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I proactively replaced a 2010 Dell Studio today in 2019 with the looming sunset of Win7. Interestingly, the situation that prompted the move to using a NAS still exists today: the cost to upgrade from the base 256 GB storage to 2 TB is $800! The only real difference is that the current M2 based model benches almost twice as fast as the current i5-8500B.
It took me a couple of months to get comfortable with all the aspects of the new environment and I use Parallels to run a couple of Win apps underneath MacOS. Having 32 GB of memory makes that easy since Parallels carves out 8 GB.
Having the fault tolerance of mirrored drives with the NAS is nice along with the ability to run media server software on it instead of the Mac. I have subsequently updated the 2 TB spinning rust with SSDs and get immediate response from all manner of applications along with quicker saves. My storage needs really haven't changed and I'm running only 66% capacity.
The old Dell box still runs fine and is used for music and movie disc ripping and serves as an offline backup using older 2 TB drives for the lion's share of my storage composed of video, music and photos. I have one cool app called Geoclock (mimics Geochron functionality) that only runs under Win7.
What I really like about the Mac environment other than the compact footprint is the integration with my watch/phone/pad environment. I really like being able to see and respond to texts during the day on the Mac. And synchronized local storage to iCloud photos found on other devices.
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Topic - Today celebrates five years with MacMini ! - E-Stat 07:58:47 04/08/24 (41)
- RE: Today celebrates five years with MacMini ! - Dawnrazor 11:05:00 04/10/24 (20)
- RE: Today celebrates five years with MacMini ! - voolston 18:42:23 04/17/24 (1)
- RE: Today celebrates five years with MacMini ! - Dawnrazor 20:50:40 04/18/24 (0)
- Some people have all the luck ;-) - AbeCollins 14:49:51 04/10/24 (16)
- RE: Some people have all the luck ;-) - Dawnrazor 20:37:48 04/18/24 (8)
- RE: Some people have all the luck ;-) - AbeCollins 13:03:24 04/22/24 (2)
- RE: Some people have all the luck ;-) - Dawnrazor 18:18:46 04/22/24 (1)
- RE: Some people have all the luck ;-) - AbeCollins 10:58:49 04/24/24 (0)
- Crackin' up - tlea 19:42:51 04/20/24 (4)
- RE: Crackin' up - Dawnrazor 20:25:45 04/20/24 (3)
- Picking nits - tlea 21:15:43 04/20/24 (2)
- RE: Picking nits - Dawnrazor 21:30:11 04/20/24 (1)
- More nits - tlea 22:11:38 04/20/24 (0)
- Wow, quite a choice in Logitech keyboards these days - Feanor 04:56:13 04/11/24 (5)
- I have these two Logitech keyboard models - AbeCollins 07:59:50 04/11/24 (4)
- A mechanical of fund memory ... - Feanor 14:00:43 04/12/24 (1)
- RE: A mechanical of fund memory ... - AbeCollins 14:07:13 04/12/24 (0)
- I have a knack for spilling coffee on keyboards..... - Rod M 12:48:19 04/11/24 (1)
- RE: I have a knack for spilling coffee on keyboards..... - AbeCollins 13:27:48 04/11/24 (0)
- Yeah - E-Stat 19:24:49 04/10/24 (0)
- Different environments altogether - E-Stat 11:26:38 04/10/24 (0)
- Congrats! I dumped Windoze around 2007 - AbeCollins 08:51:39 04/08/24 (19)
- Wifey took the lead - E-Stat 09:01:18 04/08/24 (18)
- Nice office.... - AbeCollins 09:18:55 04/08/24 (17)
- Apple is nice if you're all Apple.... - Rod M 18:16:18 04/09/24 (13)
- The fastest way to transfer photos/videos - E-Stat 06:43:59 04/10/24 (0)
- RE: Apple is nice if you're all Apple.... - AbeCollins 18:58:04 04/09/24 (11)
- When does paying more stop paying off? - Feanor 04:25:54 04/10/24 (10)
- When perceived value no longer exists - E-Stat 06:35:06 04/10/24 (9)
- I'm doing my Windows 10 update now - AbeCollins 10:39:46 04/10/24 (8)
- It's interesting that MacOS will run Windows emulators - Feanor 04:44:43 04/11/24 (6)
- Windows can run 'on top' of macOS - AbeCollins 08:39:18 04/11/24 (5)
- Parallels with Win license question - tlea 11:05:33 04/11/24 (3)
- RE: Parallels with Win license question - AbeCollins 13:19:29 04/11/24 (2)
- Thanks. Interesting about Parallels - Feanor 13:50:34 04/12/24 (1)
- RE: Thanks. Interesting about Parallels - AbeCollins 14:13:56 04/12/24 (0)
- The first time I used virtual software - E-Stat 09:20:51 04/11/24 (0)
- Now that I'm retired - E-Stat 11:33:13 04/10/24 (0)
- RE: Nice office.... - E-Stat 09:55:26 04/08/24 (2)
- Listen for crickets and other critters... - AbeCollins 10:43:54 04/08/24 (1)
- Not much change with the critters, but... - E-Stat 12:44:49 04/08/24 (0)
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