In January, I switched completely to Mac from PC, and I did it with an M1 mini. It was time to upgrade my ancient Dell XPS (bought it in 2012 or something), and decided what the heck. I'll give it a go. For only $700, I got probably the best computing experience of my life. Rosetta has been amazing, and a lot of the Mac software I used to use on my top-of-the-line 2019 Intel MBA just fly.
When I first started using it there were some glaring issues that have all disappeared as software has been updated/optimized for the M1 architecture.
Notably back in February I attempted to write a .net core console app, and it would never enter Main() {}. A week later there was an update to .net, and that went away.
I still use my Intel MBA for Parallels. A client of mine is Windows only, and I have to VPN in, then RDP into the development machine, but I'm hoping that Parallels has released the new ARM version officially, it might just work (there were issues regarding connectivity while I was beta testing it).
When I first started using it there were some glaring issues that have all disappeared as software has been updated/optimized for the M1 architecture.
Notably back in February I attempted to write a .net core console app, and it would never enter Main() {}. A week later there was an update to .net, and that went away.
I still use my Intel MBA for Parallels. A client of mine is Windows only, and I have to VPN in, then RDP into the development machine, but I'm hoping that Parallels has released the new ARM version officially, it might just work (there were issues regarding connectivity while I was beta testing it).