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.
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.
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[Downloads CallOfDuty_Installer.exe]