Compared to the 3a, the 6a is also a little bigger and more rectangular. I don’t think it feels as comfortable to hold. It also tends to get warmer, especially when charging.
Ugh, this is so dumb but I want it: immersive e-ink goggles
I genuinely can’t decide whether this is brilliant or asinine. Probably depends like 75% on how well they execute, but it almost feels like reading in bed would be enough to justify its existence.
(That I keep reading their url as my screen name is ambiguous in its impact on my judgment here)
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the reader app is an Earthbound fan game.
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hi
I’m thinking about wasting a bunch of money on a Mac for personal curiosity and professional recon work
please talk me out of it
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depends what the curiosity is… current macs are unfortunately rather boring as a result of how far behind they’ve fallen on software support. the base M1/M2 are adequately priced and extremely efficient for most normal people, but they are really falling behind for any more eccentric use cases
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Yeah if you want a $2000 Discord machine that has amazing battery life, go for it! Otherwise, I wouldn’t do it.
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and even running brew under WSL now is basically just as good for any dev tasks, they have very little going for them at this point other than hardware
I haven’t paid attention to windows laptops in years and years but I’m still not sure what I’m going to replace my 2018 MBP with – the vanilla M3 seems like it’ll be better than the Pro at this rate
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my 14" m1 pro is the only computer i want to use now. i redline the CPU a lot. doing so on an intel laptop sucks
for curiosity i would definitely recommend a mini or air under $1000. some BTO m1 airs circulating come with 16GB of RAM
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The cheapest M1 air will also last 20hrs and won’t break the bank
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I’m eyeing an open box M2 Pro mini that’d be 990+tax
I also want to transition booth stuff at work from Windows to a Mac and then have it as a one-stop tool for a hell of a lot of things (music cues, video file playback, audio recording assuming I get what I want and the new mic setup has Dante, Aspera Connect download box that FTPs movies to our cinema server, encode box) and the M2 Pro mini is like, the perfect price to feature set to performance center point, because a Studio would be overkill and a non-Pro M2 mini only does 2 displays
but I can’t get a feel for anything as I have no Mac and I’m too lazy to set up a VM
also I can sideload my horse daughters
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I love my Mini it’s a cool computer for me
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if you don’t have a single other modern mac and you have a use in mind, go for it
My wife has a late 2012 Mac mini that’s always run like shit. I was fucking with it to get old pictures and stuff and I always heard they’re better if you give them an ssd, or ssd and more ram.
anyway it only runs like Catalina or some shit, is it worth the like, $80 upgrade to have it be not SLOW AS FUCK and have a mac to play with or should I idk, destroy it or something
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you can definitely do the upgrade under $80 – more like $35 for 500GB
i’ve done a ram swap in the 2018 model that appears to have a similar chassis and it was fine, just a lot of security screws so you might budget for some pentalobe bits if you don’t have them yet
i’d do it but i used a blue and white g3 i got from a thrift store for $30 as a file server c. 2009 so
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Ok yeah i read that article but it was in 2014 or something and everything was more expensive back then so I passed. I did a price check recently, I think $80 was my ssd+ram price but that’s great if it’s cheaper. I just wonder if it’s still gonna suck ass or what. Mine is unusably sluggish as is. And yeah the plan would be to find something fun to do with it, but if it’s not substantially, substantially faster then no thanks! I was thinking about doing some home automation stuff or like… learning computer science in a not-actually-productive way, idk.
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It’s kind of borderline. Absolutely SSD and more RAM will make it a lot faster, but assuming it’s the model with dual-core CPU, that will still hold you back and it’ll remain a little on the pokey side. Also I am not sure what would be the point of having “a Mac to play with”, there aren’t many categories of software that only Macs can do or that are better on Macs.
It sounds like it doesn’t spark joy so I’d lean towards tossing it
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agree, yeah, if you have other computers and no real love for the mac you could do just as well fucking around with WSL or docker
i’d buy it off ya just because i find a ~3 lb ~8"x~8" aluminum squircle reassuring to hold
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A late 2012 Mac Mini with an SSD and RAM is almost as capable as a PS3, so… there’s that. I don’t know how loud it is, but it’ll stream, emulate, and it’ll look good in your entertainment center.
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excellent, it sounds like you have made it through the gauntlet and are now equipped for single user mode
edit: i have used single user mode productively precisely one time, but it was neat
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