I have a 2020 Intel Macbook from work and a M1 Macbook for personal use.
Granted I put my work laptop under more load (compiling, video chats at work) but it just feels like a normal laptop. I feel it take its time loading large programs (IDEs) and the fan clicks on when I'm doing big compiles.
I use my personal laptop for occasionally coding, playing games, and also video chats. But the M1 feels amazing. It's fast, snappy, with long battery life, and I've had it for several weeks and I never hear the fan. Even playing Magic Arena AND a Parallels VM runs silent. Arena alone turns my wife's Macbook Air into a jet turbine. It makes video chats so much nicer because it's dead silent.
I've run into occasional compatibility issues with the M1. sbt not working was the latest bummer.
So while my two laptops are technically a year apart, they feel like 5 years apart. The M1 laptop lives up to the hype and I'm glad to just have a laptop that's fast, quiet, has great battery, and is reliable.
Edit: More context, I had bought a maxed-out Macbook Air last year hoping it would be my "forever-laptop" but it was just not giving me the speed I wanted, and the noise was just too much. I couldn't play any game or do any real coding in the living room without disrupting my wife enjoying her own games or shows. I'm so glad I traded up to the M1
I have an M1 Macbook Pro for almost a month now as work laptop and I've only heard the fan once so far, while doing a multi-file search/replace in VSCode. For whatever reason that maxed out the performance cores for a few minutes.
Other than that it's been entirely silent and blazingly fast and I had no major issues with it.
Granted I put my work laptop under more load (compiling, video chats at work) but it just feels like a normal laptop. I feel it take its time loading large programs (IDEs) and the fan clicks on when I'm doing big compiles.
I use my personal laptop for occasionally coding, playing games, and also video chats. But the M1 feels amazing. It's fast, snappy, with long battery life, and I've had it for several weeks and I never hear the fan. Even playing Magic Arena AND a Parallels VM runs silent. Arena alone turns my wife's Macbook Air into a jet turbine. It makes video chats so much nicer because it's dead silent.
I've run into occasional compatibility issues with the M1. sbt not working was the latest bummer.
So while my two laptops are technically a year apart, they feel like 5 years apart. The M1 laptop lives up to the hype and I'm glad to just have a laptop that's fast, quiet, has great battery, and is reliable.
Edit: More context, I had bought a maxed-out Macbook Air last year hoping it would be my "forever-laptop" but it was just not giving me the speed I wanted, and the noise was just too much. I couldn't play any game or do any real coding in the living room without disrupting my wife enjoying her own games or shows. I'm so glad I traded up to the M1