SPACE DESIGN WAREHOUSE
Using M5 iPad Pro as My Desktop Computer for a Full Work Week.
updated
Therefore, this phone can do its computational photography a bit harder than the 16 pro could.
My new favorite keyboard: amzn.to/4pZA8EP
That Anker Battery Bank: amzn.to/4mIdLAD
If you want to support my channel, just buy anything from amazon through this general link: amzn.to/48LyVKW
Xbox controller: amzn.to/4nxLZIp
My main camera: amzn.to/4nGazak
This video was shot on a Sony a7IV and a7siii at 50mm f/1.4 - 1/50 shutter speed ISO 125 in HLG3.
Heres a list of that stuff in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
USB-C hub I use : amzn.to/3Fsvc8y
0:00 intro
0:10 Heat Demo
1:39 Charge Speed
2:25 Scratch and Dent Resistance
4:36 Pro gear shouldn’t focus on being jewelry
5:56 A19 Pro Chip is pro level
7:32 Computational Photography
9:07 Trying out Cinematic Mode as a YouTube camera
10:15 Video Stabilization
11:14 is 8x Zoom a trick?
12:28 Apple Intelligence on photos
13:16 AAA Gaming on iPhone 17 Pro
14:08 A secret detail in the September event about GPUs
Apple Watch Ultra: amzn.to/4nukjnU
Apple Watch Series 11: amzn.to/3KJK98F
My new favorite keyboard: amzn.to/47Il2wM
Heres a list of that stuff I use to make videos in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
0:00 intro
0:50 It all comes down to material hardness
2:40 Scratch test glass vs crystal
3:44 donut delivery
7:07 Heat transfer of titanium vs aluminum
9:14 who should buy the ultra?
My new favorite keyboard: amzn.to/47Il2wM
My giant 49" ultrawide monitor: amzn.to/47HDUMe
That mini mac hub: wokyis.com/products/wokyis-the-retro-enclosure-for-mac-mini-m4?bg_ref=3m4MVasgpY
UGREEN Thunderbolt SSD enclosure (40gbps version): amzn.to/4nx66pS
UGREEN Thunderbolt SSD enclosure (80gbps version): amzn.to/3K1smcS
The fastest NVMe Drive I know of: amazon.com/dp/B0F4425DTW?ref=t_ac_view_request_product_image&campaignId=amzn1.campaign.2ENR5KBKNZHPD&linkCode=tr1&tag=spacedesignwa-20&linkId=amzn1.campaign.2ENR5KBKNZHPD_1757711317222
The NAS I use: amzn.to/4gjTcce
That Orico hub: amzn.to/4nrR9VV
That Orico 10g ethernet: amzn.to/3K1hFqY
iMac 8 core: amzn.to/3HU81FW
iMac 10 core: amzn.to/3VMKR7r
Links:
The very fast SSD: amazon.com/dp/B0F4425DTW?ref=t_ac_view_request_product_image&campaignId=amzn1.campaign.2ENR5KBKNZHPD&linkCode=tr1&tag=spacedesignwa-20&linkId=amzn1.campaign.2ENR5KBKNZHPD_1756845016514
The SSD Active Cooler: amzn.to/460utov
The Motherboard: amzn.to/3JGWjPm
The DDR5 RGB RAM: amzn.to/46i6jr4
The CPU Ryzen 7 7800 X3D: amzn.to/4ncgBib
The CPU Cooler: amzn.to/46eubvH
The very large 120Hz monitor: amzn.to/41BkAwp
The RTX 5070 GPU: amzn.to/45LEMOH
The Computer Case: amzn.to/4g5b5eH
Some extra case fans: amzn.to/45JCcZp
The CPU Thermal Paste: amzn.to/467NwgX
The RTX 5050: amzn.to/4mJJS3K
An Ethernet Cable: amzn.to/41udJF2
My new favorite mechanical keyboard: amzn.to/3HRscUS
When you get to mid game on a play through of Anno 1800, if your system isnt fairly modern, you are going to see pretty dramatic FPS drops and it's not because of the GPU. These simulation games have to work so hard to keep up with the thousands of pathfinding routes for ships, carts, people and things, combined with the fact that it does not take advantage of multithreaded CPUs very well - everything really starts grinding slowly once you hit the investor stage of a play through.
