![]() ![]() I generally will close down apps when I don't need them (but that's _always_ been my habit). * run some known performance & memory hogs (Slack, Teams, etc.) * run a virtual machine (Only so much you can give a Parallels instance w/ 8GB) * have heavy web apps (GMail & Outlook, I'm looking at you) * have a lot of tabs open in Safari (like ~30+) You don't start to feel the 8GB until you: My perspective: Going from a 2019 15" MacBook Pro with 16GB of memory to an 8GB M1 13" MacBook Pro I bought the M1 because I have an upcoming Mac app that I've worked on for ~2 years and I wanted to make sure it works on M1 ( ). Overall, I'm very happy with the M1, but I still have a 2018 Mac mini that continues to be my main machine. I hope they'll reverse their stance to not support M1s at some point. I really wanted Netflix and Amazon Alexa to work. I had higher hopes for the ability to run iOS apps. I read somewhere that that'll soon be fixed with a software update. ![]() It works great, but when I put the M1 to sleep and wake it up again it can't find the display anymore. My M1 has problems when I'm connecting my external 5K display. ![]() Within Xcode/Swift everything works as expected, just much faster ) Tried to run Linux in Parallels but that didn't work (some sort of weird error, didn't investigate further) I have the MBP and the only time I heard the fan was when I compiled the Rust toolchain. Difficult to describe, but that is really really nice Something I wouldn't have thought is how much I enjoy that the machine is not heating up under stress. I had some trouble building the Rust lang toolchain (wanted to work on a PR), haven't tried again (used my other machine instead). Unless you have something x86 specific you need to be doing locally or need a huge screen do not hesitate to buy this machine. I've been pretty jaded on hardware recently but this made me sit up and go "holy crap" everything else just became obsolete. The processors are just more efficient in so many ways. Once I compared zoom using 120% cpu on my intel Mac to 30% cpu on my apple silicon Mac it was game over. If there was a 14/16" version I'd throw money at Apple again. Kinda bummed that I can only hook one LG5k display in at a time but whatever, that is kind of a fringe desire anyway. I do all of my development remotely via ssh and local forwards so the different platform doesn’t affect me at all. When I say fast I mean desktop processor fast. Comes with tiny a/c adapter that charges it quickly Brought me back to Mac from my X1 carbon 6th gen running Linux (arch btw). I have the M1 MacBook Air and it’s best computer I’ve ever owned, hands down. ![]()
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