33: He has received some Mac

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Clay has an M1 in the computer garage, Vic orders his house around with HomeKit, and Scott doesn’t believe we have more than 1 listener!
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• Guys!!! Just wanna say thank you for all your Apple input and I decided on the iPhone 12 mini. Perfect size for me and the battery life is great compared to my old 7. Had it for a couple of weeks now and I love it❤️ xoxo mrs B

Callbacks

• Clay’s new MacBook Air (1TB/16GB RAM)
  • Feels like the future
  • 16GB feels like 32 or more GB
  • Used from friday 8pm till Sunday and was only at 27%
  • Keep wanting to touch the screen (most touchable human designed MacOS yet
  • 400 nits bright enough for photographers
  • Capture One Pro 20 which is not optimized for M1 is way faster under Rosetta 2 than my iMac mid 2011 with 32gb of RAM
  • This monitor is much better for photography editing vs my mid2011 iMac
  • Back-lit keyboard is interesting concept I never had a luxury of having. I am happy I can dial it down… It is set to 0
  • Battery life is phenomenal (charge every other day with heavy use ie photography editing)
  • Clay is gonna rate M1 MBA against all computers I’ve owned (including iPad & iPhone).
  • iOS apps
  • Use a shared folder with Time Machine
    • You can set up a shared folder on your Mac that other Mac computers can use as a Time Machine backup destination. The folder must be located on an Apple File System (APFS) volume and shared using the SMB protocol.

Topics

• Vic’s home is getting smarter.
  • Current Status
    • Ecobee Smart Thermostat with Voice Control and Smart Sensors
      • 5 sensors in addition to the thermostat distributed through the house.
    • Wemo Smart Plugs
      • 6 of these in the house
        • 4 running Christmas Trees for now
        • 2 control lamps
  • Wish List to add in the future
    • Circle View Doorbell by Logitech
    • MYQ® Home Bridge by Chamberlain (For Garage Door Opener)
    • Alexa Enabled Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide Detector Alarm with Premium Home Speaker, Onelink Safe & Sound by First Alert
    • HomePod mini
  • Other Discussion Points
    • Light Switches vs Bulbs
    • Homebridge
    • HomeKit vs Alexa
    • Four Christmas Trees
    • What smart home tech do you guys have/want?

Links:

Apps

• Home+ 4
• Controller for HomeKit by Jan Andre

Web

• What is Apple’s Rosetta 2 & How it Works Explained
• Homebridge
• Homebridge Discord group

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