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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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