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I have been using an M1 MBA for nearly a year, and I have never faced any issues or memory leaks. It has been solid as a rock. I recently had to use a Windows

by rukshn 5y ago

I have been using an M1 MBA for nearly a year, and I have never faced any issues or memory leaks. It has been solid as a rock. I recently had to use a Windows laptop for work, and god I hate when windows becomes "not responding"

altcognito 5y ago
Since we all seem to be sharing that we don't have issues with our OSs, I've never had much issue with any NT based Windows systems. I've had bad hardware that once replaced improved reliability, but generally speaking I can go months without reboots. (except for those corporate forced updates for security reasons, but those exist on every platform, so I don't consider that an issue)
- andai 5y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReHafyiDTR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReHafyiDTR0 On the last few versions of Windows, it doesn't really feel like my computer anymore. I use my OS to lay out the structure of my thoughts, ie. I'll have text documents open, arranged in a certain way, project folders open, image editors with sketches in them... then Windows Update wakes my computer while I am sleeping and force-closes everything; I awake to a blank slate. It's as though someone has snuck into my house in in the middle of the night and swept everything off my desk and into the trash.
  - genewitch 5y ago
    Block the windows update domain names or get an application firewall (fortinet makes some cheap ones) and disallow windows update. It does suck that you gotta do this, but at least there is a way.
  - muro 5y ago
    I'm glad new editors auto save everything and can restart without issues. Just a shame the os doesn't do it for all apps.
stjohnswarts 5y ago
If windows is not responding error it's an app bug and not a windows bug. I have to swap between windows and mac all the time and both are perfectly usable when you have enough memory for your given task, and that is 95% an app issue as too many modern apps drink memory like they just came out of the Sahara.
- easrng 5y ago
  I've had explorer.exe crash many many times.
  - tinus_hn 5y ago
    Explorer hosts a million plugins for everything that wants to do things like add a menu entry to the desktop right click menu, and each of them can crash or hang Explorer. It’s just a terrible design.
    - smoldesu 5y ago
      Wait until you hear how Finder handles things, I honestly couldn't believe my ears the first time I asked "why can't I close the filepicker?"
      - dlivingston 5y ago
        Can you explain?
        tinus_hn 5y ago
        There’s similar interfaces for Finder for things like Dropbox, except not every mouse driver has a plug-in and if it turns out the model is problematic, like on Windows, Apple has no issues with repairing it and forcing the plugins to update. Backwards compatibility is nice but it drags you down.
  - rand49an 5y ago
    Explorer is pretty stable if you don't have any shell add-ins loaded.
whalesalad 5y ago
I’ve had a similar experience with an M1 Mac Mini. I’ve thrown the kitchen sink at it and it doesn’t break a sweat.
eertami 5y ago
Anecdotally, it feels like I must restart WindowServer in OSX more often I've had to restart explorer/dwm in Windows. But neither are particularly reliable, in my experience.
biswaroop 5y ago
Do you by any chance have the base model? I'm trying to see if folks think it's sufficient for their needs. It's hard to calibrate memory needs coming from Intel.
- wait_a_minute 5y ago
  I have the base model 13" M1 (8gb ram, 512 gb storage) and it's rock solid and sufficient for my needs. I use it every day for dev work. Got my UI app running on it for local development, backend processes, connections to Heroku and my local postgres db, multiple browsers open, music streaming, multiple bluetooth devices connected to it... Performs like a champ with excellent battery life. I keep waiting for it to start giving me some slowdown as our apps become more complex, so I can upgrade to one of the shiny new laptops...but so far, it's been a champ.
  - culopatin 5y ago
    Are you worried about swap use at all? I’m on the same boat but I’m a noob so I just put my IDE and browser tabs on my memory. I don’t even know how to use docker yet
    - wait_a_minute 5y ago
      Not at all. I haven’t had issues with swap use so far and I intend to upgrade on a regular cadence (every 18-24 months) so I don’t expect it to be an issue for drive longevity.

by rukshn 5y ago

altcognito 5y ago

Since we all seem to be sharing that we don't have issues with our OSs, I've never had much issue with any NT based Windows systems. I've had bad hardware that once replaced improved reliability, but generally speaking I can go months without reboots. (except for those corporate forced updates for security reasons, but those exist on every platform, so I don't consider that an issue)

andai 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReHafyiDTR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReHafyiDTR0 On the last few versions of Windows, it doesn't really feel like my computer anymore. I use my OS to lay out the structure of my thoughts, ie. I'll have text documents open, arranged in a certain way, project folders open, image editors with sketches in them... then Windows Update wakes my computer while I am sleeping and force-closes everything; I awake to a blank slate. It's as though someone has snuck into my house in in the middle of the night and swept everything off my desk and into the trash.
- genewitch 5y ago
  Block the windows update domain names or get an application firewall (fortinet makes some cheap ones) and disallow windows update. It does suck that you gotta do this, but at least there is a way.
- muro 5y ago
  I'm glad new editors auto save everything and can restart without issues. Just a shame the os doesn't do it for all apps.

stjohnswarts 5y ago

If windows is not responding error it's an app bug and not a windows bug. I have to swap between windows and mac all the time and both are perfectly usable when you have enough memory for your given task, and that is 95% an app issue as too many modern apps drink memory like they just came out of the Sahara.

easrng 5y ago
I've had explorer.exe crash many many times.
- tinus_hn 5y ago
  Explorer hosts a million plugins for everything that wants to do things like add a menu entry to the desktop right click menu, and each of them can crash or hang Explorer. It’s just a terrible design.
  - smoldesu 5y ago
    Wait until you hear how Finder handles things, I honestly couldn't believe my ears the first time I asked "why can't I close the filepicker?"
    - dlivingston 5y ago
      Can you explain?
      - tinus_hn 5y ago
        There’s similar interfaces for Finder for things like Dropbox, except not every mouse driver has a plug-in and if it turns out the model is problematic, like on Windows, Apple has no issues with repairing it and forcing the plugins to update. Backwards compatibility is nice but it drags you down.
- rand49an 5y ago
  Explorer is pretty stable if you don't have any shell add-ins loaded.

whalesalad 5y ago

I’ve had a similar experience with an M1 Mac Mini. I’ve thrown the kitchen sink at it and it doesn’t break a sweat.

eertami 5y ago

Anecdotally, it feels like I must restart WindowServer in OSX more often I've had to restart explorer/dwm in Windows. But neither are particularly reliable, in my experience.

biswaroop 5y ago

Do you by any chance have the base model? I'm trying to see if folks think it's sufficient for their needs. It's hard to calibrate memory needs coming from Intel.

wait_a_minute 5y ago
I have the base model 13" M1 (8gb ram, 512 gb storage) and it's rock solid and sufficient for my needs. I use it every day for dev work. Got my UI app running on it for local development, backend processes, connections to Heroku and my local postgres db, multiple browsers open, music streaming, multiple bluetooth devices connected to it... Performs like a champ with excellent battery life. I keep waiting for it to start giving me some slowdown as our apps become more complex, so I can upgrade to one of the shiny new laptops...but so far, it's been a champ.
- culopatin 5y ago
  Are you worried about swap use at all? I’m on the same boat but I’m a noob so I just put my IDE and browser tabs on my memory. I don’t even know how to use docker yet
  - wait_a_minute 5y ago
    Not at all. I haven’t had issues with swap use so far and I intend to upgrade on a regular cadence (every 18-24 months) so I don’t expect it to be an issue for drive longevity.