The first Apple silicon ARM-based M1 chip has received rave reviews due to its mind-blowing performance and efficiency.

These are the five things I’ve learned from the first few days of working with the M1 MacBook Air. It’s satisfying and promising. It matches my daily work requirements and makes my study room cool and quiet!

There are workarounds if you really need more than one external display. Nate P managed to support dual monitors on an M1 MacBook Pro by using the DisplayLink dock that uses its own software graphic card to drive the displays. Ruslan Tulupov managed to support six external displays from the M1 Mac mini and five external displays from the MacBook Air and Pro by using DisplayPort adapters and DisplayLink software.

After one day of hard work running Xcode, building projects, and browsing the internet, the M1 chip MacBook Air was still cool — not even warm! On top of that, it was super quiet, as it’s fanless!

Homebrew is not (yet) supported on ARM processors! Rerun the Homebrew installer under Rosetta 2. If you really know what you are doing and are prepared for a very broken experience you can use another installation option for installing on ARM: https://docs.brew.sh/Installation

Rosetta was introduced when Apple’s hardware transitioned from Power-PC-based to Intel-based CPUs. Now comes another significant hardware transition to the ARM-based Macs: They’ve introduced Rosetta 2.

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The most impressive part came when building my Xcode project after cleaning the build folder. It took three minutes and 50 seconds to launch the iOS simulator with the MBP, while the same task took two minutes and 40 seconds with the M1 chip MacBook Air.

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Rosetta 2 does not run like the app but works behind the scenes. It doesn’t come with macOS Big Sur but will be automatically installed when you launch the Intel-based apps for the first time.

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Apple says that the M1 MacBook Pro/Air can run one external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz. For me, I was using the CharJen Pro hub to connect two Dell 2K monitors on my late-2019 MBP. But now the MacBook Air only supports one external monitor, either via the USB4 directly or the HDMI port at the CharJen Pro hub.

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I’ve got a late-2019 16-inch MacBook Pro from work that has a six-core Intel i7 CPU and 16GB DDR4 memory. The M1 chip MacBook Air is faster in every way compared to the late-2019 MBP — when clicking to launch apps, browsing the internet with Safari, and opening big apps like Adobe Photoshop and Xcode.

These are the five things I’ve learned from the first few days of working with the M1 MacBook Air. It’s satisfying and promising. It matches my daily work requirements and makes my study room cool and quiet!

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