Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by jimbokun on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:35AM (#26913614)

But have you benchmarked your workflow on x86+32GB vs M1+8GB?

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by scoopertrooper on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:42AM (#26913674)

I'm typing this response on a 8GB M1. It's great, but its no magic. Its limitations do start to show in memory intensive and heavily multi-threaded workloads.

Getting some down votes, which I attribute to reasonable skepticism, so hopefully this will allay your concerns.

https://ibb.co/VM4Z1DY

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by hiq on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:07AM (#26915463)

> memory intensive and heavily multi-threaded workloads

Such as?

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by scoopertrooper on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:19PM (#26920844)

One example, I was trying download all the dependencies for the Kafka project via Gradle with IntelliJ while watching a video on YouTube and working on another project in Visual Studio Code. The video started to stutter then stopped and Visual Studo Code became responsive. I basically had to shut a bunch of stuff down and go to lunch.

I haven't seen a modern computer struggle with that kind of workload before.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by whywhywhywhy on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:24AM (#26915076)

End of the day the Intel Macbooks of the last few years have been terrible low performance processors that get thermal constrained and have abysmal inconsistent battery life. So if all you use is Macs the M1 is going to feel amazing.

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