Mac desktops and their long lives

[Astro What]

I've been using my Mac Mini since mid 2013 and have had to replace a few components on it, one being putting an SSD in it (which breathed new life into it). But it's so old now several browsers won't run on the OS version it is able to have installed. There is a way to hack the Mini to get later versions, but the two times I tried it, it failed.
Just found out today that on the 25th a new Mac Studio M4 Max (16 core CPU/40 Core GPU/16 core Neural Engine, 64GB Ram/4TB storage) will be arriving on our doorstep as an early Christmas present.

I'm honestly a big fan of the Mac over Windows and even over Linux. Of course, being having a BSD heritage, it's probably not surprising I like it. This machine will become my primary image processing machine for the captures I do. I just hope that the software vendor will finally get a version of their software out that fully supports the M4 chipset.

To say I'm looking forward to it would be an understatement.

 

[Retro]

Hmmm... NZ is a Windows forum, so Retro will now short circuit.

Enjoy your new Mac.

 

[Astro What]

Just added a MacBook Air 13" M4 to the mix.
If I decide to do the upgrade of the 1TB storage on the Studio I would have to have a newer Mac system on hand.... and considering that Apple wants $2200 for the 8TB storage upgrade and I can by it now aftermarket for $800... guess which I plan on doing.

 

[Astro What]

Dayum.... this new Studio stomps the old Mac Mini and is faster than the Dell Optiplex running my processing software. Only issue is should have gotten the larger storage option when I purchased, but with the new dock coming in I'll have 8TB of storage available on NVMe via the ThunderBolt 5 connector for storing my images.