A season of mellow fruits is now fully upon us. Just to prove it we have fungi, not sure whether it is a mushroom or toadstool, popping up in the lawn.

As for the new Mac Studio what to say? It has been two full days so this is very much first impressions: Firstly, it is silent especially as my old iMac was puffing and blowing all the time – one of the reasons why I upgraded. Now nothing. It has got so bad that my two HDD I use for backup now seem very noisey indeed. Secondly, it is very quick. Yesterday I had to install a software upgrade for my database and it was a blink and you’ll miss it moment. Finally, the base model comes with 32GB of RAM (sorry Unified Memory – old habits but I have been x86 for over 30 years so give an old fart a brake!) and at the moment this is more than enough for my needs. Lightroom is resource hungry but with that running it hardly gets above 24 GB leaving me with a welcome bit of headroom. One thing I have noticed is that Chrome is a piglet when it comes to gobbling up resources. I’ll need keep an eye on that. Overall, first impressions excellent. Let’s hope in 6 years time I still feel the same.