[tylerfontaine]

Strange. With the exception of electron apps (which are slow everywhere), I've found my M1 mini to be extremely responsive. Much moreso than my 16" mpb.

[whatever1]

Cold start of Electron, MS office, Affinity (all ARM versions) takes me north of 15".

8GB M1 Mini, so maybe that makes the situation worse.

[Toutouxc]

Affinity Photo starts in 15 seconds on my M1, which IMO is not okay. It's just as slow as on my Haswell Intel Mac. Everything else launches in a second or so. Spotify (Electron) draws a window in three seconds, but takes another four to display all content.

[drcongo]

For comparison, I have a maxed out current gen 16" Intel MBP and Affinity takes 25 seconds to launch.

[ziml77]

Not sure what's causing the difference but it launches in 4 seconds for me. I have the base model 16" MBP.

[jermaustin1]

I have the 8GB M1 as my daily driver, the only apps that take a long time for me (but NOWHERE NEARE 15 seconds - maybe close to 5, but I'm not counting) are visual studio Mac (which is probably rosetta), Unity (which IS rosetta) and blender (also rosetta).

[wayneftw]

VS Code launches instantly on my i7-4770 under Linux with XFCE. Same under Windows.

So do Slack and Spotify...

That's an 8 year old CPU! If you're having issues, the problem lies elsewhere not with Electron.

[tylerfontaine]

I don't know why this was downvoted. You see what you see. Maybe my experience with electron is tainted :D

I don't have any measurements, and I'm not really going to take any. It's just always felt slow. So I'll admit I should've perhaps been less prescriptive.

[postalrat]

I think half the people in this thread are posting what they want to see and don't reflect reality.