Developer Impressions of M1 Max

so real quick i'm not going to go into too many details here but maybe you have sat down and started considering buying one of the new macbook pros because you're a mobile application engineer maybe you work with flutter maybe you work with a cross compiling engine um what is that react native maybe you're a back end engineer and you run a lot of docker containers or maybe you do all of the above like myself i write ios and android i love building um applications built in kotlin kotlin is my favorite programming language um i really enjoy python and i use a lot of docker containers but professionally what i'm getting to is that i'm a mobile application engineer i build apps and i've done that now for 10 years i've done it since the beginning i have released many applications for fortune 500 companies and many dozens of personal projects as well that's not about me today is about you and making the decision about whether or not you should upgrade so my personal experience has been this my day-to-day work laptop is an i-9 fully specced it is 2019 it is very recent hardware this is a great machine on paper but in reality i have been conditioned to suffer this this machine when i run it in my lap doesn't work for more than three hours it will literally burn my lap and run out of juice within like i said three hours if i even think about opening zoom and an android emulator simultaneously the fans will kick on to full speed so this entire time the past two years i've owned this i have been conditioned by the noise i have been conditioned by the heat luckily the keyboard on this one has been upgraded so i haven't had to deal with the terrible butterfly keyboard issues at least on this machine my personal machine's still butterfly and that is one of the other reasons why i decided update so getting from my personal work or my actual actual work machine this has 64 gigs of ram and um on a daily basis looking at the activity monitor i can see that i'm using about 44 with my workload uh workflow i think that's what all the creatives are calling it um and and yeah so i decided to give the new one a shot because battery and heat at least from my work perspective from my personal perspective i love the portability of the 13. the 13 still holds true to my heart i love being able to carry this with me anywhere and do what i do on the go while i'm camping on a plane doesn't matter but again i'm dealing with heat this one has the i7 in it and it's got i think 16 gigs of ram so it's not like fully specced or anything like that but it's it's it's a good machine 2018 but it has the bluetooth the the butterfly keyboard so if you're coming from the butterfly keyboard you're gonna notice an absolute amazing difference it's typing the typing experience on the new one is is absolutely incredible i love not having the touch bar anymore i love that the escape key is is massive i love that there's a dedicated function row and the other thing that i love is that when i have a bunch of simulators emulators containers servers all these different things running and i close the lid and i open it two hours later it's still at the same battery percentage that doesn't happen on these i don't know why but like i'd close it and if i left an emulator running it would be dead when i opened up it again this one no it's just still still at 17 which is where i left it a few hours ago uh the other nice thing that i've noticed is when i open the lid on the new one it's just on like on this guy for some reason i don't know if this is just because i've installed a bunch of software stuff on it i have to re restart the machine every day or else when i go to open the lid i it struggles to wait very much struggles to wake um yeah so from a personal perspective and a work perspective you can see where i was kind of coming from i had the butterfly experience um and i didn't like how fast i was running out of battery on both and both of them suffered tremendously from heat like i i'd have to put a pillow in my lap just to use either one of these as a laptop and i definitely had to make sure that i had a power source when i was on the go because the you know battery anxiety was very much a thing with these i like to fly southwest southwest is my favorite airliner mainly because i worked on their app but a lot of times they don't have an outlet on their airplanes and on a three-hour flight i usually land and my machine is dead which stinks because i just spent eight bucks on wi-fi and have been connected and like all these kind of things i'm like well what can i turn off in order to maximize my battery should i put it in airplane mode should i should i like i don't know not run a simulator like should i just plug in a physical device so that i can test on that that way the battery for the device is actually on the device like all these different like things are playing in my head just to make sure that i can get through a flight and maximize my workflow when instead really all i should have done is just bought one of these i have had this machine now for 24 hours which is not saying a whole lot but yesterday i made the choice to not plug this thing in until it was completely dead um i like to run the battery all the way down to zero on the first cycle just to get a first off understanding of what to expect from the battery moving forward but i think it's also good for the the battery itself to cycle completely every once in a while because that's good for it to