![]() At the moment this is a bit contrived, as my power adapter is never more than a few steps away since I am home all the time (due to COVID), but I am confident that once things are back to normal, I will no longer be carrying a charger with me everywhere I go. I can work on it all day, doing the sort of tasks that I mentioned above roaming around without a power cable. Thus far, the charging pattern for it has been similar to my iPhone where I use it all day, and plug it in while I sleep. So cool, in fact, I no longer need to carry around a large textbook to protect myself from my burning hot machine while sitting in my favorite chair. It also stays cool to the touch under the same conditions mentioned above. For the first time, I can say that I have an extremely powerful machine that doesn’t sound like it is about to take off every time I perform an intensive CPU operation, I.e., building a Scala/Java project from scratch, compiling a Brew Formula, using Google Meet, performing a system update, among others. ![]() I have been a proponent of quiet PC’s for a long time. As soon as you open the lid, it is waiting for your fingerprint. The instant on feature is quite nice as well. Even Intellij opens nearly instantaneously. This is not an exaggeration as an app like Firefox opens just about as fast as opening Contacts. Amazing performance compared to my 2017 i7 based MacBook Pro, to be specific, here are the Geekbench numbers for my 2017 MacBook:Īpps open instantaneously.Here is a list of them in no particular order. My initial impression of the machine is very positive for many reasons. If you are looking for more details, don’t worry, I will share my detailed impressions as well as the process I went through to get everything up and running next. Unfortunately for me, by this time, shipping times had been pushed out to 3-4 weeks.Īfter three weeks of waiting I had the pleasure of unboxing my new M1 MacBook Pro! The first thing I did was to try out the apps I use the most to see if they felt any faster, and let me answer that question right away with a big YES! Lucky for me most of them have early release native versions already so there was no need to install Rosetta (yet)! For the curious few, the shortlist of apps that I initially tried were Intellij CE, VS Code, Java & the JVM, Scala, and most of my zsh environment. ![]() After reviewing a bunch of them as well as reading a few early reviews of them, I decided to take the red pill and place my order for a new M1 MacBook. My skepticism didn’t last long, as a few days later, Geekbench performance numbers started to surface for the new machines, and they were quite impressive. Although I was excited about the potential performance gains, I was also a bit skeptical about how “real” they were given the fact that the only metric Apple provided was “2x’s faster”, and the graph they shared on their site doesn’t have any numbers along the axis. 15 years to be exact, as the last time I felt this way was when Apple announced the transition from PPC to Intel at WWDC back in 2005. ![]() When I read about Apple’s announcement of the new M1 MacBook Pro featuring the Apple M1 Chip, I must admit, it made me a bit excited about Macs again for the first time in a long time. TLDR - I really like this machine, it is portable, fast, quiet, and comfortable to work on for hours at a time. ![]()
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