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My first impressions with the MBP14" entry config...

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I am coming from a 2020 MBA intel i5 and I have to say that responsiveness, display, look and feel are simply day and night.
I am so impressed by the build quality of this "tank" and I am so happy to have chosen silver as it contrasts beautifully with the black keyboard and apple logo!
I am also glad of not having purchased the M1 MBA or MBP of last year, I would have felt terrible right about now!
All this to say that I am in my element, a happy camper, this machine has pretty much everything I was dreaming of which is why I say good riddance to Jonny Ive, you certainly won't be missed ?
 
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Interesting, I just wish the 1tb was available without a month + wait! If I let my heart get the better of me I will get the 10 core one which is in stock but 500 more!
 
I ordered the base 14 with 1 tb. Really looking forward to your thoughts on performance. Are you connecting to an external monitor? That is my only concern with the base and wondering if I should have upgraded the chip?
 
terryw1 said:
I ordered the base 14 with 1 tb. Really looking forward to your thoughts on performance. Are you connecting to an external monitor? That is my only concern with the base and wondering if I should have upgraded the chip?
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I only have a 2013 MBP and have 2 dell screens attached no issues
 
terryw1 said:
I ordered the base 14 with 1 tb. Really looking forward to your thoughts on performance. Are you connecting to an external monitor? That is my only concern with the base and wondering if I should have upgraded the chip?
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I haven't hooked up to any external displays yet but, according to the specs "you can connect up to two external displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors", not to mention the HDMI which would bring the total to 3, so case closed for me.
 
Natzoo said:
How did you transfer your data from the old to the new mac?
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On the data transfer subject, I'll add that I'm in the same boat as OP (but w/ 16" model) and initially did a full migration via migration assistant but my Terminal setup with homebrew/anaconda was all screwed up. I erased the disk, reinstalled, and am planning to set it up fresh since it's a new architecture.
 
Dovahkiing said:
On the data transfer subject, I'll add that I'm in the same boat as OP (but w/ 16" model) and initially did a full migration via migration assistant but my Terminal setup with homebrew/anaconda was all screwed up. I erased the disk, reinstalled, and am planning to set it up fresh since it's a new architecture.
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Are you planning on transferring photos from your old device or is that on the cloud? The only thing I really want is photos.
 
Natzoo said:
Are you planning on transferring photos from your old device or is that on the cloud? The only thing I really want is photos.
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In my case its on iCloud so nothing to transfer. If it wasn't, I would just use a USB stick to do the trick. I have to say that from experience I much prefer starting scratch when on a new machine rather than restoring from an older system.
 
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Natzoo said:
Are you planning on transferring photos from your old device or is that on the cloud? The only thing I really want is photos.
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I do cloud and local storage because the photos are precious to me also. My Photo library is like 100GB, so I'll transfer it over manually then turn on iCloud photo to save some time/data.
 
prism said:
Fan? What fan? Even during the initial setup where it was loading my emails, dropbox etc, I heard zilch, nada, nothing to the point where I was wondering if the fans might be defective on mine ?
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SAME! I have the base 14" model with 1 TB of storage, and I have yet to hear the fans once. I'm coming from a 2016 MacBook Pro, this new machine is QUIET.
 
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Very happy as well. Received my 14/base config a few hours ago. Looks better in person than in the marketing photos. No fans at all during set up and download of 27GB of music along with installation of Microsoft 365, Zoom, and various other programs. Remained quite cool to the touch.
 
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Natzoo said:
How did you transfer your data from the old to the new mac?
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In my case it transfer all by itself. I was really surprised that even desktop was transfered. I was planning to start fresh and it was faster and duplicate my previous MBP2018
 
stephen1108 said:
SAME! I have the base 14" model with 1 TB of storage, and I have yet to hear the fans once. I'm coming from a 2016 MacBook Pro, this new machine is QUIET.
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Good to hear. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro and just purchased the 14" base model. Man, that 2016 MBP has been a lemon for me (5 repairs done), so looking forward to a new machine.
 
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Base as in the 8CPU/14GPU model with the lower wattage power adaptor? Just want to be sure. Also can we use the older 96w USB-C adaptor?
 
Scott6666 said:
How’s the fan noise?
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There isn't any. I've been using my MacBook Pro 14" base model since 12pm. it's now 5:30pm. Battery is at 75%. So far I have:

1. Downloaded MS Office.
2. Downloaded Adobe Photoshop.
3. Browser has 4-5 tabs on.
4. Have had sports talk clips from YouTube running since 2pm.
5. Nonstop working in email and Word docs all afternoon.

I easily see this machine working with basic functions for 9-10 hours. Even when I played around with 4k images in PhotoShop the fan didn't kick on. But, I've seen videos of people editing 8k video and the fan doesn't kick on.
 
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I played with the base MBP 14 and the MacBook Air at the Apple store today. Besides the bigger monitor, I really did not notice a difference. Of course, really would not, when just doing basic internet, word/excel and photos. I did not even think the monitor looked all that different with colors or brightness. If there was a big difference would have purchased on the spot to replace my wife’s 2020 MacBook M1 Air.

The MBP definitely is a nice laptop though. Well built and I like all the ports and magsafe too.
 
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