Happy birthday, M1 Macs

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talic font, so I must add, again, like I’ve also already said a few times, that I even do Windows development using the classic Visual Studio edition running on virtualized Windows for ARM there — that’s how powerful it is!Plus (another blasphemy, haha), I’m also doing Rust programming on the same machine, and the combination is blazingly fast, of course.Regardless, to cut this shorter: happy birthday, dear M1 Macs! And especially, happy birthday, beloved MacBook Air of mine!Do continue to be powerful, and please do resist for many years of further usage, too! Either in production or, when that won’t be possible anymore, at least for evening fun at home or for some hobby projects. I won’t ever want to sell such a great laptop myself, regardless of any preserved value: I will rather try to find some reason to keep it around forever, even if just to fetch some pleasant memories from time to time. 🙃<figure id="3fc9"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*s04Y8_WMkb5pB4AD"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@jonathanborba?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Jonathan Borba</a> on

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<a href="https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure>PS: I’m sorry Apple, your hardware department was so good back in 2020 that I don’t really need any M1 Pro, Max, Ultra, or M2 upgrade in 2022, at all. We’ll need to see if this would change with M3, M4 and so on in the following years. But for now, I’m stuck with my baby, and otherwise I’ll only continue to pay you for some iCloud and maybe for just a few extra thingies from time to time, at least until the next big leap, that is… Thank you, therefore, for now, for the joy that this [still] current great companion has brought and continues to bring to my everyday — professional and nonprofessional — life!* I wasn’t the earliest adopter of any M1 device myself, but that’s only because of the too many mistakes around keyboard and other hardware components made by Cupertino in the previous years, so I need to confess: I just wanted to see how a quarter goes for the most brave, first. But I was all eyes (YouTube is my witness) on the custom ARM hardware that they have announced since day one, since the first published reviews!</article></body>

(announcement: November 10; release date: November 17, 2020)

It’s now two years since Apple has released M1 MacBook Air, some M1 MacBook Pros and and an M1 Mac Mini (announced back in the November 10th, 2020 event, and available one week later, on November 17th.)

I’ve bought the MacBook Air in the picture — the very one that I’m using to type this story on — a few months later (in April 2021) so I’ll have to drink again in spring, but I can already say that I’m all-in into Apple’s aarch64 since the very release date of the new technology*, and I don’t regret a thing! 🥂

As I said repeatedly on Medium and elsewhere, I love my M1 based computer so much because it’s oh-so-light and yet so powerful.

And when I say powerful I cannot emphasize that enough by just using an italic font, so I must add, again, like I’ve also already said a few times, that I even do Windows development using the classic Visual Studio edition running on virtualized Windows for ARM there — that’s how powerful it is!

Plus (another blasphemy, haha), I’m also doing Rust programming on the same machine, and the combination is blazingly fast, of course.

Regardless, to cut this shorter: happy birthday, dear M1 Macs! And especially, happy birthday, beloved MacBook Air of mine!

Do continue to be powerful, and please do resist for many years of further usage, too! Either in production or, when that won’t be possible anymore, at least for evening fun at home or for some hobby projects. I won’t ever want to sell such a great laptop myself, regardless of any preserved value: I will rather try to find some reason to keep it around forever, even if just to fetch some pleasant memories from time to time. 🙃

PS: I’m sorry Apple, your hardware department was so good back in 2020 that I don’t really need any M1 Pro, Max, Ultra, or M2 upgrade in 2022, at all. We’ll need to see if this would change with M3, M4 and so on in the following years. But for now, I’m stuck with my baby, and otherwise I’ll only continue to pay you for some iCloud and maybe for just a few extra thingies from time to time, at least until the next big leap, that is… Thank you, therefore, for now, for the joy that this [still] current great companion has brought and continues to bring to my everyday — professional and nonprofessional — life!

* I wasn’t the earliest adopter of any M1 device myself, but that’s only because of the too many mistakes around keyboard and other hardware components made by Cupertino in the previous years, so I need to confess: I just wanted to see how a quarter goes for the most brave, first. But I was all eyes (YouTube is my witness) on the custom ARM hardware that they have announced since day one, since the first published reviews!