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How are you base model M1 Air users doing thus far? I want one for casual use but lately the mood has seemed to shift a little bit (SSD stuff, “8GB is not enough”, etc.). I’ve tried to use an iPad for casual stuff, but I’m faster and more comfortable with a computer, so I’m still tempted. Since I won’t use the computer for anything demanding I would probably be fine with 8gb RAM but the rumoured MacBooks look tasty. However, they will probably be twice the price (?) of the base model Air so probably not a fair comparison.
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I just tested my m1, 3.5 minutes to download, 42 minutes to install. The fastest way is to download xcode from developer.apple.com and extract using xip -x Xcode_12.4.xip which took 7 minutes.
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Xabi posted:How are you base model M1 Air users doing thus far? I want one for casual use but lately the mood has seemed to shift a little bit (SSD stuff, “8GB is not enough”, etc.). I’ve tried to use an iPad for casual stuff, but I’m faster and more comfortable with a computer, so I’m still tempted. I got a refurbished base model M1 Air just couple weeks ago, and it's been doing pretty well in my experience. I do a little bit of everything, GarageBand, photo editing, coding, web browsing (OK, that's my biggest focus), some games, Zoom, et cetera. I'm big on the Apple native apps, so I'm sure that helps, but I pretty much just leave everything running all the time, and it really hasn't caused any noticeable issues. I, too, tried to hack it on an iPad, but also like you I'm more comfortable with a Mac. If there's anything that really does this MacBook in, I can always fire it up on my gaming computer or my work MacBook, so I didn't think it made a lot of sense to spend the extra money. The things that would, virtualization notably, are something I'm more likely to do on my work MacBook anyway. Still, I think it's OK to be concerned about those things, but I think it's also OK to go for it and hope for the best. Apple does screw up, but they also seem to try to do right by their customers when they do. nitsuga fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Mar 10, 2021 |
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Mar 10, 2021 23:10
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I ordered a 16gb 1tb air, saw there was one nearby so picking up tomorrow. local pickup is nice because tax free. Would have gotten a 16/512 but apparently that's a online only custom order. 1tb will be nice anyways. feels very strange to not get a pro.
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Mar 10, 2021 23:22
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When my $#@%! refund comes in I'll probably get an M1 Air as well, having a fan, slightly larger battery, and TouchBar doesn't seem worth the $300-400 premium that the current 13-inch M1 Pro has over the Air. To me. And if the fabled 14-inch has enough features to warrant it (like 32 GB RAM and four TB ports) then I'll sell the Air in SAMart and get that.
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Mar 11, 2021 00:19
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Binary Badger posted:When my $#@%! refund comes in I'll probably get an M1 Air as well, having a fan, slightly larger battery, and TouchBar doesn't seem worth the $300-400 premium that the current 13-inch M1 Pro has over the Air. To me. Supporting more than 1 external monitor on the next one will have me upgrading to that immediately, otherwise I am loving this M1 Air 16gb/512gb
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After a couple of months, my M1 Air (8C/16GB/1TB) has quickly become one of my favorite modern gadgets. I own a stupid amount of computers across the gamut, for various things. This Air is such a lovely, tight, cohesive package. It stands fairly alone in terms of contemporary value and feeling like the pinnacle of something. An incredible upgrade from my 2017 12" MacBook for a highly-portable. It feels a decade apart more than three years. Everything about it feels ultra-responsive and ultra-modern. Instant-on beautiful display, super quick touch ID, astounding battery life, fast, truly silent, usually cool to the touch, actually feels nice in your lap. Great trackpad as expected, and great keyboard as not-always-expected these days. And the particular gold color is so lovely. Even Big Sur is better than I thought it would be. (Price completely aside, I vibe with this machine's je ne sais quoi more than the Pro's non-tapered bottom, fans, touch bar, lack of scintillating color option, etc.)
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Mar 11, 2021 04:09
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Empress Brosephine posted:Do any of you also have to install Xcode after every fukkin software update On the upside the M1 machines unpack and validate Xcode in like 1/10th the time I've got a 16" i9 machine from work and a personally-owned M1 MBP. I'm on gigabit so it downloads all 12 gig in 90 seconds, then work machine takes better part of a lunch break to unpack and validate. Meanwhile the M1 is done in 4 or 5 minutes.
