Yesterday I traded in my old Mac Pro tower for a the new M4 Pro Mini. Apple gave me $600 for the 4 or 5 year old beast. I used migration assistant to transfer my stuff from the old mac. Unfortunately when I try to open Brave, the OS says that application will not run on this Mac. I am up to date with the most recent version of Brave.
This morning when I tried to print something the OS said that the printer was out of toner. I put in a new toner cartridge and the message did not go away. This Brother laser printer is quite old. So I ordered a new HP printer this morning.
I haven’t used many applications on this Mini yet. I expect that more old software will fail.
Anyone out there having similar experiences?
Gordon
I’ve just installed the Brave browser downloaded from the website (never used it before) and it opened just fine.
I’d try downloading it again as it might be an old version not compatible with Apple Silicon.
I had Brother issues when going to Sequoia. Get a newer driver from their web site, that seemed to fix it.
If your old Mac Pro was an Intel machine, you may need to redownload some apps. There are a number of developers who are distributing separate packages for Intel and Silicon. I’d redownload any app that’s not working properly on the new machine, as well as a new driver for your existing printer.
Downloaded Brave again and this time it worked!
Somehow moving to the Mini changed the dates on some of the applications. That confused me as to which version was the latest.
Switching from Intel to M4 Pro is a big change. I may have to updates more apps.
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I recommend MacUpdater as it’s generally a great app. In your case it could be particularly useful as it now has an Apple Silicon migration assistant:
• Find out which of your ‘Rosetta’ based apps could be ‘Apple Silicon’-native if you would update or upgrade to the latest version
• Find out which of your ‘Rosetta’ based apps could be ‘Apple Silicon’-native if you would reinstall them
MacUpdater is well designed and an excellent way to see what updates are available and apply them. It also has nice little features like making it easy to display all Intel-only apps on your system and read release notes for software, all from one convenient listing. There’s a free version so it’s quick and easy to try out and get useful features. The Standard and Pro licences are very reasonably priced (one-off purchases) if you find you want to be able to automate the updating process further or simply support the developer.