I open, on battery power all day yesterday, and for the evening the night before. While I was working on my main computer, I have it beside me for looking things up and browsing while my main computer is rendering etc. The battery life on this thing is insane. There’s also no noticeable performance hit, whereas on my old laptop, using a scaled resolution would cripple it. On the new 13” MacBook Pro, it’s not, so whatever scaling algorithms they’re using now are much better. On my old 15” MacBook Pro, which was one of the first retina displays, using one of the scaled modes was noticeably blurry. The scaling has come a long way since the first retina displays, though. To make it easier to switch on the fly I use a little utility called One Switch, which comes as part of the Setapp bundle. Again, it’s so unusual you are taken aback the first time you do it. Oh, and when you change resolutions, the change is instant with no blackout. I much prefer this, and it definitely looks better, but I can pop back to a higher scaled option if I need the real estate. It actually started to give me a headache, so I ended up dropping it one notch to what is actually the 2X native resolution of the LCD panel. The one annoying thing is that the default resolution on the 13” is scaled, even though it tells you it’s the “default” resolution for the display. This isn’t really a Mac-specific thing, but rather the fact that I had been used to older systems. Images and video look amazing on this screen, and it’s not a particularly high-level or quality screen. For example, wide gamut displays and Retina display technology has come a long way. The other thing that it made me realise, was how far behind the technology curve I was. It’s such a different experience, it almost doesn’t feel like using a Mac. And while processing and benchmarks may paint an impressive picture, what doesn’t come across in the numbers is the overall responsiveness. Overall Impressionsįirst of all, everything you read is true. As my laptop was also old (2012 MacBook Pro) and I needed to replace that, I decided to take the plunge and embrace the future with an M1 MacBook Pro. The newest operating system I could use was macOS 10.14 Mojave and there were starting to be applications that just wouldn’t run on it. My main workstation was an ageing 2012 Mac Pro, which despite its age was working perfectly for why I needed. I’ve been working of a pretty old computer for some time now.

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