M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Performance

Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by DJHenk on Friday November 05, 2021 @06:36AM (#29117442)

> Why not both?

Because buying new stuff is wasteful and only a temporary solution to the problem?

Look, I like nice, fast machine as much as the rest of the crowd here, but let's not kid ourselves. In a years time the software we run on it will have become even more bloated and things will be just as slow as they were. And then a new machine comes out we all want to buy that.

There will be some ecstatic blog posts again. Which is weird, I think. Needing a faster machine for you daily work should feel like defeat for a developer.

If you need a new laptop and can afford it, by all means go ahead and indulge. In the mean time, I am typing this from a 7 year old Latitude that I use every day for software development and that shows no sign of aging, apart from some scratches. And each time I read a post like this I wonder: what do these people _do_ with these machines?

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Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by jmnicolas on Friday November 05, 2021 @06:58AM (#29117591)

> And each time I read a post like this I wonder: what do these people _do_ with these machines?

To give you an idea, I don't have Macs, but I have a beefy desktop because I run my own OpenStreetMap server on it.

My old machine: i7 3770, 32GB ram, 1 TB sata SSD: 3 days to import Europe's map. The new one: Ryzen 5800, 32GB ram, 1 TB NVME: 10 hours to import Europe's map.

I will probably need to upgrade my ram and NVME capacity if I want to build a world map.

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Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by tpxl on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:16AM (#29118756)

> because I run my own OpenStreetMap server on it.

What do you do with it?

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Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by liotier on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:55AM (#29119262)

Generate map tiles, throw lots of queries at a local Overpass API, run custom large-scale analysis, develop a geocoding service, serve routing calculations... Many applications that public servers will let one query at sample scales, but for which serious use requires setting up one's own servers.

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Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by jmnicolas on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:36AM (#29119873)

I'm mainly generating map tiles for offline use. I don't want to hit OSM official servers, this is too intensive (and they would probably block me).

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Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by dylan604 on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:06AM (#29119423)

Whatever they want. It's theirs.

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Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by mixmixmix on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:39AM (#29119044)

Cool.

Enjoy your latitude, but you don’t have the right to tell me that I can’t enjoy my M1 max.

Different strokes for different folks.

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Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by Lukas_Skywalker on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:35AM (#29118291)

I am still on an i5 11" MacBook Air made of aluminum from Mid 2012 with 4GB RAM. Changed the battery twice, upgraded to a larger SSD once. I was considering buying a new laptop a few years ago, but that thing has served me so well despite falling to the ground unprotected about 3 times and being old. I do embedded and some web programming. I will use it until I am no longer able to start it up. And at that point, I will probably open it up and have a very last try at fixing it.

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