Here's how I build a custom PC to fight that slowdown and open up all the bottlenecks!
Zenbook A14: amzn.to/4mmdq7r
M4 MacBook Air: amzn.to/41chGOx
The Retro Mac HUB: wokyis-m5-retro-outside-powerful-inside.kckb.me/spacedesignhardware
If you shop on amazon, you can support my channel simply by saving this link to get to amazon home page! amzn.to/4o6Hyov
iFixit Kit, tools to take apart these computers: amzn.to/4lsd0Ls
If you like my editing, I use MotionFVX for titles and fades (this link gets me a little support if you buy anything): motionvfx.sjv.io/Qj3yja
Heres a list of that stuff I use to make videos in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
0:00 intro
0:47 M4 is more powerful but that doesnt matter as much as it used to
2:49 What is ARM?
5:47 Where Zenbbook Beats MacBook Air
7:51 always on facial recognition
8:55 great USBC hub recommendation for ports
10:28 Where the MacBook Air wins
11:40 AAA Gaming on M4 MacBook Air
12:28 video editing on the Zenbook A14 is OK!
13:53 What both zenbook and MacBook are good at
15:39 Connecting to multiple 4k monitors
16:14 final thoughts
The Mac mini HUB: wokyis-m5-retro-outside-powerful-inside.kckb.me/spacedesignhardware
If you shop on amazon, you can support my channel simply by saving this link to get to amazon home page! amzn.to/4o6Hyov
iFixit Kit, tools to take apart these computers: amzn.to/4lsd0Ls
If you like my editing, I use MotionFVX for titles and fades (this link gets me a little support if you buy anything): motionvfx.sjv.io/Qj3yja
Heres a list of that stuff I use to make videos in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
0:00 intro
1:58 about thermal throttling
2:21 Base Model M4 MacBook Pro Tear Down
3:08 I/O differences
3:53 Wokyis Mac mini Hub
5:17 Cinebench Test
7:45 Unzip test
9:15 Gaming Tests Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassins Creed Shadows
10:52 Lightroom Export Comparison
11:28 My takeaways
Amazon link to support my channel in general: amzn.to/3J0rqVR
Link to M4 MacBook Pro: amzn.to/4ln5AJj
Link to the Mac mini Orico "MiniPro" docking stand: oricotechs.com/products/orico-minipro?sca_ref=9277737.0jTfhwuACNn from the last video
Link to that thermoelectric cooler: amzn.to/3UlFNqa
Here's the video showing how I used it: youtube.com/watch?v=7GDHuNY_w90
Heres a list of that stuff I use to make videos in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
0:00 Intro
2:13 What is Dielectric Fluid?
3:49 Build and Testing Start
7:17 Dunking the MacBook Air in Dielectric Fluid
7:57 First Cinebench Test fails
8:43 Wife Pays a visit to the studio!
9:24 Second Try with the back case on, better results
10:25 BETTER RESULTS!
11:11 Can it play Cyberpunk 2077?
11:55 Lightroom Export test vs MacBook Pro
14:07 Conclusions
14:48 BLOOPER reel from the Drone doughnut delivery
Link to the Mac mini Orico "MiniPro" docking stand: oricotechs.com/products/orico-minipro?sca_ref=9277737.0jTfhwuACNn
If you shop on amazon, you can support my channel simply by saving this link to get to amazon home page! amzn.to/4o6Hyov
That giant ultrawide monitor: amzn.to/3GWFpeC
That super cheap monitor: amzn.to/4miyMCs
That fan speed software: crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control
Heres a list of that stuff I use to make videos in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
0:00 intro
0:05 Specs and ports comparison
2:28 Performance Review Begins
2:55 Video Export Test
3:28 Blender Test
4:15 VIDEO GAMES
6:08 Cinebench Test (fan lag is the only difference)
7:44 M4 Mac mini Orico Sponsor cool hub thing
8:27 Logic Pro audi test
9:32 Lightroom RAW Photo Export
10:30 My takeaway and donut reveal
In this video, I dissect the Bitmain S21 XP Bitcoin Miner and go over its parts to see what it is and how it does what it does. How does bitcoin mining work? Fun fact, the S21 XP's control board has the same CPU as the Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker! Who knew!?
