A few other observations if anyone else is interested:
- the built-in dictation is as good as the discontinued Nuance Dragon for Mac (the ability to create commands is a little harder but very effective)
- the speed thing is beyond question. I posted that Handbrake is twice as fast as my fairly fast Mac Pro but forgot to add that this wasn't even the apple silicon version, it was running under Rosetta 2
- with speed comes responsiveness. Word is up and loaded within one second when relaunched. Been waiting for that for years. Teams still needs a few seconds even when it's being relaunched
- it is much more efficient with RAM than other machines, so 8 gig of M1 RAM seems to do the same work that about 12 did before (not sure why). Even when it runs out, you barely notice if it all.
- you can run iOS apps easily though most of the actions don't work; I have a few utilities that only need clicking on and it's very handy to have them on the Mac rather than my phone.
- the Mac Mini is not *utterly* silent, but it's very close to it (it does have a fan)
- not sure if this is me and the keyboard I'm using but i can't get any start-up 'hold key down' things to work (alt, command R etc).
Seems to be the beginning of a new era:) cheers, J -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/5D5C2FB7-EEED-49D2-8FCA-088D08E020E5%40me.com.