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Mar 11, 2021 04:24
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Bob Morales posted:Whatever happened to the battery health issue where people were hitting 80% in like a year after only 200 charges? work 16mbp is at 7795 mAh full charge capacity and it has 25 cycles lol
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Mar 11, 2021 05:05
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Empress Brosephine posted:Do any of you also have to install Xcode after every fukkin software update Yeah and it’s annoying as gently caress.
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Mar 11, 2021 13:51
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Thank you all for your feedback regarding the M1 Air. I caved and got the base model. I figured I'll try it out for a few weeks and return it if it doesn't work out as expected.
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Mar 11, 2021 15:35
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Mar 11, 2021 16:17
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This anti-glare coating issue is just never going away, is it? My wife has a habit of touching the screen when she’s pointing at something and the first couple of fingerprints on our new M1 MBA have already worn away the coating.
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Mar 12, 2021 20:55
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What the hell are you cleaning your screen with? Sand?
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Mar 12, 2021 21:01
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I’m using the Apple microfiber cloth that came with my 2015 MBP that I guess isn’t provided anymore. Took me by surprise too; I wiped away the fingerprint itself and a smudge that looked like the oleophobic coating worn away was left in its place. Apple guidance is to clean with 70% isopropyl alcohol so I guess I’ll try that next, but my guess is it’s gonna gradually wear the entire coating away.
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Mar 12, 2021 21:27
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the oleophobic coating isn’t really visible is it? also i didn’t know they bothered putting that on macbooks? also also the oleophobic coating is by nature impermanent so i’m not sure that’s what’s going on here
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Mar 12, 2021 21:28
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Just clean off the entire screen; you probably just smeared the fingerprint oil around.
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Mar 12, 2021 21:31
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Inept posted:Just clean off the entire screen; you probably just smeared the fingerprint oil around. this is my thought too hope that’s the case anyways
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Mar 12, 2021 21:32
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I guess it’s entirely possible that it’s just fingerprint oils that are left on the screen, I was just surprised that wiping away didn’t remove or even move the smudges themselves. I can understand the oleophobic coating wearing away (happened after four years or so with my 2015 MBP), but I’ve had this MBA for under a month.
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Mar 12, 2021 21:33
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again are you conflating oleophobic and antireflective
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Mar 12, 2021 21:38
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mediaphage posted:again are you conflating oleophobic and antireflective Ah! Yes, I now realize I have used the two interchangeably despite MacBooks only having the latter. Still, I know it’s been an issue for a while with other models and I wasn’t sure if fingerprints/screen touching is one of the ways it manifests. Edit: Here's an image of what I'm talking about. You can see the fingerprints in the center and then smudges along the top where the screen has been grabbed. 
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Mar 12, 2021 21:43
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illcendiary posted:Ah! Yes, I now realize I have used the two interchangeably despite MacBooks only having the latter. Still, I know it’s been an issue for a while with other models and I wasn’t sure if fingerprints/screen touching is one of the ways it manifests. yeah google macbook antireflective coating wearing off and you’ll see what it looks like. it’s very obvious imo. if it happened after a single print your partner has like acid fingers. it’s more likely still just smudged. edit: yeah those are just prints. try even just dampening your microfibre cloth with a small amt of water and you should see a distinct difference. lmao jesus tho
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Mar 12, 2021 21:53
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mediaphage posted:yeah google macbook antireflective coating wearing off and you’ll see what it looks like. it’s very obvious imo. I'm familiar! As I said, it happened on my old MBP. Looked absolutely awful, this is something different. Just my anxiety acting up I guess. Maybe we should just go back to playing Wingspan with the physical board game instead of on the laptop so she'll stop poking at the screen.
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Is now a good time to buy a new M1 MacBook Pro or are we somewhat mid cycle and more significant changes are rumored for next version. I’ve never owned a Mac but looking to get one. I just heard the Touch Bar was going away and not sure if I should wait or not.
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Hitch posted:Is now a good time to buy a new M1 MacBook Pro or are we somewhat mid cycle and more significant changes are rumored for next version. I’ve never owned a Mac but looking to get one. I just heard the Touch Bar was going away and not sure if I should wait or not. if you really need a new laptop you should get one now. the air is the sweet spot at the moment. if you don’t need a new laptop and can afford to wait, you might as well to see what comes with the next iteration (probably more ram, ports, displays?).
