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by terhechte 1981 days ago
- I had some trouble building the Rust lang toolchain (wanted to work on a PR), haven't tried again (used my other machine instead).

- The battery life is great.

- Something I wouldn't have thought is how much I enjoy that the machine is not heating up under stress. Difficult to describe, but that is really really nice

- I have the MBP and the only time I heard the fan was when I compiled the Rust toolchain.

- Tried to run Linux in Parallels but that didn't work (some sort of weird error, didn't investigate further)

- Within Xcode/Swift everything works as expected, just much faster ;)

- My M1 has problems when I'm connecting my external 5K display. It works great, but when I put the M1 to sleep and wake it up again it can't find the display anymore. Even plugging it in / out doesn't help. I read somewhere that that'll soon be fixed with a software update.

- I had higher hopes for the ability to run iOS apps. I really wanted Netflix and Amazon Alexa to work. I hope they'll reverse their stance to not support M1s at some point.

Overall, I'm very happy with the M1, but I still have a 2018 Mac mini that continues to be my main machine. I bought the M1 because I have an upcoming Mac app that I've worked on for ~2 years and I wanted to make sure it works on M1 (https://hyperdeck.io).

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All my MBPs were frustrating when it came to thermals. I can’t believe you can do programming with passively cooled Air.
I wonder if Netflix is holding out for DRM-related reasons. I'd guess their VMP checks are broken when an iOS app is running on a Mac.