The only thing I would have noticed is the 3rd party apps that have not been recompiled for Apple Silicon. If someone gave me this and didn’t tell me it was ARM Apple Silicon based I wouldn’t know.
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And having used something like the Raspberry Pi 4 which is similarly ARM based and on which I could notice a performance difference compared to even a PC from few years ago I feel no such difference with the MacBook Air M1.
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I can tell you that both the Music and Photos app opened instantly and loaded my library from scratch (Apple Music and the iCloud Photos) super fast… that’s something even my previous MacBook Pro had trouble with.
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In terms of performance I am not a good judge of it as neither do I compile any code on this nor do I do Final Cut or PhotoShop etc. No brief startup delay like any other Macs. I close the lid whenever I leave it and when I come back and open the lid it’s instantly on… just like your iPhone. and they all say the same thing: this thing performs well and the battery life is amazing! When I got the MacBook Air it had 86% charge and I’ve only touched 61% with the off and on usage. There’s plenty of YouTube reviews you can watch as well as Geekbench scores etc. To answer the question of macOS and M1 in general, there’s absolutely no performance concerns. Not only is macOS Big Sur a big leap in terms of architecture compatibility, it also pulls a design refresh successfully. and here we are now with super excitement around macOS and Macs.
It’s amusing how just a few years ago there were rumours that macOS and Macs would die soon and Apple would focus on iOS and iDevices only etc.
But would macOS work well on them was the big question and also how would 3rd party apps that were not recompiled for Apple Silicon perform? Would the performance be poor like with the Surface Pro X devices for instance, which were similarly ARM based and resorted to emulation to run Intel architecture apps and had limitations like being unable to emulate 64-bit apps? For years everyone knew the iPhone and iPad A-series chips could outperform Macs or PCs in various tasks, just that iOS being iOS not many people used them as Mac or PC replacements. and so there was always the little speck of doubt that we don’t really know how things are until the device is in hand. It’s not cheap, and it’s a fanboy purchase for sure as I don’t really need a laptop… but I couldn’t resist not getting the first of the M1 devices so I splurged out the money even though I really should not.įirst impressions after maybe an hour of off and on usage: it’s great, I ❤️ it! Not that I had any doubts, but you know… the general consensus after the Apple event of last week was that they didn’t go into much details, the graphs had no numbers etc. I maxed out the RAM and also upgraded the SSD (I might have skipped upgrading the SSD but the base 512GB one had a delivery date a week from today and that plus it’s always good to have spare SSD space nudged me to upgrade). Just to recap: I went with the MacBook Air, 8 core, 16GB RAM, 1TB disk.
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