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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by chociej on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:24AM (#31098271)
Virtualization is a far cry, performance and experience wise, from running the OS natively.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by indiv0 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:52AM (#31098754)
Not anymore. Not on the M1s. They're far and away faster than anything but the beefiest desktop. A lua parser benchmark I ran in a VM on my M1 beat my 5950X by a factor of two.

The only remaining limitation are missing some ARM docker containers (which is slowly being solved) and the machines not being suitable for ML (in which case you need a desktop or to rent server time on the cloud).

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by mekster on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:33AM (#31098436)
What work are you even doing to push virtualization performance to its limit?

I cab run a Ubuntu server VM at good performance on VMware.

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