Setting Up a New M1 MacBook for Data Science

A Python/Pandas guy sets up shop on Apple Silicon

Robert Boscacci
Towards Data Science
6 min readApr 8, 2021

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In April 2021 I was granted the privilege of unboxing a brand new 2020 M1 Apple MacBook Air.

Tl;dr

If you’re hoping to run Python libraries natively (i.e. without Rosetta 2 translation) on your new M1 MacBook, save yourself a lot of hassle: Use

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