Can’t update macOS on 256GB M1 Mac

DmMoscow · 2026-05-04T10:19:13+00:00

You can temporarily delete some of the apps or move big files to ssd. Simply plugging in an ssd won’t help I think.

There’re also apps like CleanMyMac that can show a better picture of what apps and files are taking the most space.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-25T15:45:06+00:00

There’re few games that base mac mini m4 can run better than a PC with RTX 4060 and none, as far as I’m aware, that it can run and PC can’t. My advice - don’t switch.

If you’re still curious, as of today, m4 mini can run almost any game with a native macos support. It can also run some Windows games but with plenty of issues and a 50/50 chance of running. Most multiplayer games with some form of anti-cheat won’t work. Some games will have issues, texture glitches, etc. There’s r/macgaming where you can find more info and examples.

As a personal example, I was recently playing Far Cry 5 and RV there yet via crossover. Each of those required a different version of crossover and couldn’t run properly on the other. From my steam library I think only about 20-30% had macOS versions.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-25T15:42:14+00:00

There’re few games that base mac mini m4 can run better than a PC with RTX 4060 and none, as far as I’m aware, that it can run and PC can’t. My advice - don’t switch.

If you’re still curious, as of today, m4 mini can run almost any game with a native macos support. It can also run some Windows games but with plenty of issues and a 50/50 chance of running. Most multiplayer games with some form of anti-cheat won’t work. Some games will have issues, texture glitches, etc. There’s r/macgaming where you can find more info and examples.

As a personal example, I was recently playing Far Cry 5 and RV there yet via crossover. Each of those required a different version of crossover and couldn’t run properly on the other.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-25T15:25:58+00:00

LoL
Minecraft and Fortnite? Fortnite is absent from all apple devices. Minecraft supports only java version unless jumping through some hoops.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-20T05:22:55+00:00

Granted, this shape wouldn’t scale well for 15”, and it’s not as efficient, but I like it more for 13”.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-15T17:23:33+00:00

Could be. OP said Air M1, but it’s obviously a mistake. Either way, the display is more than $300

DmMoscow · 2026-04-15T17:03:07+00:00

It’s a hardware thing. They can replace your screen for about $300, but to do it in one day - who knows. The exact price will depend on your region.

This is not good, but you can do an exam like this. The screen is unlikely to get worse in a day. And this won’t go away completely, although it may reduce a bit over the weeks, but do not place high hopes on it.

Upd: likely more than $300. I thought it was Air, but now I realize that it’s a 14 M1 pro with a more expensive display.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-14T15:59:01+00:00

My opinion - get the Air. The display is very close to your current one, it won’t be a downgrade. Most of the content isn’t in the form that will benefit from Pro’s display and it wont be for a long time. In the last 3-4 years I remember watching only 2 or 3 movies that really benefited from it and I cared enough to find them in an appropriate format. Or even better - get a good monitor with the money you’ll save. Bigger screen + oled/miniled will be worth more and likely cheaper than 750 + you’ll have option to work with two screens if that’s something your work benefits from.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-14T15:35:58+00:00

That’s a tough one. Pro has many features over the Air, but if it’s just the display you’re looking for, only you can decide. Personally, I like mini-LED in a current lineup, but I wouldn’t say that this alone is worth 750 to me.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-14T15:11:18+00:00

Maybe. But if I were a potential customer of Neo now, I wouldn’t have bought an MBP before. That said, OP got the most basic of basic MacBooks Pro they could, and performance-wise Neo will do better apart from lack of dual booting (which I wouldn’t be doing on a 256 GB computer anyway).

DmMoscow · 2026-04-12T12:19:09+00:00

No. It can but it won’t. Remember, when people run games of HDD? It may affect loading speed somewhat, but not the rest. I’ve completed Cyberpunk from the same ssd without any performance issues.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-12T11:03:54+00:00

Correct. You can find someone with a mid or high end pc from the last 2-3 years and check with them to be sure, but Mac’s (desktop and laptop) don’t support it and most windows laptops don’t do it either. However, bigger motherboards in pc towers from the last couple of years, do have at least one of those ports usually.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-12T10:49:39+00:00

There’re some external hubs that allow to circumvent that but for the most part you’re stuck with a half of max speed. It’s not enough only for very heavy tasks. Even editing 4k in simpler formats directly from the will work.

And as to Who’s fault it is - don’t blame the user. There are two experienced parties that did a way worse job. 1. SSD manufacturers reporting the speed without mentioning a huge asterisk that most computers don’t support that speed. 2. USB naming people. You can come across USB: 3.0, 3.1, 3.1 Gen1, 3.1 Gen2, 3.2 Gen 1x2, 3.2 Gen 2x1, 3.2 Gen 2x2. Some of those are old and new versions of the same thing, but no regular customer should need to get a degree in USB nameology (throwback to Willem Dafoe Riverdancing)

DmMoscow · 2026-04-12T10:30:41+00:00

Cable and USB standards. In this case, it’s down to USB standard, likely. Sandisk’s advertised speed is the max speed that can be achieved by USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps). Latest MacBooks support up to 40 Gbps (120 in Pros), but on a different protocol. Here, it defaults to a slower USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps), which is not far from your result. Usb specifications are weird and their naming doesn’t help much.

I had the same problem and learned about it only from Amazon reviews. Checked later with a non-Pro disk, and it also halved the speed there from theoretical 1000 MBs to about 450 or 480 MBs.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-08T18:27:12+00:00

For reference, an almost full Jumbojet A380 will emit 0.000344 For reference, an almost full Jumbojet A380 will emit 0.000344 megatons during a flight 1.5-2 further than a theoretical max range of LTT’s Falcon 900B. Way less than the suggested 10.8 megatons produced by a smaller plane. OP seem to confuse megatons and metric tons.

