===== Macbook Air with M1 chip =====

I must confess that I had low expectation from apple's chip last year, so I bought a macbook pro (september 2020) not long before m1 laptop release, I'm mostly ok with the "pro", my biggest issue is the overheating when I do nothing more than watching youtube.

Then m1 laptop got released in november, the performance goes through the roof. I couldn't resist anymore, so I bought the base model macbook air m1 to replace the "pro", today it's finally delivered.

I followed my note here: [[macos:setup-new-macos|setup new macos]], it went so well, I was shocked intel based applications just worked out of box. I expected more issues with homebrew, but not really, only major change is updating path, running ''/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv'' shows what you need to do. All packages I need have precompiled binaries, not even need to compile them.

I only use a few must-have gui applications, and they all work really well:
  * Chrome
  * iTerm 2
  * Dropbox
  * Hammerspoon
  * Itsycal

Some noticeable pros:
  * It's really cool and no fan!
  * battery life is amazing
  * no stupid touch bar
  * Instant on when open it
  * It runs iPhone apps O_O however not all apps are available
  * Connects to external monitor via type-c, and got charged, not sure if it's the same as intel one
  * My last Air was the 11 inch one, I always prefer Air's design, but had to choose pro for performance, now with M1 I don't have to compromise anymore 


Issues I have so far:
  * Screen flickering after disconnecting from 4k monitor
  * only two type-c ports, all on left :(
  * <del>Cannot connect to my brother printer ([[https://www.brother.com.au/en/products/all-printers/printers/mfc-l2710dw|MFC-L2710DW]])</del> It's working now!
  * <del>hammerspoon couldn't get screen names: [[https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/issues/2663|issue]] & [[https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/pull/2676|PR]]</del> Fixed
  * only supports one external monitor
  * Fail to build some python packages, for example ''numpy''
  * <del>no homebrew pandoc binary for arm yet need to build from source</del>, use x86 binary, it just works

I hope next macbook could be even more amazing.

~~DISCUSSION~~