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After the head scratcher exercise required to use Migration Assistant with one Studio Display and two computers, I connected an external raid via USB-C alongside the Studio Display connection. A 10Gb Ethernet connection goes to my 10Gb hub. The Magic Keyboard and Logitech mouse connect via Bluetooth. Seems okay.

But my M1 Ultra Mac Studio has suddenly started (after all this time since new with no changes to any
cables) having resets at night. A new Gremlin to chase down.

Got my M4 Pro Mac mini (64GB Ram,10Gb ethernet and 2TB SSD) two days ago.

Overnight, Migration Assistant successfully moved everything via WiFi from my M2 Pro Mac mini (32GB Ram, 10GB Ethernet and 2TB SSD) to the new unit. 

Both units had their own  Magic Keyboard and my Logitech mouse has 3 switchable Bluetooth connections so it worked with both devices. Had to constantly switch the Apple monitor cable for the Studio Display between the two units to get Migration Assistant going. I had the keyboard connected with a Lightning to USB-C cable to one of the M4 Pro front USB-C slots.

Once done, I added the USB-C cable to the Raid drive to the new mini on the back along with the Studio Display cable. The Logitech mouse and new Magic Keyboard connect vis Bluetooth. I had issues with the Studio Display because I used the prior LG monitor's cable. Putting the Apple Display cable that came with it cured the waking up of the screen issue.

So far so good. Also SMP and VNC connections over 10Gb ethernet worked where they did not on the prior unit. Both units were on MacOS 15.2 operating system.

Wondering if the issue with the earlier M4 mini models could be operating system issues if not on latest release? Or, perhaps the issue did not happen with the M4 Pro chip models?

So much for the lifetime licenses.

Perhaps another "just a chip" marginal update will be presented tomorrow. No wonder there is no big event. These "updates" could have been done with a few sentence E-Mail.

The year after spending close to $7,500 on a fully speced M1 Ultra Mac Studio (128GB ram 8TB SSD), the Apple trade in value was $1,250 for the same spec M2 Ultra Mac Studio. Needless to say, I still have the M1 version. Not sure I would even consider the M4/5 next year. Apple must consider their products residual value pretty low on the totem pole and perhaps that is because they hope they will last just the factory warranty period.

I plan to look closely at a M4 Max 16" MacBook Pro laptop. But if the numbers are poor, I can survive with my 14" Max MacBook Pro (64GB 4TB SSD).

This iMac upgrade is just like the iPad mini v7 - do the least possible in a chip upgrade. Both of those devices also needed a base memory update for AI.

My M2 Pro mini sports 32GB of ram and could have been ordered with the 8TB SSD. So the M4 should be able to support 48 GB of ram

To date, Apple's hardware updates have been marginal at best and certainly not reflective of the engineering staff Apple pays every month. They wasted a fortune on the Headset debacle and are shutting down its production by year's end due to declining sales and no future for the product. It will be just like the car deal where billions were squandered.