If youd like to support my channel without spending any money - the next time you go to Amazon for ANY reason, use this link and they will credit me a little kickback from whatever you buy! amzn.to/4f5qoUu
Link to Amazon Home Page to Support my Channel: amzn.to/4nPBOQ3
The M4 Macbook Air: amzn.to/4nSlQ7A
Thermal Pads: amzn.to/40ikAAS
The peltier cooler: amzn.to/44NPJgR
The Copper Bar: amzn.to/40js4n2
The Graphine Sheets: amzn.to/4lYHEwQ
The Aluminum Slab: amzn.to/44IIreg
The iFixit ToolKit: amzn.to/4o7EgBN
The Canakit USBC charger: amzn.to/3Ufzi80
The Thermal Camera: amzn.to/4kM95ZH
0:00 intro
2:07 How Do Air Conditioners Work?
3:18 How does thermoelectric cooling work?
4:27 Installing Thermal Pads internally
5:10 Thermal Conductivity
6:28 Thermal Mass
7:29 Testing
8:39 Copper Bar Mod Test
9:35 Peltier Cooling M4 MacBook Air
10:49 Lightroom 1200 RAW Photo Export
11:47 Linux Kernel Compile Test
12:54 AIR BEATS PRO
Help the channel by getting to Amazon through this link: amzn.to/4eGU8qk
Nothing will cost any different for you, but I'll get a tiny % for whatever you buy!
The computer: amzn.to/4mmdq7r
So Is The ASUS Zenbook A14 a MacBook M4 KILLER? No, actually no it's not.
Heres a list of that stuff in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
Thermal Pads: amzn.to/460zcZ0
Heat Sinks: amzn.to/45ZK6OH
The tiny USB fan: amzn.to/40fvTJN
Laptop Cooler: amzn.to/4e96eIB
M4 MacBook Air: amzn.to/3FKx4Kx
I tested this thermal mod three different ways; no fan, a laptop cooler and a custom heat sink with its own fan. The idea is to stop M4 MacBook Air from Thermal Throttling so it can perform closer to the M4 MacBook Pro. Turns out its not very difficult to do, though you do have to disassemble part of the case.
0:00 Intro
0:24 Specs
1:19 All About Thermal Management
4:36 Mods and Tests Begin
5:18 Thermal Imaging
5:38 Baseline Scores
5:51 Lightroom Export Test Baseline
6:20 Disassemble MacBook Air and Install Thermal Pads
8:12 Cinebench With Thermal Pads
9:26 Add Laptop Cooler
11:12 Add Heat Sink
12:26 MacBook Air beats MacBook Pro
Heres a list of that stuff in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
The M4 MacBook Pro: amzn.to/4dZr4tI
The M4 MacBook Air: amzn.to/3HVvGFf
That USB-C hub I showed : amzn.to/3Fsvc8y
My Keyboard (I love it): amzn.to/45PmZ9v
If you like my editing, I use MotionFVX for titles and fades (this link gets me a little support if you buy anything): motionvfx.sjv.io/Qj3yja
If you shop on amazon, you can support my channel simply by saving this link to get to amazon home page! amzn.to/4o6Hyov
I use "MX Power Gadget" for the graphs
I tested the M4 Macbook Air against the Macbook Pro and compared their hardware, thermal throttling, their ability to play modern games and I give a little lesson about 16GB of RAM and how RAM compression makes that act a little more like 24GB of RAM!
Heres a list of that stuff I use to make videos in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
0:00 intro
0:46 Hardware comparison
2:03 Removing Thermal Pad Mod
2:52 Differences Between Air & Pro
4:05 Screen Comparisons
5:26 Minecraft!
