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Who's rocking an M1 still and how's it holding up for you?

revs said:
M1 MBA.

Everything I do is pretty instant. I can’t see any time soon when I’ll replace it.
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Honestly, it’s screen size that’s driving my impending upgrade from 14” M1P MBP to (hopefully) 16” M5 Max MBP later this year. Performance is fine. Perhaps some actions in PS/LR could be a bit quicker. But I need a bigger screen for my rubbish peepers.

And then I’ve got to decide whether to go for space black or silver.

Lol no, I haven’t. It’s going to be silver!

Probably.
 
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I was looking at M4 Max 16in prices.

They are insane.

My MBP 16in M1 Max with 32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD had an RRP of £3,299. I paid less although still way more than I thought was fair or justified: £2,899.99 (3,977.06 USD) at Costco here in the UK.

The equivalent MacBook Pro M4 Max 16in model (36GB/1TB storage) is £3,499.00 (4,800.19 USD) although can be got at Costco right now for £3,124 ($4,285.73 USD).
 
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woolypants said:
I was looking at M4 Max 16in prices.

They are insane.

My MBP 16in M1 Max with 32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD had an RRP of £3,299. I paid less although still way more than I thought was fair or justified: £2,899.99 (3,977.06 USD) at Costco here in the UK.

The equivalent MacBook Pro M4 Max 16in model (36GB/1TB storage) is £3,499.00 (4,800.19 USD) although can be got at Costco right now for £3,124 ($4,285.73 USD).
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I think it is fair, the M4 Max has more CPU cores in addition to the more GPU cores the M1 Max had. And after whatever that experiment they did with the M3 Pro core counts, the M4 Pro and Max options scale in a way more in line with what pros need. The 14/20 M4 Pro is more or a replacement for the 10/24 M1 Max than the 14/32 M4 Max.
 
sevoneone said:
I think it is fair, the M4 Max has more CPU cores in addition to the more GPU cores the M1 Max had. And after whatever that experiment they did with the M3 Pro core counts, the M4 Pro and Max options scale in a way more in line with what pros need. The 14/20 M4 Pro is more or a replacement for the 10/24 M1 Max than the 14/32 M4 Max.
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I agree it's not an apples to apples comparison.

But this does seem a sneaky way for Apple to hike the prices with each generation.

"See? More CPU and GPU cores. Bit more RAM. Together that will be... $500 more than the previous comparable model."
 
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For me it's not about the speed but the features. If there was a lighter Macbook, like the air, that had good speakers and promotion with the bright screen I'd be all over it. I don't need more performance I need the features. I liked the touchbar, no biggie, but I like the HDR screen and speakers.
 
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I still have my 8GB M1 Mac Mini. Great device, and great value. I would still highly recommend a base spec M1 Mac for many people, they can be had at some really great prices refurbished or used. If people have the budget to buy a base spec M2 or even possibly an M3, those also make for good budget options as well.
 
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FlyingTexan said:
For me it's not about the speed but the features. If there was a lighter Macbook, like the air, that had good speakers and promotion with the bright screen I'd be all over it. I don't need more performance I need the features. I liked the touchbar, no biggie, but I like the HDR screen and speakers.
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I concur.

I have an M2 MBA, an M2 MBP, and an M4 iMac.

The screen on the MBP is immediately different class.

I love all three machines, don't get me wrong, but the MBP's screen is on another level.
 
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i got an amazon warehouse M1 MBP back in 2022 and it is still massively overkill for what i use it for, i am tempted by a mini but i can't think of any reason to get one and use it over my MBP
 
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thebart said:
Processor is fine. If I could add RAM, it'd would do me another 5 yrs

Aye there's the rub
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Fortunately I have oodles of RAM but I did find myself bumping my head on the lid of available storage. I had to do a bit of spring cleaning, shelving little used stuff on an external SSD - separate from the one I use as Time Machine back-up.
 
I got mine with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB SSD.

I need the 32 GB of RAM (could argue for 48) but the 1 TB was so that I could be lazy about cleaning up files.
 
