M1 Apple Macs
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This was because you can?t upgrade the M1 RAM yourself without cosmic-level skills (dissembling the logic board)?
I see the i5 is ?900 over ?700 for the cheapest M1. I don?t know. I am interested to see if you need more than 8GB with the new processor and coming software, and there is considerable chat that you do not because of the unified memory architecture and other whizzes. I certainly do not as I don?t edit 4K movies for cinema release or whatever people with 64GB of RAM do. I just want it to last for 8-10 years or so as per normal. I can?t update to Big Sur and that is eventually going to bite me on security. I have a bad feeling that Intel will be pass? for Apple by 2030.
I just have a gut feeling that finally ditching x86 for ARM-based stuff is going to be an assault on bloat. About time.
The late 2012 mac mini was one of the most useful bits of kit ever produced by anyone, although I have a smaller NUC PC made by Intel themselves which is interesting.
I decided to start using the Apple office software to give it a chance as it was seamless across Apple products and indeed cheap to free. It takes getting used to but it seems to have a lot less bloat. It?s hard to get away from 365 at work or college, but at least it?s free then. One thing that suprised me was how much better and reliably 365 runs on an iPad than a PC.......
I see the i5 is ?900 over ?700 for the cheapest M1. I don?t know. I am interested to see if you need more than 8GB with the new processor and coming software, and there is considerable chat that you do not because of the unified memory architecture and other whizzes. I certainly do not as I don?t edit 4K movies for cinema release or whatever people with 64GB of RAM do. I just want it to last for 8-10 years or so as per normal. I can?t update to Big Sur and that is eventually going to bite me on security. I have a bad feeling that Intel will be pass? for Apple by 2030.
I just have a gut feeling that finally ditching x86 for ARM-based stuff is going to be an assault on bloat. About time.
The late 2012 mac mini was one of the most useful bits of kit ever produced by anyone, although I have a smaller NUC PC made by Intel themselves which is interesting.
I decided to start using the Apple office software to give it a chance as it was seamless across Apple products and indeed cheap to free. It takes getting used to but it seems to have a lot less bloat. It?s hard to get away from 365 at work or college, but at least it?s free then. One thing that suprised me was how much better and reliably 365 runs on an iPad than a PC.......
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Apple's Numbers spreadsheet has fairly comprehensive Filter Rules which can be applied. Apache OpenOffice (which is free) has a more Excel style auto filter option. I tend to use OpenOffice more, but that's more by tradition than anything else.
As an update to earlier post as I understand it the M1 Macs ship with OS 11 Big Sur, and the Intel ones OS 10.15 Catalina. It was the OS 11 drivers that seemed to be an issue for me, otherwise it would have been an M1. The Intel ones also come with two more built in USB C / Thunderbolt ports (4 instead of 2), as well as the standard 2 USB A, which is handy as I need to add a scanner as well.
As an update to earlier post as I understand it the M1 Macs ship with OS 11 Big Sur, and the Intel ones OS 10.15 Catalina. It was the OS 11 drivers that seemed to be an issue for me, otherwise it would have been an M1. The Intel ones also come with two more built in USB C / Thunderbolt ports (4 instead of 2), as well as the standard 2 USB A, which is handy as I need to add a scanner as well.