Difficult to describe, but that is really really nice Something I wouldn't have thought is how much I enjoy that the machine is not heating up under stress. I had some trouble building the Rust lang toolchain (wanted to work on a PR), haven't tried again (used my other machine instead). Unless you have something x86 specific you need to be doing locally or need a huge screen do not hesitate to buy this machine. I've been pretty jaded on hardware recently but this made me sit up and go 'holy crap' everything else just became obsolete.

The processors are just more efficient in so many ways. Once I compared zoom using 120% cpu on my intel Mac to 30% cpu on my apple silicon Mac it was game over.

If there was a 14/16' version I'd throw money at Apple again. Kinda bummed that I can only hook one LG5k display in at a time but whatever, that is kind of a fringe desire anyway. I do all of my development remotely via ssh and local forwards so the different platform doesn’t affect me at all. When I say fast I mean desktop processor fast. Comes with tiny a/c adapter that charges it quickly Brought me back to Mac from my X1 carbon 6th gen running Linux (arch btw). I have the M1 MacBook Air and it’s best computer I’ve ever owned, hands down.

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