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by chrchang523 1313 days ago
I finally started seriously using a M1 work laptop yesterday, and I'm impressed. More than twice as fast on a compute-intensive job as my personal 2015 MBP, with a binary compiled for x86 and with hand-coded SIMD instructions.
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Are you me lol? I'm on my third day on M1 Pro. Battery life is nuts. I can be on video calls and still do dev work without worrying about charging. And the thing runs cool!
It helps that there were almost 2 years between the release and your adoption. I had a very early M1 and it was not too bad, but there were issues. I knew that going in.
I had an M1 Air early on and I didn't run into any issues. Even the issues with apps like Homebrew were resolved within 3-4 months of the M1 debut. It's amazing just how seamless such a major architectural transition it was and continues to be!