[wapxmas]

The most interesting part about an M1 architecture is an absence of any fan. But, still, from a back-end developer point of view, the one has to wait at least 3-6 months for the software to embrace an M1 chip.

[threeseed]

There is a fan on the Mac mini and MacBook Pro.

From benchmarks it only kicks in after like 10 minutes of sustained heavy usage e.g. rendering.

[zimpenfish]

M1 MBP fan comes on pretty quick if you run something like wireguard-vanity-address which will use all 8 cores at full whack. Other than that, it rarely comes on for me.

[vimy]

There's no need to wait. Rosetta is doing a fine job running x86 apps. Some apps run even faster than on intel.

[macintux]

Given the rate at which software is being ported, I think 3-6 months is very pessimistic for most applications.