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Holiday Return almost here - Keeping or returning?
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where is - return...to buy more ram and storage...in the list. lol
lol - good call
"Return to buy another spec and/or wait for more bug fixes" should be an option, no doubt!
Returning it for 2 reasons
1. Need higher form factor, and
2. More ports
1. Need higher form factor, and
2. More ports
Keeping 2, one for me and one for my son. Base MBP and 16/1T MBP.
I'm keeping my m1 macbook pro, however, this will be more of a stopgap for me since I really needed an upgrade and was already waiting for apple silicon. I'm going to sell it next year when the m1x 14 inch four port macbook pro comes out or whatever that is.
I'm keeping mine. All the development tools I use run perfectly fine on the M1, and several of them have already been updated for the new processor. The only tricky part was getting NetBeans setup, which was easily resolved by installing OpenJDK (which has an M1-native version already).
You couldn’t pry the M1 8gb/512 Mini or M1 8gb/512 MBA out of my cold dead hands. The M1s are terrific. I do a lot of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop as a still photographer and even under Rosetta they shine. It will only get better with dedicated M1 versions next year. I got decent prices for my used 2015 27 inch iMac and 2019 16 inch MBP and could not be happier.
I was referring to this thread.
M1 MacBook Air won’t power on
I’ve been really enjoying my experience with M1 MacBook Air (8-core GPU version) since I got it 4 days ago, until it unexpectedly refused altogether to wake up from sleep! It happened while the MacBook had 100% battery and was plugged in to the charger. After pressing and holding the power...
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I got the M1 8-core/8GB and 8-core/16GB MBA - after using it and testing it for my workloads, I returned the 8GB and keeping the 16GB.
I use my M1 MBA for my YouTube channel and the 16GB RAM seems to handle 4k editing better than 8GB RAM. I also noticed there was less memory swap going on with 16GB - so decided to play safe and return the 8GB.
I love my MBA 8/8 16 512 so I'll be keeping it. Had a mini wobble 3 weeks ago when it built up some heat and battery drain went into overdrive, but after identifying Emulsion as the culprit and removing it, it's been absolutely spot on.
Am intrigued to see how AS evolves over the next 12 months and may well chop mine in if a better machine comes along for equality good VFM.
EDIT: 12 months ago I was trialling a 16" i9 32 1Tb that cost something like £3250. It was a powerhouse but it was big, sometimes noisy, occasionally hot and always eating battery life. I could have lived with those things had Parallels > Win 10 worked flawlessly. But it didn't. And the price tag was too high to justify so it went back. No regrets. I just decided to be patient and no way would I have thought a next get MBA would grant me a better experience for less than half the money. Bonkers.
Am intrigued to see how AS evolves over the next 12 months and may well chop mine in if a better machine comes along for equality good VFM.
EDIT: 12 months ago I was trialling a 16" i9 32 1Tb that cost something like £3250. It was a powerhouse but it was big, sometimes noisy, occasionally hot and always eating battery life. I could have lived with those things had Parallels > Win 10 worked flawlessly. But it didn't. And the price tag was too high to justify so it went back. No regrets. I just decided to be patient and no way would I have thought a next get MBA would grant me a better experience for less than half the money. Bonkers.
Question for any in the know. I've been loving my MBA 8-core GPU/8GB ram, but one of the kids actually knocked it off a table a couple days back and now there's some light scratches on one corner of the screen/lid. Does apple reject this kind of return? I realize the 14-day return window probably short to increase the chance they don't get a bunch of scuffed/scratched returns. But I don't see anything the return policy about this expressly. Laptop is perfectly fine, no other signs of use, but I don't want to risk the return being rejected or something. I finally have the 16GB/1TB model in the mail after a month wait time.
The port thing is an issue for me in an otherwise great machine. I too have read stories of M1 machines frying with USB hubs. But also heard these stories from Intel based Macs.
Personally, I am waiting for the next generation of Apple Silicon, by then all the tools will be ready.