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I sold my nearly maxed out 16" MacBook Pro for an M1 Air. I hated the 16" with a passion, but the Air is my favourite computer I've ever owned. It sounds like
by deergomoo 6y ago
I sold my nearly maxed out 16" MacBook Pro for an M1 Air. I hated the 16" with a passion, but the Air is my favourite computer I've ever owned.
It sounds like a criticism, but the best thing about it is that it gives me absolutely no cause to ever think about it. I don't get irritated by it being burning hot and loud as hell because it's always cool and silent. I don't have to worry about battery life because it just lasts all day. I don't constantly bump stuff on the Touch Bar because it has actual function keys.
It just gets the hell out of the way and lets me do my job. That would be enough, but it's also drastically faster than the 16" at literally everything I do day-to-day, which is nice.
- gordon_freeman 6y agocare to share hardware specs of your M1 Air?
- lucasverra 6y ago16gb ram, base SSD. You cannot go wrong with that. Great machine I'm typing on this message
- ianai 6y ago16 gig and 512g ssd. It gets like 10% better ssd performance and the drive usage is less than reported for the 8 gig models.
- deergomoo 6y agoSure: 16” was 6-core i7, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 5500M 4GB GPU Air is M1 with the 8-core GPU, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD
- wil421 6y agoWent from a late 2017 15” MBP i7 4core 16GB, RAM 512GB, Radeon Pro 560 with 4GB of GDDR5 to the same Air config. Unbelievable change.
- indemnity 6y agoI have a 2019 16": 8-core i9, 32GB RAM, 5500M 4GB GPU. Worst Apple product I have ever owned. Overheating, slow (forever throttling), battery hog. Can't wait for the Apple Silicon 14/16" MBPs this year.
- technics256 6y agoMy biggest concern is the screen size. Does it get in the way?
- ianai 6y agoIt’s a 13” display. You probably already know whether that’s enough or not - the processor can’t affect that.
- deergomoo 6y agoI do miss having the extra screen space, but even 16” felt like a bit of a compromise compared to being docked with a 27” monitor. If you don’t mind a little blurriness you can always run it at a higher scaling mode and get effectively the same screen space as the 16”, just shrunk down. I go the opposite way—I’m willing to sacrifice space for perfect 1:1 pixel mapping.