![]() ![]() That Big Sur installation said it would take about an hour, so I (gently) tossed the M1 Air on the couch here in my office and went back to my desk to get some other work done. I added a volume (thanks, APFS!), booted into recovery, and installed a second copy of Big Sur, this time taking the Migration Assistant path to slurp over my previous Air’s environment. That was fine, but after a day or so I decided I really didn’t want to have to rebuild everything again, at least not right now. First, I just followed out-of-the-box momentum and set it up as a new Mac, just to get that enencumbered experience. I’m a geek, so I set this up two different ways. But there are a few things that stick out as major differentiators from any Mac I’ve used in recent years. It looks like a Mac (exactly the same case as the prior, 2018 Air), it acts like a Mac, it runs apps like a Mac, and I can use it like a Mac. Mostly. What I want to focus on are the little things. ![]() We’ve all read the early reviews ( Snell, Gruber, and Bohn are the highlights), and they’ve focused on the specs and the highlights, so I won’t rehash (much of) that here. I was fortunate enough to receive my built-to-order M1 MacBook Air (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 8-core GPU) last Tuesday, and I’ve had a week to truly experience it. ![]()
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