Mac computers: Great hardware, difficult operating system. Windows computers: Easy operating system, bad hardware. And if there's a problem, there is no obvious way to sort it out apart from contacting Apple and hoping they know what they are doing. But the claim that people learn MacOS quickly is hard for me to believe, unless they are Einstein. It also has a clearer screen, which helps this issue. Regarding the Macbook Air M1: It works well. The default must be Enable because all my Windows laptops had this problem. The solution is to Disable "Display Power Saving Technology". It's in the Intel Graphics Control Panel. Incredibly, one day after buying a Macbook Air M1, I thought of a Windows possible solution after years of searching. But I heard the MacBook Air M1 stays on maximum power even when not connected to a charger.
Presumably it was because of the power schemes.
With Windows laptops the Ableton interface would fade out or wash out when running on battery. No sign of the washed out screen you were mentioning, everything has been a breeze for this laptop especially for this application. 75% screen brightness, usually just have Live and Safari running. I've used this setup for 3-4 hours at a time and haven't come close to 50% battery yet. This allows you to easily drag and drop items, move windows around your screen, or move notes on the piano roll all without tapping or clicking first. I recommend enabling the three finger drag option under Accessibility > Pointer Control > Trackpad Options > Enable dragging. Macs have the best trackpads in my opinion and that's what I'm using at the moment. As I'm sure you know there's no fan inside this laptop so that stayed silent and remained cool to the touch. While playing 5 clips simultaneously my CPU usage bounces between 21 - 30%.įor kicks and giggles I just copied and pasted 40 tracks with clips and played them all at once, the CPU usage bounced between 70 - 80%. I'm currently using a 2021 M1 MacBook Air on battery with the following plugged in: