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Who's rocking an M1 still and how's it holding up for you?
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What about it? I'm not going to do something that will potentially effect her entire semester just because it's not on the latest and greatest.
This MBAM1 model is excellent! the screen is not as vibrant or clear picture wise compared to an OLED notebook,
but very crisp and light!
are you suing sequoia?
that is shame about the c-port and battery needing replacement which is pre-mature can i ask how much $ that cost?
i had a 2019 dell xps that turned into garbage in 2022 over that as they refused to replace that part.
as for me, this M1 MBA will be my last laptop as their newer OS software is not for me anymore.
I am using sequoia and it's fast. Why don't you like their latest os? The usb c port ribbon was $10 on amazon. The replacement battery was $60. It was pretty easy. It took me about 30-45 minutes to replace the battery and usb c ports. Just be careful with the screws since they are tiny, not the same size, and easily stripped. I think my USB C port may have been physically damaged without me noticing. When I examined the old port it had a few prongs that's were black as if they had lifted or burned off. I think it was either that I yanked the cable or that a crappy usb c accessory caused the port to overheat. But it's actually super easy to fix. Thankfully apple didn't solder the ports directly to the logic board.
Affect the entire semester ? Do you think the update will fail? And anyways you had the time to update like this summer when there is nothing.
Um I agree that’s due to the slower M2 MacBook Air SSD but if you have picked an 512gb model. It would be faster
One of the best aspects of AS computers such as even the Original M1 iMac was that the Safari web browser over time became faster each year getting more optimized, native, and then further speeded up as they found more ways to interpret newer versions of web content. It’s like just on that MacOS ability you could keep using M1 Macs for the next many years without the processor ever becoming underpower for casual surfing. We all take this as normal now. Buts it’s so different then what you experienced on several years of intel iMacs I utilized. Obviously the evolution of MacOS the first three years was hard to miss, now it’s not a question of AS Macs longevity it’s a question how many years until it ceases to be usable, never mind the OS?
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Simply because Sonoma and Ventura were a downgrade for me function wise.
as windows 11 did not suit me as well as 10.
Seems to me Monterey 2024 is worse than Monterey 2023.
too bad i cant use Monterey 12.7.2002
since that OS wont launch anymore on my macs m1s.
Yeah, that's exactly why. Or in case the update messes up the already installed surveillance software that the school requires. Being on Sequoia isn't worth having to repeat a semester of medical school if something goes wrong, or the added stress of rebuilding a computer over a weekend.
Still using an 8GB M1 Air at work and it is hitting its limits. Since Sequoia it has started beachballing more often - especially Outlook opening appointments.
Workload is:
I had a Mac mini M1 16GB at home and that was coping fine, but I wanted more flexibility (using it around the house or when I travel), so I replaced it with an MacBook Pro M4 Pro 2 weeks ago, but if it hadn't been for the portability requirement, I'd probably have stuck with the M1 for another year or so.
Workload is:
- Outlook
- Brave (10-15 tabs)
- Safari (5-10 tabs)
- OneNote
- Teams
- Microsoft Windows (RDP manager)
- Parallels with Windows 11 on Arm - only gets started once or twice a month now
- SwyxIt telephone client
- Excel
- Adobe Reader
- Terminal
- 1Password
- ELO DMS system
- TeamViewer (remote support)
I had a Mac mini M1 16GB at home and that was coping fine, but I wanted more flexibility (using it around the house or when I travel), so I replaced it with an MacBook Pro M4 Pro 2 weeks ago, but if it hadn't been for the portability requirement, I'd probably have stuck with the M1 for another year or so.
Grad school is year round, most programs don't have summer break. She gets a spring break, but because clinical rotations are off-site, she could if she wanted to, continue going to clinical even during spring break.
That's not to say you don't have free time - we went on 3 vacations last year plus there was a nice gap around Christmas, but things need to be planned carefully. Upgrading a computer that doesn't actually need to be upgraded is on the very bottom of the list.
Dude you can update a Mac during Christmas or during vacation... It will only take around 1h and there is 99.9 % of chances there wouldn't be any problem... Even if there is one you will be probably able to fix it.
14" MBP here with M1 Pro/16GB/1TB purchased through the Apple Certified Refurbished site and it's running just as well as the day I bought it. Apple will offer me £675 for trade in at the moment and to be honest it doesn't come close to the cost of replacing it with a similar machine. I could easily see myself hanging onto it for another couple of years as it does everything I need it to at the moment. The only possible reason for changing it could be the M4 MBA if it looks like a good machine when it appears.
Honestly I wouldn’t switch from the MacBook Pro to the MacBook Air. Ok the MacBook Air is a bit more powerful but in the screen, speakers and ports the MacBook Pro m1 totally wins !
Generally one can get more from private sales. However, I've noticed that for the non-Pro market, not surprisingly the 16 GB base upgrade has really dropped resale values of older models. I suspect some of that drop has made its way over to the Pro market as well.
Then again, a friend of mine just sold a base M1 Max Mac Studio 32/512 GB for way more money than I thought he would get. He sold it for more than the price of the edu M4 Pro Mac mini 24/512 GB. The person bought it for editing video. Personally, if I were looking, in that situation I'm thinking an M4 Pro 48/512 GB might have been the better value, especially when considering macOS updates going forward.
M4 Pro is much faster CPU, and about the same GPU as compared to M1 Max AFAIK. And I suspect the M4 Pro's hardware video encoding speed is probably reasonably close to M1 Max, despite having only 1 encoder vs. 2 encoders, at least when only doing 1 video encode at a time. I saw somewhere that for single video encodes, M1 Max is about 160% of M1 Pro, whereas M4 Pro is about 130% of M1 Pro, meaning that M1 Max is probably only about 25% faster than M4 Pro for hardware video encoding.
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It depends on what you are using it for.
In my case, my Air is mostly docked (3 x USB-A, 2 x USB-C, DisplayPort, HDMI, Ethernet) and I use an external screen most of the time. The Air's display is only used for Teams chat window and when I am traveling to other sites for work, so the lighter weight (especially when riding my bike to/from the office) and portability is more important than the display and the speakers are used very rarely as well... I used to use it in meetings a lot as well, but I mainly use the iPad Air M2 the company gave me these days for taking notes.
My MBP at home is also docked, but I use it as a laptop more often, so the screen is more important there.
I agree, if you are doing photo, video work etc. on the move and colour accuracy is more important, then the MBP is a no-brainer. If you are just using standard office applications and a little more portability is required, the Air is a better fit. I like both and I was very torn, when I swapped my Mini out for the MacBook Pro, the screen, plus the fact the Air M4 still hasn't been released swayed me, at work I'm still waiting for the Air M4 to drop (plus the company wouldn't spring for a MBP anyway - mine is the only Apple laptop currently and the majority of the Windows laptops cost under 1,000€, so getting a 3,000€ laptop wouldn't fly.
For video editing, M1 Max seems faster than M4 Pro according to a few reviews, such as this one. There were some discussion on reddit as well.
Besides the extra video encoder, M1 Max's memory bandwidth is 400Gbps, higher than M4 Pro's 273Gbps. That may also contribute to the difference in GPU intensive workload.
But for other use cases, M4 Pro should be faster. In some synthetic benmarks, M4 Pro could reach the performance level of M3 Max according to geekwan's review, such as the following one.
I have an M1 MacBook Pro. I use it for travel to access NetFlix and it sits in the fold of my chair when watching TV. Like my M3 iMac, all I do is web browsing and email/text. More than sufficient for its' intended uses.