I second that, me too
Aargh. New MacBook Air arrived yesterday, but don’t get my hands on it until Christmas.
So, thinking ahead to what I can do when I get my hands on it, questions for those who are experienced Mac users.
- Even though it is said the new M1 units cannot support Bootcamp, is Bootcamp Assistant still available under Utilities, and if you are brave enough to try, can you still get to the step that partitions the disk?
- If you have a bootable version of an older MacOS on an external drive (like Catalina or High Sierra), can you boot to it on the new machine?
I don’t think that the older version of MacOS would be compatible with the processor.
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The M1 Macs will need Big Sur, as there is no M1 version of previous MacOS, so an external bootable drive with a previous version of MacOS will not boot.
Bootcamp is not available on M1 machines running Big Sur. Think of Big Sur on M1 being a different code base to the Intel Macs. There will no way of running Windows on M1 Macs until the Parallels Desktop gets updated. VirtualBox does not work I believe. There is a product called CrossOver that will run some Windows apps and games on an M1 Mac though.
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I’m signed up for the pre release versions of parallels, can’t wait. Glad I don’t need windows for anything though I just like playing around.
Anyone know if you can run JVM and Java based applications on the M1? I assume it would just be emulated x86. Hmm just thought that the jvm will probably be updated at some point to run on native M1, would be interesting to compare performance.
I’m sure it works. I seen Reddit threads of people running Minecraft Java on M1 Macs.
Will Minecraft Java run on the new M1 MacBook Pro? : macgaming (reddit.com)
Oh cool, great to know thank you
For those who bought one, is it your experience that Apple doesn’t charge the card until the unit is ready? Just wondering if there’s some error cause I haven’t been charged but it’s also not ready
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In Germany that is normal. And that was the case when I ordered my iMac a decade or so ago.
My M1 MBA arrived on Monday afternoon this week, and the charge to the credit card appeared on Tuesday. Most of the time, my credit card shows a “pending” charge for items for a day or two before the charge is included in the current total. But the Apple charge just appeared overnight, and was shown as complete.
The other unusual thing was the $29 Thunderbolt - USB connector I ordered at the same time as the MBA showed up immediately after the order was submitted, and went through the “pending” routine.
One thing about it was the cable was immediately available and came through the Australian distributor, and the MBA was on pre-order and come from China.
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It’s not just bootcamp. There’s a LOT of stuff that doesn’t work on the new chip. Safari and Chrome are native. Firefox doesn’t work. Maybe it’s my plug-ins – I have to investigate.
My preferred programming environment, DrRacket, does not work. At all.
Emacs does not work, either. (Oh but I found a Universal Binary version of emacs! https://emacsformacosx.com) Fortunately I have Intel systems I can use for the Advent of Code.
Homebrew and Macports kind of work under Rosetta, but there are issues with many of the ports.
Syncthing and Lastpass work fine under Rosetta.
It’s a mixed bag.
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Interesting. We have to hope more and more stuff gets ported
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I’m still pretty positive about this. I would not have ordered an Intel Mac I don’t think. Apps will get updated so this is all temporary. I did not own a Mac during the transition from PowerPC so do not know how it compares.
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They don’t charge your card til it ships
Mine is arriving Thanksgiving Eve! I’m going to have a blast playing with it over the long weekend! I ordered it mainly to take it through its paces as I decide if the next, more powerful 16" to come is going to be my new production machine. Until then, my 2018 i7 MBP with 32Gb is doing just fine.
The thing that blows me away is that Apple actually did it. And these are the LOW end machines. Appliance or not, this is the future. And I can’t wait until mine is here!
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Thought you had a Ring Doorbell?
As a point of comparison as far as power efficiency goes, these are the readings from my work laptop, a HP EliteBook 830 G5 running a Core i7-8550U with 16GB RAM. I am not exactly taxing it right now, but do have several applications running - Outlook, Word, Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer (yeah, can’t get away from that yet), Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, and Teams being the main ones right now.
CPU consuming 34 watts, core temperature of 91 degrees!
EDIT: Haha, I misread the last column - that is the maximum value. Still, 91 degrees with a maximum load of 60% is a fair amount. The laptop is certainly very warm.
As I recall he got rid of the Ring Doorbell and replaced it with a Google one.
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I actually found the MacBook I wanted at my local Apple store so ended up cancelling my online order. Jeez what an upgrade from the 2013 mbp…
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