> Everyone I know wants an M1 laptop, has bought one, or is waiting for a larger laptop with it in it. None of these people are nerdy types, but the buzz surrounding the M1 is loud.

Now go to the most fashionable nightclubs that are the hardest places to get in, in America's largest 50 cities.

Ask them what they think about Apple's new M1 CPU / chip and if they are planning to get a MBP/MBA/Mac Mini.

Now go ask the top physicians in those 50 cities. The top psychiatrists. The top fashion designers. The top <anyone who isn't intrinsically involved in technology>.

I bet you less than 10% of them even know that Apple released a new MacBook and MacMini.

>I bet you less than 10% of them even know that Apple released a new MacBook and MacMini.

And fewer than 10% of those do any work that would stand to benefit from the new chip.

Performance isn't the draw for these people, its battery life.

If you want to sell 2 billion smartphones, give the people a phone with 75% of the performance of an iPhone 11 or Galaxy S21, but a two week battery life.

You wouldn't be able to make them fast enough.

Your bubble's walls are strong. The average person (American I assume) does not know what "M1" means, nor uses Macbooks.

You must live in an Apple echo chamber.

Most people that I know use some combination of Windows, Linux and older Macs. None of us have upgraded to M1, nor are we in any hurry to do so.

This comment is typed on an older Mac that will be replaced with either Linux or Windows when it dies. Because my experience with Apple has been going downhill, and I'm tired of dealing with the bugs.

So I work in tech in SV and at least a third of the engineers I know have ordered an M1. The ones that I know that have been using them sing their praises (with some teething around Homebrew and docker). I ordered a Mini a week ago and should receive it tomorrow. I am hoping to be as blown away as everyone I know was.

I work in tech in Orange County and nobody here particularly cares about the M1.

It may not help that I work for a company centered around manufacturing, and factories are deeply Windows centric. (For the Linux fans, it turns out that when the Linux box fails at 3 AM, and nobody in the factory knows what to do about it, it gets replaced by Windows ASAP. Doesn't matter why it failed, they want someone around who at least knows where to start on diagnosing it.)

I would guess that my experience is closer to average for a software developer outside of the SV bubble than yours. And developers of all kinds are going to be faster to upgrade computers than the general public.

So by SV I mean companies based in SV, however the dev team is all over the world. Anyway, I received my M1. Pretty blown away. I have 2 rsync checksum task running on 100K files each (one local between drives, the 2nd from a drive to NFS mount), Minecraft running (AFK), Music importing 90K files, a browser with 20 tabs open, a large compile job of a re-install of 100+ Homebrew apps going, the 1st Backblaze backup of the system, the 1st Time Machine backup of the system and , an Xcode job of a personal build, and a few other random task for setting up a new system running and there is ZERO slowdown in an responsiveness anywhere. The activity monitor shows the system is bored and the fan is not running. It is freaking impressive.

Indeed - I switched to Windows a while back and I've been genuinely impressed with how much more stable the system is.