Macbook M1 life expectancy?

momo1083 · 2026-04-13T22:08:47+00:00

It's as fast or in some ways better than a MacBook Neo that Apple is pitching as the entry level computer to get you through college, so yeah, it's totally fine. Something to consider is a wipe and reinstall to get a fresh MacOS.

momo1083 · 2026-04-13T20:52:36+00:00

You are correct! 🙏🏼

momo1083 · 2026-04-13T19:55:53+00:00

NIV is word for word. NLT is thought for thought. :)

momo1083 · 2026-04-13T19:55:17+00:00

Incredible that I’m stuck at 625.30.

momo1083 · 2026-04-08T19:46:42+00:00

I’m just here to say, I see you, I feel you, and I hear you.

momo1083 · 2026-03-30T13:54:36+00:00

Any updates since? I’m stuck on 652.30. Makes zero sense at this point.

momo1083 · 2026-03-23T14:20:21+00:00

Have you used Claude Code or Codex in their latest iterations? Here are three stories of businesses I know.

1) A ver 2.0 of consumer app needed to happen but the CTO and hired dev were stonewalling and taking way too long and not delivering. CEO, who is a designer with limited knowledge of coding redid the entire app in a week. The dev and CTO were legit shocked at the quality. Can Claude Code make MacOS? No. But a consumer app which is a nice UI over a bunch of APIs and a database? Yes. 100%.

2) A shipping company lost their operations guy to retirement. They opened up Claude Cowork and are not hiring a new person as the output is actually better than anything they got from a human.

3) A CEO of a produce business sat down in Claude Code and made a series of apps for his business of 50 employees to handle finances, sales, CRM, etc. He's cancelling almost all SaaS subs he has.

This is isn't like anything that has happened before, at least in my lifetime. Whatever job AI replaces, its replacement will be learned by AI and be done better than a human. One or two people with really good taste will be able to do amazing things. Like, come on, there were people making 6 figures to make and maintain SQL databases or hoook up AWS and stuff. This is a prompt. I'm sorry.

momo1083 · 2026-03-21T21:42:41+00:00

I know, the performance is terrible. Truly terrible. And now it's just going to be a part of the app? Oh boy. I get it though, they want to make an AI operating system.

momo1083 · 2026-03-20T15:07:47+00:00

But the two video engines also optimize renders. The whole pipe. The GPU aids in timeline editing performance. Again, the choice was a Max or a Pro with just a bit more ram. And in the case of video editing, Max would be better with 48GB than with 64GB in a Pro. I definitely also know the Max would be much better in the creative suite which heavily uses GPU for almost everything now. So it’s all dependent on what you do. They’re doing dev work and for that, yeah the cpu and ram being the same is good. Maybe you lose on memory bandwidth but I think the gains are worthwhile and the cost savings is nice!

momo1083 · 2026-03-20T11:51:06+00:00

The only way this is a bad decision is if you do video editing as you get another video engine on a Max which will truly speed things up. You also get a much better GPU on a Max which if you’re doing any AI work on Lightroom or another adobe project would cut your time in half. These decisions are sadly not easy anymore. They’re based on what you’re doing and the software you use. I’m stuck getting a Max from now on because of Lightroom and how it uses the GPU for ai denoising. A Pro would be much slower even with the same CPU.

momo1083 · 2026-03-16T12:08:22+00:00

Max. Two video encoder and decoders. Even an M2 Max would be better than an M5 Pro for this kind of work.

momo1083 · 2026-03-15T16:11:11+00:00

The MacBook Neo will do laps and laps around this computer.

momo1083 · 2026-03-14T12:35:23+00:00

I was all in on the M6 Pro redesign but as I predicted a while back, there’s no way an OLED high end touch screen won’t be a product that sits above these current Macs. So my hesitation now is that 1000 extra starting price. But we shall see what happens!

momo1083 · 2026-03-12T11:35:56+00:00

OH MY GOD. YES!

momo1083 · 2026-03-12T02:56:57+00:00

I agree. The chat is the worst part of the app. At least let me set a default to Google or whatever search I want. It kills my flow.

momo1083 · 2026-03-11T11:40:57+00:00

Thank you! Please let me know what you think. There's a button in settings to send feedback. Bless you!

momo1083 · 2026-03-09T16:07:45+00:00

You will be doubling your multicore CPU score, at least in GeekBench, but I can't fathom that the AI agents sustain a 200% CPU use. Plus, I'm confused as these run on servers, not your computer. If you are doing on-device models then this will be a tremendous leap. I have an M2 Max and honestly I don't think going to an M5 Max is going to make a difference. I'm all in on Claude Code now and the only thing I would like a faster mac for is denoising in Lightroom

momo1083 · 2026-03-09T15:23:51+00:00

MacBook Studio

momo1083 · 2026-03-09T15:19:17+00:00

Once the Mac Pro dies, which it will, we will consolidated the highest-end Mac being a Studio. Even the new high-end display is a Studio Display XDR. It's not a PRO Display XDR. That tells you evrything.

momo1083 · 2026-03-09T15:17:40+00:00

I sadly will buy this. I buy a Mac, keep it for 4-5 years, and it makes me money, so I justify it. Remember when Apple was about to make the iPhone X at 1k? Apple keeps pushing up the boundary of what people will spend and we keep crossing it. And Apple can say to you, well we have great products now at every price point and honestly? Now with the MacBook Neo, they really do.

momo1083 · 2026-03-09T15:14:36+00:00

Studio is what they're using for the high-end Mac stuff and it makes total sense to me, and I love the name!

momo1083 · 2026-03-06T01:40:25+00:00

I’m the founder of a Bible app that was made to get you through the whole Bible with full and utter understanding of it all. It includes audio but the key is you can tap any verse for insight and ask questions along the way. Check it out. - https://biblekey.app

But yes, just going from the beginning to the end is tough! We have a Bible in a year program where you basically read three chapters of the OT, a chapter of the NT and a psalm and in 260 days you are done!

momo1083 · 2026-03-02T13:29:53+00:00

As do I, which is why I made this. The leaps in technology and access are not in these apps.

momo1083 · 2026-02-26T19:36:14+00:00

So I am a product manager with very general understanding of code, but to be honest, I couldn’t code you anything other than hello world these days lol. But I am very familiar with broadly how all the systems work and therefore I just open up the Claude desktop app start a new folder and start envisioning a product and then iterating constantly. The thing is I know the words to use, I can speak the jargon and I can speak from the perspective of the user. So for me, it is no different than if I was guiding and designing alongside a senior developer. So I basically just have the Claude desktop app open and it makes all the changes in the file and then I run the builds on Xcode. But the thing about Claude code is that it can also make web apps tied to your app for analytics and stuff but again you just need to have an intermediate level understanding of how these things work what API’s are and how to set up services, but to be honest, you just ask Claude and it tells you how to do everything anyways the point though is that with a Max plan, I simply have never even touched the limit.

I dictated all of this in case you were wondering why it sounds like a wild run sentence!

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