New laptop for work : are M1 Macbooks good enough ?

[spiderman0616]

I use my M1 Macbook Air and my Intel Macbook Pro for work all the time. We use Office 365, Slack, Salesforce, and lots of other pretty niche software in our day to day, and it all works fine on my M1. RAM, performance, battery, etc. are never an issue at all on my base model MBA, PLUS it has a good keyboard on it. I have really grown to hate the feel of the keys on my 2019 Macbook.

 

[cupcakes2000]

I'm in the same boat, it's a real shame but there is too much software still catching up to the M1.
Some of the necessary updates that are coming out aren't free either -- I have software that runs just fine on x86 Big Sur but requires a paid new version to run on the M1 that functionally doesn't add much else than a few cosmetic changes.

Other than the work that goes into recompiling the software for a new platform? I get your grievances but not many people work for free. Do you?

 

[Bacci]

Other than the work that goes into recompiling the software for a new platform? I get your grievances but not many people work for free. Do you?

Not sure why you read this as a reproach to software companies. I was talking about it not making sense in my own situation.

 

[cupcakes2000]

Not sure why you read this as a reproach to software companies. I was talking about it not making sense in my own situation.

Just responding to your assumption that it doesn’t add any functionality. It clearly enables native functionality on the m1. The very definition of functionality is making it work on a device it previously didn’t. That’s what you’re paying extra for. Most apps work pretty well in Rosetta anyway so it’s of little importance if that option works better for you.