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5 Things I Have Learned Using the M1 MacBook Air
External displays, Rosetta 2, Homebrew, and more
The first Apple silicon ARM-based M1 chip has received rave reviews due to its mind-blowing performance and efficiency. I’m impressed by the incredible performance and “System on a Chip” architecture that integrates CPU, GPU, unified memory, Neural Engine, etc.
I was so excited when I received my first M1 chip MacBook Air:
After spending a few days setting up Ruby, Python, Homebrew, and other apps on the laptop, here are the five things I have learned that can be interesting.
1. Fast, Fast, and Fast
I’ve got a late-2019 16-inch MacBook Pro from work that has a six-core Intel i7 CPU and 16GB DDR4 memory. The M1 chip MacBook Air is faster in every way compared to the late-2019 MBP — when clicking to launch apps, browsing the internet with Safari, and opening big apps like Adobe Photoshop and Xcode.
The most impressive part came when building my Xcode project after cleaning the build folder. It took three minutes and 50 seconds to launch the iOS simulator with the MBP, while…
