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Or maybe, juuust maybe, those M1/M2 Macbook Airs really are great value for money and superior to anything in that price range? Ever thought of that? Maybe it i

Or maybe, juuust maybe, those M1/M2 Macbook Airs really are great value for money and superior to anything in that price range? Ever thought of that? Maybe it isn't just people being slaves to fashion.

sngz 4y ago
let me know when they don't break my container images when I build them. Or support bootcamp / parallel / fusion. I agree what they are trying to do with the M1/M2 macbooks is good but right now its just an over priced email checking / movie watching machine. I rather get a tablet for that.
- ricardobeat 4y ago
  Where are you getting that from? These laptops are monsters at compiling code, video editing and a ton of other professional uses. Yeah, it's a new architecture, but this 'problem' is mostly solved and the remaining issues (like actual x86 emulation that is not qslow as molasses) concerns 1% of the user base.
  - sngz 4y ago
    wife is an iOS dev for a large company, none of her stuff for her current app would compile properly when they did a pilot test to swap to M1 macbooks. I currently work for a govt contractor and was piloting the M1 macbooks for our project. It would compile fine locally but the images won't not run properly on rancher / k8s if we pushed our images up from our laptops. Would still work if we built it from our CI/CD servers, but that didn't exactly inspire confidence for us to switch over when what we test locally will be different from whats in test.
    - ricardobeat 4y ago
      But this has nothing to do with "confidence" or software quality, it's just the nature of the architecture change, which developers should be aware of. For normal (non-dev) consumers it has near zero impact since everything else just runs normally. Images have now to be built as x86 for deployment vs arm64 locally. iOS project dependencies need to be rebuilt as well, and some would have broken build scripts because they never imagined you could be developing on arm64 so platform arch is hardcoded everywhere. I've had this issue myself, but it's on third parties to update, not Apple. This is all well known, and already the case for Windows RT / ARM and others, the Apple ecosystem just needed time to adjust.
      - sngz 4y ago
        confidence i'm talking about is i don't feel safe developing and delivering the software I develop on it when it will be run on a non ARM environment. > This is all well known, and already the case for Windows RT / ARM and others, the Apple ecosystem just needed time to adjust. and I'll continue to wait until they smooth things out more cause right now it's still not there yet.
- Arn_Thor 4y ago
  I'm running all my necessary Windows software in Parallels on an M1 Mac now. Even Windows software that isn't specifically supporting Arm, since Windows 11 now does its own emulation or virtualisation magic.
  - sngz 4y ago
    when I last tested it, android studio wasn't working, then they added support supposedly and it would start but randomly crash on me all the time. Same thing with a lot of hardware peripherals like my webcam that I plugged in.

sngz 4y ago

let me know when they don't break my container images when I build them. Or support bootcamp / parallel / fusion. I agree what they are trying to do with the M1/M2 macbooks is good but right now its just an over priced email checking / movie watching machine. I rather get a tablet for that.

ricardobeat 4y ago
Where are you getting that from? These laptops are monsters at compiling code, video editing and a ton of other professional uses. Yeah, it's a new architecture, but this 'problem' is mostly solved and the remaining issues (like actual x86 emulation that is not qslow as molasses) concerns 1% of the user base.
- sngz 4y ago
  wife is an iOS dev for a large company, none of her stuff for her current app would compile properly when they did a pilot test to swap to M1 macbooks. I currently work for a govt contractor and was piloting the M1 macbooks for our project. It would compile fine locally but the images won't not run properly on rancher / k8s if we pushed our images up from our laptops. Would still work if we built it from our CI/CD servers, but that didn't exactly inspire confidence for us to switch over when what we test locally will be different from whats in test.
  - ricardobeat 4y ago
    But this has nothing to do with "confidence" or software quality, it's just the nature of the architecture change, which developers should be aware of. For normal (non-dev) consumers it has near zero impact since everything else just runs normally. Images have now to be built as x86 for deployment vs arm64 locally. iOS project dependencies need to be rebuilt as well, and some would have broken build scripts because they never imagined you could be developing on arm64 so platform arch is hardcoded everywhere. I've had this issue myself, but it's on third parties to update, not Apple. This is all well known, and already the case for Windows RT / ARM and others, the Apple ecosystem just needed time to adjust.
    - sngz 4y ago
      confidence i'm talking about is i don't feel safe developing and delivering the software I develop on it when it will be run on a non ARM environment. > This is all well known, and already the case for Windows RT / ARM and others, the Apple ecosystem just needed time to adjust. and I'll continue to wait until they smooth things out more cause right now it's still not there yet.
Arn_Thor 4y ago
I'm running all my necessary Windows software in Parallels on an M1 Mac now. Even Windows software that isn't specifically supporting Arm, since Windows 11 now does its own emulation or virtualisation magic.
- sngz 4y ago
  when I last tested it, android studio wasn't working, then they added support supposedly and it would start but randomly crash on me all the time. Same thing with a lot of hardware peripherals like my webcam that I plugged in.