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Also the 16" was much more expensive, but and it has much shorter time on battery - but I already paid for it and I'm usually close to a power plug anyways.
Maybe I'd use the M1 more if zoom was less prevalent.
Also M1 owners, I would also like to know how much 8/16 GB memory has affected your workflow/productivity assuming you previously had at least 32GB RAM? e.g. Those who never closed their apps before, kept several browsers with several dozen tabs, Note taking apps, IDE, VM etc. all the time. Is lighting fast opening of apps on M1 = Never having to close the apps in any machine with large RAM?
I have laptops with 64 and 32Gb of RAM, but I found my best work happens with 8Gb of RAM. I can't exactly explain how or why, but it seems to enforces discipline by reducing task (and context) switching - so much that I got myself another laptop with 4Gb.
Gosh I love it so much. I’ve been doing golang and c/c++ on it and everything is buttery smooth. Few hiccups in the beginning with Rosetta but making sure I just run terminal with it ticked on makes everything fine. Once the Firefox M1 support came, I was very pleased. Everything is snappy, quiet, and light. I’d much rather trade in my mid-2019 16” rmbp for another of these at home. Battery life is amazing. 16gb hasn…
I got mine this week, I'm surprised it doesn't even blow hot air while building node from source. However, I am greatly disappointed in the fact that I cannot use both usb-c for displays, only one of them. I did not know of this limitation until I discovered things were not working as expected. Everything is super responsive, it's far better than the 2014 mac mini (4GB of ram) with 2020 SSD. Rosetta 2 seems to work w…
> it's far better than the 2014 mac mini (4GB of ram) with 2020 SSD Can you explain this a little better? I have a MAc Mini 2014 lying around that never got to put to good use (I inherited it when my father died) and one of my daughters tried to use for video editing but deciding against because of the memory limitations. Would you say even thought with the little RAM it is still good?
I got mine this week, I'm surprised it doesn't even blow hot air while building node from source. However, I am greatly disappointed in the fact that I cannot use both usb-c for displays, only one of them. I did not know of this limitation until I discovered things were not working as expected. Everything is super responsive, it's far better than the 2014 mac mini (4GB of ram) with 2020 SSD. Rosetta 2 seems to work w…
> it's far better than the 2014 mac mini (4GB of ram) with 2020 SSD Can you explain this a little better? I have a MAc Mini 2014 lying around that never got to put to good use (I inherited it when my father died) and one of my daughters tried to use for video editing but deciding against because of the memory limitations. Would you say even thought with the little RAM it is still good?
Battery life - I had bigger expectations :) , it’s indeed nice but still seems to run off quicker than reviews and reports I have read.
Compiling - that’s where it really chimes. I actually get better build times than my desktop 10700k machine (both with Xcode 12.2 and compiling same archs.
The hiccups, As we develop audio plug-ins (which are dlls). it seems that Apple now has extra XPC services ‘sandboxing’ those. (also for native arm64 binaries). So far, so good. but... with extra hardened runtime, it’s not debuggable! so unless we go the SIP off way we cannot debug under it (which is needed since it might behave differently).
I think you should focus the questions on what development tasks you expect. Since people developing for web will have different hiccups than people developing native macOS or iOS.
It’s still an ‘insider’ machine. :) Many major apps are still insider or test/tech builds. Docker, Parallels, Android Emulators, VS Code, etc...
TL;DR - it’s the bleeding edge. prepare to search workarounds for tiny issues while installing.
having a machine not frying your ‘laps’ and silent (no fan) while out-performing my desktop 10700k in many tasks is quite amazing.
I got mine this week, I'm surprised it doesn't even blow hot air while building node from source. However, I am greatly disappointed in the fact that I cannot use both usb-c for displays, only one of them. I did not know of this limitation until I discovered things were not working as expected. Everything is super responsive, it's far better than the 2014 mac mini (4GB of ram) with 2020 SSD. Rosetta 2 seems to work w…
I’ve been using MacBook Air. Battery life - I had bigger expectations :) , it’s indeed nice but still seems to run off quicker than reviews and reports I have read. Compiling - that’s where it really chimes. I actually get better build times than my desktop 10700k machine (both with Xcode 12.2 and compiling same archs. The hiccups, As we develop audio plug-ins (which are dlls). it seems that Apple now has extra XPC s…
Super happy with the keyboard, performance is superb. No airflow, sometimes it gets a liiiitle bit warmer. Nothing hot or warm. My previous one was a mbp 2013 16gb.
Performance is buttery smooth, super fast..
I also expected more from the battery, but I think that might be because of chrome :-)
My biggest complaint is that it doesn't warm my lap. The battery life makes up for that though.
My other computer has a 3900x and it's been getting very little use even though I'm homebound.