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A comment on Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by swah on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:27PM (#31100203)
Even the cheapest M1s?
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by nicoburns on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:38PM (#31100349)
I have the M1 Pro with (8 + 2) cores. But seeing as the cores are identical I suspect with the base models with (4 + 4) cores you'd see very similar performance except you'd be looking at 5x rather than 10x on multicore workloads.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by jjcm on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:36PM (#31101101)
Have the cheapest M1. It flies and the battery life is stellar. The only downside I would say is it's only 8GB of RAM. If you're doing anything with electron development, it's a no-go. You'll need a minimum of 16GB.

It's an incredible machine though. The perf and battery life remind me of the upgrade I got when switching from a HDD to a SSD for the first time. It changes how I use the device.

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