Finally, where my MacBook Pro mostly did not survive three hours of development on a charge I sometimes forget that the M1 MacBook Air needs a charger because I can work on it all day (although possibly not as intense as on the MBP). Where I had to lash out hundreds of extra dollars for the upgraded i9 processor, I have a comparable processor in the most entry-level MacBook. Working on a lap, the Pro had to be put on a book and still got hot, whereas the Air is completely cool. Whereas the Intel-based 16-inch Laptop had its fans going full speed all day when attaching two 2K displays (in addition to its own), the M1 drives my 5K display and its own without a whisper. In this story, I do not only describe my experience with the M1 MacBook Air from a developer perspective but attempt to interpolate if the M1X will be the perfect Laptop for all developers - or not. Testing the M1 MacBooks Air with the expectations of my previous i9 MacBook Pro As I no longer am running more than 15 Docker databases and 25 Dockerized Microservices (mostly JVM Spring Boot) on the local machine but rather developing on a smaller scale, I thought I could take a shot at the M1 MacBooks for the time until Apple blows us away with new 16-inch M1 Pro/Max Laptops. I would have immediately purchased an M1Pro MacBook Pro if they were already available, but unfortunately, they were not. I knew that I wanted another 16 inch MacBook Pro, but spending over three grand for an outdated chip architecture did not make sense at the time (Q1 2021). A little backgroundĪ couple of months ago, due to ending the chapter at my startup and going the route of freelancer first, entrepreneur later, I had to give up my top-of-the-line 16-inch, i9 processor, 32GB RAM, model year 2019 MacBook Pro. Software development with IntelliJ and Docker containers as well as some 3D modeling with Fusion 360 is what I have done mainly for the past couple of months with an M1 MacBook (16GB RAM) after getting rid of the incumbent 16-inch MacBook Pro. The professionals that this story is referring to are mainly developers and tinkerers in the software development arena. Pro-usage is a term saying nothing at all - I know.

Is Apple Silicon Ready for Pro-Usage? My Experience with M1 as a Developer

Fusion 360 on m1 mac