[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).