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Thank you for answering my actual question. 🙂

Also, this was my original plan until mine stopped working, to let others test the M chips for awhile. I didn't have computer envy, wanting the newest....but now I just need something that stays on. And you can see from my previous computers, I do tend to hang on to them for a number of years.
Intel is the past. If apple moves away from it as fast as it did with the PowerPC I would recommend against it. I also wouldn't go 'fixing' hardware if you're unsure. Look at the logs or boot from a linux usb drive. If the system shuts down again it's hardware then.
 
Storage wise I'm okay. I have a NAS where I keep the bulk of my files. On my local hard drive I only keep photos since January. And I back up my NAS to a separate hard drive (both of my NAS drives failed independent of each other a year apart, but since I keep a second backup I didn't lose any data). And I clone my local hard drive about once a month or so (more often lately, and I got a brand new clone today) manually and have one of my NAS drives as Time Machine. So while I would possibly lose LR edits in a catastrophe, I am unlikely to lose major files. And I back up before I do any updates, etc.



I, too, have aging eyes, but as I've worn glasses on and off since preschool, I just live with glasses. 🙂 I've only used iMac screens since 2008. My husband has two LG monitors for his PC. I don't think they are particularly high quality and he jacks up the screen brightness so my eyes bleed when I have to use it. But that is the only non-Apple screen I have any comparison to and I definitely wouldn't want to edit on his setup. But there have been a few monitors thrown out within this thread that I would consider with a Mac Mini. Not the Apple Pro Display at $5k. I'm sure it's a great monitor, but I'm just a hobbyist. I'll look at the Eizo you linked, and I also looked at the monitors that @Apple fanboy mentioned.

I'm warming to the idea of a Mac Mini/monitor setup but we'll see how the next week goes with my existing iMac. Has stayed on for about two hours now with the extra ram removed! (I really don't think it's the ram, but it's a good troubleshooting step.)
I own a dell U2713H from 2012. Then it was advertised as 10 bit or so, think it targeted at the graphics industry. Works great, looks great but I'm not a photographer.
 
Thanks, he will ground himself, and if I can get a final backup done on it today I will leave it unplugged for the week. 🙂

Otherwise one vote Intel, one vote M1.
Yep that's the problem with people futzing with electricity. You are confusing protecting components from static with protecting humans from death, not the same thing. Grounding himself will only ensure any residual charge in a power supply capacitor has the best possible conductive path through his body! Although leaving it unplugged for a week should allow it to discharge. I vividly remember being thrown across my bedroom as a teenager after touching a power supply capacitor inside an unplugged ham radio set I had opened.
 
Yep that's the problem with people futzing with electricity. You are confusing protecting components from static with protecting humans from death, not the same thing. Grounding himself will only ensure any residual charge in a power supply capacitor has the best possible conductive path through his body! Although leaving it unplugged for a week should allow it to discharge. I vividly remember being thrown across my bedroom as a teenager after touching a power supply capacitor inside an unplugged ham radio set I had opened.
good news. he didn't kill himself.
 
good news. he didn't kill himself.
thank you for your mildly sarcastic reply, great that he is alive but that might not prevent someone else getting into trouble by "grounding himself" after reading your post...
 
thank you for your mildly sarcastic reply, great that he is alive but that might not prevent someone else getting into trouble by "grounding himself" after reading your post...
the computer was unplugged for about two days before its operation, and he asked me to hold the power button on for 10 seconds to discharge whatever else was left; i held it for 20 seconds and he didn't have any issues. 🙂
 
I been having intermittent shutdowns on my 27" iMac for a while. But today it happened every time I tried to make a adjustment in Lightroom. So I have a appointment at the Apple store tomorrow it still under AppleCare coverage. I just hope they can replicate the problem.
 
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Good to hear the iMac is back running again.
A 2017 model is too new yet to "write off".

This gives you some breathing room to sit back and wait for the new larger-screen iMacs that will come out late this year (or possibly early next year due to production delays).
 
Still working, Molly? I know it can go a couple of days or so, so nothing definitive if it hasn’t turned off but I’m curious! :)
 
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What do you do all day? Those flower images aren’t going to edit themselves. Hope all is well with it. Has Mr Mollyc presented the bill yet?
well it was only 11am when I posted that, and I had been driving my daughter to her swim practice and work in the morning, then i had to weed. blech. i hate that job, but otherwise my garden gets overtaken!

booted up super quick today (probably from the big sur update) so fingers crossed it continues to cooperate. 🙂
 
well it was only 11am when I posted that, and I had been driving my daughter to her swim practice and work in the morning, then i had to weed. blech. i hate that job, but otherwise my garden gets overtaken!

booted up super quick today (probably from the big sur update) so fingers crossed it continues to cooperate. 🙂
Let’s hope so. Too hot for gardening here. Just in from work.
Big Sur seems fine on my 2018 Mac Mini as well.
 
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Let’s hope so. Too hot for gardening here. Just in from work.
Big Sur seems fine on my 2018 Mac Mini as well.
yes, it's too hot here, too, but that doesn't stop the weeds from growing. :( I try to weed like twice a season in mid summer, but Mr. C prefers I do it more frequently....
 
do you have mosquitos there? that's what bothers me way more than the heat. i have to slather myself in wretched chemicals and still get bitten.
Mrs AFB has been keeping them all busy. Her ankles are swollen. The biggest bite she had is about the size of a silver dollar. Sticking out about an inch and a half.
We’ve just had an amber warning due to the heat. First one ever.
 
yes, it's too hot here, too, but that doesn't stop the weeds from growing. :( I try to weed like twice a season in mid summer, but Mr. C prefers I do it more frequently....
Darmok fights crabgrass like it's his business. The worse the summer gets, the better it does. I believe it laughed at my attempt at a pre-emergent treatment.
 
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So a month later, my computer is still just peachy. I even took it on a seven hour road trip (one way, so really 14hrs) in its original box when I went to my parents' house for a week and it was fine there. Yesterday it was pushed pretty hard as I was exporting and converting videos.

The only problem I discovered after the PSU swap is that somehow my boys did not get the microphone back where it was supposed to be, and it no longer works. But I bought a $14 USB one to fix that problem. My class materials were all uploaded last night to the vendor, so now I can wait out the actual 27" replacement. 🙂
 
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