That keyboard is very ugly and totally ruins the aesthetics.
The Mini Mac is working superbly. I added in 32GB of RAM, so it's now even faster:
^ but can it wash your underpants?
Extremely fast internal drive too:
The point is, it is a beautiful square of machined aluminium which works efficiently and has fuck all to do with microsoft.
Apple is for people who can maintain an erection and form a syntactically correct sentence.
Wait til I spend $1500 on this baby (eGPU)!
& this Amazon purchase on it's way, should be here in a few days (just a backup drive):
Haven't decided how much external space I need yet, or how fast it needs to be, but these raid Glyph Atoms are nice (but what colour?), and at 800mbps are probably fast enough for the stuff I need to do on an external drive:
Cycling should be banned!!!
Boo you need to speak to Simon43 and get advice on extra curricular activities when your and the Gents tastes align, give me B, Give a D, an S and M.
^ it is a bit of a worry, but even Mr Sausage is right from time to time.
I've currently got three Mac Minis running in the house, one being almost a decade old. The Mac Mini is a real value in my eyes and they simply work well all the time. I am forced to use Windows 10 in my work environment which feels darn cumbersome, especially when using Sharepoint and Office 365 and sorting through all the messages of why things aren't working.
I see you got the Mac Mini. You won't regret it.
You Make Your Own Luck
By the way, here are some handy Apple commands:
Command-Shift-4 Screen capture
Command-Option-ESC Force quit a single app. (Unlike Windows, the Mac OS will not crash when an application stops responding.)
Command-Control-F Exit full screen. (This will ultimately happen to you and it will drive you nuts if you don't have an out!)
Command-Q quit the app you are currently displaying
Did you decide to get the BlackMagic eGPU rather than the GIGABYTE Gaming Box?
If so, why and which one, Radeon Pro 580 or Radeon RX Vega 56?
The BMs sure look the bees knees, but they are quite a bit more expensive than some of the alternatives.(USD700 & USD 1200 in the US, probably add 20% to get one in Asia)
I haven't decided yet, kinda depends on how much research money I get from the uni, as I'll buy it from that.
The Gigabyte seems to be temperamental and noisy; most other eGPUs seem to be very noisy and large. The BM one is near silent, small and easy - even the 580 would be fine for me, but if I get oodles of research money then I'll go for the BM with Vega. I'm not using anything which I need a GPU for, but I will later on and the internal graphics card is really really poor. The machine can keep up with an iMac at $4000+ easily and even an iMac Pro to some extent - as long as you don't need a GPU! &, this isn't even the i7 model; the i7 2018 Mac mini has hyper threading (this i5 doesn't) and with 32GB/64GB RAM and the BM 56Vega would be an absolute monster...
Just when you thought it couldn't get any more exciting:
1) I got creative and made a Mac Media Centre Stand.
2) Bought a backup drive; a tiny little Glyph Atom backup drive - only 500mbps or so, not USB-C 3.2/thunderbolt3, but it just backs up...
In time I'll get a Blackmagic eGPU to sit behind the Yamaha speaker, and I'll sort out a 1GB fast hard drive like the Samsung X5 when I need more space.
BTW, if you do get a Glyph Atom then it's very small and light, reasonably fast, well made, pretty tough, comes with USB-C to USBC-C/USB-A adaptors which are sooooooooo short, just about 5cms.
^ apparently, Papillion has a few of those for sale.
I decided not to go silly on an eGPU and just get the most portable one at a decent price that has good performance, so I ordered one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I'm a bit worried it's gonna be crap, but for $400 I'll take the risk.
So, all this paraphernalia is simply to play .......games???
Christ, how fucking puerile. How old are you?
Gent, do keep up. Betty said right at the start that it was for Research at his Uni that gave him a grant toward it, its feasible he may use it outside of work......
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