I think it’s time to consolidate from having both a laptop and a desktop to a laptop only. Prior to Apple Silicon Macs,Intel Macs alway performed much differently. And until the 15″ MacBook Air, I couldn’t afford the size of laptop that I like. I have always had 13″ MacBooks because that’s all I could…
Category: Switching to Apple Silicon
Office Tour Fall 2023
I think my office has come a long way in the past couple of years and I can’t resist sharing with my readers. So here goes… Work Setup includes a MSi Vigor GK20 RGB keyboard and a MSi GM20 RGB Gaming Mouse (I have the same ones a my desk in the office. I brought…
Switching to Apple Silicon Part III: The Experience
Where to start? I guess in comparison to my iMac, it hasn’t been really any different. For the first couple of weeks, I haven’t really done anything extraordinary on the Mac mini. I have been doing menial tasks, some benchmarking, but no video editing nor photo editing. These may or may not change the experience….
Switching to Apple Silicon Part II: The Benchmarks (Supplemental)
So, I decided to benchmark my laptop as well because it has nVidia RTX mobile graphics but has a much weaker 10th Gen Core i5 CPU. I am just going to put the graphs up. I think you can see that the RTX mobile graphics has higher computational scores than my desktop AMD GPU and…
Switching to Apple Silicon Part II: The Benchmarks
I came from an 27″ Intel Core i9-9900k. The 9900k in the iMac was gimped to begin with due to lack of appropriate thermal solution. However, it was a fast chip. Compared to other iMacs, at least. Compare an iMac to a PC built around a 9900k and there is a big difference. So, Apple…
Switching to Apple Silicon Part I: The Setup
Hi my dear readers. I am going to do a two part series on my move to Apple Silicon. I have resisted to this point but the falling resale values of Intel Macs has made me re-think my strategy with Apple Macs going forward. I decided to go with a Mac mini setup because I…



