Ask HN: Should I buy MacBook M1 Pro or M1 Max for software development

Re:Ask HN: Should I buy MacBook M1 Pro or M1 Max for softwar... by rozenmd on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:09AM (#30918488)

It depends what you're building.

I'm building my entire business on a base model MacBook Air M1 with 8GB of RAM - it handles running GitKraken, VS Code, Spotify, Chrome, iTerm, and several dev servers without perceptible lag.

My top of the line i7 16" MacBook Pro from work feels slow in comparison.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I buy MacBook M1 Pro or M1 Max for softwar... by lupire on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:27PM (#30922907)

Can it compile Haskell projects? They are famously RAM hungry.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I buy MacBook M1 Pro or M1 Max for softwar... by culopatin on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @03:20PM (#30923648)

I’ve completed tasks on my 16gb M1 pro in half the time than a 32gb i7 8gen Intel. Not Haskell but an R script processing lots of bioinformatics data. Maxed out CPU for the first time with this script and I couldn’t hear the fan

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Re:Ask HN: Should I buy MacBook M1 Pro or M1 Max for softwar... by jose_zap on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @02:08AM (#30928958)

Yes and quite fast at it.

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