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I WAS the one

macrumors 6502a
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May 16, 2006
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Orlando, FL
This is going to sound weird but I need to documented so other that have the same experiences than me can share the behavior of their machines here.

I bought a Mac Mini M1 / 16g / 500g SSD HD in November. First Batch. I was replacing a Mac Mini 2014 Intel i7 / 16g / 500g SSD for my surprise the experience wasn't extreme or mind blowing like youtubers were pointing out. It was a little bit fast and smoother. In my Intel Mac MIni apps like Davinci Resolve or Apple Motion never worked at all. Static apps, beach balls and crashing all the time, other than that heavy apps like Adobe apps runs relatively well. In Mac Mini M1 Davinci Resolve works but not amazingly good and Motion works too but it's slow and bumpy, I mean I'm happy t o be able to use those apps but my comparison is directly to youtube testers that sold me the M1 as the last revelation of Christ himself.

Today I need to tell you I love my M1 but some stuff are making me think apps that works directly with the M1 are not necessarily giving the best results after switching from rosetta. I've been taking notes while using data from the app Silicon and those apps that were functioning under Rosetta now are slower and works kind of unstable... nope, there's nothing wrong with my Mac Mini I've been doing my research very carefully and precise. App by App, etc... For some reason M1 was powerful enough to make apps on Rosetta works perfect and when those apps start using the M1 chip by their own after an update the Beach ball start appearing every now and then, More bouncing in the dock were notable and various restart needed to be done until an app behave well...

This doesn't mean nothing wrong, understand I am specifically studying this factors like a hawk. So, I'm looking for every single detail of app behavior to find this amazing issue cause by the transition from Rosetta to M1. Does any of you noticed the same?
 
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