Refurbished M1 MacBook Air ordered from Apple. It carries the same warranty as a new one, has a new battery & comes in a plain white box. That’s a saving of 9.5% on the new price.
@literary Thanks for the feedback and may I say, it’s nice to catch base with your again.
I will be getting a base model M1 MacBook Air in the next ten days. That gives time for any decent Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals to appear. Failing that, I’ll get a refurbished one from Apple, they can be had with a saving of almost 10% on the new price.
@sumudu I took it home to do the updates required then returned it to the venue.
Health has taken a bit of a dive the
last two days, just when my GP's
clinic closes for the weekend. I'm
bringing up green mucus &
undefined liquids if I lie down. It's
better sitting up though. I'm keeping myself hydrated with cold herbal infusions and will prepare a "hospital go bag" in case the condition devolves into pneumonia, for which I'm prone to develop.
If needed I can make an online
appointment with a registered GP
anywhere in Australia.
I administer the Men’s Shed 2020 27-in iMac. The internet connection is via an iPhone’s hotspot. Definitely not good enough to install macOS updates in excess of 15 GB total. We only came out of the latest COVID 19 lockdown last week so there had been no chance to updater to Monterey beforehand. I did the usual thing & downloaded the installer to a USB stick but when I ran the app in the Shed it fell over after two minutes with the error “unable to verify macOS.” This turns out to be related to Monterey & Macs with T2 chips.
So I took the iMac home last night & did the updates over my home broadband without any problems.
I did notice a pleasing oddity in the Shed today after returning it to its normal location.
In 2015 the Shed bought a multifunction laser printer. This worked fine until Big Sur arrived. After that install, the scanner part was non-functional. It would not respond under the Printers & scanners preference pane, Preview, Vuescan or Image Capture. As an interim measure I loaned the shed my elderly Epson V300 film & slide flatbed scanner pending purchase of a newer printer.
The oddity mentioned earlier was that under Monterey, the full scanner functionality was restored.
@streakmachine One day I should try the Big Beast Burner. It’s a 5.25-in external enclosure with a DL DVD drive in it & connection is via USB 2 or FireWire 400.
I have just repeated the earlier CD rip job done earlier with a USB Superdrive connected to a 2017 13-in MacBook Pro (Escape key) running Monterey.
The difference is I used the 2005 12-in G4 PowerBook running Leopard with identical import settings to the earlier process.
As I suspected, the G4 did the job faster.
I was looking through my Mike Oldfield music collection in Apple Music & realised that his first live album, Exposed, was missing. I searched the iTunes Store & Apple Music for it. No go. Internet search revealed it was not available online due to contractural disagreements between the artist & a couple of record labels.
No problem. I have the two-disc CD version of the album & an Apple USB SuperDrive. I ripped the CD to the MacBook Pro (a lot slower than I recall a G4 iBook performing the same action) and my Apple Music subscription saw it uploaded to my iCloud Music Library where it became available for streaming or downloading to other devices.
It sounds especially good via the 4k apple TV connected to a stereo pair of original big HomePods.