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> If your needs are that mundane, I really don't see why an Apple ARM chip would matter? I don't think "mundane" is a fair and honest take. Just like most of t
by arinlen 5y ago
> If your needs are that mundane, I really don't see why an Apple ARM chip would matter?
I don't think "mundane" is a fair and honest take. Just like most of the industry benefits little to nothing from performance gains from microservices, I'd say that most of the industry benefits little to nothing from high-performance hardware, specially after containerization and container orchestration services took over the industry.
I know for a fact that some WebApps that are household names by now use a single m4.large instance to serve all the traffic from a single deployment region while barely taxing it's CPU quotas. If those quotas were reached it's trivial and boring to just spin up more "mundane" hardware and cease to have a problem.
Why push this myth that everyone needs Ferrari hardware to do everyday work when half the world would do well with today's bicycles?
- Laforet 5y agoIf we must go with the car analogy then I'd argue that M1 Macs are the Ferrari and Lamborghini of personal computing: They are fast, sleek, and could accomplish a number of specific tasks much better than everything else. Sure it's entirely possible to pull a trailer with a Lambo, however every sane person would agree that any beater truck would have done a better job. https://www.carscoops.com/2015/05/who-said-you-cant-use-lamborghini/ https://www.carscoops.com/2015/05/who-said-you-cant-use-lamb...