m1 MacBook Air M1 - Benchmarking & Questions

[rikitikitavi]

5h is plenty of gaming lol

Thanks for the info.

[Spindel]

Got my M1 Mini yesterday, been working for a couple of hours now on it. 

 

My use is:

WebBrowser

MS Office

AutoCAD

 

MS Office and AutoCAD all run through Rosetta but after the initial startup delay (that translates the app) they work really well and are way faster and more responsive than my old iMac (and my work issued HP Laptop). Given my old iMac was from 2013 it's no surprise the M1 Mini is way faster (but the iMac was way faster than my work laptop from 2019).

 

I'll not do any benchmarks etc, what I say is from a pure user experience of how the system feels and responds. 

 

The responsiveness is mind boggling, it can not be described (given I've used a mac for a long time and know my way around macOS, a hardcore windows user will probably struggle just because things are different to what they are used to).  

 

 

EDIT:// I moved from a 2013 iMac 27" with Core i5 4670, 24 GB of RAM and a GTX 780M to a M1 Mini with 16 GB RAM. 

[Spindel]

Exactly one app is giving me grief and that is MS OneNote ><

[Spindel]

I've sorted the OneNote problem, but that is (so far) the only pain this transition has given me.