6:02 Regular Computer Office Work
7:08 Video Editing Final Cut Pro
8:09 Photo Exports from Lightroom
10:16 Gaming on M4 MacBook Air vs Pro
12:06 Is 16GB Enough RAM?
13:35 I am No Power User After all
The files app is more like finder. You can resize windows and put them wherever you want. We've got background multitasking. Keyboard shortcuts. More customization. And everything just feels a lot closer to MacOS, of course without it actually being MacOS. Which means, even though this iPad is fully capable of running something like the full version of Final Cut Pro, apple just doesn't want you to; they still want you to buy a MacBook for that.
This video was shot on a Sony a7IV and a7siii at 50mm f/1.4 - 1/50 shutter speed ISO 125 in HLG3.
Heres a list of that stuff in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My Keyboard (I love it): amzn.to/45PmZ9v
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
That USB-C hub I showed : amzn.to/3Fsvc8y
Links:
The RAM Im using: amzn.to/3T2rEgZ
The NVMe's I Used: amzn.to/4kA4vOW
- UGREEN NAS on Official Store(15% OFF) ugreen.pxf.io/09O3KE
- UGREEN NAS DXP4800 Plus(US AMZ, 15% OFF) amzn.to/43SYcie
- UGREEN NAS Series (15% OFF) amzn.to/4kHxyQD
- UGREEN NAS Series (UK AMZ, 10% OFF) amzn.to/4kTUtYz
Check out UGREEN AI NAS(up to $1040 off with a $30 deposit) ugreen.pxf.io/Z64Djg #UgreenNAS #UGREEN
Its also basically a full fledged server - with a 5 core, 6-thread 12th gen intel processor and upgradable to 64GB RAM
UGREEN NAS offers wide compatibility for third-party HDDs and SSDs, with regular compatibility updates based on user feedback. (*Give a shooting of the compatible list) Compatible list: nas.ugreen.com/pages/compatibility
2)AI Album Assistant (Manage Photos Easily) Demonstrate that photo albums can intelligently identify and classify people and places. Emphasize that the AI model runs locally without an Internet connection and won't upload personal data to any online servers.
Links:
M4 Mac mini: amzn.to/432dGRV
m4 SSD Thunderbolt 5 NVMe enclosure: store.m4-ssd.com/NICHOLAS_JAMES_JOHNSON
RGB SSD enclosure: amzn.to/4jd1Qt9
Orico M4 Mac mini hub: amzn.to/4ksPIFf
Samsung evo 990+ super fast NVMe SSD: amzn.to/3ScBU5Q
Orico Mini Mate SSD: amzn.to/4jYiLAx
10GB Ethernet Adapter USBC: amzn.to/43iu3bU
Anker SoundCore Boom 2 boom box: amzn.to/4mnGewH
Zeera Aluminum Case for M4 Mac mini: zeerawireless.com/products/zeera-macforge-gen2-cnc-aluminum-case-for-2024-mac-mini-m4
USB-C Hub from Orico: amzn.to/4k46xXk
My Keyboard: amzn.to/4k223R6
I tested CPU power, Final Cut Pro export speed, Lightroom batch exports and even blender 3d rendering. The M4 Pro has 24GB of RAM and the Studio has 36GB of RAM
My keyboard: amzn.to/4iIPcBS
Orico 10Gbe Ethernet USBC Adapter: amzn.to/42TLRtL
0:00 Intro
0:09 Size comparison
0:31 CPU Power Difference
1:40 GPU Difference
2:00 Final Cut Pro Project with 4 cam Multicam
3:42 Allow Export Segmentation (media engines)
4:02 Final Cut Pro Export
4:24 Ports
5:10 RAM Usage
9:01 Blender
10:19 How they actually FEEL
10:50 Lightroom Export
12:18 Thermal Throttling
Link to the SSD: store.m4-ssd.com/NICHOLAS_JAMES_JOHNSON
Link to iFixit Tool Kit: amzn.to/3You6B9
Smaller Tool Kit: amzn.to/4lk5u6y
My Keyboard: amzn.to/42v1RlS
Video creation stuff:
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
The Thermal Pads: amzn.to/4layf5u
The Tool Kit: amzn.to/3FYE0Db
Smaller Toolkit with P5 head: amzn.to/3FKvTdo
Link to buy M4 MacBook Air: amzn.to/4jaXHWX
It's unclear whether this voids the warrantee of your laptop. It does not damage or change anything inside the case - according to documentation you ARE allowed to open the case to clean the computer, so opening it doesn't void warrantee. That said, it's VERY EASY to damage things in there, so do this at your own risk.
