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[HaWi]

Performance on my iMac went way up from 2837 to 3590. Thanks Bob.

[blgentry]

Interesting.  You got a performance increase of roughly 25%.  I just ran these two on my system:

JRMark (version 29.0.38 64 bit): 6276
JRMark (version 29.0.56 64 bit): 6966

That's a difference of about 10%. 

MC always seems very snappy on this system, but then again so does almost everything else.  Scrolling through album covers is still a little jumpy/chunky, but MC has been that way since I started using it with MC20.

Brian.

[HaWi]

I believe there was a change in .50 that created a drop in performance for non-M1 Macs that was removed in .56. So for me it's just back to normal, however, since I reported the drop in .50, I also wanted to let Bob know that the reversal in .56 worked.

[blgentry]

Ah ha, so it was a version 50 issue.  Since I tested from an earlier version it makes sense that I only saw a 10% change.  I should have just asked which version you had come from I guess. 

Thanks for the clarification.
Brian.

[bob]

Also it doesn't seem to make as much of a difference on Intel as it does on the M1 Macs.

[EnglishTiger]

Also it doesn't seem to make as much of a difference on Intel as it does on the M1 Macs.

A couple of "Daft" Questions about the M1 MAC Mini:
1) Why when you tell it to download and install a new version of Monterey does the daft thing do a check for Available Updates on the completion of downloading, given that the version it ends up telling you is now available is the one you told it to download and install 
2) For a PC that runs pretty efficiently it sure takes it's time over Preparing and Installing an OS Update. The last time I saw an OS update take anywhere near that long  was back in the days when the MS Operating Systems and Updates were issued on floppy disks 

[bob]

A couple of "Daft" Questions about the M1 MAC Mini:
1) Why when you tell it to download and install a new version of Monterey does the daft thing do a check for Available Updates on the completion of downloading, given that the version it ends up telling you is now available is the one you told it to download and install 

The only thing I can think of is that sometimes major updates enable new minor updates to be seen, just as an example, a supplementary driver for iDevice access.

2) For a PC that runs pretty efficiently it sure takes it's time over Preparing and Installing an OS Update. The last time I saw an OS update take anywhere near that long  was back in the days when the MS Operating Systems and Updates were issued on floppy disks 

Yeah, the process seems pretty involved.
Usually downloads a disk image, reboots to that disk image, partially installs from that disk image, reboots again to finish installing, reboot one more time into the OS.
I think at least some of that has to do with the way the security has evolved on MacOS, it's way more complex than it was a few years ago.

[blgentry]

Regarding MacOS updates:  I've found updates to MacOS to be the smoothest, easiest, most reliable of any OS I've ever used.  This is from someone who has run Linux, Windows, and Mac as a desktop OS.  I would be rather surprised if your experience with Windows or Linux, doing OS upgrades, was better than that with MacOS. 

Have you had a better upgrade experience in another environment?

The M1 chip is a huge step forward, in performance, as well as power consumption.  But it doesn't make upgrades a lot different.  Much of the upgrade process is bound by other things that are outside of the chip that runs the computer.

Brian.

[bob]

Regarding MacOS updates:  I've found updates to MacOS to be the smoothest, easiest, most reliable of any OS I've ever used.  This is from someone who has run Linux, Windows, and Mac as a desktop OS.  I would be rather surprised if your experience with Windows or Linux, doing OS upgrades, was better than that with MacOS. 

Have you had a better upgrade experience in another environment?

The M1 chip is a huge step forward, in performance, as well as power consumption.  But it doesn't make upgrades a lot different.  Much of the upgrade process is bound by other things that are outside of the chip that runs the computer.

Brian.

Just in case you are wondering, I'm not complaining.

Though I use Windows, MacOS and linux, MacOS is my desktop go to.
My server runs on linux of course and when I need something that won't run anywhere else, I grab my partners windows touchscreen laptop.

The M1 is certainly an interesting twist. I really don't think it's as fast as my i9 dev box for compiling but it's fast enough to not be annoying. I assume things will only get better.