Other Intel-only apps I’ve tried have also worked similarly well. Even IPC between 1Password under Rosetta and the natively-running Firefox extension works flawlessly. Once it launched, everything worked exactly as I expect. Aside from a slight delay when launching the app for the first time (due to Rosetta pre-translating the Intel binary into ARM). Using Rosetta for 1Password worked perfectly. Additional copies of system libraries are needed because within a single process only one architecture can be used: either everything must be Intel or everything must be Apple Silicon. Presumably it’s shipped separately and not bundled with the base OS because of the bandwidth requirements of shipping an x86_64 version of every system library that not everyone may need.
Mac mini review m1 install#
app from another computer, I double clicked it to launch it, just like any other app, after which the OS presented a dialog asking if I wanted to install Rosetta. Fortunately, Rosetta comes to the rescue. Of course, this means that it hasn’t been recompiled to be a Universal app it only runs on Intel. For reasons that don’t bear getting into, I use an old version of 1Password 6, not the most recent.
Mac mini review m1 password#
With long, random passwords, this is rather tedious, so before proceeding I wanted to install my password manager. With Firefox reinstalled, I started signing back into a bunch of my accounts. You might think this would be a given, but when I tried Firefox on the macOS 11 at the beginning of the beta cycle (on my Intel machine, even), video playback was almost completely non-functional. Just playing around, visiting a few websites, I was happy to see everything appeared to be working.
When the M1 Macs first became available there weren’t yet native versions of big applications like Firefox and Chrome available, but fortunately by the time I got mine, a beta version of Firefox that was recompiled for ARM was available. The first thing I did after setting up my account was to install Firefox. So far, I’ve moved just about all of my non-work desktop computing over to it, and it’s been absolutely fantastic. The 16GB of RAM, however, is necessary to do any iOS development (Xcode and all the various associated services can by themselves easily consume almost 8 gigs). If I really desperately need extra space down the line, I can buy a cheap external SSD (that will continue to be useful after this computer is gone). The reasoning for the bare minimum storage is that Apple charges an arm and a leg for extra space, and I intend this to primarily be a stopgap machine until there are higher-power Apple Silicon equipped laptops. The configuration I got has 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage (the base amount).
Mac mini review m1 mac#
I’ve had an M1 Mac mini for about a month now, so I thought I’d write up my experiences with it.
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