I'm using the m1 mac. My first ever mac after 31 years on "pc's". Bar the lack of some compatibility issues with packages and such, even with all of those headaches, m1 is hands down the best laptop I've used. Period.
I'm not gaming, not doing anything crazy. It's sleek, portable and some days I don't even plug it in to charge.... WTF... I was preparing to move some files from one of my windows laptops and I had both open. I was using my m1 and the "pc" laptop was sitting IDLE on a cooling stand and it's fan was going 100%. My m1 hadn't even spun the fan up.
I've never really liked working on laptops before now, but often I find myself on the couch doing some work because it's just so nice to use. I'm not an apple fanboy, far from, but the m1 is night and day compared to other "pc's" laptops I've used.
I'm a regular linux guy and not a apple fanboy, the only product I have is an iPad Air (and love). But if I had to buy a laptop TODAY, it would be a m1 MacBook air, kinda hard to beat in power consumption vs performance. Also, the reports I've seen, arm linux vms run fine, so any package is not ported on homebrew maybe on linux.
Yeah I agree with all of this. My main system is dual boot Linux Ubuntu (recently moved to mx linux) and win 10.
The only slight issues I've had have been with pyenv. There are some work arounds, however it's just a bit painful when you just want to work on a project but end up troubleshooting packages / setting up envs on different systems.
With all that said, I would choose the m1 over anything on the market right now.. it's just a great little combo. I love how the airport magnet to the screen.. I'm sounding more like a apple fan boy each day.
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I'm using the m1 mac. My first ever mac after 31 years on "pc's". Bar the lack of some compatibility issues with packages and such, even with all of those headaches, m1 is hands down the best laptop I've used. Period.
I'm not gaming, not doing anything crazy. It's sleek, portable and some days I don't even plug it in to charge.... WTF... I was preparing to move some files from one of my windows laptops and I had both open. I was using my m1 and the "pc" laptop was sitting IDLE on a cooling stand and it's fan was going 100%. My m1 hadn't even spun the fan up.
I've never really liked working on laptops before now, but often I find myself on the couch doing some work because it's just so nice to use. I'm not an apple fanboy, far from, but the m1 is night and day compared to other "pc's" laptops I've used.
I'm a regular linux guy and not a apple fanboy, the only product I have is an iPad Air (and love). But if I had to buy a laptop TODAY, it would be a m1 MacBook air, kinda hard to beat in power consumption vs performance. Also, the reports I've seen, arm linux vms run fine, so any package is not ported on homebrew maybe on linux.
Yeah I agree with all of this. My main system is dual boot Linux Ubuntu (recently moved to mx linux) and win 10.
The only slight issues I've had have been with pyenv. There are some work arounds, however it's just a bit painful when you just want to work on a project but end up troubleshooting packages / setting up envs on different systems.
With all that said, I would choose the m1 over anything on the market right now.. it's just a great little combo. I love how the airport magnet to the screen.. I'm sounding more like a apple fan boy each day.