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Strange. With the exception of electron apps (which are slow everywhere), I've found my M1 mini to be extremely responsive. Much moreso than my 16" mpb.

• whatever1 5y ago
  Cold start of Electron, MS office, Affinity (all ARM versions) takes me north of 15". 8GB M1 Mini, so maybe that makes the situation worse.
  • Toutouxc 5y ago
    Affinity Photo starts in 15 seconds on my M1, which IMO is not okay. It's just as slow as on my Haswell Intel Mac. Everything else launches in a second or so. Spotify (Electron) draws a window in three seconds, but takes another four to display all content.
    • drcongo 5y ago
      For comparison, I have a maxed out current gen 16" Intel MBP and Affinity takes 25 seconds to launch.
      • ziml77 5y ago
        Not sure what's causing the difference but it launches in 4 seconds for me. I have the base model 16" MBP.
  • jermaustin1 5y ago
    I have the 8GB M1 as my daily driver, the only apps that take a long time for me (but NOWHERE NEARE 15 seconds - maybe close to 5, but I'm not counting) are visual studio Mac (which is probably rosetta), Unity (which IS rosetta) and blender (also rosetta).
• wayneftw 5y ago
  VS Code launches instantly on my i7-4770 under Linux with XFCE. Same under Windows. So do Slack and Spotify... That's an 8 year old CPU! If you're having issues, the problem lies elsewhere not with Electron.
  • postalrat 5y ago
    I think half the people in this thread are posting what they want to see and don't reflect reality.
  • tylerfontaine 5y ago
    I don't know why this was downvoted. You see what you see. Maybe my experience with electron is tainted :D I don't have any measurements, and I'm not really going to take any. It's just always felt slow. So I'll admit I should've perhaps been less prescriptive.