Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M1's performance?

Posted by brundolf on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

It's pretty depressing to think that I just spent $3k on a MacBook Pro for personal use, in January, that's now being outclassed by an Air which is 1/3 the price. It was supposed to be a 5+ year computer, and it's already starting to feel obsolete. I've never even sold anything on eBay before, but I'm experiencing a panicked urgency to sell it off while I can still get most of my money back and get an M1 (before resale prices inevitably plummet).

Anybody else in a similar boat/have thoughts on the matter?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M... by rpcwork on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:33PM (#25132168)

Same boat fella. But, The MBPpro just handles to much of my day to day critical stuff. At work, we do not allow cutting stuff edge into production on first release. That old-fashioned advice has served us wisely for a decade and led to many stress free evenings after a day of release. Surprises are fun for birthdays, not so much for mission-critical deployments. Waiting until 3rd gen, then donate current workhorse to a school and snag the new Apple M3

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Re:Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M... by brundolf on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @09:05PM (#25132358)

Sure, but this is my personal machine, for stuff that decidedly isn't mission-critical

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Re:Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M... by threevox on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:17PM (#25132071)

As a musician, I rely on too much third-party software to upgrade immediately, unfortunately. I'm eager to buy one once everything is ported, though

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Re:Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M... by rachelbythebay on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @09:10PM (#25132383)

Their 2020 laptops aren't even full machines. If you want to go from undocked to redocked, you have to shut everything down and reboot.

This has been going on for months. Do these people not use these machines? Do they not go between a couch and a desk with a Thunderbolt dock?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M... by brundolf on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @09:32PM (#25132540)

Personally I always use mine as a laptop, because I prefer the touchpad to a separate mouse.

But broad criticism of Macs as a category is off-topic. In case it wasn't evident, I remain happy with that part of my choice.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M... by m0zg on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:09PM (#25132018)

That'd only make sense once all the software I use is ported to it, and when they offer 32GB or more of RAM in the configurator. Until then this is bleeding edge early adopter stuff, which I'm happy to have others beta test.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M... by rwdim on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:33PM (#25131746)

Nope. won’t be buying a new Mac. Installed ubuntu on my current MBP and am very happy.

They do look nice, but i’m not gonna pay 3x the price of a similar non-Apple just so they can tell me what I can and can’t run.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M... by itg on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:01PM (#25131978)

No, as a developer, there's much tooling that isn't ready yet so I expect it the Intel macs to easily last me a few more years. I also avoid the first iteration of new Apple hardware.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M... by brundolf on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:03PM (#25131989)

The only issues I've heard about are around Docker/virtualization, which I don't use for any personal projects. Are there other tooling issues?

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