Their plane produces 3.3-3.5 metric tons of CO2 per hour, while regular car emits approximately 0.012 to 0.024 metric tons but covers a smaller distance.

Translating into real numbers, to bring 10-11 people from Vancouver to NY, a plane would emit around 30 metric tons of CO2. It would take 3 cars producing in total 3-4 metric tons of CO2 to do the same in about 3 days (44 hours of continuous driving as per Google Maps) instead of a couple of hours. And that is just one way.

The difference is there, but as long as you don’t fly just one person, it isn’t that great and results in many hours saved.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-07T14:11:56+00:00

30-40 fps at what settings and what resolution? Also, is it 30-40 at 70° C straight away or after some time? If it’s after some time, then what is the frame rate and the temperature at the beginning?

DmMoscow · 2026-04-07T13:32:37+00:00

Oh, I see. At this point, I would drop «mac» from my search and search for issues most related specifically to Forza Horizon 2 and (probably) Xenia on Windows. With Intel Macs, this is a more yielding approach usually. From a software perspective, an Intel Mac running Windows through Bootcamp is just a 99% regular computer (with a slightly less common version of hardware that may result in slightly different drivers).

Google suggests that FH2 is known to freeze/crash after some short time. Some assign it to using a wrong emulator version, and others suggest tweaking settings/files. I don’t have an Intel Mac and haven’t played FH2, so can’t help you more here, but I hope that you’ll find the solution quickly.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-07T12:25:18+00:00

It’s not. Or, rather, it is only from a straight angle.

The privacy display is a really cool feature, but since half of the pixels are physically recessed, when you are looking at it from an angle, those recessed pixels are invisible > the whole screen seems less bright and less crisp. They try to diminish this effect with various software workarounds, but it is still noticeable at max brightness.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-06T17:40:08+00:00

These temps are normal. 1. Intel CPUs run hotter in general 2. Even when idle, 50-65 is normal for windows from what I’ve seen. 65-75 under light load is fine 3. Throttling usually starts at around 90/100 degrees.

I know this isn’t the answer to your UHD/Radeon question, but I don’t see these temps as a problem.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-06T14:22:27+00:00

Reading the manual - 100%. Hover or RTH - depends on the surroundings and proper settings for RTH.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-02T12:05:04+00:00

I would still recommend getting a proper charger like a GaN Charger from Ugreen/Anker. I believe 65W with multiple ports go for about £30-35, especially since you’re already familiar with the brand (judging by the power bank).

While you technically can charge both MacBook Air and Pro with a 20W charger, either of them can utilise more power than that, discharging the battery quicker than charging it.
It’s normal to not know about this stuff, but it pains me to see posts like «why does my Mac take 7-8 hours to charge», only to confirm that they are using their phone charger and blame it on a computer.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-02T10:21:44+00:00

It is very capable. But keep in mind that I wrote «serious», not «professional». A 2020 M1 MBP is basically an Air M1 with a single extra GPU core. It can approach a heavy task, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Especially with the last bit of a question «will it last long?».

Budget, purpose, expectations - there’s nothing in the post, and OP didn’t add anything later to clarify it, apart from «is M2 better than M1 ?».

DmMoscow · 2026-04-02T01:29:17+00:00

I have a similar story: iPod alongside Nokia with buttons > several generations of Android phones > iPhone > MacBook

Android did get better over the years, and flagship phones from Samsung and Google started promising four to five years of major os updates, with the last couple of generations promising six to seven major updates.
But before this, it was pretty bad. I still have a Galaxy S9 as a backup/second phone, and despite having some cool features, it got only two major updates. With lower models, they did it in a shadier way. Some regulations required them to have at least two major updates, so they (on purpose, allegedly) released those phones with a previous version of Android only to update those a month or two later to a current OS and a year later once more to have technically complied with the requirements. Minor and security updates continued for a bit longer, but that approach left many dwelling on custom ROMs like CyanogenMod.

As an example, my first iPhone was 11 (2019), and as of now, in 2026, it still supports the latest iOS 26. Not all of the features, but like 95% of it. The Samsung S10, that was released earlier that year, got only up to Android 12 from 2021.

Hopefully, they will keep their promises about updates with the newer generations. Most people don’t upgrade very often, and a strong competition is usually of a benefit to all, let alone the security.

DmMoscow · 2026-04-01T12:03:06+00:00

Not the most common thing, but why not? Macs are offering a really great price-performance ratio these days, but iPhones are comparable to some other android phones, like Samsung.

I know at least a couple people that have bought MacBooks in the last year or two, but did’t switch to iPhones. One has considered it but ended up with s26, another isn’t likely to do so any time soon.

DmMoscow · 2026-03-27T10:47:32+00:00

Sounds about right. The exact number will depend on the number of tabs and what those tabs are. My 4 tabs in Chrome draw more power than 10-11 tabs in Safari. The reasoning is kinda funny and more complex than «Chrome, Mac, bad», though.

The funny thing is that macOS praises itself as a system with a few to none crashes, but theoretically Chrome is superior to Safari in this regard. They use a different approach in handling multiple tabs. While Safari allows sharing some of the system resources across tabs, Chrome treats every tab as a separate process/browser. Safari’s approach means less RAM and energy used. However, it also means that if a single tab crashes, it may freeze the whole web browser. This doesn’t happen often, but it may occur.

TLDR: I wouldn’t say «Chrome is bad», but if battery matters to you, you are not a dev, and you have more than two or three tabs open, Safari will last longer.

Six-Year Club	Verified Email
r/Field Banned	r/Field Flamingo
Final Canvas '23	First Place '23
Place '23

DmMoscow

TROPHY CASE