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After 12 years, it was finally time to replace my original 2008 unibody MacBook Pro. With the iPad Pro taking over the role of mobile computing device, I opted for a Mac Mini with the M1 chip. First impressions are that the hardware is really fast, the I/O is a bit sparse, and the Big Sur is buggy. One of the first things I tested was Xcode unarchiving and I was able to use xip to unpack Xcode 12....

This week saw the announcement of a new MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and new iPad Pros. The Mac Mini was well overdue for an update (the update took 1475 days) and the MacBook Air update got rid of the last non-Retina Mac, but the star of the show was the new iPad Pro. The new iPad Pros contains an 8-core CPU and a 7-core GPU which allow them to do a lot of work quickly....