M1 MacBook Users Say Their Screens Are Cracking for “No Apparent Reason”

Re:M1 MacBook Users Say Their Screens Are Cracking for “No A... by sjs7007 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:21PM (#28020469)

X1 Carbon still has pretty terrible battery life compared to say an M-1 Mac. I used to be a thinkpad fan having had T450s personally and then a X1-Carbon/X1-Extreme for work. While the T450s experience was mostly good the latter experience convinced me to not get another thinkpad as my next laptop because:

1. The X-1 Carbon light as it was had terrible battery life of a few hours. 2. The X-1 Extreme fans are like jet engines and often on even when I'm not actively doing anything and my account is locked.

Got the cheapest base M-1 Mac and it is dead silent, has great battery life and amazing performance. Plus the price is killer too.

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Re:M1 MacBook Users Say Their Screens Are Cracking for “No A... by sundvor on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:49AM (#28057630)

I'll grant that the battery life isn't terrific on the Carbon. Also the M1 CPU was a masterstroke of engineering by Apple.

(Having said that my new Nano is working a lot better than the previous Gen6 - seeing 7 hours remaining on 50%, with very light use, and definitely a whole lot better than the OG which has a 6 year old battery - got a refreshed after 3y, it was never great, and now says thank you after an hour or so).

I really don't like the Mac OS, but that's just a personal preference - and can appreciate the above points separately. I know thousands of Mac users feel the same way about Windows; I'm just set in my Win10/WSL2 patterns now. :)

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