Daily Ramblings

So finally I took the leap of faith and finally decided to get a new laptop. And while I was going that way, I decided to go all in for the same.

The laptop that I decided to go for was the newly launched MacBook Air M1 with the new ARM based desktop processor that seems to be pretty powerful, and at the same time pretty power efficient.

They do cost a lot, but I believe for the portability benefits that it provides, it is worth the money.

I ordered it on December 8 and expected it to be delivered in a day or two – like a similar order that I placed on the apple website. I was wrong. As I had customised the model to get me the 16 GB variant, it took way longer than expected. I got no update on it since I placed the order and was shipped only a few days prior to today. In addition to that even after it was shipped, blue dart was adamant that the delivery date will be 2nd Jan.

I sulked and came to my native place and risked nobody being at my home in the city. And guess what I get a text message on that specific day that the order was getting delivered that very day. Somehow I got it delivered to my native place.

Now all that remained was to set things up and learn how to navigate the not so intuitive UI that Mac OS provides.

Initial impressions: 1) Awesome build 2) Awesome battery performance 3) Keyboard is pretty good 4) Mac OS seems to not have good user feedback system * There were scenarios where there was no feedback provided when confirm was clicked * Some times during the initial setup, it felt that the OS had hung as it gave no visual indication that it is processing something.

Rosetta works awesomely and I have not seen any slowdowns due to performance.

Will update once I find more.