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Re: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

#11

Post by cheeze »

amelius wrote: post #5
newaccount74 wrote: post #4

I also got an M1 Max. The chip is amazing. Compile times are a lot faster than on the 6 core Intel Mac mini I had before. But at this point it's really held back by Apple's software. Anything related to Apple ID and iCloud regularly hangs 30-60 seconds, showing a spinner with no progress indicator whatsoever. Apps randomly take 20 seconds to launch, maybe because of [1]? The Open/Save dialog taking 30 seconds to show…

If software is the issue, can't you run Linux on it?

Does anyone really think that running Linux on custom Apple hardware is actually going to make things _better_?

Re: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

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Post by astrange »

newaccount74 wrote: post #4

I also got an M1 Max. The chip is amazing. Compile times are a lot faster than on the 6 core Intel Mac mini I had before. But at this point it's really held back by Apple's software. Anything related to Apple ID and iCloud regularly hangs 30-60 seconds, showing a spinner with no progress indicator whatsoever. Apps randomly take 20 seconds to launch, maybe because of [1]? The Open/Save dialog taking 30 seconds to show…

Maybe you have DNS issues? It's always DNS, so they say.

XPC is not asynchronous; that's up to the individual caller. The synchronous methods are easier to debug for sure.

Re: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

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Post by ksec »

newaccount74 wrote: post #4

I also got an M1 Max. The chip is amazing. Compile times are a lot faster than on the 6 core Intel Mac mini I had before. But at this point it's really held back by Apple's software. Anything related to Apple ID and iCloud regularly hangs 30-60 seconds, showing a spinner with no progress indicator whatsoever. Apps randomly take 20 seconds to launch, maybe because of [1]? The Open/Save dialog taking 30 seconds to show…

>Anything related to Apple ID and iCloud regularly hangs 30-60 seconds, showing a spinner with no progress indicator whatsoever.

On Safari that happens when you have lots of Bookmarks, History, Open Tabs etc.

Re: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

#14

Post by smoldesu »

cheeze wrote: post #11
amelius wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If software is the issue, can't you run Linux on it?

Does anyone really think that running Linux on custom Apple hardware is actually going to make things _better_?

It certainly rescued my a1502 from the trash bin.

Re: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

#15

Post by newaccount74 »

amelius wrote: post #5
newaccount74 wrote: post #4

I also got an M1 Max. The chip is amazing. Compile times are a lot faster than on the 6 core Intel Mac mini I had before. But at this point it's really held back by Apple's software. Anything related to Apple ID and iCloud regularly hangs 30-60 seconds, showing a spinner with no progress indicator whatsoever. Apps randomly take 20 seconds to launch, maybe because of [1]? The Open/Save dialog taking 30 seconds to show…

If software is the issue, can't you run Linux on it?

I'm a Mac app developer, I'm stuck with Xcode.

But it's not all or nothing. For example I've started using Syncthing instead of iCloud Drive for some use cases and that works surprisingly well (Syncthing isn't without flaws either, but at least it shows exactly what it's doing making it a lot easier to debug).

Re: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

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Post by mrtranscendence »

newaccount74 wrote: post #4

I also got an M1 Max. The chip is amazing. Compile times are a lot faster than on the 6 core Intel Mac mini I had before. But at this point it's really held back by Apple's software. Anything related to Apple ID and iCloud regularly hangs 30-60 seconds, showing a spinner with no progress indicator whatsoever. Apps randomly take 20 seconds to launch, maybe because of [1]? The Open/Save dialog taking 30 seconds to show…

Interesting. For what it's worth, I've never had any of these issues on my Intel-based MacBooks (I've been using them since 2007).

Re: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

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Post by stepbeek »

amelius wrote: post #5
newaccount74 wrote: post #4

I also got an M1 Max. The chip is amazing. Compile times are a lot faster than on the 6 core Intel Mac mini I had before. But at this point it's really held back by Apple's software. Anything related to Apple ID and iCloud regularly hangs 30-60 seconds, showing a spinner with no progress indicator whatsoever. Apps randomly take 20 seconds to launch, maybe because of [1]? The Open/Save dialog taking 30 seconds to show…

If software is the issue, can't you run Linux on it?

The issue is that Linux isn’t running well enough on the apple silicon to be a viable option (yet).

Re: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

#18

Post by emilsedgh »

cheeze wrote: post #11
amelius wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If software is the issue, can't you run Linux on it?

Does anyone really think that running Linux on custom Apple hardware is actually going to make things _better_?

I have an M1 Air and can’t wait to install Linux on it. Backed marcan’s efforts and counting days until I go back to Linux again.

Re: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

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Post by smcleod »

newaccount74 wrote: post #4

I also got an M1 Max. The chip is amazing. Compile times are a lot faster than on the 6 core Intel Mac mini I had before. But at this point it's really held back by Apple's software. Anything related to Apple ID and iCloud regularly hangs 30-60 seconds, showing a spinner with no progress indicator whatsoever. Apps randomly take 20 seconds to launch, maybe because of [1]? The Open/Save dialog taking 30 seconds to show…

Are you running any 3rd party kernel extensions, if so which ones? (E.g. littlesnitch, FUSE, etc....).

I've got an M1 and M1 Pro and I've never seen anything like this, macOS in general has some long standing software bugs around the performance of apps like Music and Preview that I've seen hit on the M1 processor but they seem to make less of an impact to the usability compared to the Intel processors.

Re: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

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Post by threatofrain »

newaccount74 wrote: post #4

I also got an M1 Max. The chip is amazing. Compile times are a lot faster than on the 6 core Intel Mac mini I had before. But at this point it's really held back by Apple's software. Anything related to Apple ID and iCloud regularly hangs 30-60 seconds, showing a spinner with no progress indicator whatsoever. Apps randomly take 20 seconds to launch, maybe because of [1]? The Open/Save dialog taking 30 seconds to show…

I'm on a slower setup and don't encounter this at all. You may want to get Apple to replace your laptop.
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