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Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine I have a beat up old CD of this album. It's perfect.

Sparks – No. 1 in Heaven

Roxette – Tourism

I've got a Samsung T7 and it seems to be pretty fast transferring files over USB-C. Shouldn't be a problem.

A bit too low for my tastes. 8GB RAM is the bare minimum, and I'd want 16 at least for future versions of macOS. The base refurb is more like a high-powered AppleTV box.

Sounds like neither RAM nor the SSD are upgradeable on the M1 Mini. Are you buying a refurbished unit? They have the same warranty as new Macs. Your specs sound reasonable for general purpose computing. I'm not sure when they'll update the Mini next... it might be next year. I think the current M1 prices are some of the better bargains out there for cost vs. performance.

What is this ship? 💩 I downloaded Monterey yesterday but I haven't had a chance to put it through its paces yet. It's very purple. 😈 P.S. I had to run Monterey on a 2020 MacBook Pro this morning to wipe a Big Sur volume and both Finder and Disk Utility crashed several times. I think most people should wait a few months before upgrading to Monterey.

A Corvette named Rambo:

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It's a great album. I've got most of her other albums, but this one is special.

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One of my big concerns with the old 16" MBP was the reported fan noise from connecting an external monitor. It's nice that they wanted to make sure thermals were under control (without throttling performance), but I prefer a silent computer if possible. The new one should be quiet.

I was looking at the old refurb 16" Intel MacBook Pros last week: had one at near $6,000 and a less extreme one at around $4,000 (32 vs 64GB RAM, 5500M vs 5600M, and 2TB vs 4TB SSD). That's a lot of money to ask for something with a 2018-era CPU and a 2019-era GPU. At least you'll get more performance and battery life out of these new ones. The pricing of the current M1 Mac Minis and MacBook Air computers, especially refurbished, offers one of the better values I've seen from Apple (relatively) in years.

Framework announced their parts marketplace: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22725935/framework-laptop-modular-marketplace-launches-spare-parts-upgrades-expansions I looked at the new Surface devices, but none of them work particularly well for my coworkers.

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I'd like to visit there some day. It lives in my imagination thanks to Swallows and Amazons!

The Jam – Sound Affects