I shut mine down at night and scheduled it to startup in the morning.

Has anyone purchased Apple's Pro Apps Bundle for Education before?

At which stage of the process, did you receive the redemption codes?



My order has changed to Shipped but I have not received any email.

Update: Received the codes this morning.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 22 2021, 05:00 PM

If you don't download big stuff then OK. I bought 16/256 but I have an external 2TB NVME SSD.

Memory for sure cannot add. SSD at least still can add external. Even though it won't be as fast as the internal but external Thunderbolt drives good enough for me.

My external Acasis Thunderbolt NVME enclosure has a surface temp of 42.4º. (according to cheap china temp gun). smartctl reporting 41º for the same SSD. Idling temps.

A few problems encountered so far. Not sure Big Sur or M1 problems.

Happens on 11.2, 11.2.1, 11.2.2 and 11.3b2. (Can't remember if it happened on 11.1)

1. Video would play with a black screen. VLC+mp4 or mkv. VLC with mpeg2 in a DVD folder. Twice so far. Had to restart.
2. Safari losing Command-~ shortcut for switching windows. Quitting doesn't help. Had to restart. Once or twice so far.
3. Command-Tab app switcher would sometimes get stuck in my 2nd monitor and refuses to come back to my main monitor. Then after awhile, it does. Psychopathic Neural Engine at work. Happened a few times but not that often to be annoying.
Solved, OSI Layer 8 error. The App Switcher follows the monitor where I last accessed the dock.
4. Telco phone calls via my iPhone seems to be a lot less reliable than my MBPR Late 2013. Keeps disconnecting or losing audio or mic. Happens half the time. Enough for me not to want to use the Mac to make calls.
5. Screenshots stops working after awhile. ⌘-⇧-4 activates the selection pointer but doesn't capture anything. ⌘-⇧-5 brings up the screenshot bar but is unresponsive to anything other than Escape.
6. Illustrator 23.1.1 beachballs a lot when switching windows.
7. Crossover running Win32 apps loses mouse clicks. #2, #5 and #7 happen together.

The only thing special that I have that may be different from you guys is that I have a 3rd party kext running, Tuxera NTFS. To install this, I had to change my Mac's Security Policy to Reduced Security.

And I have one System Extension running, Little Snitch.

Updates:
28/2: 11.3b2 broke Crossover 64-bit bottles. 32-bit are OK.
4/3: Just installed 11.3b3. Crossover 64-bit bottles fixed.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 4 2021, 06:58 PM

Are you using Bettertouchtool? I suspect that may be conflicting with screenshot capture. Will test it out next time the problem occurs.

Apple getting ready to be sued by (and losing to) Intel?

https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/x86-a...ll-going-strong
2017 article by Intel. Read the section "Protecting x86 ISA Innovation"

This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 4 2021, 06:53 PM

I've got a few which I use all the time which are still not native.
1. Dropbox
2. OneDrive
3. Evernote
4. Whatsapp
5. All Adobe apps except Creative Cloud which is native.

Just updated to 11.3 beta 3. Looking good so far. Crossover 64-bit bottles back to working again, beta 2 broke them.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 4 2021, 04:57 PM

I guess. The cheapest tier is buy once, use forever but 1-yr updates current version only. Whatever that means. Wait for sale, they always have 50% off.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 4 2021, 07:00 PM

No idea, I haven't tried games with Crossover.

Free Pixelmator Pro 2.
https://www.falkemedia-download.de/pixelmator-gratis/

This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 7 2021, 03:42 AM

Update to the problems encountered. Not sure Big Sur or M1 problems.

Happens on 11.2, 11.2.1, 11.2.2 and 11.3b2. (Can't remember if it happened on 11.1)

1. Video plays with a black screen with audio. VLC+mp4 or mkv. VLC with mpeg2 in a DVD folder. Had to logout. Rarely happens. So far twice.
2. Telco phone calls via my iPhone seems to be a lot less reliable than my MBPR Late 2013. Keeps disconnecting or losing audio or mic. Happens half the time. Enough for me not to want to use the Mac to make calls. Seems to be ok now on 11.3b3.
3. Safari losing Command-~ shortcut for switching windows. Quitting doesn't help.
4. Screenshots stops working after awhile. ⌘-⇧-4 activates the selection pointer but doesn't capture anything. ⌘-⇧-5 brings up the screenshot bar but is unresponsive to anything other than Escape.
5. Crossover running Win32/64 apps loses mouse clicks.
6. Sublime Text opens with a blank white window.
*3, 4, 5 & 6 happens together. Seems to occur less on 11.3b3. Only twice so far since 4/3. A logout fixes it.
7. qBittorrent 4.3.3 interface is very slow, click, beachball... Started happening with 11.3b3.
8. ⌥ key sometimes stops working for ⌥-⇧ (word selection), ⌥-arrows (cursor movement) and ⌥-letters/numbers (characters) but still works for other things (eg: ⌥-space to invoke Alfred). Affects only native apps, Some but not all Intel apps are fine. Happens only when Unicode Hex Input is selected.
9. SNMP community gets reset after every update (including 11.3b4)


Updates:
28/2: 11.3b2 broke Crossover 64-bit bottles. 32-bit are OK.
4/3: Just installed 11.3b3. Crossover 64-bit bottles fixed.
16/3: Installed 11.3b4.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 16 2021, 09:12 PM

Updated to 11.3b4 today. Everything seems snappier. Maybe just my imagination. Hope it solves some of the above problems.

But update not so smooth. Hung at the Apple Logo+Progress bar @80% early in the update. I think this is the part where the update restarts the Mac. Anyway waited 30-40mins before I dare to manually off/on.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 17 2021, 12:54 AM

It's pretty amazing. So fast and snappy and no more loud fans. I came from MBPR 15" Late 2013.

Internal SSD writes since I got my Mac mini.

Mac mini M1 16/256

Date (days)	TBW	GB/day
19/1	0 TB Assumed	na
24/2 (36)	1.85 TB	1.85/36 = 51.39 GB/day
3/3 (6)	2.67 TB	0.82/6 = 136.67/day	3 days spent installing CC 2019, 2020 & 2021
18/3 (15)	3.40 TB	0.73/15 = 48.67/day
1/4 (14)	3.85 TB	0.45/14 = 32.14/day
16/4 (15)	4.37 TB	0.52/15 = 34.67/day
3/5 (17)	4.83 TB	0.46/17 = 27.06/day
9/6 (37)	7.11 TB	2.28/37 = 61.62/day

This post has been edited by soonwai: Jun 9 2021, 07:38 PM

Yup, that's the monitor. So far no probs. Only concern I had was of bad pixels but luckily none at all.

Unfortunately no, Parallels on M1 only support Win 10 ARM. Win 10 ARM can emulate x86 and x86-64 but Parallels on M1 doesn’t 32 bit so no x86.

Internal cannot even though there's so much space inside. I use external thunderbolt 3 enclosure with NVME SSD. Posted about it here.
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&#entry99759788
Mine macam slow a bit. I see on YouTube Samsung SSD 970 Evo Plus external much faster but Adata is cheap.

This post has been edited by soonwai: May 3 2021, 08:27 PM

Dun think that's going to happen anytime soon, so few ARM PCs, but Win 10 ARM x86-64 emulation is not bad. I use it on my M1 for 1) Mikrotik Winbox router configuration app and 2) Steam Windows only games.