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> I think you got that wrong. Speed isn't a bottleneck anymore and you won't get much better experience. This is same as phones.

Well... I'm pretty sure that this is Hacker News. And for many developers, any performance improvement is great.

I first got an M1 Air, which was fantastic. Faster than my 3700X workstation for building Rust projects, while it was passively cooled and portable. Despite the awesome performance of the M1 Air, I upgraded to an M1 Pro when it came out. Moving from 4 performance + 4 efficiency cores to 8 performance + 2 efficiency cores was yet another awesome upgrade, giving again much quicker builds.

I work on machine learning stuff, so the AMX matrix co-processing unit in the M1 was really great for training small networks (sometimes convolution networks are still great for NLP + being able to train locally is nice for development). Then the M1 Pro/Max had double the AMX units, so it's again a great step forward.

Getting 20% YoY improvements will definitely make me very happy (and I bet many other developers).