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Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by jd3 »

speedgoose wrote: post #240
Varloom wrote: post #182

I can't use my M1 mini with non-retina monitor because of how blurry it is. They stopped providing font anti-aliasing (default on Windows) few years ago in MacOS to make retina displays more relevant.

This is strange, my M1 MacBook does have anti-aliasing. Not as good as the windows cleartype one though.

macOS still provides anti-aliasing — I assume the OP is referring to the removal of subpixel rendering/antialiasing.

See "The subtle death of subpixel antialiasing"

https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/09/macos-10-14-mojave-...

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Scree...

The one thing I appreciate about windows is that you can completely disable cleartype/anti-aliasing, if you'd like. As far as I know of, it's not possible to do that in any version of macOS (including Ventura).

In fact Checking "Antialias text" in the Terminal.app settings profile just didn't do anything on a non-retina external monitor for 2+ years.

https://i.imgur.com/nRLReww.gif

https://i.imgur.com/fu08mPa.gif

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Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by scarface74 »

friedman23 wrote: post #141
Nextgrid wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> More than a dozen chrome tabs and a few discord servers has been enough to crash/significantly slow down my m1 Mac mini On the other hand, maybe there should be pushback against shitty inefficient software? I remember a decade ago being able to have a dozen browser tabs and instant messaging clients on 4GB of RAM just fine, and neither the web nor instant messaging experience has changed significantly enough to war…

Get ready for AR apps written in react native. The reason we have shitty inefficient software is because Apple, Google, and Microsoft haven't standardized on a performant cross platform framework other than the browser. Don't blame people writing software for not wanting to waste their lives translating the same logic to 3 different platforms and then maintaining 3x the code for the rest of their lives.

So exactly how do you create a performant cross platform framework that takes advantage of all the platforms features? What happens when one of them create a new feature for their operating system?

When has there ever been a performant cross platform framework?

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by cmatthias »

coder543 wrote: post #139
isolli wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're answering my question here with a no? "Is it realistic to have an external drive for photos that integrates seamlessly with the native Photos app?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34413791

Apple disagrees, and I would take Apple's advice over some random anecdote. There is no reason that an external photo library would be inherently worse than an internal one. If that person actually did use a hard drive (not an NVMe SSD), then yes, the experience would probably be janky. I don't think modern Apple Photos is built to handle slow spinning rust very well. If someone uses an external SSD with equal or gre…

> I don't think modern Apple Photos is built to handle slow spinning rust very well.

Apple's software is garbage so I'm sure you're correct, but modern hard drives can do several hundred MB/s of throughput. How is that not fast enough for a freaking photo application? For Apple not to test/support this use case is inexcusable.

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by nicoburns »

tobr wrote: post #212
Varloom wrote: post #182

I can't use my M1 mini with non-retina monitor because of how blurry it is. They stopped providing font anti-aliasing (default on Windows) few years ago in MacOS to make retina displays more relevant.

Does Apple even sell any product with a non-retina display any more?

No, but you can use Apple products with external displays that may not be hidpi. And of course with the mac mini an external display is the only display option.

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by scarface74 »

vlunkr wrote: post #207
crypt1d wrote: post #7

disappointed to see them still selling these with 8gb RAM. More than a dozen chrome tabs and a few discord servers has been enough to crash/significantly slow down my m1 mac mini edit: the ad says up to 24/32GB of ram, but seems like 8gb/16gb models are the only ones available for pre-order at the moment.

It feels like they're always wasting the potential of the Mac Mini. I assume the whole point of the product is to be the cheaper desktop option (I could be wrong), but when you compare it to any Windows desktop, it's a bad value. The base model has lame specs, if you upgrade to something reasonable, it's no longer competitive on price, and most components can't be upgraded later, which is half the appeal of buying a…

The mini hasn’t been meant to be cheaper in over a decade. The mini is meant to be for the odd use cases.

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by Zanfa »

crypt1d wrote: post #7

disappointed to see them still selling these with 8gb RAM. More than a dozen chrome tabs and a few discord servers has been enough to crash/significantly slow down my m1 mac mini edit: the ad says up to 24/32GB of ram, but seems like 8gb/16gb models are the only ones available for pre-order at the moment.

My 8GB M1 Air kicks my 64GB 10-core iMac’s ass in most scenarios. Don’t think I even know how to use less than 30+ tabs open at the same time. Smooth as butter.

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by nojs »

ClassyJacket wrote: post #241
Varloom wrote: post #182

I can't use my M1 mini with non-retina monitor because of how blurry it is. They stopped providing font anti-aliasing (default on Windows) few years ago in MacOS to make retina displays more relevant.

This happened to me the other day when I plugged my MacBook Pro into an external monitor. Sadlky I cannot use it in laptop mode at all anymore as it has a butterfly keyboard so of course not all my keys work. It's unusable with text that blurry. I thought something was broken at first. I guess they want to force us to buy a Pro Display XDR. No thanks, instead I'll buy a new computer and run Linux. EDIT: My mistake, t…

If you can’t use the keyboard but want to keep using the laptop display, these are good:

http://www.nexstand.com/

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by aclatuts »

trynewideas wrote: post #250
coob wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure Apple would point you in the direction of a Mac Studio instead…

That's kind of a problem, too. A top-spec M2 Pro Mini on CPU and RAM (12-core CPU, 19-core GPU, 32GB unified RAM) is $1,999. A bottom-spec M1 Max Mac Studio (10-core CPU, 24-core GPU, 32GB unified RAM) is $1,999. Since the low-end Studio has 10Gb Ethernet and four Thunderbolt ports at the same price, and neither has upgradable RAM, there's no reason to buy the high-end Mini.

The mac mini is less than half the size which may be important in some cases.
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