![]() This is more about tools for jobs than a problem with the M1 MBP. Smaller display, but still P3 and way easier to handle. While the MBP’s screen is of equal quality, and of course a somewhat larger viewing area, I do find the extra bulk of the laptop to be a downside so I stick to my iPad mini (5) when watching in bed in the evenings. Long Way Up looked spectacular on that screen. The one place I miss the iPad is watching Apple TV+ content. My M1 MacBook Pro replaced an 11" iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard and I’m still convinced I made the right choice. And of course the entire world of development tools (Xcode, Python, etc, etc) is just not possible on the iPad. ![]() The Mac is just easier to use for power users. Even though I have used it every day for years, I still mess up the dragging of an app from the Dock. The multitasking of the iPad is just too limited. I’ve loved using my iPad over the years, but with the new M1 MacBooks it will be hard to go back to using it for anything besides reading Books and PDFs. ![]() I think Apple really needs to rethink the way iOS apps work on the Mac. I guess this matches what is possible on an iPad, but makes it frustrating to use on a Mac. I can make it landscape, portrait or full screen, but cannot resize the window as you would a real Mac app. Why would anyone prefer using this app over Safari? When I play the same movie in Safari, the full screen button plays the video in actual full screen without the black bars. When I click on the full screen button, it puts the app in full screen, but the video is shown with black bars around it. By the end of the day, the battery was still at 65%! This is even better battery life than I get on my iPad Pro! Doing heavy tasks like watching videos and using Xcode. I spent an entire Saturday using just the battery. The other thing that is amazing is the battery life. Now it is so much faster that I have no hesitation to test across different iPhone models. It was so slow that I’d avoid starting up a new simulator if I really didn’t need it. It’s just as smooth as typing in TextEdit or some other simple app.Īnother thing that used to be slow and painful is starting up a new Simulator. All of these weird speed slowdowns and glitches I’ve always experienced in Xcode just never happen on the M1. Ctrl-dragging from a widget to the swift code can just be inexplicably slow and janky. Even with my iMac with 64 GB of memory, there are times when the UI is just sluggish. I’m most impressed at the performance of Xcode. It’s hard to believe the computer even went to sleep. I know it’s a small thing, but it is something that makes your computing life so much better. It’s amazing to flip open the lid and you can immediately start typing. ![]() I thought going down from 64 GBs to 16 GBs in memory would make a difference in tasks, such as Xcode builds, but as far as I can tell, Xcode performs better on the M1 than the iMac with 4 times as much memory! The only time I actually prefer my iPad is for reading books or pdfs, where I can use the Apple Pencil for highlighting and notes. When I need portability, I unplug the monitor and I’m good to go. I also bought the LGE 27-inch 5K monitor to plug in the MacBook, so when plugged in, I have the same screen real estate as my iMac. I feel like now it can be a replacement for both computers. But over these 2 weeks, I’ve barely used either my iMac or iPad. When I bought this M1 MacBook, I thought it would be more of an experiment, trying out the bleeding edge of what Apple has to offer, but still not a replacement for my iMac. When I need the power of a Mac, I used a 2017 iMac with lots of storage and memory (64 GBs). It is light and has all day battery life. For the last 5 years, my portable computer has been a 12.9 inch iPad Pro. I’ve been using the new M1 MacBook Pro, 13-inch as my main computer for the last 2 weeks.
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