[rvz]

Judging from the comments here and the article, it reads to me that perhaps staying on Intel Macs, waiting for the developer ecosystem to catch up and skipping the early M1 models (November 2020) was a very smart decision to make rather than spending months fighting with your tools.

Unless you want to wait 6 months or even a year to do any work reliably without these 'issues'. Even by then a more faster machine would be worth buying anyway.

[foobarbaz33]

Agree, waiting has paid off for late M1 adopters. The software ecosystem has smoothed out most of the hiccups.

And now there is the mac studio, M1 ultra, 128GB ram, 64 cores. An absolute beast of a machine. Fits in a backpack, so it's just as portable as a laptop assuming you work from docking stations anyway.

[lowbloodsugar]

I have an M1 Max, with only 64GB and only 10 cores (the 64 cores in the Ultra are GPU cores, not CPU cores). For a software developer, it is probably fast enough, and I can use it anywhere. I build Rust, and build times aren't a problem. Certainly better than my i9 Intel MBP.