I'm honestly suprised the amount of effort and awesome stiff went into this. Like its functional and usable. I can't say all hardware gets the same treatment.
I’ve watched some of the reverse engineering video’s of the graphics card. Very impressive.
If they can get the speakers to work and make suspend stable I will definitely give it a go on my M1 Pro.
Out of curiousity. Why get a M1 or mac for that matter. In the first place?
Battery life is pretty much untouchable, and that's a very important metric. The speakers on Macs are pretty top notch too.
It's not my cup of tea either, but plenty of people don't have any issue with MacOS
M1: it’s the best laptop you can buy. Not for the money, not in a category. Best. I say this only having used one for work and owning non m1 laptops myself. If you get a chance to try one out sometime give it a shot. We’re all moving toward risc and it’s a taste of what can be. To get an idea how good it is, industries with specific needs like gpus for cad/cam are implementing software and hardware solutions to get onboard. It’s wild. The air is passively cooled too.
Macs: have been fantastic, durable, long lasting laptops for at least fifteen years. The support windows are predictable (and extended when very popular hardware comes by like the 2012 mbp 12”), the parts are widely available, there’s usually service nearby, they offer a good warranty, the touchpads are top notch and they retain resale value like nothing else.
Lest people who think this is a contest jump in here: I own, maintain and use many pcs in both desktop and laptop form. There are valid reasons to choose a pc over a mac. The post I’m replying to asked why people choose macs.
Responding to you because you're the most verbal here so far. I recently upgraded from an m1 pro 14" to an m2 max 16". Leagues above anything else on the market, IMO. But people still seem to be sticking to the M1 praise. Is it just market lag, or is there something about the M1 specifically?
M1 is just a synonym for Apple Silicon at this point.
It could also be affected by the lowest entry point on M2 being higher than M1 was, but I'm pretty sure there isn't any "M1 is better than M2" energy happening.
What the other person said. Eventually we’ll have a word for it that isn’t five syllables or an inaccurate name for the first gen processor.
For core audio for me.
Hardware-wise it’s the best laptop you can buy. It’s fast, quiet with amazing battery life. Speakers are superb. Keyboard, touchpad and display it’s just very nice to work with. I’ve had several non Apple laptops in the past and they’re just no match.
Only thing is MacOS, I just can’t get used to it. It is not that big of an issue for me because I mostly just use a terminal and a browser on it (it’s not my main computer). But being able to run Linux natively on it would be nice.
Fedora Asahi is great on my M1 MBP. No speaker support, no good sleep support, battery life is much worse than OSX. But sweet sweet Linux on absolutely beautiful hardware.
All my old macbooks eventually get the Linux treatment. On modern hardware, however, the trade-offs of non-macOS just don’t make sense to me.
For now, Apple Silicon has made a fanboy out of me. I can’t overstate how big the jump in performance felt going from intel to my first M1 – not to mention the improved thermals. And obviously part of that is due to excellent alignment between hardware and software.
Still, once that first M1 hits retirement, I’ll no doubt experience that familiar pang of gratitude towards those engineers that put up with the trade-offs of running Linux on it today in order to get everything working.
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