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> "Very fast" some say? I still wish to see it, because so far it feels just like the one I had before or slower! I am not talking about benchmarks, I am talkin

> "Very fast" some say? I still wish to see it, because so far it feels just like the one I had before or slower! I am not talking about benchmarks, I am talking about day to day experience. Really sounds like you had some hardware problem. For example, running a java app test suite runs 2x as fast on my M1 MBA than the 2017 MBP it replaced. Instant on from sleep, instant new Safari tabs, and terminal tabs/windows, are all examples of things that have greatly sped up my day to day experience. Add that all this in a machine with no fans, and not much bigger than my iPad Pro. I do run into bugs here and there, but it's hard to tell if they are Big Sur bugs or M1 bugs. I wouldn't consider any of them showstoppers or occurring enough to be more than a minor annoyance.

lovelyviking 6y ago
>Really sounds like you had some hardware problem. Apple Diagnostic reports: no issues.
- matwood 6y ago
  When Apple ran diagnostics, did they also say nothing was wrong? It's completely possible to have dud hardware that is not caught by software. I'm about to send an old MBP to get its battery replaced because it's bulging, yet the battery health tool says it's fine. As far as your m1, something is definitely wrong. It's not just benchmarks have shown that it's fast, but in day to day usage of many common programs. Your m1 experience is the exception, which likely means a problem with your machine.
yarcob 6y ago
I don't understand why "instant on" after sleep is supposed to be new when my white iBook G3 already had that back in 2002. Or is it even more instant now?
- matwood 6y ago
  It's like an iPad or phone now where it doesn't seem like it ever actually shut off. So when you open the lid it's running. Small difference, but incrementally better.
- kergonath 6y ago
  From my experience, an instant is much longer under OS X. My older Macs under OS 9 did indeed wake up instantly, but since then I’ve been happy if it takes a couple of seconds.

lovelyviking 6y ago

>Really sounds like you had some hardware problem. Apple Diagnostic reports: no issues.

matwood 6y ago
When Apple ran diagnostics, did they also say nothing was wrong? It's completely possible to have dud hardware that is not caught by software. I'm about to send an old MBP to get its battery replaced because it's bulging, yet the battery health tool says it's fine. As far as your m1, something is definitely wrong. It's not just benchmarks have shown that it's fast, but in day to day usage of many common programs. Your m1 experience is the exception, which likely means a problem with your machine.

yarcob 6y ago

I don't understand why "instant on" after sleep is supposed to be new when my white iBook G3 already had that back in 2002. Or is it even more instant now?

matwood 6y ago
It's like an iPad or phone now where it doesn't seem like it ever actually shut off. So when you open the lid it's running. Small difference, but incrementally better.
kergonath 6y ago
From my experience, an instant is much longer under OS X. My older Macs under OS 9 did indeed wake up instantly, but since then I’ve been happy if it takes a couple of seconds.