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The base model price is a little misleading. 256 and 8 gb are lowkey unusable for anything but a Facebook machine . I always look at the price for the 16/500

by Iulioh 3y ago

The base model price is a little misleading. 256 and 8 gb are lowkey unusable for anything but a Facebook machine . I always look at the price for the 16/500 or 16/1t machine as the reference point

dave84 3y ago
That’s not true at all. Have you actually used one? Edit: obviously if you need a windows vm you’re out of luck at 8gb ram
- baq 3y ago
  You’re out of luck if you need docker. M1 Macs would make fantastic Linux laptops, because macOS is appallingly bad at backend development. It makes it up in sheer hardware power and efficiency, otherwise I’d be completely at loss why it’s so loved.
  - aembleton 3y ago
    > macOS is appallingly bad at backend development That's news to me. In what way are they bad compared to Linux? Both can run docker, Intellij, Insomnia and Dbeaver.
    - camgunz 3y ago
      The main thing is Docker requires emulation
      - aembleton 3y ago
        True although if you develop for arm then you can use virtualisation. Still, performance wise I've not noticed any impact.
  - hdjfkfbfbr 3y ago
    Docker runs fine... Both x64 and arm64 containers run
    - baq 3y ago
      It requires a full VM. macOS is the only OS with that requirement.
      - hdjfkfbfbr 3y ago
        And? It still runs fine.
        baq 3y ago
        It works. It doesn’t work fine. It breaks, sometimes in a way you need to manually clean it up.
senttoschool 3y ago
I used the M1 Air 8/256 as a dev machine for a whole year. It was faster than a 16/512 Intel 16" MBP from 2019. Calling it a Facebook machine is silly.
CodeSgt 3y ago
I have the base model $1k M2 air and it functions excellently as a development machine. Both web dev for work (running multiple react clients, node servers, Pg instances, docker containers, etc all at the same time), and for basic game dev for recreation - though admittedly I’m using Godot for that which is among the lighter weight game engines available. That to say, it’s far more than a glorified Facebook machine and is a truly excellent value. I much prefer it over my work issued intel MacBook Pro.

by Iulioh 3y ago

The base model price is a little misleading. 256 and 8 gb are lowkey unusable for anything but a Facebook machine . I always look at the price for the 16/500 or 16/1t machine as the reference point

dave84 3y ago

That’s not true at all. Have you actually used one? Edit: obviously if you need a windows vm you’re out of luck at 8gb ram

baq 3y ago
You’re out of luck if you need docker. M1 Macs would make fantastic Linux laptops, because macOS is appallingly bad at backend development. It makes it up in sheer hardware power and efficiency, otherwise I’d be completely at loss why it’s so loved.
- aembleton 3y ago
  > macOS is appallingly bad at backend development That's news to me. In what way are they bad compared to Linux? Both can run docker, Intellij, Insomnia and Dbeaver.
  - camgunz 3y ago
    The main thing is Docker requires emulation
    - aembleton 3y ago
      True although if you develop for arm then you can use virtualisation. Still, performance wise I've not noticed any impact.
- hdjfkfbfbr 3y ago
  Docker runs fine... Both x64 and arm64 containers run
  - baq 3y ago
    It requires a full VM. macOS is the only OS with that requirement.
    - hdjfkfbfbr 3y ago
      And? It still runs fine.
      - baq 3y ago
        It works. It doesn’t work fine. It breaks, sometimes in a way you need to manually clean it up.

senttoschool 3y ago

I used the M1 Air 8/256 as a dev machine for a whole year. It was faster than a 16/512 Intel 16" MBP from 2019. Calling it a Facebook machine is silly.

CodeSgt 3y ago

I have the base model $1k M2 air and it functions excellently as a development machine. Both web dev for work (running multiple react clients, node servers, Pg instances, docker containers, etc all at the same time), and for basic game dev for recreation - though admittedly I’m using Godot for that which is among the lighter weight game engines available. That to say, it’s far more than a glorified Facebook machine and is a truly excellent value. I much prefer it over my work issued intel MacBook Pro.