I had my M1 Mac mini and its associated Logitech AudioHub (combination subwoofer 2.1 stereo soundbar/USB 2 hub) listed for sale in a few places but decided to give Facebook marketplace a go for the Mac, having found a use at home for the speaker setup.
It sold 10 hours ago to the first person who expressed interest in it. Quite pleased with that. I chose to demonstrate the Mac in the garage instead of in my home for privacy reasons. I had it connected to a 21-year-old 20-inch Apple Cinema Display that only needed a DVI-to-HDMI adaptor to make it workable.
That was an interesting problem: I have a 2015 FujiXerox colour laser printer connected via USB to the USB port of an Apple AirPort Extreme. This connection gives a faster response to printing jobs than either Ethernet or Wi-Fi connections.
Yesterday I was unable to print wirelessly from either the M3 MacBook Air or the M4 Mac mini despite the two computers being able to start the printer from its dormant state. I found the problem to also be affecting the Canon inkjet printer in the bedroom.
It was a setting in System Settings-->General-->Sharing-->Printer Sharing. After turning Printer Sharing on with the MacBook Air I checked the setting on the M4 mini. It was already on but beside the toggle for that setting there was a an information indicator. Clicking on that revealed that all users on both printers had no access. that setting should have read "Can Print" instead of "No Access."
So I was getting woeful to negligible wi-fi connection speeds from three different routers: my ISP-provided modem router; my Apple Air
port Extreme and my cheap mesh network when trying the MacBook Air in the bedroom. Checked the speed of the Ethernet-connected M4 Mac mini: it was fine. This is connected to an Ethernet switch which in turn is connected to the ISP modem router.
A simple fix. Turn the modem router off and back on again, waith 10-15 minutes for connection to be reestablished and try again. Bingo, all wi-fi networks were back up to their normal speeds.
@matigo For home use I have various HomePod arrangements: single original in one bedroom, stereo pair of Minis in another bedroom connected to an Apple TV 4k and a stereo pair of 2nd generation HomePods in the lounge room connected to another Apple TV 4K and 4k 50-in TV. Nothing seriously portable until now. Output-wise, it’s better than the pair of HomePod Minis but less so than the pair of big HomePods.
The final payment of my late mother’s estate has arrived in my bank account. I have bought one of these devices:
https://amzn.asia/d/hY6Dq1N
I bought directly from SoundCore and didn’t notice that Amazon had matched the price until later. It’s a brilliant bit of kit, too. I’m well pleased.
Handy new device released by RayCue. It's a dock/stand for the M4 Mac mini and has nine accessory ports all fed by a single USB-C cable connected to one of the Thunderbolt ports. https://www.raycue.com/products/raycue-type-c-stand-hub-with-ssd-enclosure-for-all-new-mac-mini-m4-m4pro
@matigo Not yet. But if I get a 2.5 gigabit Ethernet router in the future it'll be covered. This thing is a long-term investment, I expect to keep it at least 4 years.
M4 Mac mini has arrived. Set up with Migration Assistant using a bootable clone of the M1 Mac mini as the data source. Very nice indeed. Chose 24GB memory, 1TB storage and 10 gigabit Ethernet.