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le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Disagree, I run a MacBook m1 and enjoy it mostly because everything is compiled for arm. The very few software running through Rosetta are slow to launch, drain battery and less performant. If you were to run x64 on arm it just kill the interest of arm: battery becomes just as bad as on x64, performance is worst.

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modeler@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Disagree with your disagreement. I also have an M1 and was a quite early adopter (within 3 months of launch). It was really snappy compared to my Intel Air it replaced. From the get-go. Even for apps that were still x86 code.

Things definitely improved over the next 9 months, but I was and am a really happy camper.

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- jose1324@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Intel Air doesn’t count. Those were dogshit processors
  
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  - bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well decent processors, just laughably bad cooling design
    
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