I would be pretty upset if this was my primary development machine. A lot of minor issues, but enough that I still rely on my older machine frequently. Definitely improving, but I'd give it a few more months. I'm not saying there aren't solutions to the issues I'm having, but there are enough small ones that it hasn't been worth the time to chase down each one.
Examples include:
- multiple monitor support
- Facetime issues
- Xcode cannot connect to my phone
- start up is fast, but wake-from-sleep is slow
- an ESC key is nice, but I would still like volume/mute buttons. Especially in COVID times where I am muting/unmuting even more than usual.<p>The positives are that it is very fast and battery life is great!
It's hard to take the author seriously when he gushes over the joys of using the touch bar, the life-changing productivity gains of having a faster computer, and - yes - the benefits of down-sizing to a smaller screen. Apple can do no wrong, it seems.
i went from the most expensive 2016 (?) macbook pro 15" with touchbar to the least expensive macbook air M1 and it feels like an absolutely amaaazing upgrade
Excited for Q3/4 release of the new MacBook this year. I believe a nice screen redesign is in the works which will get rid of the outdated bezels and I'm hoping I can connect two displays. Throw in a possible few more cores for the M1X 16inch version and give me a 32GB ram option and sounds like a pc which will last for many years.
Very happy with my MacBook Air M1, working mostly on TypeScript Node.js and React projects.<p>The first couple of weeks I used the Rosetta Terminal as described in this and many other blog post, until I found out this was not necessary at all for Node.js as described over here: <a href="https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/issues/2350#issuecomment-734132550" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/issues/2350#issuecomment-73413...</a>.<p>The only blocking issue was Docker so I used VSCode remote until they released the M1 preview. So with that and the release of HomeBrew 3.0.0 last month and many macOS apps adding M1 support, everything is now running smoothly for me and I think it's a really great machine to use as a developer.<p>Also, the battery life truly is amazing, and boy am I glad I finally got rid of that touch bar and that ridiculous butterfly keyboard.
My M1 MacBook Pro's been an excellent purchase. It's incredibly fast, and silent even when I'm running intensive builds e.g. building new versions of LLVM. Best investment I've made this year.
I have only two nitpicks with my M1 Mac: (1) it's not a good fit for virtualization (whether docker or VMs) -- but this limitation is well-known, and (2) the only time I see slowdowns is occasionally when opening a new tab in Safari -- even when almost nothing else is running. The second one also happened on my Intel Mac, just a bummer that the issue hasn't magically gone away.<p>Beyond that, I wouldn't change a thing about this machine. Very easy to recommend!
I play games on my Air, with it in my lap. Cannot do that with my i9 as it will make me sterile with the heat!<p>These are games like factorio and CIV6. Only two years ago, a similarly priced (~$1000) dell ultralight was unable to play CIV6 <i>at all</i> (ok, it managed 1 frame every 2 seconds). My M1 Air plays it for hours.
> I feel like the people that complain about this are the ones who have a hard time changing their workflows to use the TouchBar, and still do things the old school way using function keys<p>This was particularly painful to read. The mandatory new option that is the touchbar upended what was working fine for something that, for touch typists, is totally inferior. There's no feedback! This is a foundational aspect of usability; for apple to ignore this is a huge mistake.
Only 2 ports? My Mac has all 4 USB-C ports in use, two of those connect to hubs so I can multiplex them, and I have to unplug something to connect my backup drive because 4 isn't enough. I look forward to a more reasonable number of external ports.
I’ve had people, before Apple Silicon came out, tell me I was full of it when I said all evidence pointed to it being pretty damn impressive. So I feel a bit of schadenfreude seeing these posts.<p>I still don’t have a new MacBook with it because they don’t support multiple external monitors yet, but hey, maybe this year.