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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by julienb_sea on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:18PM (#25054464)
I don't see why they would care that they are destroying sales of the intel MBP 13. Let consumers buy what they want - the M1 chip is likely far higher profit margins than the intel variant, and encouraging consumers to the Apple chip model is definitely a profit driver.

Some people especially developers may be skeptical of leaving x86 at this stage. I think the smart ones would just delay a laptop purchase until ARM is proven with docker and other developer workflows.

Another consideration - companies buying Apple machines will likely stay on Intel for a longer time, as supporting both Intel and ARM from an enterprise IT perspective just sounds like a PITA.

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by theptip on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:16PM (#25054836)
Docker runs in a VM on MacOS anyway, it’s not running on bare metal. Is instruction-set even relevant in that world?
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by asdfaoeu on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:09AM (#25056795)
That uses hardware virtualization which is very much dependent on the architecture. Running an x86 docker image on a M1 would take a significant performance penalty.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by eulers_secret on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:10AM (#25055682)
Thank you for posting this! I was so confused when folks were saying 16GB of ram was too little.

I run Linux on all my machines, and even running many (5-10) containers, 16GB was plenty. I now understand a bit better.

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by barrkel on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:55AM (#25056712)
My Linux laptop locks up every now and then with swapping when I'm running our app in k3s; three database servers (2 mysql, 1 clickhouse), 4 JVMs, node, rails, IntelliJ, Chrome, Firefox and Slack, and you're starting to hit the buffers. I was contemplating adding more ram; 64 GB looks appealing.

I would not buy a new machine today for work with less than 32 GB.

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