Some time has passed and I assume more people had a chance to work with them for a couple of weeks. I'd like to hear your thoughts.
How do you like them in your daily work? Do you see a big difference? Did you notice any problems?
All my tooling just works fine no issues now with M1 compatibility.
Battery is amazing. Speakers sound clear and loud. Light gaming with steam works really well.
I use plenty of standard tools, iterm2 as my terminal, emacs, org-mode, vscode, pycharm. All working as intended.
I have had modern pcs and laptops and they work equally well just not as fast.
The 2021mbp is like being in the future.
From an OSX POV I went from a 2012mbp to a 2021mbp and it’s night and day.
I don’t like how it feels always-on, if I hit shutdown and close the lid, when I open the lid up it comes back on immediately instead of me having to press the power button. I want a clearer distinction of on/off.
* I can do whatever and everything I want without the fans kicking on
* Snappy start up
* Great screen
* Solid keyboard with the actual function keys
* I’ve only run into 2 software issues—Dropbox and SciPy and the latter is apparently fixable I just haven’t done it yet
* Speakers sound awesome
* I’ve never noticed the notch and I never got used to the iPhone notch
* I really like the squared off design
Complaints:
* I wish I could control the backlighting of the keyboard beyond it being “on” or “off”
* They should have included a USB A port and put in an ethernet port somewhere
* I feel like the mag safe cable isn’t as safe as my mid-2012 mbp but haven’t tried to knock it off a table
* I can’t see the camera in the notch under normal light so covering that up isn’t easy
My M1 plays the same Unity games with 0 fan noise. With the same performance.
I haven't had any hiccups on the M1. It just works.
Only pain point with the mac is the UI for window management and file management. But that's more personal preference and having been spoiled by the variety of options on Linux.