I have one of the new MacBook Airs. Phenomenal piece of kit, fast cool running and zero problems.
As For Mac Scrivener, yes it is nicer than Win V3 RC. IMHO.
I have Scrivener on a Dell Inspiron 13" with a 4K monitor, 27" iMac 5K and a 15" mid 2015 MacBook Pro.
The MacBook Pro is my go-to writing environment. Between it’s great keyboard (original scissors), monitor, amazing track pad, it just disappears and I’m left with me and my story.
The iMac is nice if I’m doing a lot of research or want Google Earth Pro up close and personal on a wing monitor which I do in the iMac and could do on either of the laptops, but other than that, I’m on the MBP.
I had been using PCs since before Windows was invented (I’m older than dirt), but the Mac version of Scrivener just gets out of the way and lets me stay in the zone.
YMMV.
Fitch
ps:
If I was going to get an M1 Mac for writing, it would be the Air, but I would get it with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD - not for performance, for longevity. Flash memory has a fixed life and it isn’t replaceable in the M1 machines. As I understand it, the ARM chip makes heavy use of the really fast SSD for all sorts of tasks because it becomes a shared resource for all the processors, graphical, economy and performance, as well as the AI engine.
More RAM will reduce swapping.
The flash memory spreads the usage across all the memory cells to more or less equalize the wear and tear across the whole SSD. A bigger SSD can handle more cumulative memory cycles because it can spread them across more cells.
I just bought an M1 MacBook Air from the Apple Story in San Luis Obispo for my grandson. I did it over the phone, I’m on the other coast. I expected the store would have to order the 16GB/1TB configuration. They had it on the shelf. It’s the best selling configuration to the students at Cal Poly San Luis. The person on the phone said they sell more of those than all the other laptops added up.
My grandson was able to pick up his computer the same day I ordered it.
frw
Was a Microsoft user for 20 years, then all-in on Apple the last 15. I have fond memories of all the productive work I got done in Windows, so I’d never knock it. But the Mac has a lot of little extras built into the operating system that I think make it the better platform for writers. For instance, entering foreign characters can be done much more easily than in Windows. Creating shortcut commands also seems easier. The universal dictionaries and spell checker are other thing a writer can appreciate. I’ve never used Scrivener under Windows, so I can’t compare the app versions; but people on the forum seem to think it’s wonderful. Overall, I have found the Mac to be a superb platform for writing, partly owing to the wealth of writing programs and also to all the built-in features that you’ll discover as you need them. Still, using Scrivener means you’ll be doing fine on either platform. One caveat: if you still need to use Word a lot, I’m told the Windows version is far superior.
On modern versions of MacOS and Office, this gap is far less noticeable now.