So my company sent me a Mac M1. I guess it’s Apple’s new in-house designed ARM soc that is running it, so OSX on this is no longer running x86/amd64 instructions, it’s running ARM.
That makes normal OSX incompatible unless I run them in Rosetta 2, which is their x86/x64 emulation software. I was reading that the emulation is actually pretty good. One person said it’s about 80% the speed of native apps which isn’t actually that bad.
The battery life on this thing is insane! I left it on all day long with Outlook and Teams open and it only used 8% life. I did the same thing with my personal MBP and it was down to like 70%. My personal MBP does have more apps running so that may explain the vast differences, but you can’t beat a mobile process in terms of power draw vs a typical laptop intel/AMD chip.
Can’t wait to start digging into this thing and see what it’s really capable of(or lack thereof)