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Edit: for those who still wonder, read this
M1 Mac Users Report Excessive SSD Wear
https://www.macrumors.c
and
How worried should you be about your M1 Mac's SSD lifespan?
https://www.macworld.co
There are two major causes:
1. small ram (8GB total, including 2-4GB for VRAM, only 4-6GB left for the system and applications) and ARM chipsets' increasing demand for RAM (due to weak RAM management on the legacy Unix/Linux memory/swap system with ARM instruction sets).
Apple's solution: disproportionately increases the size and usage of the swap partition;
2. Rosetta 2 translation demands larger RAM than X86, X64 precompiled apps.
Apple's solution: disproportionately increases the size and usage of the swap partition, again.
So, you would expect a significant reduction in SSD lifespan on an M1 Mac compared to an Intel mac, not to mention a Windows pc which has a much more robust ram/pagefile management system.
https://youtu.be/FyMCoQmsv-I
I posted in MacRumors but the thread is so long it's buried.
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I have a Mac from 2011 that is in perfect condition but has been forced to be phased out. I've upgraded the ram and it runs smoothly but can no longer update the OS which limits what I can install such as Turbo Tax 🙄. F you apple, i have to buy a new computer to do my taxes 😠.
Windows is better than Mac when come to security patching for old hardware ...Apple just want you to buy new hardware
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How does it benefit Apple to support very old hardware? Why would they? Out of the goodness of their heart? They're a business. they actually do security patches longer than most other mobile hardware vendors. The new m1 is class leading by a significant margin. Intel and AMD got lazy with their general purpose compute design and got lapped this race, just like AMD passed Intel last year.
Looking into it, it's Blue's bad software, just don't run it, the mic will likely work fine.
Looking into it, it's Blue's bad software, just don't run it, the mic will likely work fine.
There are so many options for great mics including interfaces and XLR mics, or I like the g track pro, for a USB mic. Like the yeti it's multi-pattern.
Of course, it's still brand new and I understand m1 might not be your use case, but it really is great for (I think) the vast majority.
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