The power button on the underside of the current Mini is ... ok, let's call that weird. There's a cottage industry of folks with 3D printers churning out gizmos designed to fix that. Anyway, with my left side paralyzed, I wanted no part of that.

Slow startup time may have to do with network connections that have to be made at the store. From the startup chime to login screen, my Studio M2 Ultra averages 17 seconds. I shut it down and restarted five times this morning just to report.

Contrast this with ancient times — twelve years ago—when my 2010 i7 iMac took 20 minutes to boot up and log into 100 browser tabs over 3 screens. I'd start, get my breakfast and be ready for work (company had been working from home since 1995). Ten years ago, I replaced the mechanical HDD with an SSD and cut the time down to 4 minutes—Yeah Baby! Eight years ago, I called Apple Support to wonder why a 2 1/2 hour video of an opera I sang was locking up FinalCutProX. After a screen share, I was told that it wasn't locked—my file would finish rendering in a week. Oh... I ordered my iMac Pro the next day—it arrived about the time that AV file was finished. As you can bet, the first test I gave it was that same file which took 28 minutes to crunch on that same machine (now my test file foe every Mac—4 minutes on my current Studio). If you like Gilbert & Sullivan, some Russian site has it for viewing. Ruddigore — Gilbert & Sullivan Society of San Jose. Roderick was my first stage role 4 1/2 years after my stroke and, to hide my paralysis, I'm wearing a floor length cape made from a velvet curtain (I felt like Scarlett O'Hara).

BIAB 2025 Audiophile Mac
24Core/60CoreGPU M2 MacStudioUltra/8TB/192GB Sequoia, M1 MBAir, 2012 MBP
Digital Performer11, LogicPro, Finale27/Dorico/Encore/SmartScorePro64/Notion6 /Overture5