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I am quite happy with my Macbook Pro M1 Max, which remains virtually ice cold even running heavy compute (I am still yet to hear the fans spin up) and having a

I am quite happy with my Macbook Pro M1 Max, which remains virtually ice cold even running heavy compute (I am still yet to hear the fans spin up) and having a battery life that can accomodate easily 12+ hours of real work. Any Windows laptop with a 3090 inside it, will be a hot and loud brick in comparison. Granted I dont play video games, and my ML compute is run in the cloud it fits my needs nicely. I would argue in terms of sheer generalised productivity nothing else comes close.

aenis 5y ago
Same here. Great computer. The only thing I am missing is a bit more reliable support for waking up external monitors. Between my now two m1/m1 max macs and 6 screens I use, one (an Asus 2k display which is slow to wake up from sleep) often requires unplugging to wake up. That is not a m1 issue - its been like that with macos since... forever, but it's irritating.
- Osiris 5y ago
  I use a 4 monitor setup for my workstation. I switched to a desktop computer in part to not have to deal with this exact issue with a MacBook.
- srcreigh 5y ago
  What is your monitor layout?
  - aenis 5y ago
    I have those 6 screens plugged to two different macs, so just 3 on each. Big screen in the center, and two in portrait mode on the sides. One uses 43" 4k for the center screen, the other uses a 34" ultrawide. The m1 max drives its displays directly, the m1 via a starlink tripple 4k displaylink hub. The problems, in my case, are specific to monitors that take a good few seconds to come back from standby. Macos seems to be impatient and considers them dead. I am down to just 1 screen with this problem, and will replace it at some point.
- flatiron 5y ago
  One big thing holding me back from jumping on one is macOS. I’m sure it’s ok but I’ve been using Linux for ~25 years that’s a lot of muscle memory to lose. I really wish apple supported Linux better.
  - brettdong 5y ago
    Hope Asahi Linux will get mature and be daily driver usable in the near future.
grishka 5y ago
The only way I was able to get mine to spin the fans (at seemingly full speed!) was to build the Telegram Android app in "afat" variant. The NDK (which is still x86-only, shame on you Google) fully loads all cores for an extended period of time. The fans start several minutes in.

aenis 5y ago

Same here. Great computer. The only thing I am missing is a bit more reliable support for waking up external monitors. Between my now two m1/m1 max macs and 6 screens I use, one (an Asus 2k display which is slow to wake up from sleep) often requires unplugging to wake up. That is not a m1 issue - its been like that with macos since... forever, but it's irritating.

Osiris 5y ago
I use a 4 monitor setup for my workstation. I switched to a desktop computer in part to not have to deal with this exact issue with a MacBook.
srcreigh 5y ago
What is your monitor layout?
- aenis 5y ago
  I have those 6 screens plugged to two different macs, so just 3 on each. Big screen in the center, and two in portrait mode on the sides. One uses 43" 4k for the center screen, the other uses a 34" ultrawide. The m1 max drives its displays directly, the m1 via a starlink tripple 4k displaylink hub. The problems, in my case, are specific to monitors that take a good few seconds to come back from standby. Macos seems to be impatient and considers them dead. I am down to just 1 screen with this problem, and will replace it at some point.
flatiron 5y ago
One big thing holding me back from jumping on one is macOS. I’m sure it’s ok but I’ve been using Linux for ~25 years that’s a lot of muscle memory to lose. I really wish apple supported Linux better.
- brettdong 5y ago
  Hope Asahi Linux will get mature and be daily driver usable in the near future.

grishka 5y ago

The only way I was able to get mine to spin the fans (at seemingly full speed!) was to build the Telegram Android app in "afat" variant. The NDK (which is still x86-only, shame on you Google) fully loads all cores for an extended period of time. The fans start several minutes in.