Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months

Post by bakies » Fri, May 01, 2026, 3:54 PM UTC

echelon_musk wrote: post #86

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1) You're missing the point. Overseer can do this, yes. AI model can work with ANY REST API. 2) How does Overseerr help? I've never really understood it if I could give my family access to Overseerr over a VPN I could just give them sonarr / radarr directly.

Expose Overseerr over HTTPS either from your home network or on a free VPS which has the tunnel into the home network where Radarr and Sonarr live. This is simpler for users to go to a website instead of having to also use a VPN. This of course assumes you already have Plex or Jellyfin exposed to the public internet without a VPN. If you're already forcing users to use a VPN for Plex/Jellyfin then hosting Overseerr l…

Post by Marsymars » Fri, May 01, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

chongli wrote: post #74

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If the return policy explicitly allows "change of mind", I'd say it's in the gray area. Though ofc it isn't sustainable if everyone starts doing this. I assume there's a ((returns:buys)/payment identity) metric to ban the largest offenders. Also, there should be some universally accepted way to have access to your data and a secure personal computer in the duration your device is getting repaired.

Also, there should be some universally accepted way to have access to your data and a secure personal computer in the duration your device is getting repaired. Yes, exactly. When getting your car repaired there’s loaners or rentals to allow you to keep driving. Why isn’t a loaner computer a standard thing?

Post by Marsymars » Fri, May 01, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

yreg wrote: post #28

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Yea it does look like 5 year old M1's are going for $300 on eBay, but man that's painful a 5 year old machine for that much when you could get a new Neo or Mini for $600, if only you could buy them. I probably should just get the M1, test and sell it back on eBay. Thanks.

Neo isn't much better than M1.

Post by windowsrookie » Fri, May 01, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

wang_li wrote: post #88

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Neo isn't much better than M1.

In my personal experience, 13” M1 MacBook Air, 15” M4 Macbook Air, M4 Pro Mac Mini, and MacBook Neo, the Neo is the fastest for single threaded and strictly CPU bound tasks. E.g. calculating 200x200, 1000 max iterations Mandelbrot fractals it does ~785 in ten seconds compared to ~760 on the M4s and somewhere in the 600s for the M1. Given its RAM size I’m not going to be spinning up VMs, but in terms of general purpos…

Post by wang_li » Fri, May 01, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC

windowsrookie wrote: post #107

wang_li wrote: post #88

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In my personal experience, 13” M1 MacBook Air, 15” M4 Macbook Air, M4 Pro Mac Mini, and MacBook Neo, the Neo is the fastest for single threaded and strictly CPU bound tasks. E.g. calculating 200x200, 1000 max iterations Mandelbrot fractals it does ~785 in ten seconds compared to ~760 on the M4s and somewhere in the 600s for the M1. Given its RAM size I’m not going to be spinning up VMs, but in terms of general purpos…

I'm not really sure why your neo is performing better than the M4. The M4 and the neo share the same CPU architecture but the M4 has 4 performance cores at 4.4ghz, while the neo has 2 performance cores at 4ghz. The neo also does not have any CPU heatsink so it thermal throttles after only a few seconds: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MacBo...

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