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0 pointsbo10244y ago0 comments

You nailed it, battery is the only downside I’ve had, not awful but probably say 3 hours of video playback, or 5-6 hours of web use. Haven’t used it unplugged all that much so very rough guesses. Bigger problem with my fedora install at least is battery draining while the lid is closed.

Overall great machine

Edit: I may be missing software updates that improve this, no idea

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reacharavindh4y ago

I very much wanted to hear about this and damn :-( Video playback must be hardware accelerated by now and be super efficient. Another worry was about low power sleep modes and waking up, and looks like it is not solved too. I might have to suck it up and buy the Mac for my needs after all. I have my trusty Linux desktop for all my big compute needs. I was hoping to make the mobile machine also run Linux, but the specific needs there (crisp display, nice battery life, Linux friendliness) seems to be an elusive goal.

Teknoman1174y ago

It's still a real pain to get hardware accelerated video in a browser on Linux. Google is still outright refusing to support it in chromium, even though they do support it inside Chrome OS. There are few community patches floating around if you're willing to roll your own chromium to enable to Chrome OS hardware decode pathways on generic Linux.

You can mostly get it working on Firefox if you play around with the config options, but it only works with AMD and Intel GPUs (anything supporting vaapi).

42jd4y ago

As a heads up they fixed the intel xe graphics sandboxing issue in firefox 96. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1698778 It works great on my Framework with NixOS. My about:config settings (taken from my home-manager):

graphics = { "media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled" = true; "media.rdd-ffmpeg.enabled" = true; "media.navigator.medidataencoder_vpx_enabled" = true; };

fubbyy4y ago

Really? I’m pretty sure chromium has decent VAAPI support.

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xvector4y ago

The M1 MacBook Air honestly feels so far ahead of any other laptop I've used that it's not even funny. Fanless, powerful, absolutely bonkers battery life.

M1 + Nix is ideal, IMO.

nathancahill4y ago

You have Nix running on M1?

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bo1024OP4y ago

I’m very happy with purism’s librem 14 but the display is not as nice as frameworks.

DrBenCarson4y ago

* crisp display

* nice battery life

* Linux friendliness

Not elusive at all, you can find an M1 MacBook Pro at any Apple, Best Buy, or Costco store.

Kinrany4y ago

M1 are not Linux-friendly at all.

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vorpalhex4y ago

You can't even run unsigned apps on your M1. There is linux support slowly coming thanks to the fine folks on Asahi, but it is very pre-beta.

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reacharavindh4y ago

Teknoman1174y ago

You can mostly get it working on Firefox if you play around with the config options, but it only works with AMD and Intel GPUs (anything supporting vaapi).

42jd4y ago

graphics = { "media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled" = true; "media.rdd-ffmpeg.enabled" = true; "media.navigator.medidataencoder_vpx_enabled" = true; };

fubbyy4y ago

Really? I’m pretty sure chromium has decent VAAPI support.

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xvector4y ago

The M1 MacBook Air honestly feels so far ahead of any other laptop I've used that it's not even funny. Fanless, powerful, absolutely bonkers battery life.

M1 + Nix is ideal, IMO.

nathancahill4y ago

You have Nix running on M1?

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bo1024OP4y ago

I’m very happy with purism’s librem 14 but the display is not as nice as frameworks.

DrBenCarson4y ago

* crisp display

* nice battery life

* Linux friendliness

Not elusive at all, you can find an M1 MacBook Pro at any Apple, Best Buy, or Costco store.

Kinrany4y ago

M1 are not Linux-friendly at all.

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vorpalhex4y ago

You can't even run unsigned apps on your M1. There is linux support slowly coming thanks to the fine folks on Asahi, but it is very pre-beta.

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