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What is your use case? If it’s dev or data science work I can at least give my feedback. Early on kind of awful - competing packages , incompatibility between tools assuming arm and others that had to be emulated. I can go on if it helps - it’s much better now but the occasional pain point.
Honestly just something for day to day at home for personal use. Mostly in the browser, the apps that I did want are already compiled for arm thankfully.
I appreciate the feedback! I'm more so curious about speed in native apps in comparison. As well as battery life from a real user. I have a surface pro 6 i5 right now that's getting slow.
Really freaking great. I get awesome battery life on arm MacBook compared to an intell one I still need to use. I feel like it’s about double when I compare my workloads between the two. Wish I had something more scientific to offer - but for what I do - much longer battery life and a much much much cooler and quieter laptop. I had to use my i7 for something the other day and forgot how freaking noisy the thing was.