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

Post by valuearb » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 8:16 PM UTC

xirbeosbwo1234 wrote: post #174

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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.

>Toe to toe? It starches every Ryzen chip in single core performance It most certainly does not. It trades blows, winning on some benchmarks and losing others. It seems a bit ahead on floating-point workloads and a bit behind on integer workloads. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste... It does simply outperform every Intel design. That's great, but not enough to make it the fastest core in th…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 8:21 PM UTC

jeswin wrote: post #76

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.

Post by pletsch » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 8:23 PM UTC

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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 have been using Linux for a little over 20 years. I remarked a the start it did not sleep when it closed. My current laptop is also Linux and it still does not always sleep when I close it. I need to get up to speed on BSD or something.

Post by systemvoltage » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 8:29 PM UTC

valuearb wrote: post #245

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The following explains and illustrates the problems with macOS and how they've shoehorned design changes that do not belong to Desktop environments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXG5REBi2fo

No, it’s a rant with little to no factual support and an entire lack of perspective. Again, there is no evidence any Big Sur UI changes were to support touch screens. Bigger button areas make computers easier to use, just as bigger tap areas make mobile devices easier to use.

Post by breck » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 8:41 PM UTC

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I got the 1TB SSD. Wouldn't call that tiny. Then I have external arrays for bigger datasets. How much space would you need? IIRC they go up to 2TB or maybe even 4TB.

How about the RAM? I'm assuming that you got 16GB? I thought 8GB would be barely usable for me, but I've been pleasantly surprised. I still use my desktop for heavy enough work, but 8GB is manageable for now.