Contact me if you want to buy this computer.
#thermalpadmod #macbookairm4 #overclock
0:00 intro
0:14 All M4s are actually the same speed
1:35 Baseline test with default MacBook Air
2:16 Really bad thermal throttling
3:45 Initial test results are bad
5:33 Disassemble M4 Macbook Air
7:44 Applying thermal pads to m4 MacBook Air
9:25 CPU test with pads installed looks promising
11:32 Test results in massive performance boost
12:13 Assassins Creed Shadows running on M4 MacBook Air 28fps
M4 Mac mini: amzn.to/4hwhfUs
M4 Pro Mac mini: amzn.to/4hBauRj
Link to the SSD user upgrade for M4 base model Mac mini SSD: store.m4-ssd.com/NICHOLAS_JAMES_JOHNSON
I'll go over the differences in hardware - thunderbolt 5 ports vs thunderbolt 4. Copper heat sink vs an aluminum one. Core counts for GPU makes a reasonably big difference in gaming. So on and so on.
This video was shot on a Sony a7IV and a7siii at 50mm f/1.4 - 1/50 shutter speed ISO 125 in HLG3.
Heres a list of that stuff in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
My clack keyboard: amzn.to/4hlteEc
That USB-C hub I showed : amzn.to/3Fsvc8y
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
iPad Air M3: amzn.to/4iebrA5
My clack keyboard: amzn.to/4hlteEc
That USB-C hub I showed : amzn.to/3Fsvc8y
It's got an M3 processor, and it's the full strength of an M3, up to its thermal limit at least - so a 10cpu 8gpu experience.
This video was shot on a Sony a7IV and a7siii at 50mm f/1.4 - 1/50 shutter speed ISO 125 in HLG3.
Heres a list of that stuff in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
Link to that usbc hub: amzn.to/3Fsvc8y
Link to buy M4 MacBook Air: amzn.to/426vc6X
I also have a macbook pro, and somehow this thing is newarly indistinguishable to use from that one; including while using Final Cut Pro!
It IS still a Macbook Air, though, of course - so there is no SD card reader, there are only two thunderbolt ports and there is no fan, so it will thermal throttle if what you do with it is CPU or GPU intensive and sustained for a long time. Its not the best for gaming, only averaging 27fps on medium settings at 1080p on Shadow of the Tomb Raider. But you dont buy this computer for gaming.
This video was shot on a Sony a7IV and a7siii at 50mm f/1.4 - 1/50 shutter speed ISO 125 in HLG3.
Heres a list of that stuff in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: amzn.to/3FpKX07
That USB-C hub I showed : amzn.to/3Fsvc8y
Buy the 5 gigabit ethernet to USBC WisdPi: amzn.to/4hNwNnT
The Minimate Mac mini SSD: amzn.to/4jQcZRX
Zike Drive: bit.ly/4iBKwOh (20% off code SDW666)
my keyboard: amzn.to/3QcEl78
my 10g network switch: amzn.to/4hKiuQq
The M4 Mac mini: amzn.to/4gV4C5s
Amazon Thunderbolt Hub: amzn.to/3DkJR4Z
Orico Hub with SSD: amzn.to/3W6ykMR
Orico dual NVMe Drive hub: amzn.to/3DvusPd
Orico NVMe Drives: amzn.to/3DLaM9U
Links to things:
CPU-Z Software page: cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
The Victus 8GB: amzn.to/4hJAevw
16GB DDR4 RAM Kit: amzn.to/4i6rL5E
32GB DDR4 RAM Kit: amzn.to/4gLUwDA
16GB DDR5 RAM Kit: amzn.to/3EEcsm0
32GB DDR5 RAM Kit: amzn.to/3X7isdg
ifixit small tool kit: amzn.to/4k7Lp30
ifixit larger tool kit: amzn.to/3X9nSoh
link to buy: amzn.to/3QiSNe5
This makes your local network fast enough to edit video straight off of a drive on a different computer, or play steam games over the network so your MacBook laptop can play games from your windows tower.
