I have the M1 studio. It's much, much better than the 2017 MBP it replaced, which I quite frankly hated using. Build times are so much faster. The vast majorit

I have the M1 studio. It's much, much better than the 2017 MBP it replaced, which I quite frankly hated using. Build times are so much faster. The vast majority of stuff does just work, and most of the time I can forget I'm using an ARM device. However, it is not all sunshine and rainbows. It stutters hard when you push it: If I build, say, a large iOS app, it might be 5 times faster than before, but I can't do much while it is building because everything else can almost freeze up. Additionally, it's not a perfectly backwards compatible system. Just this afternoon I had to locally debug a rails app, and a few of the gems just wouldn't compile. I find myself frequently having problems where it turns out to be an M1 thing, and the workarounds obviously waste time. Also, I didn't pay for the device and would never have spent what is twice as much for the same performance (not to mention poorly designed hardware, see my other rants), and had I not needed a mac for iOS development, I wouldn't have got one. I don't find the mac a better development environment these days with WSL.