I've been blown away by the M1 Macbook Air. I moved to it as my daily work mac having previously been on a 2016 touchbar 15" MBP.
I was a bit concerned about resources as I only went with the 8GB model - my fears were totally unwarranted, it's a beast of a machine and handles anything I throw at it with ease.
I pretty much always have PHP Storm (known to be VERY memory hungry), chrome, docker, iterm, sequel ace, Apple Music and a bunch of other stuff running and it rarely gets about 4-5GB of ram used and stays cold.
I know people say 8GB isn't enough and I think normally they'd be right, but the new architecture of these machines mean you can no longer compare the memory needed on an intel machine. You effectively need less than half of what you used to need as the OS is extremely memory efficient.
Apple redeemed themselves with these. The 2016 MBP was a massive disappointment, with its rather lacklustre touch bar, terribly flawed keyboard and the known thermal issues that meant the MBP was often hot enough to warm up a cup of coffee! These new machines are a whole different thing though, they've really outdone themselves.
One thing I keep thinking of. If this is the kind of performance we're getting with the first generation of their desktop chips, imagine what their true pro line of SOC's will be like!
I am thinking to buy M1 MacBook Air 8gb 256gb ssd
But am worried if the fan less laptop will degrade the m1 chip faster and also just 8gb ram might write a lot of swap memory on ssd (TBW), can u help me by telling whats ur tbw pls help
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I've been blown away by the M1 Macbook Air. I moved to it as my daily work mac having previously been on a 2016 touchbar 15" MBP.
I was a bit concerned about resources as I only went with the 8GB model - my fears were totally unwarranted, it's a beast of a machine and handles anything I throw at it with ease.
I pretty much always have PHP Storm (known to be VERY memory hungry), chrome, docker, iterm, sequel ace, Apple Music and a bunch of other stuff running and it rarely gets about 4-5GB of ram used and stays cold.
I know people say 8GB isn't enough and I think normally they'd be right, but the new architecture of these machines mean you can no longer compare the memory needed on an intel machine. You effectively need less than half of what you used to need as the OS is extremely memory efficient.
Apple redeemed themselves with these. The 2016 MBP was a massive disappointment, with its rather lacklustre touch bar, terribly flawed keyboard and the known thermal issues that meant the MBP was often hot enough to warm up a cup of coffee! These new machines are a whole different thing though, they've really outdone themselves.
One thing I keep thinking of. If this is the kind of performance we're getting with the first generation of their desktop chips, imagine what their true pro line of SOC's will be like!
I am thinking to buy M1 MacBook Air 8gb 256gb ssd
But am worried if the fan less laptop will degrade the m1 chip faster and also just 8gb ram might write a lot of swap memory on ssd (TBW), can u help me by telling whats ur tbw pls help