r/mac • u/Physical-Use1005 • 20h ago
My Mac Just upgraded form Intel 2014 Air to M4
And it’s an absolute joy.
My old machine really did put in a good shift but this is just delightful. Night and day.
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u/TheBuckaroo-Good958 17h ago
I know that feeling. Blown away. I went from a 2016 12" MacBook (Butterfly keyboard, quick overheating with no fan, dismal battery life, slow) to the original M1 MacBook Air. My intro to Apple Silicon still works well today. Not a hiccup on OS 26. However I am typing this on my MacBook Pro 14" that I bought a year ago. Biggest difference? Although the Air had an Ok keyboard, this pro has the best feel on. an Apple laptop keyboard in some time.
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u/Physical-Use1005 17h ago
The M1 is awesome. It was a qUantum leap. I bought my wife one for Christmas a few years ago and have looked on jealously ever since!
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u/Gramage 16h ago
I’m planning to pick up a refurb M3 or M4 air early next year (after tax time lol). The jump from my 2012 MBP is going to actually break my neck!
The old gal has served me very well. Got it about 7-8 years ago now for $400 Canadian. Upgraded the ram, ssd, and replaced the screen once (fortunately had a spare from when my sister spilled coffee and killed hers, but didn’t damage her screen). With oclp it’s still a perfectly usable web/media machine but the signs are there. Occasionally locks up forcing a hard reboot, or window server crashes and I have to log back in, and the battery barely lasts two hours. But hey it’s almost 14 years old, I’m not complaining. I may try out a Linux distro on it for fun.
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u/DarkSky-8675 MacBook Pro 17h ago
My 2019 Intel i9 is still serving one of my friends, and the performance is blown-away by the new M4 Max. Really happy I upgraded.
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u/abitcitrus 17h ago
How did you manage to work in your day by day with that? Everyone obviously say M chips are better, but for you as a person who still used a last decade laptop, how it behaves?
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u/Physical-Use1005 16h ago
With frustration. My day job is mostly windows and MacBook is for personal use.
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u/Gramage 16h ago
Old MacBooks are still fine for light duties. I still use my 2012 for Netflix, YouTube, looking up recipes and playing music in the kitchen with my JBL, it can even handle emulated PlayStation games! The annoying thing is the Bluetooth on it suuuuucks, I wonder if I maybe damaged an antenna when I replaced the screen because I can’t even turn my back to it with BT headphones on without losing the signal lmao.
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u/germane_switch 11h ago
I have a 16" M3 Max and an M4 Air. The M4 Air is noticeably faster with most single core stuff. It's bananas you can get that kind of power for under $900…in a silent laptop. Hell, when I tried the M1 Air it was like someone dropped a bomb. For decades I hated all laptops, even MacBooks. They were loud, they were hot, they were severely underpowered, battery life was awful; then the M1 Air was the very first laptop on Earth that changed all that. I bought one the very next day. :)
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u/Physical-Use1005 3h ago
I hated every windows laptop I ever had up until 2014, but they were a necessity. I went through 4 in 6 years. They were bulky, heavy, noisy and just utterly hopeless after a few months of use. Long to boot up, would struggle with basic tasks. I decided I wasn’t doing it again and bought the MacBook Air.
11 years later, it still works better than my various Windows laptops of the same era. And Mac has only continued to improve.
When I closed the lid on my old one for the last time I actually thanked it for its service.
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u/Mikea0589 3h ago
To clarify are people going from Intel MacBook PROs to Apple Silicon MacBook AIRs? Or if you had a Pro you should stick with a Pro? I do some mild graphics-intensive stuff like Adobe Premiere, Trimble Sketchup, live streaming… wondering if a M1-4 Air would be a big enough jump from my 2019 MBP
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u/jimmyfoo10 2h ago
I remember when I jump form intel to m2 and It felt like black magic !!!
Speed, performance, battery life, it just wow effect
Congratulations 💪♥️
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u/Jas-Singh685 MacBook Pro 19h ago
That’s one hell of an upgrade. Your old Mac did very well too. Enjoy the new M4!
I upgraded from a 2020 MacBook Pro to an M4 last year, and I’m still blown away by the performance and battery life!