Buy the WisdPi: amzn.to/4hNwNnT
The Minimate Mac mini SSD: amzn.to/4jQcZRX
The gigabit ethernet adapter I use: amzn.to/3CNRiBy
my keyboard: amzn.to/3QcEl78
my 10g network switch: amzn.to/4hKiuQq
This dongle will speed up your network, if you've already got a faster than 1g network switch, that part is pretty important, too.
In this video I talk about the handful of things I make use of a faster than gigabit network to be able to do; edit videos over a network drive from my NAS. Play steam games from my Mac with no lag. Do system backups to a drive that's mounted on a different machine.
Link to buy: amzn.to/3WuwzsQ
This battery can put out 165watts of power - which means it can charge your laptop faster than your laptops wall charger! And it can do that while also charging your phone and ipad at their fastest speed at the same time.
Theyve also managed to put a super strong USBC cable built in that can hold up 40 pounds! I tested this and it was true, and also terrifying.
There are two built in usb-c cables, one usbc port and one USB-A port. It can also pass-through charge, so you can charge the battery at the same time as using the battery to charge other things.
The drive: store.m4-ssd.com/NICHOLAS_JAMES_JOHNSON
The Tools: amzn.to/4g2bxZv
Smaller Toolkit: amzn.to/4jg9xjh
The Thunderbolt Orico Backup Drive: amzn.to/3DREcDz --10% OFF CODE: Space10OFF--
The FirmWare: store.m4-ssd.com/products/1tb-drive-for-mac-mini-m4
I didnt believe it when I heard it, but with the new M4 Mac mini, you can disassemble it yourself and replace the SSD yourself and you can save yourself like $500 by doing it! This video is a step-by-step guide to DIYing that yourself.
0:00 intro
0:48 Backup your Mac mini
1:20 download m4 mac mini firmware
1:50 Opening The M4 Mac mini
4:02 Install SSD and put the mini back together
4:58 Flash M4 Mac Mini Firmware with DFU Mode
6:19 Restore M4 Mac mini from Backup
6:53 Speed Testing the new Drive
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Orico has surprised me this year with the quality of their hubs and drives!
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Synology won't let you mix drive types, HDDs and SSDs in the same storage pool. So in order to switch over from using slow spinning hard drives to faster solid state drives, you need to follow a little bit of a process. Which I have outline in this video!
You'll copy everything to one of your new SSDs using an external drive adapter. Then, remove the old hard drives from the NAS and put in the other new SSD. Then copy the files back to that one SSD. Then install the other SSD and ask the NAS to clone the drive into a RAID1 configuration. The whole process is pretty easy, but if you have a lot of files on your NAS it will take a few hours to copy things back and fourth.
0:00 Intro
1:50 Installation
7:40 The Process in Short
The M1 Max was just, well, apparently about 4 years ahead of its time.
Nevertheless, in this video I go over the benchmarks, geekbench, cinibench, hard drive speed, SD card reader speed - and I talk about how you might still want to wait for the next one. Unless you really want this thing, then by all means I want you to have it.
I made a couple other apple comparison videos on my other channel, here are those links:
Magnetic Mask Tool on M4 Base Model: youtube.com/watch?v=zryQLE5cuEY
Base Model M4 vs M1 MAX model: youtube.com/watch?v=Vyzuph9A1N8
This extends Microvision's runway out past 2026 which will give them time to start selling their Movia Sensor in the industrial sector to agriculture, mining and forklift operations.
