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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.

#4K PLEX MAC MINI 2016 PRO#

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.

#4K PLEX MAC MINI 2016 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.

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