Apple M1 MacBook

“Apple with their SoC really changed a lot of people's minds about hardware.”

“just set up playing with an M1 (non-max) and realized it can't drive 3 displays”

“my extremely expensive workstation cannot even idle without sometimes getting warm or hot”

“The only thing they needed to get right was the software, which they did”

“A $3-4k investment in the best performing machine they have will be great essentially until the machine itself breaks”

“closer to the battery life you'd want and still quite good for a linux laptop”

“I have a MacBook M1 and I recently had to downgrade from Tahoe to Sequoia.”

“easily fits on an old M1 macbook/mac mini, whose idle power consumption is well below 10W”

“So you can expect ~2-4 more years of updates for an M1. Even after no updates, you can probably still use it longer.”

“the m1 MacBook is still a decent piece of hardware for my needs”

“it is still going strong. I think even with the recent flaws of macos and instability, the hardware is pretty great”

“There wouldn't be so many people who see no need to upgrade their M1 series computers if this were a real concern.”

“It still lasts all day, and it's still the only computer I use.”

“m1 was very cool no matter what workload you threw at it”

“don't expect usable battery life, Thunderbolt output or a few other niceties”

“I realized there's NOTHING that compares at ANY price point, let alone $1000.”

“Takes at least 5 minutes on the 65W charger to get bootable from a full drain.”

“It's still so fast, so cool, great screen, biometric unlocking... it's just incredible.”

“my macbook with m1 and 16gb ram is probably the fastest laptop I ever own”

“I do NOT like Mac OS (and with every update I like it _less_)”

“I like the performance and the power consumption of the current apple lineaup”

“I've had an 8GB M1 since they came out and had almost no problems with memory shortage.”

“with only 8GB you are getting into the swap territory very fast”

“I didn't feel any huge speed boosts like that until the M1 MacBook in 2020.”

“it is not enough and you'll have to restart the browser at least a few times per week to not make the whole system lag”

“Heck even my M1 still 100% suffices for everything I wanna do.”

“everything works perfectly fine and the performance is more than adequate for dev work”

“Macs swap incredibly well, and an M1/*gb mac is more than capable of having hundreds of chrome tabs open”

“I have an old M1 with 8gb and works well for some kind of [light?] development.”

“running a browser concurrently with Figma made everything slow down to the point where he went around asking for advice”

“my personal M1 is more than adequate for normal work”

“Most things apart from touchid and usb-display work really well on M1-M2.”

“my M1 Macbook is still better at just being a light machine I can take anywhere”

“The hardware is very good, it can absolutely last 10 years”

“It has been 5 years since the M1 Macbook release, and there is no real equivalent.”

“The M1 was great. But the jump felt particularly great because Intel Macbooks had fallen behind in performance per dollar.”

“My M1 MacBook felt like a similarly shocking upgrade”

“for normal web-browsing and netflix-watching it's cool to the touch”

“When the M1 came out it felt like jumping 10 years foward.”

“Even an M1 with 8 GB of RAM is still very capable today”