I also visited the Luminar Facility to do opposition research to no avail.
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8GB really just isnt enough RAM for a gaming laptop. But there are a ton of GREAT deals on this laptop when you buy it with 8GB and buying another 8GB stick is super cheap. 16GB IS enough RAM for a gaming laptop. Therefore - its a great idea to buy this laptop and beef up the ram a little bit. I also had the XCool guys reach out to me to make a video about their screwdriver, and like Im going to be building a computer maybe this weekend, but I was doing THIS today, so I turned on some cameras. Plus I think this will probably help at least a few people who are scared to do it initially. I know this isnt the world changing, compelling youtube content you came here for.
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blood pressure testing study I meantioned: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10225644
After owning this scooter for several years, I finally downloaded the dashboard app that you can run while driving the scooter. I noticed that when I was coming to a stop from a full speed, just for a moment, it was charging at over 400 watts! Since I live in Florida, I dont have any giant hills to go down to see if this is continuous and can be exploited for a super fast charge - but I DO have a treadmill at the warehouse!
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This drive doesnt have any visible screws so the only way to open it is to pry open the case. You can do this without breaking it and youll still be able to reuse the drives inside, or the case with a different drive and the case will snap shut effectively.
So you’ve got yourself a Seagate Expansion Drive and you want to get into this bad boy.
Whatever the reason - you’ve no doubt ended up here because there are no screws on this thing and youre hoping theres a little trick that won’t involve cutting this thing open and destroying everything in your path.
Maybe the drive died but you want to use the case with another drive, maybe you broke off the USB plug end in the case but you want to get the drive out of there. Maybe youre building a NAS like me and just want bare drives to put into a NEW case..
Well Ive got good news for you, friend - there is a way in, and I will show it to you now.
If you’ve got one of these iFixit tool kits - unroll that wonderful vinyl sleeve and grab the slidy knify paddle tool.
Looking at your seagate drive, if youre over the age of 35, put on some reading glasses and notice that on one side there is a seam. A chink in the armor. Youre just going to press your knify tool into that crease and apply pressure, use the slightest of a sawing motion to pierce into that crevice, like in the movie Gladiator when the guy from Beautiful mind was about to fight the joker and Joaquin slipped his knife into the Russells back, or was it his leg..
Anyway, just above where the power light indicator is, you can jab your sharp tool right in there and sort of bend and twist and push until you hear and feel a pop.
Next, grab the fixit dental tool and with the gap you’ve opened up, force that dull spear into the opening. Using this tool as a lever, you can pry up until a tiny section of the lid releases its hold and pops up. Now youre really making progress, you should be proud of yourself. Just keep sliding that tiny crow bar along the edge of the lid piece thats starting to come off.
You’ve done it! Youre in! This is KIND of broken now, this wasn’t designed to be user serviced - however, you’ll notice that if you ARE planning to replace the drive in here and reuse this enclosure that it does still snap shut and stay shut. Added bonus that now its super easy to get open again.
What youre met with inside here is a little PCB thats held into the case with a single Philips screw and then taped to the board on the hard drive itself. Take out that screw and peel back that tape, and voila - you will be able to simply pull this drive and board out together.
The only thing holding this little triangular board onto the drive is its SATA interface so you can just grab it and gently tug it off.
And actually, you dont need this whole enclosure at all - THIS little thing is the entire external drive controller. So you can just plug that same power adapter into this, plug that same USB micro b cord into it (thats what this funny plug is called). And then slide this on to ANY SATA hard drive or solid state drive and leave it bare for that hacker vibe. Your drives are sealed so exposing this to the dust in your room wont be any sort of big deal.
You can use this to turn one of these little internal SSDs into a hot swappable external hard drive! How bout that.
But back on the drive that came in the enclosure - if your planning to use this maybe installed into your PC - you can just yank off these blue bumpers, and then remove the screws under those and this is a bare drive just like any internal hard drive you would buy. Mine came with these barracuda drives, I had the 4TB version. Im going to use these in my new Sinology NAS drive so all of my computers can share it.
