>Just Buy M1 if you'd like to have a low-power, long-lasting, quiet, and performant dev machine. Well, if you are testing it for "real world programming", you

>Just Buy M1 if you'd like to have a low-power, long-lasting, quiet, and performant dev machine. Well, if you are testing it for "real world programming", you should check if your development environment and all the tools you use for it works first. There is more to development than minor performance benefits from a slightly faster processor. Do you need to run VMs for your development? How about docker? Do you compile your binaries locally? If you deploy your code to x86_64 systems, you're most likely better off with an x86_64 machine. Even if you are developing for arm machines which are not M1 macs or iPhones or iPads, you are most likely better off with an x86_64 machine.