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As a JS developer, still waiting for full Homebrew. But then again, I might as well wait for the next iteration of Apple Silicon if that is the case.
Why wait? I just built node myself, yes it takes a solid hour to compile but it works.
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Great, now that we have this new fast hardware, time for developers to make everything 2x slower again.
It's not far from reality; suddenly there's 100% more capacity for analytics and behavioral tracking. God I hate this timeline.
Was expecting a bit more than a handful of paragraphs and three tests from this article.
People on HN still want to talk about the M1. It's just such an exciting product. So this will still sit on the front page for a while, despite the relatively terse source material.
Still way more slower than a Ryzen 4800 HS. Last time I checked a low end laptops with Ryzen had double performance (multi-core) compared to Macbooks with A1.
(And this is from someone who spends a lot of time trying to correct the misconception that the M1 outperforms all competitive processors.)
[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
What I found shocking is just how drastically faster some workflows are. If you work in JS and Node (say doing unit tests for an angular web app) this machine is so much better it’s unbelievable. It’s probably less than half the time to run tests. Half. It’s real productivity change.
Great, now that we have this new fast hardware, time for developers to make everything 2x slower again.
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To follow-up on my own point, once an x86 instruction has been decoded into a micro-op, it gets stored in a micro-op cache, where the vast majority of the frontend spends it's time fetching from. Additionally, "in flight" is a function of frontend width, Reorder buffer size, additional Out of order structures sizes and throughput depends on those plus the retire width. Additionally, IPC alone is a poor metric for per…
How does this square with their relatively low power consumption? (Honestly asking--I don't know about this stuff)
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I jumped on the hype train and got a M1 Mac Mini with 16gb and 1TB SSD, as it felt like a steal at around £1k Ex. VAT. for something that reviews told me would be quicker than my MBP. I've been blown away at how much faster/snappier it feels in day to day use compared to my 2018 16GB MBP. With the COVID situation I'm seated at my home office 95% of time now, rather than ~35%. One of the biggest changes has been that…
Have you seen any issues with UI lag? I've been testing an M1 Mini for the same reasons, and connected to a 27" 4K display it feels much less responsive than my Intel MBP with the same monitor.
I don't understand why Apple doesn't make a high-end multi port USB-C dock after all these years. Third-party quality isn't consistent.
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I jumped on the hype train and got a M1 Mac Mini with 16gb and 1TB SSD, as it felt like a steal at around £1k Ex. VAT. for something that reviews told me would be quicker than my MBP. I've been blown away at how much faster/snappier it feels in day to day use compared to my 2018 16GB MBP. With the COVID situation I'm seated at my home office 95% of time now, rather than ~35%. One of the biggest changes has been that…
Have you seen any issues with UI lag? I've been testing an M1 Mini for the same reasons, and connected to a 27" 4K display it feels much less responsive than my Intel MBP with the same monitor.
Also, the colour profile/difference between two identical monitors, one connected on HDMI, one on USB-C was startling. No idea why... I had to spend 20 minutes with Apples advanced calibration tool get them to match up. Even selecting the same colour profiles on both monitors gave a staggering difference in colour representation which I found very odd.
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Why wait? I just built node myself, yes it takes a solid hour to compile but it works.
On older platforms(High Sierra), brew builds from source most of the time and I just built node(latest) on a i5 MacMini 2011. It took 76 minutes.
What I found shocking is just how drastically faster some workflows are. If you work in JS and Node (say doing unit tests for an angular web app) this machine is so much better it’s unbelievable. It’s probably less than half the time to run tests. Half. It’s real productivity change.
And this is via Rosetta 2?