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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone purchased the base M1 Mac Mini for dev... by gjsman-1000 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:34PM (#25585115)
No, but I bought the M1 MacBook Air and a 4K monitor with 7GPU/16GB/512GB configuration for full-time web-dev work with Laravel.

PHPStorm and VSCode have Beta/RC versions and run fine, and Laravel Valet's entire suite runs fine under Homebrew Rosetta. Everything is very fast, and the fact that this machine is completely silent and doesn't get hot is phenomenal.

Right now, I've downloaded the Parallels Desktop preview and installed Windows 10 ARM on the machine. Amazingly, I was able to play some video games through Steam this way. My family likes playing Lego Lord of the Rings, which is a 32-bit Windows game. Runs at 1080p Medium-ish settings on Windows 10 ARM through Parallels fine, which is incredible for how much virtualization and translation is going on.

(For anyone else installing Lego LOTR, I had to install DirectX 9 because Windows 10 ARM doesn't come with it, but then it worked fine.)

Also, this whole virtualization thing works so well, I completely forgot just now that I was replying on HN using Microsoft Edge... on Windows 10 ARM on my Mac. :)

EDIT: My Windows 10 ARM install had a new build to install, and to my shock it installed the entire new build of Windows 10 in less than 4 minutes. Complete build. At the beginning, it even went 0%->30% followed by a reboot in 5 seconds flat, which caused my jaw to nearly fall off.

Re:Ask HN: Has anyone purchased the base M1 Mac Mini for dev... by tmk1108 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:34PM (#25588120)
Does it get hot while connected to the 4k monitor? I have MacBook Pro 16 from work and sometimes it feels like it's doing too much work while connect to the other monitor
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone purchased the base M1 Mac Mini for dev... by gjsman-1000 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @09:03AM (#25592753)
Get hot, nope. This thing seems to never get hot. Even in the situation above... a bit warm, but not what anyone would call hot. I have a MacBook Pro 2017, and this thing feels way happier connected to an external monitor than the Intel Macs ever did.

Plus, there's some additional "magic" Apple has put in for external monitors that's really nice. For example, you can shut your laptop lid and all of the apps instantly switch to the 4K Monitor without the old screen resolution change (the 5-10 seconds of black screens and weirdness).