There's a lot of love for the M1 Macs.
Medium send me emails of recommended articles and always at least one is a blog about how good it is.
What are the issues people have been experiencing? No laptop is perfect.
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
#82Yeah, 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…
OP: "In-N-Out is my favorite fast food restaurant." You: "No, you're wrong."
Even if the intended meaning is that it does (in the title) say "best" not favourite, which is ultimately, if not exactly, a reasonably quantitative question.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#83Yeah, 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…
My maxed out 2015 13" Macbook Pro runs as strong as ever. I paid more up front and have had no regrets since, and no need to upgrade any of the internals.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#84In my experience, the latest computer I buy is always "the best computer I've ever owned". They get better every year, why is this still surprising?
people don't remember good also people have been absolutely IGNORING the massive speed gains and battery life of say an ARM chromebook or surface pro X apparently only apple does good when they modify the ISA for x64 memory instructions to not have to be emulated so they can pretend rosetta is miles ahead of other virtualization when its hw based...
A chromebook is a toy and a surface pro X is a terrible computer. Apple wasn't the first to transition to ARM, but they were the first to do it right. If they added things to the hardware to enable this, so what?
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#85Yeah, 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…
> macOS Big Sur deliberately cripples VPN and firewall on it so that select Apple softwares can bypass them That was debunked: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/k0c00f/macos_big_sur_d...
Read the thread carefully. The vpn part was shown to be normal, not the firewall.
The original problem was with the firewall, there were only passing mentions of the vpn which op tested.
Also problematic, the op released no data. Whether that works for you depends on your pov.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#86Yeah, 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…
Everything you prefer in life has downsides that you accept because the upsides outweigh the trade-offs.
yeah but Apple downsides are particularly infuriating cus they're not the result of technical limitations.. The downsides are intentional on Apples part. They didnt try to engineer the most useful computer, they intentionally crippled various things in their OS for shady business reasons.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#87The comparison to Microsoft's more expensive 2020 Surface Pro X is especially stark.
Windows runs at less than half the speed on Microsoft's own flagship ARM hardware.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#88is it built like a tank?
A tank that grinds into your wrists.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#89Yeah, 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…
> macOS Big Sur deliberately cripples VPN and firewall on it so that select Apple softwares can bypass them That was debunked: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/k0c00f/macos_big_sur_d...
It bypasses firewalls, or network blockers using the new APIs...not sure how the vpn thing got started because that was never part of the original claims.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#90Yeah, 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…
OP: "In-N-Out is my favorite fast food restaurant." You: "No, you're wrong."
OP: "Here's my opinion." Him: "Here's mine."