Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

bou.ke

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

221–230 of 348 posts

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

#221

Post by fvv »

bouk wrote: post #209
RomeoDelta wrote: post #189

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…

I hope you get to experience that! My worst computer recently has been a Thinkpad running Linux, basic things like suspending the laptop when it closes just never work properly. But I'm sure the year of Linux on the desktop will come one day.

I'm not experienced with thinkpad but I do have some laptops and desktop and in all of those suspension and hibernation works, require swap but even with zfs raid over luks layer with zil on pcie mounted optane on old ubuntu 18.04 things worked.. but i agree that on some hardware linux sometimes need patience :( hope that will change.. but probably to change linux need more love from desktop users ..

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

#223

Post by aquir »

fvv wrote: post #206
RomeoDelta wrote: post #189

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…

I feel the same and hope that moment will come in about 1.5y zen4 5nm ddr5 64gb ecc 2tb nvme linux laptop ..without having to trade my body parts to buy it :)

Sounds awesome! Can you share what type of laptop are you using?

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

#224

Post by DennisAleynikov »

Hamuko wrote: post #208
DennisAleynikov wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> any chromebook will show you roughly what I mean. Where does a Chromebook come into this?

what macos big sur essentially is:

chrome first (safari) play store apps (catalyst for ios apps) linux apps (unix apps homebrew)

a lot of folks arent familiar with how identical these software stacks have become over the last few years. especially with apples quality control dropping so steeply to allowing Catalyst apps to be something they mention on stage despite their sorry state as somehow more broken than android apps on chromeos

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

#225

Post by joegahona »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #152
threedots wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I’ve had this experience and seen many others mention it too. I always make a point when I have time to mention how I’ve solved it. If you haven’t already, try plugging the power in on the right side, and the display/any other peripherals on the left. It sounds crazy, but this has been the solution for tons of people. Apparently the heat generated by power input (even at a steady full charge) is enough to spike the s…

Just confirming: By "right side," you mean _my_ right when looking at the computer? "Left side" is the side closer to the Esc key?

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

#226

Post by masswerk »

_5vzs wrote: post #59

tldr; I got a Macbook Pro M1 for $975 in mint-condition at a Best Buy and already put the return label on it. While Geekbench showed great results, actual usage of the machine and headaches ensued were contrasting. To put it bluntly - M1 machines are currently unstable. There are numerous Bluetooth issues [1], formatting issues [2], Wifi 6 issues [3], VPN issues [4], firewall issues [5], and shocking security issues…

To be fair, none of these issues seem to be related to the M1 hardware, but to some issues and choices made with Big Sur.

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

#227

Post by alphadevx »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #102
alphadevx wrote: post #24

In 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?

This is the predictable HN response I envisioned after reading the title. You'd start to have a point if they were only talking about raw performance. But they aren't. Also, raw performance alone doesn't make things better. My Windows PC almost has the best parts on the market yet things don't always feel faster. The UI even feels slower than my previous one. It's my latest PC, but it's not the best computer I've own…

I would "start to have a point", really? I will try harder next time.

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

#228

Post by justincormack »

breck wrote: post #43
threedots wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh wild, didn't know that. This is the M1 16" MBP, or the older Intel one?

The old one, there isn't an M1 16" yet

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

#230

Post by xirbeosbwo1234 »

bouk wrote: post #209
RomeoDelta wrote: post #189

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…

I hope you get to experience that! My worst computer recently has been a Thinkpad running Linux, basic things like suspending the laptop when it closes just never work properly. But I'm sure the year of Linux on the desktop will come one day.

Which Thinkpad and which distro? I've always found them reliable, but I've only used ones from about 2012 and have stuck with Ubuntu.
Post reply on HN