you can enable it and it will then look like Windows.
Run this in terminal and reboot:
Code:
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
Thanks - I ran this and it doesn't look any better. Just to be sure, I ran it again in case I'd done something wrong and still no dice. Following a suggestion in a different thread I earlier set font smoothing to zero and text definitely isn't as clear and defined as it is in Windows. Maybe it's the MacOS font or something.
Could just be the fonts, Apple redesigned most typefaces a few years ago where legibility on low PPI screens was no longer any priority. All mac screens are 200+ PPI and that's their target for visuals.
We had some 1440p UWs at work, I didn't like using them on any OS due to lack of sharpness (but I'm very picky), we had them replaced with 5K 27-inch & 5K UWs
We had some 1440p UWs at work, I didn't like using them on any OS due to lack of sharpness (but I'm very picky), we had them replaced with 5K 27-inch & 5K UWs
I've been eyeing up new monitors because I really think I could get on well with MacOS, and a 5k model is tempting. The trouble is, a 27" monitor (nor the UW equivalent) isn't quite large enough for me. I work primarily in Word and I like to view a single entire page at a certain size. On a 34" UW on Windows I can just manage it by auto-hiding the ribbon. MacOS Word for some reason doesn't have an option to hide the ribbon, making the document a little smaller than I want it. Since this is my. job I can afford to be fussy over the details.
Soldato
I'd also love to get a high PPI monitor for my Macbook, especially since I have switched over from my PC full time now. The only exception is I still use the PC for Sim Racing and to that end I cannot give up my Predator 35 inch 120hz 1440 monitor. There's also no chance I would 'add' a monitor to my setup as I like a relatively minimalist workspace plus there's no way I could clear the added cost with the accountant (read Mrs ).
Ideally an UW or even a standard 32inch 16:9 4k monitor would be the ticket but it would also need to be capable of playing games @1440/120hz(min).
).Ideally an UW or even a standard 32inch 16:9 4k monitor would be the ticket but it would also need to be capable of playing games @1440/120hz(min).