Hey Stephen, Interesting that you’ve been looking at Mac sites beyond our shores. I have found many influencers trying to spruik issues with Macs on Youtube. Anyway, I bought the Mac Mini M1 in December and it’s the first desktop since my 2007 iMac 27. The issues reported in that macoclock report are real, ,especially if one has two Bluetooth devices interactive with M1. However, I searched the official Apple forum and there were a host of users asking how to fix it., well at least work around it. The “it” being the erratic behaviour of Apple Magic Mouse and and also the third party Bluetooth keyboard. Anyway, the latest. forum suggestion was to turn off FileVault in security preferences. Bingo- No further issues with Magic Mouse. I use iCloud and a backup hard drive for important files so it’s not an issue for me to turn off FileVault. I can see it may well be for others. The Bluetooth keyboard has two Bluetooth Channels and one is always stable while the other is not. So, I’m able to report that M1 is indeed a brilliant Mac and I will be saying good bye to my 2007 iMac 27 as it’s so very slow and can’t cope with many apps open at one time. M1 doesn’t have enough ports for peripherals but third party hubs seem inexpensive. I’ll likely buy a genuine Apple Bluetooth keyboard as well very soon.
Cheers Marcus Message sent from Marcus's iThing > On 1 Feb 2021, at 12:06, Adam Lippiatt <adam.lippi...@me.com> wrote: > > Hmm > > Some years ago I had this problem (and with airdrop still have it) with my > late 2013 iMac. > > Very, very frustrating. > > Eventually I paid for a replacement airport card, but that didn’t fix it. > > Problem went away with an OS update some months after problem started > (although airdrop still very disappointing). > > > >> On 1 Feb 2021, at 11:58 am, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote: >> >> This was posted on Yorkshire Mac Users Group today. >> So just thought I would it on to our group. >> >> Anyone who’s thinking about a new Mac mini should probably read this first: >> https://medium.com/macoclock/the-m1-mac-mini-has-a-huge-problem-c1d23f5157cb >> >> >> Regards, >> Stephen Chape >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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