Media thread - 19 October 2021, 9:29

A screenshot of the Apple Store showing a 16" MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip in the Space Grey colour, with 32GB RAM, and 2TB storage.

Happy New MacBook Pro Day! 🎉 This will be a worthy upgrade from my Late 2013 27" iMac. Now I just need to find a decent high-DPI external display...

Posted on 19 October 2021, 9:29

A photo of the box of an LG 34" Ultrawide display sitting on the floor, with a small scruffy blonde dog furiously sniffing it.

Given the 34" LG monitor I'd been eyeing off was entirely unavailable everywhere, I'd decided to just stick with my iMac-in-Target-Display-Mode setup for when the new MacBook Pro arrives. Unfortunately it turns out that the iMacs with Thunderbolt DO NOT work in TDP with M1 Macs. 😞 So I'd be without a proper desk setup. On a lark over the weekend I decided to check for that monitor again, and lo and behold it was in stock! Ordered one and it just arrived. 🎉

I can't actually USE it until the new MacBook Pro arrives though, because I don't have remotely enough space on my desk for my old iMac plus the new display. 😛

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Posted on 9 November 2021, 12:49

A photo of the box of my new M1 Max 16" MacBook Pro.

🎉🎉🎉

our house darkroom new toys macbook pro

Posted on 12 November 2021, 14:05

A photo of my old computer setup: a 27" 2013 iMac in the middle sitting atop a slightly-dodgy home-made wooden stand, with a 15 year-old 24" Dell to the left of it sitting on an even dodgier stand that consists of hard rectangular pieces of cardboard that were part of the packaging for something or other. There's a Thunderbolt dock next to the iMac with a ton of cables coming out of it.

A photo of my new desk setup: a 34K LG Ultrawide monitor with a Space Grey M1 Max MacBook Pro off to the left sitting on a laptop stand, with one single cable coming out of the laptop that provides power, USB, and video.

Before and after. 😎

our house darkroom new toys macbook pro

Posted on 13 November 2021, 13:26

A photo of an ultrawide display seemingly suspended above my desk. To the left is a Space Grey 16" MacBook Pro on a stand.

One issue I didn't foresee with the new monitor is that it's SO wide it catches the glare from the window right next to me. And because it doesn't have the anti-reflective coating that my iMac had, unless I run it at a higher brightness than I'd prefer, I struggle to see the very left side of it when the sun is shining directly in. I ordered a monitor arm so I can play around with the positioning more, and it arrived today. Looks so clean and tidy!

To properly do this rearranging, though, I've subsequently realised that I ALSO need a laptop stand that can move the laptop higher than my current one, so now I've had to order one of those too, heh.

our house darkroom new toys macbook pro

Posted on 18 November 2021, 15:10

A photo of the "Erase Mac" screen in macOS's Recovery Mode, with the "Are you sure you want to do this? It can't be undone" dialog showing.

RIP 2013 iMac, you've served me absolutely flawlessly. /salute

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Posted on 18 November 2021, 20:20