Thanks Paul and Jason for your very helpful comments. Yes lots of adaptors for USB/thunderbolt would be a downside for me but liveable with. It seems we are rapidly approaching the holy grail of a very useful digital assistant that one can just wake up and speak to; type out the following letter on such and such template and read it back. Turn on printer and print 2 copies etc. All while relaxing with a fine glass of plonk. (maybe some of this is already possible within Accessibility?). Nick
> On 4 Dec 2020, at 10:50, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/5D5C2FB7-EEED-49D2-8FCA-088D08E020E5%40me.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/5D5C2FB7-EEED-49D2-8FCA-088D08E020E5%40me.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/178DA855-4B01-4500-AEFF-7A845297B12D%40mac.com.