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I forgot if I replied here several months ago
BUT
yes both my M1s 8GBRAM are still performing well professionally, as graphic design, writing and cartoon wise
just the  software is really under par, too many annoyances
now I can't auto log in the MBA while the mini bypasses that and starts with the home screen.

hopefully Tahoe will take care of these small hinderances.

oh im not liking this shared memory concept at all, as my GB fluctuates 10GB every task.
 
I bought the M4 Max MBP 16" and could barely feel the difference versus my M1 Max same unit. Comparable RAM at 32gb and 48gb. I keep about 25 apps open at all times and the only place I felt a true speed increase was in linear single core processes like software updates. The M4 variant killed the M1 there but for 3+ grand no thanks I'll wait. I returned the M4 Max.
 
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Bought an early M1 13” 8GB MBA and then later an M4 15” 16GB MBA, and use them interchangeably. Also an M1 Mini with a big screen. Can’t tell any difference between them except screen size.

I’m a writer, primarily using Ulysses and some light Photoshop along with the usual Safari/Mail/Messages apps.

My world essentially hit computing perfection with the M1. M4 brought me nothing noticeably different. If I buy anything else from Apple, it’ll likely be because one of my machines dies.
 
RumorConsumer said:
I bought the M4 Max MBP 16" and could barely feel the difference versus my M1 Max same unit. Comparable RAM at 32gb and 48gb. I keep about 25 apps open at all times and the only place I felt a true speed increase was in linear single core processes like software updates. The M4 variant killed the M1 there but for 3+ grand no thanks I'll wait. I returned the M4 Max.
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I have an iMac Pro (from 2017) and an M1 Max Studio. I use the iMac Pro most of the time because the screen, speakers and microphones are great and most of the interactive stuff that I do is fine on the iMac Pro despite having far lower single-core and multicore performance. It's too bad that Apple is ending support, probably in two years as I think that it would still be quite capable for another five years.

We're around the point that CPUs are so fast that there isn't a huge amount of marginal benefit to the average user and I think that Apple will be adding non-performance features to MacBooks in M5 or M6.
 
I think the M6 generation is the one to finally upgrade for me. I've been using the M1 Pro 16" as my laptop and an M4 Mini as my desktop.

Tandem OLED + M6 = amazing mobile machine for local LLM workloads.
 
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senttoschool said:
I think the M6 generation is the one to finally upgrade for me. I've been using the M1 Pro 16" as my laptop and an M4 Mini as my desktop.

Tandem OLED + M6 = amazing mobile machine for local LLM workloads.
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Same. Hopefully with C2 chip for wireless/cellular and whatever MVNO Apple creates or just delegates to the carriers.
 
woolypants said:
I was looking at M4 Max 16in prices.

They are insane.

My MBP 16in M1 Max with 32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD had an RRP of £3,299. I paid less although still way more than I thought was fair or justified: £2,899.99 (3,977.06 USD) at Costco here in the UK.

The equivalent MacBook Pro M4 Max 16in model (36GB/1TB storage) is £3,499.00 (4,800.19 USD) although can be got at Costco right now for £3,124 ($4,285.73 USD).
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I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad P16Sgen2 AMD with 64gb,1T. (6 months ago). It had a price tag €1.833,00. I think that is a crazy price for a machine less than 1/4 of value Any Macbook. ( I have to have a Windows machine )

I am currently writing this with M1 16 Max 64gb 2T. It costed €4.869,00 (1.11.2021), and I think I will be able to use this another 4 years. I don't think that is expensive in a long run.

Instead, Lenovo is already a piece of junk. _That_ is expensive.
 
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Bmju said:
OCLP?
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OCLP would only give me Tahoe as that's the last operating system for Intel systems.

It's a possibility though other options are Windows 11 and Linux. The issue to solve with Linux is getting 5K to work. My understanding is that people seem to only be able to get 4k to work. Windows gets 5K because of the Boot Camp drivers.
 
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pshufd said:
OCLP would only give me Tahoe as that's the last operating system for Intel systems.

It's a possibility though other options are Windows 11 and Linux. The issue to solve with Linux is getting 5K to work. My understanding is that people seem to only be able to get 4k to work. Windows gets 5K because of the Boot Camp drivers.
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MacOS Tahoe is the absolute latest version of macOS, and is still in beta…
 
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