M1 MacBooks Pro

I love beepy music made from Apple system noises. This is not the first!

I could not care any less about HomePod (I have cheap but acceptable stereo BT speakers in every room) or AirPods (BT lag into my ears makes me dizzy). So do with these as you will. I’ll be using cheap wired earbuds or expensive wired cans forever.

M1 names combine the ugly internal product number with marketing “Pro”. “Max” implies you can’t get better. Who’d need more than 64GB RAM? Should be one or the other, like “Apple Chip Pro”, or “M1P-10-16-32” (cores-gpus-ram).

MacBook stats are given in mm & lb. PICK ONE SYSTEM!

“The physical keys replace the Touch Bar.” Almost like it was a gigantic mistake everyone hated. And MagSafe is back! Multiple ports and SD card reader! It’s 2013 again!

What would you do if you had a million bucks? LCD, 3 XDRs, & a 4K monitor at once! (actual cost of the shown system is ~$25K).

How’s the notch gonna work with fullscreen programs like Notch’s game Minecraft? Just a blank spot. Might obscure the compass in Elder Scrolls games, too. Maybe it just blacks out the entire upper area in fullscreen, wasting real estate but not being stupid. I dislike the notch thing in every device, desktop more than others.

Battery life & GPU performance are awesome, no kidding. Faster than anything Apple shipped in a desktop even, my iMac 5K has a low-end AMD Radeon.

The 16″ with M1 Max, 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD, is $4899, still less than a single XDR monitor. 14″ with M1 Pro, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD (get a cheap thunderbolt drive for storage) is $2899, almost reasonable.

I’m not, I think, actually getting this; the iPad Air satisfies my portable needs at present. I want the M1 Max in a Mini format, so I can wire up any monitor (not a $6000 XDR).

But if I took a new dayjob, I’d do it in a minute.