So you may wanna wait a while befor you buy. But keep in mind a month ago apples stocks plummeted so the m1 could be a early release. And a slightly better chip than last year. 299.99 By and by if you spend $ on the new m1 rest assured you are buying nothing more than tablet with a new os. Theres no cooling just like a phone/tablet and the other pc its compared to by apple (witch is where they base there speed on) is a accer laptop from Walmart.

But apples numbers dont make sense look at any youtube reviewer and what they say about it. The low power consumption comes from it basically being a new phone/tablet chip.

Theres all kinds of hype behind the m1 becouse the gpu/cpu is in the same chip. Personally Its cheaper just to get the tablet instead of paying more money for a keyboard aka macbook pro. Only issue i would see is thermal throttling. Assuming you have no plans on password cracking. Since thats that the M1 chip is its a tablet/phone type chip. One would assume its like pentesting on nice tablet. I'm coming from a 2015 MBP so the difference for me is night and day. So far I'm loving the snappiness of the OS and the all day battery life. It is a decent computer that just uses very efficient software on RISC architecture rather an x86. The M1 Macbook is so much faster than any tablet on the market at the moment. Check out this post on how fast the M1 cracks (last post in thread) : os pstla ( t as(l. Using good OSINT or Social Engineering can narrow down a targeted password list. There is a utility in the App Store called 'Boop' that is almost like cyber chef.įor password cracking it's better to use a graphics card setup, but even that can be cumbersome. Menu: Kali Linux WiFi Adapters: 0:00 Did I miss something 0:58 Do you need to purchase a WiFi adapter 1:24 Examples of why you need a WiFi adapters: 2:04 Virtual Machine issues: 2:23 What about Bare Metal installations:2:57 Does the adapter support 2.4 Ghz and GHz: 3:28 How easy is it to use the adapter: 4:22 My top three adapters: 5:08. > screen shot of another user's testing: Īt the time of this post I've seen success running Kali with the Parallels technical preview for the M1 Macbooks, so check that out. Wireshark runs under rosetta and does capture traffic if you need to observe network traffic. I use Code Runner to quickly test my scripts. Python runs fine for making scripts, so code away. There are a lot of programs that are being ported over to run natively or run using rosetta.įor web testing, Burp can run on the M1 using rosetta, and while there is a bit of a slowdown, the portswigger team is still putting work into the project. I know this is three months old, but I just picked up an M1 Macbook and since there was little discussion on the matter wanted to share my thoughts.įirst it depends on what you are trying to do.

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