This post is about a personal notebook, not a work one. I know that for some jobs, this will sound ludicrous.
I traded in my 2017 Macbook Pro when the M1 Air was announced. It was a nobrainer as I lived in constant fear of my keyboard failing and my AppleCare had expired 3 months earlier (wasn't renewable back then). So for the past year I have been all-in on the M1 way of mobile computing life. On the mac side of things, performance was just awesome. I had no complaints ever in my non-gaming applications. However, the things I had to go through to get sub-par Windows performance just continued to grind on my nerves. Some games required Parallels, some required Crossover. Some games were never going to work. So I weighed my options. Do I really need M1 speed to run Omnifocus, Fantastical, Screenflow, Drafts, etc.? Nope, the intel Macs handle all of my productivity stuff just fine. Do I really need an intel to run my games? That answer was yes.
There is nothing wrong with M1 for what it is meant to do. It runs macOS and its apps beautifully. The only issue I ever had with the M1 on the macOS side was that apple reneged on the deal to allow us to run iOS apps on it. I know, the devs are the ones actually to blame but it was promoted by apple. But the void left by not having Boot Camp is too much for me to overcome at this time. Maybe by skipping the M1x Macbook Pros, I will give Apple/Microsoft time to bridge the gap to ARM Boot Camp. But it looks like that will be a few years if ever. So for my personal notebook, I am doing the unthinkable. I am buying a 2+ year old architecture "new" macbook pro on the eve of the release of the next gen macbook pros.
I traded in my 2017 Macbook Pro when the M1 Air was announced. It was a nobrainer as I lived in constant fear of my keyboard failing and my AppleCare had expired 3 months earlier (wasn't renewable back then). So for the past year I have been all-in on the M1 way of mobile computing life. On the mac side of things, performance was just awesome. I had no complaints ever in my non-gaming applications. However, the things I had to go through to get sub-par Windows performance just continued to grind on my nerves. Some games required Parallels, some required Crossover. Some games were never going to work. So I weighed my options. Do I really need M1 speed to run Omnifocus, Fantastical, Screenflow, Drafts, etc.? Nope, the intel Macs handle all of my productivity stuff just fine. Do I really need an intel to run my games? That answer was yes.
There is nothing wrong with M1 for what it is meant to do. It runs macOS and its apps beautifully. The only issue I ever had with the M1 on the macOS side was that apple reneged on the deal to allow us to run iOS apps on it. I know, the devs are the ones actually to blame but it was promoted by apple. But the void left by not having Boot Camp is too much for me to overcome at this time. Maybe by skipping the M1x Macbook Pros, I will give Apple/Microsoft time to bridge the gap to ARM Boot Camp. But it looks like that will be a few years if ever. So for my personal notebook, I am doing the unthinkable. I am buying a 2+ year old architecture "new" macbook pro on the eve of the release of the next gen macbook pros.
