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Intel Macbooks, absolutely: the fan will be on, make sure your room has adequate ventilation. But I've been developing on an M1 Macbook Pro for a few months no

Intel Macbooks, absolutely: the fan will be on, make sure your room has adequate ventilation. But I've been developing on an M1 Macbook Pro for a few months now. Heavy Docker use, all still AMD64 images so heavily relying on qemu. I'm looking forward to all the pieces lining up to let me use Rosetta inside Docker. I always have what many would consider "too much" running, between Firefox, Docker, JetBrains IDEs, Office, Slack. I've yet to hear the fan.

smoldesu 4y ago
How does it compare to a Ryzen laptop?
- dagmx 4y ago
  How does it compare to WHICH Ryzen laptop? It’s a meaningless question without that. There’s so many options. Each with their own manufacturer characteristics. Comparing an M1 to an Intel Mac is easier because there were so few SKUs of each. Comparing against a sea of alternatives requires more precision.
  - smoldesu 4y ago
    Any of them? I'm talking about CPU performance, since we've already hashed over hardware. Plus, this wasn't really a question directed at you; I'm generally curious if the parent has tried a Ryzen laptop in the past half-decade.
    - andrewaylett 4y ago
      I should have been clearer that I was only talking to your comment that the Mac would "raise the ambient temperature", sorry -- I've not tried a Ryzen, my personal Linux laptop is a Haswell and is fine but won't win any awards for battery, speed, screen, or fan volume. It's really good at cooling though, the only laptop I've seen that makes one's knees cooler as CPU usage increases. My previous work laptop was an Intel Mac space heater. Nice in winter, not so much in summer. Don't try putting it on your lap. My current work laptop is an M1, and is the one for which I have yet to hear the fan
- acomjean 4y ago
  I don’t have an M1 but my Ryzen notebook runs Linux and works great. Ryzen 7 5700U, pangolin model which doesn’t seem to be sold anymore.. It’s quite quiet, battery life is great (a minor miracle) and I’ve done some genetics processing in it and it’s quite fast (multi hour runs, 8 core fully loaded) where the fan spins up but is quite low volume. I think the power supply is only 45 watts.

smoldesu 4y ago

How does it compare to a Ryzen laptop?

dagmx 4y ago
How does it compare to WHICH Ryzen laptop? It’s a meaningless question without that. There’s so many options. Each with their own manufacturer characteristics. Comparing an M1 to an Intel Mac is easier because there were so few SKUs of each. Comparing against a sea of alternatives requires more precision.
- smoldesu 4y ago
  Any of them? I'm talking about CPU performance, since we've already hashed over hardware. Plus, this wasn't really a question directed at you; I'm generally curious if the parent has tried a Ryzen laptop in the past half-decade.
  - andrewaylett 4y ago
    I should have been clearer that I was only talking to your comment that the Mac would "raise the ambient temperature", sorry -- I've not tried a Ryzen, my personal Linux laptop is a Haswell and is fine but won't win any awards for battery, speed, screen, or fan volume. It's really good at cooling though, the only laptop I've seen that makes one's knees cooler as CPU usage increases. My previous work laptop was an Intel Mac space heater. Nice in winter, not so much in summer. Don't try putting it on your lap. My current work laptop is an M1, and is the one for which I have yet to hear the fan
acomjean 4y ago
I don’t have an M1 but my Ryzen notebook runs Linux and works great. Ryzen 7 5700U, pangolin model which doesn’t seem to be sold anymore.. It’s quite quiet, battery life is great (a minor miracle) and I’ve done some genetics processing in it and it’s quite fast (multi hour runs, 8 core fully loaded) where the fan spins up but is quite low volume. I think the power supply is only 45 watts.