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I don't get why people thought it would change anything. The OS is still MacOS, and having to use a totally different OS to get a slightly better CPU performanc

I don't get why people thought it would change anything. The OS is still MacOS, and having to use a totally different OS to get a slightly better CPU performance isn't going to convince anybody to switch. None of my geek friends who use PCs give a single rip about the M1/M2 processors. Nobody I know who works with Windows and Linux on x86 systems care either, because MacOS is not their preference nor part of their business. Lots of people are still using 7-10 year old systems that work fine. It has literally zero impact on what they do. Nobody who is not technically-minded is going to care, because they'll either want a Mac or they won't. You turn it on, and it looks the same as the x86 Macs, and for 99% of what people do, the peak performance doesn't mean that much to them.

epolanski 4y ago
You seem so disconnected from real people. Intel macbooks are so goddamn hot that any dev I know envies the colleague with the M2 that has never such problems and whose laptop last an entire day with charging.
- throwaway45631 4y ago
  Amen. I would always choose my 2020 lowest specced M1-MBA over my highend specced Intel-MBP from 2017. Not only are they hot, they are also loud. You notice when intel users join a video conference because of the constant fan-noise [1]. Not to mention that the constant heat comes with rediculous malfunctions over time. I considered leaving the platform until the Apple Silicon CPUs arrived. I currently run a kubernetes cluster on my new MBP with 13 pods plus 2 dev servers for some Java BE and another for a web-FE - no fan-noise! [1] at least those with a 13 inch MBP 2017
  - olyjohn 4y ago
    Wow I ran a cluster 2x that size on a Raspberry Pi. And no fan noise either.
- hiptobecubic 4y ago
  You're comparing mac people with intel vs mac people with M2. They are comparing non-mac people before M1 was released to after M1 was released and (rightly) pointing out that none of those people really care about this.
  - paulmd 4y ago
    Well, I for one made the latter switch - did not care about Apple before M1/M2 but the processors are so far ahead technically that I was willing to make the ecosystem switch. Having a high-performance laptop that will last a whole day of browsing and intellij development and also still can get the lead out when I need performance is a huge win, there is nothing comparable in the PC space for what I paid ($919 for a refurb 16/256 with mil discount). Unix on the desktop in some relatively sane and polished format is a huge win for engineering sanity and usability too. And I’m not an exception, you can find other people right in this thread saying “I had macs 10 years ago, went to windows, and the m1 was compelling enough to give it another try”. And while Joe Public may not be interested in the nuances of hardware specifications, those are the exact sorts of people macos is marketed to in the first place. The “happy bubblewrap os” that you decry is very popular among non-techies, and the techies respect the hardware. I would ask why it's conceptually shocking that a wide performance gap at extremely aggressive pricing (for M1 MBA) could lead people to consider the product who otherwise wouldn't have - but a lot of people simply deny that entirely, despite the very obvious improvements in performance (this thing cranks indexing Spring libraries in intellij or doing builds) and battery life that self-evidently could not occur without the claimed performance benefits. There is a weird Alternate Facts Bubble / Epistemic Closure thing going on with a lot of people where the facts don't agree with their preconceptions so they're rejected entirely. And sure, if your software isn't Apple Silicon-aware then you have a problem, but that's much less of a problem than people think it is. And M1 is such a performant platform that over time it will drive migration and that will continue to become even less and less of an issue - it’s a fast enough platform that If You Build It They Will Come. And it is already an edge-case for the most part. For docker/k8s, in particular, just set up your NAS as a host. If you’re doing a build, Socket 2011-3 stuff has dropped heavily, a 2697v3 is $55 and 32GB rdimms are $50 a pop, or you can just slap some ram into an old Ryzen desktop or something. It’s not expensive to build yourself a much beefier machine than you could ever put into a laptop, and I work from home so latency will never be a realistic issue. I’m happy to work with it on the dev side to get the ide and daily-driving responsiveness. Its sort of like Linux on the desktop - yup, if you aren’t interested in occasional debugging, changing away from generic x86 ISAs maybe isn’t for you and you probably will be better off with windows and a beige box from Walmart. But there’s a lot there if you will work with it. There just is this primal shriek among a lot of the tech community - no, apple can’t be good! no, there can’t be a way to utilize it effectively within power-user workflows!. Like, the classic “apple fanboy” is a well-remarked phenomenon but there is clearly a group of people who are looking for reasons to pan the hardware because they don’t like apple and will grasp whatever straws they can find. The performance is a lie, no software will run on it, my k8s containers are x86 and cannot possibly be rebuilt with arm, no I can’t run those containers on my NAS… they’re digging for reasons not to do it. And the Irrational Apple Hater contingent is actually seemingly much larger than the Irrational Apple Fanboy contingent - this whole M1 saga has revealed that a lot of people hold latent negative oppinions based on the branding that they just haven’t felt threatened enough to reveal. Supremacy is very comfortable, it’s when that supremacy gets challenged that people start getting ugly about it, and x86 and commodity laptop hardware has held a very comfortable supremacy for a long time. And you do you, but your consent is not required, it’s a good experience and it’s good enough that people are going to continue refining it to make it work. People will just move on without your approval.
- olyjohn 4y ago
  Wow so you're comparing Mac users to Mac users. You seem unable to read what I actually wrote.
dmitrygr 4y ago
> slightly better CPU performance You're either disingenuous or are very uninformed
captaincrowbar 4y ago
“having to use a slightly different OS to get a totally better CPU performance” FTFY
- olyjohn 4y ago
  You're so blinded by your love for Apple, that you don't realize that the results in the third quarter results prove that "the floodgates" didn't indeed open, and that nobody is switching to M1/M2 in droves. The comment I replied to, said he can't figure out why people aren't switching in droves. Guess what, regular ass people don't care. Only fanboys, developers and people with heavy workloads might care. Otherwise the slightly better performance in certain scenarios (are you familiar with how benchmarks work?) isn't enough to make people switch in droves.
whatarethembits 4y ago
After getting an M1 Pro, I don’t worry about battery life on laptop at all. This is such a huge quality of life upgrade and competition has no answer for this. I switched from Linux because of this.

