raksrules:
It’s finally here. No pics for now sorry but got my M1 Air 2 days back. Due to being work days, haven’t been able to get much time to play around and weekend is busy. But damn this thing is super fast. I have no way to compare to any other macbook or so but it flies.
Using MacOS for first time, fluid, gestures are awesome, still learning. Have to Google how to do many things. Me and wife will be watching few getting started youtube videos, especially ones targeted over windows users coming to Mac. If anyone has recommendations on some great youtube tutorials, it would be very much appreciated.
I am literally baby sitting the macbook, not letting kids touch it and such. Have installed Microsoft office 365 and because I am a “student” [emoji6] I got free subscription too (to clarify, not because I got student discount but I have a not real .edu Email id).
There is so much to discover so will take time and want to make sure my wife becomes expert in it as she needs laptop to make notes for my kid.
Couple of hiccups I saw are, for some reason, mail app was stuck and won’t clock and “Quit Mail” was greyed out. So had to use the force close method.
Second, I have a usb c dongle and it’s USB A ports etc work fine but when connected to HDMI to TV, the display was not proper and also nothing would move on screen. Not sure if dongle is faulty. Will try in another tv and cable. I am not considering buying anything new or apple original as my need of connecting to TV or monitor isn’t there yet.
The only suggestions I can add are :
You probably already know this - but OS X works a lot better if you always use standby (ie close lid when done) instead of shutting it down when done for the day. (Some of us older folks have an ingrained habit of shutdown )
USB C to HDMI - while you don’t need one, 4k60 cables are just about 1200-1500. If you do get one, make sure you check the specs