Every day I use my Mac intel 16” I regret not waiting 6more months and get the M1 version.
Sold my 16 inch a month before the M1 came because I knew what was coming and I could spend that time away from a laptop. I got the full specced air (cause that’s what was release first) and that air was way snappier and equal or faster for my tasks (programming, photo editing) than the almost maxed out 16 inch. Best decision and you should switch asap.
I’d rather wait for the M3 release or whatever if it’s gonna be the same price for more performance.
The difference between the M2 and M1 was small for real-world applications, compared to the difference between Intel and M1, which was stunning.
Go to the MacRumors buyer’s guide (https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/) and avoid buying a model when it’s very late in its release cycle, but otherwise it’s silly to keep waiting for a new model.
I’d rather wait for the M3 release
I wouldn’t.
When the M3 comes out… the M1 will still be cheaper and effectively the same speed as the M3.
Performance has diminishing returns - at a certain point it’s just “instant”. The M1 got there for everyday tasks, and the M3 won’t be noticeably faster for any of those.
Ow, that hurts… But on the other hand, when it came out, it was cutting edge tech if you were in the mac ecosystem! I remember seeing all those benchmarks and they fixed the fan throttling issues compared to the previous 15" macbook pros and had newly improved, studio-level mics/speakers 😄
I have a M1 air, and while it runs circles around the beefier intel macs, the screen and the speakers are shit. I wish I had waited for the M1 pros to drop… I guess it’s the circle of life, haha!
I got an Intel mini at work just before the M1s came out and then an M1 MBAir for home use. I have noticed the latter runs circles around the former, even with Rosetta emulating Intel. My main reason for buying the M1 was that I liked the fanless (and therefore noiseless) design and saw it as a good fit for home recordings on my multichannel mixer, but have been quite impressed with its overall performance.
It’s the opposite for me. Every time I use my work M1 mac, I miss my personal Intel one. I have so many issues with the M1. It’s by far the worst mac I’ve used.
I myself only use “unsupported” macs I’m fine till oclp(opencore) stops supporting them. Probably when apple drops the last intel mac.
Really easy to use and set up. Highly recommend when you have an older mac(my 2012 i5 8gb doing perfectly fine for lighter tasks and normal use)
It’s been pretty much the go to option for unsupported macs since dosdude1 pachter was discontinued.
I’ve got a 2011 MBP that I’ve run Linux on with little issues. What does this do that is different or better?
Would really love it if Adobe would become compatible with M1. I have an M1 Max and editing anything other than ProRes 1080 is impossible.
that’s ridiculous they haven’t added apple silicon support yet. literally every app on my Mac has native support by now. with the money adobe rakes in there’s no excuse for them.
They also dragged their feet switching from PPC to Intel. Something tells me Adobe isn’t using Xcode, where you just flip a switch.
You can always upgrade them to a Linux distro. I run my Mac with fedora.
Is it better to run a linux distro on an old mac or go for an older OSX version?
Well you can just have an up to date Linux system, that can be as bloated or bloatless as you want. It may take away some battery life and cause some thermal issues because of how Apple designs their products though, but you can probably fix that with some fiddling.
Really if you have the know-how, you can configure Linux any way you want.
Do you use a mouse or trackpad? Last time I used Linux on a Mac my only issues with loss of smooth trackpad.
Not sure they will give you a choice. I just had to give up my intel 16 inch due to it throttling all the cpus down. Even the jet engines couldn’t keep it cool enough to not throttle.
