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Does someone of you use the whole potential that this kind of chip offers ? What do you use it for ?

• sergiomattei 4y ago
  No, but that’s why I love it so much. For my daily coding workflow, the fan never even spins. This is Docker, many containers, many many windows. With docker on, battery lasts a fair bit. Without it on, running on bare metal, could last me days.
• password1 4y ago
  I use it to have Xcode reboot faster after it crashes.
  • hajmo97 4y ago
    This is exactly what makes Apple engineers get up every day, to deliver a better chip for this kind of use cases :D
• david_allison 4y ago
  Specced out M1 (except storage): * 32GB RAM would not have been sufficient, glad I went for 64. * CPU is exceptional, but significant gains would be seen with more power (or code/process optimisation): unit tests (Robolectric) still break the 'flow' threshold (1s). Xcode compiles + full test suite runs break the 'attention' threshold (10s). * GPU is occasionally useful, but I don't do much ML/video work Usage: * I have enough RAM to keep 3 IDEs open + various electron apps + Office Suite + Windows/Ubuntu VM + 2/3 phone emulators + up to a few hundred Chrome Tabs. Fans are silent and laptop is cold. * Fans spin heavily when running a full unit test suite (JVM/Android) * Fans spin heavily when gaming (via Parallels) * Fans spin slightly when running Stable Diffusion