Big Sur
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my Intel-based Macs, honestly I have no urgent need to upgrade.
Mrs. George has a 2012 MacBook Air (11 inch). It has reached the end of its update ability, not compatibly with Big Sur. I told her that her computer is at the end of its upgradeability. She said, "It does everything I need it to do. No reason to upgrade until it fails to meet that standard."
She's right (as usual).
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I ran the update overnight
In the morning it was the Apple screen
image url)I figured 9 hours was enough, so I powered off and on
2 hours later, this again
Uh, oh, powered off again, waited a little longer
I checked maybe 20 minutes later and it was up and running, no problem
So far, so good but I haven't done much yet
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Unlike previous updates, this has seems to be less than "smooth."
Multiple restarts and a slow installation. Mine took about 4 hours onto a clean (reformatted) drive. Another 3 - 4 hours to transfer data from a backup.
I did a "clean"install, by the way - onto a wiped drive with no data, importing my stuff from a cloned drive.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I'm sick of my old OS X installation which, after five years or so, is just too fvcked up. Too many environment variables fvcked up. Too many conflicting installations of stuff.
So, today I did a clean install on the MacBook.
I've also (reluctantly) ordered a M1 Mac Mini and will soon retire my 2014 iMac.
I'm used to operating systems getting worse over time, but Big Sur actually has some good stuff, too. The thing I'm most excited about is zsh.
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When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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What model of Mac mini did you get?
Also, why reluctantly?
There seems to be just one model. I ordered it with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.
"Reluctantly" because I'd have liked more RAM and maybe a proper graphics card.
I hope I won't be disappointed by the 34" display I ordered. It has a lower resolution than the 5K display my iMac has.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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The big thing for me this week was that Adobe released Apple silicon versions of their apps, which replaced the old Intel versions. Shit runs even faster now. Today I had Ae, Illustrator, Rush, and Photoshop open at the same time, no problem. (Remember, I just got the MacBook Air.)
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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There seems to be just one model. I ordered it with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.
Did you pick it up yet? If so, how is it?
Next week, probably.
Of course I'm not so insane to pay for such superfluous toys with my own money, hence I have to go through some bureaucracy to get it...
