• What’s your use cases for the computer?
  • Do you have any interesting peripherals?
  • What are some of your favorite Mac apps?
  • Are there currently any gripes with your setup? If you could change one thing about your Mac, what would it be?
  • csgraves@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Using a 2014 Mac Mini booting to an external ssd, with only 4gb of ram, and an early 2015 13’ MacBook Pro with 8 gb of ram, going to upgrade the storage to 1tb and install a new battery.

    Both given to me via my neighborhoods Buy Nothing Group on Facebook.

    Not the latest and greatest, but they serve a purpose for me.

  • GeekMan@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    11 months ago

    M2 Air.

    Use cases: planning to crush it with music/audio, video editing & voice-over, software development, and art (tablet, etc).

    Peripherals: will be getting said tablet, good microphone, video camera/DSLR live feed link, and some sort of audio controller and/or looper.

    Fave Mac apps: I feel like a complete n00b to say that the only app I’ve used long enough and was an actual joy to use, was iMovie. I’ll be grabbing a strong IDE for dev work. But I’ve only just begun.

    Gripes: alleged limited support for just one external display. I’ve read there’s ways to add more, but it gives me a twitch after Windows laptops that always seemed to do it by default.

    Also I’m unsure whether to use my cheap, Amazon USB hub I already have - for connecting monitor(s?), peripherals and power - because some sources say it could hurt the M2. Not sure if that’s warranted or FUD.

    Long story:

    I was raised on PCs, from Tandy 1000 to MS-DOS 6.22 to Windows 8, because of school/cost/marketing/parents’ limited knowledge.

    Finally in my late 30’s I got to use a 'Pro for work (startup, software job), and even though I had to quickly learn ‘the Mac way’;

    It took everything I threw at it.

    I had to let go of the Pro after that job, but randomly later I was editing a video on a Windows laptop w/ Movie “Maker”, which took 4 days of slow-downs, glitches, restarts.

    I then grabbed my girl’s older 'Air and recut the whole thing (in iMovie) in 1/8th of the time.

    So CUT-TO last week; a friend said he wanted to sell his M2 'Air 15.x", 2 months old, because it was bigger than he thought and doesn’t have desk-space in his small condo. He bought it new for $1700, but only asked for $1k for it (!?) (Yes; there’s a receipt).

    I couldn’t-not.

    I’m not religious about Mac vs PC. They both have their pros & cons. I just haven’t given enough time to the other side. So the clock starts now.

    …

    [Downloads CallOfDuty_Installer.exe]