hello there welcome to my channel my name is doug and i'm back with a non-fountain pen related video
so if you're one of my subscribers and you're not a computer geek as well as a fountain pen geek you
can switch away i recently purchased a 2022 mac mini m1 to solve some of my video editing issues
my youtube channel is called inquiring minds and i do found pen reviews my home built windows 10 pc
even though i tricked it out over the years to be very powerful was struggling to edit the 4k video
i'm now shooting on my iphone 13 pro i did some research and found that the best bang for your
computing and essentially video editing needs is the new apple mac mini m1 the m1 chip in the mac
mini m1 has an 8 core cpu and an 8 core gpu and its ram memory is integrated on one chip in other
computers these components are individual items attached to the motherboard avoiding the tech
geek speak this computer is hugely faster than my pc especially where video editing is concerned
the mac mini m1 can be purchased with 8 or 16 gigabytes of ram and a solid state hard drive
from 256 gigabytes up to 2 terabytes in capacity i chose the base model for 899 dollars canadian
as i just wanted to use it for video editing and we'll be using a solid state external drive
for storage considering a high-end video card that can handle 4k video editing on a pc cost
more than 900 dollars canadian this is a lot of computing power for your buck especially if
you already have the keyboards mice monitors and external drives you need so let's take a look at
my unboxing of the mac mini m1 and how i found a solution to switch back and forth seamlessly
between the mac and my pc using the same monitor keyboard trackball and drawing tablet right now
so i just got back from the apple store with my new mac mini
and a couple of accessories so let's dive
in here are the accessories i got got a couple of usb to usb a adapters
and a rocketfish hdmi cable and here's the mac and this is the base model
eight gigabytes of unified memory and a 256 gigabyte ssd drive
and the typical apple vacuum sealed box
and there it is
a layer
not very heavy feels like it's the weight of a macbook and the ports are covered
with some tape and peel that off
you see our ports two usb a's a headphone jack hdmi two thunderbolt usbc ethernet power power
button and your fan bent and it has your apple folder mac mini documentation in french as well
and your usual technical stuff and a nice big silver sticker i like that and there's the power
cord and we'll see what we can create with this here's another add-on for my mac mini project
i had a difficult time trying to figure out how i was going to switch back and forth between my pc
and my mac for files but basically using the same monitor the same keyboard and the same trackball
and my son came up with this brilliant solution he found it on his
amazon on his phone and sent it to me right away and i had it in a day it's an hdmi kvm switch
and well i'll show you what it does and user manual
warranty card oh it's a lot smaller than i expected that's good
oh lots of cables here's the front it has four usb 2 ports
and a switch for switching between the first pc and the second pc of course it can be a mac
and here are the ports in the back it has the hdmi out so that goes to my display my monitor
and then it has pc1 and pc2 an hdmi and a usb each that should work perfectly here's my new computer
workspace setting up the mac mini m1 was a little tricky as it only recognizes apple magic keyboards
mice and or track pads during setup since i only have logitech and kensington devices that
wouldn't work for me so i had to use a usb wired keyboard but once i used the wired keyboards
tab space and enter keys the setup was fairly easy to use the on-screen instructions once you have
the computer running you can add your bluetooth and wireless devices with the mac mini m1 setup
and davinci resolve 17 installed now i just needed to be able to move my videos from my iphone 13 pro
to the mac and be able to share files between my mac and my pc the transfer from my iphone to the
mac is dead simple just having bluetooth turned on in both the mac and the iphone i can share
photos and videos to the mac by selecting them and choosing airdrop and my mac as the destination now
i need to share my devices and files between my pc and mac that's a little less simple but easy once
the setup is complete i have my mac mini sitting here in this cool aluminum stand beside my acer
41 inch curved monitor and here is my p way kvm switch which stands for keyboard video and mouse
i have hdmi and usb 2 running through both pcs and the mac it's important to remember that this is
usb2 only so connecting to either computer via a usb 3 port will reduce that speed
to usb 2. it's a good thing the mac has two usb 3 ports and two thunderbolt usb 4 ports
plugged into the front of the switch i have a usb dongle for my logitech k750
solar keyboard i'm sharing the wireless kensington trackball with bluetooth so all i have to do is
push this button on the front of the switch and i'm switched instantly to my pc so now i'm sharing
my monitor keyboard and trackball how do i share files being on the same network makes it easy to
move files back and forth between computers once you have them both configured this is how i did it
my mac is running mac os 12.1 monterey and on the mac go to system preferences then sharing
in the menu on the left select file sharing click the options button and check the box share
files and folders using smb and select the account to share navigate back to system
preferences and select network in the menu on the left select your active connection
then select advanced and select the wins tab here you can select the windows work group
windows uses either work group or ms home if you don't know which go to your windows pc control
panel system and security and system you should be able to see the work group name here click ok and
apply back on the mac to share files open a finder window and click on network in the left pane
you should see your windows pc as part of the network
you probably need your windows computer username and password to access the computer
over on the pc in windows 10 turn on file sharing by going to settings choose network and internet
choose network and sharing center select change advanced sharing settings
navigate to file and printer sharing and click turn on file and printer sharing and save changes
then use the file navigator to select the drive or folder you want to share right click it and
choose properties then click the sharing tab and turn on sharing for that drive or folder
now that everything you want is shared on the pc type cmd into the search bar at the bottom beside
the start button and hit enter this will open a dos like command window type i-p-c-o-n-f-i-g
at the prompt and press enter then copy down the ipv4 address you'll need this on the mac
then type exit and enter to close the command prompt and go back to the mac back on the mac
in the finder go menu choose connect to server in the address bar type smb colon slash slash
and then the address you wrote down from the pc and then click connect you should see all the
drives and folders you specifically chose to share from the pc and you can drag and drop files from
those drives to your folders on your mac another quick way to share files across platforms is
using snapdrop this is a free service simply go to snapdrop.net in a browser on both the mac and the
pc the two computers if they're connected to the same network will immediately see each other with
some cool code names click on the computer you wish to share with and then select the file you
wish to send and click open alternatively you can just drag and drop files to the snapdrop window
and it works essentially the way airdrop works then open the other computer and you'll see the
files have been downloaded via your web browser to the location your browser downloads are pointed
with snapdrop i can seamlessly connect all my devices on the same network my pc my desktop pc
my mac mini my pc laptop and my apple iphone i can even connect to my wife's iphone laptop or
desktop pc to share files photos or videos quickly and easily i find this a really elegant and quick
solution in fact i configured my google chrome browser to open with three tabs open automatically
my email my youtube dashboard and snap drop just set chrome so the tabs you
want automatically are open and then open your chrome preferences choose startup on the left
and then click open specific page or set of pages and then click use current pages
now my video editing in davinci resolve 17 is incredibly fast even with multiple video
tracks of 4k video and i'm able to preview full hd video in my timeline no proxy media required
when i think i was considering buying a whole new pc just for video editing and spending up to two
thousand dollars to get that kind of editing force power this mac mini m1 for less than a thousand
dollars is an amazing bang for my computing buck i'm very happy with this amazing computer and
the fact i'll get to keep my pc too the best of both worlds so thanks for watching i made this