I have the MacBook Pro M1, 16GB RAM, 1TB SDD: ask me anything

[Mscheurer]

Can You test teamviewer?

 

[Zanton68]

Can I have it ? 😃

 

[The Game 161]

Does Tapatalk and apps like Reddit look ok?

 

[wyrdness]

Fun fact: BootCamp Assistant is present, and according to System Report, it's a universal app (meaning Apple took the time to compile an ARM version of it...)

That's really weird. I tried running it and it said:

So why include it, especially if it's a universal binary?

 

[acidfast7_redux]

Rosetta 2 needs to be installed, it's not included by default.

interesting as that wasn't my experience at all.

however, i did upgrade to 11.0.1 before doing anything but web browsing.

 

[DeanL]

That's really weird. I tried running it and it said:

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So why include it, especially if it's a universal binary?

Maybe Apple will support Windows ARM after all.

 

[DeanL]

interesting as that wasn't my experience at all.

however, i did upgrade to 11.0.1 before doing anything but web browsing.

I upgraded to 11.0.1 later. Maybe 11.0.1 includes it but not 11

 

[dukebound85]

can it support more than one external display

 

[laptech]

You asked members to ask you questions but I notice you are ignoring some questions that have been put to you, why?

 

[acidfast7_redux]

I upgraded to 11.0.1 later. Maybe 11.0.1 includes it but not 11

yeah, seems foolish to not include it on the shipped machine, but it was on my machine within a the first hour.

 

[DeanL]

Does Tapatalk and apps like Reddit look ok?

iOS apps are working great!

 

[DeanL]

You asked members to ask you questions but I notice you are ignoring some questions that have been put to you, why?

Because I need time to answer some of them, e.g. those asking to install apps and try them.

 

[DeanL]

Do you happen to have Logic?

I do not

 

[mebpenguin]

Can you test out the Amazon Workspaces client?

 

[dogslobber]

How do you get iPad apps onto the Mac? Asking for a friend.

 

[Branmonkey]

Can you test Microsoft Teams with your 4K camera please? This will be my setup soon and hoping it works better than right now!

Also, are you able to notice differences with 16gb of ram compared to 8gb?

 

[imdog]

I do not

Aw, there is a plugin I'm desperately trying to figure out of it works on the M1. The plugin is free and I just found out it works in Garageband, I would love you forever if you can download the free plugin and just try opening it in Garageband to see if it works. 😂

Home

Home

labs.spitfireaudio.com

 

[DeanL]

Understand if this ask is a bit much but does the X-Plane 11 trial run with Rosetta? What is the performance like?

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Not sure if it works on trial version but:

1. Move your mouse to the top of the screen (causing the menu to appear) and click Settings, then Data Input & Output.
2. Check the far right box next to frame rate item 0, in the upper left corner of the window). This will cause X-Plane to display the current frame rate in the upper left of the screen during flight.

I too would be very interested in this

Hello! I have never used X-Plane before but I tried to fly the Seattle demo. I took screenshots (attached). It was quite smooth!
I was running this on my LG Ultrafine 4K.

 

[Krevnik]

That's really weird. I tried running it and it said:

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So why include it, especially if it's a universal binary?

The only thing I can think of is that Apple is shipping Big Sur as a single download for both Intel and ARM. So removing Boot Camp would actually be more work (two copies of the OS image, two build pipelines) than simply doing a check on launch.

It doesn't look like there's much savings doing it this way (although they could save more if they want). The TEXT segment for both x86_64 and arm64e is the same size, but the DATA segment is a bit smaller for arm64e. Guess saving 600KB of space wasn't a high priority.

 

[DeanL]

Can you test Microsoft Teams with your 4K camera please? This will be my setup soon and hoping it works better than right now!

Also, are you able to notice differences with 16gb of ram compared to 8gb?

Teams works perfectly!
I haven't had a 8GB computers in nearly 10 years

 

[DeanL]

What is RAM usage like? Same as previous models (or does it more effectively use less RAM)?
In your average workflow (maybe a few tabs, Spotify, mail app, messages, pdf, word, a couple of other programs), what is usage like?

Honestly, it looks the same. I haven't noticed a difference in RAM usage. With my 60 tabs open, Safari uses about the same amount of RAM as before.

 

[mr_roboto]

That's really weird. I tried running it and it said:

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So why include it, especially if it's a universal binary?

My guess is that Apple wants to distribute a single Universal build of macOS. There are always temporary model-specific builds near product launches, but eventually they merge into the mainline release. Dual-architecture everything was how they did it back in the PowerPC to Intel transition, and it still makes sense now.

If I'm right, BCA is only there because it needs to be there on Intel Macs, and it doesn't necessarily imply anything about future plans to support Windows on ARM Macs.

 

[Clix Pix]

How do external drives work with the new machine? External HDDs, external SSDs?

 

[DeanL]

How do external drives work with the new machine? External HDDs, external SSDs?

Exactly the same. All of my peripherals from Yubikey, to Logi 4K to USB-C NVMe SSD work exactly the same.

 

[DeanL]

I have attached pictures of the new bootloader on the first post.