I have no need to upgrade from Big Sur on a couple Macs, and no real reason not to.

There are a couple of features I like, so I'm figuring WTF, why not.

But some of you may have gone back, or wish you could, or just plain dislike Monterey.

I've got a spare external drive or two so I might do one of those first.

There's some drill I need to know to boot an M1 Mac from an external drive.

So what makes Monterey the bane of your existance?

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“ There's some drill I need to know to boot an M1 Mac from an external drive “


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Thank you both.

I'll probably do the MBA and an external SSD later today.

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All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

interface wise, I see little diff between the two... which for me is prob more important than actual functionality.

external booting is a cluster.

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external booting is only an issue with macs that have the extra privacy ship (2018 and later) right?

Why would anyone sign up for upgrade pain when they don't need to upgrade?

No regrets, M1 Mini 8/256 w/ 1TB NVMe TB external.
v12.3.1 (21E258)

“ There's some drill I need to know to boot an M1 Mac from an external drive “
No drill, just installed from 256G internal onto the TB external.

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hal
external booting is only an issue with macs that have the extra privacy ship (2018 and later) right?

If you're asking about the Apple T2 security chip, that's only used in
Intel based Macs. [en.wikipedia.org]

M1 & macOS Security [www.apple.com]

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MrNoBody
No regrets, M1 Mini 8/256 w/ 1TB NVMe TB external.
v12.3.1 (21E258)

“ There's some drill I need to know to boot an M1 Mac from an external drive “
No drill, just installed from 256G internal onto the TB external.

Quote
hal
external booting is only an issue with macs that have the extra privacy ship (2018 and later) right?

If you're asking about the Apple T2 security chip, that's only used in
Intel based Macs. [en.wikipedia.org]

M1 & macOS Security [www.apple.com]

[support.apple.com]