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The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

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Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

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Post by valuearb »

xirbeosbwo1234 wrote: post #12

New computer is better than old computer. Shocking. The M1 is a good chip. It is great that we have ARM cores that can go toe-to-toe with Zen 3. It is hardly a revolution and it would not be trivial to scale it to a workstation or server design. It is telling to see someone acting like the competition is still Intel. Intel has been playing catchup since Q1 of 2017. Their server parts in particular are woefully outdat…

Toe to toe? It starches every Ryzen chip in single core performance, and every mobile Ryzen under 45 watts TDP in multicore despite only having 4 performance cores and 15 Watts TDP.

Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

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Post by threedots »

breck wrote: post #27
bla3 wrote: post #19

I love my M1 MBP, but I use my 16" MBP more day to day. The larger screen seems to be more important to me than the noisiness and shorter battery life. Definitely looking forward to bigger arm macs.

Curious, why not an external monitor? I have the M1 13 for on the go. An external monitor for day to day.

The 16" MBP is terrible with an external monitor (or at least mine is with my external monitor). Fans spin up like crazy and the case gets hot enough to fry an egg on. It's the one terrible weakness of an otherwise great machine.

Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

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Post by valuearb »

systemvoltage wrote: post #9

Except the interface which has been designed for touch interfaces without having any touch capability on the Mac, for the sake of "design unity" bullshit. You can't have M1 without macOS Big Sur. Not only on macOS, but generally the entire web is mobile-first and desktop-last philosophy.

Blatantly false assertion. No touch design changes in Big Sur, confirmed by Hair Force One.

Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

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Post by christkv »

paddim8 wrote: post #17
stevefan1999 wrote: post #11

...and is probably one of the least libre* computer I've seen in the 21th century, too. Before that, Linux can't run on MacBooks, and after a few years of development it's just barely working, now this thing. This is never going to be Desktop Linux compatible. Even Linus claimed he would like to but the effort is tremendous. >>> I'd absolutely love to have one, if it just ran Linux.. I have fairly fond memories of th…

Actually, Linux might actually run quite well on it soon. https://asahilinux.org/

It will take some time to get a GPU driver I imagine

Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

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Post by SubiculumCode »

webmobdev wrote: post #28

Yeah, right - if you choose to ignore the following: You can't upgrade the RAM, you can't upgrade the SSD, it doesn't have replaceable battery and you are forced to run a crippled OS on it (macOS Big Sur deliberately cripples VPN and firewall on it so that select Apple softwares can bypass them, allowing Apple better access and control over your data and softwares). (And if you don't care about any of the above, then…

cripples vpn? that is not a small thing.

Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

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Post by frereubu »

webmobdev wrote: post #28

Yeah, right - if you choose to ignore the following: You can't upgrade the RAM, you can't upgrade the SSD, it doesn't have replaceable battery and you are forced to run a crippled OS on it (macOS Big Sur deliberately cripples VPN and firewall on it so that select Apple softwares can bypass them, allowing Apple better access and control over your data and softwares). (And if you don't care about any of the above, then…

If someone doesn’t care about any of the above, then from their perspective it’s not giving in.

Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

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Post by valuearb »

stevefan1999 wrote: post #11

...and is probably one of the least libre* computer I've seen in the 21th century, too. Before that, Linux can't run on MacBooks, and after a few years of development it's just barely working, now this thing. This is never going to be Desktop Linux compatible. Even Linus claimed he would like to but the effort is tremendous. >>> I'd absolutely love to have one, if it just ran Linux.. I have fairly fond memories of th…

Now our politics are determined by what computer we own?

Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

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Post by efwfwef »

I have the MacBook Air 2018 (13-inch, 1.6 GHz i5, 16 GB memory) and it gets pretty slow for my dev side-projects, the battery is good but definitely not as good as my iPad pro (but much better than my macbook pro), and my keyboard has been acting, I got a replacement, and now it's acting again... Without the keyboard issue, and the slowness, it'd really be perfect.

Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

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Post by breck »

croes wrote: post #21

More RAM would be nice.

Would always be nice, for sure, but for Deep Learning I use a big cheap box with loads of RAM and the 16GB in my M1 MBP with the 1TB SSD seems plenty good so far. I don't have use cases yet where I notice a problem (other than yeah, overhead of having to do DL jobs on a different machine).

What causes you to hit the limits? I don't do any video editing, so I could see that being a slowdown for that use case.

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