My previous Intel MBP would make my home office hot just by being in a Zoom call. And they do so while barely generating heat.

These machines feel like I've jumped ten or more years forward in performance and responsiveness. I'm used to year-over-year improvements being almost unnoticeable. These machines frankly feel like alien fucking technology and I don't say that lightly. This involves compiling multiple projects, running multiple docker containers locally in virtual machines, running VS Code, Slack, Chrome, and other productivity tools. I frankly don't notice the difference between the two on any workload. I agree with everything you're saying, in principle.Įxcept I have two M1 MacBook Pros (one 16GB, one 64GB). It's even better at running Intel Docker images! This cheap and humble 16Gb passively cooled M1 blows it right out of the water in every single aspect. I had a powerful fully specced 32Gb i9 16' MBP. I regularly start iTerm to do terminal tasks. A few minutes ago I also had Slack open on it. I also have Mail, Safari (with tens of tabs) and Firefox (with >100 tabs) open. Right now I have 3 VS Code windows open compiling Go code, running acceptance tests and whatnot. I do plenty of actual, professional use on my 16Gb M1 Air.

> Any actual, professional use will put you way north of even 16gb. I'm sure there was a performance hit but I never felt it. I have very rarely swapped on my 16Gb M1 Air, and when I did I only noticed later when looking back at graphs. My comment was that _if_ SSD performance was comparable to RAM, there would be no need for the latter.Ģ. > as soon as your heap is tapped out you'll hit a performance wall.ġ. even people on HN now seem to parrot it.

How bad is minecraft for macbook air