If you’re at a loose end of a Thursday lunchtime, then come and join the thronging hordes on Discord (pcpro.link/discord), where you can endure the live recording of our award-dodging PC Pro podcast. You’ll hear scandalous gossip utterly unsuitable for broadcast and marvel as Tim backs another lemon in “Hot Hardware of the Week”. There’s also debate and borderline abuse thrown at the presenters from the chat room, including this recent comment by PCPlod: “Isn’t it the case that almost all of the PC Pro contributors use Macs?”
PCPlod could be correct, but their pertinent observation has forced me into the following confession. Back in issue 321 (on p116), I wrote about Jon Honeyball’s M1 MacBook Air and said: “I want one. But I won’t buy one because it’s impossible to upgrade (or repair) its internal storage.”
True to form, I’m writing this on a refurbed M1 Mac mini. It’s the 8-core CPU/GPU version with 256GB of storage and cost the princely sum of £589. A lot to spend on a machine that then gathered dust.
After delivery, it took 11 months to unwrap the box, and the excuse was that I support Windows users, so my work machines need to be as Microsoft-vanilla as I can make them. If a client needs some help modifying an obscure Windows setting, then it’s useful). I suppose I underwent some sort of mid-life crisis and. instead of reaching for the hot trousers and leather blondes (is that right?), I bought a Mac.
