I'm surprised about the Python issue. All I had to do was a 'brew install python' - and that was months ago I think.
Onboarding with an M1
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Re: Onboarding with an M1
#112Every time I read one of these reviews it makes me so glad to be using a desktop PC with Manjaro. Things I need to do just all work for me, no surprise limitations, no worrying about how long an irreplaceable battery or SSD will last and no constant battle with some corporation over who controls my computer. I don't get people who would want to optimize for working on a train or a plane or in a meeting either. My des…
> worrying about how long an irreplaceable battery or SSD will last and no constant battle with some corporation over who controls my computer You really need to understand that this is nothing but a strawman. I'm a M1 Air user. I'm currently worrying about how I'm gonna express some business logic in my app, not about some imaginary "irreplaceable" battery or an SSD. If anything breaks in the first two years (which…
> And a laptop allows me to use a single machine for all that, ain't that great?
It's AMAZING.
I have servers, raspberry pi's. I work locally and push to wherever I need.
I work from home, sometimes from my office, sometimes from the couch. Sometimes I went out to coffee shops or the library. I sometimes gotta hop on a plane and go to the office where I switch between desks, conference rooms, offices. I travel to visit family.
A single device allows me to just close the lid and keep going. It's amazing.
Re: Onboarding with an M1
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its not a real win because you're using 1 HDMI, 1 usb-c display. The HDMI display is limited (low framerate, bad integration with the display). At best i call it a workaround
Why is the HDMI limited? Old version? Latest HDMI can run 4k 60 no problem.
Sorry, my M1 mac mini doesn't push out the 165Hz, it maxes out at 60Hz. Sure this is the average refresh rate most people ask for, but this is also the max the mac mini go.
My display is a Qhd (2560 x 1440)
Re: Onboarding with an M1
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is the HDMI limited? Old version? Latest HDMI can run 4k 60 no problem.
HDMI, at least in the Mac mini 2018, is lossy compressed which shows itself in bleeding colors / slightly blurry 4K.
I believe HDMI can only send uncompressed video data. It can support compressed audio but not compressed video.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
What specific workloads? If you bought a 16GB machine to keep 32GB of data in RAM then clearly you bought the wrong machine. But I am able to run WAY more applications in 8GB than the 16GB intel Mac I had previously.
> But I am able to run WAY more applications in 8GB than the 16GB intel Mac I had previously. Then your limitation clearly wasn’t RAM.
Memory management is different on the M1. This has been widely discussed.
Re: Onboarding with an M1
#116I always wonder why ppl do not use MacPorts? There was a great article on HN which basically drew a pretty clear picture how brew can easily mess your system up. Yet, being a new Mac user, wherever I go, I only see a reference to brew installs. I am using M1 for a over a month and it’s been a very smooth ride so far. Installing everything via MacPorts where I only had an issue with rabbitmqd which failed to build bec…
> failed to build because of erlang.
That specific issue sounds like a MacPorts problem where it (MacPorts) is using an outdated version of Erlang; because Erlang works just fine on the M1.
Re: Onboarding with an M1
#117Only issue I have is that dotnet does not support m1. The beta of version 6 does but I had several issues with it and dotnet 5 runs slow as hell on rosetta. Otherwise everything works just fine.
Good to know! Thanks for commenting!
Re: Onboarding with an M1
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Not OP btw) While I'm not sure if it's building from source or pulling a binary, just pip3 install pandas seems to work just fine. Not a Rosetta terminal. Just ran a fresh install from a new poetry venv, seemed to work fine. This was the poetry output Using version ^1.2.4 for pandas Package operations: 3 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals • Installing numpy (1.20.2) • Installing pytz (2021.1) • Installing pandas (1.2.4…
Since there's no arm64 binary on pypi, it downloads source and builds locally. For some reason, the pip building is failing for me (python@3.9 from homebrew, all non-brew packages in --user). However, if I download the source and do the bdist_wheel manually, it succeeds and produces installable wheel. Cffi is unbuildable without a patch, it is failing on symbol ffi_prep_closure being non-existant.
Huh. I haven't had any issues with libraries that use CFFI.
I've had issues with pip and building from source being incredibly fragile before (in general, not an M1 specific thing), so I'm not that surprised, but unfortunately I don't really have any answers here.
The scientific calc package + cffi have installed normally since I got the M1 (mid February).
I did have an issue with PyQt5, where I had to link qmake in my .zshrc before it would build properly (and it had an incredibly unhelpful wheels error message), but that's been it so far.
Re: Onboarding with an M1
#119As mentioned in the epilogue regarding single monitors, I feel that Apple was a little too silent regarding that limitation. It also caught me off guard especially as I purchased the LG 4K thunderbolt/usb-c monitors from the Apple website with the hope of connecting everything via daisy chain. I haven’t yet definitively found a DisplayLink hub that can output its video via thunderbolt and/or USB-C so whenever I see a…
Yes, very silent. We ordered a replacement for my old work machine and only realised that limitation after - too slow to stop the purchase order. We’ve ordered an ultrawide monitor to compensate. I feel the “Pro” label is somewhat misleading, and has definitely damaged my trust further.
Same here. Even right now as a type this I have my 2nd external monitor sitting next to the one I'm staring it, it's just off though.
Another commenter mentioned finding a video showing that it could in fact be "hacked" to use more than one external monitor. I tried purchasing the specific DisplayLink products in the video and still wasn't able to have success :(
Re: Onboarding with an M1
#120Is everyone using the 16GB version of the M1? Or is the 8GB sufficient?