epolanski 4y ago

You seem so disconnected from real people. Intel macbooks are so goddamn hot that any dev I know envies the colleague with the M2 that has never such problems and whose laptop last an entire day with charging.

throwaway45631 4y ago
Amen. I would always choose my 2020 lowest specced M1-MBA over my highend specced Intel-MBP from 2017. Not only are they hot, they are also loud. You notice when intel users join a video conference because of the constant fan-noise [1]. Not to mention that the constant heat comes with rediculous malfunctions over time. I considered leaving the platform until the Apple Silicon CPUs arrived. I currently run a kubernetes cluster on my new MBP with 13 pods plus 2 dev servers for some Java BE and another for a web-FE - no fan-noise! [1] at least those with a 13 inch MBP 2017
- olyjohn 4y ago
  Wow I ran a cluster 2x that size on a Raspberry Pi. And no fan noise either.
hiptobecubic 4y ago
You're comparing mac people with intel vs mac people with M2. They are comparing non-mac people before M1 was released to after M1 was released and (rightly) pointing out that none of those people really care about this.
- paulmd 4y ago
  Well, I for one made the latter switch - did not care about Apple before M1/M2 but the processors are so far ahead technically that I was willing to make the ecosystem switch. Having a high-performance laptop that will last a whole day of browsing and intellij development and also still can get the lead out when I need performance is a huge win, there is nothing comparable in the PC space for what I paid ($919 for a refurb 16/256 with mil discount). Unix on the desktop in some relatively sane and polished format is a huge win for engineering sanity and usability too. And I’m not an exception, you can find other people right in this thread saying “I had macs 10 years ago, went to windows, and the m1 was compelling enough to give it another try”. And while Joe Public may not be interested in the nuances of hardware specifications, those are the exact sorts of people macos is marketed to in the first place. The “happy bubblewrap os” that you decry is very popular among non-techies, and the techies respect the hardware. I would ask why it's conceptually shocking that a wide performance gap at extremely aggressive pricing (for M1 MBA) could lead people to consider the product who otherwise wouldn't have - but a lot of people simply deny that entirely, despite the very obvious improvements in performance (this thing cranks indexing Spring libraries in intellij or doing builds) and battery life that self-evidently could not occur without the claimed performance benefits. There is a weird Alternate Facts Bubble / Epistemic Closure thing going on with a lot of people where the facts don't agree with their preconceptions so they're rejected entirely. And sure, if your software isn't Apple Silicon-aware then you have a problem, but that's much less of a problem than people think it is. And M1 is such a performant platform that over time it will drive migration and that will continue to become even less and less of an issue - it’s a fast enough platform that If You Build It They Will Come. And it is already an edge-case for the most part. For docker/k8s, in particular, just set up your NAS as a host. If you’re doing a build, Socket 2011-3 stuff has dropped heavily, a 2697v3 is $55 and 32GB rdimms are $50 a pop, or you can just slap some ram into an old Ryzen desktop or something. It’s not expensive to build yourself a much beefier machine than you could ever put into a laptop, and I work from home so latency will never be a realistic issue. I’m happy to work with it on the dev side to get the ide and daily-driving responsiveness. Its sort of like Linux on the desktop - yup, if you aren’t interested in occasional debugging, changing away from generic x86 ISAs maybe isn’t for you and you probably will be better off with windows and a beige box from Walmart. But there’s a lot there if you will work with it. There just is this primal shriek among a lot of the tech community - no, apple can’t be good! no, there can’t be a way to utilize it effectively within power-user workflows!. Like, the classic “apple fanboy” is a well-remarked phenomenon but there is clearly a group of people who are looking for reasons to pan the hardware because they don’t like apple and will grasp whatever straws they can find. The performance is a lie, no software will run on it, my k8s containers are x86 and cannot possibly be rebuilt with arm, no I can’t run those containers on my NAS… they’re digging for reasons not to do it. And the Irrational Apple Hater contingent is actually seemingly much larger than the Irrational Apple Fanboy contingent - this whole M1 saga has revealed that a lot of people hold latent negative oppinions based on the branding that they just haven’t felt threatened enough to reveal. Supremacy is very comfortable, it’s when that supremacy gets challenged that people start getting ugly about it, and x86 and commodity laptop hardware has held a very comfortable supremacy for a long time. And you do you, but your consent is not required, it’s a good experience and it’s good enough that people are going to continue refining it to make it work. People will just move on without your approval.
olyjohn 4y ago
Wow so you're comparing Mac users to Mac users. You seem unable to read what I actually wrote.

dmitrygr 4y ago

> slightly better CPU performance You're either disingenuous or are very uninformed

captaincrowbar 4y ago

“having to use a slightly different OS to get a totally better CPU performance” FTFY

olyjohn 4y ago
You're so blinded by your love for Apple, that you don't realize that the results in the third quarter results prove that "the floodgates" didn't indeed open, and that nobody is switching to M1/M2 in droves. The comment I replied to, said he can't figure out why people aren't switching in droves. Guess what, regular ass people don't care. Only fanboys, developers and people with heavy workloads might care. Otherwise the slightly better performance in certain scenarios (are you familiar with how benchmarks work?) isn't enough to make people switch in droves.

whatarethembits 4y ago

After getting an M1 Pro, I don’t worry about battery life on laptop at all. This is such a huge quality of life upgrade and competition has no answer for this. I switched from Linux because of this.