![]() But on the way to being cramped, you will feel quite light-footed and agile before you slam into that inevitable wall, like a clumsy ballerina. I will say, however, that these machines perform great, but don’t bend the rules of physics: If your general usage approach feels like it might be cramped with eight gigs of RAM, you will still feel cramped here. I won’t bore you with performance numbers because you’ve seen them everywhere else on the internet. ![]() You can tell me every day of the week about the security reasons for it, but the truth is, if Apple cared about upgradeability, it would figure out a way to make it work. To put it another way: Apple doesn’t allow people to upgrade the SSD themselves because Apple is Apple. If you are interested in getting your hands on an Apple Silicon MacBook Air, the 8-gigabyte models will be easier to find right now and are in stock on Amazon there will be a long delay on the 16-gigabyte models which at this time you might have to directly buy from Apple. I did a rough test of my current Hackintosh machines, and while the MacBook Air outpaced both machines on write speeds (about 2,800 megabytes per second, versus 1,400 on each), my Xeon easily kept pace on read speeds (2,800 megabytes for each), despite the fact it doesn’t officially support the NVMe spec and I only can use it as a boot drive thanks to Clover. (Upgrading to a 2-terabyte drive costs an eye-watering $800.) In a world where buying a 2-terabyte NVMe SSD that can be easily screwed into a laptop costs less than $250, Apple has convinced the world that its SSDs are somehow special, despite the fact that it is possible to get similar or even faster speeds with PCIe 4.0. (My wife, Cat, has informed me that I cannot talk about how amazing the battery life is anymore in conversation.)īut it leaves two of my biggest problems off to the side-the ability to upgrade anything, and the high cost of storage and RAM upgrades at time of purchase. It works quite well, better than I was expecting, and the battery life is just unspeakably amazing. That seems to be the takeaway I have from the past few days of using the M1 MacBook Air as my daily driver. Speed isn’t everything, nor is battery life. (photo by me) Is the M1 chip good enough to get Hackintosh users to come back to the fold? Maybe Ernie Tediumīefore we get going, be sure to check out today’s sponsor, SetApp. ![]() Today’s Tedium reviews the new machine, and ponders what we gained from the Hackintosh era of the Mac and why it’s worth keeping that spirit alive somehow, even in the Apple Silicon era. (It now rocks 32 gigs of RAM and a 2TB SSD that dual-boots Linux.) But one cannot deny the juggernaut that is Apple Silicon. That guide, and the laptop on which I based it on, still hold up, though some of the methods have changed. I even wrote a guide on how to do it yourself. Turns out writers care about keyboards, who knew?) So I dove head-first into the realm of the Hackintosh a few years ago, and embraced my role as the guy using the Mac with the brass trims and the touchscreen. I of course, was perhaps vocal about my reasons for leaving the Apple flock in the first place … the company just wasn’t releasing products that I could see myself wanting to purchase. I got an M1 MacBook Air this week, returning to the Apple fold to give the company money for a Mac product for the first time in years. Today in Tedium: I warned I was going to do it.
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