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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 fvv »

aquir wrote: post #223
fvv wrote: post #206

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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?

Right now it,s an xmg which is a seller of clevo probably i will remain with that because I can change parts without voiding warranty , my reseller leave me add rm and hdd of my choice after the sale, i can buy without hdd and ram.. aalso have swappable battery and even if touchpad may not be apple quality i usually use mouse or trackball , but with the next I'll take a look at what Lenovo, hp dell etc will offer by that time , about linux compatibility and drivers.. I'm quite sure is improving every year.. except for macbooks ;)

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

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Post by bouk »

joegahona wrote: post #219
bouk wrote: post #212

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Yep I had to get a dock, but it's fine. I just plug in one cable and everything is connected.

Which dock? I have a dock and still have all four ports on my MBP 16 filled up too.

I got this one: https://www.anker.com/de/products/variant/anker-8in1-usbc-hu...

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Post by Klonoar »

dayvid wrote: post #160
mbesto wrote: post #98

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You must be new to Macs. I'm still on the MBP 2015 and it's "the best computer I've ever owned". Everything since then has technically upgraded parts, but the regressions (touchbar, butterfly keyboard mishaps, etc.) are not worth the upgrade. That's why this is surprising.

I LOVE my 13" 2015 MBP and only stopped using it because of keyboard errors. With that said, I believe the new Macbook Air and Macbook Pro have the Magic Keyboard which I think is essentially the same as the 2015 Macbook Pro keyboard and more up-to-date (though maybe not upgradeable). I recently bought a Zephyrus G14 which I think is one of the closer equivalents to a 13" MBP for Windows with a powerful GPU.

I bought an M1 as my 2015’s keyboard had died over the past year, and I got tired of being chained to my desk with my Bluetooth keyboard.

The M1 is close but the keys aren’t as deep. It’s good, but the 2015 still felt better to type on.

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Post by splintercell »

enos_feedler wrote: post #242
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.

For me, getting strong signal on the consumer sentiment of new Apple products helps me make trading decisions and is super useful. I welcome this content, fanboy or not. How are these submissions impacting you negatively?

And lets not forget, HN egged the function key row elimination a lot (rightfully so).

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Post by Traster »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #72
Traster wrote: post #58

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I don't know what your experience buying computers has been, but my 2012 MBA was the best I'd ever owned. The 2015 MBP was worse, the 2018 MBP I owned was worse than that. The Thinkpad X1 carbon I bought after that was the best I've ever owned, and every time I see my wife struggling with her Macbook I'm glad I finally ditched that rubbish.

Why was the 2015 MBA worse than the 2012 for you? They're basically the same design, and of course the 2015 would be more powerful in absolute terms. (My primary laptop is a 2014 MBA, and I previously owned ones from 2012 and 2015.)

Sorry I wrote MBA, I meant MBP - it had the terrible keyboard, I also went for a low end CPU and it really felt worse than my 2011 where I max'd out the CPU.

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Post by dghf »

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.

What distro? I've run Arch Linux on a ThinkPad, and suspend-on-lid-close worked perfectly out of the box.

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Post by pjmlp »

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.

It won't get better than this,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

https://chromeos.dev/en/linux

Unless the fragmented desktop communities finally decide what the whole stack should be like, for users and desktop developers.

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Post by thefz »

nevi-me wrote: post #250

My wife has a 2012 MBP, which is usable because I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and added an SSD. I had limited experience and use of macOS, but didn't like it much. I bought the Air last month under duress, because I was going to a place that's 10°C warmer than my home, and my laptop's GPU passes the idle quiet threshold. I have tinnitus, so the laptop fan noise becomes unbearable. I'm enjoying using the Mac, I mainly de…

> My wife has a 2012 MBP, which is usable because I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and added an SSD.

More or less same story with my previous Mid 2009 13'' MBP. The only reason why it has survived this long is because I've been able to add RAM, replace an SSD, replace the battery twice and replace a faulty touchpad too. Sadly this is no longer possible and modern Apple laptops are increasingly harder to repair.

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Post by [deleted] »

mkl wrote: post #258
DennisAleynikov wrote: post #224

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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 androi…

The excitement about the M1 computers is not about the software, but about the new CPU design, which is faster than any other laptop processor by most measures I've seen. Chromebooks have no equivalent.

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Post by erwincoumans »

mkl wrote: post #258
DennisAleynikov wrote: post #224

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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 androi…

The excitement about the M1 computers is not about the software, but about the new CPU design, which is faster than any other laptop processor by most measures I've seen. Chromebooks have no equivalent.

Hardware is most impressive indeed, but software as well, in particular Rosetta 2, the translation works well. Also the hypervisor works well, Parallels desktop flies with arm versions of Ubuntu and Windows.
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