Complete Overhaul

[nickyr]

Hi Everyone

It's been a while!

Anyway, in a fit of updating and a trip to my local Apple Store, I've completely transitioned to Apple silicon over the past 2 weeks. I started with a 14" M1 Pro MBP to replace my 16" Intel machine and then my 2017 iMac got replaced with an M1 Mac mini.

Apple Store staff were very good, and in fact tried to sell me something cheaper (an M1 MB Air as they said this would easily be enough for my needs - Lightroom, Photoshop, iMovie) but I went with an upgrade and got the M1 Pro chip with some extra cores and a 1TB hard drive just in case my needs change.

All my media and data is stored on a number of external SSDs and HDDs anyway, attached to a CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 hub - another really good purchase.

I've got to say I'm blown away with my new computing set up - the speed and efficiency are just mind blowing (apart from one issue which I've raised elsewhere) and leave my 16" MBP and particularly my iMac for dead.

Anyway, that's me done for many, many years to come hopefully!

Thanks for reading, Nick

 

[pm-r]

Anyway, that's me done for many, many years to come hopefully!

Congratulations on your new Macs and I hope they keep performing well for you, but don't forget you should have fairly recent hard drive backups of all your external drives for all of your data which you probably have already.


- Patrick
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[nickyr]

Congratulations on your new Macs and I hope they keep performing well for you, but don't forget you should have fairly recent hard drive backups of all your external drives for all of your data which you probably have already.


- Patrick
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thanks Patrick and rest assured I have everything backed up with 2 copies of everything and 3 of most recent and valuable stuff