For the New Year, I purchased a new Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch M1 512 GB SSD laptop for Inna, as her 2013 MacBook Pro was starting to misbehave (rebooting often).
The MacBook Pro has the following advantages over the MacBook Air M1:
- Longer advertised battery life (up to 20 hours). A
- fan to cool the processor (during heavy workloads)
- higher quality microphone and speakers
- only a minimal increase in weight over Air
After using Apple migration to transfer files from Inna's old MacBook Pro, I updated to the latest version, macOS Big Sur. It works well, and Inna loves the Touch ID (which unlocks the laptop with a fingerprint).
Since it's running Apple's M1 chip, many apps need to run under Rosetta, though many apps are being converted to natively support M1.
Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch M1 (512GB SSD) Review
Positives
- Longer battery life (20 hours on one charge)!
- Very sharp and bright screen (500 nits)
- No fan noise
- Excellent performance
- The fingerprint sensor works excellently to unlock the computer (no need to type passwords)!
Negatives
- No way to upgrade RAM or SSD
- 8GB RAM may not be sufficient in the future
- Many programs built for x86 need to be recompiled for the ARM architecture.
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