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I see that the M1 Mac Mini is only available with 8GB RAM. Is that likely to remain as a market segmentation thing, or could a 16GB Mini be available soonish?
It's available now, you just have to select the 16GB option when speccing it
It doesn't say "8 or 16GB" and the button is "Select", and not "Customize" or similar. Appreciate the pointer.
I love it, but I find I don't really use it. My 16" MBP has a bigger screen, 4 usb ports so I can charge, two-factor auth, external microphone and external webcam at the same time. The downside is that it's much louder under load, but that is apparently worth it for me. Also the 16" was much more expensive, but and it has much shorter time on battery - but I already paid for it and I'm usually close to a power plug a…
VMs work. Qemu is working with patches. You have to build it though. None of the releases seems to be patched yet. There is an early preview of Parallels. Both Linux and Windows on Arm are working. Docker has an early release as well. There are few prebuilt projects on Github too: https://github.com/evansm7/vftool https://github.com/KhaosT/SimpleVM https://github.com/ubenmackin/ACVM
- I had some trouble building the Rust lang toolchain (wanted to work on a PR), haven't tried again (used my other machine instead). - The battery life is great. - Something I wouldn't have thought is how much I enjoy that the machine is not heating up under stress. Difficult to describe, but that is really really nice - I have the MBP and the only time I heard the fan was when I compiled the Rust toolchain. - Tried…
I mostly work in VSCode, the latest insiders build work much faster compared to my 2019 MBP. Browsing is also significantly faster with Chrome. I have tried the Docker beta, it runs well, even with 8gb, but being limited to ARM images limits its use.
I span up Hasura last week and it worked fine - there will be a speed impact but I couldn't notice it for that use case.
I had mine for over a month now and it’s great. Development is fast there is some libraries that are not compiled for M1 yet so if you use package managers like brew etc it might need to compile some libraries from source. But once everything is installed running code is extremely quick. You can have 100s of browser tabs without a noticeable drop in performance, I use a MacBook Air M1.
I'm very ignorant of the M1, but heard it has some hardware optimizations for Mac OS. If I buy this laptop and install Windows on it (because of a need for specific software), does that largely defeat the purpose and significantly reduce the benefit of the Mac OS-specific hardware optimizations?
The machine itself?
- Faster than blue blazes
- Dead silent
- Cold to the touch (even when cranking)
- Has excellent screen and keyboard
- No touchbar
- Has bonkers battery life
- Comes with tiny a/c adapter that charges it quickly
I do all of my development remotely via ssh and local forwards so the different platform doesn’t affect me at all.
Kinda bummed that I can only hook one LG5k display in at a time but whatever, that is kind of a fringe desire anyway. If there was a 14/16" version I'd throw money at Apple again.
Once I compared zoom using 120% cpu on my intel Mac to 30% cpu on my apple silicon Mac it was game over. The processors are just more efficient in so many ways. I've been pretty jaded on hardware recently but this made me sit up and go "holy crap" everything else just became obsolete.
Unless you have something x86 specific you need to be doing locally or need a huge screen do not hesitate to buy this machine. Apple has knocked it out of the park.
I'm very ignorant of the M1, but heard it has some hardware optimizations for Mac OS. If I buy this laptop and install Windows on it (because of a need for specific software), does that largely defeat the purpose and significantly reduce the benefit of the Mac OS-specific hardware optimizations?