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Today celebrates five years with MacMini !

Posted by E-Stat on April 8, 2024 at 07:58:47:
I proactively replaced a 2010 Dell Studio today in 2019 with the looming sunset of Win7. Interestingly, the situation that prompted the move to using a NAS still exists today: the cost to upgrade from the base 256 GB storage to 2 TB is $800! The only real difference is that the current M2 based model benches almost twice as fast as the current i5-8500B.

It took me a couple of months to get comfortable with all the aspects of the new environment and I use Parallels to run a couple of Win apps underneath MacOS. Having 32 GB of memory makes that easy since Parallels carves out 8 GB.

Having the fault tolerance of mirrored drives with the NAS is nice along with the ability to run media server software on it instead of the Mac. I have subsequently updated the 2 TB spinning rust with SSDs and get immediate response from all manner of applications along with quicker saves. My storage needs really haven't changed and I'm running only 66% capacity.

The old Dell box still runs fine and is used for music and movie disc ripping and serves as an offline backup using older 2 TB drives for the lion's share of my storage composed of video, music and photos. I have one cool app called Geoclock (mimics Geochron functionality) that only runs under Win7.

What I really like about the Mac environment other than the compact footprint is the integration with my watch/phone/pad environment. I really like being able to see and respond to texts during the day on the Mac. And synchronized local storage to iCloud photos found on other devices.