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by DawsonBruce 458 days ago
I use an M3 air for my personal machine which is used for c++ development and music production — it’s an excellent machine and I have yet to encounter a task that would require a MPB (at least for the type of work I am involved with).
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ferguess_k 458 days ago
Thanks. How much memory does it have? I figured 16 GB might be a bit in the low end for XCode, the emulator, some other random software and a lot of Firefox tabs.
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DiggyJohnson 458 days ago
Will you be running a lot of containers for dev environment or background services?
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ferguess_k 458 days ago
I don't think so. I'll probably write some MacOS system software, like probing their battery APIs and such, but they are going to be small.

I'm not exactly sure how I'd proceed to learn the MacOS/iOS internals, I'll have to look into it, but I don't think I need to run a VM, unless I hack the XNU kernel? QEMU does run on MacOS so I guess that's additional 4GB - 6GB of memory for the kernel?

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