Annoying problems with the MacBook Pro M1 processor

Apple, which has organized a launch event in recent weeks, MacBook Air, Macbook Pro is Mac mini He presented his models. The most important feature of the new generation Macs are the classic applications based on x86, an ARM based processor. Apple M1 promise to work on the processor. While this announcement points to an innovation that could fundamentally change the laptop market, as expected, the M1 processor is going through an extremely painful process at first.

Analyst Patrick Moorhead shared a post on November 20. tweeted New MacBook Pro with M1 processorHe stated that he bought and will do some tests on the device. After this tweet, Moorhead began performing some operations indicating how ready the new MacBook Pro was for daily use and continued sharing their experiences with the same tweet for 2 days.

MacBook Pro with M1 processor cannot run some popular apps

According to information provided by Patrick Moorhead, the MacBook Pro with M1 processor, although not in terms of performance User experience In terms of it it seems not quite ready to compete with the Intel-powered MacBook Pro. Because the M1 processor MacBook Pro problems shared by Patrick Moorhead in his very long series of tweets are as follows:

• Microsoft Edge running on Rosetta crashes.
• Adobe Reader XI 11.0.10 is not installed.
• Acrobat DC cannot be installed on devices with Apple silicon processors.
• Office 365 opens rather slowly compared to the Intel-based MacBook Pro.
• Logitech C922 camera control app crashes after running successfully for a while.
• Samsung portable SSD software cannot be installed.
• Cannot load Box Drive. (There is a high probability that the problem is related to macOS Big Sur)
• WinZip 8 can be installed but does not work.

While Apple has made big promises in terms of both performance and energy savings on Mac devices with M1 processors Until all macOS software releases a compatible version with the ARM-based M1 processor We could already predict that devices with M1 processors will run x86 applications on Rosetta, an emulator, so there will be various performance and compatibility issues. However, problems affecting everyday use could push Apple to release alternative software solutions in the short term.