indicate where where it needs to go to charge back up um i don't know if that's actually like scientific or whatever but that's just my personal preference i'm at 17 battery now i have now downloaded xcode i have downloaded all android all of the different sdks i have cached locally on the machine 2 000 songs on the highest quality setting through spotify i have created several simulators both ios and android i have spooled up several docker containers lots of python installations a lot of homebrew installations uh set up zhs csh for my terminal i don't know like i'm i'm thinking that i have at least touched 100 gigs of networking data on this thing and i did it all while on battery i mean that's absolutely insane though to pull down that much stuff over an internet connection a wireless internet connection and do that and still not have a dead laptop is absolutely insane like this morning i woke up at 4am before the rest of my family got up that's what i typically do for my personal project and i got my servers running i got the flutter app compiling on both ios and android just like do some random tests just to make sure it's working i ran unit tests like everything's working great now that i've got it all set up properly you do need to make sure that you use the arm 64 uh jvm if you're going to be doing any kind of jvm related work else you're going to see a lot of really bad lag but yeah other than that like it's been absolutely such a pleasant experience like it it sits in my lap it sat on my lap all morning long and never once got warm like it it was it i didn't again not scientific literally burning my lap these would burn my lap and i'd have to use a pillow this morning i was wearing sweatpants and had this in my lap and never once felt uncomfortable and they were like oh oh i need to put up i need to put something in between this so that i'm not getting burned i'm not on i'm on battery the entire time and everything is just so snappy like like i said i've got i had an ios ios emulator open android emulator servers integration tests like through postman uh many many chrome tabs mostly on stack overflow um just like so many things that would either one of these machines and kick the fans on i didn't even hear a fan this morning on this new one like it's i'm so very happy that i purchased this and i'm going to be using it moving forward i'm so sad about losing the form factor of the 13 but honestly now that i've kind of like really walked around the house with this and used it as a laptop i'm also very excited about this green real estate i'm in my mid-30s now so i'm not cranking down the resolution like i used to so it's really nice to be able to run an ide with multiple coding windows in it so the extra real estate has been really nice uh you might have been wondering about the the notch i haven't noticed the notch once i don't run in full screen mode i don't like do sometimes i do multiple desktops just kind of depends but most of the time i'm on one desktop and just command tab through everything or i use um um i use alfred also for opening and closing a lot of things um and my workflow this morning was just absolutely pleasant like i just got down to coding it was so nice just to open touch id was super fast and go oh again like let's listen to music this morning listening to music this morning was so pleasant as well like having the function keys being able to skip through songs and not like try and expand that touch bar and like go to different songs and stuff and then like the ide that i use intellij has like all these like helper things up front i've never used that i'm always using keyboard shortcuts like control r to compile or uh for android i use uh i set up a uh adb idea for for you know restarting the app and clearing all the session information like there's all these different like key combinations that i use and i'm so glad to have the function keys back so i can map a couple more things that i was missing and the escape key is nice and big so you can just slam it it's no longer this thing that you're fishing for like it's just nice how everything has been laid out so all in all i'm very happy with it it was a very expensive move i i definitely like cried when i did it but um in general like i'm just very happy i think this is if you are a mobile application engineer or full stack engineer that is using a lot of memory um and building a lot of different products simultaneously um then this is definitely the upgrade to make this year i definitely consider it like i went from an i9 to this and noticed a huge improvement not only in performance but heat and battery performance as well also coming from a 13-inch 2018 that is pretty well specced as well again just night and day difference it's it's there's no question whatsoever so uh if you like this video make sure you take the time to thumb thumb up whatever everyone does on on youtube leave a comment if you've got any questions um i can definitely go into more detail on any one of these aspects if you'd like uh but yeah thanks a lot for your time guys

Channel: d3vtec

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Rating: 4.8538237 out of 5

Keywords: macbook pro, m1 max, m1 pro, mbp, 64gb

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Length: 12min 21sec (741 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 27 2021

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[u/AndreiD2017]

Tl; dw: outstanding battery life and insignificant heat footprint