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I like Big Sur. Everything works just as well with the mouse as before. They made many quality of life improvements to the touch bar, and didn't mess with the other things. What exactly was made worse by it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25072644 Instead of repeating same things over, there has been plenty of discussion on HN about macOS big sur design changes.
I think we really need a break from people submitting more M1 Mac unboxing articles, unless there's significant original technical content. This is turning into fanboyism.
The voting system reflects HN sentiment, which generally isn't particularly pro Apple, so the implication is that M1 is quite special.
The 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhESSZIXvCA
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They probably have a quota to fill. Apple spending an ocean of cash on pushing this project.
Are you implying the OP or HN itself are promoting the M1 line for $?
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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... Those sneaky bastards – making their products perform better by introducing new features*! Whatever next?
"new features" ah yes I love hw tweaks for benchmark juicers mmmmmmmm shows me so much about what matters in the real world
Assuming you're a developer, how about compile time + battery life remaining? From nearly 2 months ago, this isn't news anymore: https://twitter.com/panzer/status/1328700636926332928
EDIT: Or assuming you like to watch media on a range of devices at home, and share your media with your family and friends, maybe the ability to transcode h264 or h265 content also matters to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK3xVXAd6_o
TL;DW: Plex Transcoder running through Rosetta2 doesn't even break a sweat.
I am no Apple fanatic. I'm a die-hard Linux user and open source proponent. I wouldn't touch the M1 with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole. But with all that said... I kind of like articles like these. I enjoy seeing people happy with good tech because I like good tech. It pleases me that there are people getting this much enjoyment out of innovative and (I'll admit it) quite impressive hardware. So rock on, Apple f…
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Expensive compared to what?
Copied from a different comment of mine: £999 is a lot of PC. The processor in the M1 air is about 20% faster than the one in my laptop (£550 IIRC), but to spec an M1 out with the same amount of storage and RAM brings it to £1999. I should stress that my now slightly ageing laptop is much thicker than an Air, but it's also used to play modern games so that balances out. Personally, for the price of an Air I could act…
It sounds like the things you care about are raw performance per £, and other factors are not important.
If that’s what you are looking for then the Air is not for you, but it doesn’t mean it’s expensive. It just means you don’t need the things it offers for the money.
If you do care about battery life, then the M1 Air is cheaper than the only comparable alternative - the M1 MacBook Pro.
Nobody else even makes anything comparable.
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> its really not... How so?
any chromebook will show you roughly what I mean. the approach with running ios apps with catalyst, safari being faster than on ANY intel device, and most guides recommending you use webapps thats mostly what I mean. people have had a repulsion to chromebooks or even windows 10 S but apple did not do much more than just that. the praise isnt coming for how amazingly working in production through rosetta is
Where does a Chromebook come into this?
I am no Apple fanatic. I'm a die-hard Linux user and open source proponent. I wouldn't touch the M1 with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole. But with all that said... I kind of like articles like these. I enjoy seeing people happy with good tech because I like good tech. It pleases me that there are people getting this much enjoyment out of innovative and (I'll admit it) quite impressive hardware. So rock on, Apple f…
But I'm sure the year of Linux on the desktop will come one day.
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this is what people meant prior to the m1 coming out with "macs are a horrible deal" they used to be priced at roughly 3x markup compared to the market. they finally fixed their co-dependency with intel and suddenly wow the price gouging goes out the door because gasp the macbook air could have always been the pro it was just never possible with using old chips. ANYTHING using arm absolutely FLIES open your eyes peop…
Those ARM Chromebooks are/were the slowest computers on the market. There is nothing with an ARM CPU that "flies" except the new Macs. Using the same benchmark (Geekbench 5) the M1 has a single-core score of ~1700 and contemporaneous ARM competitors like the Lenovo Yoga 5C and the Surface Pro X get 700-750. The other ARM CPUs have equivalent performance to bottom-of-the-line mobile Intel processors from 2012. Apple M…
I daily drive a lenovo duet and its absolutely the closest thing to perfection in the modern computing realm. Its a surface go but running arm and chromeos and it flies thru all of my webapps like Framer, Figma, Plectica, Notion, Photopea, Visual Studio Code, Blender etc
m1 is scary fast, but also x64 is dead and needs to be transitioned to the new age. Apple or not this is a major shift in the dev market
and not only in $800+ price
the duet is $300