There have been a bunch of bugs in Music for the last three or so releases. I am able to work around them but I have one that's really annoying where dragging stuff to Music looks like it works but doesn't actually work. You have to drag it twice and then delete all of the entries that you dragged the first time.
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What are you still using an Intel Mac for?
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I still use my iMac 27, the last one. It keeps going, and as a desktop, heat and inefficient electrical usage whatever do not bother me. This machine can do my only heavy duty work with no problem at all, lightroom photo editing. Although I do have a M1 Max MBP as my portable, I plan to keep using my iMac until Apple can come up with atleast same or larger sized screen iMac than this.
I have a 2014 Mac Mini with Intel i5, 8GB RAM, and a small SSD. It runs headless (no keyboard, mouse, or monitor) and runs a couple of server tasks, one under MacOS and another under Linux in a virtual machine.
1) A backup server that syncs my NAS to an offsite service
2) Home Assistant, (like Apple's Home, but quite a bit more capable). It runs lights and whatnot.
The Mini is very reliable and is connected to battery backup. I'm at about 270 days right now with no reboot
The Mini is the only computer I have with an SD card slot so it gets used to move data off SD cards
I have a 2019 i9 iMac with 128 GB RAM and a 2 TB SSD. For my work, it's more capable than the 16 GB/1 TB M1 Pro MBP my university lent me, for the following reasons. Thus the M1 remains idle:
1) 8x the RAM (needed for some of my calculations)
2) 2x the storage
3) Gives me a 5k central monitor, and can drive my two side montiors, for a total of three large externals. The M1 Pro can only drive two externals.
I may replace the iMac with an M4 Max Studio + ASD.
I also have a 2014 15" MBP, running High Sierra, which is is used to sync my 7th-gen iPod Nano with my music and audiobooks. Since iTunes comes natively on that OS, it works better than the version I installed on my iMac using Retroactive.
1) 8x the RAM (needed for some of my calculations)
2) 2x the storage
3) Gives me a 5k central monitor, and can drive my two side montiors, for a total of three large externals. The M1 Pro can only drive two externals.
I may replace the iMac with an M4 Max Studio + ASD.
I also have a 2014 15" MBP, running High Sierra, which is is used to sync my 7th-gen iPod Nano with my music and audiobooks. Since iTunes comes natively on that OS, it works better than the version I installed on my iMac using Retroactive.
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