I just purchased a base M1 Macbook Air at best buy for $789. TL
R, I'm happy with it but my lack of knowledge can frustrate me at times.
I've had over 100 Windows laptops during the course of my lifetime and while none of them truly sucked, they all had one or two glaring oversights or flaws that couldn't be ignored. it's as almost the designers do this on purpose. It didn't matter if it was a $2800 Razer or a $400 HP. The macbook doesn't have any obvious flaws.
My workflow involves heavy VM use. So an M1 macbook is the wrong choice right? well.. not so fast. i do do 80% of my testing and validation for my job on WOA just fine apparently. The Macbook is actually faster then any of my i7 laptops doing day to day virtual machine tasks. If i need an x86 machine, I remote into one in. Why did I do heavy VM on my laptop ever? I don't know.. The macbook gets the basics right and that's what enticed me. Waking up from sleep, updates, personal hotspot ( love that feature), Thunderbolt connection. GOSH don't get me started on thunderbolt and windows. It's literally a poop show; It was also a mixed bag on the Intel Macbooks too to be fair.
I got the base model to test the waters and am planning on trading it in and getting the newer M1 chips when they are released next year.
R, I'm happy with it but my lack of knowledge can frustrate me at times. I've had over 100 Windows laptops during the course of my lifetime and while none of them truly sucked, they all had one or two glaring oversights or flaws that couldn't be ignored. it's as almost the designers do this on purpose. It didn't matter if it was a $2800 Razer or a $400 HP. The macbook doesn't have any obvious flaws.
My workflow involves heavy VM use. So an M1 macbook is the wrong choice right? well.. not so fast. i do do 80% of my testing and validation for my job on WOA just fine apparently. The Macbook is actually faster then any of my i7 laptops doing day to day virtual machine tasks. If i need an x86 machine, I remote into one in. Why did I do heavy VM on my laptop ever? I don't know.. The macbook gets the basics right and that's what enticed me. Waking up from sleep, updates, personal hotspot ( love that feature), Thunderbolt connection. GOSH don't get me started on thunderbolt and windows. It's literally a poop show; It was also a mixed bag on the Intel Macbooks too to be fair.
I got the base model to test the waters and am planning on trading it in and getting the newer M1 chips when they are released next year.
