Pros
- - Silent It keeps the cooler speed at about 1700, it has never been raised higher, at these speeds there is complete silence. - Cold It does not heat up even when editing a video, it was possible to heat up a little when synchronizing a large number of small files with the cloud. Yes, and then warmed up to 32 gr. Total. - Powerful Pulls any tasks, it seems impossible to load it so that it starts to slow down. - Small You can put or hang it anywhere, you can take it with you on vacation or wear it to work :) - Apps for iOS and iPad work Please note that not all applications are in the App Store, many developers hide versions for iPhone on Mac OS, so you will not use all the applications that are installed on your phone. But those that are - work without problems. - Apps for Intel work fine On the ARM architecture, they run through the emulator, but this happens imperceptibly and I did not see any problems. All OK.
Cons
- - Not as powerful as expected. Basically, it is compared with the Macs of previous generations on Intel. Compared to them - yes, powerful, but there are other PCs. I compare with i7-3770K / SSD / 32GB DDR3 / GTX 1660 and in many tasks I do not see a speed increase. - Software bugs Hangs when working with network drives, reboots when editing and saving files to a network or cloud drive, communication with BT devices is interrupted, errors with sleep mode. - Bugs in background apps under load Apparently, on the new architecture, active applications can take resources from background applications, and this causes unexplained troubles to appear in background applications under heavy loads. For example, the music stops and the history and playback queue are erased. Hotkeys and gestures bound through third-party software are disabled (hello Logitech). After 5-10 minutes everything starts working again. - Cuts USB speeds The speed of external SSDs via USB-A and USB-C is no more than 370 MB / s - this is 3 Gb / s instead of the declared 5 Gb / s, the same drives on a MacBook with Intel and on a PC operate at speeds of about 510 MB / s. - Only 2 Thunderbold ports The Intel version has 4 ports, which is optimal in my opinion. For normal use, at least one more TB3 port is missing: 1 - monitor, 2 - monitor, 3 - SSD and 4 port in reserve. Here you have to suffer with 2 ports. - Not all resolutions are available with HDMI connection On 4K 32-inch monitors, the most conveniently scaled resolution is 3008x1692, it is available only when connected via TB3. - At 4K resolution, the interface sometimes twitches Noticeable in the animations of Launchpad and Mission Control, not critical, but I would like smoothness everywhere. - No configurations with a 10Gb network card - No space gray color - Windows installation is not yet available Perhaps this will be fixed next year, it seems that work is underway on this. But not now.
