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Think long and hard before getting rid of your Air or 13" M1 Pro
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I would hope that the MBP14” fans both are more silent and run far less often than my i9 MBP16”, but in the end this, battery life and the ridiculous size of the Notch might well push me to be sensible and get a MBA, despite its strong vintage vibe (it looks like my beloved 2012 Retina MBP) in the display area.
It was worse. Over the past week I’ve heard these so called podcasters blatantly say that ‘the M1 was just not fast enough’ and that they could easily ‘cripple’ the M1 with their workflow. Heck one been went out of the way to say the M1 wasn’t capable of editing 4K video. It’s a joke compared to their comments this time last year which only exposes them to be disingenuous.
My question wasn’t to those who waited for the M1 Pro / Max but to those who traded in their M1 particularly those willing to accept Apples pathetic trade in value - just what in the past year did they find lacking about the M1s performance. I’m not seeing it, but I am genuinely interested in hearing about their experience. Things such as Touch Bar and lack of ports isn’t really a reason as you could easily use a dongle or dock to get access to those, and it’s not as if mobile working has been the rage during the past year of the pandemic. So what specifically about the M1’s performance failed those people? Or is this just the Apple hype machine all over again?
all u. need to do is hold and lift up the 14". its clearly heavier and thicker....
I had zero problems with my M1 MacBook Pro. The only thing I would sometimes miss are 32GB of RAM, but this is something I would like to have more on my desktop computer.
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I am keeping both.
- MacBook Air M1 16GB for couch use, bringing with me for stand-by duty (IT work) and on vacations etc..
- MacBook Pro M1 16GB as main workstation at home and in the office.
The Air is too good to get rid of. Its light weight, thin design and powerful performance makes it an ideal all-round laptop for around the house.
- MacBook Air M1 16GB for couch use, bringing with me for stand-by duty (IT work) and on vacations etc..
- MacBook Pro M1 16GB as main workstation at home and in the office.
The Air is too good to get rid of. Its light weight, thin design and powerful performance makes it an ideal all-round laptop for around the house.
How's the difference between the two in a backpack? Miniscule. That's the real test, not picking them up along the edge with one hand. The notch can be made invisible. Get the tool you need.
Rumor floating around that some people are worried it might be too heavy to carry so they are letting the delivery carriers strain themselves before attempting to pick them up.
I agree, the human eyes can adjust quickly to these slight changes. I go back and forth between an iPhone 12 Pro, iPad Pro and M1 MBA and at times an iPad Mini, I have not noticed anything significant. Even miniLED with its brightness is not a big factor unless viewing HDR content. It seems some of these features are activated for specific scenarios and not day-to-day usage.I returned both the 14 and 16 yesterday and my eyes have re-adjusted to non ProMotion. It’s perfectly fine and I love seeing how sleek and thin my M1 MBP is
Now of OLED or microLED makes its introduction on the Mac it will be noticed like on iPhone.
Liars and professional Apple Shillers. M1 is still more than enough power and performance for 99% of Mac Users.
If you enable the invisible notch feature, you're toggling on thicker fake bezels on the side and at the top essentially giving you the M1 13 screen. The notch is ugly and serves no purpose other than to create controversy and a placeholder for Face ID which will probably come next year.
Oh the days of running IRIX on an SGI machine because they were the only workstations back in the day with enough power and RAM to deal with large high-resolution files. Nostalgia.
Power as in CPU? Yes, for me. Or at least for me right now. In 3-5 years? Perhaps not.
But 16Gb of ram is just a bit tight now and will be a constraint for me in 3-5 years.
I had this with my 13" MBP base model with 8Gb and I've seriously regretted that I didn't get 16Gb at the time. Even after a year or so there was a lot of beach balling.
So I really lusted for the M1 this whole year, but waited for the 32Gb version.
How do you know, how can you forecast such a thing?
8Gb on my 2018 intel machine was already a problem, why will 8Gb (even if M1 is much much more efficient) be enough in 6 years?
And I admit I use my MBP professionally and probably a lot heavier than most home-users, students and other assorted users, but even for these categories 8Gb might be a really tight fit in years to come.
A good indicator of this will be to see what the system requirements are for recent operating systems. In the case of macOS Monterey/Windows 11 you are looking at 4GB and I am assuming this is with DDR3-1600ish/DDR4-2133 speed ram in mind. Most demanding games run fine on 8GB DDR4 RAM if you have a fairly recent build. Recent Ryzen/Intel Core 10th-11th gen laptops still ship with 4GB RAM, as hard as that is to believe.
On the Macs a good example were the Core i9 MBPs with 16GB-32GB of RAM compared to the base model M1 macs. There are certain use cases for professionals in where the increase in memory makes sense, but for the average joe opening up their laptop to check email, youtube and netflix? I can't imagine many scenarios in where 8GB will be an issue for most on these new machines.
I don't have the requirements in front of me, but I believe Windows 10 and whatever macOS version we were on back then called for a 2GB RAM requirement. 4GB seemed to make sense for most people at that time.
The M1 Pro and Max doubles the performance (and more) of the regular M1 and there's no doubt these new machines are for pro-level use. This leaves Apple room to upgrade the MacBook Air next spring with a new design and the next iteration of M1. It'll be faster, not as fast as M1 Pro of course, but if they can deliver a fan-less 14" MacBook Air (and perhaps a one-fan 14" MacBook Pro) that focuses on being thin-and-light, consumers/pro-sumers won't care.
But with these amounts of ram Windows/MacOS will hardly function? If you start 2/3 apps you're out of memory and on a 4-6 year old laptop the SSD/disk is so incredible slow that a swap file will mean endless hourglass/beach balls at every click?
Just Google uses 1Gb of Ram for 1 tab. Windowserver 1+Gb, Whatsapp 800Mb. That is well over 2Gb and with other systems processes it goes easily over 4Gb.
Oh the days when Irix’ windows kernel-crashed when opening windows where a few 1000 SoftImage animation frames had been rendered into. Nonostalgia.
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I wouldn't buy a computer with anything less than 8G for Windows 11 these days, and heavy users get 16G or more. I don't think I'd buy one for Monterey with less than 16G, but that would be a personal machine, not job related.
Crazy part for me was when I got an Apple trade-in value for my M1 MBA w/16gb ram was that it didn't ask for my serial number and only wanted my year, model, and storage space. So the fact I spent $200 on the RAM upgrade didn't factor into the trade-in value which crushed me given how much Apple charges for ram. This is when I knew anything other than a base model simply wasn't worth it if you trade-in frequently.
In all fairness though all of your devices besides the IPP are all 60hz displays so unless you spend significant time scrolling on your IPP it might not be noticeable.