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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by ogre_codes on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:32AM (#25067081)
You don't compile your code?

Obviously it depends greatly on what kind of software you are writing, but at all my dev jobs, I eventually end up waiting for some amount of time while the CPU heats the room up.

Notably, VIM is inevitably more gentle on my CPU than VSCode and similar.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by mrweasel on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:51AM (#25067186)
You could comfortable develop say a large e-commerce site on a 7 year old Macbook Pro, so I’d assume an M1 based Air would be equally fine.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by ogre_codes on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:42PM (#25072363)
That's fair. I think a lot depends on your stack and the specific project. Right now I spend a good chunk of time waiting for builds (usually 10-20 seconds) and my previous job was worse. Prior to that, not so much.
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