My Mac mini has arrived

As I wrote in an earlier article, I bought a Mac for the first time in quite a while.

The specs are 16GB of memory, 1TB of storage, and an Apple M2 chip with an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU. I had hoped to keep it under 100,000 yen, but once I increased the storage and memory, it went well over that.

• Checking whether a MacBook 12 can be used for visionOS development
• Things I can still do with an old MacBook 12 for visionOS development

The last time I bought a Mac was in 2018: the 12-inch MacBook that had just been released at the time. This is also my first Mac mini, and naturally my first Apple silicon Mac.

For now, after setting up the minimum environment, I want to run a VisionOS sample app with XCode. But there are other things I want to do too.

One of them is moving the capture tool I have been building for years over to this Mac mini.

I had already been using a Mac for capture work, but the current setup runs on a 13-inch MacBook Pro released around 2016, and its battery has started swelling. It had become a serious source of anxiety.

The reason I capture on a Mac is that, when I first started capturing, Mac capture quality used to look much better than Windows capture.

So I will gradually enjoy this more modern Mac.