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Mar 14, 2021 02:14
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Hitch posted:Is now a good time to buy a new M1 MacBook Pro or are we somewhat mid cycle and more significant changes are rumored for next version. I’ve never owned a Mac but looking to get one. I just heard the Touch Bar was going away and not sure if I should wait or not. NGL who TF knows. The 16 should be getting some sort of M1 chip and they could introduce a 14 inch then but that’s unlikely IMO. It’s not a bad time to buy actually since you can get a pretty good discount.
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Hitch posted:Is now a good time to buy a new M1 MacBook Pro or are we somewhat mid cycle and more significant changes are rumored for next version. I’ve never owned a Mac but looking to get one. I just heard the Touch Bar was going away and not sure if I should wait or not. But March/April tends to be a time Apple announces stuff, and there's a recent rumor about a March 23rd event. So if you can wait, might as well wait 10 days and see what happens at this point.
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I hope the next one has ports on both sides and a webcam bump — even if it did nothing else, those would be welcome upgrades.
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movax posted:I hope the next one has ports on both sides and a webcam bump — even if it did nothing else, those would be welcome upgrades. I’d be happy with ports on both sides. It’s actually kinda frustrating when I need to charge it and use it.
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japtor posted:But March/April tends to be a time Apple announces stuff, and there's a recent rumor about a March 23rd event. So if you can wait, might as well wait 10 days and see what happens at this point. This is a good point. I’ll prob wait for anything game changing otherwise pull the trigger. Same spot you get with anything else I suppose, always something else around the corner. Thanks all.
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japtor posted:But March/April tends to be a time Apple announces stuff, and there's a recent rumor about a March 23rd event. So if you can wait, might as well wait 10 days and see what happens at this point. It’s also within the 14 day return period, so I’d say just buy one if you need it and wait if you don’t.
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I’m cross posting this from another thread because it’s pretty relevant for those of us who sell the machines when we upgrade. Miles McCloud posted:A few weeks ago in this thread we had a small discussion about selling stuff on ebay, and the potential tax pitfalls one can encounter. I'm sad to report that, for us US goons at least, things are about to become much trickier. Buried in the recently passed stimulus bill, was a clause that lowered the Federal IRS Form 1099K reporting limit from $20,000 to a mere $600. While some states had already lowered this threshold, most of the country still allowed you to sell $20,000 gross without the IRS getting involved. That's over now, starting in January being a carefree hobbyist seller will be difficult if not impossible. I’m going to have to assume swappa will also comply with this. So prices will likely go up to compensate for this and regular people will just end up taking the 10% hit or whatever.
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movax posted:I hope the next one has ports on both sides and a webcam bump — even if it did nothing else, those would be welcome upgrades. The 4-port Pro hasn’t been updated yet for Apple Silicon, that and the iMac are the next rumored to be bumped. I think people forget they have two versions of the MacBook Pro.
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edit: you proved your point because i completely forgot that there's a 2- vs 4-port 13-inch
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Mar 15, 2021 00:17
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FCKGW posted:I think people forget they have two versions of the MacBook Pro. What's the point of the four port model anyways? Is that their enterprise long term support model, sort of how the 2012 cd rom model was available for something like six years, or whatever
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Hadlock posted:What's the point of the four port model anyways? Is that their enterprise long term support model, sort of how the 2012 cd rom model was available for something like six years, or whatever i have to assume it's the other way around and get the base 13-inch cheap enough to snag education dollars isn't it? the 4-port version has had (who knows what will happen with the m* generations, mind you) better, newer CPUs, better speakers, better cooling, better wifi (3x3 vs 2x2), etc., up to this point
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Hadlock posted:What's the point of the four port model anyways? Is that their enterprise long term support model, sort of how the 2012 cd rom model was available for something like six years, or whatever I just assumed it was their “third pillar” in case apple silicon flopped or developers hated it.
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The 4 port is the standard model. The 2 port was only introduced a couple years ago when they dropped the MacBook and had to have a product to fill the $1299 price point. Before the refresh it had an 8th gen Intel while the 4 port is still on the 10th gen. Apple only refreshed their lowest end models with the M1, all the flagship products haven’t been touched yet.
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