Basic stripped-down version of Monterey installed on the old MacBook Pro. Virtually no content in the Home folder. Ran Geekbench 5 on the 2017 MB Pro & the M1 MacBook Air. No contest: single core M1 double that of the Intel; multi-core M1 3.5 times the Intel & GPU M1 is 2.4 times faster.
finally managed to get Catalina onto the intermittently awkward 2017 MacBook pro via an old Time Machine backup. Next I added a new admin user account & deleted the other accounts after I uninstalled/deleted the non-Apple apps. A few supplementary updates & it’s currently OK.
But it’s not reliable.
Gave my 2017 4k iMac (quad-core 3.0 GHz/16 GB RAM/1TB SSD/Radeon Pro 555 2 GB dedicated graphics) a simple Handbrake conversion. It took 31.5 minutes. The same video with the same conversion parameters was done in 13.3 minutes on the M1 MacBook Air (7-core GPU/8-coreCPU/8GB Unified Memory/256 GB storage).
No side effects yet from my 3rd Covid 19 dose. It was NOT a booster, I'm immunocompromised & need 3 doses to bring my antibody production up to the same level as normal double-dosed folk. The first two injections were Astrazeneca, this latest was Pfizer.
Ferociously angry with the courier Amazon used to send a large package to my address. The company is under the impression that its name is "Couriers Please." I submit it would be far more accurate to rename themselves "Couriers Displease."
The package was sent to the wrong address. It had to go to Unit 4, number 4 x-street, somewheretown. Nope, these useless arseholes sent it to Unit 5, number 4, my next-door neighbour. So I was able to retrieve it, but you'd think the delivery person would confirm the unit number that's clearly on each front door and the adjoining post supporting the porch. I have expressed my displeasure & opened an enquiry case with said courier.
I heard that by law you need to turn on your headlights when it's raining in Sweden.
How the hell am I supposed to know when it's raining in Sweden? @streakmachine
The Mac App Store app has a setting where you can view & download iPhone & iPad apps onto an apple Silicon Mac. One such app that works brilliantly on my MB Air is the Pnut.io app ChimpNut.
Open the MAS app on your Apple Silicon Mac, click on your Apple ID in the lower left corner then click the "iPhone & iPad apps" tab.
It's potluck as to whether apps intended for a touch interface will work correctly on a Mac but it's certainly worth trying. @literary