I bought an MBP with an M1 two weeks ago. Never owned a Macbook before, although I use a company MBP, which is older and Intel based.
Actually I wanted to compile an Android app on it, which uses some C code. On an MPB with an M1, Android Studio does not handle that natively and without hassle in Android Studio release, or beta - they seem to have some support in Android Studio Canary now, with a little futzing.
I'm not in a rush, and will probably wait until I can just compile the Android app from Android Studio release without any jury-rigging needed. So I'm not stuck really, I have the time to wait for it to all get into the NDK post-canary release and the Android Studio post-canary release and I will proceed from there.
Also, I have never used Fidelity's Active Trader Pro app, and wanted to check it out as my desktop is a System76 box running Ubuntu and ATP is not available for that. So I tried to install on the MBP with M1 and - no go. Not sure what is needed for this to go on.
I think I have Rosetta installed, but hasn't helped much.
I'm not really stuck on these things, they're just observations. It is as fast as everyone says. The local app store only 16G RAM MBP's in stock so I got one instead of waiting for a 32G RAM one. Android Studio still compiles apps pretty quick though.
It would be nice if all of these apps and operations worked smoothly and out of the box now, but it's not a huge deal. The purchase works for me for other things and neither of these things have high urgency presently.
Actually I wanted to compile an Android app on it, which uses some C code. On an MPB with an M1, Android Studio does not handle that natively and without hassle in Android Studio release, or beta - they seem to have some support in Android Studio Canary now, with a little futzing.
I'm not in a rush, and will probably wait until I can just compile the Android app from Android Studio release without any jury-rigging needed. So I'm not stuck really, I have the time to wait for it to all get into the NDK post-canary release and the Android Studio post-canary release and I will proceed from there.
Also, I have never used Fidelity's Active Trader Pro app, and wanted to check it out as my desktop is a System76 box running Ubuntu and ATP is not available for that. So I tried to install on the MBP with M1 and - no go. Not sure what is needed for this to go on.
I think I have Rosetta installed, but hasn't helped much.
I'm not really stuck on these things, they're just observations. It is as fast as everyone says. The local app store only 16G RAM MBP's in stock so I got one instead of waiting for a 32G RAM one. Android Studio still compiles apps pretty quick though.
It would be nice if all of these apps and operations worked smoothly and out of the box now, but it's not a huge deal. The purchase works for me for other things and neither of these things have high urgency presently.