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> With that said, there is a huge M1 hype on HN. I wonder how much of that is due to a "finally, a good laptop" sentiment. I have used a lot of laptops over th
by Zababa 5y ago
> With that said, there is a huge M1 hype on HN.
I wonder how much of that is due to a "finally, a good laptop" sentiment. I have used a lot of laptops over the years, and each and every one of them have been terrible in lots of ways, especially recently. If M1s "solve" the laptop problem, that would be great.
- Filligree 5y agoThey pretty much do. The M1 macbook is, unironically, the first laptop I've had that doesn't have any glitches. It's less powerful than a modern desktop, but not by much. More importantly, none of the power management, suspend, wifi, whatever... ever seems to fail.
- Zababa 5y ago> More importantly, none of the power management, suspend, wifi, whatever... ever seems to fail. UI scaling is also a big one. I have a Dell XPS 15 in 2014/2015 with Windows 8.1 and the UI scaling wasn't great.