tony_mw Re the wifi problem, does it happen at other places? Friends? Neighbours? Starbucks? This is hard to say, it could be a problem with many things.

As for the hinge, no way that's a cosmetic problem. I usually go Machines Northpoint and they are very good. Maybe try going there. Once I sent in a Macbook 12" for bloated battery problem and they came back with their report to change the battery for free since it was under warranty. To my surprise they also proposed to change the keyboard (butterfly keyboard quality program) and screen (staingate program) as well. I didn't complain about the screen nor the keyboard.

Another tactic you can try is to call Apple support, talk to them and get a report number then go to Machines with that. I did this when my MBP 15" adaptor died 2 months after its warranty expired. Apple support agreed to change it for me. I may have faked some emotion and maybe even tears while on the phone to Apple.

Hope you get it solved soon. I never go KLCC cos parking expensive. Good luck.

IMHO, 8GB is enough but go for 16GB.

What do you want to do?

I'm getting a MBA M1 later this month. I already have a Mac mini M1 but since HLB is giving 20% cashback, why not?

Anyway, to my question, thanks to lurkingaround, I was alerted to this thread about MBA M1 problems.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252125613?page=8

Has anyone here encountered similar crashes? Or is this just a first world user problem? fwiw, since updating my Mac mini to 11.2 on 2/2, I've had 2 kernel panics one on 2/2 and one on 3/2. None after that. Touch wood. 2 days ago, opening any video with VLC, it would play with audio only and a nice black screen. Had to restart to fix that.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 22 2021, 07:58 PM

I did mine from scratch while being mindful to keep the number of Rosetta 2 apps to a minimum.

I had no panics nor crashes with 11.1 but then I only used it for a short time from 19/1 to 2/2. Updated to 11.2 on 2/2 and had 2 panics since. One on the same day and one the next but none thereafter

Also a few other minor problems.
1. Video would play with a black screen. VLC+mp4 or mkv. VLC with mpeg2 in a DVD folder. Once so far. It happened after I transcoded 2 DVDs to mkv with Handbrake. May be reproducible. Had to restart.
2. Safari losing Command-~ shortcut for switching windows. Quitting doesn't help. Had to restart. Once or twice so far.
3. Command-Tab app switcher would sometimes get stuck in my 2nd monitor and refuses to come back to my main monitor. Then after awhile, it does. Psychopathic Neural Engine at work. Happened a few times but not that often to be annoying.
4. Telco phone calls via my iPhone seems to be a lot less reliable than my MBPR Late 2013. Keeps disconnecting or losing audio or mic. Happens half the time. Enough for me not to want to use the Mac to make calls.

The only thing special that I have that may be different from you guys is that I have a 3rd party kext running, Tuxera NTFS. To install this, I had to change my Mac's Security Policy to Reduced Security.

And I have one System Extension running, Little Snitch.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 22 2021, 10:57 PM

Solved, OSI Layer 8 error.

The App Switcher follows the monitor where I last accessed the dock.

This one: https://www.hlb.com.my/content/dam/hlb/my/d...ampaign-tnc.pdf
If you get picked for the campaign, you'll get an SMS.

The TnC changes every week, same URL. I already got it twice. First time was around 2nd week of Jan. Last week I got it again. This time bought Pro Apps Edu Bundle. If it comes again, I'm gonna get a MBA.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 28 2021, 02:33 AM

The last time I checked, it was 36days (19/1 to 24/2) and 1.85TB written which works out to 51GB/day for my internal SSD. Not too excessive, I think, since I'm on my Mac mini 10hrs/day. The last 2 days would be a lot higher as I was installing and trying to get CC 2019, 2020 and 2021 working just to see how well they run on the M1. No, not the ori versions.

Just checked. Today it's at 2.67TB written. 25/2 to 3/3 = 6 days. (2.67-1.85)/6 = 137GB/day.

I use https://www.smartmontools.org, specifically smartctl installed via brew. (smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [Darwin 20.4.0 arm64])

This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 3 2021, 05:33 PM

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Sorry, meant to post this in the Mikrotik forum.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 6 2021, 04:24 PM

What is aps?

If you use Excel, it's slow as molasses for big files. Not just on M1, Intel too. So now there are 2 things that you would get a PC for, games and Excel.

LG Gram, Dell XPS 13. Razer Book?



This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 24 2021, 06:38 PM

Ordered MBA M1 16/1000 yesterday.
Previously Mac mini M1 in Jan ordered and delivered in 7 days. See how fast this one comes.

30/3 - Order Placed, Processing - Ships 5-7days (ETA: 16/04 - 20/04)
1/4 - Preparing to Ship
2/4 - Shipped (ETA: 13/4) (DHL: Shipment picked up)
2/4 - Shipped (Arriving Soon)
3/4 - Shipped (ETA: 13/4)
5/6 - E-Invoice Received
6/4 - Out for Delivery & Delivered

This post has been edited by soonwai: Jun 14 2021, 12:42 PM

No lah, not for this one. I think promo ended already.

Check this out. Syiok.


This post has been edited by soonwai: Apr 1 2021, 08:11 PM

Have to wait for SMS. But I think no more already.
https://hlb.com.my/lds

Faster go apply HLB.

On another note, MacBook Air status changed from ETA: 13/4 to "Arriving Soon." wth does that mean? DHL already picked up. It's coming from Chengdu.

Nope, 16/512.

Yeah, quite fast. 3 days to ship.