Finally my new baby arrived and like a new parent I’m already attached. It’s not perfect but here are a few observations:
It’s truly beautiful, just stylish.
Monterey required an update (2.x GB) and installed without issue. Updated all Apps from App Store and retrieved all my documents from the cloud. It took a couple of hours to download local versions but it’s working fine.
On the topic of speakers, I can ‘sort of’ understand the mentions from Doug. They are quite good but there’s a sort of spacial gap that makes spoken word on youtube sound not quite perfect. I’m sitting hear listening to Pearl Jam’s Black and it sounds fantastic. I’ll try a movie later and see but I think they’re fine.
1Password is a problem. I loaded my previous version (6.8.9 I think) and synced via iCloud. It wouldn’t fill in bank account details and the Extension for Safari doesn’t seem to be available anywhere. I downloaded version 7 as a test and it has crashed every time. It will open, I can find the password I want to use but as soon as I try to open the page it crashes. Very disappointing. I’d love to see Apple have a crack at doing a proper Password Manager. Notes and Reminders look really nice but in my eyes there not as important as security.
My AdBlock Plus stopped working but I downloaded 1Blocker and I’m back to youtube with no ads.
The trackpad is a little strange compared to my 2015 model. On my old girl I could very lightly touch two fingers into the trackpad to initiate a right click - with the new machine I have to actually Press two fingers down for the same effect. It’s a small thing but given I do it probably a hundred times a day it’s taking a bit to get used to.
Performance seems good although I’m yet to do anything to test it properly. The disk reads/write are crazy good and the monitor is just superb, the blacks and truly black and I haven’t noticed any ghosting.
The backlit keyboard is fine. I can see a fine line of light from underneath but I can easily turn it down if to bothers me (it doesn’t).
The keyboard itself is great, tremendous feel with just the right amount of spring back and a very precise feedback. I’m a lousy typist but it just feels like a quality keyboard with no ‘wobble’ in the keys.
Mail has been a little flaky, already crashed a couple of times and it took me a while to find how to get it into my preferred ‘Classic’ view - it’s not where it used to be.
I had trouble getting a couple of existing bank cards into my Wallet. They were recognised and available but as soon as I entered the CVV it just errored out and said to contact the Bank. I’ll just wait and hope it resolves itself with time.
Touch ID is nice but limited to 3 fingerprints - weirdly I’d like 4…
I setup two printers - a Brother which was simple and works and an Epson which seemed to fail but actually succeeded (yet to test as it’s my wife’s).
The facetime camera is excellent, way better than my old machine.
On Apps, I clicked an Affinity Publisher document and it opened it in Affinity Photo, I’ll need to look into that further and see what’s going on. On trying to open a document I had to navigate several “allow access” dialogs before I could start.
I’ll stop now as it’s already too long but I’m looking forward to getting to know it better.