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It's just... really good. It's an uncanny feeling that many haven't had for a while

• DennisAleynikov 6y ago
  its really not... I would advise you to try something outside of apple once the m1 dies on ya (in like a decade)
  • messe 6y ago
    > its really not... How so?
    • DennisAleynikov 6y ago
      any chromebook will show you roughly what I mean. the approach with running ios apps with catalyst, safari being faster than on ANY intel device, and most guides recommending you use webapps thats mostly what I mean. people have had a repulsion to chromebooks or even windows 10 S but apple did not do much more than just that. the praise isnt coming for how amazingly working in production through rosetta is
      • Hamuko 6y ago
        >any chromebook will show you roughly what I mean. Where does a Chromebook come into this?
        • DennisAleynikov 6y ago
          what macos big sur essentially is: chrome first (safari) play store apps (catalyst for ios apps) linux apps (unix apps homebrew) a lot of folks arent familiar with how identical these software stacks have become over the last few years. especially with apples quality control dropping so steeply to allowing Catalyst apps to be something they mention on stage despite their sorry state as somehow more broken than android apps on chromeos
          • mkl 6y ago
            The excitement about the M1 computers is not about the software, but about the new CPU design, which is faster than any other laptop processor by most measures I've seen. Chromebooks have no equivalent.
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            • erwincoumans 6y ago
              Hardware is most impressive indeed, but software as well, in particular Rosetta 2, the translation works well. Also the hypervisor works well, Parallels desktop flies with arm versions of Ubuntu and Windows.
          • Hamuko 6y ago
            That doesn't make any sense.
• smoldesu 6y ago
  Sure, but it's also a device that makes up less than .1% of the desktop market share. For most HN users, reading about the M1 Mac is like peoplewatching from your office window: it's a cool upgrade for consumers, but ARM is such a major departure from the rest of the industry that it verges on disinteresting. Hell, reviews of the Surface Pro X told much the story: the device was fast on native software, but it's idiosyncrasies were what killed it in the end. Most reviewers gave it a 6 or 7 and then tossed it back on the shelf, where it probably still is today. The M1 had another year in development, and now a slightly larger portion of the desktop market share can use it as a daily driver. The people who amplify those voices are not doing anyone any favors, especially if we're trying to keep an objectively interesting news site well-stocked.
• mortenjorck 6y ago
  The MacBook’s past few years in the wilderness gave a lot of Mac users some real uncertainty about the future of their preferred platform. To see not just a return to form but an epochal step forward is something of a unique moment - there’s both relief and excitement.
• bserge 6y ago
  It's revolutionary, something Apple hasn't done in a while, but is still good at!