Thats it. Its over. We did it. Thank you. Goodbye. 0
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3rd Party Bitcoin Mining Firmware maker, Asic To The Moon, the American version of the Vnish third party firmware for Bitmains S19 and S21 ASIC miners is coming out with a new version for S21 that has some new features.
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Microvision has dropped below a dollar for the first time since I started buying it in 2019. GENERALLY, I have maintained that the stock price for MVIS doesnt really matter so much UNTIL Microvision starts making deals - the price action for the last few years has been a result of pure speculation of an impending deal that has so far evaded my favorite modern laser beam company.
BUT, todays price is different. On Friday, they closed under a dollar. And one of the rules for trading stock on the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchanges are to maintain a stock price of over a dollar.
This is a metaphorical big red blinking light BUT, it actually takes a bit before things kick in. Here are the rules.
If Microvision’s stock remains under one dollar for 30 consecutive days they will then be considered “out of compliance.” The good news is that once a company is not in compliance, there is a 180 day window for the price of the stock to raise above 1 dollar for 10 consecutive days. Thats 180 calendar days.
And even then, at the end of that 180 days - as long as the stock has $2.5 million dollars of shareholder equity (they do) and one million dollars of market value (they do) they will be eligible for a SECOND 180 period before being delisted from the markets.
So were looking at an entire year from last Friday June 14th before Microvision is under actual threat of being delisted.
This concludes the purely educational and fact based portion of todays video- on to my biased speculation :)
There is no denying that Microvision stated what they expected for a timeline for a deal and then completely missed. Not only did they not make a deal - but in the last earnings call, and I actually have a suspicion Sumit meant a slightly different thing than how it came out, but if theres one thing I learned from 6 years of Engineering school its that working engineers are not overwhelmingly good at communicating to non-engineers. Which is why I feel like my small role in this story can actually be meaningful sometimes..
Sumit said some things that made it sound like the company is going to be essentially worthless until closer to the end of the decade. What I think he MEANT is that the big revenues will really start to snowball starting in 2027-2028 - 2030…
But what he didn’t say, and also I think it would be irresponsible for him to have said anyway, is that the market doesnt care about actual profitability - it cares about the promise of profitability. It cares about the sentiment and the trajectory and the probability of the timeline for that profitability, and the velocity of that trajectory.
Which is why when their proposed trajectory shifted from up and to the right, to… rain delay.. The market dumped.
But in reality, the actual trajectory hasn’t changed - the money has ALWAYS been in 2027 and beyond for this first deal. But the deal itself is the promise and the comfort we all need to feel confident in the money actually coming in. No deal, no confidence in the future.
In reality - there were 9 automotive deals on the table. Presumably now there are less than nine, but no one has said anything about ALL of them falling through or being significantly delayed. So the way I see it - Sumit and the boys have 30 days, plus 180 days, plus 180 days to close their first consumer automotive lidar deal.
Theres still money in the bank, and Im confident in these smaller forklift and farm equipment deals to push out the runway long enough to get fucking carburetor unclogged and get this Spruce Goose up into the air.
TLDR, all hope is not lost - we’ve seen where the stock goes when people THINK theres a deal, which means 95 cents is a REALLY good price if you’ve got some spare money that youre not afraid to lose.
Astro is a personal house robot that can do a few marginally useful things, a few gimmicky, interesting things, and not a whole lot of actual house roboting. That said, I think that being a part of this home robotics assistant revolution is worth every penny!
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Astro randomly wonders around the house making little R2D2 like noises and waiting to answer questions, control smart home things, or play music on command. He can even bring a drink to a specific person or place in the house. Astro has a LiDAR, a bunch of cameras and microphones and who knows what other sensors that arent enabled yet, as this thing is still in Beta.
The Personal House Robot Era has officially begun.
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This project was a lot easier than I thought - it starts to get scary when you hear you have to 'pull a vacuum' on the line and connect coolant lines, but just take it step by step and also watch this video, and also this other video from @LRN2DIY together you pretty much cant screw it up! youtube.com/watch?v=2mKwCmaR5Qg


