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M1 macs are the first Apple devices where I feel you're getting excellent value for money and they are super affordable for what they are. These are profession
by reader_mode 5y ago
M1 macs are the first Apple devices where I feel you're getting excellent value for money and they are super affordable for what they are.
These are professional tools, you're going to need to invest into hardware to get a good experience - if you value your time at all you'll be spending a good ammount of money on a laptop, high quality chair, good desk, monitor and peripheral.
If you're an amateur or a student then you can afford to wait.
It's like me complaining that my amateur drill overheats on hard surfaces and I can't drill through stuff realiably without cracks - if I need to do a few holes here and there the cheap stuff will do, if I do this for a living I'm expected to have gear that will save me time and improve my results.
Performance is a feature, and it doesn't rank very high past some critical threshold (which is why people switched to VSCode - other features matter more)
- nix23 5y agoYou sound like a really amateurish marketing firm.
- reader_mode 5y agoWhat am I selling exactly ? The idea that it's ridiculous to expect people to optimise professional tools for your 5+ years old hardware ?
- kamranjon 5y agoVscode existed long before m1 macs. I think designing software that only has acceptable performance on hardware that doesn't even exist yet is where the contention lies. That's hyperbole but I think what is being discussed is more the tendency of developers to be lazy when it comes to performance because the latest and greatest hardware makes their software snappy.
- dralley 5y agoSure. If it works on 5 year old hardware, it almost certainly works even better on new hardware. I don't find this an unreasonable expectation.
- reader_mode 5y agoWorks on != runs fast, I think vscode runs on raspberry pi or something along those lines.