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I'm not sure it's revolutionary but it is a remarkable device. The Air is the first laptop I've owned that I actually like using rather than tolerate.

techrat 5y ago
> The Air is the first laptop I've owned that I actually like using rather than tolerate. Either you have been buying extremely crappy devices and expecting too much from them or this is some grade a, piping hot bullshit. While the differences under the hood exist, they're not substantial and when the hood is closed, it's still the same device with the same operating system. Intel MBAs and M1 MBAs are not so different overall that you would have to say you like using it versus tolerating it, assuming you were using the Intel based MBAs before. Otherwise this comes off as a thinly veiled "Wintel ew, Apple good!" regurgitated bit of fanboy wank.
- ulfw 5y ago
  The M1 Air is a lot faster than it's intel predecessor, the battery runtime is at least 50% longer in real use and the thing is fanless, silent and I haven't burned a single body part yet. That alone is revolutionary. Just because the machine hasn't changed in appearance (and sadly neither has it's so-so display), the chip difference alone makes it a whole different ballgame.
  - techrat 5y ago
    Fanboys have driven the word 'revolutionary' into the ground so deeply that it ceases to have any actual meaning anymore. Meanwhile, through temporal prescience, the previous Intel based Macbooks were simultaneously revolutionary and merely tolerated before the M1 variants ever existed. Don't you guys ever get tired of twisting your Apple apologeticism thought processes into a gordian knot all the time?
- spideymans 5y ago
  > Otherwise this comes off as a thinly veiled "Wintel ew, Apple good!" regurgitated bit of fanboy wank. No, the M1 Air is just a substantially better product than the Intel variants. You can find dozens of HN threads where people explain exactly why.
  - techrat 5y ago
    And before the M1 variants ever existed, people moaned about how they only tolerated the Intel MacBook/Air/Pro variants? Bullshit. It's fanboy revisionism.
  - wayneftw 5y ago
    Ryzen is where it's at. Zero loss of general computing freedom, 12 hour battery time on laptops and faster than Intel. You lose so much right now with an M1 and later you'll lose even more. Honestly, you'd have to be a fan boy to get behind this.
    - GhettoComputers 5y ago
      What do you lose? You get iOS apps, much better battery life, fanless, a Unix os with the ability to install Linux. What is the loss you refer to?
      - techrat 5y ago
        Openess. Apple is the #1 most restrictive company in the world. "the ability to install Linux" with zero commits and support from Apple themselves, all reverse engineered. Meanwhile Intel and AMD both contribute to the Linux kernel. How much kool aid do you have to drink to think that 'ability' is actually something you can say is a feature with Apple devices? Come back when I can unlock the bootloader of an iDevice and we'll talk about the 'ability' to install Linux.
        cromka 5y ago
        > Apple is the #1 most restrictive company in the world You really will not gain much credibility here on HN by throwing in some random, made-up ranking results. And I can guarantee that 99.99% didn't even read past that sentence /s
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- FullyFunctional 5y ago
  You are totally wrong. I too love my M1 MBA and I have a huge pile of other notebooks. The weight, the battery lifetime, and all this with stellar performance. It is literally the best notebook I have ever owned.

techrat 5y ago

> The Air is the first laptop I've owned that I actually like using rather than tolerate. Either you have been buying extremely crappy devices and expecting too much from them or this is some grade a, piping hot bullshit. While the differences under the hood exist, they're not substantial and when the hood is closed, it's still the same device with the same operating system. Intel MBAs and M1 MBAs are not so different overall that you would have to say you like using it versus tolerating it, assuming you were using the Intel based MBAs before. Otherwise this comes off as a thinly veiled "Wintel ew, Apple good!" regurgitated bit of fanboy wank.

ulfw 5y ago
The M1 Air is a lot faster than it's intel predecessor, the battery runtime is at least 50% longer in real use and the thing is fanless, silent and I haven't burned a single body part yet. That alone is revolutionary. Just because the machine hasn't changed in appearance (and sadly neither has it's so-so display), the chip difference alone makes it a whole different ballgame.
- techrat 5y ago
  Fanboys have driven the word 'revolutionary' into the ground so deeply that it ceases to have any actual meaning anymore. Meanwhile, through temporal prescience, the previous Intel based Macbooks were simultaneously revolutionary and merely tolerated before the M1 variants ever existed. Don't you guys ever get tired of twisting your Apple apologeticism thought processes into a gordian knot all the time?
spideymans 5y ago
> Otherwise this comes off as a thinly veiled "Wintel ew, Apple good!" regurgitated bit of fanboy wank. No, the M1 Air is just a substantially better product than the Intel variants. You can find dozens of HN threads where people explain exactly why.
- techrat 5y ago
  And before the M1 variants ever existed, people moaned about how they only tolerated the Intel MacBook/Air/Pro variants? Bullshit. It's fanboy revisionism.
- wayneftw 5y ago
  Ryzen is where it's at. Zero loss of general computing freedom, 12 hour battery time on laptops and faster than Intel. You lose so much right now with an M1 and later you'll lose even more. Honestly, you'd have to be a fan boy to get behind this.
  - GhettoComputers 5y ago
    What do you lose? You get iOS apps, much better battery life, fanless, a Unix os with the ability to install Linux. What is the loss you refer to?
    - techrat 5y ago
      Openess. Apple is the #1 most restrictive company in the world. "the ability to install Linux" with zero commits and support from Apple themselves, all reverse engineered. Meanwhile Intel and AMD both contribute to the Linux kernel. How much kool aid do you have to drink to think that 'ability' is actually something you can say is a feature with Apple devices? Come back when I can unlock the bootloader of an iDevice and we'll talk about the 'ability' to install Linux.
      - cromka 5y ago
        > Apple is the #1 most restrictive company in the world You really will not gain much credibility here on HN by throwing in some random, made-up ranking results. And I can guarantee that 99.99% didn't even read past that sentence /s
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FullyFunctional 5y ago
You are totally wrong. I too love my M1 MBA and I have a huge pile of other notebooks. The weight, the battery lifetime, and all this with stellar performance. It is literally the best notebook I have ever owned.