I got a 13" MBP with 16gb of RAM. I do a lot of iOS development on it. It has had problems. While it was first setting up, the speakers would crackle and pop to the point where I had to shut off the music I was listening to. Podcasts and Safari have crashed on me a couple of times and yesterday I got a kernel panic causing it to reboot. The audio issue has improved greatly. It will still pop and crackle ever so often. Usually shutting off the iOS simulator fixes this. Apple is sending me a new unit. Something doesn't feel quite right and I know that if I don't get this sorted before my 14 days period, I will be forever going to the Apple store trying to prove my case..
My last machine was a Hackintosh who's motherboard after 5 years gave up the ghost. The machine before that was a 15" 2015 MBP which was a horrible laptop as the CPU got so hot that it cooked the logic board three times! Apple just kept replacing the logic board.. Oh and my previous employer lent me a 15" 2018 MBP with that nasty keyboard on it and while it was better then my 2015 MBP, it still ran very hot when doing certain heavy tasks..
I often use an app called Zwift which is an indoor cycling virtual world "game". On the 15" 2018 MBP, the fans would scream bloody murder and it was super hot after a 1hr ride. The M1 just gets a little warm, no fans. And Zwift hasn't released a universal binary for it yet.. So Zwift is running through Rosetta. Very impressive.
This current machine is crazy fast. The battery life on it is incredible and the instant on is very impressive. Hopefully this new unit fixes the issues I was having with the current unit..
My last machine was a Hackintosh who's motherboard after 5 years gave up the ghost. The machine before that was a 15" 2015 MBP which was a horrible laptop as the CPU got so hot that it cooked the logic board three times! Apple just kept replacing the logic board.. Oh and my previous employer lent me a 15" 2018 MBP with that nasty keyboard on it and while it was better then my 2015 MBP, it still ran very hot when doing certain heavy tasks..
I often use an app called Zwift which is an indoor cycling virtual world "game". On the 15" 2018 MBP, the fans would scream bloody murder and it was super hot after a 1hr ride. The M1 just gets a little warm, no fans. And Zwift hasn't released a universal binary for it yet.. So Zwift is running through Rosetta. Very impressive.
This current machine is crazy fast. The battery life on it is incredible and the instant on is very impressive. Hopefully this new unit fixes the issues I was having with the current unit..