by Richard MacLemale | May 6, 2023 | Blog Posts
I just bought a reconditioned M1 Mac Mini from Amazon for $440. It’s the entry level, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB internal SSD. The internal SSD is blazingly fast – I’m getting write speeds of 2,300 MB/s and read speeds of 2,950 MB/s. As I type this in 2023,...
by Richard MacLemale | Apr 17, 2023 | Blog Posts
Back in the late 90s and early 00s, I was a shareware developer. I ran Cool Classroom Software, and put out education shareware titles Secret Agent, Test Pilot Typer, Mr. Fixitup, and Lester McMultiply. I was teaching 5th grade at the time, so it was really just a...
by Richard MacLemale | Apr 16, 2023 | Blog Posts
As I type this, it’s April 16, 2023. And Amazon is still selling refurbished M1 Mac Minis with 8 GB of RAM for $449. You can’t buy a USED Mac for that money that will come close to competing with it. I like Geekbench scores. They’re not perfect,...
by Richard MacLemale | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog Posts
The first time I realized that journalists and reporters can be lazy was when I was a semi-expert on a topic. In my case, I was basically a systems engineer dealing with the Mac OS. I was reading an article on a major news site about the Mac, and it was really...
by Richard MacLemale | Mar 29, 2023 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
A few days ago, the Dollar General of plugins (Waves) decided to stop selling individual plugins and move to a model of forever subscriptions, where you tie the fortunes of your recording career to your financial investment in Waves. To add insult to injury, if you...
by Richard MacLemale | Mar 21, 2023 | Blog Posts
Hello world! My name is Richard MacLemale, and this website is the companion to my new YouTube channel, budgetkeyboardist! You can think of this website and YouTube channel as the sister to the website budgetguitarist.com and corresponding YouTube channel. That site...
