Experience with Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro as a Software Developer

Re:Experience with Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro as a Softwar... by octos4murai on Friday March 12, 2021 @04:23PM (#26441121)

I have only two nitpicks with my M1 Mac: (1) it's not a good fit for virtualization (whether docker or VMs) -- but this limitation is well-known, and (2) the only time I see slowdowns is occasionally when opening a new tab in Safari -- even when almost nothing else is running. The second one also happened on my Intel Mac, just a bummer that the issue hasn't magically gone away.

Beyond that, I wouldn't change a thing about this machine. Very easy to recommend!

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Re:Experience with Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro as a Softwar... by lyptt on Friday March 12, 2021 @04:33PM (#26441239)

Have you given UTM (https://github.com/utmapp/UTM) a try? It can run ARM and Intel virtual machines. It's basically a wrapper around QEMU, and it can be a little unstable depending on your chosen configuration, but it'll work in a pinch.

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Re:Experience with Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro as a Softwar... by octos4murai on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:46PM (#26441890)

I suspect I’d need something more mature and performant but I appreciate the recommendation!

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Re:Experience with Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro as a Softwar... by chrisjarvis on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:18PM (#26441646)

the opening a tab in safari one gets me pretty often too. On both m1 and intel machine. Very strange!

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Re:Experience with Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro as a Softwar... by chucktorres on Saturday March 13, 2021 @08:22AM (#26446367)

I trimmed down on my bookmarks, switched to a blank page on new tab, and restricted history to only go back a month. Also disabled most extensions. The problem seems to have gotten better for me.

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