Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
General Discussions
Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
Does my situation justifies an upgrade
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1871735" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I can't speak for what chscag is referring to specifically, though some brief googling shows complaints of intermittent bluetooth issues with the M1 Mac minis in particular. I have an M1 MacBook Air and I had a pair of problems early on. The first was that one of my Thunderbolt ports would suddenly stop working (no charging, wouldn't recognize a connected drive) but rebooting it solved it. I've had this MBA since a few days after first released and it's happened to me perhaps 3 times, and not at all recently. The second problem was when I tried to boot into the Diagnostics mode to see if any hardware issues could be detected to explain that port failing. For some reason, it wouldn't connect to my wifi, apparently timing out. What's really weird is that when I switched my default wifi network when logged in normally from my main SSID to my guest SSID, I was then able to get into Diagnostics just fine. That was baffling, but both of these problems suggested a firmware update may needed to fix them. I just tried Diagnostics again and had no trouble connecting to my main wifi SSID, so that much has resolved. I also haven't had that port go dead on me in 3 weeks or so now. I'm thinking Big Sur 11.1 may have come with some fixes for those issues.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise, my personal experience has been utterly fantastic. You can read my comments <a href="https://www.mac-forums.com/threads/heres-everything-apple-announced-at-the-one-more-thing-event-today.360588/" target="_blank">in this thread here</a> about my early experience and observations. This includes a brief debunking of some claims made by a Forbes writer who wrote what obviously is a hit piece riddled with blatantly inaccurate assessments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1871735, member: 38864"] I can't speak for what chscag is referring to specifically, though some brief googling shows complaints of intermittent bluetooth issues with the M1 Mac minis in particular. I have an M1 MacBook Air and I had a pair of problems early on. The first was that one of my Thunderbolt ports would suddenly stop working (no charging, wouldn't recognize a connected drive) but rebooting it solved it. I've had this MBA since a few days after first released and it's happened to me perhaps 3 times, and not at all recently. The second problem was when I tried to boot into the Diagnostics mode to see if any hardware issues could be detected to explain that port failing. For some reason, it wouldn't connect to my wifi, apparently timing out. What's really weird is that when I switched my default wifi network when logged in normally from my main SSID to my guest SSID, I was then able to get into Diagnostics just fine. That was baffling, but both of these problems suggested a firmware update may needed to fix them. I just tried Diagnostics again and had no trouble connecting to my main wifi SSID, so that much has resolved. I also haven't had that port go dead on me in 3 weeks or so now. I'm thinking Big Sur 11.1 may have come with some fixes for those issues. Otherwise, my personal experience has been utterly fantastic. You can read my comments [URL='https://www.mac-forums.com/threads/heres-everything-apple-announced-at-the-one-more-thing-event-today.360588/']in this thread here[/URL] about my early experience and observations. This includes a brief debunking of some claims made by a Forbes writer who wrote what obviously is a hit piece riddled with blatantly inaccurate assessments. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
General Discussions
Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
Does my situation justifies an upgrade
Top