r/mac

Been a windows guy all my life. Thrived on Thinkpads, second hand corpo Thinkpads, T series Thinkpads, and more. Loved the keyboards. Windows? well that's how an OS is supposed to be, right? even if it takes precedence over my sanity. Also yes, I would like to keep my nuts un-roasted, thanks. A desk was a must.

Fast travel to my M1 purchase. Been hearing all the rave about this new ARM M thing that apple has created. Bought one, 16GB of ram. My android phone weeped (KDE Konnect FTW).

While leaning into the OS itself, there are no pushy apps? no pushy updates? what? everything looked so good, even the wallpapers. Display looked like heaven. Keyboard still wasn't a match for Thinkpads (I doubt any keyboard is, no, not even mechanical ones). But everything else? it was butter slide E2E.

Jetbrains opened in an instant. Android emulator ran faster than my actual Android device, Windows on parallels felt snappy, OS never got in my way of doing things. Everything I was greeted with the crisp refreshing touch of metal whenever I picked my beauty up. It woke up exactly like I had put it eons ago, always did. Never bothered with a shutdown.

Then one day, it fell down. From my table. Then again, from sofa. My wallet hid in a corner. Dents occurred to both my machine and my psyche. Nothing else. It is literally metal, I reminded myself.

Got a 4K monitor recently. Spent countless moons on reading stuff. Went for single cable USB C solution. Everything turned out smooth. Fonts look great. Nothing left to desire (discounting Studio Display of course). No extra app was installed not even better display.

It has been more than 4 years I've been driving this machine daily, and it still hasn't slowed down on me. I still do emulators, 15-20 safari tabs in each profile (work+personal), cursed NPM installs, dockers, unholy -e requirrements.txt with much servers running around, and more.

This looks like a really nice deal at $79.99, it's the usb-c version and I am thinking about pulling the trigger. Do you think it's worth it at this price?

M6 CPU: 10(4+6) @ 5.1 GHz GPU: 12 MB: 190 GB/s GB6 Single: ~5,150 GB6 Multi: ~21,000 GB6 Metal: ~92,000 SSD Read: 7.5 GB/s

M6 Max CPU: 20(14+6) @ 5.4 GHz GPU: 60 MB: 800 GB/s GB6 Single: ~5,600 GB6 Multi: ~42,000 GB6 Metal: ~310,000 SSD Read: 14.0 GB/s

Basis for prediction:

The M6 series is expected to move to TSMC’s 2nm node, which Apple has reportedly secured the entirety of the initial capacity for. Based on early manufacturing projections for N2, we can anticipate a 15–20% increase in instructions per clock and a jump in frequency to the 5.0 GHz barrier

Industry roadmaps confirm that LPDDR6 mass production begins in 2026. Moving from the M5’s LPDDR5X (9600MT/s) to LPDDR6 (12,800MT/s+) would naturally push the M6 Max toward the 760-800 GB/s territory matching the original M1 Ultra but on a single chip

The M5 already utilizes the 14.5 GB/s ceiling of PCIe 5.0. For the M6, Apple is unlikely to jump to PCIe 6.0 (which is still emerging), but they are expected to fix the base binning issue by utilizing higher-density 512GB NAND modules as standard, bringing base speeds up to ~7.5 GB/s

After seeing so many things online about the wonders of Apple silicon I decided to jump on a good deal for a M1 MacBook air a week or so ago and I've never been more impressed using a computer. I have a gaming laptop desktop that is fairly old but working well. Though I hate using windows on it. I had been using a 10th gen intel Thinkpad for university with 1tb of storage and 32gb of ram and windows never felt as snappy as it should on that device even when brand-new. Plus the battery life was atrocious. After getting this M1 air I have been delighted using this computer for my school and personal work. The OS feels so snappy all the time and multitasking with 16gb of ram has been wonderful. I am continually impressed by how easily this laptop handles basic tasks that would take much longer on my other devices. Downloading pdfs and applications for school run like a breeze. Continuity features like using the keyboard and mouse on my iPad nearby and iPhone mirroring are amazing. I am most impressed by spotlight and preview. Being able to hold down the trackpad and instantly jump into an 800 page textbook and flip around lightning fast is just amazing. I know that the M1 air won't get updates forever but for my purposes that is just fine. I am fully sold on the Mac ecosystem!

i have an iphone/ apple watch / macbook air

is it in my favour to shift to apple music? I have been using spotify for years now.