You could always grab a small USB-A hub. Or what monitor are you using, they often have USB hubs built in.
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I wasn’t interested in a BD drive and I had a couple of cheap external DVD drives that worked but they didn’t match the Mac in looks and they weren’t properly supported in makemkv to rip my DVDs so I ended up with the official Apple SuperDrive. Far too expensive for what it is but it looks the part and it works better than the cheapies. If you’re just playing/ripping audio CDs then probably anything will do.
Day 78 and still counting. I'm not even in my delivery window yet.
When I bought this iMac, back in 2017 shortly after the new version was released, it was custom built in China and delivered in just ten days which seemed like a lifetime then.
Yes, covid, yes, chip shortages but these extended delivery times are ludicrous.
When I bought this iMac, back in 2017 shortly after the new version was released, it was custom built in China and delivered in just ten days which seemed like a lifetime then.
Yes, covid, yes, chip shortages but these extended delivery times are ludicrous.
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Looks like it'll be delivered next week. When I'm on holiday.
It’s been delivered (hopefully not thrown onto the roof), I’ll get my hands on it tomorrow.
I've been setting it up over the weekend and I have to say that I'm loving it. I've set it up from scratch, not using migration assistant so I've had my iMac running, working my way through the installed applications and re-installing them onto the new computer. I'm blown away by the speed of this thing and I've barely touched the surface of it.
What amazes me more than anything else is the power consumption. It's drawing about 15-16W while I'm using it now with all my normal stuff open, plenty of tabs in Safari etc. It's effectively just idling. To put that into perspective, a Raspberry Pi4 at idle draws about 4.5W.
I've seen plenty of talk on macrumours about coil whine but I don't have any. Yes, I can hear the fans running and it's fractionally louder than the iMac was at idle but the fans on the iMac used to ramp up at the slightest load - I've run a few things to give this a bit of a thrash but I've not heard the fans speed up at all.
All in all I'm very happy.
What amazes me more than anything else is the power consumption. It's drawing about 15-16W while I'm using it now with all my normal stuff open, plenty of tabs in Safari etc. It's effectively just idling. To put that into perspective, a Raspberry Pi4 at idle draws about 4.5W.
I've seen plenty of talk on macrumours about coil whine but I don't have any. Yes, I can hear the fans running and it's fractionally louder than the iMac was at idle but the fans on the iMac used to ramp up at the slightest load - I've run a few things to give this a bit of a thrash but I've not heard the fans speed up at all.
All in all I'm very happy.
I've used that to set it down to the lowest speed and only start speeding up if the temperature reaches 40°C. Lovely jubbely
First time I've actually thrashed it... Handbrake loves the cores.
Oh christ, no. That would mean this forum would end up like Graphics cards. That place scares me 
I've moved the Studio to an under desk mount for no other reason than that I wanted to!
Whatever I could find in the fridge. I think it's Hen.
Aye, it’s frankly incredible. I’m really trying to cut energy usage at the moment so I’m even shutting mine down when not using it. I’ve never done that before, I’ve always just put Macs to sleep.
Except the Studio still doesn’t always sleep properly
Some do, it tends to be Max rather than Ultra. Most don’t. I’d get it swapped.
Yeah, it's not fan noise. When I got mine, I had it mounted on the desk and I could just about hear the fans, even at the default speed. I did slow them down to test but even the sound I could hear didn't bother me. I've now moved it to an under desk mount and to all intents and purposes, it's utterly silent.
Some people who are getting this whistling that's around 2.4kHz are solving it by putting some tape over some of the holes on the back which suggests it's airflow, rather than actual coil whine.
But that's not a solution really, yes, I'd return it.
Some people who are getting this whistling that's around 2.4kHz are solving it by putting some tape over some of the holes on the back which suggests it's airflow, rather than actual coil whine.
But that's not a solution really, yes, I'd return it.
I did that recently.
As you can see, I returned them. Performance was utterly awful. Carbon Copy Cloner was estimating 27 hours for the initial backup. I tried different ports and cables on my Studio.
I don’t know if it was the enclosure or the ssd itself that was the cause of the slowdown but as you see, I just returned them both because I couldn’t be arsed to investigate further at the time. I bought the Orico enclosure because that specific one was mentioned on LTT.
I’ve got a couple of 2.5” UGReen caddies and they’ve always been good so perhaps I’ll look again.
My aim is for a 2Tb drive attached to the Studio so I can do daily CCC backups. I do the same with my iMac and my MBA so it makes sense to do it on the Studio as well. That’s as well as Time Machine, of course.
/edit - would this be a decent enclosure?
Ahh yes, I see. I've just ordered it. I'm away for a few days so will go nvme hunting when I get back.
Good spot. I won't buy another one of those then
