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Today is the official launch day of Apple's new M1-powered Macs, and as customers who pre-ordered await their devices, Apple has also started in-store sales for the new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini.

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Customers across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and other regions can now place an order on Apple's website or in the Apple Store app and arrange for in-store pickup at a local retail location.

For example, a quick spot check on the U.K. Apple online store suggests that most stores in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland have available stock for customers today or tomorrow. The same goes for other stores in the United States, Canada, and European countries where in-store pickup is available, including Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.

In many cases, orders placed today for shipping to the home won't arrive until November 25 at the earliest, although there are likely to be exceptions depending on location. In-store pickup at U.S. stores is expected to become available later today.

Initial reports suggest Apple's M1 Macs are significantly faster than the models they replace, and faster than many Intel Macs with the "Pro" moniker. In fact, Apple's M1 Macs are faster in single-core performance than any other Mac that Apple makes, and when it comes to multi-core performance, are faster than the high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro models.

The M1 Macs are even faster in single-core performance when emulating x86 under Rosetta 2, and as for GPU performance, the integrated graphics outperform the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and AMD Radeon RX 560.

This article has been updated to reflect that Apple Store pickup has expanded to more countries, including the United States and Canada.

Article Link: First M1 Apple Silicon Macs Now Available for In-Store Pickup
 
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I picked up 8Gb base config Mac Mini machine just to see if my Catalyst app would run fine on AS and I am surprised it compiled and ran so well I don’t think I need more than this for my purposes. Very impressive!
 
MacBook Air 1TB 16GB RAM is available for pickup. Scheduled one for pickup on Thursday.
I thought about it quite a bit actually.

I determined that spending £540 on add-ons would be half of an updated base machine for the next revision cycle (with LED and the like).

Having said that, my last machine just broke after 8+ of heavy usage, so perhaps I made the wrong decision.

I also have two nursery fees coming soon (at least £1600/mo after the tax reduction), so I better keep some change around.
 
Yep, got my base model Air about 8 hours ago in Australia and have been fun playing around with both it and Big Sur. I'm upgrading from a mid-2014 13" MacBook Pro so even this entry level Air is an absolute beast compared to it.
 
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Yep, got my base model Air about 8 hours ago in Australia and have been fun playing around with both it and Big Sur. I'm upgrading from a mid-2014 13" MacBook Pro so even this entry level Air is an absolute beast compared to it.

the battery life on my base model M1 pro is amazing, how's your battery life on the air?
 
Wish bootcamp support was a thing :D Love to play CS GO in bootcamp. (Mac version is so buggy)
 
the battery life on my base model M1 pro is amazing, how's your battery life on the air?
I'll do some tests when it arrives today. Should be similar. I think about the same in real-world testing if MBPs get a more heavy workload than the MBAs.

In the end, both should be well over 12h of real-world usage, which is more than enough for just about anyone as they can plug it in when they sleep.

Having said that, what's the theoretical minimum recharge time based on mAh and W?
 
Why?

8GiB is more than enough for me and I don't want to pay over £1000 for a machine. This one came in at £898, which is peanuts :)

I agree with you. Not everyone need 16gb and the Mac OS uses memory so much better than a Windows machine. People need to stop saying you need 16gb. It totally depends what you are using it for. People always say need this, need that. Everyone has different use cases.
 
No 16GB configs for pickup though. Honestly, no one should be buying 8GB.
I have been searching for that too, but can’t find a 16GB model anywhere in the Netherlands. They seem to lag behind some weeks.
 
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