Christopher Snowhill
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Got a Mac
Woohoo, I finally got a new Mac! And boy, is it awesome. With some caveats, though.
It's an M4 Pro Mac mini, and I've been putting it through its paces. I did start to take some photos like I was going to do an unboxing, but the heck with it, I only managed to photograph the original shipping box, and the inner box sitting in the opened shipping box, which had a fancy fold out top and sides.
I've run some benchmarks, so I have them in my own account.
Geekbench 6.3.0 - CPU - Metal compute
And I did some iOS 3DMark runs: Steel Nomad Light - Solar Bay
And for posterity, a real disk benchmark, as done with AmorphousDiskMark and not any of those other screwy simplified things. Though I guess it's kind of okay that Blackmagic's benchmark does show relative comparisons of your basic sequential speed and media formats, but it doesn't really do a thorough job. No random test! Anyway: AmorphousDiskMark result
I'm having some trouble with the network dropping occasionally, but I'm hoping that Apple will have a solution for that in the short term, and not just tell me that I have a defective product. Maybe I shouldn't have sprung for the 10G networking for my 2.5G home.
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