All-new iMac features the M1 chip

Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip by Eric_WVGG on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:58PM (#26879574)

As a developer who moved from a 16gb Intel MBP to an 8gb Air, I see no difference at all. I think a combination of the nature of the SOC and the massively faster retain/release cycle just make it much less of an issue.

That said, I did straight up run out of RAM the other day, but my editor was chewing up something like 32gb of swap. Still no slowdown, though. (I suspect a memory leak, it's very new software)

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Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip by roody15 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:11PM (#26880889)

Using that much swap frequently sounds like it might wear out your ssd early(thrashing)

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Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip by hyakosm on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:26PM (#26884749)

Do we have a proof of this?

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Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip by busymom0 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:45PM (#26880405)

I can’t use one with less than 16gb because iPhone or Android simulator will chew up memory.

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Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip by Eric_WVGG on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:01PM (#26880712)

I'm having no trouble running xCode + iOS simulators at all. In fact I think there's some possibility that the iOS simulator could be lighter weight due to ARM -> ARM rather than ARM -> Intel, but that's pure speculation.

Not currently doing any Android work so I can't comment.

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