I wondered the same thing. So just shut it down for today. Will put it sleep tomorrow and then don’t have to worry about the power button
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UK Mac Mini M4/M4 Pro Pre-release, Orders and Dispatch Thread
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As I said in previous post my first Mac (Basic Mac mini) always been a Windows guy so its a real leaning curve for me but getting there.
A few things I love after playing for a while.
1 Opening it up with my Watch that's so cool
2 Universal Control using same mouse to control my iPad something I have always wanted to be able to do.
3 iPhone mirroring so clever
Back to playing and learning I am sure I will find more to love
A few things I love after playing for a while.
1 Opening it up with my Watch that's so cool
2 Universal Control using same mouse to control my iPad something I have always wanted to be able to do.
3 iPhone mirroring so clever
Back to playing and learning I am sure I will find more to love
Picked my base model up in Derby this morning, slowly getting back upto speed with it all, working OK with my 4K 32inch monitor, will start migrating stuff over from two previous Windows machines a bit later. Most my apps have a mac/windows license other than I only have the Windows license for Affinity Photo so my look at my options before re-purchasing that.
Forgot to say it's so quiet, if I turn the old PC off I've just the slight hiss from my powered speakers and my tinnitus for company.
Forgot to say it's so quiet, if I turn the old PC off I've just the slight hiss from my powered speakers and my tinnitus for company.
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I used the Mac Mini as a stepping stone back in, erm, 2010 I think. It’s a great way of getting into MacOS. I found out pretty quickly it’s always best NOT to try and do things the way you are used to in Windows. Can lead to some frustration.
Times have change how software is available for both platform these days. I guess as both flavours have moved closer in operating system‘s software it’s made devs lives easier porting.
Loving it so far - blisteringly quick in everything it does. Really liking the new Macintosh wallpaper and screen saver. Have got some Insta360 video footage to play with later - I can't see it breaking a sweat.
It probably completes my purchase journey for a while now
- M4 Pro mini 12/16/16, 24Gb Memory, 1Tb
- OWC Thunderbolt Dock
- OWC 4M2 Thunderbolt Enclosure with 2 x 4Tb (OK room for 2 more)
- M4 iPad Pro 13" 512 Gb
- Magic Keyboard
- Pencil Pro
- 2 x LG 27" 4K P3 monitors (OK could add another)
It probably completes my purchase journey for a while now
- M4 Pro mini 12/16/16, 24Gb Memory, 1Tb
- OWC Thunderbolt Dock
- OWC 4M2 Thunderbolt Enclosure with 2 x 4Tb (OK room for 2 more)
- M4 iPad Pro 13" 512 Gb
- Magic Keyboard
- Pencil Pro
- 2 x LG 27" 4K P3 monitors (OK could add another)
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Ordered thursday evening expected delivery was to be 19-21 november
late friday it got updated to monday 11 november its already at the local depot.
Got the basic model via totum portal so a cool 499 and will be using a rather old T5 SSD or X8 Crucial SSD for extra storage i'll be looking to get a faster SSD with the black friday/christmas deals.
my first mac mini so looking forward to seeing how it compares to my mac pro
late friday it got updated to monday 11 november its already at the local depot.
Got the basic model via totum portal so a cool 499 and will be using a rather old T5 SSD or X8 Crucial SSD for extra storage i'll be looking to get a faster SSD with the black friday/christmas deals.
my first mac mini so looking forward to seeing how it compares to my mac pro
An interesting (or not) fact for us older Brits is that if you take the 1982 launch price of the ZX Spectrum and adjust it for inflation you get the price of the base M4 Mac mini within a few £, now that's progress 
Oh I remember my Dad battering on about spending 175 quid on a 48k ZX. Something like 800 quid in today's money. My Dad was a tight git lol.An interesting (or not) fact for us older Brits is that if you take the 1982 launch price of the ZX Spectrum and adjust it for inflation you get the price of the base M4 Mac mini within a few £, now that's progress
Interesting factoid. My uncle was apparently the first person to figure out how you could write a program on the ZX81 which worked on the ZX Spectrum. Apparently it was cutting edge at the time
They even feature it in one of the big PC magazines at the time when you used to get tapes sellotaped to the magazine cover.... Oh how times have change.i never owned a ZX spectrum i was an amstrad cpc 464 kinda guy followed by an atari stfm along with an amigaOh I remember my Dad battering on about spending 175 quid on a 48k ZX. Something like 800 quid in today's money. My Dad was a tight git lol.
Interesting factoid. My uncle was apparently the first person to figure out how you could write a program on the ZX81 which worked on the ZX Spectrum. Apparently it was cutting edge at the time
I was ZX Spectrum, +2 and then Amiga 500. Still have 2x A1200 and 1x A500 here. Think my Spectrum is in the loft too
Sadly i don't have any of mine probably thrown away a decade after buying them
I assume all of those were big parts of your childhood
Very much and I still get goosebumps when I use the Amiga. Legendary machine.
We went down the BBC computer for quite a while but my Dad bought another system and I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. Research Machines maybe? Big horizontal box which was running the first version of Flight Sim before MS produced it. My Dad was an airline pilot and was fascinated with it at the time, said it was the future of pilot training, and he wasn't wrong, eventually.
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Now, you see you made me go Google it lol. Seems it was this with the double old full size floppy drives.
After a bit more digging it was the TRS-80 which was running the original flight sim. The RM 380Z came later. Thing is when he died all these old computers were all in storage and his then partner apparently got a house clearing company to come and empty his storage unit he had.... But, let's not go there with that one.
Just remembered when he bought this. It was a Radio Shack store, or was it Tandy, in the Leeds Merrion Centre in about '78 I would have been 11.
Just remembered when he bought this. It was a Radio Shack store, or was it Tandy, in the Leeds Merrion Centre in about '78 I would have been 11.
And desk back together ready for logging into work tomorrow.
The PC is still in the corner of the desk and I'm using remote desktop from the mini to use it, it'll have to stay around until my NMVe TB4 drive enclosure turns up later in the week and I can transfer stuff off it.
The PC is still in the corner of the desk and I'm using remote desktop from the mini to use it, it'll have to stay around until my NMVe TB4 drive enclosure turns up later in the week and I can transfer stuff off it.
Curious if you're scaling to 1080p or 1440p on these monitors?
I've got one 27" 4K LG at the moment, and will get a second once I get my Mini. Can't decide if I'd rather have 1080p on both for perfect scaling, or deal with the very slight blur/softness in text when scaled to 1440p as it isn't a proper ratio to 4K.
And how much were they new? Maybe something a little more comparable to a new Mac Mini?
Yeah the 27" is a bit annoying in that regard. I wish I'd known about it before buying but in all honesty my eyes are no longer as good as they were so it's not really a problem for me. I used to go with 3840 x 2160 with larger text but can't cope with that anymore. I did then go with 1440 for a while. I don't use 1080 as I want more screen estate.
I'm currently at 3008x1692 which I believe is scaled 3K and sit far enough away that it looks pretty good. I use glasses for screen work and can't really detect any haloing or softness.
I wanted the 64gb m4 pro with 2tb ssd and high speed Ethernet. It’s now out to 9th dec. :-(
If you go for it do they take your money straight away or wait till delivery day. That’s a lot of money to be sitting in someone else’s account for, for a month. I could be making money on shares in that time.
If you go for it do they take your money straight away or wait till delivery day. That’s a lot of money to be sitting in someone else’s account for, for a month. I could be making money on shares in that time.