[btilly]

You must live in an Apple echo chamber.

Most people that I know use some combination of Windows, Linux and older Macs. None of us have upgraded to M1, nor are we in any hurry to do so.

This comment is typed on an older Mac that will be replaced with either Linux or Windows when it dies. Because my experience with Apple has been going downhill, and I'm tired of dealing with the bugs.

[myrandomcomment]

So I work in tech in SV and at least a third of the engineers I know have ordered an M1. The ones that I know that have been using them sing their praises (with some teething around Homebrew and docker). I ordered a Mini a week ago and should receive it tomorrow. I am hoping to be as blown away as everyone I know was.

[btilly]

I work in tech in Orange County and nobody here particularly cares about the M1.

It may not help that I work for a company centered around manufacturing, and factories are deeply Windows centric. (For the Linux fans, it turns out that when the Linux box fails at 3 AM, and nobody in the factory knows what to do about it, it gets replaced by Windows ASAP. Doesn't matter why it failed, they want someone around who at least knows where to start on diagnosing it.)

I would guess that my experience is closer to average for a software developer outside of the SV bubble than yours. And developers of all kinds are going to be faster to upgrade computers than the general public.

[myrandomcomment]

So by SV I mean companies based in SV, however the dev team is all over the world. Anyway, I received my M1. Pretty blown away. I have 2 rsync checksum task running on 100K files each (one local between drives, the 2nd from a drive to NFS mount), Minecraft running (AFK), Music importing 90K files, a browser with 20 tabs open, a large compile job of a re-install of 100+ Homebrew apps going, the 1st Backblaze backup of the system, the 1st Time Machine backup of the system and , an Xcode job of a personal build, and a few other random task for setting up a new system running and there is ZERO slowdown in an responsiveness anywhere. The activity monitor shows the system is bored and the fan is not running. It is freaking impressive.

[unicornfinder]

Indeed - I switched to Windows a while back and I've been genuinely impressed with how much more stable the system is.