Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by therusskiy on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:08PM (#34416150)

These new ARM chips are almost perfect, the only bad part is... ARM.

Most backend devs these days use Docker, and serious Docker usage on M1/M2 macs isn't really possible due to bugs and super slow performance.

I was doing benchmarks and for our workloads images would build several times slower as well as our test suites.

We had many devs in our company buy the shiny macbooks only having to return them due to incompatibilities with Docker.

My computer journey was Windows -> Linux -> Macos, now more than decade later I am returning back to Windows, because WSL is a total blessing.

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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by jstx1 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:11PM (#34416194)

I don't know what you mean about Docker - in my experience it runs just fine on M1.

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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by inadequatespace on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:15PM (#34416261)

You must be jocular then. He said serious usage. (In all seriousness, I’ve had few problems as well. Sometimes I have to muck with base images but it’s not a showstopper)

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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by runjake on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:15PM (#34416274)

They are talking about running production x64 Docker containers, which is slow on M1.

If you're using ARM64 containers, then it works pretty well, for the most part.

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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by dabernathy89 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:16PM (#34416276)

Docker for ARM Macs should be improved with the latest update:

> Yesterday a new @Docker For Mac version was released that will virtualize Intel containers with Rosetta instead of emulating them.

https://twitter.com/tobias_petry/status/1613837074356129792

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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by kdrag0n on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @02:34PM (#34417497)

Shameless plug on this topic: I've been working on a new Linux+Docker+Kubernetes solution for macOS recently! Already has quite a few improvements over existing apps including Docker Desktop, Rancher, Colima, etc: fast networking (30 Gbps), VirtioFS and bidirectional filesystem sharing, Rosetta for fast x86, full Linux (not only Docker), lower CPU usage, and other tweaks.

More details here to avoid spamming this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34374176

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