Good evening Johannes, myM4 Pro arrived 10 days early too! It was scheduled for delivery on 6th January 2025, it arrived yesterday. Setup was an issue for me thought!
Hi Johannes, Setup was a bit of a nightmare: 1. It didn't recognise my bluetooth mouse, so I tried multiple mice. No Joy. (Luckily I had an old Logitech Keyboard with track pad and a USB-A to USB-C connector) 2. I could not get past the log-in screen (which other users had issues with too)! The keyboard let me get to the account page, but once the cursor hit the email field, it stopped dead. Every keyboard combination just beeped. Tab, Enter, CTRLs, function keys, even unplugging and reconnecting did not work. 3. The M4 couldn't find my old Mac-mini. Everything on my network could see the M4, but the M4 saw nothing. Everything was set to share too. 4. The M4 was trying to use AFP to connect, which Apple have depreciated??? 5. I couldn't restore from Time-Machine, it said the MacOs was not correct? I gave up and set the M4 Pro up as a new box. All sorted now, and I am happy with my purchase, as you appear to be too! (I opted for the extra ram (64GB), over the SSD (Only got the 512GB) but it is so quiet, and cool to the touch whilst running, I added the 10GB ethernet and the 16 core Neural Engine, as I cannot see myself buying another compute for a few years, so hopefully I am future-proofed.) Best regards, Bill
Good evening Johannes, myM4 Pro arrived 10 days early too!
It was scheduled for delivery on 6th January 2025, it arrived yesterday.
Setup was an issue for me thought!
Hi Will, It’s a pleasant surprise when that happens! What kind of trouble did you have? My setup was hassle-free.
Hi Johannes,
Setup was a bit of a nightmare:
1. It didn't recognise my bluetooth mouse, so I tried multiple mice. No Joy.
(Luckily I had an old Logitech Keyboard with track pad and a USB-A to USB-C connector)
2. I could not get past the log-in screen (which other users had issues with too)!
The keyboard let me get to the account page, but once the cursor hit the email field, it stopped dead. Every keyboard combination just beeped. Tab, Enter, CTRLs, function keys, even unplugging and reconnecting did not work.
3. The M4 couldn't find my old Mac-mini. Everything on my network could see the M4, but the M4 saw nothing. Everything was set to share too.
4. The M4 was trying to use AFP to connect, which Apple have depreciated???
5. I couldn't restore from Time-Machine, it said the MacOs was not correct?
I gave up and set the M4 Pro up as a new box.
All sorted now, and I am happy with my purchase, as you appear to be too!
(I opted for the extra ram (64GB), over the SSD (Only got the 512GB) but it is so quiet, and cool to the touch whilst running,
I added the 10GB ethernet and the 16 core Neural Engine, as I cannot see myself buying another compute for a few years, so hopefully I am future-proofed.)
Best regards,
Bill
@@Bermondsey_Bill Sounds like a hassle - I'm glad you got it sorted out! I'm sure that configuration has you set for many years to come 😎