My New M1 MacBook Air — After Two Days
I wish I hadn’t spent so much time being a pro-PC-Apple-hater
This is my first Apple product. When I first opened the box, which was an experience itself, I stared at the space grey shell and shiny Apple logo for a few seconds, mesmerized. I chose space grey because my old Dell laptop was silver, and the darker shade of the Air was more my aesthetic anyway.
I’ve been waiting patiently for months to finally have enough money to upgrade the tools I need for work, and this MacBook Air is the flagship.
Setup was easy, but when I finally got to the desktop, I wasn’t sure I knew what to do. Give me a PC and I’ll tell you the first 10 programs to download and which settings need tweaking, but I was utterly lost on the Mac.
I figured I would install a few programs, or at least figure out how to do it. I didn’t want Chrome, because of its memory and battery-stealing ways, but I ended up installing Brave anyway because I couldn’t get 1Password installed in Safari.
After that, I set up Office 365 and Photoshop, and I have to say, the first time I opened the programs was amazed by how fast and snappy they were, even though I couldn’t find an ARM version of Photoshop and was using Rosetta with Creative Cloud.
