#PLEX ON MAC PRO 2008 INSTALL#
#PLEX ON MAC PRO 2008 BLUETOOTH#

The 5K display was readable on my 16” laptop screen but I lowered the resolution a bit using Display preferences on the Mac mini just to make it a bit easier to see. I got my MacBook Pro and did a screen share into the Mac mini to continue to play. Again, cake and eat it too, and I had a solution. But I really wanted to play with the M1 Mac mini. In the morning I like to sit in bed with a cup of coffee and doodle around on the Internet. I told Steve when I came down to dinner that I was hyperventilating because as I was feeding the Mac new things to do, it was doing them so quickly I didn’t have a chance to rest between activities. If you had asked me how long it takes to move an app between folders, I would have already told you it was instantaneous, but this is even faster. I downloaded an app and moved it from Downloads to Applications and it felt like it vaporized it moved so quickly. My first impressions of the Mac mini were just what people have said – this is a noticeably snappy machine.

#PLEX ON MAC PRO 2008 INSTALL#

1Password isn’t universal yet so I got a request to install Rosetta, and it worked perfectly. I got the Mac mini in the evening on Friday and hooked it up and did a bit of playing around, installing just a couple of essentials like 1Password and TextExpander. I doubt this will be the last time I get confused like this! Of course the MacBook Pro’s Loopback couldn’t hear QuickTime because it wasn’t there. I had correctly set up Loopback on the MacBook, but then opened QuickTime on the big display in front of me, which was the Mac mini. I sat there in confusion for a few minutes before I realized my mistake. But I hit play on QuickTime, and the little meters in Loopback didn’t weren’t moving for the QuickTime source. I opened up Rogue Amoeba’s Loopback software, and added QuickTime to the virtual audio source I use to pipe audio to YouTube and Discord. While prepping for the live show, I had some audio I wanted to play from QuickTime and have the live audience be able to hear it. Here’s an example of how my little brain gets confused by this setup. I’ve still got the MacBook Pro on a stand to my right, and the keyboard and mouse are still right in front of me and the 27″ display is still showing the display of a Mac, but now it’s the Mac mini. Now when I’m working on the Mac mini, my desk looks exactly the same.

#PLEX ON MAC PRO 2008 BLUETOOTH#

For ages I’ve had my MacBook Pro on the right side of my desk on a stand, the 27″ monitor right in front of me, and the Magic keyboard and trackpad connected over Bluetooth to the MacBook Pro. This does cause some mental gymnastics for me though. I realized I can just move the Thunderbolt 3 cable between the two Macs whenever I want to switch. I wanted to be able to to have my cake and eat it too. I need to use the big monitor with my MacBook Pro but I can’t use the Mac mini without a monitor. I’d love to start using the Mac mini for all of my work, but my Universal Audio Apollo Solo Thunderbolt interface for my big girl mic isn’t yet compatible with macOS Big Sur. In a way, my laptop acts as a desktop most of the time. The dock provides power and Ethernet, as well as video to my 27” 5K LG display. However, my MacBook Pro is tethered to a CalDigit TS3+ dock most of the day. I’ve been a laptop user ever since the original PowerBooks were introduced, so I’m not used to using a desktop. Regardless of whether I needed an M1 Mac mini, here we are. This Mac mini is so neglected that I just noticed it’s still running Mojave! For a while, the Mac mini ran as my PLEX server, but the itty bitty processor in the Synology is actually faster and more reliable. That’s where Chronosync comes in.īetween 2 and 3 pm every day, the Mac mini jumps into action and runs these backups and then goes back to sleep until the next day. The Mac mini runs Carbon Copy Cloner, which works great on all of the shares on our Synology but for some reason I and Mike Bombich cannot discern, Carbon Copy Cloner can seem to back up Steve’s giant Final Cut Pro video libraries. Its primary duty is to run two applications that back our Synology up to our Drobo. Our current Intel Mac mini doesn’t really have much to do. But let’s be honest with ourselves, I just really wanted an M1 Mac and since the big-girl MacBook Pro isn’t out yet, this was a relatively inexpensive method to get an M1. In theory, I bought the Mac mini to replace its aging predecessor, a 6-year-old 2.6GHz Intel Core i5. I received my new M1 Mac mini on Friday night after waiting a bit longer because I did a build to order to get a larger 1TB SSD.

Plex on mac pro 2008