Testimonials: Mac M1 a year later, an almost perfect assessment |Macgeneration

While a new wave of Mac M1 has just been revealed, this is the right time to take stock of users of the very first generation launched a year ago.We had opened a call to witnesses by asking our readers how this transition happened to new architecture.Here are the answers ... (they were given before the announcement of the new range of MacBook Pro 14 and 16 ").

The Mac Mini M1

The smallest of Mac (M1) has found its audience, it is a machine very often returned in the testimonies.An "mission accomplished with panache" from Hasgran's point of view which replaced an iMac 2017 which was starting to lose the pedals.

His flattering appreciation comes from the fact that he feared having to wipe the plaster of an unprecedented architecture on Mac.This famous fear of the "Rev A", namely the first representative of a new generation of product which makes its baptism of fire and whose manufacturing is not yet running."Apple had already demonstrated its ability to produce powerful processors in smartphones.You still had to pass the computer of the computer ”.

Its acquisition: a 16 GB/1 TB configuration which turns round, in silence, with Final Cut Pro and its 4K and DXO files under Rosetta for the photo.The previous iMac was quickly forgotten.

But however powerful as it is, the Mac Mini cannot cash everything, as Roger Molina noted, who finished a 4K documentary when his Mac Pro 2013 made him miss:

If he cannot always compete with previous and larger generations of machines, the Mac Mini has this advantage of working in general in absolute silence, as Personfritte points out.He installed his mini in a cradle screwed under his office and plugged it into a large Pro Display XDR screen: "I am unable to say when it is on or in standby.The Pro Display XDR, with its slight whistle and its fans, makes more noise when it is lit ”.

This comfort for the ears, in those who press the pedal of the applications, made him forget that his MacBook Pro 16 "could go a little faster in Xcode compilation but that he was blowing hard and that the toilet rest left himsweaty hands."The M1 is completely erased behind its use and does not constantly remember the attention of its user.We then forgive him with a good heart the few seconds more than he had to compile ".

Silence, silence, silence ... This appreciation is constantly returning to the Mac Mini M1.As with Kolof who uses logic pro plug-ins daily without kneeling his computer.The Mac does not suffer, neither in execution nor in its ventilation.