- 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?
Macbook Pro 14" / M1 Pro; Is my replacement for my other MBP of 2012 - i’m Mac-User since 1999 :)
I mostly do anything on it like software development, graphics stuff, web, music listening, chat, …
By far my favorite apps are Firefox, Apple Mail, Affinity Photo and Designer, Panic Nova, Little Snitch, iTerm and Carbon Copy Cloner.
If i could change something: replaceable battery and internal storage.
Mac Studio M1 Max, 32 GB, 1 TB SSD (but a bunch of external hard drives) + Apple Studio Display.
I use it mainly for video editing and graphics stuff. Well, sometimes for little gaming.
Wheww that’s a powerhouse you got there!
Obligatory question to a Mac Studio user though: Do you ever hear the fans? Haha
Not, when it is not under heavy load. If so, the fan is not that loud.
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]
M1 MBP as my everyday workhorse. Had the 2019 MBP at work and a Hackintosh at home. Wanted some compact Macbook with the Touchbar. So when the M1s were released, I upgraded to a “proper” Apple device and couldn’t be happier.
It’s connected to a 32" 4K DELL U3219Q, so nothing fancy.
I’m using it with the Magic Keyboard (small one) with Touchid, a Magic Trackpad and the Magic Mouse. And if I could change a thing, I’d put a Touch Bar on the Magic Keyboard as I really like its versatility. (And, of course, keep it with newer MacBooks as well.)
Fav apps: Strongbox, ShellFish for SSH, Panic Nova, Dash, Fork, Beyond Compare, Hexfiend, Alfred, PCalc, iTerm, Anybox, Downie, Swish, FNable, AirBuddy, News Explorer, MacUpdater, AppCleaner.
Fav Safari extensions: Wipr, Redirect Web, History Book, Rewinder
